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Herminny 
Well she had already said the answer before so there was really no problem in reapeating it Herminny thought as she raised her hand said, "The Ilfracombe Incident is basically where a welsh grren dragon attacked a group of sunbathers at Ilfracombe.".
"Common Welsh Green, right. Same breed of dragon suspected of causing the Great Fire of London in 1666, incidentally before the Statute was passed." Ethan nodded, "Interesting because that particular dragon breed is relatively harmless and by nature fairly subdued. I suspect in both cases, it was likely provoked or incited somehow."
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RaRaRachieee Brody thought for a second, and after another fellow student had spoke, she raised her hand. "The attack by the dragon was thwarted by a wizarding family, who happened to be vacationing, and they then went onto cast the largest gorup of memory charms in the twentieth Century"
"The largest mass Obliviate ever cast." Ethan agreed.
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Tristin Blake who was doodling on a piece of parchment almost squeaked with delight when the professor asked about the Ilfracombe Incident. Yes yes he knew this, thanks to his grandmother, "Sir, a rogue Welsh Green dragon attacked some muggle sunbathers in Devon. However, a wizarding family performed memory charms to save the day." He said happily, ohmeegosh he knew something, so thrilling.
Blake tried to rack his brain, he knew the year too, what is it, gaah it was on his tongue, "1932! I mean, this whole thingy took place in 1932, sir..I think." He screwed up his face for a moment, hopefully he was right about the year.
"1932, yes indeed. Same year that the Appleby Arrows won a Quidditch Match against the Vrasta Vultures in a sixteen day match." Ethan murmured.
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Zoerawrr Having... kinda zoned out, Jake shook his head clear and looked around at the people now talking. Oooookay... what were they on about?
Oh... something about a dragon and... sunbathers? How had he not heard of this?
"There... was a dragon? And... erm... well... couldn't have been too long ago," Jake paused for a moment. When was sunbathing invented? Then he looked at Blake. "People sunbathed in 1932?"
Well... that was... special.
Jake, being ignorant, hadn't realised that people did this at all before his first year.
"I'm... also guessing... they weren't all killed, if any. Because of what someone said about the memory charms."
"They certainly were not killed, the family themselves; The Toke family, all received the Order of Merlin First Class for saving the muggles. Tilly Toke is featured on a chocolate frog card actually."
In other words, perhaps the sugar fiend should pay more attention to the chocolate frogs when he ate them? Ethan leaned over and took a banana from the basket and started to unpeel it.
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Tristin Blake chuckled, "I knoowww, sunbathing would've been the hottest thing in summers of 1932." He bit his lower lip, he knew a little more about this whole incident, should he tell? The professor said brief answers only, well he wouldn't kick him out, would he?
"My grandmother told that a few muggles somehow escaped the memory charm, one of them was.....was umm Dorky Dirk." He was so slooooow today. Blake went back to doodling but soon his eyes widened in horror, oh crap! The name wasn't dorky dirk, yiiikes.
"Dodgy Dirk. Close though. With a name like that it is no wonder he wasn't believed. He supposedly would tell tales to other muggles of a "dirty great flying lizard" that once attacked him."
Ethan bit the banana and chewed thoughtfully.
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lovegood90 Ellie stuck her hand up immediatley. She had read her history text book, of course. "Sir, Wendelin the Weird was a witch in medieval times who enjoyed being burnt so much that she let the muggles catch her 47 times! She performed a Flame Freezing Charm, of course."
He swallowed his mouthful and paused for a long moment.
"Indeed.
However, we are currently discussing statute breaches and in particular the Ilfracombe incident. Please try to keep up."
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Deniiz Evan was so into listening to others that he was almost dreaming. With the new question he came to himself, and thought for some seconds... Ilfracombe... he knew it!
Raising his hand again he said "A Welsh dragon attacked Muggles in Devon, England in 193...2? A wizard family saved the day." Yes, he was sure of his answer now.
"Right you are."
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Leeness Varius had been doodling as one does when in a History lesson with tons of facts and dates and boring stuff that old men did to change the world. No one was discussing Peter Petrelli! He saved a cheerleader to save the world! What about him, huh? HUH? (Heroes reference, FTW).
However, one thing did catch Varius' ear and instead of listening to the next question Professor Truebridge asked, he decided to ask a question of his own. "Yeti's are real!?" he sounded amazed, because he had indeed believed they truly were a myth. "Do you have pictures? Have you seeeeeeen one? Named one? Maybe you could adopt one for 1 Galleon a month... they have to be an endangered species, surely."
"They are. They eat people. I've seen one at a distance, it would be ridiculously idiotic to attempt to experience one up close."
Note to self: do not put the idea into Anastasia Bunbury's head.
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cedricdiggory Cedric raised his hand attentively, "Err. It's about the Common Welsh Green dragon that attacked some sunbathers at Ilfrcombe and a wizarding family cast some memory charms on victims but as the textbook says, some escaped from their memory charms." And he was quite sure of his answer as he just read their textbook last night on their common room.
"Right Cedric." Ethan answered and then as he took another bite of the banana, the blackboard behind him copied down some notes on the Ilfracombe incident.
"What do you suppose might have happened if trained Obliviators had been present to cast the memory charms rather than the Toke family?"