"Incedio would be a charm makes things easier for us," Simon supplied after raising his own hand. "Muggles need matches or lighters to start fires ," he added familiar with the use of both. He maybe from a family of witches and wizards but his parents liked to not always have them take the easy way out especially since there were muggles in their family tree.

Now this question she liked!
"Well if muggles could use 'Episkey' it would be easier for them to mend broken bones. They woudn't have to use casts or slings on their bones to mend them. Plus that takes months to mend them, with 'Episkey' your ok within a few minutes or so."
Well, having neither of these happen to her, she wasn't sure. But she confident with her answer.

Hearing some of the other's answers, brought a small smile to Emmaleigh's face. It seems she wasn't the only one that had believed Aguamenti and incendio were charms. She didn't say anything about it though, because she knew if she tried to explain why they weren't charms, she would just mess it up. She did give her head a shake though. But the talk to Aguamenti did make her think of an example. Raising her hand she said, "There's the Drought Charm. It can be used to quickly dry up spilt water, instead of getting a rag."

Amadeus pondered for a second after students commented on what they found most useful. "Aguamenti," He spoke bluntly, "It provides us with one of the most necessary elements of life. If muggles were able to use such a spell, they wouldn't complain about droughts and water rationing so often, if at all." He scribbled down a few notes after dipping his quill in his ink bottle, casually taking down what the other students were offering up.

Kurumi thought for a moment. "Generally speaking, Professor," Kurumi said as she began thinking aloud. "Non-magical people have no idea that any other world exists at all. Meaning that they are completely oblivious to the wizarding world. One could even say that the do not believe that real magic exists."

"Professor, there is the Permanent Sticking Charm," Kurumi offered with her hand raised. "I remember in my school back in Japan that posters and other things would fall off the walls because the tape or thumb tacks we used just were not strong enough or the glue weakened over time." She thought for a moment. "Or, there is also the Supersensory Charm. We can become more aware of our surroundings at will, but non-magical people cannot. Perhaps if they were able to use this charm, there would be fewer traffic accidents."

Wow. True.

This man was good.....you would hope so, he was the Professor after all, "I see your point Sir," Patroclus nodded, silently mulling over what had been said;


Perhaps they can know about us, but know where we are...........


Dragging himself, out of his mute reprieve, Patroclus listened to his classmates answers than added on of his own, "Pamphlet making Magic is a good example Sir. It may require more energy from Wizards, due to the vast amount of wand pointing from page to page, however unlike a Muggle Printer, we Wizards don't require electricity to add ink to the page, so it's better for the environment."

After all, the Muggles were running out of Electricity......

"That's right, Mia. Take a point."

See why he considered muggles less lazy?

Basic transfiguration, that one. Though Jared knew it had been, and still was, taught under the heading of 'Conjuration Charms.'

"Basically transfiguration but, yes, you're right. Take a point each."

It took a lot to test his patience, but the look Evan had decided to give him, certainly not a respectful one, did make Jared raise an eyebrow.

Kids.

"Which isn't part of Charms," Jared replied.

Moving on.

"Right enough. Take a point for Slytherin."


Jared nodded.

"Take a point each."

What was that innocent look for?

"That's a method of transportation and not a charm, Revellius," Jared corrected, not unkindly.

"That's it," Jared said quietly. "Blood. Muggles don't have magical blood in their immediate ancestry."


Tut tut tut. Personal grudges.

"I see."

No, he didn't.

Go on their merry way? Jared could not quite stop the grin that slipped out. "Take a point for Hufflepuff."

"Evanesco is a transfigurational spell," Jared corrected. And? "Take a point for Gryffindor."

Jared gave the look a mental shrug. Mount Everest had been the highest mountain on the planet even before it had been discovered.

"Of course." Useful to complaining muggles. He smiled faintly. "Take a point for Hufflepuff."

Good point. But then, soap operas attracted a large amount of attention, and Jared doubted muggles wanted desperate lives.

"Right you are, Salander. Take a point for Slytherin."

"Excellent," Jared said, a lazy little grin flicking across his face at the Hufflepuff's enthusiasm. "Take a point for your house."

"Incendio is a transfigurational spell," Jared said. It surprised him when older students made mistakes like that. Then again, some charms and transfigurational spells did overlap, and it could be difficult to categorize them. Still. "Take a point for your house."

"But there are muggles that know about us," Jared pointed out. "What there isn't, is muggles that have magical blood in their immediate ancestry."

Gevrik would have a field day, if he could hear that answer.

"Good thinking, Patroclus. Take two points for Gryffindor."



Leaning against his desk, Jared turned his attention to the class as a whole. "Today, we're going to practice two charms, both effecting the movement of the target - and both that muggles might find quite useful." If they could use them. Which they couldn't. "Any guesses?"

On the charms. Obviously.

*Raising his hand Matty said.*
"A growth charm sir?"

Eh Mia could actually only think of two charms that might be what the Professor is referring to. She raised her hand in the air. "Would it be the summoning charm, 'Accio' and the levitation charm, 'Wingardium Leviosa.'"

Alex wrinkled his brow. Effecting the movement of the target? Hmmm, there were a couple of options for that one. He could only think of one, and if it had a counterpart he couldn't think of it off the top of his head. He raised his hand.

"Maybe the Impediment jinx? It makes the object in question travel slowwww," he explained as he raised his hand. "And, erm...I'm assuming if we're studying that one, we'd also be studying a charm to make stuff faster as well?" he suggested.

Meh. He was probably wrong. There were probably a billion other movement-effecting spells that he, a small little firstie, wouldn't know of yet.

Kyle Raised her hand almost immediately, "Well, Wingardium Leviosa is a hovering charm" Kyle smiled tapped her finger on her desk softly as she answered - she was nervous and had never actually gotten her house points before. Then it dawned on her, "One thing muggles could use in hospitals, and medical instances is both the Mobiliarbus charm which moves any object with your wand but there is a striking resemblance to the Mobilicorpus spell...of course there's also Accio"

They were doing wha?

Blinking, Evelyn looked around, sitting up straight in her seat and clearing her throat quietly. Right. It seemed she spaced out a lot during classes this year. Thank Merlin this wasn't one where she fell asleep. Pfft, fall asleep in one of her favorite subject classes? Not likely.

Now, they were talking about...charms effecting movement of targets. MWAHA! Well, yea, all the spells the people said of course. Except Mia made her think of one that could...well it could fall into the category of effecting the movement of targets. "What about the banishing charm?" she asked after raising her hand.

Meep?

Amadeus turned his head to a girl who had taken the words straight from his mouth, one that was clothed in Hufflepuff robes. "You read my mind," He spoke. Turning back to the professor, he added, "Well, besides those two, mobiliarbus sounds plausible as well."

"Oops sorry." Mia said giving the older Ravvie a sheepish look.

Hey!

Wait a minute this was class, she shouldn't be apologising because she got the answer out first. Although she did nod her head in agreement at the guy's other guess.

Raven think of Summoning charm, and hover charm, but he didn't give another simply he cant think of another.

Jaxon scratched his chin and nodded. Something that affects movements. he thought.

He raised his hand and said, "One possible answer is Immobulus." he uttered and then cleared his throat. "Another one, will be, possibly Impedementa which slow incoming object or the Accio, which is the summoning charm." he added.

"Umm a summoning charm and a banishing charm?" Nika guessed.

"My older brothers were always wishing they could just use Accio to have the TV remote come to them," Kurumi mused. She had had no idea what they had been talking about before, so she had always been the one to get off the couch and grab it for them. "I also think that non-magical people would find the Mending Charm very useful." It was a bit of a long shot, but it did have to do with an object moving in the direction of fixing itself.

"uhm, well Accio can move its target.." Cass offered "While Aresto Momentum can stop its target from moving." She added. She thought it would be useful for muggles, they do tend to fall down on stuff a lot.

Umm....Charms that affected the movement of targets. Finlay had to think about that for a few seconds, because he had a lot of knowledge in his head....well a little anyway. "I think Immobulus is a good charm that muggles could use, because like it would stop things, which could make their lives easier." wait...h eneeded another charm too didn't he? "The summoning charm could be useful too, but then that could make also make muggles lazy, although it would probably dramatically improve how they do things." Which would be better right?

Charms that effected the movement of the target. K-Lee bit her lip in thought. The other students had already said the more obvious ones.

Not being able to think of not already said, K-Lee waited for the next instruction from the teacher.

Hmmm... a charm... and...

"Immobulus?"

Oh... and what everyone else was suggesting.

Yeah.

Ahem... he only didn't SAY them because he was giving everyone ELSE a chance. Yes. Totally.

"Would Impedimenta be an example, sir? It slows down a moving target or whatever," she said with her hand raised. She wasn't RAELLY sure it was a charm, but it was worth a shot. Meh.

Pffft!

With a fake, sarcastic smile on his face, Josh listened to the others' ideas about Muggles fighting the urge to barge in really hard since it sounded like they hardly thought over what they were saying and were hardly aware of what their words meant. Apparently. Since some of them openly insulted Muggles while there are people in class who had Muggle parents and/or other relatives. Just like his father. Who would not be annoyed if someone insulted one's father? And while people like that existed in this school, it was always him who 'disrespected a fellow student' and deserved punishment. It was also really hard not to laugh out loud at that.

Coolness...

Maybe Professor D did not ask for the reason of his actions and put them into consideration while deciding who was the guilty one just like other professors did but he, at least, did not throw him in the dungeon that detentions took place or kicked him out the class like Tatertot did. The best of tasty chocolates may always be with you for that, Prof D! BAHAHAHAHAHA!

Well, in addition to that the Gryffindor boy could feel the venomous gaze of those evil eyes on him for he was the one who was generally a target for them. So, there was no doubt that a fine fuss was going to take place here or elsewhere (but close to here) right after the class. Meh. Based on experience Josh knew he could take them all. He was good at Muggle style fighting again thanks to some experience that he never meant to learn about or be subjected to. But the real and most current problem was that since he mostly tended to beat them all in the end, only he was always the one to be punished and regarded as a psyco who ran around the school sending people to the Hospital Wing even when it was the pathetic hostile perform of others who started the fight. Just like Evan. Mentioning him actually Josh did a favour for Evan by taking his badge instead of destroying his impudent face by a single nice enough fist after all those insults the Snake Prefect had thrown at him. But it was not important right now. One day they were going to fail to escape or look innocent and suffer the consequences of their dirty behaviour, too. Just like Josh did for defending his girlfriend, friends or himself.

Anyhow...

The boy realised that he had not been paying attention to the class and just thinking when he heard the professor's voice adressing to him again, helping him to snap out of those thoughts. Good. Okay. So what was D saying?

O_O

WHA!?

Essay!? Writing an essay!?

The Gryffindor boy simply frozen at where he sat big dark brown eyes locked on the man with a utterly surprised expression. For the sake of the colour red! He did not even take notes in classes! So this was indescribably worse than any detention that might make him spend days in a dungeon doing disgusting or dangerous or...etc things or else. He had went through a good deal of detentions so far but none of them was like this. This was close to slow torture plus he did not even have enough time to find and convince someone else to do it for him for D wanted it tomorrow morning. *gulp*

''Professor'' so Josh stood up automatically as a reaction once he snapped out of his frozen and shocked state to try his chance though he knew he was not going to be able to deceive a professor. Yet he had to try, had not he? ''Isn't this too little for what i have done? Why don't you throw me into that certain dungeon?'' Merlin! Let's hope he'd get that.

Since he had heard the word 'essay' and he had been the target of it, Josh was feeling so weird that he did not bother to answer any of the other questions of Professor D though he thought he had pretty cool and good answers for them. This was the first time he was seriously bothered by a punishment since his first year after all. Therefore, in order to relax and relieve himsefl some by taking his mind elsewhere, he turned to find Evelyn the-Adorably-Beautiful-SheSnake and watched her ignoring anything else present in the classroom.

Viola raised her hand and said, "Well, what about the Mobiliarbus charm? It helps to move any object from one place to another." With the help of a wand, obviously. "It will definitely be of great use to the muggles." Viola seemed quite pleased with her answer.