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"Right everyone, lovely to see you again." Beaming, Issy folded her hand in her lap and studied their faces. "As you can see the room has had a bit of a make-under, and some of you are wondering what it's all about," she took a look across to Chloe and Simon as she spoke. "Well I can tell you we will be learning two spells today - three if you include the reversion spell for one of them - and they are to do with all of this. What we can do to rid our neighbourhoods of it. I'm sure you've seen rubbish spread around the countryside, left by careless people who can't be bothered to take it home, or find a bin to put it in...." Issy began walking around the cluttered room as she spoke, however difficult it currently was.
"Take this newspaper for instance," she said, bending down and picking up and old battered copy of the Daily Prophet. "How long do you think it would take for this to be absorbed into the earth completely, if left to it's own devices and not cleared away?"
Pffft.
Destiny had to DISAGREE with the Professor. Sure, she may have thought this was the craziest classroom setup she ever seen, but to call it a make-
under? It was UNIQUE! And rather smelly. Not that she was sniffing or anything..
Nodding her head as the woman spoke, Destiny glanced at Patroclus from the corner of her eye. See!? She was LEARNING! Or..just doing a very good job at pretending.
Oh!
And then it was question time and she might have known the answer. Raising her hand, she waved it around.
"I think it is like six weeks. Not that I have ever sat and watched newspaper absorb into the ground." She wasn't a weirdo and she had much better things to do. Like eat chocolate.
"But if you step on the newspaper, it would probably speed up the absorbing process." Probably.