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Emily looked at the huge whale. It was beautiful. Why would anyone want to hurt that?
"Because of whaling." she suggested "People killed whales for their meat and oil. For, basically, our needs. It's horrible."
Yeah, well, it didn't happen so much anymore. But it still did, the percentage was just smaller.
"And no. I havn't eaten whale and to be honest, I don't really want to." she said with her arms folded. Whales were really beautiful in her opinion... and huge!
"Yes, hunting these whales are a reason for their endangerment. But that was not what I asked. Good thinking though."
No to the whale meat?
"You'd be surprised what one can learn from eating whale." What.
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ArianaBlack Nika's mouth dropped wide open at the site of the whale. "WOAH! That thing is HUUUGEE!" she exclaimed."Awww poor little- er big whalies! That is so sad! Everyone needs to stop polluting the ocean! That's one way! This is not right! We have to save them professor, we HAVE to!" Nika tried thinking things over in her head. "Could we use magic to save them professor!?!" Nika truly hoped it was possible."Ew whales? Eating them? huh? That is just wrong!" The idea of eating whale was utterly repulsive in Nika's mind. She raised her hands and put them in front her body. "Professor I'm going vegetarian from now on."
Blink. She took a moment before responding to the young
passionate girl.
"Stop polluting is a good way. And yes, using our abilities could help. Good answer. " "Why is it wrong to eat whale?" the Mexicana found herself with a small frown,
"How is eating whale different than eating a hamburger? Or pizza?" Oh, pizza...yum. Quote:
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hermionesclone Hm... Not a piranha eh? Interesting...
Kita walked along and looked up at the huge creature suspended in mid air. Her jaw dropped. Was that a whale? "Woah!" she whispered, her eyes transfixed on the whale. A weird feeling broke over her when the Professor said that they were endangered. "That's so sad!" she said, "Why can't people just leave them alone instead of killing them for their pleasure?" It was things like these that made her sad. Truly sad. "And people need to stop polluting the waters," she said, "Because that's not good for the other fishes as well."
Gasping, she gaped at the Professor. People actually eat these whales? Whao! "I'm a vegetarian so i've never eaten one before," she said, shaking her head.
"Mhm, water pollution. If we stop that then they might be safer, yes. Good answer."
Vegetarian? Why were so many
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Walrus Jacob stared at the Whale... Oh My Merlin. Ginormous!
Whales were so cool, they can sing horribly and nobody cares, cause they're just that awesome. But he still had questions of their awesomeness. "But professor, why is it called a Blue Whale if it's grey." cause their just awesome? or was it cause scientists are color blind? "And how did they get it into the building?" yeah explain that.
Hm?
"Good questions." Go to the library and find out. Hah, just joking.
"Some old fart in Norway called it Blue Whale, and it stuck." She rubbed at her temple, hoping the headache would gooo away.
"But as you can see, the whale is a blue-grey shade...so... blue whale."
And...
"I imagine they had to get it in here in parts. They chopped it up in pieces and assembled it in here." Yes yes. Right?
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jengirls109 Jaina sighed as she looked at the whale. She knew all to well about these wonderful creatures for they were her favorite that inhabitted this Earth. "Whales are hunted for their blubber and oil. It's sold on the black market at extrememly high prices because it is against the law to hunt them. Scientists have marked several species of whale, including this one, to learn more about them. We now know their migration patterns, their breeding grounds, their feeding grounds, and where they tend to be hunted," she said with a sigh. Some scientists did good, but then there were others. "Currently, the blue whale is under the protection of the World Wildlife Federation. People donate money to the federation in order to protect them. They also have a program where you can adopt a whale and they'll send you information about the whale at least once a month," she stated with some pride. See that, no magic! "Oh, and I would never eat whale. Never ever!" This Hufflepuff was loyal to her favorite creature.
She didn't...
"Thankyou...for that information." However,
"You didn't answer my question thought." Heh. Maya gave the girl a small smile.
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DanialRadFAN01 Riley just stopped and staired at the massive beast. He had never seen anything so big in his life, even that gaint dinosaur from the gallery before had nothing on this whale. His eyes followed all one hundred and eight feet of its body as he listened to the Professor speak about it.
Aww that was sad that it was endangered. "Professor us being witches and wizards why don't we just place concealment charms on them all so no one can kill them?" Pretty obvious to him, why hadn't anyone over in the Ministry think of that one? And why would he want to eat something that big?! He was never that hungry but possibly they could use it for the Beginning of term feast if she really wanted to try it...
Maya put a finger to her lips, as if
that would keep muggles around them from hearing what the young boy said about them all being witches and wizards.
Oh dear. Neermind.
"That would be quite the correct thing to do, wouldn't it?" Yes, she liked that answer.
"Good thinking. Maybe we could write the Ministry a letter when we get back." Quote:
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scarsandtetris Charley was about to speak up when Jaina responded, so she decided against it. When her friend stopped, she tagged along.
"You can get stuffed animals with the adoptions too! The World Wildlife Federation protects all sorts of animals. Non-magical ones, that is. But we could also help protect them by not polluting the oceans like we do."
She sighed.
"I can't understand why anyone would eat whale. Nowadays, at least. But I can't understand why anyone eats any other animals either."
"Stuffed animals. Great." Now, please,
"And your answer to my question would be...?" She didn't say anything, right?
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Anna Banana Merlin!
Sierra paused right in her tracks and stared at the humongous creature dangling from the ceiling. She'd hate to come across that thing while swimming around in the water! Grindylows looked like flobberworms next to it!
...and now the professor was asking for ways to help prevent the endangerment of this thing. Who in the name of Merlin caused danger to something that big in the first place?! That's what Sierra wanted to know. Her gaze changed to some Gryffindor boy who suggested the Concealment Charm. "The Concealment Charm might work--yeah," she agreed. "Isn't that what they use for Yeti?"
She made a face when the professor asked if she'd ever eaten whale before. No, she hadn't, and it didn't look very appetizing either.
"Two votes for the Concealment Charm." It's winning. So why hadn't anyone else thought to actually use it?
Blink. "You might be right about the Yeti." Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
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Hera Emily suddently realised she hadn't actually answered the Professors question.
"I suppose its a muggle issue, not a magic issue... so really the muggles need to do something to protect them. Stop them from being hunted and maybe set up some sort of breeding program to help increase their numbers. Tracking their movements would also be useful because then they would be able to monitor where they are, where they go and what daqngers they might be in because of that."
What.
"Why is it a muggle issue? Why are muggles the only one's supposed to worry about these creatures? Do you not also live on this earth? Do you not also share the same world as the whales?" Easy there.
"Your other ideas were interesting, though. Good thinking." Quote:
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Luinevaug Luin looked in awe of the replica of the blue whale. It was amazing that something could be that....huge. She finally managed to tear her eyes away from it and listened to the questions the teacher put forth. She thought about her answer, "Perhaps by monitoring and specifically saying that no one can hunt them or anything. If that is the reason they are becoming endangered." she paused, "Never tried whale, don't think i've ever been anywhere that has it."
"Yes, monitoring could help. A firm announcement that they are not to be touched could work." Because it has worked
so well until now. Not.
"Good ideas." Quote:
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grangerfan8 "We can use magic to protect them the same ways we protect our own creatures." She rocked back and forth on her heels repeatedly. Brown eyes on the whale strung from the ceiling. It's such a beautiful creature, and the young girl was a bit saddened by the fact that there was so few of them.
Arya made a face and looked at Saylen. "I'd never eat them." Gross.
Thankyou.
"Sharing our abilities to help keep these creatures alive would be wonderful. Nice thinking." Quote:
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meganelizabeth Christopher thought hard about how to keep the Blue Whale from being extinct. That all depended on if they were doing it the Muggle or Wizarding way. Though when the professor said 'we', he figured she meant wizards. "Couldn't we put protective charms on the such as the Fidelius Charm, or the Protego Totalum?" Perhaps that would suffice, but he couldn't be sure if that had the same effect on a whale or not.
When the professor mentioned eating a whale, Christopher shuddered. Not only did the sound unappetizing, but he was a vegetarian, and would never dare eat an innocent animal.
Maya bit her finger. No one heard those spell names, right? No muggles, that is.
"Yes. Yes we could definitely use those...things to help. Good ideas." Quote:
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fanficfanatict Selina thought hard about the Professor's question. It was not a black and white one. When it came to animal slaughtering for the sake of food Selina was guilty in taking part in consumption. But when an animal was endangered could she still justify in her mind the senseless killing? She didn't think so.
"Ma'am? I think that perhaps there is no right answer to your question. If I advocate for the whale and oppose animal consumption than I could be met with the argument that people need available food sources and sometimes whales are that source. If I advocate for the consumer one could argue that the human race is not an ominvore by biology, but by choice.... so I guess my answer is there is no answer. It's all relative."
Head. Ache.
Temple. Pop.
"I... Don't understand you." Maybe speak spanish? She wrinkled her nose, but soon took a deep breath to try and respond.
"So you would eat the last animal on earth, knowing you could be responsible for its extinction?" Heh. Maya has a headache now.
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Mordanyes Woah! Super big fishy. A whale? It looked like it could squash those freaky dinosaurs in the other room. Hehe. The whale probably is the reason those dinosaurs are extinct. It msut of squashied them.
Listening to hte professor contently, K-Lee's ears suddenly perked up. WHAT? Not many blue whales left in the world?!?! "Not hunting them is a way we could reduce their endangerment." She said.
"And no, I haven't ever eaten whale." K-Lee finished. She couldn't imagine eating whale. Or even eating fishies. No eating adorable little fishies.
"Not hunting them, yes, good idea." Now if only people would
listen.
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Herminny "I really don't think it is a common thing to eat whale. I think a bigger reason for there demise is that at one time peoples source of oil was whale blubber. People needed oil to powerful things and this cheap people went crazy killing whales for cheep fuel leaving themalmost extinct. It is rather sad.", Chloe responded with her hand raised high.
Oh, she thought so, did sheee? Heh.
"Yes, that is one of the reasons for their endangerment. Care to answer my question, however?" Hehe.
"Good answers though." Quote:
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SnitCHchASER Harper turned her head to the side and stared at the professor. Eaten whale?! HOLY MOLY WERE THEY GOING TO BE FORCED TO EAT PRECIOUS ENDANGERED WHALE?!
No, stop it Harper.
She raised her hand with a sheepish grin on her face. "Well maybe if people stopped eating them, they wouldn't keep dying. Cause as far as I know you can't eat something and have it still live. So. Stop eating them." she would never look at this lady again if she told her she had eaten whale.
"Although I do know that people eat it. People who like those slices of fat and stuff." Ew. Gross. "Professor, could they be endangered by people urinating in the ocean?" Random thought.
YOU NEVER KNOW! Though Harper highly doubted it; she just thought it extremely hilarious to mention urination in a lesson.
"Oh oh oh but I know what blue whales SOUND like!!" Instead of taste like.
Okay she needed to calm down. Whaleswhaleswhaleswhales...
Bouncy, bouncy child.
"You can eat fruits from the trees and they still live." Chocolate. Maya was arguing with a student now.
"Uriniating in the ocean?" Really? First time ever that word has come up in a lesson.
"I do not know about you, but I don't think our urin is that potent and lethal to kill something." HEHE.
"But, considering it is polluting...yes, I guess urine could lead to their endangerment." Right?
Oh, was she going to
sound like a whale now? Seriously, if the girl did, Maya might just have to...do something.
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sweetpinkpixie Kurumi looked around nervously as people mentioned things like never eating whale based on principle and other things. As each student spoke, Kurumi shrunk down a little more as if hoping that in doing so she could vanish into the floor. "I-I-I have," she said in a low voice. "It is a delicatsey in Japan...I've had sashimi and curry once...not something that we eat all the time though..."
Maya slowly turned around and gave Kurumi the STINK EYE.
No, Maya would never do that to a student.
Unless they'd just CONFESSED TO HAVE
EATEN WHALE.
Stare.
Seriously, this coffee was making her go bananas.
Maya blinked a little and after a second seemed more her normal self. Kind of. Minus the rude stink eye.
"And how did it taste?"
Like chicken probably.
"Okay, moving on." Because the whale was making her nervous.
"Wave hasta-luego to the Whale, everyone, we're going over here, around the corner, across that room and along that corridor over there that you can't see. Then we're turning to the right, pass that other corridor next to that smaller corridor, turn a left and we're there." Got it?
"Let's go!" And off she marched to...
The Creepy Crawlies and Birds Gallery 
More stuffed animals and dead bugs!
The Mexicana bounced-marched over to a dead fake bird and pointed.
"Anyone care to tell me, without revealing your personal problems, what this bird is called?" Coffee and headache make for a strange Professor.