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Professor Scabior glanced at the girl for a few seconds before finally opening his mouth. "Five points from Ravenclaw for using such a disrespectful and derogatory term in class." He said loudly, still looking at the girl. THAT wasn't needed. At all. They were talking about nothing of the sort. "And another five for not paying attention in class. Slang is not an expression or an idiom. Slang is a type of jargon. An expression is a phrase which was stated before if you had listened." He clicked his tongue. Wanting to take five more points away because he was now in a bad mood.
Elise snapped her head around to STARE at the girl who had just lost her house 5 points. FIVE!
Giving her a sympathetic look (she was probably hitting herself mentally), she turned around and tried to earn back the lost points.
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Kaos.Doodles "Good! And the meaning behind that basically is hippogriffs are like wizards. They have their own minds. You can't force them to do anything. And you can basically substitute that for anything. You can't force anyone to do anything they don't want to do." The Professor nodded once again.
Elise grinned as Professor Scabior praised her answer. Yeah... She liked that one to... Her mom said it applied to her especially.
Man, she missed her mom.
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Kaos.Doodles "So. I was given a number of good idioms or if you rather expressions. There are more like, I'm so hungry I could eat a hippogriff, and time is galleons, but that's okay." He paused. Write. This down. "As you all know, everything has history behind it. All of these expressions have a story behind why they were created. Since it would be extremely dull for me to go through all of them, I have decided to just talk about my favourite one. That that would be a variation of the one that Mr. Watson said."
Nodding, she scribbled all the answers into her notebook. Squinting at her writing, she frowned. She'd have to improve it soon...
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Kaos.Doodles Professor Scabior pulled out his wand once again and tapped it on the board, right beside the list in big bold letters was a simple saying.
An apple a day, keeps the Healer away.
"Now, let's get your brains working. What do you lot think this means? And also, what does it mean to you personally? " Personally as in, do you think its true? False? Only lies that your mum has told you? Writing into her notebook in big bold writing, Elise scratched in the saying on the board.
Now, to figure out what it means.
"My mother used to tell me this, while she was alive," she mused.
"She said that it was because apple skin is a rich source of anti-oxidants, which aids in preventing oxygen related damage. They also reduce chances of cancer and Asthma, is good for digestion...." she said. "And aids in weight loss." "It's not entirely true, however, as even religious apple-eaters do fall sick sometimes. They don't exactly render your immune system perfect or anything..." she added, making it a point.
Hopefully, that was enough.