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Old 09-19-2012, 05:04 PM   #103 (permalink)
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Text Cut: Aspen & professor Scabior
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Haha. Hahaaaa. The Head Girl was afraaaaaaaaaaaaaid. Aspen continued to stare at her, only blinking when she absolutely HAD to.

Note to self: find charm for eyes that will aide in NOT blinking for just such occasions.

Aspen raised her hand to deliver a fact. "Trains break down everyday. Nothing is perfect." So that was hardly something to get knickers wadded up over. "But a dementor once boarded the train, looking for a convicted felon. Now that's extraordinary history."

Aspen SO WANTED A DEMENTOR to board the train next time she was on it.

Bet the Head Girl would pass out first. Aspen's GRIN at the girl said as much.
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Well...yes West...that...Scabior shook his head, amused and almost impressed. He HAD said that anything in the past was history.



"One hundred and sixty seven." Scabior corrected. Specifics weren't needed but that correction was. He probably sounded like a Ravenclaw because of it.



"Good point about the Muggles." And the station, but the Muggles mostly, since no one had noted that. "Two points for you."

Yeah. Scabior was actually giving points.

And no. He hadn't hit his head.




Um. What? "No." Scabior said dryly. "I also stick to babysitting children as you can clearly see. And you know what's also not an excuse? Your attitude." ANYTHING that he said was an excuse. His word was almost law. He said it. They listened, and they wrote it down. That was how things worked. "So five points from Hufflepuff."



Famous butts? "Famous smells as well then due to these famous butts." Hopefully the train got aired out frequently.



Oh. Scabior nodded his head slowly. Good point. "The snow was not what caused the train to stop though, when it did go off track the snow bank actually helped it." She had to make sure she was clear of that.



"Not the Hogwarts express." Probably because it didn't run everyday but still. "And you are right. Something had to have gone wrong with the system."



Irrational? Well, he shrugged. "Remember, the idea came from the Ministry. The Ministry isn't exactly filled with the most rational people out there." Noooot that he was bashing the Ministry.

Much.






Painted purple? And the train was red. Honestly? "Come up here Miss Morganzo, Mister Wilde." Up to the front, beside him.

As students spoke out, Scabior drew his wand and every time a answer was right, it was written on the board. "Most of you seem to be right on track, which is excellent since all of this information is in your textbooks."... There were a few who...were off. But he expected it. Not everyone in the room was a O student. Probably only one actually....or none. Yeah. None. "The express was made by Muggles and they never knew about it and...everything that was basically said." He didn't need to repeat it. Everything was now on the board.


1. Relatively “new” (a hundred + years old)
2. Built by Muggle engineers
3. Pureblood families initially against it
4. Stopped on September first 1993 (because Dementor interference)
5. Ultimately the Ministry’s (Ottaline Gambol) idea
6. Created for a more discrete way of getting in and out of Hogwarts
7. One of the biggest Concealment charms ever was involved in its creation
8. One hundred and sixty seven memory charms used
9. Run by magic
10. Muggles can’t ride
11. Famous butts
12. Stopped/crashed on September first 2048
13. Stopped again on September first 2078

"Anyways, just by looking on the list we can see that the train has stopped three times since it was created." Maybe there was nothing strange at all and it was completely normal. Maybe. "The first time was probably because the invading Dementors cause the conductor to faint." Or something. That didn't matter. "Any guesses toward why the second crash happened?"

OOC:The lesson will continue in approximately 24 hours.


.... munchmunchmunch..... Louisa continued to lightly bite her fingernails, not that she was nervous from being stared-at non-stop without any reason, nope. She just had to pretend that Odessa was not sitting a couple of feet away from here and would so coldly shave Louisa's hair off, make it into a Gryffindor scarf since it's ginger now, and use it in one of her illegal deeds. GULP.

Thankfully Scabior's class had a lot of chatter in it, the Ravenclaw tried to focus on every silly and made-up reply the kids gave, and Merlin those professors were patient to put up with all this way-out-of-the-box minds of the younger generation.

As for his question... well, that was hard. Louisa heard of that but she never really dwelt on the subject. She could assume, though. Clearing her throat and raising her hand, "Maybe some gangster wizards attacked it. They could be doing it for fun, as a dare, or were looking for someone important that's rumored to be on board." Like that part of the Anastasia story. Louisa had no idea, really. She was just interested in talking every once in a while to give the impression that she was very unfazed by the sparkly starey vamp.
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