SPOILER!!: prof
[QUOTE=Kaos.Doodles;11209307]
Quote:
"There are many trains out there that are red." It wasn't exactly uncommon. Now if the train was a neon orange, that would drwa some suspicion.
Quote:
"Currently the train doesn't run on coal." He pointed to number nine on the list. He'd explain it more. "Not all the time at least." Hmm. "Yes. That was already pointed out. Pay attention.." He pointed to thelist once more. "You have a very good point there." Very good. Well...hmmmm. "That would make it almost impossible you all of you to board the train now wouldn't it?." If it were invisible. Probably more than half the students would miss it. "She didn't. But she probably should have." So good guess there. "One was placed on the train after the second attack though." It DID have a coal car yes! "No I have not checked Miss Odessa, I haven't been on the Hogwarts express in more than fifteen years." And why would have have wanted to check then? Pssh. He hadn't cared. "But your observation-all of your observations-" Anyone who had noted hat there was a coal car and it would be a waste to just have it there. "-are right in some sort of way." The note sprung up into the air and flew into the hands of the History of Magic Professor. Since WHEN were notes allowed to be passed around in his class. Unfolding the parchment skimmed the quick message. "Interesting. Miss Dixon, why don't you come up here and read this out loud for me." Like, now. Since it was SO important.
He was waiting.
And WHILE he was waiting, he created another list on the board.
Used On the Hogwarts Express:
Locomotor Locomotive
Concealment Charms
Obliteration Charm
Colour Enchantment
Repello Muggletum
Expansion Charm
Refilling Charm (for emergencies)
Shield charm (placed after second attack)
+Some others
"For those of you who have taken into account the coal car good job. The train does not run on the use of coal though. As Mister Odessa first said, Locomotor Locomotive happens to be how the train gets to Hogwarts. The coal train is there for a reason however." He paused so people could take notes. It was important. "When the Ministry decided how the train would run they approved of the idea of a backup method. And so the idea to leave the coal car in tact so it could be used in emergencies if ever Locomotor spell failed." Backup method. Wizards had them. "Which if anything, is the main reason why the Hogwarts Express has a conductor." Was that all cleared up? If not someone better rase a hand since he was moving on.
"Some of you might ask, why the coal car was not used most recently, and the answer to that is simple, the whole train was shut down. All the engines. The Locomotor charm taken off. Everything completely shut down. What could have caused this?"
OOC:The lesson will continue in 9 hours.
Sarah wrote down more things, including the thing on the board.
She answered simply,
"Dark Magic". She was sticking to her guns, that was her opinion from the begininning, she even let her housemates know of her opinion at the opening feast. Maybe it had to do with the bookshop lady that disappeared last term... Oh.. she needed to go to the library sometime.