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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo  Was Alice just going to stand there and give orders or was she going to help at some point? She looked to the Captain as Penelope made a subtle hint that she should get a move on. Sarah was helping now, 'cept not really because instead of hopping in Sarah was just offering. Offerings didn't help, just do.
She looked to Jake who'd stopped talking mid-sentence. How were they meant to know what he was saying if he...blink. "Jake...?"
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People didn't just stop talking. Lex looked around at others who seemed to have just stopped too. Subconsciously her eyes fell to the roc--
"OI!!!" This wasn't even remotely funny. "I dun CARE who took our rocks, put them back! The walk to the desk was long!! Ruuuuuuuude!" As IN, the rocks, she'd LAID OUT CAREFULLY were GONE. Did NO ONE SEE???? Her hand shot up, it was either that or she was gonna hex everything with a face in this bloody room. -____-
"Professor, can we use magic PLEASE? Obviously SOMEONE in here is because our rocks are gone. It's like sabotage or whatever and I don't think it's fair to start over because some," bloody stupid idiot, "body thought they were above the no magic rule." She wasn't laying another rock. This wan't FAIR. Blink, blink. What was that, Cambridge? Well then, wasn't SOMEBODY taking this a little harshly and seriously.
Approaching the fourth year, she bent down to be at eye level with her, "You know, if you're so offended by such and such, I'm fairly there are other ways to retaliate besides magic." Not that she was encouraging it, but you know. Just saying. "But you also have to figure out who did it...."
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Originally Posted by Karina Wozniacki Well. It was time for Part Two of the Muggle Studies disturbance plan. Obviously there was someone else working magic in the room, which was great for Karina since now she had a person to blame her magickings on. Besides, who would ever think she would target her own school? The only problem with the other person doing magic was that "her" house's campfire stones had disappeared. Was is Mischa coming for revenge? Normally she would think so, but he had changed recently. No, it was probably someone else.
She frowned slightly and made a very upset look at the Professor when she spoke about how people shouldn't use magic in Muggle Studies to show that Karina was very upset about the whole thing.
"I'll go get some more rocks... as ours seemed to have disappeared," she said aloud to the Gryffindors as she stood up.
Bending over the rock pile, Karina used it as cover to cast a couple more Silencing charms and finally shot a Deletrius towards the extra wood pile so the entire stock disintegrated. Oops! All these spells were silent, with the wand carefully hidden, and planned out so no one would know it was her. She put a shocked expression on her face and ran back to her team with the stones. Turning to the professor she raised a hand. "I.. uhhh," she did her best to look worried about how her project was coming along. "Can we use protective spells on our own fires to keep magic wielders from hitting them?" she glanced down at the firewood and stones and then up suspiciously around the room to see if she could see the culprit of this magic. Protective spells? BUT, this was Muggle Studies. At the same time, there WAS some shifty business going around and whoever it was using nonverbal spellwork to be counterproductive on the other houses, well ... there was no mundune alternative. "Fine. Protective spellwork, only."
Now, where was the extra woodpile? Surely the students didn't use it ALL already? Quote:
Originally Posted by LilFox06 And then her lovely boyfriend captured the Gryffindor's attention. Why did he looked like that? Was he choking? No. He didn't look like he was choking. He just looked all... puppy dog.
Use your words, Jakey.
Or... could he not. "Professssssor. I'm going to fix my boyfriend." she said. It wasn't really a question. But. Yeah. She couldn't have her man hexed unless it was by her. She aimed her wand and casted a "Finite."
Now. Back to the fire. She looked down at their pretty much now nonexistent project. Then down at the sticks in her hand. Might as well do her part, right? She pocketed her wand again before starting to build the frame for the teepee. Everyone else could just... do their job again... Fix her boyfriend? Oh please tell her she wasn't going to go all 'kiss and wake up' fairytale type deal. BUT then she saw her cast finite. Alright then, THAT was okay, she supposed. And it wasn't like she officially BANNED wands from today's lesson, though she did frown upon them because they were supposed to learning about muggles from the wizarding perspective.... Quote:
Originally Posted by Yourenodaisy Kaiden grinned. "Thanks" The bag would be great. He did add a shrug though. There were enough of all of them. "Sure.... You don't have to tell 'em about it though... just... if they ask." There was no need to give them help if they didn't ask for it right?
Ripping the bag into long thin strips, he added them to the tinder. Hopefully some of that would catch fire.
Standing back he looked. "Its looking good Little Quidditch Dude, and um... Girl. Leave a hole on the side where the windows are." Who was the girl helping him? Kaiden had no idea. And what were people yelling about? Or well not People, but Alexa. Something about stones? She probably just misplaced them. Ohh, and Professor Head Lady was asking another question? He didn't have to raise his hand did he? Since she probably wouldn't see it or anything. He went ahead and answered. "They use them to boil water the make sure that its safe to drink." and important thing to do.
And back to building. "We need to make sure we leave enough room for the fire to breath. so... space between the sticks." He looked up at Mouse asking for more instructions. "Yeah, you, and Flower and Little Annoying Kid and people can start putting the medium size pieces around the teepee if they are done" he said gesturing to the two doing the kindling. "just... the side facing the windows, try to arrange it where we can still get to the tinder".
It was looking really good though. He looked over to see the rest of the fires... The Gryffindors were... having troubles. And Odessa, he should know what he was doing at his because they'd built one before and all that. "When we get the medium sized ones done, we can add the largest one, still leaving that hole. if we save a few pieces we should be able to close it up once the fire is big enough." he said turning his attention back to the Hufflepuffs.
"Good. Yes, Muggles do use campfires to boil water." Hadley nodded, adding that to a list she started on the board. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lockhartian LOL! See, this is why watching the others was far more entertaining. She would've heard her best friend yelling about disappearing stones and wouldn't need to see anything, but seeing it all in action was fun. Kind of.
Amusing happenings were amusing.
Oh, and... Professor? Lottie simply answered a question that some may have not heard between the stones commotion. "Cooking." You know, outside. Just like Kaiden had mentioned water, food was important too.
Back to... Kaiden. Wasn't he a bossy one today, eh? He needed to stop with the nicknames. Who was Little Annoying Kid??? Either way, for the first time since the Hufflepuffs started to build this, Lottie was going to do what Kaiden proposed. So, she took some of Alec's twigs and rearranged a couple, because the others kids were done, right? Right. "Cooking, yes. Good." Surely some of the food-loving students might like that? Encourage them to finish up their campfires. Quote:
Originally Posted by hpfan18 As Kace was building the fire, he heard the professor ask a question. He knew the answer to that easily. "Umm Professor they use the fire to roast marshmallows and make smores!" he nodded and hopefully he would be able to make one.
Now onto making the fire. He heard Kaiden's instructions and was glad he was doing well. He kept in mind to put more space between the sticks. That seemed logical because Kace wanted the fire to be big. He was still making the kindling sticks into a teepee shaped and he saw others trying to help.
While the others were busy, Kace left and went to go more twigs and wood. They were gonna need it. "YES! And you know.... if we get these campfires up soon," cause class would be over soon and then they'd be out of time. "THEN, we might just have time to have make some s'mores." OF COURSE, that was assuming she'd brought the ingredients... and given her feelings on food in the classroom which she'd broken before. BUT might as well get their attention. Quote:
Originally Posted by imaginarynumb3rs The Hufflepuffs were doing an amazing job, which of course made perfect sense given that they were the best house and this was the HUFFLEPUFF class. They were totally going to win this competition. Just so long as no one decided to mess with their fire. Fern glared at the other non-Hufflepuff students. If any of them tried ANYTHING, they would face the wrath of FERN QUIMBLEY.
Listening to Kaiden's instructions, Fern reached for some of the larger, left-over sticks and announced, "I've got the big sticks!" That way, after they finished arranging the medium sticks, they could start on the next layer without any pause.
Now that they were doing a team activity, she wasn't as bothered by the fact that he knew way more about campfire construction then she did and was therefore stealing the show. But hopefully the next lesson would be about Disney movies because Fern had seen them all with Tallulah and could quote Ariel line-for-line so there.
Waiting for the badgers that were working on the medium sticks to finish, Fern gave a go at Professor Hadley's question, "Do they use it to see in the dark?" "Sometimes, yes. Because flashlights can run out of battery life, or charge. A fire is more practical for muggles, if they were really camping. They don't have wands, so they need some form of light." Hadley nodded at the young first year. Quote:
Originally Posted by Léa Maltisse As soon as she vanished the rocks of Gryffindor, Léa looked at Ravenclaw's non-existant campfire and sighed. Their boys were not working--
She gasped dramatically when that girl YELLED like that, with her hand pressed on her chest, and looked with BIG and worried eyes at their non-existant campfire. She was actually good at pretending, y'know? So she probably did a good job at hiding her pleasure in seeing the outrage. Then the creased forehead and fearful eyes turned to her team-mates.
"We..." She sighed. "I can't zink of any muggle way to protect our castle from enemy fire." Some more worried looks. "But... we should start, I zink? I'll... get some stones." She walked to the stones after that Slav girl but paid no attention to her doings so when the pile of wood disintegrated, she looked back at the room to find the guilty. Wonder if it was the same person who silenced people? Wonder if they would be accused of vanishing Gryffindor campfire too?
Questions to ponder later. For now, she just grabbed as many little stones as she could and brought them back to Ravenclaw area.
"Have we agreed to build eet in a castle form?" Castle form? Hadley's eyes widened when she heard the French accent suggesting that. Well that was original, but could they pull it off with so little time left? Quote:
Originally Posted by Charely Potter *Blink* .. *Blink*
Who in Merlin's Hippogriff-designed underpants silenced Wade? He was impressed by Kaiden, nodding in his approval at how he was pretty much taking on head of their group. His own knowledge with Muggles was good enough, but man did Kaiden have it all better than a textbook. A congrats was in order along with it, so Wade opened his mouth to say so and.... Nothing? His lips which mimicked like a fish out of water for a moment, before his brows furrowed. He looked around, everyone else could speak, so.. yeah, it didn't take long for him to realise it. He didn't really have any enemies at Hogwarts that he knew of, so that pretty much narrowed it down on who could have done it.
Taking his wand out, he pointed at his own mouth, 'Finite'. He looked at Professor Hadley after pocketing his wand again, who had already mentioned that they weren't allowed to use their wands, "I'm sorry, Professor. But someone in here just silenced me as well." But to answer her earlier question, "I think they could also use a campfire to signal for help and their location, like how we could send sparks in the air for it." Yeah, so it was back to work or well, whatever they were allowed to do right now. He smiled at the younger girl, Fern, and the others who had been helping in his group. "Nicely done, you guys." "Yes. Fires could definitely be used as a way to signal for help!! Excellent." Hadley smiled at the Head boy for his very original and awesome suggestion. Quote:
Originally Posted by Rosa Chispa Princessa Wait, Wha!!! All our rock work gone, ERRRRR Oichi looked around but could not figure out who had done it and sighed. She then began to pick up more rocks to help her fellow Gryffie friends start a new ring around the fire pit.
As she worked she heard the professor ask another question and raised her hand and responded, "Muggles use fires for smoke signals to signify they are in trouble or lost.". Yes that seems about right. And someone else suggesting what Wade just did? Hadley just gave a nod in her direction. Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo It had become clear to Alexa that the Professor wasn't going to give the go ahead to retaliate. That was fine, that was her go ahead to just SIT THERE in PROTEST. If there was one thing Alexa Cambridge did not do it was waste--well actually it was stupidity but you got the idea. To have her walk to the desk for rocks only to have them vanish on her was NOT how she planned to spend a class where there wasn't meant to be any magic in the first place.
Lex flopped to the ground and folded her legs to WATCH.
Not one more rock or wood would be laid on this campfire, not by her anyway. She was over this. Completely. There was no hard proof but judging by how things had been going for the past few weeks she was willing to blame the foreigners and as such, this was all THEIR fault and ONE OF THEM needed to come over here and GRACIOUSLY give them their rocks back. New rocks weren't the same, it was the principle of the matter.
Had to be them. Karina was suggesting protection charms. Something must have been up. Just watch her sit this whole thing out. She would answer the question asked earlier though.
"They use it to burn mass evidence. They all gather around it, some place far away with a bottle or two of muggle butterbeer or whatever it is they have and they just toss things in while singing old muggle tunes none of use have ever heard of." Obviously. Well someone was being STUBBORN?!? Did this mean she wasn't anxious to get to the FOOD part?! Assuming Kace or Lottie's ideas for what muggles did with campfires would be taken to heart.
"Sometimes. Yes, they do use the campfires to burn evidence." But what kind of evidence? "And yes. Glad you mentioned the muggle tunes. Singing and joy and dancing and food are very common around campfires." Speaking of which, they REALLY needed to get a move on.
"Alright ....... does anyone need help with building these campfires? Is anyone totally lost? Because we only have about ten more minutes to get your campfires going if you want to get to the singing and muggle food part of the lesson." Cause otherwise they'd have done all the work just to call it a day.
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Originally Posted by Blackboard Muggles use campfires for:
- To boil water the make sure that its safe to drink
- Cooking
- Roast marshmallows and make s'mores
- See in the dark
- Signal for help and their location
- They use it to burn mass evidence.
- Drink "muggle butterbeer"
- Singing old muggle tunes
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