Okay, so they were talking about telephones today. Today had been the first time Ophelia had ever actually SEEN a telephone, though she had heard about them. Apparently, they made communication faster between Muggles and their other muggle counterparts. Her father told her that one.

He also mentioned how terribly expensive they could be, and how apparently everyone always had them glued to their faces. Which when she was a little kid, brought images of special face glue to stick phones to cheeks. This was hilarious, of course, until her mom found the little blonde in the living room attempting to crazy glue a piece of paper made to look like what her depiction of a cell phone to her cheek. Her mother was none too pleased with that.

Anyway, Alexander Graham Bell. The guy who invented the telephone. The thirteen year old couldn't help but wonder what was running through his mind when he thought of the idea. Faster communication? Was it possible he was just bored? Sometimes great things happened when you were bored. Like once, Ophelia got bored and started mixing soft drinks together for a taste test. The results made her sick, but the testing led to a better understanding of science, and the creation of her new favorite drink of all time.

Writing down his name in her quill and making sure her left hand wasn't smudged with ink, the shorter girl listened to the rest of the Professors words. Had an assistant named Watson. Deaf family members, worked in a school for the deaf, studied the human voice. Very important stuff.

But.... why? For the life of her, the kid couldn't figure out why this man felt the need to invent such an object. Obviously the thought of faster communication was a luxury, but with a guy who seemed to spend most of his life caring for or studying the deaf, this seemed to have nothing to do with the afflicted. Heck, Ophelia couldn't even see any way the deaf would use this device!

HAND RAISE.

"Professor, I'm a tad confused. You mentioned how he spent a lot of his time caring for, or studying the human voice and people who are deaf. But there doesn't seem to be a way for deaf people to use that device at all! Why did he invent the device?" The question. Don't forget to answer the question at hand here. "Besides all of that stuff about faster communication that mostly everyone said. But for a guy who spent a lot of his life studying people who couldn't use a device like this and then make said device, it's kind of interesting, right?" Did that make sense,? She hoped it made sense. Because if not, then she probably just asked an awkward, slightly offensive question. And she was sorry. But if so, then she took a crack at it and hit a goal-run! Okay, so having a muggle father taught her nothing about their sports. But still, important questions.