They were going to be learning about....muggle magic tricks? Last time Avalon checked, she was in Transfiguration, not Muggle Studies. But when she thought about it, she supposed that some of the tricks her classmates were describing could possibly be categorized as transfiguration. She wasn't too familiar with them, other than the classic card trick - which had already been mentioned - and the 'pulling something out of your ear' trick that her cousins had told her about. She raised her hand. "Some muggles try to pull an object out of another person's ear. Like a ball or a coin or something. Of course, they aren't actually pulling it out of their ear. It's just an illusion," she said.

She watched with a raised eyebrow as Analiese performed some odd trick using a piece of paper and an egg. Avalon never understood the purpose of muggle magic tricks. It didn't seem to serve any purpose. She made her way over to the table after Professor Barlow relayed the instructions for the activity. Grabbing a handful of coins and a few cups, she tried to think of some tricks to do. But she had no idea where to start. They weren't given any instructions, and she hadn't perused any muggle magic books in her spare time.

"Do you have any idea how to start?" she asked Analiese, glancing over next to her to see that her classmate was having similar trouble with her deck of cards. Avalon laid out three coins on her desk and covered each one with a cup. She shuffled them around a bit, quickly sliding one cup to the edge of the table and catching the coin with her hand as it dropped. Well, that was way too obvious. Muggles made this kind of stuff disappear all the time. But how did they do it without real magic?