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Charlie Upstead
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Unfortunately for Kaiser, while he had become much better at listening to and understanding spoken English from most people, as soon as you threw in a thick accent that was very different to the one he had picked up while learning, it was game over. Of course, after the last couple of months, he had come to expect that this would happen in Care of Magical Creatures, but still. Acceptance didn't make it any easier.

He tried his best to listen and follow, but he kept getting left behind. The most he could do was wait until it sounded like de Nostredame was starting a new train of thought, and then try and engage his brain again.

Evolutionary...? Oh dear. This was the point in the lesson where Kaiser's giant gaps of knowledge became obvious. He didn't know what an evolutionary advantage was. It was just one of those terms he occasionally heard or read and casually glossed over. So, uh... he was going for the other question. The easier one. He didn't particularly care if it made him look lazy.

Up the hand went again. "Uh... I think if a creature has been transfigured by a spell, it will behave as what it has been turned into, because it will think that it really is that creature and always has been. But a shapeshifter I think would not naturally act like the creature it turned into, it keeps its own, ah... behaviours?" ... Sure. That would have to do.
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