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Oh dear. Fergersnout was no Healer but poor Charlie’s cough was sounding pretty awful over there. “Do you need a cough potion Mr Upstead?” she asked the second year, a hint of concern taking over from her usual chipper expression.
Miss Bellrose spoke up and Fergersnout immediately shook her head. “It doesn’t matter if you personally agree or disagree, the point is that you are able to extract reasoning from both sides. We’ll be switching over positions for the next debate anyway.”
It was admittedly taking an awful lot of effort to not interject herself into the debate. It wasn’t that she felt particularly strong about either side of the argument but because there was nothing more exciting than a good old-fashioned chin wag. Thankfully the students were channeling their passions through well thought out words rather than it becoming all out war in the classroom. With that being said there was a lack of back and forth, no counter arguments apart from Mandrake’s who received a quick encouraging nod from the Professor and Anna who had wonderfully taken it upon herself to study each of the left side's points. “Feel free to counteract one another’s arguments. You are all making fantastic points but I’m sure that you can find reasons to pick apart what others have said. Think about how these topics might be handled at a conference full of powerful and hot-headed Wizards and Witches” It was all very civilised. Too civilised. Don’t tell the Headmaster but this Professor somewhat enjoyed the chaos of Hogwarts.
But the interactions began to lull and when the moment felt right, she pounded on the gavel again and waited for silence to wash over. “I thank you all for the food for thought. Let’s have a quick vote, those in favour of the statute remaining in place raise your hand and say aye.” She waited a minute for the students to do so before moving on.
“Our next subject on our agenda is..” The paper flew out of the goblet with a rather dramatic flare whizzing around the classroom, the flames flickered upwards almost singeing Fergersnout’s eyebrows off as she stood too close. She stumbled back a little, blinking to regain her composure and clearing her throat. Remind her to never purchase from a strange man on a street corner again. “Where was I? Oh yes.” She unfolded the paper. Aha! There were the hard pressing issues for a bunch of teenagers that she was expecting. With a little revision she was able to reinterpret it into a debate subject.
“School uniforms are outdated and should not exist. Right side agreeing this time and left side disagreeing.” It would be interesting to see how a more trivial subject matter would incite passion in the group. “This time really listen to each other's points and counteract them with your own. Just please keep your wands to yourselves” She chuckled. History might have been full of battles but she didn’t want to have to clean the classroom up afterwards.
OOC: Such a fun first debate, thank you all for participating! Onto debate number two. You have around 48 hours for this one too.
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