Pacilla listened and took careful notes, and finished her sketch of the silver fish "ramoras". She thought for a moment, pondering the question, trying to remember that story her dad had told her. When she remembered, she got real excited and put up her hand. "Professor, my dad told me this story that he heard from my aunt who is married to a muggle... so anyways, his name is Tom Pogile - or at least I think that's him... my dad's only told me this story twice...
"Anyways, Tom was out sailing - this was before he married my aunt - with some other muggles. They were trying out a new boat that had just been manufactured. Then my uncle noticed something shiny and thought it was a really shiny muggle coin.. but it moved so quick that when he made to look again, he didn't see it. Of course being my uncle he didn't think to hard on it, but then he saw a shiny fish slither, this time for longer so he could make out it was a fish, and his friends saw it too... but when they returned home my dad said that my aunt said that my uncle wasn't even sure what he saw was real... do you think my uncle Tom and his friends could have seen a ramora?"
After that, Pacilla sat down, sighed, and looked nervously around at the students beside her for a few seconds before looking down at her paper, scribbling down a couple more notes.
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