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accio.brain 
Tancred couldn't help but laugh. This whole debate thing was pointless. This school was pointless. With another Ministry freak teaching a normal class, that automatically made the class pointless. Now, what was the point of coming back for an education when they weren't really taught about anything? He sighed and said, "Oh. Sorry. I wasn't laughing at what you said. It makes sense. But this class now ... it's just rubbish. I mean ... come on? Debates?" He rolled his eyes and shrugged his shoulders. "Might as well make them happy though. ... Well, what really is the point of not transfiguring them? I mean, there's plenty of their own kind out there. So it's not like you're taking down their entire breed population by tranfiguring a few animals here and there. And about their feelings. I'm sure that there are magical properties that make them feel like the object they're being transfigured to and not notice a thing when they're back to their good old selves." He rolled his eyes again. This was a load of rubbish.
"Oh. I see," Tancred said, not quite expecting there being a secret Order thing - much less a secret letter and meeting. "So ... what expactly does the Order of Mane do?"
Cale tried to think of something else to say in response to what Tanc had just said. Gah. His head hurt. There was no way he could take this seriously. "Umm, but how can we be certain they don't feel anything? Has anyone ever talked to an animal and taken their feelings into consideration?"
Ok. It was official. Cale had just completely given up hope on this lesson.
Glancing at the professor again, he looked back at him and lowered his voice. "I can't say anything else here. I've probably said too much with this Ministry bloke in earshot. I'll tell you after class," he promised. He knew it wouldn't do him any good to run his mouth in front of Richardson--what if they tried to stop them? What if they prevented the return of Hogwarts? Well, everyone would hate him, that was for sure.