Kayla looked up at Gabben and sighed. "Exactly which shows that he is anti-muggle. He was run out of his home and so he created a place where they could never enter and hurt him again. To me that says he was against muggles but of course that is just my opinion, we all seem to have different views on the matter" she shrugged and then waved her hand. "It's fine that's the whole point of the lesson" she added offhandedly.

"No we didn't" Kayla agreed. She listened as Cela spoke and nodded. "True, but she made it easy for the muggles to catch her, which to me says that she didn't mind muggles at all. Like I said before we are all going to have different opinions on the matter and there is no correct answer." Woah...talk about frying your brain.

Truebridge was so distracted by the cat in his lap, he didn't notice the boy come in late. Lucky for the boy since his housemates wouldn't have been pleased with a point deduction.


Zan put the cat down with one final pat and looked around the class, listening to the discussions and idly making notes on who had good points and which students were thinking outside the proverbial square.


He examined the list of who had which card again.

Standing, Truebridge idly added another question to the ones already on the board.

Humming one of the songs from the musical Rent (For some reason... he had no idea why it was in his head) Ethan sat down again and observed the class.

Jake thought for a second before shaking his head. "No, it-"

"There, that's what I've been trying to phrase it like," Jake pointed at the boy. "Thanks, I never would have worked that out."

Turning back to Kayla he went on, "If he'd been persecuted by muggles, I doubt he'd stay in a village where word could get round and he'd have to leave again. It was just the... smart? Yeah, the smart thing to do, I suppose," Jake said. "And like I said, the whole 'instilling a sense of peace' thingy."

Uh, why are surnames important all of the sudden? Tobi wondered. It was probably a girl thing. Girls are crazy. Except grown up women Like Nurse Brooks-Byron, that's another story all together. And Aggie's not so crazy either, but all other girls Are NUTS! He ran his hand through his curly blond mop, in something of a disarray since his frog catching adventure, and tried to refocus on the task at hand.

"It's probably safe to say he didn't change the world, unless you count that without his disappearing act, we'd be short one Chocolate Frog Card."

Tobi thought that was a little far fetched, but...

"Er, that's also a good thought, thank you Celadine." There was something about the weird little girl that he tended to like to humour. Maybe it was the scorpion that she kept in her underwear. Girls who kept poisonous creatures in their foundation garments were always to be placated.

Abby raises her hand. "Bertie Botts didn't orginally set out to create beans based on all the favors in the universe. He actually ran across the idea by accident. Bertie was working on creating flavors from various food when he accidentally included dirty socks in one of his trials. I would say he must have liked the taste. He certainly became famous making every flavor beans."

"I think if you look at the people on the the frog cards, you see that they are remembered for what they did and not who they are. They also cover a wide range of areas from spots, to food, to helping found Hogwarts. You also see they all didn't necessarily do good things to get placed on a Frog card. Salazar Slytherin helped found Hogwarts, but his ideas on pure blood supremecy has caused probems in the wizarding world that we are still dealing with today. I find it strange that Musidora Barkwith created a musical composition that can't be played without bringing the house down. She must have been looking for her five minutes of fame, and ended up getting a lifetime of fame. It's hard to say who was more worthy to be on a card than the others. I think it's like beauty. It depends on the eye of the beholder."

Abby watches carefully as a frog lands on her desk. She doesn't move an inch hoping the frog won't jump again. Abby throws her net over the frog and takes his card off. "Finally I have one.

"No problem, I'm Gabben by the way. And the fact that he made a village away from muggles shows that he couldn't be anything more then pro-muggle."

*He looked down as his card and sighed.* "Little is known about my guy other than that he made contributions to medicine for muggles and wizards. So making him pro-muggle. And would win in a dance off. In my mind anyway."

Tobi turned back to the wacky blonde and her Beatrix Bloxam counterparts. "So Celadine, I think Rastick has it all over Bloxam in dance off, but in a duel, do you think she could trounce him? I mean good footwork helps, but she's got a mind for some nasty stuff"

Jake looked up. "Is that your opinion?" he grinned, a little cheekily, to show there was no issue and that this comment was a joke. "Sure... my favourite oxymoron, agree to disagree. I think the subject of Slytherin can get a little heated at times.

"Of course he wouldn't but he didn't have a choice did he? he was driven out by muggles. It's like when another country invades your own and tries to take over, you're not exactly going to be for those people are you? No...you would want them out and so you would be against them. Just because he never fought against muggles or anything like that but trying to distance himself from them, tells me that he wasn't for them." Kayla felt like pulling her hair out, obviously they would have to agree to disagree.

Besides feeling absolutely ridiculous, Dominic nonetheless was following the professor's instructions. Standing on the desks in bare feet was not exactly his idea of paradise. But it seemed all the other students had done it, so why not one more?

Holding his butterfly net in the air, the was absolutely no way that Dominic was going out of his way to catch a card! For the love of all things bright and colourful - it was only a frog. A chocolate frog. Nothing exciting. Now if it was something sour like lemon tarts or of the like, then perhaps more flamboyancy would be generated. But it was C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E! Just a bunch of cocoa beans ground up and slammed with loads of sugar designed to make the body run on adrenaline or something like that. A load of clabberts.

Idly observing the chatter of students nearby - particularly a certain female Hufflepuff Prefect with Cela-an-dine, it took a few moments to notice that there was something struggling to free itself for his net. Glancing up at the net, Dominic blinked a few moments as he stared up at his net slightly bewildered. Oh right. A frog. In his net.

Slipping down into his chair, as he pulled the net down to eye level, Dominic reached inside to pull out the chocolate frog. Just a few moments and it'd be revealed who was on his card... as soon as he just slid it open just a little bit...

Looking back at the questions on the board and down at the notes she had made on her parchment. Liz starts writing down the questions that were put on the board, and answering them

Pro-Muggle or Anti-Muggle? Hmm, well if he was a healer, I would assume he wouldn't mind if there were muggles, that needed to be healed especially if it was a magical injury. So I think he must have been pro-muggle.

Did they change the world? Absolutely, he founded St. Mungo's. He aided the healing of many witches and wizards, not to mention muggles too!

What was happening in history during their lifetime and how might it have influenced their actions? Hmm memory modifying charms were invented. This may have had accidents at first, and being a healer, he may have had a lot to do with healing those accidents.

Looking at a time line she found in the book, she sees that the "Leaky Cauldron was founded sometime in the 1500's, I wonder if that was another clue, to Mungo Bonham..."

Mungo Bonham VS Muggle Doctors; Who would win..... in a duel? .... in a debate? .... in a dance-off? Hmm, definitely Mungo Bonham, would win in a Healing competition. I mean, stitches, now really..."

Qaz watched as a new question was added.

Raising her hand, she said, 'I'll take Dumbledore in a dance-off over any of the rest. I have heard that he was quite fond of fancy-clothes, too. Purple suits, and all.'

*He tried to hide a smile as he saw the look on her face.* "Maybe, but if he wasn't for them it's only human nature that he would have acted out on them sooner or later. History shows us that time and time again."

“Pinkstone was an existentialist hero,” Matilda chirped, her card faced down on the mud of her desk. “Whether or not her quest to lift the Statute of Secrecy was successful; or if it were a just cause, she did it with determination,” it was either that or she was really desperate.

“Quong Po, Plumpton, Barkwith and Bott were just geniuses. Successful geniuses. If Pinkstone had been successful, it would have been a New World…"


“Right. Slytherin tried to change the world as well, in his own (batty) way,” Matilda grudgingly agreed after a thought, staring poniards at the chocolate coated card. He purposefully made the common room the most uncomfortable, hideous place in the whole of Hogwarts… and likely blamed it all on the muggles.

“I think that makes it Pinkstone and Slytherin are on the complete opposite ends of the spectrum.”

Err... Wizard communism and wizard fascism?

Qaz continued, 'In fact, I think that I'll take Dumbledore in all three categories....duel, debate and dance-off!'

Kayla sighed once again and banged her head lightly on the desk. "Not necessarily. I'm against Denton, being made Prefect but I'm not going to punch his lights out because of that. You can be anti something without it leading to violence."

Goodness!! Moving on to the next topic who would win in a duel. "Well back in his day Dumbledore would have beat anyone, seeing how he had the Elder wand and everything." Hmm...she would have to give the others some thought.

Abby looks at her card while making sure her net remains securely over her chocolate frog.



Darn, I got Albus Dumbledore. Everyone in the Wizarding World knows him.

*He smirked at her.* "You haven't takin a hit to him yet. You never know as the year gose on what working with him might be like. But you are right. You can be anti something with out acting out."

"Well my guy seems to be good with potions so I'm guessing not that great with wand work."

"On the contrary," Jake groaned a little. "When countries are invaded, they fight back. Because they are then enemies. Hengust may not have considered himself an enemy." That was apparent to Jake anyway. "And so, you're saying if he fought agains't the muggles, he'd be pro-muggle?"

Jake's feet were starting to get all cold. He drew them up as he listened to Gabben and Kayla's debate. He was tempted to say Hengist would always step down honourably from duels. "Probably Merlin would win most duels..." Jake added in. He didn't know alot, only the Merlin was powerful. Jake shrugged again.

Lyra smiled to signal that she understood the joke. "Yup, just my opinion."

She read her card to herself:

Claudius Ptolemy

Born in Egypt in about 85 A.D.

Ptolemy was one of the most infuential Greek wizards, astromomers, and mathematicians of his time. As Ptolemy studied and observed the heavens, he formulated The Ptolemaic System shows the Earth as the center of the universe, followed outward by the moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Through his system, Ptolemy was able to greatly improve wizard's abilities to read the heavens and predict the future. His system allowed for Divination to be studied on a broader scope, and he is often considered one of the prominent figures that shaped the structure of Divination as it is today.

Lyra groaned inwardly. 'Divination- sure to be one of my worst subjects.' Especially since it had been one of her mom's favorites. Ever since she had chosen Ravenclaw over Gryffindor, Lyra had lost all interest in proving herself to her mom. In fact, she didn't want to be like her at all, anymore.

"Just call me Cela." Celandine answered with a smile. She looked at Whitney strangely when she stopped mid-introduction, "Yeah. You know what?" Cela looked around with a cross expression on her face, "I'm the cool Toussaint and its sooooooooooooooooooooo annoying that people know me because of him. So what if he was all hardcore with points for Slytherin?"


They'd struggle without him and Will thats for sure.


"So what if all the girls were making kissy faces at him? Nico isn't here anymore and I am and I am cooler and prettier." Cela made a face, wondering why she felt the need to say all of that. "But hi, Whitney nice to meet you." Celandine smiled brightly, "and I like my name too."


"I'll tell you sometime." Cela volunteered, happily.

"What would have made her anti-muggle?" Cela thought about it, "Well, we don't really know anything about her family, maybe they were hurt or something by Muggles. Or maybe she was driven from her home or something like that. Maybe she just didn't like that there are more of them than there are of us. Or maybe she was crazy." Celandine mused.

"I wonder if she was a pyro? Maybe the flames held some hidden meaning .... ooooh!" Cela sat up, "Maybe Wendelin the Weird scryed the flames!" Yeah Cela liked that theory.

"Ohh neat!" Celandine noted, reading the added question.

"Chaos theory." Celandine stated, "Maybe his disappearance shocked someone so much that they had a heart attack and either died or... went to hospital and met a healer who nursed him back to health and then they fell in love and got married and had a child who changed the world in other ways. Maybe.... one of the other people on these cards wouldn't have done what they did without his disappearing act." Cela smiled brightly at Tobi and adjusted her top slightly.

"You know what?" Cela stood up and walked over to Tobi, a sweet expression on her face as she picked up an abandoned butterfly net, "Sometimes its easier to win when people underestimate you." Cela donked Tobi on the head with the Butterfly net and poked out her tongue, having made her point. "And the tapdancer might have had some mean dueling skills since he was either a really good apparater or brilliant at a disillusionment spell." Cela noted, sitting down again.

"Hi Dom-in-ick." Cela greeted, jabbing him gently in the leg with the butterfly net she still held. "What card do you have?"

"Oww!" Tobi yelped as the butterfly net brained him.

"Blast it all woman!" he growled. "Was that necessary?"

Girls are insane. Particularly that one. Wait- A brighter thought occured to him, do I have a concussion? Can I go to the hospital wing and see Nurse-of-my-Dreams?

Dominic had been sitting back in his chair, reading the card over and over in his hands for a little while now. Actually, for a moment he had even forgotten that he was in a lesson, since he seemed to be quite absolved in his own little world. Par-a-cel-sus. Paracelsus. He liked the sound of that ... There was something eloquent about the name, yet mysterious all the same. But what was more was that the card that he held in his hands was one of a famous wizard - trading card number one. A rare find indeed. Peculiar.

Lost in the moment of reading the card, chocolate thrown behind him someplace, probably long into the stomach of some hyper child, the fifth year heard a familiar tone greeting him. But it didn't stop there, as he felt a jab of something rounded into his leg - obviously the handle of the butterfly net, cause people always went around poking people with net handles. Well then again, this was Hogwarts.

"Ouch," the fourteen year old muttered indistinctly, rubbing his leg, before looking up to see the glowing hyper face of the third year Ravenclaw. "Oh, It's you... Hey Cel-an-dine. Oh... Uh, just some wizard. Paracelsus. It's just a dumb card though, right?" Probably. Hence why despite the knowledge of chocolate frogs since he was a little boy, this was Dominic's first card ever. Chocolate never interested him, so why should the cards within it?

"You have some good points; however I think it is important to speculate on the whys and wherefores to better gain an understanding of what made them 'worthy' for a chocolate frog card. The best way to understand the past is by attempting to understand the people through their actions rather than by analysing the events." Ethan nodded; pleased by the girl speaking up.

Truebridge stood and glanced at the ravenclaw's parchment, "The Leaky Cauldron was founded by.... another chocolate frog card person." Ethan paused, "But follow that train of thought and see where it leads. How many connections can you make with the different witches and wizards? featured on the cards?" Ethan nodded encouragingly before moving along.

"Purple is a great colour." Ethan nodded, " Do you think Dumbledore could have taken the founders? Do you think he would have? Particularly knowing how actions might change the path of time..." He was trying to get everyone thinking and wondering.

"Ptolemy is just as important to Astronomy as to Divination, though in different ways." Truebridge noted with a crooked grin.

"I like your theories; particularly the one about scrying in the flames." Ethan nodded encouragingly at the small Ravenclaw before taking the butterfly net off her and bopping her on the head with it.

"A few more minutes before we move on." Truebridge announced, slowly walking around the classroom and stopping occassionally to listen to the discussions.

Looking up when she hears a voice over her shoulder. She smiles at the professor. "Thank you for noting that. I agree, there seems to be a lot of connections with some of the cards and people on them..."