Originally Posted by Roselyn

"Wait, sir." she said a little loudly, sitting up straight in her seat and she tried to understand just what exactly he was talking about. "I may have misunderstood but, you are saying...that our own Minister of Magic is just one of the people who are trying to put us out in the open again?" Is THAT what he was saying? Forget that other question! Had they all not been tortured enough in the past!?

Teaching at Hogwarts was not as nerve-wracking as Armen thought it would be. He had arrived at the Castle and had immediately felt unsure of his teaching abilities but he was rethinking that now, the students seemed to be learning alot so far; which meant he hopefully would not run into them doing things they were supposed to be doing with modes of magical transportation.


Hmmm...this girl was certainly on to something, and Armen agreed the powers that USED to be in charge of the Ministry would have fit that bill perfectly. "Well, that is not entirely correct, but a good start." he said with a nod.

"Well, both great points yet not exactly what I was looking for." She was certainly right though. The Ministry wanted to avoid people getting hurt from outdated and dangerous mode of transport and he agreed with that for the most part.

But yes, good answer nontheless.

"Not exactly."

These guys should know this answer, it had only been beaten into their heads from the time they new they could do magic. "Not really, no. We still have many forms of magical transport, like we mentioned before," he said pointing to the board. "and even though Apparition, Portkeys, brooms, and floo powder are the only modes we have a whole Division specifically set up for, does not mean the others are not watched."

And then they had a winner! If only he was allowed to give house points.

*siiiigh*

"That is exactly right Miss! We do not want to bring too much attention to ourselves whislt travelling in the open, for fear Muggles will see our magic." he would elaborate more later, but good job for the Ravenclaw.



This girl was right in a few different ways, and even hit on the answer he was looking for towards the end of her little ramble.

Armen nodded and then spoke, "You are right. Although we do regulate pretty strictly the muggle items allowed to be bewitched as travel aides, we don't discredit them against completely wizard created modes." He smiled. "And with dragons and certainly centaurs, we do not ride them either because of the fact that they are dangerous or because they have human-like thoughts and actions. When chosing a creature to ride you must certainly use discretion. And like you said, we do not want the Muggles to see us." Just yet at least.


"Right on the head!" Armen beamed at the girl he now recognized to be part of the group of Hogwarts students to be brought forward during Lord Borr's welcoming party in Diagon Alley. She seemed pretty smart, this one.

"If a muggle somehow got ahold of one of out broomsticks rather than their own, huge damges could be done, the Muggle may harm themselves or others, and it breaches the International Statute of Secrecy."

Good, good.

"Both great advice and a good answer. Like I mentioned to some of your classmates already, travel must be well concealed from Muggles or else it would breach the Statute of Secrecy." Now the students were becoming more on the ball.

"Yes, Muggles seeing us would not be good would it?" he nodded, not that he agreed with this. Soon after the Cult had fully taken over, that would be corrected.

O__O

"You rode a flying carpet? My boy, where on earth did you do this?" he wasn't going to get him in trouble, he was just curious. Armen had never even gotten to do that yet.


Good answer.

"That is correct, dragons are both a dangerous creature and a very noticable form of transport." Not very ideal for a group wanting to stay in hiding.

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"Ok so as many of you remember, the International Statute of Secrecy was established in 1692 by the International Confederation of Wizards to end the mass witch burnings across the globe." It always sounded so grim when he thought of that, and certainly some of the students may not have heard all of this history before.

"No need to fret though kids, if they caught any real witches or wizards they were able to fix the flames to not hurt but to tickle or cool them and then feigning death afterwards. The real harm was the fack that man Muggles were confused for witches and were killed instead." he paused. It was definately not a good time to live in, very bad. "One of the biggest reasons was the fact that the Muggle community was constantly pestering the witches and wizards in there towns to teach them their magic, which is impossible."

And now it was time to bring up the real stuff. "Now, some claim that the Statute is a necessity still and to this day many of our kind are hesitant for an repeal. But there are a few inivators that think we should challenge the old ways and come out into the open once again!" Armen voice was rising with emotion now, he was of course extremely pro-Cult of Walpurgis, being a part of it and all.

"Our wonderful Minister of Magic Lord Borr has made some effort in the each Department to begin ways of testing how this will go including slight intergration expereiments of Muggle and Magical transport systems." And now that he had given them a bit of his Pro-Cult sales pitch, back to the lesson.

"Now that we have named a few of the main types of magical transportation and talked about how NOT to do some of them, I would like you to each pick one of the four main types: Apparition, Brooms, Floo Powder, or Portkeys and tell me a little of what you knwo about them. Just pick one."

Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...

Josh could remember this Statute of Secrecy thing. During one term, he coud not remember which, probably because he had never paid much attention, it had been mention in almost every class. Some people found it annoying and some found interesting. Josh, on the other hand, did not care about it at all. Yet that was during that time. Now it seemed like he had his own ideas. ''Sir...'' so he said rising from his seat ''...i think it would be nice if we did not have to hide ourselves from muggles and live together with them in peace as equals. But this is like a...fantasy, is not it? Because we cannot tell what every single individual's reaction would be and it can lead to bad things.''

Originally Posted by Roselyn

Not exactly correct...

Well Evelyn though it was mostly correct. Besides the whole keeping themselves hidden from the muggles, that was like, the second best option! The ministry guy was probably just paid to say that to them. Josh's comment about everyone living together peacefully though had her thoughts drifting off somewhere else.

Until the ministry dude continued on again....

"Wait, sir." she said a little loudly, sitting up straight in her seat and she tried to understand just what exactly he was talking about. "I may have misunderstood but, you are saying...that our own Minister of Magic is just one of the people who are trying to put us out in the open again?" Is THAT what he was saying? Forget that other question! Had they all not been tortured enough in the past!?

Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl