In fact, Dylan HAD noticed that everyone seemed to have been informed on several different levels...

"Professor, I just think it's safe to assume that no one will ever really know what, when, where, or why about the Atlantis situation." He could agree with Vicky there...None of the information could really be relied upon because everything was word of mouth...and exaggerated to impossible extremes. Weren't the stories of that time called Epics, too? That should have been an inkling right there. Nothing was EPIC about real life. Nothing at all. So, naturally...they were embellished!

Anyway, moving on...

When the question was asked...he glared at the Ravenclaws who seemed to know EVERYTHING about the MUGGLE guy. The whole thing had him scoffing in annoyance. Ravenclaws.

Not that it deterred his own answer. The Slytherin wasn't too knowledgeable about those of Ancient times...but what he DID know was that..."Sir, the guy lived a VERY long time ago, hence the EPIC one-name thing of the Ancient times...and I think I remember reading that he'd traveled the world."

Oh the Professor was getting really angry with everybody who would say anything about Anya. Nigel was a little scared, wondering who else would freeze in this class and if it will be copy of what happened in potions.

OK.. He just had to focus on Plato and answering the Professors question about Plato. Then he could go back to worrying about people freezing and Anya. Nigel really only knew a little more, other than that Plato was the guy who worte about Atlantis so Nigel started to say

"Professor, Plato traveled and wrote a lot."

That was all Nigel knew about Plato other than the Atlantis stuff.

Just when Cece had started to think no one else was going to just freeze in the middle of class it happened again.

After receiving Professor Scabior's patronus she made her way down to the first floor and the History of Magic classroom. Immediately upon entering the room she seen just who this student was. Now why did it have to be little Anya, why couldn't it have been one of those annoying puffer kids? "Professor Scabior, I got here as soon as I could.' Moving closer to him she asked in a hushed voice so as not to alarm the students. "Has anyone else been displaying any symptoms?" If they had she might as well take them with her too. It would save her from having to come retrieve them later.

She really needed to hire some help.

Dylan was busy taking notes when he heard the door open. Glancing up meanly, his expression softened when he seen one of his favorite people striding into the room. She looked lovely today...Healer Tiltstorm always looked amazing, though.

Watching her walk towards the good Professor, the Slytherin could tell she was annoyed. He couldn't say he blamed her...It seemed that she was called to every lesson, having to cart more students off to the infirmary. Dylan himself was almost convinced not to attend anymore. What was the point? It wasn't like that got anything done anyway.

Rolling his eyes, they settled on the older blond again. There was NO WAY they paid her enough for the things she was having to put up with.

Yep, the lady needed a raise. Seriously.

Momentarily forgetting about his notes, he simply stared at her.

Lol JUST DID PLATO'S REPUBLIC LAST QUARTER IN PHILOSOPHY!!!
 

Selina could feel her grip tightening every moment around her book. His attitude toward the immovable students infuriated selina. It made her insides boil and her head spin and fog with fury. If it were one of the precious professors that Scabior was close with no doubt his attitude would have been very different. But no, it was a student and WHO THE BLOODY HELL CARED ABOUT STUDENTS? Especially Anya and Kurumi. And whoever else was frozen, them too. Without even noticing it she saw that she was picking the book off of the table and she lowered it trying to even her breathing.

Her eyes shut and she pulled herself remotely together. Then when he asked about Plato she rose her hand and said, "He was a Greek philosopher who was a follower of Socrates, who drank hemlock and died, which Plato never forgave the greek people for doing to his master. He also is most famous for his writing the Republic and the theory of the forms, the divided line, and the allegory of the cave. Oh yeah, and he was a wealthy conservative. Unlike his master."

Was THAT enough information.

Then the healer came in and Selina wanted to stand. But she could not.... Merlin!!!

Okay, really!?!? Throwing oneself on a frozen student? What if they had cracked, like ice? Seriously, crazy stupidity at it's finest. Emmanuelle just smirked as Scabior pulled the girl off and yelled at her. In her honest opinion, the girl deserved much more than loosing twenty points.

And moving on. Emmanuelle called up what she could remember about Plato, which wasn't much. "He was a philosopher in Ancient Greece. It is said he taught some guy named Aristole." Honestly, she didn't get what the big deal was with all those Ancient guys. They all sounded incredibly insufferable to her.



Oh good, the nurse was here. Maybe now students would quit randomly throwning themselves on others. And she'd at least tell them if this stuff was contagious...

Silvia sat quietly and took notes, trying to keep her attention on the professor, while still glancing at the frozen student from time to time. At least Professor Scabior hadn't gone crazy like Professor Lafay. It was always good to remain calm in situations like these.

Plato? Yes, she knew the name. "Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived a very long time ago." Yes, that was enough of an answer for now. Silvia didn't know many details about Greek philosophers anyways, other than being familiar with a few names.

playing catch up
 

Alyssa quickly wrote down what the Professor said about Atlantis and everyone's assumptions about it before trying to remember who Plato was.

When she remembered she raised her hand.

"Professor Plato was one of the famous Greek Philosophers, Mathematicians. He studied under Aristotle and his student was Socrates. With his mentor and his student, they lay the foundation of the Western Philosophy and Science."

"Plato wrote a lot of stuff and one of them was entitled Timaeus and Critias which actually mentioned something about the City of Atlantis."

Jory had read a bit on Plato after he became interested in Atlantis, but to be honest the Badger couldn't remember much except for one thing.

He raised his hand. "I believe he was a Greek philosopher,'' he said frowning as he tried to remember if that was it.

He felt someone enter the room. He turned in his seat and nearly cried out with relief when he saw the Healer checking in on Anya, who until now has not unfrozen. He watched the Healer exchange a few private words with the Historian and although he can see their lips clearly, his blasted deaf ear made it difficult to hear the whisperings despite his proximity. But the Healer was here and right now she was one of his last hopes for this "Uhm Healer Tillstorm..." he started, raising a more desperate hand this time "... would you happen to have a... potion or a vaccine to keep us from getting.... that?" he asked gesturing to Anya and trying to keep his voice from rising to the hysterics.

Minerva looked around, she saw the scary healer enter the room. She was so confused about what was going on, what was the question that was asked. She looked around the room trying to figure out the question from everyone's answers. They kept saying something about Plato, she decided to write his name down on her parchment and listen to the rest of the discussion.

Fifty points? With Ravenclaw's current standing, they couldn't afford to lose any more points. They could be on that highest spot if only they behaved well and do good in class. Louisa, being their House Prefect most likely understood the importance of earning points and not losing them. They officially were deducted of twenty points earlier.

Plato. He was great philosopher, yes, and a student of Socrates but those were mentioned by her classmates already and she just saved her breath of any more repetitions. Instead, she just took down notes glancing at the frozen Anya from time to time and quickly turning her attention back to the Professor and the one who's reciting.

And when she thought of something different from their answers, her hand shot up in the air, "Plato believes that knowledge is food for the soul." Erin didn't know if that would help in the discussion but she could at least share it.

..and here comes the Healer. If only, Erin could volunteer herself to go with her. She didn't want staying here and freezing in Professor Scabior's class. He didn't seem to care that much. And then she heard Mr. Vanderbilt ask the Healer about some kind of a vaccine or something. That would be great. If they're going to go in line now, she would be up front. Erin stared at the Ravenclaw and nodded.

He had not been paying enough attention, at least not to who was exiting and entering the room. His eyes flickered to the Healer, slightly surprised to see her making her way up, already in the middle of the class. A bit of relief washed over him, simply because finally students could shut up and listen to his lesson. Scabior flicked his wand, removing the temporary invisible barrier he had just put around the frozen girl.

"Perfect timing too, just finished dealing with rioting students." There was a touch of edge to his voice, he was clearly still annoyed. Symptoms? Dash quick a quick glance around the class before lowering his voice. "That one over there,-" He pointed to Lea who was no at the back of the room. "-Has some obvious brain damage since she tried to shake Anya." Just...so stupid. "Other than that? No. She herself didn't show any symptoms that I am aware of. Started talked, and then just nothing. Froze." So that was that then yes? Cece would take her and hopefully find out a way to return her back to her normal loud self. "If theres anything else...." And if there wasn't? Well, he had to get back to his class.

He cleared his throat a bit, giving Cece a look. "So as many of you said, Plato a famous Greek philosopher who was really interested in learning and promoted higher learning and all of that. And for those of you who have absolutely no clue who he is, just think of him as Tate. Except smarter. Much smarter." Much. More like him probably then, but Dash didn't really promote higher learning.

"Now, because Plato really did influence a lot of people and systems. Think about how possible is it that Atlantis existed. Remember, Plato was the only one to write anything about it. Could a man who had really lived his life based on education and facts really lie about something such as a city existing?" It wasn't his next question. He just let the idea sink in. "It just doesn't seem likely does it? What benefit would it be for him to lie?" None at all.

And so the conclusion was?

"Atlantis is still a real city." Point blank. It was no fable.

"Now many of you believed that the city itself sounded like a wizarding city. Why? Well, for one the rumour of it being underwater." Sounded like something wizards would do. "But if this is the case, was Plato a wizard?" And if they thought he was, WHY, and if they thought he wasn't, still WHY.

Knowing WHAT the man was, would determine, if the city had indeed been filled with Witches and Wizards, or Muggles.


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Seeing her Professor smirk from her answer wasn't a good thing. Didn't he know that smirking was unpleasant. Especially for such a unique answer? If you do not have knowledge, you would never have something to answer questions. And knowledge was very important, not only to Ravenclaws but to everybody in this class. They never lived with Plato before.

She eyed the professor as he explained what happened to Anya to Healer Tillstorm in a whisper: probably including the unexpected reaction of Lea Carter as she shook her friend deliberately assuming that she would wake up. And before Erin could rearranged her thoughts carefully, another question was given.

Was Plato a wizard? Erin contemplated on raising her hand to answer the professor. The thought of Plato being a wizard never occurred to her, ever in her wildest thoughts. But that could be possible, right? "Probably. Because he knew about the Atlantis City." This question required lots of thinking and she couldn't really find in her mind the exact reason to justify her answer, so she just went to the obvious. "...he might have gone there with Socrates and his other, errr...friends. Does that mean that Socrates was also a wizard?" Eh?

That would be Plato?

*blink* Wait.... are they discussing if Plato was a Wizard?

Well talk about turning things on its head...

Icy blues glances towards the frozen Gryffindor being attended to by the Healer, although this time maybe he wasnt really seeing them, his brain trying to reconcile historical accounts of Plato versus facts about themselves as a Magical People. Its true that with the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy still a thousand years from being conceptualized, the Magical moved in and out of Muggle societies freely. But then again, so did Muggles, whether or not they were aware of it. After much internal wrangling the Ravenclaw raised a tentative hand "Plato... was a strong proponent of the abstract, you can see it plainly in the works and the words that he left behind." he paused for a moment because up until that point the ancient Philosopher still sounded believably Muggle "But some researchers have said that there was more of his work that is undocumented-- that he insisted on keeping undocumented, and would only discuss with a select few and when these people are actually around him. Also for someone who had such prodigious work, to be mentored and to mentor fellow Philosophers who were and would become as celebrated as he was -- its quite possible that he was a Wizard, or have close ties to Wizards who shared their knowledge with him freely, and without any law that remotely resembled the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, there was nothing that would keep Muggles and Wizards from sharing knowledge freely other than their own sensibilities."

Minerva still wasn't sure about Plato. She listened to the discussion. "Professor, I don't feel Plato was a wizard. Muggles know to much about him. They know his entire life and his work that he did. If we was a wizard I don't feel that muggles would have known that much about him. Yes he might have been in books and many things rumored, but not documented and examples so easily to study."

Hmmm...the professor made good points and made Hannah think that maybe this wasn't a wizarding city afterall. I mean sure the whole muggles not knowing about it and most believed it to not exist sounds like something that might be magical, but this Plato dude was obviously a muggle. This had to be why Hannah did not know about him.

"Professor I don't think Plato is a wizard because we would know about him in the wizarding world and the muggles would not know about him at all." Did that even make sense? "I think the muggles know too much about him for him to be a wizard." About the city being under water, Hannah didn't know how to go about that. Maybe the muggles didn't really care about what this fool was talking about and didn't care to go look for it.

So the healer would take care of Anya now, yeah? She would know what to do to make her better? To make all of the frozen people better? Ella hoped so...because all the frozen people were really starting to freak her out.

Back to Plato...could Plato have been a wizard? Well he was the one person to write about Atlantis, and he was a teacher as Professor Scabior said. Teachers didn't tend to lie about facts and figures, at least as far as Ella could tell. So he had to be a wizard, right? But what if Plato found out about wizards and made up a theory about them and where they lived...based on facts he had from other civilizations that he studied? Could that be possible? "Professor, could Plato have been a muggle who believed wizards and witches existed in Atlantis...and he wrote about the city based on what he thought it might be like based on previous knowledge of other places? That would explain why there isn't really any clear information out there on it. Maybe the information was covered up?" This was a stretch but Ella's imagination was running kind of wild at the moment and besides, wizards could obliviate people's memories. What if they had done that to Plato?