Nigel hoped Anya was not hurt because it looked like the Professor was whispering stuff to the Nurse and pointing at Anya. Hopefully the Nurse will fix her, the other students, and professors who were frozen. But Nigel could not really do anything about freezing students and professors. So back to the class and Professor Scabior's question.

Hmm.... Plato was a wizard, well that would explain things if Atlantis was a wizarding city. Even if it was underwater, which would be soooo cool. But Nigel had no idea if he was or not. Nigel was still think about how a city could be underwater if not with merpeople. It would seem like every human would die down there. Nigel did not know, so he thought why not take a guess. He raised his hand and said

"Professor, maybe Plato was a wizard who just loved doing smart muggle things. Maybe he just want to start a rumor among muggles about Atlantis and it did not matter if it existed or not."

The rumour of it being underwater...

Waaaaait. If there were wizards... and the city was underwater... WHAT IF THEY WERE STILL ALIVE?! But hidden, and apparently very well. Coming to think of it, they could use bubble head charms, or create a large bubble around the city... and maybe they used similar charms as Hogwarts has around it, so muggles wouldn't find it... which is why no one actually knows the exact place where Atlantis has been...

Oh, dear.

Trying to banish away those INSANE ideas, Nora focused on what professor Scabior was telling them. Plato, a wizard? Uh... "I don't think so, professor," she said with a hand in the air. "Really smart, yes... but I don't think he was a wizard. Or if he was, he must have known a lot more than what he wrote about."

So, the healer was here. She would take care of the little 'dork girl there. All was good. Not that João Neves cared. It was only good to know people would stop cutting the lesson off because of that girl.

Back to the topic of Plato.

"I think back in those times there were only a few people on the world when compared to today that there was harmony among people. They were less greedy, they shared." His voice was very neutral, scientific even. He didn't long for such an athmosphere, no, because he was an admirer of the power himself. He was just explaining his idea. "I don't think that everyone knew about the wizards, but the wise lot like Plato did. So, I think he was a Muggle, but he interacted with them."

So Atlantis IS a real city and its underwater. That's cool!

Plato a wizard? Hmm.. "Maybe he's a Squib?" he said after raised his hand up in the air. "Outcast by his own family because he didn't have any magic?" That could explain his knowledge on the Atlantis City, right? "And I think maybe its one of the reason why he's not so famous here."

Aspen wasn't exactly the type to scoff, and certainly not one to dismiss other ideas... but...

"I think it's naive to think that just because he's not in our history books specifically as a wizard - to believe he wasn't. I mean, he's a brilliant figure in history with a penchant for secrecy, who has ties to a secret city -- why couldn't he also keep his magical blood secret?" He probably could.

Aspen liked that. She liked being able to keep a shroud of mystery. Maybe he was a distant, distant, distant relative.

"And...I think it's possible he was tied to the merpeople said to live in Atlantis. Maybe he was a realtor? Sold Atlantis to the merpeople for some.... thing. A trade. I'd trade land for knowledge, and he was certainly the knowledge-seeking type."

He could not be a wizard, there was not fathomable way for him to be a wizard. Plato had a steep belief in the forms and the allegory of the cave. If he was a wizard there would be no reason for him to believe in the forms- magic would have explained that logic much more simply. His life long search for the intellectual upper realm in philosophy would have been mute if he was in fact a wizard. If he was a wizard she would be very surprised. Her logical train of thought discounted this possibility. Her mother had read his Republic when she young because she thought it was important. So everything he knew about him, it was unlikely.

But how could she simply explain the theory of the forms to this class? It had taken her months to even understand what the theory even entailed and she was still a little fuzzy. Philosophy was hard. However, she rose her anyway and said in a way that she hoped he understood, "I don't think he could be a wizard. He was a such a firm believer in his theory of the forms that if magic existed there would have been no reason to come up with his theory. He spent his whole life on that theory. If he were a wizard no theory would have cropped up. And I don't know why he would talk about Atlantis, sir."

Then she watched the healer walk in and kept her in her peripherals the whole time.

Annabelle heard her classmates arguments about what they believed. Then she spoke out about what she believed. "Professor, i believe that Plato was not a wizard. He was set on his theory that something exists based on the human senses. If he was a wizard then i don't see why he would have a theory to prove. Plato is not so famous in the wizarding world as in the muggle world but i knew he loved to teach. Teaching can lead to interaction with wizards which i believe made Atlantis seem more real to people.. That was her best answer she got.

Louisa almost sighed in relief as the Healer went in. She kept her hawk-like eyes on the woman and the man as they whispered stuff to each other, Scabior in particular eying the students like a bunch of stupid pygmy puffs. Blehh.

And then they went on with the lesson... geez, this man had his emotions locked up in a box somewhere! No wonder he was woman-less. Heh.

"I think Plato was not a wizard, no. Like some already said, he had this theory about Atlantis city. If he'd found it due to his magical nature, then he wouldn't have made a theory about it, trying to convince the muggle world of it or tell them about it." Made sense to her.

The Prefect then moved her attention back to the Healer and Anya.

She knew who plato was! He was a gree philosopher like a while ago. She moved on to the next query.

Was plato a wizard? "No, I think plato was not a wizard, as howc ould someone live such a public life among muggles as a wizard?" said sarah.

Alyssa listened as the other students gave their answers. 'Wow, profound question. Was Plato a wizard or not?' Alyssa thought to herself. She listened as the the others gave their opinion and nodded in agreement with some of them. Then she raised her hand and answered.

"Professor I don'l believe that Plato was a wizard. He was a great mathematician, philosopher and even studied alchemy which many people believe that if you did, you must have be some kind of wizard."

"However, I believe that he was a muggle who may have known people who were wizards but he kept their secret to himself."

"If Plato was a wizard, being as wise as he was, I'm sure that he would have used his abilities to do more than what he was famous for doing. Like someone said earlier, we all know Merlin was a great wizard because his abilities were known by everyone far and wide."

"I don't think Plato would have been able to keep his magical abilities a secret if he had been a wizard. It would just have been impossible to do so especially when he was already well known and all his achievements were already under scrutiny."

"When he wrote about the existence of Atlantis in his papers, his knowledge about the place stemmed from the accounts of someone named Solon who himself reported that he met a priest in Egypt who has translated the history of Atlantis. Where that priest got his knowledge of Atlantis from, no one knows."

"As for Atlantis, even if Atlantis was a magical city, there really are no accounts of Plato actually visiting it, although it may have been a possibility. We just have to remember that anything he wrote about it was told to him by other sources."

Was Plato a wizard?...

Nah... Lily didn't think that it really made sense that he would be a wizard, and go out and talk about a hidden wizard city/town. One of the other kids had said it. "I think he was a squib also, only I think that he got mad that he wasn't a wizard so he went out and wrote about Atlantis to get back at his friends who were wizards." That made logical sense. The second year figured that Plato would have been mad to not be a wizard but have lived around them. Who wouldn't if they were constantly surrounded by magical folk but couldn't do magic themselves??

Hearing someone call her name Cece turned back towards the students to see an older Ravenclaw boy with his hand up. "I'm sorry but I don't have anything like that." With not knowing what was causing this to happen there really was no way for her to prevent it from happening to others. "I'm sure you have nothing to worry about." Unless he was a prefect or a quidditch player. Although, there was that one girl from his house. Yeah, she wasn't going to mention that to him though. She also wasn't going to mention the fact that Anya had been practically standing on top of krummy when she arrived in the potions class. Meaning maybe this was contagious.




Her attention was pulled back to the professor when he mentioned someone having brain damage. Looking to the back of the room where he was pointing she noticed a younger student sitting there looking normal enough to her. "I highly doubt she has brain damage just because she shook Anya. She was probably just trying to snap her out of her frozen state." That was a normal enough reaction for a kid in this situation.

Really? Just like that the professor was going to go back to his lesson? He couldn't even wait five minutes until Cece had been able to take Anya out of the room? "Really Professor, you could at least wait until I'm gone before you continue your class. I'm sure Plato won't mind the delay."

Moving over to Anya she did a quick check to make sure she was still breathing. Yep, same as all the others. Only this one was sitting, with her arms up looking like she was about to applaud or something. Oh and her mouth was wide open. Hopefully nothing flew into her mouth on the way to the infirmary. Pointing her wand at the girl she carefully levitated her out of her seat making sure she didn't tip over. This was going to be interesting getting her up to the third floor in this sitting position.

Slowly making her way towards the door she looked around at everyone. "Don't let me stop your learning here. Please, carry on with your discussion about Plato and his little world." Yes, there was a very sarcastic tone to her voice. Giving one last glare at the professor she made her way out the door towards the infirmary.

And people call her uncaring.

Kennedy was a tad relieved when he was Healer Tillstorm enter. He was beginning to grow anxious of not knowing what was causing students to freeze. He certainly didn't want to be one of them. Maybe it was time to tell his father what was going on here. Wayne could send him a special shield or something.

He focused back on the lesson. Truth be told, Kennedy didn't care much about philosophers and things like lost cities, but this wasn't his class. So, yeah. But he raised his hand to pitch in. "I don't believe Plato was a wizard," he said. "Just because the man was clever it doesn't make him a wizard. Brains can't be compared to magic." For example, a muggle could most definitely be smarter than a wizard. Kennedy felt like almost saying "in my opinion" at the end of his sentence because Scabior still looked displeased. Now, Kennedy wasn't in a good mood. Scabior's mood was contagious.

The corners of Kennedy's almost stretched into a grin. You tell him, Healer Tillstorm! But then she was done and leaving with Anya. He should swing by later and check on Sierra everyone.

Penelope might've responded, but Professor Scabber - she didn't really remember his name, but it was something like that - was STILL just continuing on with his class, and a lot of the other students were STILL just going along with it, so she just sat there in her seat, glaring down at her desk with her arms crossed. She refused to answer any of these questions or take notes. Why should she care about Plato or Atlantis or any of that stuff anyway? That stuff wasn't important since it wasn't going to help unfreeze Anya or Kurumi or any of the others.

Meh.

And then, finally, the Healer arrived. Penelope looked up from staring at her desk to watch the Healer talk with Scabber the professor and then start levitating Anya. And...wait.

Was she not happy that he was continuing on with the lesson either?

Yep, that was what it sounded like.

This woman was instantly her favorite adult person in this castle. She was cool.

But then she was gone, and Penelope hadn't really paid attention to what the last question was, so she continued to sit there silently, though she was no longer glaring at her desk.

Was Plato a wizard? Heck if Emmanuelle knew. But she did ponder the question. In fact, she thought about it so hard, she thought her brain might explode. Her conclusion? "I don't think there's anyway to be sure. On one hand, he could've been a wizard because he knew about Atlantis. On the other hand, maybe prior to Atlantis disappearing, wizards just weren't so worried about being found out. This was prior to the witch hunts after all. So, muggles might have been more welcoming of magic back then. Maybe Atlantis was a city of both muggle and wizarding folks and Plato was recording it for posterity. Or writing about it for some sort of celebration..."

She hoped that had made sense.

Sophie really had no idea about professor Scabior's next question. She had never really though about Plato being a wizard... but that could've been because he knew how to hide the fact very well? Or maybe he was just a muggle anyway. She really didn't know and thought it would be pointless to guess.

She watched the whole Healer Tillstorm scene with her eyebrows raised. That was... weird. She blinked at professor Scabior a couple of times before grabbing her quill to take a few notes on what her classmates were talking. She still couldn't decided whether Plato was a wizard or a muggle.

"Brains can't be compared to magic." Nice one! She gave the Slytherin prefect a small smile before turning her head down to her parchment and writing what he had just said.

Jory thought about the question. "I don't think he was a wizard. But he could have been a squib or knew about the wizarding world,'' he said. "He was a great mathematician, philosopher and alchemist, I'm not sure any wizarding folk was into Maths.''

''Or were they?'' he wondered

Laura looked at the Professor. "I don't care what the nurse say Professor, I think Plato is of great importance to us." Laura smiled at the Professor the nurse had no right to tell the Professor off for continuing the lesson after all this was a classroom and the silly healer should know that.

Laura smiled at the Professor and then decided to answer the Question. "Professor that's a hard question to answer because if Pluto was a wizard why didn't he know more and if he wasn't they he was a very clever muggle." Laura couldn't decided. "So on this partical question I am sat on the fence."

Oichi was reallystarting to think quite a few of her professors were off there rocker. In a couple of classes studrnts froze and the class went on a bitlonger. Something seemed very off kilter about all this. Though if it is happening in many classes then whatever it is is spreding or traveling throughout the school which means. Eeeeek, I hope it never effects me but for now, class. How can I concentrate during a time like this. I have to try. Oichi raised her hand and responded, "Plato could have been a wizard, he may have been muggleborn and his powers were discovered and over time he discovered people like himself and found out about at Atlantis but chose to stay on the muggle world because that is what he was used to."

Sarassi frowned another student frozen, her sister had froze and now her sister was frozen. She hadnt unfrozen and now Sarassi was very very nervous. If her sister didnt unfreeze then-no she didnt want to think about that. She returned her attention back to the Professor. Of course she had knew that Atlantis was real. Who didnt? I think that Plato was a squib or he could have been a wizard. As people said he didnt know very much about it maybe he made sure not to reveal to much information out as the whole muggles cant know about magic thing.

Milton did not enjoy being called an idiot. Just a heads up. He could deal with losing ten points, but he did not appreciate the name-calling. I'm not the one being an idiot," he mumbled quietly under his breath as Scabior kept talking.

He sat in his chair with his arms folded over his chest, glaring at everything in general as the class continued. Finally, the healer showed up and he watched little, frozen Anya as she was levitated out of her seat. Strangely enough, Milton almost seemed to have been genuinely worried about her... But if one asked, he would deny any such feelings of attachment.

Once that was over, Milton returned his attention back to the class. He saw one of girls who spoke up earlier, Penelope, who also seemed rather displeased still. Milton continued to sit in his chair, refusing to participate or take notes.

Plato? He was a greek guy, right? Alex couldn't keep his muggle philosophers straight. Was he the one who had been killed? No, that was Socrates. Right? GAH this was all making his head spin. He raised his hand anyways, because he had at least a couple ideas about this Plato guy.

"Well, I think it's possible he could have been a wizard or a squib, because he was a follower of that Socrates guy, right? Socrates was like the head honcho and he taught them all everything he knew...what if he was like, the first wizarding professor??" he added. "But at the same time, maybe Plato wasn't magical at all and Socrates was, he just chose to keep it a secret and that was how Plato came about the knowledge of Atlantis," he explained. Ya never know.

"Makes sense. Though if he were a wizard, why would he want to tell Muggles about a wizarding city?" That was the big question.

"So if he were a Muggle could he go to the city?" Scabior raised a brow. "Socrates just might have been. Maybe." That depended.

"That makes sense. So are you saying that Atlantis was a Muggle city?" Ah. Question.


"Well you are right on both ends."" That was the big question.

"That's beyond a good point." Something probably would have slipped.

"Right." He nodded. Again, that made sense.

"You are actually sort of along the lines there." Sort of.

"That's not likely, but alright." He nodded.

"If he was, then yes, he would have."

"Well people probably interacted more freely without even knowing it, and those who did know of it were probably more intellectual." He nodded.

"Oh!" Scabior's reaction changed just slightly, almost pleasantly. "That is a good assumption as well."

So, the girl was calling half had her classmates naive. Scabior wanted to snort, but instead the man just gave a nod. As if to say he agreed with her somewhat."You do have a point there.." He nodded.

As for the trade bit? "Atlantis was a trade!" Scabior paused though. He was getting to ahead. "Though I do not think Plato was a relator."

She was talking about theory? Scabior nudged his head to members of the class. "Ravenclaws often come up with a lot of theory." And drama.

Ah. Plato, what WERE you?

Scabior nodded. "Yes, but he didn't exactly teach people about Atlantis."

It made sense. Though a lot of these things did. "If he had been trying to convince Muggles, don't you find it a bit strange that he only wrote about it once?." Curious.


"Oh trust me. It's possible."


A lot of words. Scabior tilted his head."Yes, but how are you not sure that everything you read about was a lie?"


Another squib answer. Good one, though the second thime around it was a less impressive thought.


Obviously Lea wasn't brain damaged. It was an exaggeration, which Cecelia would have understood if she was half as smart as Scabior had mistaken her for, but that was fine.

What wasn't fine was the fact that Cecelia was casting judgements on him. In front of the class. "I'm sure he wouldn't either." He responded smoothly. "That's probably because he's dead, its okay though I didn't expect you to know that." Really, clearly she wasn't the intelligent type. "I however, would mind the delay. I am a Professor, and my job is to teach. Just like how your job as a healer is to help put an end to illnesses. So perhaps if you were a bit better at your job and were able to put an ending to the freezing then I wouldn't have any interrupts at all." One brow was raised. Did she have anything else to say?

Plato's little world? So genius. Scabior just rolled his eyes, her unprofessionalism ignored.

"That is completely true." He didn't disagree with the prefect but he did notice the smile he gave to the Healer.

He was annoyed, but he did feel a bit better because of that answer. It was...just so close. "You are very close"

Well, yes. He just heard that.

Another squib guess, Scabior nodded.

And the student seemed to be defending him. Scabior gave a small shrug. "To each his- or her own." If they did not think Plato was important, good for them. They would still have to learn about him.

"Don't ever say that again." His voice was not demanding in the least, just dull. "There are many stupid people that are Witches or Wizards, just like how there are many genius Muggles.


A theory behind his past as well!"That's actually really thought out." Well done.


="If that was the case, why would he want to reveal anything at all?" Just something to think about.


Of course he couldn't hear what the almost pouting Ravenclaw was saying but his lips had moved right? Hadn't anyone taught him that insults worked best when said out loud?


There were so many guesses going on in the Hufflepuff's answers that Scabior just stared. "I guess you could be correct in some areas." While others? Well, talking about Socrates just complicated matters.



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By the looks on some of their faces they were confused, and obviously it was his job to fix this. Sadly. Pushing his thoughts about the lovely Healer away. "Some of you look utterly confused so to recap-" Scabior turned around and pointed to the map. "That is a map of the world." That much was obvious. "A long long long time ago around 425BC some of these countries would have been renamed and all of that, but more important to our lesson, the city of Atlantis would have been located somewhere on the map."

"The only really accessible written information about the city of Atlantis is from Greek philosopher named Plato." He paused. "Plato wrote nothing about this city being Muggle of Magically, yet he wrote that it apparently sank under the water after a day and night."

As he spoke his words had started to write out across the board with chalk."Many people have written the city off as just a rumour and all that, but as I said before Plato was a philosopher and a respected one at that, there would be simply no reason for him to lie about the city unless he was protecting something." He took a deep breath. "The man theories are that either, Pluto was a Wizard and decided to hide the whereabouts of the wizarding city of Atlantis by saying it sank. Or he was a Muggle who accidentally stumbled upon the wizarding city Atlantis one day and could not find it again so claimed or believed that it sank. Or-there is the truth-" He paused. "-Which we will be getting to next class." Because believe it or NOT class was over. Yes, with all of that complaining about not waiting for the Healer, class was already finished.

"Class is dismissed." He flicked his wand, putting the homework on the board.

Alyssa was surprised that the Professor ended the class so suddenly. She was actually starting to get intrigued about the mystery of Atlantis. 'Guess I'm going to have to read more about Plato and Atlantis.' Alyssa thought to herself. She quickly picked up her quill and copied down the homework assignment that the Professor had written on the board and then packed up her things into her backpack, walked up to the Professor and said goodbye to him.

"Thank you for another interesting lesson, Professor. I'm definitely looking forward to a continuation of this discussion in our next lesson.Alyssa told him before she walked out of the classroom.

Jory looked at the Professor in surprise as he ended the class. "Well, that was abrupt,'' he thought as he copied the home work.

He packed up and headed for the door. "Bye, Professor and thank you for the lesson,'' he said to Professor Scabior before leaving.