With a nod, Medea smiled. "Quite right. While warmth and coolness seem rather basic, the basics are rather essential."

No matter what topic they were talking about, basics were it's skeleton!

"Oh yes, comfort. Good, Mister Mordaunt. Not normally what one would think of with ice, but you bring up a very valid point." Especially in the summertime.

Stretching her legs out in front of her, she happily nodded and made a noise of agreement. "We sometimes forget this very fact too. We'll be discussing this a bit more later on in the lesson."

Streeeeeeeetch.

Reaching for her toes, the professor took a moment of silence before speaking to everyone, "So their benefit is that they can be created and eliminated in more than one way. That is a very good point, Miss Wojack. This is actually an important aspect we should always realize, especially if we find ourselves stranded from either mundane or magical components."

Wiggling her toes within her boots, she nodded slowly as the next answer came in...

Her expression brightened a bit. "Yes, good Mister Baines. Too much of something can have it's downfalls, fire and ice being no different."

Sitting up straight, Medea smiled and hummed a noise of agreement.

"Yes, we should remember, not only do they have their benefits and disadvantages as individual elements, but joined together they will counter each-other out." Which was either a pro or con depending on the situation.

Hopefully a con.

This right here, Medea gave a few extra nods.

"I hope everyone is taking notes, because there are a lot of valid points your classmates are making. They both indeed have their unpredictable moments, especially when not handled with care so to speak. Yet they both have wonderful benefits both in comfort and for the existence of species. Excellent, Miss Clarke."

Or as Airey would say...Stellar!

Defense was indeed something she was looking for in answers. "Keep this line of thought, Miss Carrington. We'll be discussing more of it in just a little bit." After everyone had their turn in answering the question perhaps.

There was that peasants word again.

Opening her mouth out to speak, she paused for a moment before shutting it again. Umm.

"Perhaps, in novels..." So it wasn't ENTIRELY wrong. She supposed. Unfortunately.

One thing about language was...you had to know it to understand it.

Though Medea tried her best to grasp what the third year was explaining, nodding her head in understanding even if she didn't understand most of it. "Right, they do have a rather destructive nature."

She kept a mental note to ask him to stay behind as well.

Eyebrows raised in amusement as her gaze setteled upon the second year.

"Don't tell me you're hungry, Mister Scabior." Har har har.

Seriously though, did he have breakfast? Most important meal of the day!

Did Eden eat breakfast too? There was plenty of talk of food going around.

Medea grinned at the talk of s'mores, mentally echoing it as shmoes. "Excellent, Miss McGee."

Food. More food.

Although she was suspecting it was because it was one of the more common ideas when it came to fire. Warmth and food. "That's quite a major benefit, yes. Good." she smiled with a simple nod.

Here's to thinking a bit more outside of the box!

"Medical purposes! I don't believe that was mentioned as of yet." she happily commented, scooting back into her lotus position. "Wonderful thought, Mister Tempus. Ice indeed has many benefits when it comes to injuries and illnesses."

"They do indeed." she mused for a moment. "Keep this thought in mind, Miss Guidry. We may come back to it in a moment."

"Excellent, Miss Brown." she nodded to the Ravenclaw. Hitting multiple targets with one stone in her response.

With the performance they had before the lesson began, she was surprised to hear Angel participating at all. Good for her though! And with an excellent answer. "Yes! Great thought, Miss Valentine. It is quite common for people to use fire as a means of locating others in cases of emergency."

"Sort of?" she repeated, smile growing. "Quite true, although with your wording, it'd depend on the spell being used to extinguish the flames. You may end up with flames in a more cold and frozen element."

"Good, Mister Rehman." she nodded to the prefect. "Rather essential for our everyday basic needs."

Oh, they had not heard fire's side of the story when it came to healing yet.

"Are you aware of any other forms of healing fire can do, Mister Tinker?"

Curiosity of the boy's knowledge had overtaken her.

Oh? Medea's smile grew a little. She particular loved to hear that word in defense class. Depends. At lot of what they learned and discussed depended on what the situation was.

"All in all, their uses don't rely in just benefits." she nodded slowly. "But benefits they do have, and it's quite wonderful that you brought up healing."

Making a small noise of agreement, she absentmindedly let the little mechanical bird run loose again; sprinting around the woman once again. "Excellent, Miss Rawthorne."

Relaxing her posture... she suddenly sat up straight again, pointing towards the fourth year before retracting her hand. Ahem. "This. This is quite an important note to take. Air and water can aid fire if used correctly, or...incorrectly. Whichever perspective you wish to view it as."

People should write that down. Even if it was half on topic and half off topic.

On the other hand, she was intrigued with his view on the strength of ice and fire. "I see your point, Mister Newell..." she began, thinking over what to say. "However, fire cannot create as much damage to stone as ice or water?"

Hmmmm?

Her mood had lifted greatly since the students began answering. Especially with all these out of the box thinking going on. "That is quite true." she nodded in a bit of surprise. Honestly, she didn't think that sort of answer would have come up, but there it was! "Even if burning down nature is viewed as wrong to most, it is actually a beneficial act, depending on the situation."

Again, depends. Such a lovely word.

...but she didn't know that little fact. "Does it really?" She'd heard of mint helping nausea, but not ice. How intriguing!

Oh? She didn't expect poetry to be given as an answer, despite the Slytherin being rather correct in her response. "Fun fact... did you know that some had thought to believe that the poem was based on a scientific opinion from astronomer Harlow Shapely?" Whether it was true or not, who knows.

She done a little research on astronomers in her spare time, yes.

"Like yin and yang." She nodded to the Hufflepuff. "Good, Mister Lecium."

Depends. The word practically sang perfection.

"Yes, excellent." she smiled and nodded to the second year.

Her posture relaxed, having been rather content with Cutty's response. "Much like a fiery phoenix, symbolizing rebirth." she nodded in agreement. If that was what she was to take away from his fire comment that is. She couldn't help but chuckle however, just slightly.

Ice was indeed a good hiding place.

"Wonderful response, Cutty. Excellent."

Did that answer blow anyone's mind?

'Cause she already knew that fact and it still did. "Yes...actually. Good."

People should...write that down.

"Good, Miss Ackerly." she nodded. No one was particular wrong, so she was right.

"Keep that offense and defense in mind, Miss Wayne. We'll be getting back to this in a short while." Well, sometime soon. Eventually.

"Reflection. We hadn't had that answered yet." And quite true as well! "Excellent, Miss McAlistor."



"Basically, you are all correct in answers..." Except maybe one, but even she had a point given the right circumstance. "But I would like to focus primarily on the defense and offense uses of fire and ice... with emphasis on ice. However, a good handful of your responses were related to the basic needs of humans. So, I have a bit of theory question for you all before we continue on."

"Do you think the human race could survive without either fire or ice? And... what about the differences between the muggle and wizarding world. Would the survival rate between the two be different?" There was no right or wrong answer though she was not looking for talk of superiority either.

Just curiosity and food for thought.

Ooh. OOH. Toby had an idea for this one; he'd already been thinking on it a little, and raised his hand up again.

"It's probably possible to live without ice, but I think fire is more difficult to live without. Way way way way wayyyyy back it was probably easier to live without fire-" Like in DINOSAUR times. "-but now we're sort of used to it and take it for granted and use it for cooking and stuff... it'd be harder to adapt to not having it, but maybe it's doable." He lowered his hand again, 'cause it was tiring him out, but carried on talking. "Wizards might survive better because magic is dead convenient... but muggles are also super good at adapting without needing magic, so..." Soooooooo it was probably evenly matched. "But if we didn't have fire, we wouldn't have the sun." Right? "And I'm pretty sure humanity needs the sun." To survive and stuff.

Okay. Yeah. That was it, Toby was done, and went back to adding stuff to his notes.

That is an interesting question, really. Could humans either magical or mundane survive without these elements? Probably not. Why? “Professor, I don’t think we can live without fire and ice, because these are life elements…I guess?” The others mentioned fire for cooking and stuff…ice too for healing…AND it brings comfort.

There. Life theory-ish, in Ethan’s opinion. He wondered though about its defensive use. Maybe it has something to do with taking advantage of the elements’ own weaknesses? Probably.

Was she supposed to be stretching too? AJ put her legs out in front of her and reached for her toes. Her answer had been correct for the most part, and that was okay with her. She mulled over the next question.

The lion raised her hand. "I don't think that we could live without fire or ice. I think the wizarding world would most likely not be affected as badly or quickly because they can quickly come up with a substitution with a flick of a wand." Muggles could figure out ways around it too, but wizards would have the advantage because of the whole magic thing.

Ian pondered the professor's question to him. He tried to think of the healing techniques that he'd learned in his family's fishing village that dealt with fire. He'd also heard some other things from some of the fishermen he didn't quite believe but could have been possible. He answered somewhat tentatively. Professor, I think me mum used to sit me very close to the fire to sweat out sickness. She would force water into me while I lay on a pallet in front of the firepit and she would cover me in blankets. Miserable experiences. And then, some of the strange Asian fishermen who would come by would talk about a thing they did with fire. The would take a glass container, fill it with smoke and then place it on the skin to remove sicknesses. It all sounded rather off to me. Couldn't imagine smoking hot glass against me skin. That was really all he could think of. Of course he'd heard tales of other uses for fire, but they couldn't possibly be true.

Then she asked about humanity's need for fire and ice. He knew how he should answer but he was more intrigued by the difference in muggles and wizards. Raising his hand, he answered the second question, not quite ignoring the first. Professor, I think wizards would get on better than muggles if they didn't have fire or ice. Magical skills have some way to replace the two, be it heat or cold. The problem is they take more than a basic amount of skill to accomplish.

Adi caught the nod from Grayson and grinned back. That dude was a cool one. For a Snake. Hehe.
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Could they live without ice? Adi thought about that part of the question for a few moments. He was sure they couldn't do without heat...but that was if they had ice. Because you needed heat to chase away the cold from ice. Adi finally raised a hand. "I think we can survive without ice but it's also needed. For a balance...'' He trailed off, trying to gather his thoughts. "Both on their own could be detrimental.'' Was he over thinking this? Anyway...Moving on. "I think the Wizarding World would have the upper hand but Muggles would catch up eventually by finding a way to solve any problems.''

Right. Enough talking for now, Rehman.

Jasmine listened to the discussion about fire and ice and took some notes here and there. When Professor Romanos posed the second question, Jasmine gave it some serious thought.

Raising her hand, Jasmine said, "it might be possible to live without fire or ice, but it would be very difficult." "Humans have become very spoiled and they have come to rely on fire and ice to make their lives easier, more comfortable and safer. If they had to do without now.......I'm not sure how that would work out......but If it could be done, wizards would be more likely to find a way." Very interesting question.

Novels? Maleficent scoffed at the woman's naivety. "It is every day life. A common end to all who do not obey." Or had the woman not been taught that wherever she was coming from? It wouldn't surprize the dark queen. It was hard to find intellectual company these days. Just look at the hoard she was meant to sit with. Even from her spot by the woman she could feel the block that resided between them all mentally.

This asking of questions and every one answering..."Is this your idea of a party? My dear, you may need a few lessons--and what, may I ask, is a Muggle?" Had she come across that word before...? She didn't think she had but it could prove useful at a later point in time.

"To answer your question, dear toadstool, you wouldn't need fire if there was no ice to make you cold and if you wouldn't need ice if there was no heat burdening you down. Without them both, I believe we could live a neutral existence." Somewhat neutral. There were still the haves and the have nots. That would cause as much influence.

Now back to the talk of...what were they...muddles? Muggles? Would no one explain?

ONE DOES JUST NOT LIVE WITHOUT FIRE AND ICE.

Ying and yang, yo! You take them away and the whole world would fall and crumble into oblivion. Or something like that. Coz you need both things.

For the world, man, for the WORLD.

"You need both. You just...do." Crazy eyes.

Explanation, Hughbert? No...?

Okay. Fine then. Won't force it.

Hmmm.

This question was a bit more thought provoking than the last. This one made all the little gears in Gregoire's head start moving faster and faster. It made him think deeply. More questions flew through his head making it seem nearly impossible to answer this question. The thing about this question was, did fire and ice cease to exist completely? Or did it just cease to exist randomly. Like could there be no more muggle wild fires from lightning, or people couldn't light a candle with a match. Also in the winter there would be no more snowstorms for the kids to go out and play. But if you were a wizard you could use your magic to do those tasks. Whichever way she wanted it to be would make the two answers completely different.

So here's what Gregoire did. He said to himself I'll just give her both answers than maybe she can see his point sort of. Raising his hand, Gregoire tried his best to state very little French. "If feu and la glace erm- ceased to d'exister- I mean- exist completely, even les sorciers et sorcieres couldant cast feu and la glace spells, than both sorciers et muggles alike would have a etre time being able de survivre." (If fire and ice ceased to exist completely, even wizards and witches couldn't cast fire and ice spells, than both wizards and muggles alike would have a hard time being able to survive.) At this point, since it was obvious, Gregoire was having an extremely difficult time to translate his French to English, he brought out a French to English dictionary type book from his bag. Knowing he would need this Gregoire bought one before he left France. Walking around the city of Paris, almost all of the tourists seemed to be carrying a book like this.

Continuing on from what he was saying, but now more in English "Wizards though would be able to last un peu bit longer because we could cast spells to keep us from ag- agein- aging. Ou we could find a way to heat our food without using le feu. Aussi, nous could figure out a way to cast spells refroider our food et drinks to keep them from gater, without using la glace." (Wizards though would be able to last a little bit longer because we could do things to keep us from aging, or we could somehow find a way to make it so we could heat our food without using fire. Also we could try to figure out how to cool food and drinks, to keep from spoiling, without using ice.) Though he was able to say most of that in English his accent was still making it a bit difficult to understand his English.

Keeping his hand raised he continued to say, looking down at the French to English dictionary in his free hand "If feu et la glace ceased to exist in only random occurrences such as lightning causing un feu de vegetation, ou le blizzard in the winter, but wizards could still use fire et la glace spells, than obviously we'd be able de survivre longer. Since nous could still cast spells involving fire et la glace, we'd still be able heat our food, et refroidir our food et drinks with ease."(If fire and ice ceased to exist only in random occurrences such as lightning causing a wildfire or a blizzard in the winter, but wizards could still use fire and ice spells, than obviously we would be able survive longer. Since we could still cast spells involving fire and ice, we'd still be able to heat our food, and cool our drinks with ease.) Hopefully people, including the professor, could understand him better now that he brought out his little pocket translation guide. This simple book would be extremely helpful to Gregoire's time here at Hogwarts.

Thornton was keeping one eye on Lex at all times, even as he scooted juuuuust a bit closer to Toby. Setting peasants on fire and such rudeness! There was clearly something wrong with her, and he found himself idly wondering if she'd eaten something bad...

and for the briefest of moments, he was worried that it was something that he, too, had ingested and that it was only a matter of time.

Blinking his eyes and shaking his head to bring himself back to reality, he focused on the question.

"I agree with Toby about fire, but I think we need ice too. Not because WE need ice itself, but don't other things? What about creatures that live in places that are icy or what natural ice means for things like the weather." He paused, trying to remember something that his grandfather had said about the muggles and melting ice. Not sure exactly what it was, he continued. "I think at first, we'd be better off than the muggles because we could protect ourselves from anything too dangerous, but we can't live on a planet that doesn't survive."

Though, he supposed it could be a question of ice never having existed rather than disappearing. He started to say as much, but decided against it.

Kace was sketching and heard the professor's question. He thought about it and it was a really good question to think about. Did he think humans and wizards could live without fire and ice? He didn't think they could. He raised his hand and gave his reasons why. "Professor I do not think humans and wizards could live without fire and ice because it is essential for way of living. I think the survival rate would be different. The muggles would be more affected because in the wizarding world for fire, you can just point your wand and fire could appear. In the muggle world they depend on fire more than wizards. We can just have food appear here but in the muggle world having fire is a way to make food..." That was his way of thinking.

Dot was actually a bit perplexed by the question, or maybe more by the answers. She'd taken it as 'could humans survive without being able to make fire or ice' rather than without their very existence. But she was obviously wrong. Wasn't she?

Finger wiggling again. "Muggles survived without being able to make ice for a real long time, but we couldn't even come out of the cave proper until we had fire, right?" Wasn't that right? First invention or whatever? "So I'd say we can survive without ice but we sure need fire."

Oh professor Romanos wanted him to stay after class, that was fine with him she didn't seem upset with him or anything so he waiting for the surrenders to answer the question she just asked before responding "sure thing professor " he then made his way back to his mat and say down on it while starting at Lex like crazy.

She got praise in a classroom? What was going on? Ophelia wasn't used to this, especially not in a class with her brothers and sisters. She was getting actual praise about an answer? Woah. Also notes. Scribbling down notes as best as she could, the firstie wrote all of the of the other answers, actually kind of interested. It was kind of telling what they answered, wasn't it? Now she knew what kind of people they all were. Well, sort of. If she cared more about psychology, the blonde would conduct more tests and figure this all out, but she wasn't Newton, and science wasn't her thing. Except maybe it was. This whole 'being okay in school thing was confusing!'

Also, that peasants word again. Could she chill with that word? It was very annoying to hear ninety thousand times. She got it, they were peasants or toads or whatever. And apparently made people cry. Was she normally like this? Uggh, not the point. Ophelia apparently really needed to focus on focusing on the teacher. Because this was all too crazy and was taking away from her chance to form thoughts and get more praise. Maybe that whole 'forming your own path thing' was overrated. Maybe the eleven year old WAS meant to be like her siblings. Rolling her brown eyes subtly at little miss evil over there, she allowed herself to be absorbed in what the teacher was saying.

Also, the answer. Fire and ice? Well, that was a little more difficult. Didn't like reeeeeaaaaalllllly ancient people use fire for pretty much everything? Cooking, light, and leather making and sword forging and stuff? So that was a no. But ice. What did people back then use ice for? Nothing, right? It was like a burden until someone figured out that you could put it in drinks and have a cold glass of something that would eventually be watered down when the stupid ice melted.

Hand in the air and a smile on her face.

"Well, fire, no, ice probably. Because wasn't ice like a huuuuge problem until someone figured out what it did? An iceburg sunk the Titanic, right? So without ice we might have a bunch more people, and not have that really old movie with the cute blonde guy.... Leo something. But fire was like all the first people used. For warmth and clothes making and to make awesome swords." Pause for a sword slash, to emphasize her point. And that thing about muggles and wizards, WOULD there be a difference? Well, what about that whole Salem witch thing? A huuuge advantage to having good brothers and sisters was finding out stuff you couldn't figure out yourself.

Keep offense and defense in mind. Her mind was wired like a natural warrior, of course it would. Talking about ice, she used that most in planning tactics with her dad. It would make a strong offense and defense if you know how to use it. Were they going to get to do that today? It would be entertaining to see people falling on their bums, the ones that didn't know how to ice skate.

Question, right. She raised her hand.

"I don't think humanity could survive without fire, it's essential for a lot of things. Heat, energy; it's part of survival. As for ice...it's useful, but I wouldn't say it's a necessity...? I mean, as long as we have water we should be okay." Then freeze that water, yeah?

Would the survival rate be different between magical folk and muggles--oh please! Of course it would be. She added, "Survival rate would be different. If we were to fall in a storm of fire we'd be able to fend for ourselves with magic." Shields and water and stuff. "If an ice age were to fall upon us, we'd be able to produce fire with a flick of our wand. While muggles may survive somewhat, us, magical folk, would have an advantage." Because MAGIC.

They were great.

Wait.

Did Cambridge just call Professor Romanos a toadstool?

......................Inner SNORT.

So she was right in relating fire and ice to defence. Not all that surprising since this class was DEFENCE Against the Dark Arts. Professor wouldn't discuss this topic if defence wasn't involved one way or another.

The next question asked was rather interesting, and Lux had to ponder it over a little before raising her hand. "I don't think humans could live without fire and ice because it's so essential to us as beings at this point. But I think that the muggles would have a harder time since they can't use magic to offer solutions."

...... Dear Toadstool? Did that just happen? Okay maybe Ethan was right. There was definitely something weird going on with Lex. She was definitely not like her normal. Toadstool would be something she'd call Kevin... Not a Professor. Weird.

But right, anyways. As for the question, the Gryffindor just sat and thought it out for a bit. "I reckon both are necessary for survival in some type of way... Like igloos. Some people live in those, Professor. So they probably need ice to live." Right? Eskimos would be so lost without ice. What would they even DO!? And then the poor penguins too. And the polar bears. And drinking room temperature water wasn't fun. "And I think fire is needed too because we might freeze!" And it'd mean no smores. "But magic would help the wizards survive, but regular nonmagic people would have a hard time going about their day to day."

And that was the most he was probably going to say in this class all year. Mhm.

Taking good notes as the others around her answered, Sophie continued to tune out Lex's presence - or tried to, at least - and was unsurprised that a lot of answers generally sounded the same. Really, how many various uses could they list off? She was especially pleased when Romanos nearly used her exact choice of words, though, in what relevance the elements had to today's lesson.

Soph was on the balllllll.

At the next question, though, she was... less enthusiastic about answering. Huh. Well... it seemed like a trick question. Like Romanos was going to pull a fast one on all of them and there WAS no right answer. So... there probably wasn't, and Soph decided on that pretty quickly as no one could no for CERTAIN whether or not the Muggle and wizarding societies could thrive without fire and/or ice. So... knowing no matter what she said or which side she took someone else could refute her with their opinion, she elected not to answer this time around.

However... she was unspokenly on the team that ALL humans needed BOTH elements to not just survive, but thrive, but she knew there were countless factors that REALLY went into answering this question, like if Romanos meant at any point in history or as far as both the Muggle and wizarding world had developed to the present day, and whether or not Romanos meant just HAVING fire and ice in general, or if she was more focused on the creation of them. She knew she'd just be rambling if she tried to talk it out, though, so... yes. This Ravenclaw took a vow of silence for the time being, but took avid notes on various possibilities. And kept a casual eye on Tobes, as usual.

Ooohhhhh!!!! He wasn't wrooooong! He liked this class, yep. It might be the class for him. Cool mats, nice lady, DEFENSE, DARK ARTS and based on the first question, he wasn't stupid!

Zeke listened to the other responses, seeing the merit in each as they too related to fire and ice.

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"Basically, you are all correct in answers..." Except maybe one, but even she had a point given the right circumstance. "But I would like to focus primarily on the defense and offense uses of fire and ice... with emphasis on ice. However, a good handful of your responses were related to the basic needs of humans. So, I have a bit of theory question for you all before we continue on."

"Do you think the human race could survive without either fire or ice? And... what about the differences between the muggle and wizarding world. Would the survival rate between the two be different?" There was no right or wrong answer though she was not looking for talk of superiority either.

Just curiosity and food for thought.

He supposed though, that it was one of those throw away questions, that you would have to be an idiot to get wrong. So, no victory then? Boo.

The theory question though, interessttttiiinnngggggg....

Zeke's hand shot up and he shuffled on his mat eagerly. "Well Professor, see, we were looking at geocide in Astronomy, and like, the same principle sorta applies here too. Life, would be hard to sustain without both, not specifically ice per se, and not necessarily fire... though some trees and stuff do rely on fire to reproduce and germenate and things." Germenate, that was the word for it, right? Meh. "And, ice in its liquid state is an absolute must for survival and so is heat in general. BASICALLY, fire and ice are extreme versions of them but we could adapt to having neither.... maybe." They did have magic on their side after all. "Fire would be more valuable though, because we use it more for potions, and we need potions to fix everything." While they used ice sometimes too, you didn't see cauldrons sitting on ice very often, a flame or fire though was SUPER important.

Okay... but how was that a fun fact? Ugh. Romanos reminded her of Gabriel sometimes. Yes. She'd heard that. Boring brother was boring and he liked to make interesting things tedious with random facts too. Just like Romanos apparently. Ruby just smiled sweetly, like she was totally enlightened or something.

Was that a serious question? Obvy fire was important. And people didn't NEED ice for things. Though life probably got a ton easier for muggles when refrigeration became a thing. Still, her mind was still more inclined to focus on the passion aspect of fire. The emotion parts. Way more interesting.

"Everyone needs a little fire in their lives, professor." Ruby said casually, half-raising her hand.

Angel looked at Benny as Alexa called the Professor a toadstool... now what was one of them. She would have to ask her hunk of a boyfriend that later because for now she was really confused about things and she was really and totally and utterly confused about it.

Angel raised her hand as the Professor spoke. "I think we could live without ice because didn't the dinosaurs live without ice- it wasn't until the ice ages that things got really cold but that was ages ago... and also non magic folks thought that the earth was flat and survived... so yeah ice probably... now fire no because you would get too cold in the winter and that will be that." Angel said to the professor. "Though wizard will be able to last a bit longer because they have spells they can perform."

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Oh? Medea's smile grew a little. She particular loved to hear that word in defense class. Depends. At lot of what they learned and discussed depended on what the situation was.

"All in all, their uses don't rely in just benefits." she nodded slowly. "But benefits they do have, and it's quite wonderful that you brought up healing."

A little smile formed on the first years face as she heard the Professor's reply to the answer she'd given earlier. She had answered the question well and brought up a good pointing about healing.

Taking out her quill and parchment she began listing down notes from what the Professor had said. Hady had a few ideas about the next question but kept her reply short as she raised her hand. "I think we would be able to survive for a little while but all in all we need both to survive. Maybe if we had grown up with fire or ice it would be different but we as a whole right now are dependent on both." Chewing her lip a second in thought she continued on. "I think the wizard world would be able to cope better with either though since they have wands to help aid them in things they both need or want to take care of themselves."

'dear toadstool'

SNORT.

It wasn't the best of insults in the opinion of a guy who preferred to use vile words but it wasn't exactly a bad one. But for Romanos? Come on, Lex, Romanos was COOL. Why not pick on a Professor who was a right ol' psycho and pain in the neck? And one who set too much homework just for the sake of being a pain? Why THIS one? HMMMM?

Speaking of Romanos, the woman understood what he was trying to say. Good. He nodded slowly at her to show her that he, in turn, understood what she was getting at. The destroying nature part WAS bad but beneficial, even if some people went overboard and started running around screaming about how their lives were over because of one tree being burnt down. Freaking tree huggers.

Could humans survive wither either fire or ice? the simple answer was no, right? They couldn't. It was like asking whether humans can breathe underwater without potions or plants or transfiguring themselves. plain and simple: no. Why, though? That took a moment of tapping his quill and looking around the class. Why......

........ WHY.........

OH. "Professor?" he started, resting his eyes on the woman and raising his hand in the air, "See, if we didn't have one, we'd have the extreme of the other, right? Because there'd be nothing to balance it out. And we, as humans, can't have that. Everything's gotta be at the right temperature, right texture, right everything. People adjust eventually but if we had boiling hot or freezing cold conditions, we wouldn't be able to survive long."

Pause. "Dunno how different the survival rates would be but I think we could survive longer because of our use of magic."

Jonas looked to the professor.Would human race survive with out fire or ice....depends if watwr means ice.
"Depending on the means of ice professor." Jonas said. Humans would still have access to the water form of ice?" He asked. "Humans could survive with out fire. If you think of the ice age, it must have been difficult to make fire," Jonas said.