First Muggle Studies Class

[Professor Alington]

Early. It was so much better than being late, as it caused such better chance of keeping one with their job. Even as such, several hours early was perhaps a bit extreme. Nevertheless, it gave him plenty of preparation time for his first class, which was one of the most helpful things that could be given to a new professor.

Vincent surveyed his new classroom with a gaze of exhausted satisfaction, for he had wanted to be a muggle studies teacher for such a long time, as it seemed better than any related position the ministry might have to offer in his area of expertise.

The room was in decent shape, or at least the former teacher who had accompanied it didn't have any obvious destructive tendencies with school property, and the room was prepared for his new class with only a few short waves of a wand. Upon finishing his brief preparations of the classroom, he proceeded to pick up a piece of chalk and write along a blackboard behind his teacher's desk in the front of the room a message and assignment for his class upon their arrival:

"Read the introduction to muggle studies in your textbook and write a brief reflection about your own thoughts about muggles. This is left rather open-ended so do try to flex that creative part of your brain.

This paper is to be handed in by the end of this class, so you have more than enough time to work this through and get good marks.

On a lesser note, do not wake me up, as I . Anyone who fails to follow this shall lose their house 10 points. You have been warned."

Upon finishing this he sat behind his desk, folded his arms before him on it's polished wooden surface, placed his head down on his arms, and fell promptly to sleep.

[Nigel]

Nigel arrived in class just on time. He opened the door and entered, struggling a bit with his bag when the door closed on it. He had to open it again to take it inside the room and was muttering incoherently as he turned to take a seat.

A lump was on the teacher's desk in front, and Nigel wondered whether that was some Muggle paraphernalia. But his eyes flicked to the writing on the board and finally, he understood.

Hmm, are all professors this original? he thought, smirking at the sleeping professor.

Sitting down, he took out his writing things and his book, and then began to read the introduction. He read and reread the text to make sure he understood and then began writing his opinions on a piece of parchment.

Nigel Fox
Ravenclaw

Muggles

For one, I've never thought of Muggles as stupid, only that they are easily frightened with what they don't understand. They tend to shrink away from everything that is beyond their logic. That is why their substitutes for lack of magic are their own inventions, something that they took from their minds and of course, are able to understand them for what they are. Even if nowadays their technology has evolved into things that work like magic, i.e. computers, cellphones, etc., they are not afraid to use it because they are guaranteed that these things are what they call 'man-made', meaning something that runs without the aid of magic.


Nigel looked at his work, knotting his brows, trying to add some more but his mind was unusually blank. Giving up, he cleared his desk and went towards the professor's desk. He carefully placed his parchment near the sleeping figure, putting it where the professor can easily see it once he wakes up. He went back to his seat, and began doodling.

[Kiara Malfoy]

Kiara walked into the class, her eyes fell on an empty seat and so she took it. AS she sat, she read the board, her eyes moving over the chalk writing and the odd request at not waking the teacher. Interesting Was the only thought that came to her mind before opening the book and beginning to quietly read the assigned chapter. When she finished, she took a piece of parchment from her book bag and then followed with a quill and some ink, unstoppered the ink and dipped her quill slowly inside, her mind moving over how she wanted to reply to this assignment. Just the moment she had risen the quill form the bottle, her mind was set, and she began her own views on Muggles and their society, in her onion; she only hoped that her opinion wouldn’t stir too many questions.

She wrote:

Kiara Malfoy
Slytherin

My Opinion on Muggles

Muggles are amazing creatures in my mind. They accomplish a great many things without the use of magic. I look and see what they have accomplished however and often have to ask myself why it is they pollute the air and destroy the forests, knowing that what they do is wrong. I question these things because it affects every living creature on the planet, not just us or them, but everything. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate them for it, but instead wonder if the magical community could find a way to help them resolve their problems in finding alternate ways to survive without doing so.

Muggles tend to not be able to see past their own noses, so to speak and thus, I feel they can be manipulated quite easily in directions they often would not move. Like any other creature, the majorities are greedy, wanting power and money leaving the poor in the shadows to take up the slack in making the communities survive. I see only slight differences in our general structure on the whole and theirs. This difference is our knowledge and use of magic to perform what they can do with out it. I hope that one-day we might be able to co-exists without hiding and perhaps come and work together to maintain a healthier living environment for the entire planet.

Kiara read it over one last time, nodded her head in satisfaction, agreeing within her own mind that it wasn’t too long, as he had stated, he only wished a short synopsis on their opinion of the Muggle creatures, then put her cap back on her ink, laid her quill on the table and placed her paper upon the upper corner of her desk before once again, reaching into her book bag to retrieve another book to occupy her time until the class was out; she sat back, opened the book and began to read. She would turn in her paper at the end of class; this gave her a much better opportunity to keep from rousing the sleeping Professor.

[~Persephone~]

Persephone woke up early for her. Early for her, was probably normal for everyone else, but the Ravenclaw prefect liked sleeping in. She often slept into the late hours of the afternoon on the weekends, and with a free period most mornings, she slep late those days too. It seemed as if her schedule was made perfectly for her, and that was a good thing.

As she found all her items and changed for the day, she wondered why exactly she'd signed up for muggle studies. She'd grown up in a muggle orphanage, and being so she knew their ways well. She'd lived most of her life as one of them. It just really didn't make sense for her to be part of the class.

Sighing, she headed off towards her class. Her long silver blonde hair was flowing down her back as usual. Her emerald eyes were groggy with sleep, and if given the chance, she'd probably doze off. At five foot, she was short, and her shoulders slumped in sleepiness didn't help the appearance.

When she entered the room, she read the board and then sat down. She had an essay to write, and she only hoped that what she wrote would be good enough...for her. She was a perfectionist, and what she thought was awful others thought was ok. She just didn't like turning in work that wasn't her best.

She sighed as she sat, and then pulled out her quill and paper. She started to write in the small elegant script her essay. It read:

Persephone DeVone

Ravenclaw

Muggle Life

Muggles are, in my opinion, a determined people. They insist on doing things the hard way, and when those that choose to do things the "easy" way are thrown out of their society. That society is built off of the muggles ability to do hard work and to get ahead. They need to know everything with that strict discipline, though they lack the magic which could make that discipline even more important.

They are not concerned with the well being of the Earth as long as they can get what they want out of it. They are only concerned with getting enough for them, and they use ridicules forms of energy to power machines that seem to have no purpose to those of the magical community.

Persephone finished the essay. Deffinetly not her best, but it would do. She could have written more than that, but she wasn't used to this teacher and she didn't know exactly what he would want from her. She would play it safe and write only what she had gained from the text, not what she already knew.

[Carmen]

(ooc: *laughs toward Nigel* Hah! A lump....)

Maybe it was the fact that she was prefect, or maybe it was the start of a new years. Or maybe even Mai had knocked some sense into her. Who knew. Carmen didn't. But whatever propelled the girl out of bed and on time for the classes as of a recent date, she liked, because it meant, well, not being late! While it was still cold out, she found no need for her heavy cloak anymore, and so waltzed into the classroom wearing the Hufflepuff skirt, a white shirt with the Hufflepuff emblem on it, and her Hufflepuff tie.

Talk about patriotic!

It was a little warmer in the room, and so the goosebumps on her legs shrunk back into her skin in content. With her blue muggle biro sticking out of her mouth, the girl lugged her books down onto the table nearest to her (which was around the front of the room), and sat herself down comfortably and read the board. 'Read the introduction to muggle studies in your textbook and write a brief reflection about your own thoughts about muggles…'

Wow. This guy must love the subject to have to write all that. She thought to herself while beginning her paper.

<sub>Carmen Thompson
Hufflepuff Student
Muggle Studies

My thoughts on Muggles

Since I am muggle-born myself, I've lived among Muggles my whole life, up until I came to Magic Horizons last year. So I can see both sides of the lake, so to speak. While muggles are extremely accomplished in the ways to use one's imagination in inventing things, wizards are equally accomplished in the magic uses. So it makes one think which is the better of the two.

Muggles seem to be much more used to accepting new ideas and inventions in this world that the wizarding folk, and this is what makes me proud to be muggle-born, no matter what others say about my blood. They've created a master list of ways to transport themselves, along with many different machines to cook things and make items. Muggles have even created robots to do the work for them in the industry!

However, Muggles have brought the downfall of the Human race, along with the world. The greenhouse gasses are tearing through our atmosphere, if I'm not mistaken, and bringing in the heat, melting our ice-caps. Thus the pains of science and experiments. This would be where the wizarding ways would come into use, because though most use cars and other things like that that create bad gasses, they are far more economical toward the environment.</sub>

Taking a glance at the blackboard after putting her well-worked pen down onto the desk, Carmen read the final notice not to disturb the professor. It was tempting, but she really didn't want Hufflepuff to become a little lower on the ladder of four, and so leant back in her chair.

[Faerlain]

Ahhh, muggle studies. Out of all the classes that the sixth year girl took, this one had to be the easiest. She had some muggle blood in her and had been raised, for the most part, as a muggle; so the class was generally quite pointless. Occasionally she would even use the period as a naptime or study hall, simply because the material was so redundant and the professor never was able to find ways to make it interesting. But then again... how could you try and make the normal life of a muggle interesting? It was boring, no matter which way you tried to present it.

But only just recently, she'd heard that they'd be getting a new teacher. So today's class was one that she was especially looking forward to, just because she was still hopeful that they'd get a teacher who would actually teach. In the past, she'd most just been handed boring assignments which she easily completed in a matter of minutes.

Upon entering the classroom, she took a seat next to Carmen and then deposited her shoulder bag upon the floor. She eyed the new professor carefully as he wrote upon the board- ohhh, great. Another written assignment. And why didn't he want to be woken up? He wasn't even sleeping... wait, now he was. Sighing, she withdrew a quill and piece of parchment from her bag, hoping to get the little paragraph done so that she might be able to catch some much-needed sleep.


Faerlain Darian
Hufflepuff
My Opinion on Muggles

Ahh, what to say about muggles? I'll admit that after living in both worlds I've developed quite a lot of views on this particular topic. On one hand, I agree that the life of a muggle is a much simpler one. They don't know that vampires or lycans or magic even exists, so they don't have to worry about it. They are, in a way, innocent and naive to the active magical community that exists right underneath their noses.

But I also can't see how they can live without using magic. They are constantly struggling to invent things that will make their lives easier, but life for the average witch or wizard already is very easy. I suppose that it must be good that they don't know how much of an advantage we have over them, otherwise we'd have scores of muggles wanting to study magic.

I'm afraid that's all I've really got to say about muggles in general. I can't really offer any other view that isn't slightly biased towards wizards, so I'll just stop while I'm ahead.

Writing the whole paper only took her five minutes, and she'd quietly dropped it up upon the Professor's desk in a matter of mere seconds. Once finished and left to her own devices, the girl decided not to talk to Carmen and risk awakening the sleeping man. Instead, she opted to take a little nap herself, using her textbook as a rather hard pillow.

[djinnwishforme]

Djinn made sure he had his quill ready and began to write on his parchment.....


Djinn
Gryffindor

My experince with muggles has taught me just how ignorant they are. I have dealt with muggles for thousands of years and only one has ever defeated me, temporarily that is. As for you professor..... MAKE YOUR WISH
Djinn got up and set the paper on the desk, upon doing this he slammed his book on the desk next to sleeping professor. The professor jerked awake. When he looked at the djinn he got a horrible image in his head of an evil genie.

"What's the matter Professor," Djinn asked? " You had a bad dream?"

[Sin]

Sin adjusted the quill in her grip, her eyes narrowed in frustration. It would not take much longer and she would finally be finished with her cursed paper. Then she wouldn't have to run to her next classroom— or more importantly, explain why she had been late for the third time in a row. She had agreed to join the class with Alexis and the others only because she had had nothing better to do, after all, one of her parents had been a muggle. Otherwise she would not have found it worth her time.

She could hear their quills scratching over their papers as they wrote, each one writing their own "views" upon the primitive ways of the muggles. Random charms and enchantments shot out from hidden wands, and their targets muttered and grumbled in surprise.

Sin's lips pursed in determination Better get started then

Samantha Aspen
Gryffindor

My Take on Muggle Life

Personally, I view Muggles as my role models. They're a determined sort of bunch, always toiling about here and there. It's astounding really...how they manage to create and even bend things to fufill their own purposes. The time it takes them to accomplish such things, however, is rather shocking. Transportation for instance, which to a wizard might seem primitive due to apparating, takes muggles years and years to do. The manufacturing of machines and building of various networks such as streets, railroads, etc, all come into play.

Muggles live under great hardships which, I do pity them for. Sometimes, I wonder as to why the magical community doesn't bother to assist them in their workings. I do sympathize with the Ministry of Magic though, muggles can be very greedy after all. I'm sure once exposed to our magical "escape routes" so to speak, they would no doubt be demanding the skills of the wizarding community day in and day out.

Muggles also seem to be oblivious when it comes to the matters concerning their own existence. I mean, the ways through which they work to establish for their own leisure are ingenious, but destructive. For instance, the machines they use... though effective in taking them from place to place also pollute the air and destroy the earth. At times it seems as if muggles are the charges placed under the care of the wizarding community.

Sin scanned hurriedly through her paper, struggling to achieve grammatical perfection. She had never been much of a writer. But no matter what phrasing she used, her paper refused to acknowledge it. Instead it loudly proclaimed the incomptenance through which it had been written. Sin's lips curled in irritation, as she moved it aside.

[Professor Alington]

-Sorry for the inconvenience, but I have moved off to bigger and better sites. I have reposted this class there if any wish to do the same with your replies.



Prof, sorry to do this, but you cannot advertise other sites in threads. Only in signatures and the board allocated at the bottom.

I don't know if other people agree with me, but it may be an idea to mark the assignments that have been submitted here so house points can be added on for this site.

Thankyou

Hayzie
Head Girl