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Post by Hugh Mann on Aug 1, 2005 13:34:06 GMT -5
Ok kiddos here is your first assignment. You will match the following items with their muggle world versions. Name an item from the muggle world that serves a similar function, then explain how they are similar and how they are different.
Broomstick Hogwarts Express Learning to apparate
This assignment will be due in one week. But for the rest of the class period, I would like you each to tell me of your experiences in the Muggle world (or, for traditional Wizarding families, with Muggle acquaintances), and how those experiences have affected your views on sorcery and the Wizarding world.
Now who will begin?
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Post by Rikku Xainne on Aug 1, 2005 14:38:12 GMT -5
Rikku was the first to clear her throat. She bit her lip and then said...
[glow=hotpink,2,300]Well, I come from a place called Spira. We have so many more creatures and few, Muggle types. Though we have plenty people without powers, they have a variety of Machines, or Machinas, that help them with day to day things. It is a little hard to explain. The "Muggles" there know about our certain powers, and before I knew I was a true witch I could use dresspheres. This allowed me to use several different powers. So long story short, there are no true muggles in my world.[/glow]
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Post by Daphne Marin on Aug 1, 2005 14:39:31 GMT -5
By the time Daphne reached the classroom, she was tired. She had already been to 5 classes. She took a seat in the back because she was too lazy to walk to the front of the class. She listened to the man> As he spoke she wrote down her assignment and put it away. When he asked them for their ideas she looked around the class. She raised her hand so that she could get her statement over with.
"Well sir, I have ventured out to Milan with my mother many times. We usually go shopping for clothing in the stores. It is not really a wizarding town so we get to interact with the muggles alot. After being surrounded by their things, I appreciate our way of life better. Our transportation is faster, we have faster ways to do things, and our medicines are alot better. I got sick one day and we had no idea what I needed to take. Muggles have so many different things that do not work as well as our version. So I love the wizarding life in comparison to the muggle life.
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Post by Kessa Cirtos on Aug 1, 2005 14:55:29 GMT -5
Kessa grinned to her friend's hurried explanation of her ventures into the Muggling World but understood that she was tired. Too many classes into one day was stressful. Kessa shrugged off the feeling and when nobody else spoke up, mentioned a time where she was in the muggle world...
"I am actually a fourth muggle, but that doesn't mean that I know everything about them. My godmother was raised in a muggle household and often tells me stories of how she had to help fix cars and toilets. Things you wouldn't imagine happened! She once told me this very funny story and...well -
Kayla had been sitting there with her little sister, Nehinah on the counter. They were looking at the blender to see how they could make smoothies out of it. For the longest of time, they added everything they liked: gummy worms, pizza, ketchup, ice cream, chocolate syrup, and tea. This would make the BEST smoothie, they agreed. Kayla told her sister to get out of the way that she had "to have room to work." Her little sister crawled off of the counter top and began sucking on her forefinger, her other arm squeezing the muscle of the arm whose finger was occupied in her mouth. Her large eyes were gazing up, trustingly, at her sister's form. Her sister was kneeling over the blender, plugging in the machine. Just as she did that, the machine turned on. Nehinah's eyes widened so big! Juice and things thicker than that were tossed out of the bowl and everywhere around the kitchen! The blender had had no lid on! Kayla cried out, yanking on the cord and nearly falling off of the counter as she did so and slipped on some melted ice cream. Oh no! Their parents walked into the room, took one good look at the two of them covered in food, tried to look angry and yell at them about being careful, but ended up in a fit of laughter at how messy the two of them were.
"In the end, everyone had to get on their hands and knees and clean up the mess." Kessa sobered up much with the thought, "It's terribel cleaning up messes with no magic. She tells me that she always thanks whatever gave her her powers that she can clean dishes with a flick of her wand instead of having to scrub like so many muggles!"
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Post by Marlene Javelin on Aug 1, 2005 15:57:23 GMT -5
*Listens curiously when others talk about their experiences, then thinks about her own and looks very lost*
I don't come across Muggles very often, because my family lives in the country and we don't have any neighbours... *Blushes* I'm very thick about Muggle stuff. I only know how to use their money, because I buy Muggle clothes very often. And I can call a taxi (I used to have a cell phone), but that's about it - and that's also why I took Muggle Studies.
*Sigh*
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Post by Lilith Lovecraft on Aug 1, 2005 17:01:57 GMT -5
With so many purebloods in the room, Lilith felt completely outnumbered. All the same, she raised her hand, trying to calm her trembling voice as she prepared to speak.
I'm Lilith Lovecraft professor. I was raised among Muggles, as a muggle-born. Being a Muggle has made me very appreciative of my magic skills and of the discipline necessary to shape them. When I first started coming into my powers, nobody knew what was happening! My muggle parents were as frightened as I was. Not knowing how to control them, or even understanding that they were coming from me, made things worse.
The reason I am enrolled in Muggle Studies is because I want to learn about muggle life from the wizarding point of view. I already know what a stapler does, how to operate a computer keyboard, and why muggles use mailboxes. But what I don't always know is what the corresponding wizarding system is, or how wizards come to view and understand muggles.
I realize that in many ways, the wizarding world is vastly superior to that of the muggles, you know? But I don't approve of wizards who look down their noses at them, even though I suppose that's natural. I think of it this way: even though muggles don't have the kinds of skills we have, they have managed to survive and prosper using devices constructed using intellect instead of magic. As crude as some of their stuff might be, it's better than nothing, don't you think?
I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I think I might be able to add something to this class by giving you the muggle perspective on things, and you can help me by helping me understand why wizards and witches view muggles the way they do. And if that doesn't work, well then you can all at least amuse yourselves by making fun of my glow-in-the-dark muggle shoes.
She pointed downwards at a pair of sky-blue muggle athletic shoes with a transparent bottom. As she stood up, sparkling pink and blue lights could be seen to twinkle in the transparent sole. The effect wasn't particularly effective, but it did seem to amuse the class a little.
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Post by Aiden Clay on Aug 1, 2005 20:41:00 GMT -5
Walks in hastily, eager to begin his classes...he takes a seat in the middle and listens to the assignment...when the other students were finished speaking, he raises his hand and told about his interactions with muggles.
"Well...I've lived with Muggles all my life...when I first found out I was a wizard, my muggle side questioned that this was true...since then, it has made me much more aware of the evils in the world, and what power is contained in those that my kind looks down on...what I mean is that muggles, when they do see a wizard in robes, which happens quite often, despite their attempts to "muggle-ize" themselves...they think of them as psychos. When I joined this world, the main lesson I learned is that there is always more to a person that what is on the outside...it's a common moral, but a very important one if you wish to succeed in life. And my awareness of these things has been raised because of my life with muggles...I believe that if I were raised as a wizard, I would be sheltered from the other side too much...I am glad that I know the best, and worst, of both worlds. So I'm glad I'm muggle-born...it really has taught me a lot."
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Post by Rikku Xainne on Aug 1, 2005 21:24:23 GMT -5
snickers at Aidens explanation...
[glow=hotpink,2,300]I remember before either of us knew about our being able to attend hogwarts, you made two fake letters and put them in the mail box. For a split second I realy thought they were real.[/glow]
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Post by Izzy Wood on Aug 3, 2005 8:43:36 GMT -5
Izzy stands up and reads her opinion of the muggle and wizarding worlds. I have grown up in a half muggle half wizarding family so I have experienced both from a young age I has taught me to do things both the magical and the muggle way so it makes you appreciate being able to do chores in the click of a finger rather than doing it the long way. But there are advantages to being able to use electricity (a type of muggle power) so I guess it has made me appreciate both. When she has finished she takes her seat and listned to everyone elses point of views.
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Post by Emma Wood on Aug 3, 2005 8:50:13 GMT -5
After her sister had stood up, Emma thought she would add her own opinions.
'As Izzy has just mentioned we are half muggle and half wizard. We grew up the muggle way but still using some magic and understanding about the wizarding world. We knew from a young age that we both had wizarding blood as when we argued we could throw things around the room without touching them. We learnt to control our magic although I can't deny trying to throw a cupboard at Izzy a few weeks ago. I was only trying to scare her and it didnt go anywhere near her! Both of our parents were pleased when we showed signs of magic even though our dad is muggle and even happier when we were both accepted into Hogwarts.'
Emma then sat down, immediately dodging a rubber which Izzy had sent flying across the room and sending it straight back at her.
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Post by Izzy Wood on Aug 3, 2005 8:53:30 GMT -5
Izzy picked up something rather larger and charmed it to fly accross the room at her sister giggleing uncontrollably.
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Post by Emma Wood on Aug 3, 2005 9:00:04 GMT -5
Under her breath, Emma pointed her wand at Izzy under the table and muttered,
'Congelus' to freeze Izzy, and then 'Flipendo'. Emma watched as her sister froze and the flipped in the air!
After giggling for a while she once a gain muttered,
'Finite Incantatem' to stop her sister flipping in the air. She then turned back to Pro. Mann hoping he hadn't noticed their almost silent duel.
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Post by Izzy Wood on Aug 3, 2005 9:06:52 GMT -5
Izzy was appaled that her sister would do that especially in the middle of a lesson but she wasnt going to retaliate.
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Post by Callia Ashburton on Aug 5, 2005 8:53:17 GMT -5
I am Muggle born incidentally, and took up Muggle Studies to study about Muggles from a wizarding point of view. It is interesting to see how some wizards and witches find Muggle inventions so interesting. For example, Mr Weasley was once interested in the function of a rubber ducky.
Since I have experience with both worlds, I find that although there are many things that are different about Muggles and magical folk, there is one thing I find in common, and that is the power of love. There is love everywhere, whether in the wizarding or Muggle world and it is this power that is ironically, the strongest. I once had a pure-blood friend who had a relationship with a Muggle and her parents drove her nuts over it. They were infuriated with her and did everything they could to get her away. However, love conquered all and they are now engaged. The discriminations some wizards or witches might feel towards muggles are really no longer there if we realise that we are after all, all part of the human race, just that we witches and wizards live in an entirely different sort of world.
And of course, as we all know, it was Lily's love that had saved Harry, conquering all the magic that Voldermort had.
* she swallows and takes a seat, waiting to see how others in the class would respond to her views*
~Callia Ashburton of Gryffindor~
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Post by Hugh Mann on Aug 5, 2005 14:27:49 GMT -5
Very well, then. I see that you each have developed your own individual perspective. Don't worry, I'm not here to try to convince you that one world is better than the other. The purpose of this class is simply to contrast and explore each in order to understand how muggles and wizards each function in their own worlds.
But as Miss Ashburton points out, there are some things that both worlds have in common, and that includes emotions and behaviors: love, desire, contentment, anger, frustration, sadness, playfulness, ...obedience, or lack thereof... These are all behaviors that we find among both muggles and wizards.
Speaking of which, I have noticed a bit of playfulness couple with disobedient rule breaking taking part in this very class today. Emma, Izzy, that will cost each of you five points. And perhaps next time, you will both be demonstration the behaviors of discipline and concentration.
Class is dismissed.
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