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Muggle Studies
Sep. 4th, 2009 11:32 amThis year we all have Muggle Studies in addition to everything we had last year (well, except flying, we all tested out of flying. Other than Dean.) Professor Alecto Carrow teaches Muggle Studies so I guess now I'll have to say Professor Amycus Carrow when I mean the Transfiguration professor and Professor Alecto Carrow when I mean the Muggle Studies professor as it wouldn't be respectful to call them Amycus and Alecto the way Professor Slu the other teachers do.
Professor Alecto Carrow is a lot like her brother buta little less scar quieter. For our first class she told us all about muggle autos, I think she was inspired by that trip Harry went on with Ron. Things we learned about muggle autos:
1. They were called 'autos' or 'cars' or 'infernal machines' and big ones were sometimes called 'lauries.'
2. They were very, very loud and you could damage your hearing if you stood close to one for too long.
3. They belched out huge amounts of smoke. She talked about that for a while because the smoke the autos make is very damaging to the air and the environment and the muggles in other places are still making this foul smoke even though they know how bad it is. If you breathe in a lot and don't use a charm to protect you it will kill you right away because it's poison, and even if you breathe in just a little it can kill you over time. But the wards around the Protectorate help to keep out dangerous muggle things, which is why we're so lucky to live here where wizards can be safe.
4. As well as killing people with the poisonous smoke, they used to run into people all the time and kill them that way. Muggles inside the auto would tie themselves in with a harness and that was supposed to make them safer, but people outside had to look sharp and run for it and THOUSANDS of people, both muggles and wizards, died every year from these awful things. Getting hit with an auto was like getting hit
5. The main reason muggles used them was that they were too lazy to walk places.
Then she talked a bit more about the proper way for muggles to get around. If an animal needs to go somewhere, it's supposed to do it with its own body -- an owl flies, of course, and a dog walks, and a fish swims. Unless a witch or wizard needs it to be somewhere far away, in which case the wizard is allowed to move it with magic. But you'd never trust a dog with a broomstick because that would be stupid and dangerous. If you give an animal some special machine to make it go faster, that's just asking for trouble.
For our homework we're supposed to write about how different animals get around, make a list of reasons a muggle might need to be transported magically, and pretend that we're a muggle camp administrator and make a plan for muggle transport from one labour camp to another.
It was a very interesting class.
Maybe in my journal I'll call them Professor Carrow L and Professor Carrow Y, L for aLecto and Y for amYcus. Do you suppose they'll mind if I do that? Professor Amycus Carrow and Professor Alecto Carrow are an awful lot to write out. Professor Carrow (Transfiguration) and Professor Carrow (Muggle Studies) is just as long.
Professor Alecto Carrow is a lot like her brother but
1. They were called 'autos' or 'cars' or 'infernal machines' and big ones were sometimes called 'lauries.'
2. They were very, very loud and you could damage your hearing if you stood close to one for too long.
3. They belched out huge amounts of smoke. She talked about that for a while because the smoke the autos make is very damaging to the air and the environment and the muggles in other places are still making this foul smoke even though they know how bad it is. If you breathe in a lot and don't use a charm to protect you it will kill you right away because it's poison, and even if you breathe in just a little it can kill you over time. But the wards around the Protectorate help to keep out dangerous muggle things, which is why we're so lucky to live here where wizards can be safe.
4. As well as killing people with the poisonous smoke, they used to run into people all the time and kill them that way. Muggles inside the auto would tie themselves in with a harness and that was supposed to make them safer, but people outside had to look sharp and run for it and THOUSANDS of people, both muggles and wizards, died every year from these awful things. Getting hit with an auto was like getting hit
5. The main reason muggles used them was that they were too lazy to walk places.
Then she talked a bit more about the proper way for muggles to get around. If an animal needs to go somewhere, it's supposed to do it with its own body -- an owl flies, of course, and a dog walks, and a fish swims. Unless a witch or wizard needs it to be somewhere far away, in which case the wizard is allowed to move it with magic. But you'd never trust a dog with a broomstick because that would be stupid and dangerous. If you give an animal some special machine to make it go faster, that's just asking for trouble.
For our homework we're supposed to write about how different animals get around, make a list of reasons a muggle might need to be transported magically, and pretend that we're a muggle camp administrator and make a plan for muggle transport from one labour camp to another.
It was a very interesting class.
Maybe in my journal I'll call them Professor Carrow L and Professor Carrow Y, L for aLecto and Y for amYcus. Do you suppose they'll mind if I do that? Professor Amycus Carrow and Professor Alecto Carrow are an awful lot to write out. Professor Carrow (Transfiguration) and Professor Carrow (Muggle Studies) is just as long.