IC Prospective 5th year Gryffindor

[princedollophead]

Character: Arthur Pendragon
Mun: Otter
Plot specific: Nope.

Does anybody care to explain to me, why we have to learn about Muggle public transport? I mean, it's not like most of us are really ever going to use it.

Further more, what do Oysters have to do with it, and why are they on cards?

Comments

[preanimator]

Presumably because you're in a Muggle Studies class, which is an elective, by the way. What did you think it was about, if not Muggle things?

[princedollophead]

Well I was hoping for something more interesting than travelling in tight aluminium carriages with your face in some strangers armpit.

It's not exactly like magic is hard.

[preanimator]

Are you really that daft? No, wait, forget I asked that question.

Perhaps you're not aware of this, but the use of magic is not actually a matter of simply putting in a certain amount of effort - people are either born with magic or without it. If it was a matter of skill or talent, you would doubtless be a squib.

[princedollophead]

Are you trying to say, I have no skill or talent? Just because I'm not a Ravenclaw, don't mistake me for someone incompetent.

Besides, there are students out there that at times, make my thoughts on the subject sounds a little more substantial, don't you think?

[preanimator]

If you're asking if there are students out there more stupid than you are, then yes, of course. There's always someone more stupid.

[princedollophead]

You know, you're being awfully defensive about some thoughts on muggles.

And try not to call me stupid, again.

[preanimator]

I'm merely pointing out that the very question you're asking points to your general inability to come to logical conclusions on your own. You've actually provided little thoughts on Muggles at all, other than your vague implication that there's something wrong with them because they can't do magic, something which you apparently find easy.

[princedollophead]

How is using seafood to get on a bus logical?

And of course there is, I work very hard on my spells and charms as I am expected to. So maybe if they started to actually believe in magic for a start. Maybe they would actually be able to do something more with their time than play with rubber ducks and wait for trains.

[preanimator]

You don't use seafood, it's just pictures. Surely the concept of symbols and logos isn't utterly foreign to you, I know wizards use them as well.

And you've clearly learned nothing from your class if you honestly think that's all Muggles do. Or if you think they don't believe in magic - lots of them do, actually. It doesn't give them magical blood, though. And you seem to have forgotten that it's wizards who have hidden themselves from Muggles, not Muggles who have stopped believing.

[princedollophead]

I have a symbol of a lion on my scarf. No one calls it a lion scarf. If they're trying to be so impressive they could at least come up with a better name.

Let me guess, you're muggle born.

[preanimator]

Actually, I have heard people call the Gryffindor scarves lion scarves, and Gryffindors lions. Perhaps you might like to clean out your ears a bit, and you might hear it, too. Just remember not to push the wand in too far.

And no, actually, I'm not.

[He practically is - he's a halfblood who was mostly raised by his Muggle mother, but no reason to admit that.]

[princedollophead]

[He ignores the first part, because he's never heard the scarves that.]

You're being awfully defensive of them if you aren't then. Can't say I know that many full bloods who are defensive over muggle things.