Muggle Studies

[Alecto Carrow]

Alecto tilted her head looking slightly disappointed "Are you sure you're willing to give up on your supposed morals and scruples so easily? As weak and wrong as they are... after all, it's not like he hasn't done it to you before. Now would be the perfect time to pay him back... OR to get some of those precious points you kids like so much..."

[Theo Nott]

Theo nodded in agreement with Alecto's lecture. Everything she said made sense, the muggles did murder each other by the millions.

When Weasley spoke up a small smile flitted across his face. It was going to be amusing to watch her squirm.

[Alexander Chevalier]

Alex had tensed the instant Alecto had threatened him, eyes somewhat wide. Ginny was very outspoken, calling the woman out and challenging her lecture. However, he also admired her for it. It was foolish, yes, but also courageous. Of course he understood why most of the Death Eater's were so against the Muggles, his own mother had even been afraid of what he was. However, they were generalizing. They didn't understand the race as a whole. The Muggles had become exceedingly more open-minded in recent years. And besides, the Death Eaters needlessly torturing all supporters and those with tainted blood went beyond all of that. They were prejudiced and behaving no better. What they were starting was every bit as cruel as what the Muggles were doing to each other.

When she averted her threat to Malfoy boy, Alex looked to Ginny, wondering if she would continue to fighting for her argument. However, it looked as if her determination was wavering. He considered intervening, redirecting the woman's focus, but he wondered if it might do more harm than good at this point.

[Ginny Weasley]

"Yes Professor, I'm willing to give up. I realise I was wrong. I'm sure I will be better educated by the end of your lecture."

She kept her voice monotone, concentrating on saying the words, meaningless words, thats all they were. Simple lies to protect those around her. It wasn't a big deal...

[Millicent Bulstrode]

From beside Draco, Millicent looked to Alecto. Why did these people insist on threatening the guy? Despite supporting their cause, she couldn't exactly condone her friends being threatened either. They always came first in her mind. She sent a glare to Ginny. The girl had better keep backing down.

[Theo Nott]

Theo shook his head as he looked at Ginny. It seemed so easy to cause her to lose her resolve. Simply threatening others around her did it. Apparently, even threatening those that had been her enemy in the past, caused her to lose her conviction.

[Caden McGinnis]

Caden watched Alecto pace about the room, throwing threats every which way, no concern for houses or how closley connected they may be with Ginny. However, when she ventured to threaten Draco, he noticed an interesting look in her eyes. Though she had looked pretty affected when Alecto had called out Alex and backed down--something he'd have to remember to thank her for later--there was something about the look in her eyes, with Draco...huh. Maybe he was just imagining it. Probably. Whatever. Needless to say, it was pretty damn irritating, the way everyone had to step so carefully around these Death Eaters.

His smile remaining perfectly fixed on his face all the while, however, Caden opted to speak when Ginny was forced to back down yet again. "So, boss," he addressed the female death-eater, his tone taking a curious turn, "we gettin' back to the lecture?"

[Alecto Carrow]

Alecto turned and smiled a bit looking at Caden before wondering aloud "I wonder... if this method works with everyone..." she considered pacing the room before coming back behind Alex and running her wand through his hair, her gaze turned, amused, to Caden. "Where you *saying* something, Pet?"

[Draco Malfoy]

Draco relaxed when Ginny once again refused and, as usual and in an quite Gryffindoric manner, Caden called attention back to him. The blond began to wonder if he had some type of DE teacher fetish.

[Caden McGinnis]

Caden couldn't help but internally tense when Alecto walked over to Alex, but his appearance remained completely unchanged. Damn it all... He was actually finding it particularly difficult to think up a response that didn't take a borderline smart-a$$ spin. Habits were hard to break.

"No, ma'am," he told her simply.

[Alecto Carrow]

"Good..." Alecto said continuing to caress the other boy with her wand tip. "Tell me, Pet. Since you're decided to reclaim my attentions. What are your views on this muggle filth and their atrocities? Miss. Weasley, at least initially, held the belief that we were all just alike. Do you share that misguided thought? Do you think we're the same as muggles?"

[Caden McGinnis]

"Debatable, maybe," Caden gave a nonchalant shrug. "S'pose the only way to know for sure would be to test it. Though...," he glanced over at the image of the Salem burnings, "evidence is a form of a test, isn't it? And, in that case, the evidence speaks pretty clearly for itself. Those muggles are pretty damn messed up."

[Alexander Chevalier]

Alex tensed as Alecto found her way back over to him. She seemed to enjoy using him as a taunt for his friends. He glanced over to Draco and considered he was in the same sort of predicament. He supposed it was either this or speak up against her as Caden and Ginny tended to do. No one could really escape. If you remained silent, you were used, if you spoke up you were threatened. There was no right way.

The tip of her wand continued to run through his hair and over his skin and he fought a flinch as he felt a chill ni reaction to her proximity. He held his eyes on his friend as he listened to his answer.

[Ginny Weasley]

Ginny glanced over in surprise when Caden elected to shift the attention back towards himself, expression somewhere between greatful and exasperated at his actions.

The boy had no sense of self preservation... but she was glad, Carrow seeming to loose interest in Draco in favour of Alex again. Actually that wasn't much better, damn it all... But the blonde seemed to realise the danger and for once curbed himself as she had been forced to do, unwilling to cause his friend harm.

Ginny's eyes softened a little as she watched the loud, slightly obnoxious boy, seeing in him a great deal of traits that would be more at home in her own house than the quiet studious Ravenclaws. Loud, brash, tendency to charge into danger, desire to protect others... He was a good guy it seemed. Not the brightest, and possibly a masochist, but again, that was a Gryffindor trait to it appeared given her own silly need to speak up earlier. She was begining to understand why it was Alex was friends with him.

She's have to remember to thank the boy later.

[Alecto Carrow]

"Hmm, indeed that are..." she gave a cat like smile but finally removed her wand from Alex moving back to the front of the room. "Now, before I was so *rudely* inturrupted by Miss. Weasley- where were we?"

[Caden McGinnis]

"You were just sayin' that you'd be showin' us the real side to those muggles, professor, in all its ugliness," the Raven returned easily.

[Leanna Barker]

Leanna slipped into class and took a seat at the back, her head down.

[Theo Nott]

Theo watched the exchange continue and was amused and disgusted at their actions. Continuously shifting Alectos focus like that was going to end poorly at some point. Oh well it wasnt his hide on the line at the moment.

[Millicent Bulstrode]

Millicent glanced to Caden, grateful that he had chosen to distract the woman's attention away from Draco. That was actually pretty awesome of him. She then looked to Alecto, eagerly awaiting her to continue the lesson.

[Alecto Carrow]

"Ah! Exactly and that's just what I plan to do. Pet, go take your seat," Alecto responded with a gleeful smile before disappearing into the office at the back of the classroom.

[Alexander Chevalier]

Alex watched as the woman exited into the office before furrowing his brows. What was she up to, exactly? That smile of hers was so disarming.

[Pansy Parkinson]

Pansy kept quiet, she was fine with not drawing attention. This class was just as unsettling as the other Carrow's.

[Draco Malfoy]

Draco frowned when the woman... gleefully? Left the area. Anything that made her look that happy could *not* be good.

[Theo Nott]

Theo watched in morbid curiosity, he just had a feeling something bad was about to happen.

[Ginny Weasley]

It was with no small sense of relief that Ginny watched the woman return to her 'teaching', glad to no longer be the focus of her sadism, or more precisely, not to be used as an excuse to torture others. That relief did not go so far as to quell the uneasy chill she felt when the witch broke into that sinisterly pleased expression, that Ginny knew to well from their more 'intimate' chats.

A happy Alecto was never a good thing...

[Alecto Carrow]

Several minutes later the woman returned, behind her she dragged a person, a bit shorter than her wearing a hood over their head. Whomever it was obviously didn't want to be there as they planted their feet into the ground, requiring them to be dragged along. The woman made a bit of a face as she tossed them to the same chair Caden had just vacated before using a quick binding to hold them to it.

"There," she said with a sigh and grin, planting her hands on her hips. "Does anyone know what this is?"

[Ginny Weasley]

... And it seems she was proven right again...

The redhead instantly stiffened in her seat, already pale skin turning whiter, that unease growing to a gurgling of horror and foreboding. Godric no... she wasn't even 100% sure she knew what was going on here, but there was no way this was going to end well...

[Draco Malfoy]

Draco frowned a bit as the person was dragged in, however he remained silent. 'What it is?'... For them to not even be called a person or human, but a what- told Draco what he needed to know. But that only made this situation worse, because if it *was* a muggle (and a young looking one at that) then this whole thing would not end well for the poor kid.

[Theo Nott]

Theo wathced intently as Alecto brought the person...no thing into the room. As she dragged it along his studied it, when Alecto posed the question, there was only one answer he could think of that fit. "A muggle, by the looks of it one on the younger side, but they could just be small." he answered the professor.

[Alecto Carrow]

"That is correct, Mr. Suck up," Alecto declared indicating Theo before removing the hood from the teen boy who began to look around with terrified eyes. "This, dear class, is a real life muggle. Aren't you?" She took the boy by his hair forcing him to nod "Mr. Muggle here, is a firm believer that witchcraft is a horrible horrible thing and we shall all burn for practicing it. Aren't you Mr. Muggle."