Wizards vs. Muggles (Free-form)

She laughed.

"No way of protecting themselves? Dude, do you know what a gun is? I'm pretty sure the everyday model can kill you before you hear the shot. Nuclear weapons, atomic bombs, artificial viruses, flame-throwers, toxic gasses, airplane bombings, radiation poisoning, the list goes on. Muggles are very capable of killing wizards, and on that note, I'm pretty sure that with today's technology, they can drill into the right place of your skull and produce so much pain that you pass out. Torture's not really easy to withstand with their methods." she laughed again.

"I bet you that if wizards had their own countries, and we didn't live so close to them, they'd just do to us what they did to the Japanese. They're extremely capable or defending themselves. They could send Asimo with a machine gun and kill hundreds. 'no way of defending themselves'... that is rich! You know what? If worst comes to worst, I am betting that the psychos with the nukes win. People around here know so little about them, They have the element of surprise." She asked a house elf for a water.

edited 19th Dec '10 5:16:39 AM by Faramir

-He adopts a confused look at the word 'guns'-

"Gurns? What're gurns? Muggles able to kill 100's of us with just one of them? Impossible!"

"I love, I love this feeling of superiority that comes with knowing more about something than others"

She drank some of her water. "You know what? Knowing more than older people about a topic is so satisfying for me. Maybe I should go to the Muggle studies class and supplant the teacher!"

She chuckled again. "People like you are gonna be knocked off their pedestal so soon, I wont have enough 'I told you so' s to go around."

"Don't forget, I might assist in one of your lessons at Hogwarts. Anyway back to the subject, when do you think the muggles are going to attack us with their 'gurns' then?"

-He says all this whilst rummaging in his bag for something-

"I don't actually take rune transcribing or anything, I just thought it'd be cool to know the teacher's assistant or sub or whatever you're gonna do. It still might be, it's just not on my priorities."

She drank some more water " Now, on the subject of guns, imagine them as machines that throw small rocks at people, only they throw them so fast and with so much strength, they go through your skull before you realize you've been shot at. And there are some special rocks that explode while they're inside of you."

"Muggles are probably gonna shoot, kidnap, etc, soon. I'm thinking they'll hire some trigger happy thugs and try to rescue the students from going to school. They have a thing for rescuing people, regardless of whether they need rescuing or not."

edited 19th Dec '10 5:57:25 AM by Faramir

-He finally pulls out his only book on transfiguration and starts reading-

"You interested in transfiguration? As I might sub for that, And about that 'gurn' thing, sounds slightly scary but can they do other stuff with their gurns apart from that? No. For example they can't do this."

-He transfigurates his glass into a racoon and transfigurates it back as an example-

She smiles " And that is why I think wizards are cooler than muggles."

-He gestures for a refill on his glass-

"I hope the magical creatures are on our side though like centaurs and goblins...and, well, house elves can't do that much, as they will all be hunted too."

-he has a swig of his drink, that was refilled-

"The point I was trying to make, was that muggles aren't defenseless, they're not as weak as many would think, and they seem to know a lot more about wizards than wizards know about them. They shouldn't be underestimated." She drank the last of her water.

"It's not like aurors are gonna listen some mudblood tell them they're doing it wrong."

"True, I guess I have to agree after that statement. Are you going to join the fight against the muggles? I might sign up, unless I have duty at Hogwarts. You say the train is leaving tommorow? So, whats on your book list?"

-He takes another swig of his drink-

"A lot of stuff" she said, taking a piece of paper from her pocket with the following on it.

• The Monster Book of Monsters
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• The Standard Book of Spells
• Achievements in Charming
• The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection
• Defensive Magical Theory
• Confronting the Faceless
• Magical Draughts and Potions
• Advanced Potion Making
• Guide to Advanced Transfiguration

" It's not as much as the people who actually paid attention and studied for the tests, but ten book are still a lot. "

edited 19th Dec '10 7:41:16 AM by Faramir

-He passes Lita his transfiguration book-

"Best make a start then, we leave tommorow. I just hope Mc Gonagall lets me sub, I was thinking of applying to become a teacher anyway."

-Feeling he's had enough drink, Jack starts twiddling his fingers-

"I actually have them all except for the monster one... mine ran away..." She said, finishing her water and handing him the book back.

edited 19th Dec '10 8:55:57 AM by Faramir

-He withdraws the book and continues reading-

"Tell me, have you learnt 'Accio' yet? As you could have just summoned it back. So what do you thinks gonna happen to Harry? Some type of breakout knowing all he's achieved."

" Dude, I'm in my last year of hogwarts. I know transfiguration, and I know summoning, I know potions... more or less... Sure, I may skip class once in a while to go around the castle exploring the secret passages everyone seems to know about, but I know my charms and spells... I just don't want to have that cranky book back, I stroke it and stroke it and it still attacked me! Maybe a new one wont be as crazy"

She moved the empty glass away

"... I don't know what's gonna happen to Harry though, politics aren't my thing."

edited 19th Dec '10 9:41:12 AM by Faramir

"Well, when you get a new one if it happens again just stupefy it, that should do the trick. Ah, that's how you tansfigure steel, I've been working on that for ages, don't see much of it in our world do we?"

-It was clear he had read something out of his book, as he had pocked an accusing finger on the written version of how to transfigure steel. Out of boredom Jack transfigures his glass into a puppy and strokes it-

"So, how good are you at transfiguration, it is your NEWT year isn't it? Demonstrate if you will."

-He points at Lita's glass-

"Ok..." She takes out her wand and turns her cup into a guinea pig "...and back" She turns the guinea pig into a cup again.

She sighed relieved."There, no problem".

"Your in your last year...something more complex should do.."

-He transfigures his puppy into a fully grown dog-

"There that would probably be your NEWT level, try turning it into... A small chair or stool, if thats too hard, go smaller and turn it into a glass or cup."

-Jack looks with interest, awaiting Lita's attempt-

"... Dude." She sighs, and looks at the dog.

"alright then..." she moves her wand and the dog is transformed into a small brown sofa.

"is that good enough Proffessor Green?"

"Hm..."

-He looks around to the back of the sofa and notices the dogs tail sticking out the back-

"Quite good except for the tail and easy on the 'proffesor' stuff."

-He transfigures the chair into the puppy he was stroking earlier and returns to reading-

"Any news on Harry's two friends, Hermione granger and...Ronald, I think it is."

"The tail was intentional... yeah... I'm glad my job wont need magic at all..."

She scanned the paper "I don't see anything about them...Jack... You're a year older than me, right?"

edited 19th Dec '10 10:18:07 AM by Faramir

"Two years actually, as your 17. Nothing on them at all? Strange. What about all those dark wizards left around? What are we going to about them whilst we're at war with the muggles"

(See you tommorow I have to leave early, I might be back later, but don't count on it)

"Here, you look through it."

She hands him the paper. "And just to show you I can..."

She turned her cup into a guinea pig, and then into a bigger sofa with no tail. "There, a sofa, with no tail."

Then she turned it into a cup again. "...aguamenti." and refilled it. "I passed my O.W.L.s well enough... I just needed a warm-up for the transfiguration... though don't tell the professors that, or they'll stop calling me a genius at it"

She chuckled "I left home a couple days ago so I'm still in muggle-mode, When I'm at home I get to use the internet, and when I'm here I get to use a magic wand... not sure which is better."

She drank some of her water. " If only there was internet in Hogwarts..." She trailled off realizing that he didn't know what she meant.

"I'm proud to be a mudblood, that's all I can say."

edited 31st Aug '11 11:12:40 AM by Faramir

Several hundred miles off the Irish coast, a pair of Su-33K fighters lurched into the air from the carrier Kuznetsov, their wings heavy with fuel tanks and missiles. As soon as they cleared the ski-jump, they stood almost on their tails, afterburners blazing, and struggled skyward to 35,000 feet. Numerous radars — Russian, Irish, British, American — swept over them, determined they were no threat, and left them alone. No one, as yet, was sure if the "whiskeys" possessed radar-deflecting techniques; no one wanted to find out the hard way.

When they established altitude, the fighters turned westward, their own radars coming on in turn to track the object whose callsign was "Speedbird Concorde 1" — rather redundant, but even in wartime some traditions were respected. Grom flight was airborne and ready for escort duties.

edited 19th Dec '10 2:17:41 PM by SabresEdge

James leant back in his seat as the aircraft powered over the North Atlantic at twice the speed of sound.

What have they brought us in for this time? Must be something urgent, or they wouldn't have brought the old girl out of the mothballs.