fandomhigh | Fun with Magic | Friday, First period

The plan had been for class to meet in the Danger Shop, but the day was far too beautiful to spend it cooped up indoors - Bob had had plenty of that, thank you very much. So, class had been ~~handwavily~~ informed to meet on the lawn instead.

"So." Bob eyed them all critically. "Last semester I taught a class on defence against magic. Where mostly what I learned was that half of you are far too nervous around magic to do any good with it, half of you take it for granted it can do just about anything, and just about all of you - look, are you teenagers or what? Don't you ever just...cut loose?" He sighed.

"So this time, we're using magic for fun. You'll be learning what it can and can't do, and hopefully getting a bit of a more accurate picture and a bit more at ease."

He looked around them once more and nodded. "Right. I'm Hrothbert of Bainbridge. You can call me Bob or Sir, whichever you prefer. Anders is my TA for the class, so any questions you don't want to ask me, ask him. Now I know you're probably all tired of introductions by now, but I don't care. Introduce yourselves, and let me know what magic you can do, what other talents you might have, what you're familiar with, and so forth."

He picked a random student and stared at them expectantly.

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Wait, what? Ada knew she had big blank spots in her memory, but she was pretty sure magic wasn't real. Mostly.

"Ada Miller," she said, once it came round to her and it was clear she was expected to say something. "I'm a mean hand at three-card monte, or anything you'd expect to find on a carnival midway."

"Oo, very useful." Bob grinned at her. "I expect you'll enjoy this class. No magic?" he asked, just to clarify.

Ada put her hand to her chest, pretending to be offended. "Mr. Bob Sir, I do think you just insulted every carnie everywhere by saying what we do isn't magic."

Bob laughed. "In that case, I apologise most profusely, Miss Ada." He gave her a deep bow. "I would never want to impugn such a noble profession." He was teasing maybe, but there was no judging in his voice.

"You are forgiven," she offered magnamoiusly. "Since you recognize our long and storied history."

Notice she didn't say "noble" or "honorable."

"I've a fairly long and storied history myself," he said. "A good bit of sleight-of-hand can be invaluable." He passed a coin from one hand to the other as he said it, then made it disappear.

Don't bother to figure out how he did it - he cheated.

Fun with Magic | Friday, First period

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