One-Hundred Magic Words
Computer
(Hogwarts decides to get
the students used to
a form of Muggle
technology)
Dumbledore felt that there was way too much hate going on around the school when it came to the whole Pureblood issue. Students would either completely avoid each other if they were in different houses, or they would seek to bully people from other houses. In fact, things were worse between Slytherin and Gryffindor. In the long one, he felt that a lot of the ones siding with the Pureblood ways hadn't been exposed to the fact that Muggles were actually good themselves at things. Many of their parents thought magical things were always better, and that there was no point in checking out Muggle ideams.
He thus decided to have computers installed at the school.
In order to get good grades in each course, each student had to now write their assignments up on computer and submit them also through the computer. Most of the students found this system a far better situation than by writing by hand, or using a magical quil. Severus Snape of course implemented a system which prevented cheating on the parts of the students.
Nevile Longbottom kept having problems, having crashed quite a few computers the first day this was set up, but also finding his grades suffering a bit. However, when he found out that he liked that system, he realized things were much easier for him, but that there were also other nice things regarding computers, including looking up information easily in the books that were already uploaded digitally.
And while Neville Longbottom did keep having problems, they were not anywhere near as bad as what Ronald Weasly found himself having. Hermione found herself even more tired of his asking for help on homework because of this. He seemed to think that she would do all of the work for him. He preferred playing games with the new devices rather than doing homework.
Of course, since she was intelligent and she happened to be Muggleborn, she was in charge of heading up the help center for the computers and she got onto the computers daily to check if anyone needed help. It wasn't as if anyone knew it was her either, as the teachers didn't allow the students to know who had come to be a part of the help staff.
A lot of people had come to accept it, but there were still some people holding out. It was to help spread conformity among the students though, by helping. Hermione knew Pansy Parkinson was one of them, having overheard the girls verbal complaints, but also complaints from the teachers in regards to the Slytherin girl, and a few others not turning in their homework, and thus taking a dive in their grades.
RedLionGrrll: Is anyone else needing help with computer related stuff before I head up to the dormitory?
45345: I need help with creating a user name. it is one of the requirements for this assignment from McGonagall. I don't even understand what that is supposed to mean.
Hermione blinked a couple of times, because she felt it was supposed to be obvious why, but then she remembered that Ron had said the same thing. The assignment was old, one that was something the students could catch up on later on, but also one of the easiest things that should have been done in the few weeks the program had been implemented.
RedLionGrrll: A user name is a name that a person chooses.
45345: Why don't we just choose use our real names?
RedLionGrrl:Wouldn't that be boring? And that isn't how Muggles do it anyways.
45345: I don't want to do things the Muggle way. I am already having to do this simply because I can't let my grades drop.
RedLionGrrl: Do you really want me to know who you are?
45345: No.
She then walked the person through how to make a user name. The person picked "GreenSnakeBoi", likely because they couldn't come up with anything on their own. Hermione let out a deep sigh, and then found herself explaining how to use a word document and upload the document to the computer. Then, a question popped up.
GreenSnakeBoi:Do Muggles have other interesting devices like this? This actually seems a lot easier then parchement and paper, because you can go back and edit things. It is also a lot easier then using one of those pens that can edit what you write.
At that, Hermione found herself rattling off about different Muggle things, pausing to help another person with questions. Her homework was finished after all, she just needed to double check things. To her surprise, the person got things rather quickly, and the questions asked were those out of curiosity and not stupidity. She also found herself glad not to be dealing with Pansy Parkinson, as the girl was horribly dense when it came to everything. Perhaps Pansy wouldn't have been in the boat just because of the new stipulations after all.
"Library is closing soon!" came the call.
At that, Hermione sent out a reminder of how to shut down the computer and she shut hers down, standing up when she did so. She suddenly saw Draco Malfoy getting off, just as GreenSnakeBoi was, and her cheeks flushed red. He glanced up at her, smirked, then took off. She felt a blush spread across her cheeks, wondering at first why the young man would be that quick to go with the flow of things that his own parents would protest, but then realized that he may not be that bad.
The conversation she had with him was rather nice, as she found herself finding a new side to the young man, one which she never expected to see. It was a hidden side, once which could come out with the new system in place. She also realized that she was able to have conversations with him she would never thought would happen in the future.