Blair's POV
Me, Hallie and Shelby were walking to the lunch room when I heard someone call my name. "Oh, Hey Camden," I said, turning to see the tall girl walking towards me. "Hallie, Shelby this is Camden. She's in Vulpes" I introduced them.
"Hi!" Shelby said, smiling and waving.
"Hey, Hows it going?" Hallie asked.
"As good as school can go. I guess it could be worse though, we could be going to a muggle school" Camden said shrugging. Hallie and Shelby laughed as we made our way to the lunch room. Inside the lunchroom was a bar-like area where we could get food and many tables. We walked over to the bar and stared in awe. The main course choices were burgers with your choice of any toppings, or pizzas, with at least five different topping choices to choose from. Then it moved onto sides which consisted of french fries, tater tots, corn, chips, mozzarella sticks and salads. The next on the line was desserts which were: ice creams, pies, cakes, cookies, and candy. Oh, then you could choose your drink between sodas of many kinds, water, milk, and teas. Needless to say, lunch was good.
Our next class was history, which we all had together. I could already tell I was going to get in trouble in this class since our teacher was none other than Boggs. "Alright, maggots". He said "History is my favorite subject. so Pay attention." I rolled my eyes.
"Do you have to yell?" I asked. Boggs glared at me.
"Each week I will announce what portion of your book you need to read.I cannot begin to explain why history is important. In attaining my degree in history I had to take a class called "Importance of Magical History". It was a twelve-week course that had three sections that were ALL mandatory. The first was "Importance in Everyday Life" the second was "Importance in a Macro View" and the last was "Micro Theory of Historical Importance". So, over 32 weeks, I studied concepts and theories as to why history is important. Then, I am expected to explain to students in one chapter, one lesson, why they should care about the old stuff. History is important to us because we are living it, because we are in it because we are going to make it. It is happening at every second, minute and moments in time. Consider a timeline, there is not one moment in time where we stand still in time for 2 seconds. So, we are creating History this very moment as you read this sentence. History is also important to us because without it we cannot possibly hope to survive. If we as a wizarding society didn't study history, we wouldn't know that there was a Statute set forth to separate us from muggles. We wouldn't know that those underage cannot use magic outside of school. There would be laws being broken every day. Wars broke out every second because we just wouldn't know." he said.
"So, in other words, it's not important?" I asked.
"Does this class look like a game to you Miss...?"
"Rodgers"
"Miss Rodgers?" He shouted I shrugged
"Kinda". Boggs looked furious but continued on.
"There are many, many theories as to how magic came to be. Most of which are unaccepted by modern historians. These are usually developed by those who say their lineage is that of the first wizards. However, historians have narrowed down the creation of magic to three possible theories. These three theories are as follows: The Theory of Uno Mas. The most popular theory for a long time, this theory states that all magic began from one person, the first wizard, Uno Mas. Uno Mas (although not his real name) is his given name. It is Ancient Aramaic for The First Magi. It also shares some Spanish meaning, however, this is its latent meaning, not manifest meaning. The theory was officially presented by William Marangue in his book "The Theory of Uno Mas". He states that Uno lived in the time of reptiles and before cavemen. He is believed to be the father of all wizards and witches. Marangue is said to be the author of this theory since he was the first to publish it in his book. The theory also states that Uno created the first wand as well making him the literal father of Migration Theory. The Migration theory is a little more complex. Believing magical and muggle kind lived side by side for years of migration, it is thought that wizards and witches didn't know they had magic. Then when the Descent of Blizz, also known to muggles as the Ice Age, hit, the magical kind left the muggles and created their own group of settlers. These settlers founded many of the wizarding cities we know today. Following tracks of unknown people in 1535, the explorer and famous wizard historian Ho Mao Tseng found that the trails lead into non-existence, believing this showed that these were the tracks of wizard-kind who most likely died in an avalanche. However in the 1800's 1803 and 1832 a group of Gringotts Curse Breakers unearthed spells, jewelry, clothing, tools, and relics of a group of early magical people who migrated west towards France during the Descent of Blizz. This theory claims to be the first theory to state there is a Natural Progression of magic. This was borrowed, however, from the least popular theory Hocus Theory of Hocus Pocus The idea that magic came out of thin air, naturally, and did not essentially come from a "FIRST WIZARD". This theory focuses more on the first known uses of magic as opposed to who first used magic. The story suggests that women were able to use magic as a form of persuasion and that from this came to a "Natural Progression of magical tendencies" Boggs finished. "Now, I want a two-page essay on which theory you believe by tomorrow." He yelled. "What? That's total bull-shit!" I said. "How about you give me a lap around the school miss Rodgers," Boggs said, I scowled at him, but picked my stuff up and began my lap. "don't be late for your next class!" Boggs yelled after me.