Remus glares, but Sirius just keeps on smiling wryly, until at last they're all settled comfortably and he can pipe up and begin the lesson.
Magical engineering is a field that Sirius has always been interested in, since the very first time he charmed a muggle toaster, but Hogwarts hasn't always been good about offering a variety of vocational classes. This Hogwarts, though, seems more than happy to offer several elective and specialty classes, so Sirius had been more than happy to accept.
He'll start with a brief explanation on how magical engineering is employed, in the building of things, mostly, city planning and architecture, but also here and there an all manner of ways - anyone who slaps together any sort of wizard building or structure or thing with moving parts generally has at least one magical engineer behind its execution.
Today's exercise is simple - building new homes for Hagrid's burgeoning Flitterby flock. Sirius holds up an example of his own, and it looks something like a stone birdhouse, with a little hole in the front for entrance.
"Use whatever you like to build it," he says, waving a lazy hand toward the laden tables. "It needs only one entrance, and some sort of heat source within it, and of course, only spellwork to hold it all together."
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Magical engineering is a field that Sirius has always been interested in, since the very first time he charmed a muggle toaster, but Hogwarts hasn't always been good about offering a variety of vocational classes. This Hogwarts, though, seems more than happy to offer several elective and specialty classes, so Sirius had been more than happy to accept.
He'll start with a brief explanation on how magical engineering is employed, in the building of things, mostly, city planning and architecture, but also here and there an all manner of ways - anyone who slaps together any sort of wizard building or structure or thing with moving parts generally has at least one magical engineer behind its execution.
Today's exercise is simple - building new homes for Hagrid's burgeoning Flitterby flock. Sirius holds up an example of his own, and it looks something like a stone birdhouse, with a little hole in the front for entrance.
"Use whatever you like to build it," he says, waving a lazy hand toward the laden tables. "It needs only one entrance, and some sort of heat source within it, and of course, only spellwork to hold it all together."