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Here is an example that I have written in order to clarify how your extra credit assignment 3 (Write) should look. I'm using Sirius and James from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and, as we are all aware, I take no credit for these characters or their creation.

 

As a part of an assignment given to them by Dumbledore for the Order of the Phoenix, Sirius and James are heading to the top of a Muggle apartment building to meet with an elderly wizard who lives there.  On their way up, the elevator gets stuck and they try to figure out the problem without doing anything that might be suspicious to any presentMuggles when the elevator doors open once more.  Conversation starts with James.

 

- Why aren’t the doors opening?

- I don’t know.  We’ve stopped, so they should be.

- You broke it, you prat.  How on earth do you screw up pressing a button?

- It was intimidated by my good looks.  Or perhaps it’s stopped so that it has more time to observe them.

- Oh, that would be it.  Well, go on then.

- Go on what?

- Stop it.  You know, looking good.  We do have a time limit you know.

- Prongs, you don’t understand how this works, do you?  I can’t merely stop, it’s just there.

- Oh, like that iguana we saw?

- Exactly!

- Oh, bugger.  Well, what if you do this?

- I don’t know if I can look like that.  How’s this?

- Hideous.  And yet we aren’t moving.

- Hmm, there must be some other explanation then.  How do these things work exactly?

- Something to do with ropes, I think.

- Like people pulling on them so we go up, and then slowly letting go when we want to go down?

- Something like that.  No wonder we’re stuck, you heavy oaf.  They’re probably just taking a break.

- That doesn’t sound safe at all.  What are these buttons for, then?

- I have no idea.  Muggles are weird.

- Hey, there’s a thing in the roof that could be like a yelling-hole.  Should I open it and see if they can hear me?

- You can’t reach that.  Give me a leg up, you’re too bloody large for me to give you one.

- But you’re not as loud as I am.

- You’re loud enough to shout from the bottom, though.

- Oh, true. Okay, here goes… Oh bugger, are you alright?  Prongs?

- My head….

- Sorry, mate.  You’re lighter than you used to be.  Did you lose weight?

- No, I did not.

- Well, it’s open now.

- Yes, yes it is.

- Can you see anything?

- Padfoot, what is that red light?

- Where?  I can’t see anything, it’s too dark.  Are you sure it’s not just that trickle of blood going into your eyes?

- Not up there, there.

- Oh… er, it says… Emergency Stop.

- And why is it lit up like that?

- There is the slightest of possibilities I may have been leaning on it.

- Right.  Press it again would you?

- Righto.  Ah, we’re moving again.  Would you like me to heal that before the doors open?

- Please do.

 

 

Dialogue Exercise

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