From his seat in the back the professor looked up from his notebook when someone suddenly stood up, eyebrow arching slightly as he listened to the exchange. After taking a puff on his pipe Blackstone cleared his throat and chimed in at last. "Apologies, but I didn't hear anyone say there actually was an attack. Merely a question being posed about the cause of the lion's agitation. Which seemed like a valid question given the fact that the animal did scare quite a few folks when it charged through the crowd."