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Old 11-26-2012, 01:26 PM   #58 (permalink)
MudInMyBlood
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SPOILER!!: 1st
Gemma clicked into the room in a tailored black suit jacket and pencil skirt with silver sparkly heels on. She smiled at each of the students as she clicked through the classroom. This lesson was going to be a little bit different than the others. It would be less theatrical in a sense.

When she finally reached the front of the room, she glanced across the class and then walked to the board and erased the welcome message and then she turned back around.

"Welcome everyone once again to Muggle Studies. This will be our final lesson of the term...my how time has flown by this term!" she said with a little nod up and down. "We have focused on superheroes and villains from the Muggle community over the past few lessons and today we take those lessons to a new level."

Slowly she motions to each of the posters that are blank and hanging around the room, "You'll notice that the posters this class are blank...that's because ya'll are going to help me identify whom you each believe are the real superheroes in the history of both Muggle and Wizarding Society."

"So, let's get this started with a little review to get your brains going...Please remember to raise your hand with your answer....Everyone please share one trait that you feel like a Superhero should possess.."
she said a she walked to the board and picked up a marker to start writing down all of the answers.

OOC: Okey dokey...class has started so please don't post your charrie coming in late...please remember to raise your hand before you answer. I'll leave this question up until the morning allow more answers...Remember Gemma is watching so keep the conversations to a minimum...


Time had indeed flown by this term, but that wasn't a bad thing. She couldn't believe that she would be a fourth year next year. It didn't seem like she had already been in Hogwarts for three years. She didn't like Muggle Studies, but for obvious reasons she attended. She just had to do what was necessary to get the job done.

They were still on the muggle super hero thing and she had actually learned a few things about them. What were some good traits? "I think bravery is a must." she said with a raised hand. She had hoped that nobody else had said that because she was in her own little world and wasn't really paying attention to anybody else and their answers.

SPOILER!!: 2nd
Gemma scribble down each of the students answers on the board excitedly...yes, they were all starting to get what a superhero was. She turned back to the class after finishing up the list and continued,
"Very very good everyone! You all brought up great qualities of a superhero....Yes, a popular Muggle Dictionary defines a superhero as 'any of various comic-strip characters with superhuman abilities or magical powers, wearing a distinctive costume, and fighting against evil'" she paused to let that definition sink in..."Now there is a similar definition for hero found in the Muggle Dictionary...it defines hero as 'A person who is admired for courage or noble qualities.' she smiled as she paced a little bit.

"You can clearly see the connection between the two...and from looking at your list of qualities a superhero has...it's obvious that many of the qualities could be linked to simple heroes...now I"m not saying that being a real life hero isn't extraordinary, but it is more likely to happen in our world and Muggle world than to see Superman flying around." she stepped a little bit forward. "Through the history of both Muggles and Wizards there have been real heros that have helped shape the future of each and both of our worlds and communities....but let's start a little closer to home..." she said with a little nod up and down.

"I want you to examine the very simple definition of a hero and look at the qualities of superheroes that we put on the board....think about your own life and share someone close to you that you know personally that you would consider a hero and tell a short summary of why you consider them a hero..." she said encouragingly walking toward the first blank poster.


Somebody that Hannah considered a hero? The first person that came to her mind was her dad. Her dad was awesome. She raised her hand. "Professor, my dad is my hero. He is the sole provider of my family and always look out for us." She thought that he did some things work wise that weren't up and up, but that wasn't something that everybody needed to know. "He is a brave man and would do anything for his family." That pretty much summed it up.

SPOILER!!: 3rd
As each student mentioned their personal heroes, the professor wrote their name and the name of their personal superhero on the blank poster hanging from the ceiling until slowly but surely the poster was full of names. Finally, she added her name and her brother's name, "Thank you everyone for sharing your personal heroes...my personal hero is my brother...I only have one brother whom is younger than me....he disappeared many years ago but he was always so strong and optimistic....and I know he's out there being someone else's hero right now and that someday I'll get to see my hero again..." she let her words fade off and was internally pretty proud of herself for sharing even this little opening to her past with her brother.

She quickly continued, "There are always famous people from our history both Muggle and Wizarding that can be considered real life superheroes because of the amazing feats that they accomplished during their times...these individuals were influential not only during their times but in the future of the world..." she said as she walked to the next poster hanging from the ceiling. "For instance, in the Muggle World, a real life superhero could be Isaac Newton. He was a nEnglish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion laid the groundwork for classical mechanics." she said as she wrote his name on the poster. "Or those men and women that fight for our various countries in the armed services and such could be considered real life superheroes..." she wrote this on the poster. "An example in the Wizarding World could be Albus Dumbledore..." she finished by writing his name on the poster.

"If everyone will grab a marker..." she said motioning to a little basket below the remaining two posters on the walls, "Please come up and give us an example of a real life Muggle Superhero and a Real Life Wizard Superhero and what they did they makes you feel like they are a hero and then add their names to the appropriate poster..." she said as she wrote Muggle in the middle of one poster and Wizard in the middle of another.


Now they had to name a muggle and wizard hero. The wizard would be easy, but the muggle hero, not so much. She really didn't think that any muggle was a hero of any kind. She would just have to write down one that she knew and go with that.

She grabbed a marker and wrote down her two choices.

Wizard Hero:
Kinglsey Shacklebolt - Protected the Minister of Magic.

Muggle Hero: Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Fought for women rights.


Obviously if you protected the Minister of Magic then you were pretty awesome and powerful and that was two things that Hannah needed in her life. The chick that started women's rights conventions was pretty awesome herself because women were awesome too... obviously.
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