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Con_Stripes · 03-06-2009, 09:16 PM

Ethan had left the windows open in the classroom and the brisk January air had succeded in freshening up and freezing up the room. Truebridge closed the windows and sat at his desk, wrapped in warm layers to ward off the icy temperature in the classroom.

Hmm, the desks were straight again. He flicked Loretta and the desks all moved a fraction of an inch in various directions. Satisfied by this, Ethan flicked his wand at the board, revealing the topic of todays class.

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The Tales of Beedle The Bard

He yawned and kicked his feet up on the desk, apparently snoozing behind his customary dark glasses.

geraldinechang · 03-08-2009, 05:22 PM

Jane was listening to the students' explanation. She wondered if SHE had a semi hairy heart. She began to wonder off into daydreamland about William again, but stopped when she remembered Chris and began to shut down all emotions towards these 2 subjects.

Jane laughed at Anna's disgusted face.

Con_Stripes · 03-08-2009, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Rachie..x

Raising her hand Vanessa spoke. "The Warlock's Hairy Heart is about a young and handsome warlock, who has decided to never fall in love, and he used the dark arts to prevent him doing so. But one day he hears some of his servants whispering about him not having a wife, so he decides to find a talented, rich and beautiful witch to marry so that he can gain everyone's envy. He meets this girl the next day, and he tries to persuade her that he does have a heart, so the Warlock attempts to put his heart, which he had kept in a crystal casket in his Dungeon. But because the heart had been kept from his body, meaning that it has degenerated into an animalistic state. This causes him to take the heart of the witch he was trying to persuade. This meant that both the Warlock and the Witch Died" She paused for a second, before speaking again. "I think that maybe we learn that we should learn to love and that it is good for us."

"Good answer, thank you and please come up to the board to summarise the story in bullet form." Truebridge told her.

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Originally Posted by aussiegirl

Kayla raised her hand, "Well this is a story about a warlock who decides that he doesn't need to have love in his life and so that he doesn't fall victim to gambolling and preening and losing your appetite and dignity when it comes to falling in love he cuts out his heart and locks it away for safe keeping. And no fair maiden's can convince him that he would be happy with them as a partner. Not until he overhears his servants jeering why a man such as himself could not attract a wife. So he seeks out a woman to become his wife, one that is superior to all others and he finds such a girl but still he feels nothing for her and he shows her his heart in the chest. She tells him to put the heart back and so to please her, he does just that but because the heart had grown cold and strange being condemned to the darkness it still felt nothing. So the warlock decided to take the maiden's heart and replace it with his old hairy heart but the hairy heart refused to be taken out. So in the end he had to cut it out and in doing so he eventually died." Kayla took a deep breath before going on, "The lessons to be learnt from this story is that no matter who you are, you cannot escape some form of injury be it emotional, physical or mental. The warlock saw falling in love as a sign of weakness and humilitation and that his security and comfort would be affected and he was not willing to gamble on that."

"Good analysis, Kayla."

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Originally Posted by SilverTiger

Elizabeth listened to Vannie's, and then Kayla's, explanation of the story, then raised her hand as well. "The warlock was too proud of himself. He didn't want to appear foolish and weak, and since he saw his friends who had fallen in love as such, that was why he had resolved never to have fallen in love. And the rest of the story also hinges on how much he wants to be seen as better than everyone else. He finds out his servants either pitied him, or thought him as unable to attract anyone, and that is the only reason he decides to find a wife. Because they hurt his pride. And when the maiden he chose as worthy of him didn't immediately fall for him, he feels the need to prove her wrong. Which goes horribly awry, since as soon as he replaces the heart to please her, she goes to him only to have his heart rebel against her love and made him choose to take hers because it was better, killing her. And when his own heart refuses to relinquish its hold on him, he ends up killing himself as well." She took a breath, then continued by saying, "So, in a way, the story tells us that it is better to accept humanity and its inherent 'weaknesses', than fall prey to your pride."

"Thank you Elizabeth. Quite right." Ethan nodded.

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Originally Posted by Ameh

Raiden raised his hand again, even though he was sure that the professor knew by now that Raiden would be answering this question. His favourite story after all! But he'd taken points from a Hufflepuff earlier for not raising his hand...

"The Warlock's Hairy Heart is about a young man who decides that falling in love would ruin his life. He saw his friends falling in love, and thought that they way they behaved afterwards was just... stupid. He thought they were fools, and decided to stay above the pull of love forever. So he did some Dark Magic and made himself immune to love. Nobody else knew about it though, and they all thought that he would eventually fall in love and get married like everyone else." He paused, and waited for the tale to fast-forward in his head. It was repeating itself, word for word, as he'd learned it as a child while in the hospital. "His parents died, and he got all their money and their home, and he was actually happy that they'd died. Which is really sad... But one day, he heard two of his workers talking about how sad it was that he had no one to share all his wealth with, like a lady friend... so he decided to get a lady friend who would be the envy of everyone else in the world. And the next day a woman showed up that fit everything he was looking for, so even though he didn't feel anything for her, he started... er, what's the word... courting her...and her family wanted her to marry him, so she was going to, but she told him that she wished that he had a heart. So he took her down to the dungeon and showed her that he had a heart, but it was all hairy and shrunken from not having been allowed to properly be shown love and everything... and the lady wanted him to put it back in, and when he did, everything overwhelmed him and he killed her without meaning to, because his heart was greedy for everything it had been denied. And in the end, he cut out his own heart so it wouldn't have mastery over him, and he died."

Raiden blushed. He'd pretty much not summarized, but told the whole tale. Again.

"That was probably too much, huh..." He thought a second. "But this story is supposed to be telling us that we shouldn't avoid having feelings and falling in love, because in the end, trying to avoid it might destroy us. Invulnerability isn't absolute."

((ooc: Raiden gets very excited about faerie tales...))

"Very thorough, Raiden. If you would, please join Vanessa at the board, one of you can summarise the story and one of you work on the lessons we learn from the story. Precisely as Tobi and Copernicus just did."

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Originally Posted by Waterloo

The Warlock's Hairy Heart? Clifford strained his memory, trying to remember that particular tale.. he hadn't heard them all in a pretty long while. He didn't read fairytales anymore.. he was a big boy! "That's the one about the dude that uses the dark arts as a means of not falling in love, right?" Why he'd want to do that, Clifford had no idea. "The dude finally gets a girlfriend though, and she convinces him to put his freaky hairy heart back in his body.. His heart didn't really work well though, and he tried to steal hers.." What a good boyfriend he was.. NOT! "So they both die in the end."

And the lessons learnt from it?

"I suppose it teaches us ... not to ... try steal your girlfriend's heart?" Uhm.

"Thank you Clifford. Good answer." Truebridge had a strange urge to give the boy a chocolate frog or something.

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Originally Posted by Hollister

Miles raised his hand. This one wasn't one of his faves, as he was sometimes freaked out by the hairy heart. Shudder.

"So basically, there's this warlock, a handsome warlock who decides he never wants to fall in love. He does this by using daaaaaaark magic." He nodded to himself, and continued. "Then, one day he heard people talking about how he doesn't have a wife, he then immediately decides he wants one, a really pretty and clever witch who everyone would be jealous of."

"When he meets a lady, they go to dinner, and she wants to know that he has a heart. He keeps it somewhere and shows her it, and she wants him to put it back inside himself. The warlock does, but it soon goes 'animalistic', and rips out the witch's human heart, to have that instead. Unfortunately, his hairy heart cannot be taken out. So they both die. What a silly warlock." Miles added at the end, always annoyed at that story. "And the lesson of the story is .." To not steal people's heart because you kept yours in a casket, and now it's gone all hairy. Snicker. "... to love is important, and you must always have a heart?"

"Good summary." Truebridge agreed.

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Originally Posted by cedricdiggory

Cedric raised his hands he knows everything about the warlock's hairy heart
"The story is about a young and handsome warlock who decides to never fall in love, so he uses Dark Arts to prevent himself from doing so. His family, hoping he will change, does nothing. However, one day, he hears two servants whispering about him not having a wife, so he decides to find a talented, rich, and beautiful witch and marry her to gain everyone's envy."Cedric paused he think that this story was amazing that everyone should read..A while ago he continued,
"He meets that girl the next day. Though the girl is both "fascinated and repelled", the warlock persuades her to come to a dinner feast at his castle. During the feast, she tells him that she needs to know he has a heart. The warlock shows her his beating hairy heart inside a crystal casket in his dungeon. The witch begs him to put it back inside himself. After the warlock does so, she embraces him. However, being disconnected from its body for so long, his heart has developed savage tastes as it has degenerated into an animalistic state. And so he is driven to take by force a truly human heart. He tears out the witch's heart to replace his own, but finding that he cannot magic the hairy heart back out of his chest, he cuts it out with a dagger. Thus he and the maiden both die, with him holding both hearts in his hands" Cedric paused and then he answer again"the lesson of this story is to tell us that we should never prevent to fall in love because love is the most wonderful thing in the world"Cedric said

ooc: I can read wikipedia too. Copy pasting verbatim won't earn you points, thats why I actually make the effort to give everyone time to answer. I'd appreciate that effort returned.

"That's what it says in the textbook." Truebridge answered in a bland tone.

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Originally Posted by Zoerawrr

Jake raised his hand. "The Warlock's Hairy heart is, like, about a Warlock, who knows that love basically means ruin. He sees his peers falling in love and becoming distracted and he is determined not to go the same way. And then... skipping ahead a few years, he over hears some servant people talking about him, and it kinda hit his pride... but that would hurt his feelings... so he did have a heart..."

Shaking his head, Jake tried to quit rambling. "Anyway, he gets a lady-person at his castle and there's some party and she thinks he's totally weird, for some reason. And she finds the heart, kinda grossed out... But she puts it back into him... and he reacts badly because the heart turned all weird and the good things make him bad... and he takes her heart, which kills her... and he tries the trade the hearts, but his one won't leave, so he cuts it out, because he never wants his heart to control him... So it's mental and physical... but anyway, yeah... he dies..."

Jake screwed up his face. "It's very unrealistic... I mean... you would die without a heart in the first place, so why he dies the second time is, like, beyond me..." This was all so very confusing to Jake, but it was still his favourite tale, for the attitude of the warlock. "And the moral is supposed to be, I think, don't try and... erm... evade your heart and stuff... even though you love with your brain, not with your heart and it's kinda stupid to meddle with your own "heart" and stuff... Of course... all that love stuff is, like... not real... that's why it's in a faerie tale... right?"

"It acts as a metaphor, Jake. There is always the element of the unrealistic in suc tales, but that certainly doesn't mean we can't still take lessons from it." He nodded encouragingly, "Glad you are thinking. And good summary."

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Originally Posted by Jojogali

Joanne thinks about the The Warlock's Hairy Heart and makes a disgusted face. She raises her hand to answer : " well, the The Warlock's Hairy Heart is, in my opinion is an aggressive story it's about a warlock that decides to never fall in love and for that he takes his heart out and keeps it in a safe place in the castle. I think that the action of taking his heart out is related to Dark Arts, which are never a good sign. So one day he hears his servants talkin' about him, how he will never marry because he doesn't have a heart. So he decides to find himself a pretty and intelligent and rich witch to mary and make everyone envy him. One day they have a feast in the castle and she says he must prove her he has a heart so he shows her his heart in a crystal casket. But the heart, from being away from the body for so long has grown hair and looks really ugly " Joanne makes a disgusted face again " So when the witch askes him to put his heart back in his place, he does it, but when they hug, the heart - because he was away from the body for so long, alone in the dungeons, growing nothing but hair- controls he warlocks body and attacks the witch and rips her healthy and pure heart out to replace it for himself. But the hairy heart is stronger and does not want to come out, so the warlock dies with the witches heart on his hand a dagger on the other." Joanne pauses" so the morals are, first, never use dark magic, nothing good comes from that and you can never reverse the process, second... if you meet a nice lady, you better shave before showing your hairy heart" Joanne giggles " sorry, I mean, you better have a heart to offer the lady, not an actual heart, but a hear as being a feeling, sentiment. And third, falling in love should never be a problem, falling in love having a broken heart, it's part of life, there is nothing wrong about that. Things should be how they are suppose to be. But of course the most important moral is the first, about the dark arts being bad."

"Excellent answer." Zan nodded.

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Originally Posted by roey

Chalice sat there listening to every word that was said by her classmates. she had never grown up with these stories and consequently she was a little lost but she had her classmates to rely on! Chalice raised her hand. "I thought that the story was saying to never give up on love because everyone has a heart, just some choose to put a barrier on theirs. In the warlock's case his barrier was hair but people have emotional barriers that prevent them from truely loving others too." Chalice said, based on what she had gathered from reading the story in class and hearing her classmates.

"And the worst type of barrier is usually self inflicted." Ethan commented.

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Originally Posted by Hedwig18

Ana raised her hand "It's about a beautiful warlock who despised love and feelings, so he kept his heart in a dungeon with help from dark arts. But people started to comment the fact that he had no wife so he tries to found one and he finds one. The warlock shows the heart and she asked him to put it back. But the heart lost the human thing and he kills her. Then he tries to take the hairy heart but he can't so he cut it and... dies" she said "The lesson is that we shouldn't be afraid of our fellings. IT's our weakness but it could also be our strongest quality" she finished

"Thank you. good answer. It would be unpleasant to have a heart without the human thing, I think." Truebridge nodded solemnly.

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Originally Posted by LisaPotter1125

As soon as she was in his lap again, Iliana began her quiet purring. She tilted her furry head towards Ethan, nuzzling up against him as she listened to the class go over The Tales of Beedle The Bard. What a wonderful lesson. She hoped that her Unicorn class would be as much fun. With that thought, she laid her head down and watched the kids, paying special attention to Jake and Allie.

Truebridge absently scratched the kitty's ears and looked around the class.

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Originally Posted by Crayola

"There is this young and handsome warlock, Sir.." Evangeline Green started with a ickle small bounce, her hand raised in the air. "And he didnt want to fall in love .. ever, which is so stupid if you ask me, so he uses Dark Magic to prevent that. Which is even stupider." Needless to say, Evangeline didnt fancy this warlock that much. "But when he overhears people saying he doesnt have a wife and such, he decides to find himself someone to marry to. Eventually, he does, but the girl tells him she needs to know he has a heart." This was the grooosss part. Eww. "So the warlock shows her his hairy heart, which is kept in a crystal casket in the dungeon. The maiden begs him to put it back in and he does so, but after being so long away from his body, the warlock's heart has turned quite animalistic and forces the warlock to take the maiden's heart off her chest. However, the warlock finds out he cant take his own heart out to put in the maiden's and cuts it off with a dagger." Ugh. How stuuuupid. Of course he'd die with no heart! This was one of Evangeline's least favourite tales, but it still fascinated her. "In the end, they both die."

But what lessons could they learn from that? Her Mother had never really talked to her about that tale, since she thought it could be scary, so Evangeline wasn't sure. Hmm. "It teaches us ... to don't be afraid of love?" The sixteen year old attempted, dearly hoping she was right. Otherwise, it could be very embarrassing. "The warlock decides he doesnt want to fall in love because he doesnt want to be vulnerable and when you're in love, you depend on others, so yeah. But in the end, shutting his heart down for love and other emotions, turned him into something not very human." Evangeline suddenly smiled, struck by an idea. "It teaches us that love makes us human." YAY!

"Love makes us human." Truebridge repeated with a nod, "And the stupid mistakes we make while we are in love, make us even more so."

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Anna raised her hand and said, "The story centers around a young warlock who has made the decision to never fall in love. To prevent accidentally doing so, this warlock uses dark magic. In the meantime, his family hopes he will eventually change his mind, yet they all stand by and do nothing to help him. One day, the warlock overhears to servants whispering about him not being married, so the warlock sets out to find a talented, rich, and beautiful witch to marry. His goal is for everyone to envy him," Anna began.

"The very next day, he meets a girl that possesses the qualifications he is looking for in a wife. The warlock persuades this girl to come to a dinner feast at his castle. At this feast, the girl tells the warlock that she needs proof that he has a heart. The warlock shows her a beating, hairy heart inside a crystal casket in his dungeons," Anna continued, making a face at the mental image she had of a hairy heart inside a casket. "Anyway, the girl begs the warlock to put his heart back inside his body, and when the warlock does so, she embraces him. The problem is, the heart had been away from the warlock's body for so long that his heart has developed rather savage tastes. The warlock is forced to take a true human heart to replace his now-animalistic heart. The heart he choses to steal, though, is the heart of the witch who has just embraced him. When the hairy heart does not come easily out of the warlock's chest, he cuts it out with a dagger, therefore killing both himself and the witch."

"First of all, ewwwww," Anna said, making another disgusted face. "Second of all, I think the story teaches us to not attempt changing the way things are naturally meant to be---whether that attempt at change be magical or...well, normal. The warlock should have just let his life take the natural course it was designed to take, but because he didn't he denied himself a happy life, and ended up destroying not only his own life, but an innocent witch's life, as well. I think it also teaches us not to be selfish, because let's just face it. It was because of the warlock's own selfish desires that he and the witch died so early."

"Insightful answer Anna. Thank you."

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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz

Plymouth raised his hand. "HEAR HEAR! Ding ding! That - well, I don't, but if I had the power to, I'd give you points, my man. It's a lesson we all could learn, huh?" COPERNICUS.

With his hand still raised, Plymouth continued on. "I don't like this one, much. Too violent, you know? The gist of it is some dude grows a hairy heart cause he wanted to, and then he lost who he was. He got caught up in "trying to fit in". I mean, besides learning not to covet your neighbor's wife OR GIRLFRIEND, the lesson learned is just be yourself. If you want to grow a hairy heart, then by golly, grow a hairy heart. Don't change just because that's socially normal. Be yourself and don't carry knives. That's the lesson learned. And don't steal your step-brother's girlfriend."

"It is quite violent." Truebridge agreed, "Matters of the heart often are, so it reflects real life quite realistically in that respect."

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

Copernicus headed back to his seat as instructed by the professor, but he was awfully disheartened by Cela's reply. Strength of personality is more important than intellect? So if all you were was smart, but extremely boring... That was about the most blatant thing she could have said to him. He sank down into his seat.

Copernicus rolled his eyes at Plymouth's contribution. But... it had a lot of personality behind it, which meant that it was probably a much BETTER answer than anything clever that Cope could have offered. He raised his hand anyway, although he couldn't exactly fake the level of excitement he'd shown earlier in class.

"Professor, I kind of got from this story that it is unnatural to be without emotion or feeling, and it keeps you from being truly human. The warlock wanted to be impervious and ended up being incapable of actually enjoying the world around him. Unfortunately, the cautionary note in the story is that once you work so hard to keep from feeling anything, you really never are able to be human and normal again." And end up being completely boring and making your best mate/step-brother hate you. Forever. Yippee.

"Well it reduces your chance at normality, I'm sure." Truebridge nodded, apparently without any emotion whatsoever.

Nodding again at Vannie and Raiden to come up to the board, Truebridge asked the next question "What relationship did Beatrix Bloxam have with the tale of the Warlock's hairy heart?"

Cassirin · 03-08-2009, 08:27 PM

Copernicus raised his hand. "Bloxam accidentally overheard an original telling of this tale when she was a small child and apparently prone to listening at keyholes," he grinned a bit at that. He too was guilty of keyhole listening, but never really got anything as juicy as a story of horror and mayhem like this one. "She was so traumatized by the hearing that she took to her bed and developed an odd habit of sleepwalking that was only cured by her door being sealed each night. She also refused to even attempt a translation for the Toadstool Tales."

PadfootAndTheWolf · 03-08-2009, 08:31 PM

Chris Potter raised his hand. "Bloxam who is also prone to editing or just plain omitting some of the Beadle's tales left the Tale of the Warlock's Hairy Heart out of her own collection of stories. She tells of how she overheard her father telling it and how she became ridden with thoughst of the story that it gave her sleepwalking fits."

Waterloo · 03-08-2009, 08:32 PM

Grinning at the teacher, Clifford raised his hand again. "The Warlock's Hairy Heart tale like.. traumatized her or something, I think Sir." The Prefect explained, brow furrowing in concentration. "I mean, I don't really blame her.. for a little kid it IS kinda gruesome, ain't it? But yeah, she never rewrote that tale."

Crayola · 03-08-2009, 08:32 PM

"Unlike the other tales, I don't think Beatrix Bloxam rewrote this particular one for her Toadstool Tales." Evangeline said after raising her hand. She wasn't exactly sure, since she had never read it, but she thought she had once heard her Mother talk about it. "I think she overheard her aunt telling this tale to her older cousins when she was younger and got pretty traumatized. Then she got all weird and every night sleepwalked to that same door. That doesnt make much sense because why would you want to come back to a place where you had heard something that had scared you?" The Prefect pondered on this for a moment, looking positively confused, before shrugging her shoulders non-nonchalantly. "Anyway, her Father started sealing her door every night aaaand problem fixed."

Hedwig18 · 03-08-2009, 08:37 PM

Ana raised her hand "She was really traumatised by the tales, especially The Warlock's Hairy Heart. Later she rewrote the tales, but she was unable to adapt The Warlock's Hairy Heart,." she said

Mell · 03-08-2009, 08:38 PM

Kayla raised her hand, "Well she overheard the story being told to one of her cousins and she was extremely traumatised at what she had heard that she had nightmares about it for weeks afterwards. She could never find a way to rewrite the story to put it into a good light, so that tale never made it into any of her books."

RachieRu · 03-08-2009, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by NicoT

"Good answer, thank you and please come up to the board to summarise the story in bullet form." Truebridge told her.

"Yes Sir" Vanessa smiled, as she stood up, and approached the board, and wrote a summary of the story on it.

Summary of The Warlock's Hairy Heart

Young and Handsome Warlock decides to never fall in love

He uses the dark arts to prevent him falling in love

After hearing his servant whispering about him not having a wife he decides to find one, so he can make everyone else jealous

He finds the girl and tries to persuade her that he has a heart

The Warlock attempts to put his heart back into his chest, after he kept it in a casket in his dungeon

But his heart has been kept from his body for too long, and it had degenerated into an animalistic state

This causes him to take the heart of the which.

Thus both the witch and the warlock die

Felixir · 03-08-2009, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by NicoT

"It acts as a metaphor, Jake. There is always the element of the unrealistic in suc tales, but that certainly doesn't mean we can't still take lessons from it." He nodded encouragingly, "Glad you are thinking. And good summary."

Nodding again at Vannie and Raiden to come up to the board, Truebridge asked the next question "What relationship did Beatrix Bloxam have with the tale of the Warlock's hairy heart?"

"But it's so... weird..." Jake couldn't help himself from commenting. The continuity of it all was messed up and it bothered him. "I just... don't get that..." he shrugged one shoulder and smiled slightly at Professor Truebridge before glancing nervously at the cat. It was a weird little thing.

Raising his hand again, Jake tried answering without sounding like a complete imbecile. "I don't know much about that, but, from what I've heard, I'm guessing she reeeeeeeeeally didn't like it, sir..." he shrugged. He was usually one to delve into the history of fiction, rather than reading it, but he hadn't gotten that chance yet. "Maybe she... erm..." Jake bit his lip. "Freaked out?"

Pot, meet kettle.

Anna Banana · 03-08-2009, 08:57 PM

Anna raised her hand and said, "When she was a child, Bloxam had a habit of listening in on conversations via keyholes in doors. It was through a keyhole when she first heard a retelling of "The Warlock's Hairy Heart." The tale scared her so much that she ran to bed, developing a sleepwalking habit shortly thereafter. Bloxam's sleepwalking was only cured by her door being sealed each and every night." Anna didn't really blame Bloxam too much, either. The warlock and his scary heart were both downright frightening...and disgusting, too.

TeafortheSoul · 03-08-2009, 09:03 PM

Cela raised her hand, "Professor, Beatrix Bloxam wrote in her diary that she had overheard the tale being told and it traumatised her and she never quite recovered. Her father had to stick her door to stop her from sleepwalking. She couldn't find a way to sugar coat that story and so it was never included in her toadstool tales."

Mrs. Weasley · 03-08-2009, 09:11 PM

Abby raises her hand. "Beatrix Bloxam never recovered from accidently hearing the story. Every night she would walk in her sleep to the key hole she used to easedrop on her aunt. Her father had to perform a sticking charm on her bedroom door to stop Ms. Bloxam. She was so tramatized she was unable to write a more sanitized version of the Warlock's Hairy Heart."

Ama · 03-08-2009, 09:13 PM

Daphne raised her hand with a sigh. "Beatrix Bloxam was a bit of a snoop as a child, of the worst kind," added the blond in a whisper to herself as she curled a strand around her finger. "She was listening through this keyhole as she probably did every night, and overheard the tale being told. Naturally, she was so frightened out of her wits she ran to her bed that night. As karma would have it, her post-traumatic stress was so that she developed sleep-walking tendencies," continued Miss Hopton, unable to keep a little laugh to herself. "Oh, sorry," she apologized and coughed. "In any case, her Father used a nice sealing charm on her bedroom door to keep her from gallivanting around the house in her nightwear. Unfortunately for Bloxam, she never did quite get over it so when she settled down to write the toadstool tales, The Warlock's Hairy Heart wasn't included."

Ameh · 03-08-2009, 09:27 PM

Gulping slightly, Raiden got up and went to the board. Lessons. Lessons. There was a definite one, but there had to be more than that...

Lessons in the tale "The Warlock's Hairy Heart:

Trying to avoid feeling anything will, in the end, backfire and end up hurting you even more.

Invulnerability may seem like a good thing, but it really wouldn't be.

To quote from the past, 'To hurt is as human as to breathe'. Take that away, and you're not very human.

The thing you view as a weakness (i.e. the Warlock views his friends falling in love as them falling prey to a weakness) will probably in the end be the greatest strength.

Using dark magic to sever your heart from the rest of your body is probably not in your best interests.

Don't cut out your heart in an attempt to become invulnerable and then put it back in years and years later to prove to a lady that you have a heart. You'll probably both die.

He turned away from the board, blushing a bit at not being able to find more lessons in the story he liked so much, and then, raising his hand just a tiny bit, he answered the question being asked.

"Miss Crazy Lady Bloxam got the living daylights scared out of her when she overheard her auntie telling her cousins this story... she said it was an accident, but I've fallen against keyholes by accident and I don't stay there long enough to hear whole faerie tales," he said doubtfully. "But apparently, because it scared her so much, she didn't try to rewrite it."

Thank Merlin.

He went back to his seat and sank into it, face still pink from embarrassment over not being able to figure out more lessons in the tale.

Con_Stripes · 03-08-2009, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

Copernicus raised his hand. "Bloxam accidentally overheard an original telling of this tale when she was a small child and apparently prone to listening at keyholes," he grinned a bit at that. He too was guilty of keyhole listening, but never really got anything as juicy as a story of horror and mayhem like this one. "She was so traumatized by the hearing that she took to her bed and developed an odd habit of sleepwalking that was only cured by her door being sealed each night. She also refused to even attempt a translation for the Toadstool Tales."

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Chris Potter raised his hand. "Bloxam who is also prone to editing or just plain omitting some of the Beadle's tales left the Tale of the Warlock's Hairy Heart out of her own collection of stories. She tells of how she overheard her father telling it and how she became ridden with thoughst of the story that it gave her sleepwalking fits."

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Originally Posted by Waterloo

Grinning at the teacher, Clifford raised his hand again. "The Warlock's Hairy Heart tale like.. traumatized her or something, I think Sir." The Prefect explained, brow furrowing in concentration. "I mean, I don't really blame her.. for a little kid it IS kinda gruesome, ain't it? But yeah, she never rewrote that tale."

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Originally Posted by Crayola

"Unlike the other tales, I don't think Beatrix Bloxam rewrote this particular one for her Toadstool Tales." Evangeline said after raising her hand. She wasn't exactly sure, since she had never read it, but she thought she had once heard her Mother talk about it. "I think she overheard her aunt telling this tale to her older cousins when she was younger and got pretty traumatized. Then she got all weird and every night sleepwalked to that same door. That doesnt make much sense because why would you want to come back to a place where you had heard something that had scared you?" The Prefect pondered on this for a moment, looking positively confused, before shrugging her shoulders non-nonchalantly. "Anyway, her Father started sealing her door every night aaaand problem fixed."

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Originally Posted by Hedwig18

Ana raised her hand "She was really traumatised by the tales, especially The Warlock's Hairy Heart. Later she rewrote the tales, but she was unable to adapt The Warlock's Hairy Heart,." she said

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Originally Posted by aussiegirl

Kayla raised her hand, "Well she overheard the story being told to one of her cousins and she was extremely traumatised at what she had heard that she had nightmares about it for weeks afterwards. She could never find a way to rewrite the story to put it into a good light, so that tale never made it into any of her books."

"Yes, you all got it. Thats what we know." Truebridge agreed.

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"Yes Sir" Vanessa smiled, as she stood up, and approached the board, and wrote a summary of the story on it.

Summary of The Warlock's Hairy Heart

Young and Handsome Warlock decides to never fall in love

He uses the dark arts to prevent him falling in love

After hearing his servant whispering about him not having a wife he decides to find one, so he can make everyone else jealous

He finds the girl and tries to persuade her that he has a heart

The Warlock attempts to put his heart back into his chest, after he kept it in a casket in his dungeon

But his heart has been kept from his body for too long, and it had degenerated into an animalistic state

This causes him to take the heart of the which.

Thus both the witch and the warlock die

"Good, thank you Vanessa." Truebridge glanced at her notes.

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"But it's so... weird..." Jake couldn't help himself from commenting. The continuity of it all was messed up and it bothered him. "I just... don't get that..." he shrugged one shoulder and smiled slightly at Professor Truebridge before glancing nervously at the cat. It was a weird little thing.

Raising his hand again, Jake tried answering without sounding like a complete imbecile. "I don't know much about that, but, from what I've heard, I'm guessing she reeeeeeeeeally didn't like it, sir..." he shrugged. He was usually one to delve into the history of fiction, rather than reading it, but he hadn't gotten that chance yet. "Maybe she... erm..." Jake bit his lip. "Freaked out?"

Pot, meet kettle.

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Anna raised her hand and said, "When she was a child, Bloxam had a habit of listening in on conversations via keyholes in doors. It was through a keyhole when she first heard a retelling of "The Warlock's Hairy Heart." The tale scared her so much that she ran to bed, developing a sleepwalking habit shortly thereafter. Bloxam's sleepwalking was only cured by her door being sealed each and every night." Anna didn't really blame Bloxam too much, either. The warlock and his scary heart were both downright frightening...and disgusting, too.

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Cela raised her hand, "Professor, Beatrix Bloxam wrote in her diary that she had overheard the tale being told and it traumatised her and she never quite recovered. Her father had to stick her door to stop her from sleepwalking. She couldn't find a way to sugar coat that story and so it was never included in her toadstool tales."

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Abby raises her hand. "Beatrix Bloxam never recovered from accidently hearing the story. Every night she would walk in her sleep to the key hole she used to easedrop on her aunt. Her father had to perform a sticking charm on her bedroom door to stop Ms. Bloxam. She was so tramatized she was unable to write a more sanitized version of the Warlock's Hairy Heart."

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Daphne raised her hand with a sigh. "Beatrix Bloxam was a bit of a snoop as a child, of the worst kind," added the blond in a whisper to herself as she curled a strand around her finger. "She was listening through this keyhole as she probably did every night, and overheard the tale being told. Naturally, she was so frightened out of her wits she ran to her bed that night. As karma would have it, her post-traumatic stress was so that she developed sleep-walking tendencies," continued Miss Hopton, unable to keep a little laugh to herself. "Oh, sorry," she apologized and coughed. "In any case, her Father used a nice sealing charm on her bedroom door to keep her from gallivanting around the house in her nightwear. Unfortunately for Bloxam, she never did quite get over it so when she settled down to write the toadstool tales, The Warlock's Hairy Heart wasn't included."

"Precisely. Good answers."

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Gulping slightly, Raiden got up and went to the board. Lessons. Lessons. There was a definite one, but there had to be more than that...

Lessons in the tale "The Warlock's Hairy Heart:

Trying to avoid feeling anything will, in the end, backfire and end up hurting you even more.

Invulnerability may seem like a good thing, but it really wouldn't be.

To quote from the past, 'To hurt is as human as to breathe'. Take that away, and you're not very human.

The thing you view as a weakness (i.e. the Warlock views his friends falling in love as them falling prey to a weakness) will probably in the end be the greatest strength.

Using dark magic to sever your heart from the rest of your body is probably not in your best interests.

Don't cut out your heart in an attempt to become invulnerable and then put it back in years and years later to prove to a lady that you have a heart. You'll probably both die.

He turned away from the board, blushing a bit at not being able to find more lessons in the story he liked so much, and then, raising his hand just a tiny bit, he answered the question being asked.

"Miss Crazy Lady Bloxam got the living daylights scared out of her when she overheard her auntie telling her cousins this story... she said it was an accident, but I've fallen against keyholes by accident and I don't stay there long enough to hear whole faerie tales," he said doubtfully. "But apparently, because it scared her so much, she didn't try to rewrite it."

Thank Merlin.

He went back to his seat and sank into it, face still pink from embarrassment over not being able to figure out more lessons in the tale.

"Good job, Raiden. Thank you." Ethan nodded, "You all need to copy the notes Vanessa and Raiden wrote up and we are moving on. It's Babbitty Rabbitty time! Anyone have anything they'd like to share? Factors they find noteworthy in the story of Babbitty Rabbitty and her cackling stump? I'm not looking for a summary yet. Just points of interest."

RachieRu · 03-08-2009, 09:45 PM

After sitting back down, Vanessa listening to the question before raising her hand. "Well..the story is about a king who wants all the magic of the world. In my opinion this could show how magic can make people be greedy, and want to take it away from others."

Mell · 03-08-2009, 09:48 PM

Kayla raised her hand, "Well in this story we learn that magic cannot bring back the dead. It also gives early mention of Animagi. Babbitty being able to transform herself into a rabbit. And that some muggles like the king for example believed that he could become a wizard just by waving a sticks around and saying a few magic words."

Mrs. Weasley · 03-08-2009, 09:49 PM

Abby raises her hand. "I find the way the king thought about magic interesting. He hunted down true wizards because they could do magic, and at the same time, the King wanted to be a wizard himself."

Cassirin · 03-08-2009, 09:49 PM

Copernicus raised his hand. "I think the story shows that Beedle recognized the fundamental misunderstanding that Muggles have about how magic works, believing they can collect it or somehow work magic through sheer force of will. And I also think that we can see that Beedle was more interested in his story telling and his moral than in magical accuracy. He certainly took liberties in his stories with what is actually possible, and that is well illustrated in this story."

Crayola · 03-08-2009, 09:49 PM

Points of interest? Hmmm. Evangeline raised her hand. "Well, it's considered to be the tale that respects magic's rules the most." The Prefect said - that sounded like a point of interest to her. "Oh - and it was one of the first times that any reference to Animagi appeared on literature."

Mrs. Weasley · 03-08-2009, 09:50 PM

"In certain ways I think the king was a hypocrite."

Waterloo · 03-08-2009, 09:51 PM

EEEEE!!!! BABBITTY RABBITTY! Clifford quickly scribbled down the notes Snot Girl and Raiden had wrote on the board so that he could get talking about Babbitty Rabbitty! His favourite thanks to the groovy title!

"I like this one cos it's got muggles in it." He nodded like a big kid. Muggles were just so cool.

Ama · 03-08-2009, 09:53 PM

"I like the fact that the extortionist became the victim in the end. Funny that," quipped Daphne while jotting down the notes. "Greed can lead to one's own fall from grace--in this case shame. You want everything and yet you end up with nothing. It's also fair to mention how silly muggles can be--a crooked stick won't make you a Wizard."

Anna Banana · 03-08-2009, 09:53 PM

Anna quickly copied down the notes Vanessa and Raiden had provided and then raised her hand. "Professor, I think a notable point of interest is the fact that when the King in the story calls for someone with magical ability to assist him in learning magic, a muggle, not a real witch or wizard replies. I found this interesting, because the reason no real witches and wizards replied is because they know, without a shadow of a doubt, that magical ability is not something that can be simply taught to anyone. They know that in order to perform actual magic, you must be born with the ability to do so. A muggle responded, because muggles, innocent as they are when it comes to our magical world, believe that magic is simply made up of tricks that can be taught to anyone willing to learn them. I think that particular point in the story is a good example of the differences between how a wizard and witch sees magic, and how a non-magical folk sees magic."

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