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Sitting on his desk, his eyes on his feet with which he drew random patterns in the air, Jeremy patiently waited for the first few students to arrive for his lesson. His first lesson of the term. He hoped to see many new faces and just as many returning. Well, he was going to know soon.
Behind him on the simple blackboard he had written his name and the subject he was teaching:
Professor Jeremy Zookara
Muggle Studies
Just in case somebody had come to the wrong classroom and didn't actually want to attend this lesson. He didn't want anybody to realize half-way through that this wasn't Care of Magical Creatures after all.
SPOILER!!: Blackboard
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- True Love's Kiss -> Enervate? Anapneo?
- Transfiguration into an old woman
- echanted mirror
- Snow White -> Veela?
Rumpelstiltskin
- Transfiguration (?) from straw to gold
Rapunzel
- long hair
- no doors in tower -> apparition?
- tears have healing power
The Gingerbread Man
- charmed biscuit
- talking wolf
Hansel and Gretel
- witch
- transfigured house into gingerbread house
- swan and bird -> animagi/transfigured?
Thumblina
- girl comes out of seed/flower
- girl the size of a thumb
Little Red Ridinghood
- talking wolf -> tranfiguration, animagus?
- grandmother + girl still alive in stomach
Peter Pan
- can fly -> disillusioned broom?
- stays young forever -> potion?
- Tinkerbell: fairy -> Snitch?
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- 2 Witches
- Wonderful Wizard (-> Warlock?)
- Tinman, Scarecrow, Lion can talk and move
Alice in Wonderland
- speaking animals
- speaking/moving objects
Aladdin
- magic flying carpets
- Genie can grant wishes
The Little Mermaid
- merpeople
- True Love's Kiss
- voice stolen -> silencing spell?
- Transfiguration into legs
The Princess and the Frog
- Animagus: frog into prince
- True Love's Kiss
Jack and the Giant Beanstock
- superfast growing beans -> Herbivicus?
- Giants
- floating house -> Wingardium Leviosa?
OOC: Class has now officially started, so please no late arrivals, no chatting and make sure you're familiar with the Classroom Rules. If you haven't posted your character arriving, you can just pretend like they have been there all along. ^__^
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nodding his head trying to follow along." ok rotten apple will work great,but lets say she bakes it in to a pie so you still get the feel of how evil she is" Mikey rembers when his uncle Martin got food poisioning,he just laid in bed wishing he was dead,Looking aropund the group " any Ideas on the Witch or the true loves kiss part "
Ella looked up as she realised a few other people in their group. 'Erm.. instead of the kiss the Prince could just.. give her something nstead?' Ella blinked.
She was useless at this.. it didn't help that she had no imagination at all.
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Ariella sank down in her seat. Group work was not her favorite. She wasn't the most outgoing of people. "Um...does anyone want to work with me?"she said nervously.
"I'll work with you..if you want I mean.." Charlie said quietly but smiling. "I'm Charlie Rimsworth," She added. She was getting better at saying her last name because there had been some strange surnames at Hogwart's so far...
K-Lee, sitting near Rhys, noticed two others looking for a group. She smiled at them. "Why don't you both join our group? It's only Rhys and me right now. Anyway, hi I'm K-Lee." She said, gesturing to two empty seats where they could sit.
The more people in the group, the better. She could make more new friends that way hopefully, though it would all not be too good to leave htem at the end of the year.
Fee smiled as someone addressed her and nodded happily.Yaay someome to be in a group with.Hopefully they would all get a long.Walking over to the two other ones the blonde waved at them a little."Hii i am Feenella",she said friendly,"nice to meet you."
Nooow lets start unfairying the fairtytale,hehe.Whenever she thought about thst it made her giggle a little."Lets start",the blonde smiled,"what about we list all magical things to see what we have to leave out?"
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Originally Posted by Bubbles
While Peyton was thinking how to do more de-magic-ing her eyes fell upon a certain blonde. "Fee!" she waved, calling her friend over. "Come on, we got some things down, maybe you can help?" she said, her cheeks brightening when she realized she had used her outside voice.
Oops.
Giggle.
Ohhh another one calling her name?How sweet.Turning around to see who it was a bright smile grow on the Slytherin's face."Sweet P",she said happily.Making her way to her little friend the blonde chuckled a little.Peyton seemed to have made a lot friends by now and somehow it made Fee proud.After all she was her little firstie.Hehe.
"Sure i can help",the girl wiggled her eyebrows,"what do you have by now?"Now that muggle studies lesson seemed to get really interesting.They surely would find out some crazy facts.The third year was excited how Snow white would sound without all the magical stuff.
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" William mouthes these words to fee " I am so sorry" Then William mouthed these words to Fee " I understand about how hard it is for anyone to get in groups with people thay like because sometimes it does not work"
Fee just smiled at William and nodded."See i told you",she mouthed.As long as he wasnt mad at her four not grouping up together everything was fine.
"Does anybody want to go in a group with me?" Rachel asked, she noticed that everybody had got into groups and she was on her own.
Daisy was groupless. Again. She was always last to realise they were working in groups. A girl nearby her looked groupless as well, and she looked like a first year too.
'Hi,' Daisy smiled, 'I'm Daisy, I'll work with you if you like, I have no group either.'
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K-Lee was still looking for someone to do the task with, when a boy she sort of recognised (though with her bad memory she had no clue where). She smiled at Ryhs. "Hi, I'm K-Lee, of course we can be in the same group." She said.
Sitting down at a table which had a spare seat for him, K-Lee grinned at Rhys. "So we have to get rid of the magic in the fairytale Snow White right?" She asked slightly apologetically. She couldn't remember if that was exactly what they were doing or not.
"Yup, that's what we ought to do. Though I'm not sure how we do it. Sounds tough." Rhys smiled. He wasn't good at Muggle Studies. How were they supposed tp rewrite an age-old fairytale???
"So, how d'you think we should start?" Might as well take her help.
"Of course you can, Selina!" Kurumi smiled scooting over a bit closer to Connor for the first year to join them.
Kurumi nodded at what Heather said and then she overheard some conversation from another group about how the entire story probably took place in a mental institution. Kurumi sure hoped that that wasn't the case because that was a frightening way of imagining Snow White. Perhaps her 'white' came from those jackets that insane people had to wear?
Shaking her head back and forth quickly, Kurumi pushed these thoughts away and returned to her notes.
"Hey, do you think that the apple could have been so old that it was rotting do you? You would at least get sick from eating something that would spoil." Perhaps the queen had eaten it herself and gone insane.
SPOILER!!: Kurumi's parchment
Muggle Studies lesson one - Muggle Fairy Tales
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs magical elements
dwarfs possibly children? really were little people? just people in the next town over who were called 'little people'?
magic mirror "mirror mirror on the wall" regular mirror and the queen had multiple personality disorder?
stepmother turning into an old witch symbolic of time passing? wearing a costume? psychological-pushed to the brink of insanity, wanting to stay beautiful, and if she can't, then she'd kill what is beautiful?
poisoned apple apple injected with poison
True Love's Kiss happy coincidence
Then Kurumi thought a bit more. Fairy tales were always trying to teach people something and not necessarily based on actually things that happened. "What if....this story is just an elaborate attempt to teach us all about the nature of love?" Kurumi said more thinking aloud than really addressing anyone in particular. However, he eyes did flick towards Connor subconsciously for a brief instant. They had been talking about True Love's Kiss after all. "The Evil Queen is constantly looking in the mirror could symbolizes a person who loves themselves more than others. When she is told by her mirror, a self-reflection, that another woman, Snow White, in the kingdom, which could mean a belief system or way of life, is more beautiful than her it means that there is a truer quality of love."
Was anyone else following her thought process?
Zara nodded at Kurumi's suggestion. "Maybe.." She smiled and didn't know what else to say. Well, she had said something about costumes. What else could she contribute? "Yeah, I agree. So basically, the whole story revolves around love. Maybe that prince who passed by took care of Snow White and showed love to her, which is why Snow White felt better and better and was soon, erm, cured of the sickness that the spoiled apple had gave her?" Is it right?
don't blink | you will be upgraded | silence will fall | exterminate
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Originally Posted by MissFeenella
Fee smiled as someone addressed her and nodded happily.Yaay someome to be in a group with.Hopefully they would all get a long.Walking over to the two other ones the blonde waved at them a little."Hii i am Feenella",she said friendly,"nice to meet you."
Nooow lets start unfairying the fairtytale,hehe.Whenever she thought about thst it made her giggle a little."Lets start",the blonde smiled,"what about we list all magical things to see what we have to leave out?"
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"Yup, that's what we ought to do. Though I'm not sure how we do it. Sounds tough." Rhys smiled. He wasn't good at Muggle Studies. How were they supposed tp rewrite an age-old fairytale???
"So, how d'you think we should start?" Might as well take her help.
K-Lee nodded, smiling at the enthusiasm Feenella was showing, before looking at Rhys and giving him a quick grin. "Hi, I'm K-Lee, nice to meet you too." She said to Feenella. "Yeah, lets start with a list then. Okay, things that are magical to leave out."
K-Lee thought about it. It had been awhile since she had last seen the movie, or heard the story. She had a general idea of it though. "Okay... um... The poisoned apple is one, the witch, the magic mirror, the seven dwarves, the animals that understood Snow White and... That's all I remember. Anyone know any others?" She asked, thinking hard to see if she had forgotten any.
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Reason: Adding in Rhys :)
"Of course you can, Selina!" Kurumi smiled scooting over a bit closer to Connor for the first year to join them.
Kurumi nodded at what Heather said and then she overheard some conversation from another group about how the entire story probably took place in a mental institution. Kurumi sure hoped that that wasn't the case because that was a frightening way of imagining Snow White. Perhaps her 'white' came from those jackets that insane people had to wear?
Shaking her head back and forth quickly, Kurumi pushed these thoughts away and returned to her notes.
"Hey, do you think that the apple could have been so old that it was rotting do you? You would at least get sick from eating something that would spoil." Perhaps the queen had eaten it herself and gone insane.
SPOILER!!: Kurumi's parchment
Muggle Studies lesson one - Muggle Fairy Tales
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs magical elements
dwarfs possibly children? really were little people? just people in the next town over who were called 'little people'?
magic mirror "mirror mirror on the wall" regular mirror and the queen had multiple personality disorder?
stepmother turning into an old witch symbolic of time passing? wearing a costume? psychological-pushed to the brink of insanity, wanting to stay beautiful, and if she can't, then she'd kill what is beautiful?
poisoned apple apple injected with poison
True Love's Kiss happy coincidence
Then Kurumi thought a bit more. Fairy tales were always trying to teach people something and not necessarily based on actually things that happened. "What if....this story is just an elaborate attempt to teach us all about the nature of love?" Kurumi said more thinking aloud than really addressing anyone in particular. However, he eyes did flick towards Connor subconsciously for a brief instant. They had been talking about True Love's Kiss after all. "The Evil Queen is constantly looking in the mirror could symbolizes a person who loves themselves more than others. When she is told by her mirror, a self-reflection, that another woman, Snow White, in the kingdom, which could mean a belief system or way of life, is more beautiful than her it means that there is a truer quality of love."
Was anyone else following her thought process?
Selina listened to Kurumi intently as she began to hypothesize about how the story could have been non-magical. Then she proposed a theory about how perhaps it was a lesson about love and the power love has on the human emotional state.
She decided to throw into the pot, "Yeah I follow what you are saying. But maybe the reason why the Queen does what she does is because she doesn't love herself. If that much is true than it would explain why she does what she does. If she has no one around to make her feel insecure than perhaps she believes she will be more beautiful in her own eyes aka the mirror. Just a thought."
Daisy was groupless. Again. She was always last to realise they were working in groups. A girl nearby her looked groupless as well, and she looked like a first year too.
'Hi,' Daisy smiled, 'I'm Daisy, I'll work with you if you like, I have no group either.'
Charlie saw a familiar face; Rachel so she approached them.
"Is it okay if I work with you guys too," she asked quietly. She hoped she wouldn't end up on her own.
"Does anybody want to go in a group with me?" Rachel asked, she noticed that everybody had got into groups and she was on her own.
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Daisy was groupless. Again. She was always last to realise they were working in groups. A girl nearby her looked groupless as well, and she looked like a first year too.
'Hi,' Daisy smiled, 'I'm Daisy, I'll work with you if you like, I have no group either.'
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Charlie saw a familiar face; Rachel so she approached them.
"Is it okay if I work with you guys too," she asked quietly. She hoped she wouldn't end up on her own.
Not knowing so much people, it didn't come as a surprise to Brielle when she found herself standing alone. Looking around, she could see most of the students already clumping and talking with each other. Lucky for her though, as she looked to the side, she saw a few students silently approaching each other--a few students, that at the moment, was alone like her.
Running up to them, Brielle smiled widely. "Hi there, do you mind if I group with you, too?"
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SPOILER!!: Kurumi
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
Maybe it was a result of his Veela blood, Kurumi wasn't entirely sure how it all worked, but Connor had been very moody recently almost to the point where it was getting hard for her to keep up with him. Nodding, Kurumi set her quill down. Was there really a question as to whether or not they were a group? She had assumed that Heather, Connor, Eino, and herself were already one.
"Of course," she nodded with a look of utter confusion on her face. Why wasn't his heart in it? They were just looking at things from a logical and scientific standpoint.
Kurumi recognized the older girl from the opening feast seeing as she had been one of the few Slytherins to actually accept her cookies without turning them over and trying to figure out if they were poisoned or not. "Of course," she chirped as she scooted over a bit to allow the girl some more room.
Nodding as the other girl spoke, Kurumi had to giggle when she said that she thought Grumpy seemed more like an adult. He had seemed very childish to her, being upset over everything in the same way that a young boy is when they don't get milk and cookies before bed. "So...they were a small people family that she just happened upon in the forest?" Kurumi asked scratching her head. That sounded silly as well. Wandering through the woods and happening upon a colony of small people. If that were the real story, she was sure that everyone would have thought her crazy. "What if...Snow White, the real person," if there ever really was one. "What if she just called those who helped her 'little people'? You often hear people when they give speeches say 'I would like to thank all the little people who helped me get to where I am now.' Someone could have overheard that and decided to turn it into something more elaborate like dwarfs living in the woods. Snow White wandering through the woods until she found the next town isn't nearly as enchanting."
SPOILER!!: Kurumi's parchment
Muggle Studies lesson one - Muggle Fairy Tales
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs magical elements
dwarfs possibly children? really were little people? just people in the next town over who were called 'little people'?
magic mirror "mirror mirror on the wall"
stepmother turning into an ond witch
poisoned apple
True Love's Kiss
Iris smiled as Kurumi moved over for her to sit with the group of younger students.
"Well... Yes and no. I mean, it's perfectly possible for people to live out in the middle of nowhere. After all, I do." She nodded slightly. On the edge of a big forest, too. "I suppose they COULD have all been real dwarfs; a family, so to speak. They could have been brothers. It's not uncommon for dwarf couples to have large families."
Iris considered Kurumi's idea. "I suppose it's possible. Hmm. Yes. I think you've got a good point there."
Glancing down at her own parchment, Iris jotted down some ideas. So, the Dwarfs were either actual, or allegorical/metaphorical. Wicked.
SPOILER!!: Deatheater 2251
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"I think perhaps the Mirror could be a regular old Mirror. Maybe the Queen suffered from some kind of muggle disease. Perhaps Insanity, or Multiple Personality Disorder. The poisoned apple could have been injected with a muggle poison and Maybe Snow white was merely unconscious, perhaps the prince's Kiss was just a kiss of a man who saw a beautiful girl and wanted her to love him. She could have been coming around on her own and just happened to wake up and return the kiss." All of that made sense to him, he sure knew how the prince felt, only this time the princess was wide awake.
Iris looked at the boy, with an amused grin. He really did like to think outside of the box.
"I definitely think that insanity could be the answer to the Mirror and the Step Mothers appearance. The woman might've been delusional, or obsessed with her appearance and the want to be young. Jealousy of Snow White might've lead to the insanity..." Iris nodded, adding further notes to her notebook.
SPOILER!!: Kurumi
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"Hello Zara," Kurumi smiled as she lifted her violet eyes up from her parchment to look at her favorite first year. "Of course you can!" It was almost silly of her to ask.
Kurumi jotted down notes as Connor spoke. "I've actually read that the first version of Snow White had her with blonde hair. When they went about making the films, they turned her hair black," she said not really knowing where she was going with this idea. "I suppose that gives us a better placement for where the story took place..." Clearly no where in Asia seeing as blonde wasn't a natural hair color there.
Kurumi looked around. Yes...that was completely off topic. Back to what Connor was saying...
"That kiss really is the tricky part," Kurumi said as she aimlessly tickled her lips with her quill. When you thought of things logically, the whole idea seemed a bit...well...absurd. She almost voiced her thought that someone had come up with the idea to give young girls forced into marriages hope that they really would feel something for whatever old fat man they were marrying, but she kept such thoughts to herself seeing as the group she was sitting with probably wouldn't appreciate it.
Deciding to put the whole kissing notion aside for the moment, Kurumi's eyes flicked upwards...
...and she saw a VERY confused looking Heather sitting across from her. "Heather, where do you think the idea of the evil stepmother turning into an old witch came from?" she asked hoping that the subtle hint would help bring her back to what they were discussing. "I was thinking that perhaps it was just a matter of her growing old and, as Connor mentioned, perhaps her mind had become so demented that her appearance changed due to pulling on her own hair and whatnot."
SPOILER!!: Kurumi's parchment
Muggle Studies lesson one - Muggle Fairy Tales
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs magical elements
dwarfs possibly children? really were little people? just people in the next town over who were called 'little people'?
magic mirror "mirror mirror on the wall" regular mirror and the queen had multiple personality disorder?
stepmother turning into an old witch
poisoned apple apple injected with poison
True Love's Kiss happy coincidence
Kurumi looked around at her group again. Were they supposed to totally rewrite the story as if things had really happened? That sounded like a big dream crusher.
Her attention returned to Connor and his comment about hoping no one ever tried to analyze his music, and she laughed softly. "And I am sure that Shakespeare is rolling around in his grave because we are required to pick apart his poetry," she said sticking her tongue out. "I think it would be an honor to have someone want to study my music and try to figure out what my motivation was." Fairy Tales were another thing. Especially thing one since the ending was...well...awful.
"In the queen was forced to wear iron slippers had already been put upon the fire in the original story," she said wrinkling her nose a bit. "Then she was forced to put on the red-hot shoes, and dance until she dropped down dead. I suppose...this could be seen as a way of documenting actual ways of torturing people..."
Now THAT was a rather morbid thought.
As Kurumi mentioned how Snow White was originally blonde, Iris laughed. "I think the main reason for that change in the story is obvious." Well, other than the fact that stories ALWAYS change until they're put down on paper. "When the Muggles made it into a movie, they decided that from a visual viewpoint, dark hair looked more innocent." Iris looked to the boy, who's name she assumed was Connor. "Connor, right. Say there's a broken vase on the floor. Looking between Me and Kurumi, who would you think were more innocent? ... Ignoring the House badges. Looking just at hair colour. I'd personally go with Kurumi looking more innocent." With a shrug, Iris smiled a little. Awkward...
Anyway! Moving back on to what they were actually meant to be talking about.
The Kiss.
Hmm.
Iris liked the idea of kisses being that powerful. She didn't really want to play with it...
"What if... What if the kiss was ACTUALLY a kiss? Like... I mean, not a snog - as the story suggests - but that one the Muggle's use when someone's passed out. What do they call it? ... Ahh. Um. The kiss of life, or something. CPR? I'm not sure. But it's the Muggle equivalent of 'Enervate'." Yes. That seemed most logical to Iris. She drew a couple of love hearts in the corner of her page. She still reckoned that it was just a kiss that brought Snow White out of her coma-like state. Love is POWERFUL and all that jazz...
SPOILER!!: TwistedHearts
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Originally Posted by TwistedHearts
Text Cut: For Kurumi, Heather, and Connor
"Thanks for letting me join you," she told them all. Looking at Heather she said, "I guess we're supposed to make the fairy tale Snow White into something more realistic? Without all the magical elements and that stuff."
Zara agreed to everything Kurumi and Connor said, probably took the words right out of her mouth. What else could she say about it, hmm. "Well, the one about the stepmother turning into an old witch, I wish I could say she used the shriveling potion, but that would include magic. So, maybe the stepmother put on a disguise? You know those masks they sell at department stores in Halloween that seem kind of realistic. That's probably it and she just made her voice all hoarse and raspy and like that of an old lady. And Snow White never seemed to notice her fake mask because her stepmother was wearing a cloak and did her best to cover her face as much as possible." Well, at least it was something right?
Iris liked this girl's thinking. "You have to remember the time in which this story was originally written, though. It was like... the 1700's. There were no Halloween costumes and Department Stores." The Head Girl glanced down at her notebook, not intending to bash down the girl's idea so harshly.
"But... There's one thing the story NEVER goes into. That's the timeline. We never really get told how long Snow White is away from her stepmother for. It could have been decades. If she ran away at, like, 14 - " Iris didn't know this story well. She didn't care much if she got the little details wrong though, either. " - then twenty years on would leave her at 34, an age where she could still be beautiful. However, in those 20 years, the Stepmother could have gone insane with jealousy and desire and the want to be as beautiful as her step-daughter. As she would already have been rather old before Snow White ran away, she would most likely have aged considerably while she was absent." Twenty years was a long time. Long enough for an older person's appearance to change so considerably that a younger person wouldn't recognise them...
SPOILER!!: PandaGirl
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SPOILER!!: Kurumi and Zara. <3
Heather gave out a soft squeak when she heard her name being called, but then sighed in relief. Thank Goodness for Kurumi! really! Heather put on a smile, and thought of an answer to her friend's question.
"uhm..I think it's a logical thought. After all, the queen was jealous of Snow White's beauty and she was getting so old, and the more jealous she got, the more ugly she sees herself. It could be psychological-pushed to the brink of insanity, wanting to stay beautiful, and if she can't, then she'd kill what is beautiful." Good, good, she was getting the hang of it now, she really needed to thank Kurumi later.
"i think i've read somewhere, that crazy people in the olden times were mistaken or thought of as witches..." Really, how discriminatory of muggle fairy tales, really. "...so, maybe that's where the idea of the stepmother turning into an old witch came from? Maybe the stepmother went crazy because of her obsession to be young and beautiful..."
"There's also that too, yes. I really like that idea..." Iris thought that this idea, combined with the one she'd just shared, were brilliant examples and ideas that could suggest the trooooth. Hehehe.
SPOILER!!: Kurumi
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
"Of course you can, Selina!" Kurumi smiled scooting over a bit closer to Connor for the first year to join them.
Kurumi nodded at what Heather said and then she overheard some conversation from another group about how the entire story probably took place in a mental institution. Kurumi sure hoped that that wasn't the case because that was a frightening way of imagining Snow White. Perhaps her 'white' came from those jackets that insane people had to wear?
Shaking her head back and forth quickly, Kurumi pushed these thoughts away and returned to her notes.
"Hey, do you think that the apple could have been so old that it was rotting do you? You would at least get sick from eating something that would spoil." Perhaps the queen had eaten it herself and gone insane.
SPOILER!!: Kurumi's parchment
Muggle Studies lesson one - Muggle Fairy Tales
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs magical elements
dwarfs possibly children? really were little people? just people in the next town over who were called 'little people'?
magic mirror "mirror mirror on the wall" regular mirror and the queen had multiple personality disorder?
stepmother turning into an old witch symbolic of time passing? wearing a costume? psychological-pushed to the brink of insanity, wanting to stay beautiful, and if she can't, then she'd kill what is beautiful?
poisoned apple apple injected with poison
True Love's Kiss happy coincidence
Then Kurumi thought a bit more. Fairy tales were always trying to teach people something and not necessarily based on actually things that happened. "What if....this story is just an elaborate attempt to teach us all about the nature of love?" Kurumi said more thinking aloud than really addressing anyone in particular. However, he eyes did flick towards Connor subconsciously for a brief instant. They had been talking about True Love's Kiss after all. "The Evil Queen is constantly looking in the mirror could symbolizes a person who loves themselves more than others. When she is told by her mirror, a self-reflection, that another woman, Snow White, in the kingdom, which could mean a belief system or way of life, is more beautiful than her it means that there is a truer quality of love."
Was anyone else following her thought process?
Iris had zoned out a little. She'd stopped listening to what the younger students were saying, instead letting her train of thought sail off to some older memories. Was the Pumpkin Patch still here? Or did the new groundskeeper get rid of it? She hoped he hadn't... that would be a shame if he did... Her thoughts only returned to the group when Kurumi made a peculiar suggestion about why the story was written.
She cocked her eyebrow, and pursed her lips. "Hmmm.... Perhaps. It's an idea... and it explains a lot of the qualities of the story which are "magical"..."
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could I join your group? Oakey asked the girls. This class was interesting. and apparently it the Brothers Grimm not the Brothers Grime. Oakey felt stupid for saying Grime.
Oakey, my boggart man, she grinned at the kid, she liked Oakey, even though he had a habit of being a doombringer. Ah well, Hogwarts would cheer her up, she was sure of it. Hogwarts just did that to you, she'd started her first year HATING the school, and now she cried when she left it, sure you can join us she grinned.
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Originally Posted by EmilyMalfoy
Isobel smiled at Amy. Yay, she wasn't alone. Hmm, how to start? "Well...we'd have to take out all the dwarfs right?" They were sorta magical. They were magical creatures anyway. But they were kind of the whole point of the story? "Or, do we have to? Maybe, they could just be really short men." That would work.
Yeah, so short people non magical, well Amy shrugged, this was going to sound soooo non P-C, maybe they're just actual midgits, oooor, this was better, children? She suggested
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Penny didn't fully understand want the Professor wanted - take the magic out??
and find a group too ...
Then seeing her house team captain sitting with Amy, she decided to go over and ask to join them...
"Uhm, Hi, I was wondering if I could join you girls please?!?"...she said nervously......
Why was it that every professor wanted them in groups.?.?.
Amy turned from her group, Penny, right? Amy asked tilting her head, thinking, yeah, Penny. Or maybe not, but she was pretty sure it was Penny...definatley Penny. Sure Amy grinned at the girl, budging around so there were free seats
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Simon had no idea who he was going to work with. "Professor what if no one wants you in their group?" Simon was sure that would be the case with him. "Because I have this feeling no one likes me." Simon said, he had no idea why but he had this strange feeling that he couldn't explain.
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"You could join us Simon," she offered. And the girl. With both of them, that made five. She looked toward Amy, she was the one who had started this group, so Isobel figured she should get her consent. "What do you say, Amy?" Wait...there would be five. The professor had said three of four. "Professor, can we have five?" She asked.
SIMON? There he was. And she hadn't seen nor spoken to him once. Wow. She was a bad friend, because she had seen him, in the tryouts, and hadn't spoken to him. *Awkward* Sure she nodded, if Simon doesn't mind putting up with me
To say they'd had an explosive friendship was an understatment. A huge one.
Ooooh oooh, what about instead of a mirror you have...umm, she chewed her lip unsure, I dunno she shrugged, a gossipy ladies maid? she suggested
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Maaan, that was totally uncalled for! He could've blushed EVEN more thanks to Neptune, BUT...he didn't. "Yeah, the weather, you know," yeah, what about the weather exactly?
Well, since Legend had sort of agreed with Neptune, and Finn only said that Nurses were hot, then Treyen wouldn't mind if the seven maintenance dudes had ugly feet. "Sure, no problem, then," eyes on Legend, he ought to write the feet part too.
"No, no, the Crazy woman wanted to harm the Nurse, I don't know how, but she wanted to," otherwise the story would be about an accident, and there was no accident in Snow White, "I wouldn't mind if the apple had been in the wrong place at the wrong time, though," poor apple, everyone was blaming it.
And about the kissing part, Treyen made no comments at all.
"Yes. The weather. Cool with a chance of blushes," Neptune nudged Trey again. He was being PRESH. Giggle.
"Okay... Mental Queen had a vendetta against the Nurse over her son, the Prince. So she escaped her ward and went to find Nurse White at the maintenance shed of the 7 tiny maintenance men. Maybe she just punched Nurse White in the face? Knocked her right out."
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Legend took a moment to look up from the parchment and stare at Neptune. "Don't put words in my mouth Bott. The kissing part is the most boring parts of these Fairytales anyways." THEY WERE BORING.
"Plus only few people can hear, what I have to say about that subject." That meant not you Neptune. And not Trey or Fin or Zoo or the whole Muggle Studies class.
"Oh yeah..sorta forgot that's what we were doing. I thought we were making up a story." He shrugged. Tea actually would be good right now. And cookies. Maybe a sandwich. Or some chicken. Hmm. Maybe Macaroni! "Buy guys! I still don't get why they need SEVEN maintenance workers. I mean what are they fixing? Why can't they fix it faster? Why does there need to be seven? It seems like a flaw in the story really." He looked down at the parchment which had lots of pictures and the beginning of the story jotted down messily.
Seven ugly feet maintenance workers. You guys stood out so much.
"Why?" Why only a few people? Was Neptune one? SHE wanted to HEARRRR! Pick her! "It might help our grade, Legend!" DO TELL all about the kissing!
..'cause he was wrong. That wasn't the boring part at ALL. And if it was, he was doing it WRONG.
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Hey, Legend. Tsk! Be nice to Neptune.
Wait. Didn't he hear what Zookara said? "Eh, no, we're suppose to take away all hint of magic," but they still needed the same things for the story, no? WHICH IS WHY THERE ARE SEVEN TINY PEOPLE.
"They take care of the woods, no? You don't suppose you'll be hiring only one guy to take care of them without magic?" like, Mr. Stryker sometimes asked for help from the students, and he could do magic. Imagine a Muggle taking care of Hogwarts grounds, eh? "And since they're septuplets...," or whatever it was that Neptune said, "...then, I don't know, they may have some codependency issues or something," and they had to be together, always.
Sound good, Chosen?
"The 7 tiny septuplet maintenance men.... there are 7 because.... because... they all have a specialty! One is... the ...tree guru... and one is... animaly person... and one is... " Hmmm. "So yeah, like Trey said, it takes all 7 to get the job done. And Nurse White was their maid and cook and nurse, isolated with only tiny men with dirty feet for company." Nod. Nodnod.
K-Lee noticed another lonely person. Looking at the others who she had invited, and Rhys who she was working with, she looked back at Aurora. "Hi, you can join us." She said kindly, smiling up at her. She was being veyr kind today, inviting all these people...
Aurora smiled at the friendly face. "Thanks, so where are we?" She asked. "And does anyone have any idea what this has to do with an education? I mean, I was a bit wary about muggle studies but I though it was about trying to get by without magic?" She whispered.
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Then Why we just not have the old lady eat her half of the apple. Simple solution for a simple problem. This way we can poison the whole apple and only have Snow White eat it.
Penny listened to Oakey thinking that that could work...poison the whole apple..... "ok so say we poison the whole apple, it can't be a witch that gives it to her - How about it's an old beggar woman the stepmother has paid to deliver it.?."
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Oakey, my boggart man, she grinned at the kid, she liked Oakey, even though he had a habit of being a doombringer. Ah well, Hogwarts would cheer her up, she was sure of it. Hogwarts just did that to you, she'd started her first year HATING the school, and now she cried when she left it, sure you can join us she grinned.
Yeah, so short people non magical, well Amy shrugged, this was going to sound soooo non P-C, maybe they're just actual midgits, oooor, this was better, children? She suggested
Amy turned from her group, Penny, right? Amy asked tilting her head, thinking, yeah, Penny. Or maybe not, but she was pretty sure it was Penny...definatley Penny. Sure Amy grinned at the girl, budging around so there were free seats
SIMON? There he was. And she hadn't seen nor spoken to him once. Wow. She was a bad friend, because she had seen him, in the tryouts, and hadn't spoken to him. *Awkward* Sure she nodded, if Simon doesn't mind putting up with me
To say they'd had an explosive friendship was an understatment. A huge one.
Ooooh oooh, what about instead of a mirror you have...umm, she chewed her lip unsure, I dunno she shrugged, a gossipy ladies maid? she suggested
Penny smiled at Amy..."yeah, it's Penny...thank you", sitting down on one of the free seats...
"I'm not sure about children... I mean there are dwarves ('midgets' to quote Amy) in the muggle world - so I don't actually think we need to do much witt them..except..."..Penny thought for a moment.."Maybe give them differents jobs - I mean in the muggle world you wouldn't see a dwarf working down the mines !!"...
"I like the idea of instead of the talking mirror, it's a person - but if the person is going to be telling the stepmother she is beautiful, then shouldn't the person be a man...I dunno...like a butler or something who is like totally in love the her !!"
Then turning in her seat, smiled at Simon.."Hi Simon, I'm Penny"
running his hand over his jaw as he followed the story " we could make her the daughter of the pharmacist, That has to listen to the gossiping maid come in every day to say how pretty Snow White is and how Snow White is going to meet the prince". rubbing the back of his neck and looking at the outhers " then what "
" The daughter of the pharmicist is a good idea" William told Michael. " How about we add a male who is really shy especially around beautiful women like Snow White, but he loves her from afar as he thinks she would not notice him" William said to Alex. " He could be like a cobbler's son" William expalined to Michael and the rest of the group.
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Of course, Dwarves were magical. Weren't they really short people wearing pointy hats? So, that wasn't an apt description but she knew that they definitely were not non-magical. Really short people exist, yes. Dwarves don't. In the muggle world. Anyway, she wasn't going to argue that point since she hardly knew the girl at all.
Viola stared at William. She really had no idea what he was talking about. "Umm..sorry? Charades?"
As for the poisoned or the rotten apple, she turned towards her group and said, "In the story, the witch offers the poisoned half of the apple to Snow White and eats the other half herself." Viola paused for a minute and continued, "Well, what if the evil woman or the pharmacist offers the rotten half of the apple to Snow White or...injects poison into Snow White's half?" Okay. That didn't make a lot of sense. She was horrible at this. "By the way, don't you guys think it's better if we change Snow White's name?" Snow White wasn't even a name. Jeez.
" I did not say Charades was a good idea" Willaim told Viola." We could make the Evil Woman Snow White's best freind and Snow White did not know about her jealousy. but I like the part of the apple" Willaim said to Viola.
" How about use Viola and Sienna as the names?" Willaim asked everyone. " The professor might like we incorported some of our group into the story" Willaim explained to his group.
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Fee smiled as someone addressed her and nodded happily.Yaay someome to be in a group with.Hopefully they would all get a long.Walking over to the two other ones the blonde waved at them a little."Hii i am Feenella",she said friendly,"nice to meet you."
Nooow lets start unfairying the fairtytale,hehe.Whenever she thought about thst it made her giggle a little."Lets start",the blonde smiled,"what about we list all magical things to see what we have to leave out?"
Ohhh another one calling her name?How sweet.Turning around to see who it was a bright smile grow on the Slytherin's face."Sweet P",she said happily.Making her way to her little friend the blonde chuckled a little.Peyton seemed to have made a lot friends by now and somehow it made Fee proud.After all she was her little firstie.Hehe.
"Sure i can help",the girl wiggled her eyebrows,"what do you have by now?"Now that muggle studies lesson seemed to get really interesting.They surely would find out some crazy facts.The third year was excited how Snow white would sound without all the magical stuff.
Fee just smiled at William and nodded."See i told you",she mouthed.As long as he wasnt mad at her four not grouping up together everything was fine.
William mouthed the words " I know" to Fee. " Do good but not as good as our group" Willaim mouthed these words to Fee. William then laughed.
Simon hadn't heard anyone say his name, he had just been looking at the Professor. "See I told you no one would want to work with me, I'm a trouble maker where people are concerned and so they don't want to work with me or know me." Simon sighed, well he was a Prince and didn't care when they thought, he had thousands of fans back in Hollian.
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Lexi listened to him regale her for the most part with the story. "I reckon I'm going to have to read this Muggle story after all," she said with a grin. It sounded gross and amazing.
"So... if we take out the magical elements there is no magical mirror, no evil witch, no potions, the Prince could still be real, but no True Love's kiss I suppose. What have we got then? What can we do with the story? I am sorry, I might be a bit useless on this one seeing as I do not know the story at all," she said with a grimace. Admitting she didn't know something was pretty difficult to her.
Salander leaned on his elbow and scrunched up his face, trying to think hard "Nothin'." he quipped "...Just some boring story about two women-- a has-been beauty and an young up and comer, arguing on who's prettier and dragging a whole buncha guys into their squabble." Then he looks at Lexi sheepishly "Sorry babe, beauty contests are great an'everything, but once you girls starts getting all nasty at each other it usually takes the fun out of the watching-- unless it involves some kind of mud wrestling." Smiiirk.
"That is something interesting though-- the Queen kept asking who was the fairest in the land, just like a beauty contest. And people get hired to do dirty work like taking out the competition--poisoning them... slashing them up. Sounds something like what a Mafia would do."
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"Nurses are hot," Neptune repeated AT Finny. THAT was his contribution? Giggle. It would be. She just gave him LOOKS.
She gave his arm an encouraging little pat. "I think Legend just wants to get to the kissing part so he can share his expertise."
Finlay just laughed at Neptune's look, and grinned at her. "What they are!?!" He was totally telling the truth. "Clearly the prince agrees with me." Which was funny cause Finlay was totally a prince. But surely that would mean Neptune would have to be a nurse. Totally. He'd like that idea.
Ooh. The kissing bit. "Actually I think I'd be pretty good at discussing kissing." He laughed again, because well he was a big expert on kissing. "I think you'll agree Tuney." he smirked at her. Yes. Neptune. We know that you know.
"But yeah....the kissing bit is kinda important. I mean....what kind of epic man can wake up girls by kissing them!" Finlay wanted to get some tips from him.
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Hey, Legend. Tsk! Be nice to Neptune.
Wait. Didn't he hear what Zookara said? "Eh, no, we're suppose to take away all hint of magic," but they still needed the same things for the story, no? WHICH IS WHY THERE ARE SEVEN TINY PEOPLE.
"They take care of the woods, no? You don't suppose you'll be hiring only one guy to take care of them without magic?" like, Mr. Stryker sometimes asked for help from the students, and he could do magic. Imagine a Muggle taking care of Hogwarts grounds, eh? "And since they're septuplets...," or whatever it was that Neptune said, "...then, I don't know, they may have some codependency issues or something," and they had to be together, always.
Sound good, Chosen?
"I know that! I just forgot...you guys started talking about a Queen and bad feet, how am I suppose to remember that the story is even about Snow White." YEAH. How was he? Legend had no clue. He just continued to make pictures (now of the septuplet maintenance men who were strangely tiny).
"Oooooohhh I guess That makes sense. You're pretty smart." Smarter than he thought! That was crazy. So the different men helped out more? Yeah....that could work.
Legend looked down at his picture. It was basically complete.
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"Okay... Mental Queen had a vendetta against the Nurse over her son, the Prince. So she escaped her ward and went to find Nurse White at the maintenance shed of the 7 tiny maintenance men. Maybe she just punched Nurse White in the face? Knocked her right out."
"Why?" Why only a few people? Was Neptune one? SHE wanted to HEARRRR! Pick her! "It might help our grade, Legend!" DO TELL all about the kissing!
..'cause he was wrong. That wasn't the boring part at ALL. And if it was, he was doing it WRONG.
"You can't do that! There needs to be some thing with the apple!" Legend said repeating what Treyen said, only ruder. He had to make it sound like it was an original thought after all.
"No it won't! Professor Zoo doesn't want to hear anymore about kissing. And If I tell you you'll go and run to him and creep him out like always" Legend rolled his eyes. He didn't know how the Muggle Studies Professor dealt with all the teenage girls.
"Plus, how would a kiss wake someone up from death?" Even the most AMAZING kiss couldn't do that. "What if he was just kissing her for so long that she couldn't breath and just like jumped up and was like 'HEY I CAN'T BREATH!' and then after she realizes that he actually saved her life." Wait...when had they jumped to the kissing part again?
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Finlay just laughed at Neptune's look, and grinned at her. "What they are!?!" He was totally telling the truth. "Clearly the prince agrees with me." Which was funny cause Finlay was totally a prince. But surely that would mean Neptune would have to be a nurse. Totally. He'd like that idea.
Ooh. The kissing bit. "Actually I think I'd be pretty good at discussing kissing." He laughed again, because well he was a big expert on kissing. "I think you'll agree Tuney." he smirked at her. Yes. Neptune. We know that you know.
"But yeah....the kissing bit is kinda important. I mean....what kind of epic man can wake up girls by kissing them!" Finlay wanted to get some tips from him.
"You talk about kissing then Finlay." Yeah, go on! Go on, Mister Head Boy! Legend didn't want to talk about it anyways. "I'm writing, so your job is to figure out the kissing. Go. Do it."
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Noting everything the students had said on the blackboard, Jeremy finally turned back around when it seemed that nobody could come up with anything else. Well, they would still have more time to think about it after class.
"Now, you see there are a lot of those references to magic in Muggle fairy tales which imply that the author or somebody they knew must have had some kind of experience with this world." He waved his hand which was still holding the chalk at the blackboard behind him to emphasize his statement.
"Going back to our original fairy tale, Snow White, let us imagine that the authors, in this case the so called Brothers Grimm, did NOT have said experience with this world and hence did NOT include all those references. I'd like for you all to get into small groups of 3 or 4 and...well, 'unfairy' the fairy tale." Err, yeah, did that make sense? "So exclude all those magical elements. Be creative. Make the simple Muggle story still worth reading." Hopefully they would understand the task.
Savannah slowly waked up form her daydream. What? What? Fairytales again? Savvy probably missed out half of the class. She didn't get a really good sleep the day before. Everyone seemed to have to have groups, so can Savannah work alone?
"Can I work alone?" Savannah asked hopefully. She doesn't feel like working with anyone today.
Simon hadn't heard anyone say his name, he had just been looking at the Professor. "See I told you no one would want to work with me, I'm a trouble maker where people are concerned and so they don't want to work with me or know me." Simon sighed, well he was a Prince and didn't care when they thought, he had thousands of fans back in Hollian.
"Simon, I thought you were part of our group" William told him. 'why not join us?" Wiliam asked Simon. Willaim could care less if Simon is a prince.
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Penny listened to Oakey thinking that that could work...poison the whole apple..... "ok so say we poison the whole apple, it can't be a witch that gives it to her - How about it's an old beggar woman the stepmother has paid to deliver it.?."
Penny smiled at Amy..."yeah, it's Penny...thank you", sitting down on one of the free seats...
"I'm not sure about children... I mean there are dwarves ('midgets' to quote Amy) in the muggle world - so I don't actually think we need to do much witt them..except..."..Penny thought for a moment.."Maybe give them differents jobs - I mean in the muggle world you wouldn't see a dwarf working down the mines !!"...
"I like the idea of instead of the talking mirror, it's a person - but if the person is going to be telling the stepmother she is beautiful, then shouldn't the person be a man...I dunno...like a butler or something who is like totally in love the her !!"
Then turning in her seat, smiled at Simon.."Hi Simon, I'm Penny"
Hey why don't we make the setting in New York City! Oakey felt like this was his greatest idea ever. the Dwarfs can just be really short and stocky construction workers or sewer maintenance workers.
The Queen could be a Pompous rich lady with a Butler who is forced to tell her how pretty she is when ever she asks and Snow White can be a pretty lady that passes the Butler and he falls in love with her.
Oakey was on a roll now. Can we combine the part of the mirror with the prince? Oakey wanted to do more with the Butler.
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Hey why don't we make the setting in New York City! Oakey felt like this was his greatest idea ever. the Dwarfs can just be really short and stocky construction workers or sewer maintenance workers.
The Queen could be a Pompous rich lady with a Butler who is forced to tell her how pretty she is when ever she asks and Snow White can be a pretty lady that passes the Butler and he falls in love with her.
Oakey was on a roll now. Can we combine the part of the mirror with the prince? Oakey wanted to do more with the Butler.
Penny liked Oakey, but he was just a continual surprise to her... whenever she 'thought' she had him figured out - he shifted the goalposts again...
"Thats actually a really good idea Oakey", smiling...
So now, Penny thought, it's time to put quill to paper..
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Once upon a time, in a large faraway city called New York, lived a beautiful and sweet woman...
She dreamt that one day she and her husband would have a beautiful baby girl.. and her dream came true and she did have a beautiful baby, but sadly she died just after the birth, making the child motherless....
The husband remarried again, but this woman was not like his first wife, she was vain, conceited, bossy and arrogant..
Everyday the woman would ask her butler who was the prettiest in the city/country/world? and every day the butler would reply that she was the prettiest..
Until one day the stepmother asked the butler and he gave her a new answer - that another girl was the prettiest of all girls.... and her name was - - -
The stepmother fumed, jealous that this child that she helped raise would be more beautiful than she..
She ordered her chauffeur to drive her a really tough area of the city, where she hired a thug to kill the child...
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