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Eino let out a deep sigh and sank on his chair as he heard the same lovey-dovey boring story over and over and over again by different people. Where's all the dragon slaying and sword fighting? Muggles were so boring. If that was the point of today's lesson then Eino had already gotten to it. Eino had never heard these stories or other fairy tales. He had grown up reading Arthurian legends and other medieval tales instead, which were much more interesting than a woman as white as snow who hadn't learned that one shouldn't talk to strangers or accept their candies. He sad quietly, hoping that the next tale would involve something other than a man with magical saliva. |
Hmm Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs hadn't there been a really really really really old movie on this once. I think it has something to do with a talking mirror, a beautiful servant girl, a queen with a poisonous apple, seven dwarfs that like to sing, and a typical prince who saves the girl in the end. This was Oakey's abridged version of the tale. It was a REEEEEAAAALLY old film on it, but it was originally written by some guys named the Grime Brothers or something like that. |
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:: Ganymede decided to spend sometime working on her DADA assignment. One of the parts was singing to an acquaintance once a week. Well, there were several acquaintances in this room. So, Ganymede raised her hand and sang (similar to the muggle tune of 'Climb Every Mountain') "Oh Dear Professor.. I found something strange... Snow White's Queen wanted her heart and the warlock wanted a heart as well... he was a hairy warlock.. tra la la.." She then returned her now blushing face to the safety of her crossed arms that laid across her desk. :: |
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Text Cut: Legend + Neptune = O___o *snorts* Overhearing what Legend said last about him being Prince Charming Jeremy had to chuckle slightly. Yeah, that would definitely have been very interesting. "Well, let's just be happy for Snow White you aren't the Prince then, right Legend?" She would have either been grossed out by his kiss or have been miserable for the rest of her life because he refused to marry her. Talk about happily ever after. Quote:
If not then she had just seriously said that Snow White was a vampire who later on tortured the Queen with hot iron shoes. Yes, exactly. He must have heard that wrong. Text Cut: Kurumi&Elise He continued his nodding and smiling until another answer caught his attention. Finally somebody who pointed out the obvious. Even if it was a fairy tale. It was still a Muggle fairy tale which would suggest that there would be NO magic. But still there was. A lot of it too. "Thank you for pointing that out, err, I'm afraid I don't know your name." Jeremy admitted, giving the girl and apologetic smile before he continued to address the whole class. "It seems that this whole 'True Love's Kiss' thing is just the romantic version of something else. It's not real after all. It wouldn't work." Hopefully nobody would start to faint or run out of the classroom in tears now or both now. They did know it wasn't real, right? "While there are obvious signs of magic in the fairy tale like the Evil Witch and her doings, including the enchanted mirror somebody mentioned earlier, the ending is somewhat a more subtle kind of magic. And this is what we'll be dealing with today." He explained, writing "True Love's Kiss" onto the blackboard under "Snow White". "Now, anybody got any other examples of these kinds of subtle hints at magic, also in other fairy tales? Proof that whoever wrote the fairy tale must have had some kind of experience or encounter with somebody or something from our world. And again, I'm not talking about evil witches trying to eat little children. Just about certain things which can only happen when magic is involved. Or magical creatures even." Hopefully they had understood what he was trying to say. |
Rose decided to be brave..."well first the witch transfiguring herself to look like an old beggar woman and brewing a poison for the apple... I think maybe the prince when he leaned in to kiss her, might have cast a spell to awaken her - Enervate ?!?"... Then losing what was left of her bravery, fell silent... |
Kurumi suddenly had a rather morbdi thought deal with this whole True Love's Kiss notion and she timidly raised her hand. "P-P-Professor," she said with a frown already on her face. "D-Do you suppose the idea of True Love's Kiss came from someone witnessing the effects of a love potion?" She hated to admit it, but that did seem like the logical thing. A non-magical person falling for another in the instant of a kiss seemed almost too good to be true. Kurumi still wanted to believe that it existed, of course, what young girl wouldn't? She then thought a bit more. "In the fairy tale of Cinderalla, the fairy godmother transforms a pumpkin into a carriage and mice into footmen and horses. She also changes Cinderella's clothing into a beautiful ballgown. That seems to be several different forms of Transfiguration." |
Penny wasn't sure she understood what the professor was saying... but hazarded a guess ... "The 7 dwarves might have been magical.. and the enchanted mirror certainly was !!" She agreed with Rose, but didn't want to repeat what Rose had just said.... |
"Well," Eino began with his hand raised, "it is said that the prince instantly falls in love with her so she must be a veela or a nymph or something..." If she was dead, how was he going to fall in love with her instantly? Either she was a magical being herself or had some similar charm put on her. Either way, she didn't seem like she was a muggle, and didn't seem to be a witch. Plus, the story had other magical creatures, like the dwarfs, so maybe snow white was a magical creature too. That would explain why they all got along so well, they were all some time of creature. Maybe. |
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Oh! Oakey had a good one for this .In a story called Beauty and the Beast an old hag turns out to be a beautiful woman and when a charming but stupid prince turns her away for her looks she turns him into a fearsome Beast. The Beautiful woman also said he would not change back until He could truly love with that same love being returned.Granny Gunter had told him this tale when he was little. Could the Author of this tale have come across some magic? There was more to the tale but Oakey wanted to claim this one as his answer before anybody else. So he left out the juicy parts. |
"Isn't there a fairy tale about a dragon? Or a person turning into a dragon? I think it involves a girl being forever asleep? Sleeping Beauty I think it's called. There's also fairies in that story too if I remember correctly. At least that's what my friends always said when I was little Professor." Elise was trying to remember all the stories her friends had said their parents told them. Too bad she didn't pay much attention to the details when she was younger. She had always found that idea of true love and fairy tales for fools and simpletons. |
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Isobel thought back to all the fairy tales she knew. Then she thought of one that she had head, but didn't know very well. "Professor, there's one called Rumpelstiltskin." She was glad he hadn't asked them to write it down; she could never spell that. "He...spins straw in to gold." That was what he did, wasn't it? She hoped she hadn't gotten that wrong. |
Fairytales? In school? YES!!! Emmy's hand shot up in the air. She considered herself to be the master of fairytales. "In Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, The Princess and the Frog, and Snow White there are all sorts of transfigurations. And in Alice in Wonderland there's a talking rabbit which could somehow be related to a magical creatures. There are also stories involving mermaids, dragons, and centaurs. Then there is Rapunzel, who must have had a spell placed on her to make her hair sooo long." Emmy took a deep breath. "So many muggle fairytales are related somehow to actual things, meaning that the authors must have, at one time or another, had some sort of connection to our world." Phew. She leaned back in her chair, satisfied with her knowledge of stories, even if she was too old for them now. |
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The Hufflepuff Prefect was eying the door, and pretty much trying to calculate what were his odds of being caught leaving the class without permission, but the door was just TOO far away...unless...unless...he could change seats many times and THEN get out. It was too much work, better to keep listening to this...love and kiss stuff. Yet, regardless of his disapproval, the boy raised his hand, "Well, there's 'The Little Mermaid'," he said, before continuing, "Besides focusing on merpeople, which are Magical Beings to us, the mermaid drinks a potion to make her human...," now THAT was the Lafay part, "...and, eh, the original version ends differently than the movie one," how did he know, eh? :shifty: "But the main plot remains the same, as the Prince she fell in love with needs to...give her...a true love kiss, or whatever...," he was shifting rather uncomfortably in the chair, and he may have been blushing, "...so she could remain human or something like that," he was getting dizzy trying to explain it, "Another kind of magic, I suppose." Yeah, he was talking about the kiss. That was another kind of magic, in all fairy tales. |
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His hand rose once again. "Sir! The Frog Prince story? The one about the Princess kissing the frog and he turned into a Prince? The Frog was an Animagus. He was probably already a Prince or something and just looking for a Princess who was like 'oh your a slimy frog it's okay i'll still kiss you' so he knew she wouldn't steal his gold or anything." Yeah. Made sense. Quote:
"YUP." He crossed his arms, a determined look set on his face. "So, so amazing. Why, want proof?" DID YOU? No. You wouldn't get it Neptune. Legend was stubborn, and quite sure that she would just take his word for it. |
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Riiiiight. Sierra just bet that's what really happened in all those fairy tales. *insert sarcasm* More like, there had to have been a veela involved, and she'd share that, too, but someone else already had. Blahhh. She cast a certain look in that person's general direction, and then sat back and listened to the discussion around her. She would just give herself some think time, and then she'd be able to come up with something unique, too. ...even if this was Muggle Studies class. Ohh! What about... Sierra raised her hand. "Rapunzel?" Hmm... "I think that's her name." Whatever. "Anyway, she apparently had this really long hair that could be used in the same way a..." Hmm... "ladder can be used," she summarized. "No one's hair is that strong. Maybe a few charms were used...or something." Right. She wasn't all that great with Muggle stories. |
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Neptune's eyes squinted to dangerous slits as LEGEND spoke again. "I think I would have to have proof. I think you're delusional." Basically, yep. Neptune waved her hand at the Professor then pointed at Legend. He's BOTHERING ME that wave said. |
Salander gave the Muggles Studies Professor a thumbs up and a tight but cheerful smile in reply. Yeah he's all cool cat you know, no huffing and puffing and blowing any house down in front of the Z-man no-sirreee. Oh and now lesson is about... True Love's Kiss? Eyes slides to the side as the Slytherin lad steals a peek at his Gryffincess. He smiles quietly to himself and eases further in his seat, his shoulder juuust touching the end of hers. There was a certain kind of bliss that usually wells up inside him that keeps him contentedly quiet, feeling that anything he would say about the matter would sound like bragging. And now more muggle fairytales with their brand of magic weaved in.... hmmm "Professor, what about Jack and the Giant Beanstalk?" he suggested with a slight raise of his hand "Giants for obvious reasons, castles floating the sky-- gotta have some sort of super powerful Wingardium Leviosa spell and magic beans growing overnight? Gotta have used some Herbivicus on that." |
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Ohh, fairy tales! Vashti had always liked those when she was little, particularly the Disney film adaptations, and several years ago she'd actually looked up the originals to see how different from the adaptations they were. Very different, they turned out to be "There's one version of Sleeping Beauty," she began with a raised hand, "where the evil fairy doesn't turn herself into a dragon. She only disguises - transfigures, probably - herself into an old woman, in order to trick the princess into pricking her finger to fulfill a curse she placed on the princess when she was born. There are also a couple other fairies who're supposed to be good and who try to reverse the curse. None of them really behave like the creatures we know as fairies though. Maybe the person who came up with the story had a run-in with a couple of witches, some that were good and another that wasn't, and based the characters on them, except the storyteller decided to refer to them as 'fairies' rather than 'witches' since it seems witches were almost always portrayed as evil in Muggle stories hundreds of years ago. Perhaps he didn't think anyone would like the story if there were any good witches in it." |
SPOILER!!: Professor Zookara Tayla couldn't help but give an amused smile as she listened to the answers of her classmates. This was interesting. She knew all the Muggle stories they talked about, and having Witch mother, she also knew the Tales of Beedle the Bard her friend Ari had mentioned. Tayla raised her hand to answer Professor Zookara's question. "I'm Tayla Barnhill, Professor. First year Gryffindor," she began. "My little sister's favourite Muggle story is that of Sleeping Beauty. The three fairies - at least what Muggles think are fairies - they put everybody to sleep. The spell would only allow them to wake when Sleeping Beauty would receive..." Tayla blushed a little "Erm...true love's kiss." Tayla continued, "And in the same story, the evil witch was able to transfigure herself into a dragon. Maybe she was an Animagus? Although I'm not sure if it's normal or possible even for witches and wizards to turn into a dragon...But anyway...the prince had to fight the dragon before reaching Sleeping Beauty. I think many Muggles, even today, would know a dragon if they'd see one, because of these fairy tales. I think many of them in the past did see dragons...they're really big after all." |
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When he asked about Snow White she smiled and rose her hand. She had learned this last term and had even watched the Walt Disney movie over the summer at her grandfather's house. "Sir, it is the story of a beautiful young woman who is the step daughter of the Queen of Germany. This Queen has a magic mirror who tells who is the fairest of them all. The mirror says it is Snow White and the Queen sends a man to kill her. He fails and she goes into hiding at seven dwarves' house. Meanwhile, a Prince who fell in love with her is looking for her. The Queen finds Snow White and puts her in a coma. At the end of the tail the Prince wakes her from her coma with true love's kiss and they live happily ever after." |
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