Sarah blushed. She wasn't very much used to praises, especially in the acting department. "Wait, wait, don't get too excited" she said, smiling at the third year. She was glad that the lioness was impressed. "I'm good with going on stage. At start it was a bit, well overwhelming..." she paused, "But yes, I did go onto the stage" She remembered herself playing Shylock in the age-old classic of Shakespeare. And the one as Scrooge. Not to forget Mark Antony. And another.. Would that make any sense to Ira? "I've done some Shakespeare plays" she said.

Sarah suppressed a giggle when Seren called the librarian LeoBALD. That's the second time you're doing it! The librarian clarified their acting doubts.

"So we have a project" she said to both the professor and Ira. "What are we choosing captian?" she asked their head of the house. She was the captain of the ship, right?

Ella smiled as Nerida suggested they do a classic. The second year was thinking the exact same thing though she wasn't sure if Elliot would agree. "I think that's a great idea. I'm familiar with those too!" She then turned to Elliot and smiled. "What do you think? Are you familiar with those or would or rather do a tale?" Cause Ella was willing to do either one. "If we do a classic, we could do one like Cinderella or Snow White...they have a lot of characters to choose from!"

Elliot had grown a glazed look in her eye; obviously she was lost in her own thoughts. thoughts of home, of her father, of her mother...of her sisters. When the librarian started talking, however, her attention snapped back into reality.

Elliot didn't know what Disney was. Being raised in a VERY traditional pureblood family(and a crazy pureblood father) she didn't know what these classics people were speaking of. She was much more familiar with Beedle the Bard, but she knew them all so well...they were a bit trite by now. "I am quite unfamiliar with this..Disney's work. So I don't know any of his(is it a guy?) stories. But, I would rather do his work than Beedle, because I know them so well and they are just so boring by now to me. Sure...cherished, but...I want something new," she told them, nodding a bit. The smirk had vanished, and a very serious, determined look glinted in her blue eyes.

Watch? "So you watch Disney? He's not a writer?" she furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. This was weird.

"Now, I'm not familiar with his tales...so the two of you will have to pick one. But I call the villain...I have a mean evil laugh..." she smirked again, and proceeded to show them her maniacal laughter. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA She sounded like a very evil witch, of course. She smiled smugly at them after she finished, too. Heehee.

Okay great, so Elliot wouldn't mind doing a classic though she had no idea what any of the classics were...Ella found that kind of cool actually, as she liked a challenge as well. She smiled at Elliot, finding that she liked her a little more after her decision. As for who Disney was, that was complicated. "Walt Disney is, well he is kind of the master of animation in the muggle world. He released a lot of great muggle animated films. For example, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! I think we should do that classic. It's about princess named Snow White who hides in the woods from the Queen, her stepmother. The queen wants to kill snow white so she can take her place as the fairest in the land. While the dwarfs are off at the mine one day, the Queen dresses as an old lady and gets Snow White to eat a poisoned apple! The dwarfs find her too late and put her in a glass coffin but THEN the prince, who loves snow white, comes by and grants her 'love's first kiss,' thus waking her from the evil spell!" Ella was out of breath after talking so much and she looked at her groupmates sheepishly while she took a few deep breaths. "We could do the scene where the dwarfs say goodbye to snow white to go to work and the queen comes and poisons her, yeah?"

After trying her very best not to lose focus as Leo announced the activity they had to do, Seren crossed her arms and tapped her foot. She was terrible at acting, and lines and... acting.

"Well.. what are we all familiar with?" she asked, looking at Sarah and Ira. Because it would be a good start if they all knew the narrative they were about to portray.
"I have to warn you... I'm clueless when it comes to muggle literature." They could blame her heritage for that.

In the mean time... while the girls thought about their options, Seren shot LeoBALD a look. Yes, a look. One of those looks-could-kill looks. He called this a book club?!

Ira nearly giggled loud when she heard Professor Bentley call out to the librarian! Not because she had called out, but because of the funny way she had called him. Especially stressing on BALD. Nope, it had certainly not gone unnoticed!

Coughing lightly to cover p for her giggling she listened to Mr LeoBALD explain the activity. Okay... so they needed to re-enact a scene from a play. Wait.. they could choose Disney too? Wow! Ira loved watching Disney back at her muggle home! She used to watch it without fail!

And she had noticed Sarah say that she had done some Shakespearean plays. So that surely meant she was muggleborn. Whatever, according to Ira, Shakespearean plays were something she never understood. They were too boring and serious for her.

Ira smirked as Sarah referred to Professor Bentley as the captain. Yeah sure! Of course she was the de-facto captain, right?

Then hearing her head of house speak, Ira turned her attention to her. Okay.. Professor clueless about muggle literature. While Ira was almost clueless with wizarding literature. Except of course that taught in Hogwarts.

So what to do?? Ira tapped her foot lightly. What to do?

Just looking around, Ira caught Professor Bentley staring at Leobald. or whatever she was doing! Was something going on? Something... Ira smirked. Yep Bentley, we saw you and we caught you!

Uh oh ....
Seren stopped glaring at LeoBALD and looked at Ira. Was she in trouble now? She'd never been told off by a student before, but there was always a first for everything, and it was clear right now that Seren was questioning the book-club-running capabilities of the librarian. Pfft.. this wasn't a book club.

"Uhh...." she started, figuring she ought to shift the emphasis from her glaring to the actual stupidactivity at hand. Acting... pfft...

"Is there anything where I can act as a tree? or a flower?... or a rock?" she asked, hoping that perhaps there might be something she could do which wouldn't require her to speak, or 'act' much at all.
"I'm very good at staying stationary."

That was a skill right?

'Charlotte's Web!?' Hydra smiled 'Oh I like that story.Mines Oh the places you'll go.' Hydra listened to the task that the librarian was about to set them then turned back to Elise and asked her 'Well what do you want to act tout then? I don't really mind...'

"What secene of what should we should we act out?" Se said with emphizsing the words.

Ira quickly looked away to avoid Professor Bentley's gaze. Oops, had Bentley caught Ira staring at Bentley? Bentley surely couldn't read Ira's thoughts could she? No right? Or maybe yes.. Maybe she was a legilimens.. oops! No no, she wouldn't do that, would she?

Looking away, she giggled more at her thoughts about Bentley and LeoBALD *cough* but came back to the activity on hand.

Huh? Tree? Or a flower? Or a rock? Hehe.. what was Professor Bentley thinking? Good at staying stationary?

And now Ira could seriously no longer control herself! And so BURST out laughing. This was so FUNNY!!!

She did try covering her mouth with both her hands, and cleching her eyes shut and shaking her head... but nio use! Her Laughs and goggles just couldn't stop! They just refused to stop!

"I..I'm so" *giggle* "...so..sorryyy" *another giggle* Ira somehow managed to apologize in between her fits of laughter. But could Bentley understand what she was trying to say? She certainly didn't want Bentley to go mad on her. Not at all!!

"I.. I am rea.." Giggle "really.. very sorry!" Sorry for laughing and giggling. But she couldn't help it!

Chewing her lips, she now somehow controlled her laughter, not wanting to get punished there. No she certainly did NOT want that!

"Er... I'm good at that thing only.. I h-hate to perform in front of others..." Ira replied, keeping her head down. She didn't wanna face Professor Bentley for at least some time now. "Sarah.. what do you think? Which piece to perform?" You know.. considering Ira's and Professor Bentley's wonderful acting skills?

Sierra smirked in amusement at the initial look on Jonathan's face. He looked like the professor had asked them to run outside and tackle a Hungarian Horntail or something. "Oh, come on, Jonathan," she said with a laugh. "Tell me you're not afraid of something like acting?" She laughed again and shook her head. It was amusing, really.

When Indiana agreed, it seemed like the idea was set. "Okay, well, The Tale of the Three Brothers, it is," she said. "I'll be Ignotus." Well, duh. He was the wisest of the three. "They're really only in one scene together, and that's the bridge scene."

What was going on? West had stopped paying attention. He wriggled around trying to get out of the beanbag which he was stuck in.

Wait. People were acting? Did they at least get to do their own books? Why did they even bring books?

West was confused. He wouldn't mind a drama club, but wasn't this a book club?

*confused firstie face*

Elise's eyes widened as the librarian dude said they'd be acting, but she'd known that. As for what they'd act out, Elise wasn't sure.

"You okay with Snow White?" she asked, looking a little lost.

Nerida did a happy dance in her head, yes they could do a classic as long as it was fine with Elliot...Yes it was, continues happy dance in head!! She smiled at Elliot and said Dont worry by the time Ella and I are done with you, you'll be a wiz at this! She laughed and said As far as I know he has only made movies but I think books have been made off of his movies... She smiled at her villian comment and said Okay thats fine with me! She listened to Ella and her suggestion and hated to be a meanie but she had to That sounds like a wonderful idea, but theres a problem to that, theres only two actual characters-Snow White and The Evil Queen/Hag... Thinking for a moment she said Oh or we could do the three fairys from Sleeping Beauty when there making the party things, the cake, the dress, and the cleaning! What are their names?? Oh yes, Merryweather, Flora and Fauna! She loved Sleeping Beauty, and she loved the three faries, if they did do this she wanted to be Fauna, her favorite fairy...

Bloody hell...

Is Sierra suddenly a mind reader now or was his calm poker face was not so poker for her? Jonathan tried but oh well. Since she already mentioned it, Jonathan nodded slowly feeling really embarrassed by it. "I've never done it before" he said admitting to it and cracking a smile. It is funny, isn't it? How the two girls were so excited for this while he only looked terrified? But really, he was giving this a chance though.

So it was all set for the three of them. They will be acting out the bridge story on the Tales of the Three Brothers. One problem though, who would be Death? Before he could open his mouth and ask about it, Sierra already called dibs on Ignotus. Of course, she wanted to play the guy that lived forever. "I'll act either of the brothers." he said, so it was up to Indy who she wanted to play because Jonathan will just take any character for now. Like he said, he hasn't done this acting thing before.

Oh and his suggestion, he raised his hand to get their attentions "Sierra, who plays Death here?" because the 3 brothers plus the hooded figure equals 4 characters.

''It's alright.''He said smiling.''Really!''He said excited.He had only met a couple of people that were in the same year as him so he was excited.''Oh just some stupid Wizarding School.''He explained.

''Oh a Muggle Fairytale one If you want to.''He said grinning.He know most of the classic ones.''Which one would you like to do?"

Minerva was reading the story when she heard Alyssa say she would do the part of Amata. She took a mental note of this as she read the rest of the story quickly. Once done she thought about the story for a bit. It was an interesting story she thought it could work out well for them, but what part would she be the best at she wasn't sure. She had never acted before so she was kind of afraid to even do this infront of all her peers and so many professors. She looked at the other to lady characters trying to figure out which one best for her.

After a few seconds she looked at the rest of her group "I'll do Asha if that's ok with your professor. I think I can do an okay job at being the depressed one." she gave a smile, but knew with everything that been going on with her she would know how to act depressed. "So that means Professor you can do Altheda and Vickers of course Sir Luckless." She gave her group a smile "So now we need to figure out what part are we acting out, or do we need to act the entire story?" Minerva had gotten distracted by reading the new story that she forgot what the librarian had said.

Ella smiled as Nerida reassured Elliot that they'd make her an expert by the end of their book club. The second year's eyebrows raised a bit when Nerida shot down her idea. It wasn't in a mean way or anything, but Ella hadn't quite thought of that problem. Somehow she was factoring in the dwarfs too. No matter, though! Ella liked Nerida's idea as well, especially because she really liked Sleeping Beauty. "Okay, we can do sleeping beauty. I'll be Merryweather, she's the youngest fairy and I'm the youngest so it makes sense I guess." At this, she smiled, remembering Elliot's preference for an evil character. "Elliot, you can be Flora...she isn't evil or anything but her and Merryweather do have a fight over the color of the gown they want to make. Flora wants pink and Merryweather wants blue!" If everyone agreed with this, they could start to practice!

Sarassi grinned over at Narumi and said No problem She laughed and had a hard time stopping when she finally got a hold of herself, I brought Love You Forever, probablly the same book as my sister, we love it so much. Hearing the Librarian she said Want a classic or a wizard story? Knowing very well she wanted a classic she said Hmm well we could do Beauty and the Beast when shes with the wardrobe, um Cinderella with her stepmother, Sleeping Beauty the scene where she pricks her finger, Phocohantas with her friend talking, Mulan with Mushu, Tiana and her mother, Tangled the scene Mother Knows Best...

Vickers smiled, happy that they were going with his suggestion. They couldnt come up with a better fit after all, its like chips falling into place. He handed Minerva the Beadles book and initially gave a gist as he helped her leafed through the chapter that had the Fair Fortunes story. "Its basically about 3 Witches and a Muggle Knight trying to get to a fountain thats supposed to bring them good luck." Ah now she's found the chapter, he stood back a bit to let her read in peace.

He turned to Alyssa who sounds to be more familiar with the tale " Alright, so you want to play Amata" the witch with a broken heart " And yeah obviously I have to play Sir Luckless." who actually doesnt have any lines in the story, but he was cool with that. When Minerva was finished he nodded when she said she can play Asha, the one who was depressed, then turned his attention to the Muggle Studies Professor when the only character left was "Altheda, the witch who had fallen into hard times, is the only one left. You ok with that Professor?"

He crossed his arms before him as Minerva spoke, pondering her questions "The Professor said to re-enact a segment of the story, I guess we can select where all the characters get to do something. How about that last part starting from Amata pulling out her memories of her old love to cast it away at the stream? Its what got them past their last challenge and sets all the other fortunes of the witches and the knight in motion."HE picked the book up again and leafed through the short story "OR if you all want to something simpler, what about when the gates leading to the fountain drew open and just grabbed Asha, who grabbed Althedea, who grabbed Amata who's robes caught Sir Luckless and dragged him in last?" they could play that for comedy.

Minerva listened as Vickers told her about the story and then again when he talked about which part of the story they should do. "I'm okay with either one, the end of the story is when they realize their problems have been fixed, but I do like the part for some comedy. Maybe it would be good to get some laughs from the rest of the group." Minerva waited to see what the others thought about it and to make sure the Professor was okay with her part.

What was animation? Elliot decided, however, to keep her mouth shut. She had already asked too many questions...but the Ravenclaw side of her was just so curious..

Elliot tried to follow this whole "Snow White" storyline...however, she found it difficult. The whole story was very strange, with seven dwarfs? And a glass coffin? That sounded pretty cool...

Love's first kiss. That's what lost Elliot's attention. Ew. She crinkled her nose. "I suppose that could work..." she said, thinking how being the evil queen would be nice. Elliot was a queen, and she was evil..*snicker* so it would all work out...right?

WRONG. Apparently.

Fairies? Elliot raised an eyebrow, clearly not liking this idea. "Do I look like a fairy to you?" she asked, a little offended. However, she kept her mind open and waited for the puff Ella to say something as well.

FLORA. Elliot's character's name was FLORA. Which flower in Latin. Elliot merely shot Ella a very serious face, that clearly said, DO I LOOK LIKE A FLOWER TO YOU?!?! but she decided to roll with the punches. No need to cause dissension here. And Elliot would NEVER in real life prefer pink. Unless it was a nice lilac pink or pale pink.

"Okay. let's start practicing...over here," she gestured to a corner of the room where no one was practicing yet and led the way. She then put her hands on her hips in a very haughty sort of way and said, "Well, let's get started..."

Elliot hoped this turned out well...and not too embarrassing.

Narumi smiled and said Cute, I brought a japanese book my mom read to me.. Anyhow... She looked up at the Librarian and before she could even answer Sarassi's question, which she had gotten right... She listened to all of her ideas before squeeling Yes yes! Yes!Yes Yes Yes AND OH MY YES A MILLION TIMES YES TO THAT ONE!! Sarassi would have to use her mind to figure out which one she said yes to, Sarassi was a claw afterall...

Pyrsephonie thought about what scene. She'd heard of a few from Disney before. "Hmmm...." She said. "OH! I know! How about Alice in Wonderland?"

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Pyrsephonie thought about what scene. She'd heard of a few from Disney before. "Hmmm...." She said. "OH! I know! How about Alice in Wonderland?"

"That sounds awesome." She cheerfully said.