Alex waited for the basket to be passed her way and took a marshmallow, chocolate bar and graham crackers. The other basket soon followed and she reached for a stick. After passing the basket on, Alex raised her hand.

"My favorite fairy tale is Little Red Riding Hood", she said. "It is about a little girl who gets tricked by a wolf while she is delivering a basket of goodies to her grandma. She gets the best of the wolf in the end. In that story, Little Red Riding Hood is the protagonist and The Big Bad Wolf is the antagonist."

Annabelle was happy to see a Star Wars clip. As the basket was being passed around, she took a stick, a marshmallow and all the other necessary ingredients to make a smore. She remembered watching them back at home. Her brother was a huge fan back in the muggle world. Annabelle thought to a book or movie she loved when she was little. Belle raised her hand to answer the question. "Professor for the movie which is based on a book, i used to love and still do is called The Great Mouse Detective. The story is about a little girl named Olivia and her father, who is a toymaker is taken hostage by the most evil criminal mind. It is almost similar to Sherlock Holmes tale. The Protagonist is Basil who was the detective of the story and he is trying to find Olivia's father. The Antagonist is Professor Ratigan. He wants to take over and have all the power. He will not stop at nothing for Basil to get in his way." she smiled and was starting to put her marshmallow on her stick ready to roast it to perfection.

Wiping the remaining whipped cream on his face, he looked up and listened to his bros, Theo and Oakey.

He was confuzzled.

What has gotten into Theo and Oakey...and they were “fighting” about which “animal” was better. Batman? What? He forced his attention instead to the professor who was asking about a movie or book which has a protagonist and antagonist. Somehow he didn’t want to cite a wizarding book this time. His thoughts brought him back to the time where he and his friend Chloe watched this movie in a cinema, which by the way scared the hell out of the young pureblood boy, about a demi-god called Percy Jackson. It was a good movie and a thrilling one too. Although, he thought it to be pathetic since he was the real deal compared to those blokes who were on the huge screen. He had real magic flowing in his veins, and that Percy boy was just an actor...acting to have powers of a god.

“Professor, how about the movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians? It was about a boy named Percy who was a son of a greek god called Poseidon. He was accused of stealing Zeus’ lightning bolt and if he did not return it the world will be in chaos. At first he was like the antagonist in the movie because he “stole” Zeus’ weapon.” Mordred seriously thought that it would have been easier if those gods had wands instead of lightning bolts. “But then, another boy named Luke came to the picture and in the end it turns out that he was the one who stole the lightning bolt.” Morded put his hand down and sat back and finished his hot chocolate. He was thankful that Chloe forced him to see a muggle movie—at least he doesn’t look like a total idiot in Cerulean’s class.

Erin listened at the Professor's discussion about Muggle fairytales' protagonists and antagonists. And she caught that confusion of Professor Cerulean about the black and white costumes of the bad guy and good guy respectively on the video she just showed them. In Muggle beliefs, white usually represents the good one and black is the white one. As Erin grew accustomed to the wizarding practice, she had also observed that blacks were the usual colors in this world.

Why was it taking the picnic basket so long to reach her place? She wanted one.

...and the question. Erin raised her hand and shared her answer, "There is the famous Muggle movie, Toy Story. It's a series but my favorite is Toy Story 3. The protagonists are Woody, Buzz Light Year and all their other toy friends while the antagonist is Lotso. They are donated by accident to the Sunnyside Daycare. The toys are welcomed by Lotso but sooner they discover that the children mistreat them. Further, they are imprisoned in the daycare by Lotso and his gang."

Antagonist and Protagonist? Well, that wasn't always a clearly defined line. Growing up, Selina had been told by her parents and aunts and uncles that bad people were not always bad. There was a ray of hope in everyone- no one was born evil, they just had wickedness thrust upon them. And no one could really argue with that fact because, well, then that would mean that evil was innate and that was an awful thought.

So the redhead had a hard time really dealing with the question at hand, life wasn't black and white. Why were they being asked to subject characters, even fictional ones, to such hard stereotypes? But the last thing she wanted to deal with was a philosophical debate at the moment. Especially with people who didn't want to listen to the tangent. "Ma'am I suppose my favorite protagonist is Aeneas from Vergil's Aeneid. It's an epic poem written during the height of Augustus' reign of the Roman Empire. It's about the fall of Troy and the survivors founding the eventual Rome. The antagonist is Turnus who believes that he has been slighted by Aeneas coming to Latium and inadvertently stealing his bride. Although, one could argue the real antagonist is Juno who causes all of the trouble for Aeneas and his men." That was shortening it a lot... It was twelve books long.

Antagonists and protagonists... hmmm...

As soon as she remembered a muggle movie that she happened to watch and love instantly, Nora raised her hand. "The Little Mermaid. About one of the daughters of king Triton, Ariel, who doesn't want to live underwater anymore, and goes to this ugly sea hag, Ursula. In exchange for her feet, Ursula takes Ariel's voice, and makes it almost impossible for her to get a true love's kiss from prince Eric to not turn back into a mermaid. But they live happily ever after, in the end." Which was why she loved it.

"The protagonist here would be Ariel, and the antagonist... Ursula." The ugly one who didn't want a happy ending. Hmph.

Jory raised his hand to answer the first question. "Professor, my favourite fairy tale is the Wizard of Oz.'' Yup, it definitely was. He had read the book tons of times as well as watched the movie.

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Jory stared at the kid who said batman was lame. Was something wrong with him? Batman was definitely not lame.

"There's the Marvel movies based on X-Men. There are five movies in the series and protagonists include Wolverine, Professor Xavier and Storm. The antagonists include Magneto, Phoenix and Mystique,'' the badger said. "In all the movies, the superheroes set off to save the world from the douche bags.'' Jory loved all five of the movies but the second and fifth were his favourites.

In all honesty, Blue had been dozing off.

Her tummy was warm with hot chocolate and she was in her pajamas and cuddling her teddy and the fire was making her even warmer. She jumped awake as if someone had dumped a bucket of water on her and rubbed her eyes. What were they talking about...? Oh riiiiight. Good guys and bad guys. And their favourite fairytales.

Blue nodded along with Sophie. "My favourite's Repunzal toooooo!" Blue twirled a lock of her around her finger, imagining it fifty times longer and how one day Prince Charming would tug at it to save her. She'd probably tell them to stop PULLING HER HAAAAAIR and to use the stairs and that they were out of luck anyway, she was never gonna marry or fall in love with anyone.

"Weeeeeell," the eleven-year-old went thoughtful. "In the story the good guy- uuuh, girl, is Repunzal 'cause she wants to get away and not be locked up and all and the bad person is the woman who stole her away from the king and queen for her selfish reasons!" Yup.

Blue wriggled back into a comfy position and took a stick for the basket.

Uh...what were they?

For eating?

The child yawned a huge yawn and blinked slowly, gazing into the fire...

Pro is good, anta is bad. Simple.

Janice took the stick and gave the basket to the next person. She had to resist the urge to stuck her half nibbled marshmallow to the stick and roast it over the fire and eat it since it's so good.

Then, she raised her hand to answer the next question.
"Well, in the story Wizard of Oz, the protagonists are Dorothy, Dodo the dog, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Glinda the Good. The antagonists are the Wicked Witches of the West and East. Basically, Dorothy, Dodo, Tin man, Scarecrow, and the Lion is going to the Emerald City to ask the Wizard to grant their wishes. They faced some difficulties along the Yellow Brick Road, but in the end everybody got what they wanted."

Spike raised his hand. "In Matilda, by Roald Dahl, the antagonist is Miss Trunchbull, the scary headmistress. And the title character, Matilda, is the protagonist." He nodded. And Matilda was cool, with all those powers. Moving chalk with just her mind.

The basket of smore making stuff came to him, and Spike wrinkled his nose. Those kind of crackers? Bleh. He favoured biscuits when he made smores. "Er, Professor, do you mind if I just have the marshmallow-y bit?" he asked, biting his lip. "Or the chocolate-y bit? Unless you've got some digestive biscuits?"

He smiled and thought about his next answer.It was simple.Two words:

CAPTAIN AMERICA!!!!
He raised his hand and grinned.''Professor, In the movie Captain America.''He smiled.''The Protagonist is Captain America.''So obvious.''And the.''What was the word for the bad guy.''And the bad guy is Red Skull.''

Sarah raised her hand "One of my favorite books is a muggle book called 'A little Princess', written by Frances Hodgeson Burnett. In this story, a little girl named Sarah (the protagonist) remains happy in a seminary where another girl named Lavinia (one antagonist) tells on her out of envy to Miss Minchin (another antagonist). Although she was raised as a princess would, and now, after her fathers death being treated as a servant, Sarah always believes she is a princess, seeing the silver lining in every situation." Sarah said, her eyes glittering from excitement. It was such a nice book!

Maxwell sat there slightly in awe of star wars being shown in a class. This was officially his favorite class. He frowned a little as it was over and focused on the question at hand. He raised his hand. "Well, honestly professor i would have to use star wars but maybe instead of Luke, Obi-Wan would be my protagonist and Anakin Skywalker my antagonist. Without Ob-Wan things would have fallen apart many times, and because of Anakin they eventually did. But in the end i think Anakin was a little bit of both, the antagonist and protagonist."

Antagonists and protagonists? Antagonists is the bad guy and protagonists is the good guy, right?

When the basket was passed to him, Messer grabbed a stick while thinking about the second question Professor was asking. He put the stick in his left hand and raised his right hand up in the air. "Professor, there's this Muggle movie called Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Sherlock Holmes, a detective who also the protagonists in this movie, accompany by his sidekick Dr. Watsonjoin forces to outwit and bring down their opponent, Professor Moriarty, who is the antagonists character in this movie." he said before lowering his hand.

This was ridiculous. If Milton had have known that he would be surrounded by a bunch of five year olds in animal print pajamas with fluffy blankets and giant teddy bears, he wouldn't have signed up for this class. There was no way these students could possibly be over the age of ten. They were ten year olds in teenage bodies.

In fact, he was fairly certain that Professor Cerulean wasn't even human. She was probably a living, breathing teddy bear inside of a human body.

When the basket of smorey stuff came his way, Milton just passed it along without taking anything from it. No. Just no. He wasn't even wearing his pajamas. But he did take the opportunity to wear jeans and a simple tshirt. That was comfortable enough for him.

Milton just sat back and watched the little film excerpt. Star Wars? Sounded... weird. And the more Milton watched, the more weird it got. They were fighting with neon sticks and the guy in black was breathing funny and--oh dear. The guy lost his hand. He could probably get a healer to fix that. As the scene went on, it just got even more ridiculous. The acting was terrible! "My dead grandmum can act better than that..."

I am your father.

No... NO... DATS NOT TWUE. DATS IMPOSSABUL.

Search your feelings, you KNOW it to be twue.

NOOOOOOOoooo! NOOOOooo...!

"HA-HA!" Milton laughed suddenly, overcome by a bout of absolute amusement at how horrible that acting was. He snorted and shook his head. "Ah, man," he mumbled with a quiet chuckle. That was good stuff right there.

Good as in completely ridiculous, by the way.

Ahem. Anyway. Milton listened to the professor continue without laughing anymore. It was hard to control his amused smile, however. He didn't dare speak up though, in fear that he might just giggle.

Protagonist v. Antagonist. Good v. Evil.

Not too hard...depending on which story you pick. Lily decided to pick her favorite fairy tale, even though it wasn't always very easy to choose who was the protagonist and who was the antagonist. "In the Tale of The Three Brothers, The protagonist could be the three brothers and the antagonist, Death... or the protagonist could just be the youngest brother and the antagonist the other two brothers and Death....based on whether you are looking more at the antagonist learning a lesson or just being the bad guy." Yep... Just then, the basket came around and she got her smores supplies... Could they make smores yet?

ooh. Good versus Evil. Indy knew this. She thought about a book or film to say, one that really showed good vs evil well. Ooh she knew one. With a big smile on her face she lifted her hand. "Well. I heard of this book called the hunger games." It was old, and a muggle movie. "And like they have to go fight to the er...death" nice book it seemed. "In an arena. And anyway. Katniss is the good guy...er girl. Because she wants to stop the games, and let everyone be happy and awesome. And Presidemt Snow is like the bad guy, because he does the game. And tries to kill Katniss, and turn everyone against her. And theres lots of other bad guys too! But Katniss is cool and a very good good guy....er girl?" And then she was done. If that had made any sense at all.

Gemma looked at the young man, "Ummm...sure...I think it might be a little bit messy but go right ahead and give it a try." she said to the odd request...how was he planning on eating a melted marshmallow on a melted chocolate without anything holding it together.

The professor glanced over at the young man the first time when he passed the basket of goodies by but then after watching his face during the movie and then he laughed....she kept her eyes on the young man waiting for him to say something...she wasn't sure what was wrong with him but he was acting a little rude, but he hadn't really said anything just yet....so she just kept glancing at him occasionally ready to pounce if she needed to.

She shook her head as he talked and then her mouth opened slightly with his last statement. She put a smile on her face but the said, "Now Jory you have the right idea, but let's not call anyone including our antagonists, douche bangs..." she asked him kindly.

"Well, you did point out a good point...sometimes your antagonists can become protagonists and vice versa. You chose an hard example to pin point which is which...but a good movie and story." she said encouragingly.

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Gemma glanced around the room as the board filled up with the student's answers. She looked them over and smiled. "These are all great examples!" she said excitedly as she stepped away for everyone to glance over.



"Now that everyone has all of the supplies, go ahead and put your marshmallow on your stick and let it hover over the fire until it gets a golden brown." she said showing them what to do. "Everyone take turns using the fire and then have a seat once your marshmallow is toasted...if you need another marshmallow there are extras in the basket."

She turned back to the screen and tapped it three times. It cleared and then went blank. "Now many of you are familiar with fairy tales as they have been told in mainstream. Here is a quick video of all of the fairy tales that we recreated through a Muggle Movie company called Disney." she flicked the screen and short movie played.

~*Click HERE to watch a cool montage of all of the Disney Princesses, that I found on YouTube*~

After the short clip finished playing, she continued, "All of the movies created by Disney and other movie companies put a very whimsical and cheerful spin to fairy tales. All fairy tales had a beginning and not all of them were all goodness and light." she flicked the board and two pictures appeared.

"These men are known as the Brothers Grimm. Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm were German brothers who compiled a collection of ancient folk tales known as Grimm's Fairytales in the late 1700s and early 1800s. They were librarians, professors, scholars who studied classical literature, and folklorists. In 1805 Jacob traveled to Paris, France, to conduct research on Roman law and found a German manuscript of old stories."

She paused to make sure everyone was sinking in what she was saying, "Jacob vowed to keep the stories alive and decided to embark with his brother on a trip through Germany to collect other folk tales before the tales died out. The Grimms were especially interested in children's stories, which culminated in a book called Kinderhund Hausmarchen, which means Children's Household Tales or Grimm's Fairy Tales. This first publication, in 1812, was so well received that the brothers published several more volumes in 1815. Some of the more famous stories from these collections include "The History of Tom Thumb," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Puss in Boots," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Cinderella," and "The Princess and the Pea." she said reaching over to her shelf and pulling out a copy of the book. It was a huge heavy old book.

"Their versions were more lifelike and not so sugar coated as many of the stories we have heard over the years." she paused and watched the student toasting their marshmallows.

"So my next question, let's imagine we lived inside a fairy tale and in this fairy tale you met a fish that granted wishes and he gave you two wishes...what would your two wishes be?" she asked...yes this didn't have anything completely to with the Brother's Grimm but she couldn't really ask them a question about the Brothers when many had just be introduced to them.


OOC: Feel free to catch up with the lesson at any point by putting Catching Up in the title of your post.

Please remember to raise your hand and try not to repeat others’ answers. Remember that Gemma is watching.

When Cerulean gave the okay, Ella happily placed her marshmallow on her stick and headed towards the fire, motioning for Morbid Mordred and Soph to do the same. It would be nice to toast their marshmallows by the fire together. She rotated her stick slowly over the smaller flames, smiling as she did so. After a few minutes, the marshmallow had the perfect golden tint to it and Ella removed it slowly, making room for the other students to come forward.

When she returned to her seat, Ella held the stick with the marshmallow between her knees while she placed the chocolate on one of the graham cracker pieces. Then she picked up the stick and rested the marshmallow on top of the chocolate. The second year then sandwiched the marshmallow and chocolate between the two graham crackers until the ooey gooey marshmallow oozed out the sides. YUM!

The clip of all the Disney remakes made Ella grin. Her childhood had been filled with these films and stories so she was very familiar with how the stories changed from their originals. Honestly, the second year quite preferred the scarier more realistic tales...even if they did freak her out a bit. There was something quite fun about being scared or freaked out.

Hmmm. Two wishes. That was tough. Ella had one in mind, a selfish wish that she desperately wanted to come true. She wanted very badly for her mom to come home from where ever she had gone to. Unfortunately for Ella, that's not what her mother wanted. And besides, she wasn't comfortable sharing that wish with the rest of the class...which meant more thinking about what kind of wishes she would ask the fish to grant.

Finally, after lots of thinking and brow furrowing, the second year had come up with her wishes. She raised her hand before sharing her choices. "First, I would wish for an endless supply of gummy worms..." Because of all things she could wish for, gummy worms were the ones that seemed to cheer her up the most when she was down. And maybe when she was older and feeling bummed about growing up, gummy worms would remind her of how it felt to be a kid. "My second wish would be for my family and friends to always be happy." And if her family and friends were happy, that would make Ella incredibly happy too.

The Ravenclaw sat staring as the second Muggle video started to play. It wasnt quite as awesome as the first one he saw, but those are the Muggle fairy tales he's researched on that someone made wizarding moving pictures out of. The Professor was right, of the sampling he saw it was obvious how much the stories were sugar coated from what he read of the Grimm Brothers' version.

He took the stick and pierced then marshmallow, hovering it over the fire just as he heard the Professor launch into the next question. Which got him to blink. Fishes that granted wishes-- he's read about that too, but now they were placed in the position of the Fisherman.

There were exactly two things he would wish for, neither of which he wanted to say aloud in front of the entire class. Very personal they were see. He pressed his lips together thoughtfully, what other wishes could he say out loud? A tentative hand goes up "Professor... I woud wish that all the sick--frozen-- people in Hogwarts gets cured..." yes he still thinks its some kind of disease, and a cure means a vaccine or an antidote to keep healthy people like himself from getting down with it "... and I wish Ravenclaw could win the House Cup." he added mumbling. Yeah he said it. Thats his wishes that he's willing to say out loud.

What!? They weren't supposed to assemble their s'more yet? Whoops! Emmanuelle took her's apart before placing the marshmallow on the end of the stick. Holding the stick over the fire, she watched the film with interest. She had grown up with these movies, so she smiled as she was taken back to her childhood slightly. When the video was over, she checked on her marshmallow. Ooo, she'd left it so long that it was slightly burnt in places! Figuring that it would probably still be okay, she slipped the treat off the stick, placed the chocolate back on the bottom half of graham cracker, put the marshmallow on top of that and finished it off with the top half of cracker before lightly squeezing the sandwich between her fingers until the marshmallow oozed. Deciding that she'd better let it cool a little before taking a bite (even though she really wanted to just bite it already).

Blowing on her s'more a little to help cool it, Emmanuelle considered the question. Well, she knew what one of her wishes would be, but there was no way she was going to say it out loud. It was too embarrassing! So, a second, safer wish. One that wouldn't make her sound completely childish or like a overly concerned classmate. Or shallow. "I'd wish for no more homework!" she chirped, managing to achieve what she had been trying so hard not to do and sounding completely childish.

*facepalm*

Alyssa thought for awhile. 'Hmmm....Now if I had 2 wishes what would it be? I don't need money. I could say world peace but then I would end up sounding like that Beauty Queen Ms. Universe. I could ask for more friends but that would sound pathetic. 'Alyssa thought to herself as she yawned.

She listened as the others gave their answers trying to stay awake as much as possible. Alyssa yawned again as she raised her hand to answer.

"Professor I guess if I had 2 wishes, I would wish that all classes were like Muggle Studies. Fun with lots and lots of candy and soda and popcorn. Professor Lafay could teach us how to make a Cotton Candy potion." Alyssa grinned.

"And then my second wish would be for another 10 more wishes for me and everybody in this room." Alyssa giggled. The sugar was definitely getting to her. She knew that she was acting silly but didn't care.

Penelope just kind of listened and didn't participate much as the lesson began. Her attention was focused a little more on the baskets being passed around, especially the food ones. So when it was her turn to go up and toast the marshmallow, she got up quickly, shoving the marshmallow on the end of her stick, then held it over the fire until it was all nice and toasty. As she went back to her seat, she heard the professor's next question and decided it was something she could answer.

And she answered with the first thing that came to mind.

"I'd wish my mum and dad were alive so I could live with them instead of my stupid grandparents." ...Hm. That probably wasn't something she would've shared if she thought about it. Bit personal, it was. Did it count as two wishes? Maybe no one heard her. So she added, "And I'd wish all the frozen people to be unfrozen."

Annabelle was making her first smore. Her first marshmallow was already golden brown. She got the first graham cracker ready with the little piece of chocolate set. Then she squeezed the warm and soft and mushy marshmallow between the two crackers. It smelt so good, she couldn't wait to eat it. When the chocolate melted, she ate it and enjoyed it, YUMMY!
Then as she was putting her second marshmallow on her stick , she saw the Disney princess clip. It was adorable to see all the princesses sing their songs and be all innocent. Then she heard about the Brother's Grimm Tale and knew those were the bloody and gruesome type of fairy tales. She knew about the Red Riding Hood tale and how it ended. It was nice to know where the fairy tales originated from. She also would love to see another clip.
Then she heard the Professor's question about two wishes. Belle kept thinking what her two wishes should be. She knew her family needed a little bit more money, "Professor i think my two wishes would be to have more money since my family is in need of it, and my second wish i could travel back in time and reflect back on my childhood." She really wanted to flash back to her first year and see what it was like for a while. She also wanted to relive all the good memories with her family and all the cool muggle trips she went on.

Alex was soooo ready to make her s'more. She was just waiting for the Professor to say the word. When she did, Alex put her marshmallow onto her stick and headed for the fire. She roasted her marshmallow not until it was golden, but until it was crispy and black. For some reason, she loved them burned. Returning to her seat, Alex readied her graham crackers and chocolate. Then she put her crunchy marshmallow between them. Yummmmm!

While enjoying her treat, Alex watched the Disney video. It reminded her of home and all the muggle movies she had watched when she was younger. She loved "Mulan" and "The Princess and the Frog" best of all. Then Alex was snapped out of her s'more and Disney daze when the Professor asked a question. Two wishes, that was a hard one. Alex thought about what she would really want....something that she wasn't too embarrassed to share with the class. Raising her hand she said, "I would wish for all my family to be witches and wizards like me aaaaand to have all the books I could ever want". She hoped that didn't sound too selfish or too silly.