Louisa watched the baskets being passed around, when they came to her she grabbed what the weird professor told them to. She was a muggleborn and yet she didn't know what "smores" were. However she took the one marshmallow, two graham crackers, and one chocolate bar from the picnic basket that had been passed around. Seriously professor Gemma was so into muggle food, there wasn't a single class without every kind of snacks available for them. The woman was so nice and cool.

"My favorite is Beauty and the Beast, professor," Louisa had held her hand high before answering that, "It's a muggle fairy tale about a strong and educated girl named Belle." Were they supposed to say the whole story? Probably not. The Ravenclaw fell silent then and looked around for the next person that wanted to share.

"I rather like the little Mermaid. Well the movie,not the book, it's creepy. But the movie, is so sweet and is just the right amount of darkness bit still has a happy ending.", Ouichi responded ending on a smile.

Sarah took the two greahm crackers, chocolate and marshmellow from the picnic basket and passed the basket on. Favourite fairy tale, she was going to opt for a muggle one as it was muggle studies after all -"The story about the Ugly Duckling. How everyone is special each in it's own way. Like Albert Einstein said "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” This is what happened with the story . When I first heard this story I was really sad, especially when the other ducklings rejected him. Yet this story has a lesson for all of us. We all have i\our talents and weaknesses. We must try improve our weaknesses but use our talents." Sarah finished off.

Oh! She had to supress a laughter when Mordred got his face and lovely hair all covered with whipped cream. That was a sight to see, bahahaha! Sophie had never considered how funny Muggle Studies could be, with all of her friends that had grown up in wizarding families only. She was sure that there were probably lots of funny situations and answers!

When professor... well, the professor started the class, Sophie went to sit on a log by her friend Ella. Oooooooooooo! Smores! Yum! As the picnic basket - a really cute one, in Sophie's opinion. She loved those kind of things! - passed around, Sophie listened as her classmates spoke, thinking about what her favourite fairy tale was... she really didn't know. She liked fairy tales, of course, but she never had a favourite one.

After taking two graham crackers, a marshmallow and a piece of chocolate for herself, Sophie passed the basket along and looked at Mordred. Shame his lovely hair is full of whipped cream... OH! She quickly raised her hand. "Professor, I really like Rapunzel!" GRIN.

Making SMORES? Coooool. Theo had actually never done that before, but that was primarily because he didn't feel comfortable around fires. And he certainly didn't trust himself with handling/cooking any types of food. Nope, he was invented to eat, not cook.

As the basket made his way to the first year, he picked out everything he needed and sat it very tidily in front of him.

So, the lesson was about fairy tales. That could be... fun. Meh. His favourite, though? Well, Theo was more of a comic person as opposed to fairy tales. But seeing as Spiderman wouldn't be an option, Theo raised his hand and mentioned another from WAY back in his childhood, "The Gingerbread Man." Oh yeah... he liked that mischievous gingerbread man. It reminded him of himself.

That's right.

Theo WAS the gingerbread man.

His head popped up as some people mentioned Peter Pan, too. Why didn't HE say that one? Yes, Peter Pan was definitely his real favourite.

Well of course, the Professor would like his pjs, they were awesome. But he did like the spider-man pjs some other people were wearing. He took a couple sips of his hot chocolate just to see if it cooled down enough of him to drink. It appears it did so Nigel took a good long drink of his delicious hot chocolate. He then took a minute to think about what is favorite fairy tale was. He did like Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, Cinderella,and Rapunzel. But he did know his favorite. He raised his hand.

"Professor, My favorite is Jack and the Beanstalk"

SPOILER!!: Violet and Selina

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With her fuzzy blanket wrapped around her body, Violet slowly made her way into the Muggle Studies classroom a little nervously. Every so often whenever Violet thought of Muggle Studies she always got a sudden shiver and would feel nervous whenever she was in that classroom. Now it wasn't that Violet didn't like Muggle Studies, it was just that she didn't understand Muggle Studies. And because of that, she wasn't doing so great in that class, and whenever Elektra or Selina tried explaining things she didn't understand, try as she may, she still couldn't get it. But it doesn't mean that she was willing to give up on trying to understand!

So here she was in her pajamas and as soon as she had entered the room she got a full whiff of the burning campfire that lit the dark room. As she began walking more into the classroom Violet noticed the professor waiting for all of the students to arrive. To which Violet smiled politely and gave her a gentle wave saying lightly,"Hello Professor.." Then Violet turned her attention towards the face who had arrived there, and some she knew, some she didn't.

Until her violet eyes had rested on the snack table where she saw a very familiar pair of heads, one of them being red while the other filled with curls. Violet gasped a little bit and smiled eagerly and she scurried in her slipper boots towards them. Violet then wrapped her arms around the redhead saying excitedly,"Hi Sely!" She gave her best friend a tight quick squeeze before she turned her attention towards Gideon and almost squealed when she said,"GIDDY-eon!" And as she had done before, she hugged Gideon tightly and then let go looking at the two smiling. Violet then wrapped her blanket around herself again before saying,"So don't you two look adorable in your jammies!" She giggled a little bit.

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SPOILER!!: Gideon and Violet

The redhead was overwhelmed with the food on the table that her eyes were seemingly swimming through a chocolate ocean. It was hard for her to choose just one treat to take with her back to the seats around the campfire. And she only wanted to take one treat because she was starting to get the idea that she was frightening the first years with her never ending stomach. To be honest, it was kind of weird how much she could ingest.

Then she heard a Scottish timbre wittily remark and she turned around to smile at him. Before she could retort she took in his pajamas and mused that they were very him. They looked so comfortable, "Yeah, fancy meeting you here in class."

Before she could make another comment she heard a bubbly, bright, loud voice scream the familiar nickname that Gideon hated. Violet. "Hey Vi."

Gideon smiled as Selina responded in kind to his comment. "Aye...of course. Where else would I be?" It was rhetoric and it wasn't as if an answer was needed, just a way to bolster the conversation. However the conversation was interrupted by another familiar voice..Violet had appeared by their side. He watched absently as the blonde hugged her best friend and then was surprised by his own hug, the prefect thankfully able to keep his mug from spilling in the process.

"Hey Violet," he greated simply with a friendly smile. Before much more could be said, Professor Cerulean brought the attention of the class to her begining the lesson. Gideon moved obediantly from the table, leading the duo if they so chose back to the spot where he had set down his blanket.

SPOILER!!: Cerulean

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The professor smiled at the young boy, “The same to you. Come in and grab some hot chocolate.”



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Once everyone was settled in spots, she looked around the room and took a little breath to get herself ready for the lesson and then she stood up in her spot with the picnic basket hanging on her right arm.

“Welcome everyone to the second Muggle Studies Lesson! This time we are going to be focusing on Muggle Fairy Tales.” she said excitedly and then opened up the picnic basket and pulled out three huge bags. One bag had big marshmallows in it, the next had little chocolate bars, and the last had graham crackers in it. “In true campfire spirit, we are going to make smores tonite. Don’t worry if you haven’t made one before, we’ll do it together once everyone has all of their supplies. ” she said holding up the three bags. ”I’m going to pass around the picnic basket. If you will grab one marshmallow, two graham crackers, and one chocolate bar. Don’t worry about the chocolate melting, I’ve charmed it to not do that.” as she said each ingredient she held up that bag in case not everyone was familiar with each and then she started passing around the picnic basket.

“Okay, now onto the lesson….” she said with a little pause as the picnic basket started being passed around the circle. “ Fairy tales are stories either created or strongly influenced by oral traditions. Their plots feature stark conflicts between good and evil, with magic and luck determining the usually happy endings. While each culture and geographic region of the world has its own body of folk tales and fairy tales that it considers its own, certain themes and motifs tend to be repeated across many cultures and time periods. Many human emotions such as love, hate, courage, kindness, and cruelty appear in bold, broad strokes on the canvas of fairy tales.” she said almost like she was a storyteller sharing a story already.

”Because of the worldwide connection of fairy tales, their imagery and lessons have had a vast impact on many different forms of literature. The elements and echoes of fairy tales are alive in plays, movies, and books for all ages.” she said with a little nod up and down.

“[b]Now there are fairy tales in both Muggle and Wizarding Worlds. Some are very similar in nature and teach the same ultimate lesson in the end. But, before we get started, I’m anxious to know what everyone’s favorite fairy tale is.” She said holding her arms out. “Please raise your hand and share what your favorite fairy tale is, whether it’s muggle or wizard.”

OOC: Okay, the lesson has started so all conversations should be squashed. Do not announce your charrie coming in late or points will be deducted from your house.

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.

Gideon briefly noticed as he took his seat that the librarian had arrived as well, apparently to join the lesson. It certainly made sense given the topic of fairy tales and his position within the school.Turning his attention back to the muggle studies professor, he listened to the explaination of fairy tales before the first question of the day was given.

The sixth year thought for a bit as others suggested their own,including Selina's selection, Gideon finally raised his hand to answer. "There is the Scottish tale of 'The Laird o' Co'" Gideon suggested, a tale he remembered himself from years past, another popping to mind and a more likely favorite."And 'The Sword in the Loch'." That was a Scottish version of the King Arthur tales, a story that brought forth a connection to his own middle name.

He was about to blurt out the Muggle Fairytales he's researched and the ones that left an imprint on him when he caught the last part -- 'whether Muggle or Wizard'? Well if she asked for his favorite he had this to say "Professor, one of the first bedtime stories that was read to me was The Wizard and the Hopping Pot, its one of the stories in Tales of Beedle the Bard." he replied after raising his hand.

With her hot chocolate mug cupped in her hands, the red head sat quietly and soundly on one of the logs by the campfire. She had her purple blanky wrapped around her with Winky her teddy sitting on her lap. On her shoulder, her pygmy puff, Puffles was snoring in he's sleep.

The red head listened carefully as the Professor began the lesson and the picnic baskets started being handed around. It would be somewhat interesting to her, as when she had been a little girl fairytales had always facinated her even the muggle ones her nanny had told her at times. As Nessie collected her marshmallow, her two graham crackers, and her chocolate bar she listened even more intently to the professor and now some of the students too.

Most of the fairytales being mentioned Ness had heard of before. She remembered being a small little girl, when her mother actually tucked her in bed and used to read to her The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Though she remembered too, the nights her nanny used to tuck her in bed and instead of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, her nanny ended up reading Thumbelina and all sorts of other muggle fairytales to her. So all these fairytales were not new to her at all. With a tiny red blush forming on her cheeks, the fourth year raised her hand politely, making sure to hold her hotchocolate in the other. "Professor my favorite fairytale was Thumbelina, when I was a child." She said and then went a little redder.

Everyone was admiting their favorite fairytales surely nobody would laugh at hers right?

Gemma stood up as the students were calling out their answers and walked to one of the walls and pulled on a string from the ceiling pulling down a screen. As the students said their favorite fairy tales, she would write with her finger and their answers appeared on the screen. She had them divided up by Muggle and Wizard stories. "These are all great stories...I have to admit that one of my favorite stories is Beauty and the Beast."



When they were done calling out their favorites she glanced at the board with an approving nod and then turned back to the group. She watched the picnic basket go around the room and with a smile said, "Please make sure you're still passing the basket with the smore supplies for us to use in a few minutes."

She walked back to the screen when she felt everyone had read the answers and list and then she tapped lightly on the screen and it cleared. "Now one of the most important parts of a fairy tale is for there to be the good and bad guys." she paused and then turned back towards the students, "These two types of characters are called the antagonists and the protagonists. Now each story can have more than one of each but it is a requirement for each story to have both involved in the story line."

She held up her right hand. "The protagonist is usually the main character in the story. It is usually the character or characters in the story that you are routing to win...so the good guys." she said glancing at her hand and then dropping it.

Then she held up left hand, "The antagonist is usually the character or characters that are going against the protagonist of the story. They are usually the bad guy or bad guys. These characters are who we want to fall on their faces and learn a lesson from their actions." she said with a nod left and right slightly.

"All fairy tales have a protagonist and an antagonist no matter if they are Muggle or Wizard. These characters can be beings, thoughts, animals, beliefs, etc. But in most stories they are actual human beings." she said turning back to the screen and clicking on it three times. This made the screen go black.

"Here is a video from an old Muggle movie that shows a good representation of an antagonist vs a protagonist." she tapped on the screen and the video started playing.

~*Link to video: Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader *~

"That video is from a Muggle Classic series called Star Wars. If you have never seen the movies, I encourage to watch them. They are pretty amazing especially when you consider what years they were made. But back to the lesson..." she said excitedly...Star Wars was a classic and she would love to share it with the students..."In this clip, Luke Skywalker, the one in white is the protagonist because we are pro him and he is the good guy...and Darth Vader, the guy in the black, is the antagonist." she clicked on the board and the pictures of each appeared on the screen. "It is kind of ironic that our protagonist is in white and our antagonist is in black."

She reached down and grabbed another basket with sticks in it and walked towards the students, "As we answer the next question, please pass this basket around and everyone grab a stick."

"So onto the next question, think about the movies, books, stories, historical stores, etc that you have been exposed to wether they were Muggle or Wizard based and share the name or brief summary of it and who the protagonist and antagonist of the story would be..." she said walking back to the screen and tapping it to clear it and set up a new list for the students.

OOC: Okay, the lesson has started so all conversations should be squashed. Do not announce your charrie coming in late or points will be deducted from your house.

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.

Ella smiled as she read the list of fairy tales. She was very familiar with the Muggle ones but hadn't heard many of the wizarding ones. Perhaps one of her friends who knew more could fill her in on those stories some time. It might be a nice after party to the next pillow fight...that's if the boys weren't too upset with losing and everything. *Shrug*

Protagonist and Antagonist. Right. Good vs. Evil was a reoccurring theme in all kinds of books, movies, and even in real life. Like vegetables vs. ice cream. Veggies were clearly the evil party in that match-up and ice cream would kick veggies' butt every time.

As for the Star Wars clip, Ella was excited. Her dad was a big Star Wars fan and loved to say Luke, I am your fatherrr in front of the fan in the summer. He said it gave him a better Vader voice...whatever that meant. But anyway...it was a cool clip to choose. You go, Cerulean.

Since Ella had already mentioned Peter Pan, she thought she'd just stick with that for her example. "Professor, Peter Pan is about a boy who never grows up and can fly...which is awesome...and he has a group of lost boys who he's friends with and they all go on adventures in Neverland. Peter is the protagonist and the antagonist is Captain Hook, his arch nemesis! Peter cut off Hook's hand in a duel!" Which was flippin awesome. Ella hoped she'd be a good dueler...only she'd use her wand instead of a sword.

WHEEEEEEEEEE. Star Wars. Theodore loved that, he did. He mouthed the words 'I am your father', then grinned to himself. He was so cool.

Good guys... bad guys... Easy peasy.

Theodore knew all about this cos he was an epic comic reader. Maybe he should mention that? But he did kinda feel a bit lame about it. Nobody really read comics these days. Apart from his friend, Alec, which was one of the few reasons that made him COOL, might I add.

So... comics orrrrr movie?

Nah, he'd stick with a movie.

"Like... Batman and the Joker?" Good guy and bad guy. Done. "Batman is this big guy with a silly costume and a silly car, who is a really lame superhero." He wouldn't know much cos he hadn't ACTUALLY seen the movie. Because it was stupid. But he had read a few Batman comics. And was not impressed.

"But the Joker is coooooool, even though he's a bad guy. I dunno if he wears make up, though. Or if that's just his natural face...." He trailed off.

Huh? What was the question?

He picked up a stick from the basket as soon as it reached him.

Oh this sounded like fun and he could pick any book or movie he wanted.

Well Nigel did like his comic books and since Batman was already said he might was well use another one. Nigel raised his hand and said

"Professor, there is Superman and Lex Luthor. Superman is an alien who loves Earth. He gets super powers like flying, super strength and heat vision from the Sun." But Nigel did like Batman better than Superman. But he was cool expect that he could die from Kryptonite.

"And Lex Luthor is a billionaire genius who hates Superman because he is an alien and is jealous of him." Nigel liked Lex Luthor because he was kind of like a evil Batman.

Nigel looks down and sees the basket being passed to him. He takes a stick and passes it to the next person.

Laura was about to say something when she suddenly stopped, if she said that film the Professor would probably put her in detention because it had death in the storyline so well she would have to think of another film, thinking hard she smiled as she raised her hands. "Well there's valkyrie but that complicated as the bad guys are the good guys who want to kill a bad guy who in this film is seen as a good guy but well he's not because he was evil." Laura was confused and stopped there for the Professor to speak

The picnic basket finally reached him and he fished out some crackers, marshmallow and chocolate. He has had these before once so he can figured out enough what went where. Dutifully he started scribbling his notes down, then looked up when there was a large wizarding photo that came on...

Wait that was not a Wizarding photo... this was one of them Muggle movie type things...

And what a movie it is!

Vickers sat silently, mouth agape at the video that played before them. They had sword type wand things that glowed! Blue eyes barely blinked as they followed the glowing swords as they swung helter skeleter and clashed mightily. And he gasped. "He lost his hand! Their Healers can grow that back right?" he mumbled under his breath.

It took him a while to focus back on the lesson but finally was brought back to the present when that basket with the sticks came across him. The Professor was asking another question. Gah focus! Should he go with Wizarding or Muggle stories? Might as well put those research to good use... Up goes the hand again "Professor, there is this Muggle book called The Lord of the Rings, the story is about this Hobbit-- a halfling-- named Frodo, who is the Protagonist of the story, Frodo was was on a mission to destroy this all-powerful Ring which was created by this great evil demigod named Sauron. Sauron is the antogonist, but he wasnt the only one, he had a lot of followers that did his bidding and Frodo had to face them all. He didnt face them alone though, he also had a lot of people that helped him, other supporting characters who are also protagonists of the story."

His eyes darted back to the screen. He wanted to see those glowing sword-wands again!

Louisa fell silent as she watched the clip on the screen. This was something about space, and they were fighting with shiny swords... HECUTHISHAND! She couldn't help but gasp and clasped her hands over her mouth as the antagonist turned out to be the protagonist's father. Snort, wasn't that just convenient. Lastly, the hero threw himself off the pole. D:

When the professor started explaining, the Ravenclaw removed her hands from her mouth and nodded along the teacher. Just as she was about to raise her hand the basket of sticks reached her. She fished out one, dropped it in her lap and then raised her hand, "There's Edward Scissorhands, professor, a muggle movie I've read about once, it's fantasy and romance." Shifting in her place so that she could give them the summary about the movie, Louisa started, "The movie starts with an elderly woman describes to her granddaughter where snow comes from, by telling her the story of a young man named Edward, who has scissors for hands, the creation of an inventor. The inventor's final result was a humanlike young boy who had everything except for hands, but the inventor had a heart attack and died while in the act of giving a pair of real hands to Edward, leaving him "unfinished" forever."

"The rest of the movie focuses on Edward, who left all his life alone up in the tower, getting involved with the rest of the people from the nearby town. How he interacts with the new environment around him, get to know how people think and act. I'd say the protagonist in the movie is Edward, his pureness even. And the antagonist is the people of the town who eventually refuses the pale young man and banish him back to his tower when he no longer serves their purposes and needs." Louisa swallowed and concluded, "He stayed in his tower for the rest of his life, making ice sculptures of his experience in town, especially the girl he fell in love with. And that is the place where the snow comes from each year, that's what the elderly woman tells her grandchild in the end of the movie." Breeeeeeath.

The Prefect fell back on her butt and put on a smile. That was probably the longest answer she'd ever had in her life. And it wasn't even quoted from a book!

Boring stuff. João knew about those already. So, he half listened to it and half stared somewhere absent-mindedly, and that somewhere happened to be Louisa. He hadn't really noticed he was dreaming while he looked at her pink top. He hadn't really paid attention to who she was, even. But of course, no one would take it so. He had right stared at her for about 30 seconds when she moved and he realised what he had been doing. Flushed a little, he shook his head to himself and changed his sitting position. Luckily the professor asked another question that he could jump on. Raising his hand, he said without even thinking "Green Street, or commonly known as Green Street Hooligans, is a football classic movie," he said somewhat hotly. The movie was... it had changed his mind. Literally.

"It's main subject is hooliganism in football, but its message is more about hooliganism in general. The story starts with the American protagonist Matt Buckner being expelled from Harvard because his room-mate and the antagonist Jeremy van Holden hides his cocaine inside his cupboard. Then, Matt decides to escape to London where his big sister is living. She's married to the big brother of my hero in the movie--Pete Dunham. Pete is the head of the West Ham United football team's firm, meaning, the fan group. After every match, they fight. Though their biggest rival is Millwall and--." He halted talking abruptly, looking around to see if anyone had cared to listen to him for so long. It was football, the game Britain had invented and the best game in the world. They should listen to it, because it was in their blood, right?

Yeah. "I should stop there or I'll be telling the end." He chuckled. "It's the best movie in its category." So, people, watch it.

O_O He said what! Batman was lame!!!!!! and the Joker was COOL!!!!! What did this kid know about Batman anyways! Oakey was not going to let this crime go unpunished, he knew Batman would not sit idly by as someone trash talked his name.

Batman is NOT lame! Oakey blurted out! Batman is AMAZING, and he has tons more COOLER antagonists than the Joker! Like, BANE, or or Ra's Al Ghul, or Killer Croc, oooor Mr. Freeze and TWO-FACE, oh there was also Deadshot, Clayface, and Poison Ivy! Even Scarecrow and The Riddler! These were all villains ten times as cool as The Joker.

Seeing as he now had to go along with his reply to Professor Cerulean's question, and since the Lame-O Batman hater didn't give a proper summery of Batman aka Detective Comics, Oakey would do so... Taking a breather and taking a stick form the basket as it passed it by Oakey rephrased his response. What I mean is that Batman was character in a comic book called Detective Comics, written by Bob Kane in 1939. The Caped Crusader first came to be when his parents were killed by a mugger late one night. He witnessed their deaths and vowed revenge on the criminals of Gotham City his home town Was that a good enough summery. Batman deserved a better response than what wimpy Theodore gave. He has had thousands of antagonist's since his creation as I mentioned before.

He glared at Theodore for the gruesome insult he payed to the Dark Knight. He was way better than the Avengers anyways.

GAH, THIS HUFFLEPUFF...

He needed serious locking away. "He is lame. He has a lame costume, a lame car. A LAME NAME." HE WAS JUST LAME. And now he was listing off other villains in the Batman franchise. Theodore stuck his fingers in his ears, and pretended that he wasn't listening.

"LALALAaaaaaa, boring." He wasn't an avid reader of Batman, and never would be. So give him a BREAK if he didn't know each villain's full name and address and postcode and, ugh. The first year fake-yawned throughout Oakey's long and boring response to the question.

"Marvel comics are better."

OHYEA. Spiderman was a real hero. Or Thor. Or Black Widow. Hehehe, Theodore liaaaaaaked her.

Gemma wasn't sure what to do with the superhero and villain battle going on in her classroom. On one hand, she was trying to keep herself from laughing at their passion for their opinions. It reminded her of her little brother. His favorite superhero was Iron Man, but that was before he disappeared so many years ago. She put a little smile on her face remembering him playing with his toy Iron Man and then she focused back in on the two fighting. She decided to just try to squash it nicely.

She stepped forward with a smile and held up her hands, "Now boys, we are all allowed to have our own opinions and that means that no one's is wrong....However, since I am the professor in here, that means that whatever I say goes..." she said with a little giggle and a wink at the two boys, "So, that means whichever superhero protagonist and villain antagonist that I choose wins... she said playfully. "And my vote goes for Iron Man and Doomsday..." she said waiting for them to even try to respond but then she figured she'd throw in one more little tid bit, "And yes I realize that one is Marvel and the other is DC, but remember I say which is the best so this should end this argument..." she said the last with a smile but with a little bit harsher tone...not mean but firm...yep she could be feisty and she didn't see a problem with showing her nerdy comic book side.

She glanced back at the class with a smile, "So back to our question...Anyone else want to give more examples of an Antagonist and Protagonist from a movie, book, or story?"

OOC: Okay, the lesson has started so all conversations should be squashed. Do not announce your charrie coming in late or points will be deducted from your house.

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.

Sarassi was still pretty down and wasnt in her usual cherry self. But she had managed to pull herself from the Common Room and come to the class. It was a good thing they could wear pajamas cause thats what she was in and what she wanted to be in. Sadly though her sister wasnt there to be in the superman pajamas, she was in her batman pajamas. In almost every photo when they were together in their pajamas, Nerida was in the superman pjs and Sarassi was in her batman pjs. Rasing her hand she said My favorite fairy tale is Cinderella.

Sarassi grabbed some materials from the basket just as the Professor sent a reminder out. She passed it on and looked back up at the Professor as she began speaking. As another basket was passed around she grabbed a stick and sent that basket on as well. Wow, wow, did someone just say batman was a lame superhero. Grr whoever that was. Raising her hand she answered In a muggle tv show called Avatar the Last Airbender there is an airbender who is also the avatar-which is a person that can control all four elements- air, water, earth, and fire- he is the main protagonist in the story. And the antagonist is Fire Lord Ozai who has taken over the world basically. There are several protagonist and antagonist in the story but those two are the main ones. She loved that show when she visited her muggle friends they were always watching it. After finishing speaking she pulled her batman blanket over herself some more and looked down at her batman slippers, yeap she was batmaned out. The only thing that was not batman was the pillow she grabbed she had grabbed her sister's and not hers.

OOOoooooooh if this kid wasn't Mordy's wingman Oakey would hang him upside down the nearest Gargoyle and intimidate him until he said Batman was awesome! Oakey's face grew red as the wimpy Slytherin LaLa'd his proper response to Batman.

Pffffffffft! Oakey waved his hand in the direction of Theodore dismissing his ridiculous claim. Any avid comic book reader knew DC Comics were far Superior to Marvel Comics.

Green Arrow could out shoot Hawkeye any day.

That's right Wimpy just because DC was better didn't mean he didn't know his Marvel heroes. TAKE THAT!

Wha...Whaa...What? Professor Cerulean know of The Ultimate? The Creature that killed Superman? NO WAY! This certainly shut Oakey up. At the end of class he would bring up that she forgot to mention how Doomsday would crush Iron Man into tiny pieces in a fight. But it seemed she wanted them to focus on class now.

Minerva put her hand up. "Professor, A movie that comes to mind is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The turtles were mutated into Ninjas and they ware fighting crime to save earth. The bad guy is Shredder and his gang and the good guys are the turtles and their rat master splinter." She smiled knowing it was an older movie, but it was still a movie.

"There has actually been four movies and a tv show with these characters. They also have April who is a new reporter and a good person as well. I like watching all the fighting parts." She put her hand back down and listened to the other students.

Emmanuelle stayed silent during the naming of fairy tales. Not because she didn't like the question, but because she wasn't sure that the story that kept popping into her mind would be considered a fairy tale or not. Aladdin had always seemed like so much more than a fairy tale to her. It had action, adventure, romance... When the basket of s'mores stuffs got to her, she gladly took one of each: graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate. She started assembling it, trying so hard not to just go ahead and eat the whole thing. She had a bad habit of doing that, every since she was a child.

And now here was a question she could answer! Using the aforementioned story, Emmanuelle's hand shot into the air and she answered the question. "Well, there's Aladdin. It's about this 'street urchin' here she used air quotes "who is suckered into retrieving a genie's lamp from a cave by an evil dude named Jafar. But he gets the last laugh when genie awakens and grants all of his wishes." Or that was the basics of it, anyway. It had been awhile since she'd seen that movie, so some of the details were fuzzy in her mind. "In this case, Aladdin would be the protagonist and Jafar would be the antagonist."

She took a stick once the basket got to her and put on the log beside her. She didn't know how to put the stick in her already assembled s'more since everytime she'd had one, they'd been cooked in the microwave.

Alyssa listened as the Professor talked about the books and then she asked for an example about who she would consider an antagonist and a protagonist. Alyssa thought for a moment before raising her hand.

"Professor, there's the movie called the Transformers, where the Protagonists is Sam Witwickey and his friends, the Autobots led by Optimus Prime. The Antagonists were the mean and cruel Decepticons led by Megatron."

"The Autobots and Decepticons end up on earth and John accidentally gets caught between the two of them. The Autobots want to protect Earth and the Decepticons want to take over it."

"The Autobots are soooo cool because they can change into real neat trucks, and motorbikes and there's even a car that's called Bumble Bee."

"While the Decepticons like to cheat by changing into things that fly and machines that eat everything in their path. Mean nasty machines they are." Alyssa frowned punching her pillow every time she remembered how they took destroyed Optimus Prime. 'One against 10 of them. That wasn't a fair fight at all'Alyssa thought to herself.