DADA For Muggles [Wednesday, February 3]

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Today, the classroom had a bit of an artificial warmth to it. Remus had magically ensured as much, as the windows were open. And why was that? Because today's guests were, well, aromatic.

"Welcome to our zombie lesson!" Sirius said.

"In our world," Remus said, ever the educator even in the face of...zombies, "they are called Inferi. They're dormant guards for dark wizards, and will work in groups to smother or drown an intruder. Here, from what I can tell, zombies are human victims of the bite of another zombie. And since zombies feed on human flesh, it creates a cycle of constant biting and infecting."

"And sometimes they play music down at the local pub," Sirius said, looking a little confused by that. "And in films, they shuffle faster than living people at a dead sprint. How that works is a mystery for the ages. The lesson to glean from this, children," he said, pointing a finger at the Inferi, "is that the dead should stay dead. This is no way to come back." He clapped his hands together. "Today we offer you two options for interaction: taping back our poor friends' parts onto themselves, or constructing a breathing mask so that the smell doesn't knock you out."

"Or both," Remus added. "You may need it."

Love & Romance, Hollywood Style [Period 4, Class 5]

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Drake was playing some somewhat creepy music when the students arrived for class. "Today we're going to take a trip to the dark side," he said. "No, don't go running for the nearest witch with a vanquish potion, I'm talking about obsessive love. I've got two examples for you today."

A snap of his fingers, and the projector started rolling. "In meta for Sleeping with the Enemy," Drake began, "Laura is married to an abusive, controlling, possessive husband. So she fakes her own death and runs away to start a new life. Of course, psycho hubby hunts her down. He beats up her new boyfriend and tells Laura that he loves her, he can't live without her, and he won't let her live without him. But Laura's built up a spine in the meantime, and she grabs a gun and blows the psycho away.

"Now, in Fatal Attraction," Drake continued, "the sexes get reversed. Dan cheats on his wife with Alex while his wife and daughter are out of town. When wifey comes back, Dan cuts things off. But Alex doesn't want to let go. She makes a suicide attempt and then starts stalking Dan and spying on his family. She even boils the pet bunny. Eventually she decides to kill Beth, Dan's wife, seeing her as the obstacle between her and Dan's love. Dan attempts to drown her and then Beth blows her away."

Drake stopped the clips and turned his attention back to the class. "Alex claimed to love Dan, and Laura's husband said he loved her. Was that really love? What would you do if you were caught up in those circumstances? And why do teenage girls sometimes think sparkly controlling, suffocating engine-stealing boys are so dreamy?"

Magic for Dummies | Class Five | Period One

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When the students entered today, they would see a long table set up in the front of the classroom, filled with various magical tools.

"Good morning, everyone," Paige said. "I hope you're all well today. Today we're going to talk about some of the traditional tools of magic and then you'll get a chance to try some of them out. The important thing to keep in mind is that in a place like Fandom where there are numerous types of magic systems, what is important to one person's magic may not even be a factor in someone else's magic."

( this got kinda long oops )

For now, let's talk a little about what magic tools you are aware of being used either in your home or here in Fandom that I didn't talk about and then you are all welcome to come and look at these tools."

She was careful to bring in replicas that had no power.

Study Hall, Wednesday [02/03]

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Ziva had everything set up for study hall early this week, but instead of studying for her citizenship test, she was working on a translation that had "unofficially" found its way to her inbox. Page after page of badly written Arabic would have been enough of a challenge on its own, but Abby's e-mail made it clear that they were short on time. She didn't know if the e-mail came from Abby because Ziva couldn't say no to her, but there wasn't really time to think about that right now.

Library [02/03]

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When Sam got to the library today, he didn't waste any time before finding a book and a hiding place among the shelves. His spots were getting embarrassingly worse, and he didn't want to have to talk to anyone if he didn't have to. The fact that anyone who came in could probably follow the smell of chocolate to find him didn't make him feel very secure though.

History of Medicine - Second Period - Wednesday, 2/03

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Nick looked somewhat unhappy in class today, unhappy and a little bit on edge. That said, there was nothing actually wrong or out of line in the way he conducted class. Just a lack of joy.

"Today, we'll be doing the medicine of Ancient Greece. Our lesson will focus on, obviously, Hippocrates as well as his another physician, Galens, who extended some of his ideas while also adding his own." ( Read more... )

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