History of Magic 3 - 4th & 5th Years

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[/i] ^le FAY / morgaine / mOrga[/b]nA[/size] _{daughter of} Gorlois, DUKE OF CORNWALL & Lady Igraine, King Arthur = half brother MUGGLE
likely METAMORPHMAGUS ^& _ANIMAGUS sons: MORDRED + Gawain
12th CENTURY: vita merlini by Geoffrey of Monmouth: QUEEN OF AVALON HEALER[/font]
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"Welcome to History of Magic," Elliot Doggerel said broadly with little emotion. "Take care when taking notes - as you know, the words enjoy shifting." It was something most of the students were probably used to by now, the undulating, shifting words on the History classroom's enchanted blackboard. Up there now was a crowded series of explanations about the sorceress Morgan le Fay.

"We're doing this backwards today. You ask the questions." And with that, he crossed his arms and waited.

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We will be writing this lesson as if it's already begun. If you wish to write yourself in as late, be my guest.

[Drew Thornton]

Drew scribbled down the notes into his spiral, wishing the punctuation would settle down a little bit... at least until he was finished writing.

"So what did she do to get so important besides be King Arthur's half-sister?" Drew asked.

[Tristan Howard]

Tristan heard the professor's instructions, and whipped out of piece of parchment and his quill. He began to write the notes down on the parchment. It took him long enough, and wasn't sure still about this lesson. He was probably going to ask some questions.

So what did she do to get so important besides be King Arthur's half-sister?. He heard what Drew had asked, but wasn't sure of this question, so he focused on the professor to see how he would respond to it.

[Jahan Samara]

Jason took out her notebook and began to scribble down the notes with her quill. He was a fast note taker so it didn't take him to long to copy them down. He never really had an aptitude for History of Magic, but he figured that he shouldn't get on the professor's bad side.

[alexis]

Alexis took out her quill and notebook and started to take the notes. She wasn't the fastest note taker in the world but she managed to get them all down. She was still a little confused about Morgan le Fay so she was going to ask a few questions to the professor. "Do ze muggles know anyzing about her?"

[Gail Lawrence]

Gail was sitting in the back of the class. She was not very good at History and had no desire to be called out by Professor Doggerel. Her attention drifting, she heard Alexis ask, "Do ze Muggles know anyzing about her?" Looking up, Gail saw the topic of the day - Morgan le Fay. She had always loved the story of King Arthur as a child, and she knew quite a bit about the Muggle myth. The magical history was another story.

Despite her usual silence in class, Gail turned toward Alexis. "Of course they know of her. The legend of King Arthur is famous in the Muggle world," she said. "Morgan was his half-sister and a witch. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, she was the first of nine sisters to rule Avalon. Thomas Mallory says that her anger with Arthur is the result of him killing her husband in battle. The story of Gawain and the Green Knight is supposedly Morgan testing the character of Arthur and his knights.

"Modern stories attribute Morgan le Fay with being the mother of Gawain and his brothers, as well as seducing Arthur and giving birth to Mordred, a role that traditionally belonged to her sister Morgause. Either way, she's usually viewed as the main villain of the legend, such as there is."

Gail rarely remembered saying so much in History class, but everyone else who had spoken so far were pureblood. Having grown up in the Muggle world, she did not foresee any of them knowing enough to answer the question. After that, Gail only hoped she could blend back into the corner.

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Much to Doggerel's surprise two questions came at him one after the other. And again, much to his surprise someone had plainly done their reading. You couldn't fault him for not expecting a thing out of them. At the start of term he'd forced them to fill out an obligatory 'Why are you in History?' questionairre and most of them came up with it being mandatory until their fifth year. But it wasn't a surprise that the long-winded know-it-all who read for the class was a Ravenclaw.

"Ten points for taking a breath in the middle of that and stealing my notes for class. Imp," he said not at all charitably.

"But Lawrence is right. Because the Arthurian stories developed well before the Statute of Secrecy, the histories haven't diverged apart very much. For muggles, the main allure of the she-sorceress is that of a foil to the upstanding rational manfolk. She is most famous for spawning Mordred who was ultimately the killer of King Arthur. But we're not going to dwell on that bit."

"What she was - a point that muggles have more or less dismissed as detail - was Merlin's greatest pupil. Never has there ever been recorded a more accomplished animagus. The ability to take on multiple forms was lost during the dark ages."

What Doggerel was realizing more and more about the students at this institution what their willingness to be impudent, as if they simply expected him to be a dunce. Of course, this simply couldn't stand. Perhaps he was a horrible teacher, but it suited his horrible students.

[Drew Thornton]

"Multiple forms?" Drew piped up, suddenly becoming so interested in the subject matter that he didn't bother arguing the unfair deduction of points. "It was lost you said. Can it be regained?"

[Tristan Howard]

Tristan gave a little grin to Drew, because Drew didn't care for the deduction of points to his house and that he was just so in this. Tristan still focused on the professor to see how he would response to this question.

[Gail Lawrence]

Gail almost laughed as Doggerel took ten points from Ravenclaw for taking a breath, but she managed not to respond. He didn’t seem to like her anyway, and she was slowly growing used to that idea. She felt a little vindicated when he said she was right. She hadn’t even read for class. All of her reading in this area was in Muggle literature, not magical history.

At least the notes would be easy. And she rolled her eyes a little when Doggerel said that Morgan was the mother of Mordred. It was Morgause, she thought.

As Gail leaned back, abandoning her quill and parchment for a little mental rest, she heard Drew speak up, asking about the ability to have multiple animagus forms. “It was lost, you said. Can it be regained?”

Gail’s eyes opened at the question. She hadn’t expected a question so soon, and this was certainly not one she would have anticipated. Still leaning her chair back on two legs, she listened for Doggerel’s answer.

[arianna]

Arianna had been scribbling away, mostly drawings with the rare note here and there, on her parchment when the talk had shifted to animagus of the famed witch. She, of course, was just as interested as anybody, though maybe more so than some. It was difficult enough to become one animal (she knew a little from experience), but becoming several?

Like the others, Arianna had questions. Of course, some she didn't dare ask without possibly exposing a little too much without meaning to. She'd let the others ask there questions first then, if she felt the need, she would ask some of her own.

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Scratching her head, Annmarie wrote down all her notes, the best she could. Sure, she didn't have the best hand writing, but at least it was legible.

Once she was done, she set her quill down beside her notes, and sat there, a bit puzzled. Okay, so this Morgan le Fay was a sorceress, big deal! What makes her so special? Annmarie thought, as she began to decorate her parchment with her quill by adding little vines at the top and bottom, as though it were a border for it.

[Jahan Samara]

Jason raised his hand to ask a question to the professor. "Professor, I don't know if this is true or not but wasn't she accused of taking something or something like that? He remembered flipping through a book once and seeing something about her. He just forgot most of it.

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"No, Mr Thornton," Doggerel said briskly to the inquery concerning the modern limitations of animagistry. It wasn't really a topic for this session, but Elliot was a firm beleiver that centuries of intermarriage between magos and muggles and a distinct drop in the British education system had all but damned magic of the future to mediocrity. It wasn't enough any more just to be a witch or a wizard - you had to have a job and responsibilty and keep it all secret nowadays. True sorcery was obsolete, sadly.

But he pressed on.

"Excellent question, Mr Slane. Truely demonstrated ignorance, a spongy mind ready for a Knowledge Charm: But yes. Morgan le Fay was accused of many number of indignified theiveries and beguilements. Her positions as a powerful which did not find her favor with the dominant Christian male rulers and so she was particularly demonized. She was held responsible for the downfall of Arthur (a muggle you should know), and the slaying of one or many of his lovers that may or may not have even existed. Her acheivements in herbology and potionry were greatly overlooked until the 1700s."

[Krissy Fleming]

Krissy wasn't used to being in such a big class with all the third and fourth years too, but it didn't worry her too much. She was sitting up the back idily scribbeling on a piece of paper, notes weren't her favourite thing so all she had down was a couple dot points that she felt she might want to know later on. the rest of the scribble she was doing was drawing's all over a piece of paper that wasn't her notes. She hated history of magic about as much as she hated normal muggle history. So her mind instead focused on her drawings, briefly flicking to her other piece of paper to make it 'look' like she was doing work. Basically hoping the professor didn't cast more than a furtive gaze at her, making it so she didn't have to ask questions, or answer them.