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spaceAmata frowned a bit as one of the students didn't take up one of her forms to fill out. She grabbed it off the desk and approached the boy, setting it down in front of him with a small smile. "Please do fill this out for me? I find it typically takes less time than making everyone stand up and do introductions." she told him, offering a small wink. Really, it was only logical; aside from the odd older student doubling up (which she had yet to have happen in either of her lessons), her students all knew one another; they'd been classmates for two years now. She, on the other hand, knew none of them. It was far easier to simply ask them to fill out a piece of paper for her to look over later. After she handed him a form, the blonde went from desk to desk, taking up the forms from her other students. She recognized Echo from her Muggle Mythology lesson on Mondays, but the others were all new. She looked over the forms, frowning a bit at the Slytherin girl's 'interesting fact.' It reminded her far too much of Damien's response on the same form his first year in her class. Why did children always seem to have to grow up so quickly?

spaceAfter she'd looked over the forms and the students had had time to copy down their notes, she smiled. The Gryffindor girl was the first to speak up. Amata's lips pursed at her question, eyes glinting with amusement. "The trouble with Mythology is, it's all a mystery. There's no one right or wrong answer to most any question. Usually, there's theory upon theory upon theory, and they all seem to make just enough sense to be plausible. Until the events of the second Wizarding War, most people assumed that the story was just a story. There were some groups who believed it to be true, but they were few and far between. However, when the war happened, that changed. Now people are scrambling to try and answer the dozens of questions associated with the story that have cropped up since it was discovered to be history... but no one will really ever be able to know. Like I said, there are a lot of theories... one of my personal favorites being that the Bard was in a bar one night and saw a man's hand pay for a drink when there was no man attached. He approached, bought a round, and supposedly got the drunken third brother to spill all," ]Amata said with a giggle. The idea of Beedle the Bard being drunk was probably almost as funny as the idea of the famous third brother being drunk enough to tell a stranger about his history. Honestly, of all the theories she'd heard, that was the one that somehow seemed most and least likely. She gave that a moment to sink in and then asked, "Anyone else? Theories you'd like to share, questions, comments?" ]Honestly, she would love to have everyone participate, but if they were going to keep quiet, that was alright, too. It just meant that her former house would be the only one earning points today... perhaps that was bad of her since she was a professor, but hey, she was a Gryffindor, too, after all.

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Summary: Enclosed in a magical garden lays The Fountain of Fair Fortune, a magical fountain whose waters are believed to cure the aliment of any bathe in its waters. Three witches, suffering from poverty, illness and heartbreak, travel with an unfortunate knight to seek its blessing. As they travel, each witch faced a trial which helped her to overcome her woes, so that when they came across the fountain, each forsook the right to bathe in its waters, offering it instead to the knight.

Controversy: This tale has long been discounted and discredited by blood purists, who attack it for its depiction of romance between a witch and a muggle. Over the years, there have been many petitions started to have it removed from the library of Hogwarts and to cease its inclusion in publications of the Bard’s tales.

Homework: Write a short essay on the idea of the Fountain and why you think it worked, despite the fact that its waters held no true enchantment.

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spaceAmata sat, perched as ever on her desk, and watched as her students came in and took their seats. She waited a moment for them to get situated and to take out their things before beginning the lecture. "Alright, class, today we'll be going over one of Beedle the Bard's most well-known and controversial stories, The Wizard and the Hopping Pot. Hopefully you've all read the story; if not, you're going to be a bit behind. The summary is on the board, but it is just a summary, after all, and missing quite a bit of important information." She paused, curious to see if anyone scrambled for their book and tried to start reading now. Doing so would lose house points; she didn't appreciate students not doing the reading. After a moment, she spoke. "Now, the controversial nature of this particular story abounds; it has been written and rewritten time and time again by people who did not agree with its message and wished to bastardize it for their own gains. Can anyone tell me what about this story offended so man people?" The answer to this one was simple; it was written on the board in black and white, after all. She waited to see if anyone would answer.

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