Lesson 3: Lovers

[Liam Drakos]

Liam walked into the classroom in a good mood, he went out on a date last night and the girl was really sweet, he hoped he’ll be seeing her again soon. But right now he had to work on his lesson plan, he already knew what he was going to be doing. One of his favorite stories to be exact. Liam walked up to the chalkboard and started to write out the three titles of the stories and then waved his wand and the paintings appeared under them:

Orpheus & Eurydice

Pygmalion & Galatea

Pyramus & Thisbe

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Liam knew of about eight different ones, but he knew that he couldn’t get through them in one class, so he picked three of them that was each unique in their own little way. He walked over to the desks and looked at them, they were a bit dirty, on second thought, the whole classroom was a bit in disarray. Flicking his wand, mops, brooms, and rags came out of nowhere and started to clean the whole classroom. He was glad that he caught it now than teaching class and seeing it then, he had about a good ten minutes or so to have the place spotless before the kids came.

About five minutes the whole classroom was sparkling, just the way Liam liked it. He was a bit of an OCD freak when it came to dust, he had to keep everything clean. Noticing that it was getting stuffy inside the classroom, Liam waved his wand yet again, then a cool breeze gently blew while the smell of fresh rain filled the classroom. It was a charm that took him two years to perfect, he always liked to make his own little charms up so life can be a little bit easier, like right now for instance. Sitting back on his desk, Liam waited for the students to walk in, then remembering that they had homework to turn in, their flower myths.[/blockquote][/size]

[Adonia Theodosia]

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Adonia always loved the Mythology class Professor Drakos taught. He made it a lot of fun and always asked the class tons of questions and sometimes he would ask what would happen next which would get the class thinking again. Plus, Professor Drakos wasn’t hard to get bored in his class since he was really good looking. Sure, he was a young professor, twenty-five, but he was darn good looking.

Walking to class, Adonia thought she was in a better mood than most days. Maybe it was because she had a dream about Athan last night. The dream was about her kissing Athan. It was nothing past that, but they were trying to keep themselves hidden because they didn’t want to be seen. It was just a nice dream in general so when she had woken up with a feeling of happiness. So she had an extra step to her stride, a happier smile. Someone could look at her and know she was in a better mood cause the recent times she had been down in the dumps… basically she had Athan to thank for that.

Now, walking into the classroom, she had seen the next lesson up. It was about lovers. Smiling, Adonia made a small giggle, what a coincidence. Setting her stuff down in the front seat of the classroom, Adonia stay standing up, [black]”Hello, Professor Drakos. I hope you got my homework on the flower myth.”[/black] She said, now taking her seat.

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[Liam Drakos]

Liam was just sitting on his desk reading a book called Goddess of Spring, he's read the book about a thousand times, but he just couldn't put it down half the time. Plus he kind of read it in secret cause the series was a total chick flick kind of book, the only reason he read it was the whole series was about Greek Mythology. And those always catch his eye, he'd have to say that Persephone was his favorite character in the book, even though she wasn't in the book much. Just through her mother's eyes and others' was that she was this spoiled brat....but she really isn't. That's what he thought, and plus the discription of her was sexy.

He noticed that Adonia had walked into the classroom and he hurridly put the book down on his desk. Liam noticed that she seemed like she was....glowing? No, wrong word....just in a plain good mood. She said hello to him and wondered if he got her homework, "Of course I did Miss Theodoisa! And as I say, always a 110% from you, I loved it. Actually it's right here, I was going to hand out the homework back to the class, but since your here I'll give it to you now." he said getting up. Liam walked to his desk and while he grabbed his briefcase, the book dropped on the ground infront of his desk, and he was mortified hopeing she didn't see that. Liam grabbed her paper and handed it to her then hurried up and grabbed the book.

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[Adonia Theodosia]

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Smiling as she heard that she had gotten 110% on her assignment… yet again, Adonia was happy. Mythology was her favorite subject, other than Potions of course. As Professor Draoks got his briefcase to get she was guessing her paper, Adonia had seen a book drop to the floor. Quickly glancing at it, since it was maybe instinct to look down, she had seen the cover of the book that was called, Goddess of Spring. Cocking her head to the side as she seen her paper in front of her eyes and then took it in her hands, watching Professor Drakos picking up the book quickly. Now, should Adonia ask him what the book was about or keep this to herself by not embarrassing the poor guy… she decided to ask… muahahahaha. [black]”So what book are you reading? I saw it was called Goddess of Spring? What is it about?”[/black] Asking with a smile on her face.

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[Kaya Thestra]

Kaya scampered into the classroom, glad to be back. Her hair was coming loose from the braid she kept it in, leaving her with long trails of silver-blond and black hair. She stopped, gave a small bow, and smiled at the teacher before locating her desk and sitting down. Her essay went on the desk, followed by a text book, a scroll for notes, her quill, a bottle of navy blue ink, and last to find a place on her desk was a spare writing set. She was all set now.

“Good morning Professor Drakos! How have you been?” She was always friendly and somewhat talkative with her teachers. It was a large difference to how she acted with her fellow students for the most part. Bright, smiley, a perfect student; a teacher asked for three feet she gave them four or five, you ask for two feet you get four, you ask for a flower myth you get every flower myth she could find, as well as a reaction, and some sketchy illustrations from three of those myths as well. Yes she was an over achiever, but she enjoyed it.

[Liam Drakos]

When Adonia asked Liam what the book was, he couldn’t help but turn red just a little bit….there goes his masculine points. ”Yes, it is called Goddess of Spring it’s a book about…well Greek mythology. It’s about a woman who is running a bakery but is in a lot of trouble with finances, so she swaps places with Persephone Goddess of Spring herself. Well I don’t want to ruin the book for you, it’s actually a really good read, this is actually the second book to a series but it’s no relation to this book. he said taking the book back in his hands and flipping it through his hands while rubbing his thumb over the golden lettering, ”Well how bout you take my copy and read it. Then when your done you can tell me what you think about it. Is that ok? I have a feeling you will like it, cause you seem to like Greek mythology just as much as me.” he said smiling at her.

Just as he finished talking to Adonia he seen that Kaya had walked into the room and said good morning to him, he smiled, ”Good morning Miss Thestra, I hope your in good health today. I‘m doing very well actually, I have your flower myth also, here you go” he said to her and then her paper appeared at her desk. Looking around he seen a few kids in here but not enough to start the class, but he needed to get started before the kids get too bored.

”Ok class, good morning to you all. Today you see that we are going to be looking into the love lives of three couples: Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, and Pyramus and Thisbe. The First one we are going to be talking about is Orpheus and Eurydice.” he said pointing to the painting. Once that he did, the painting came to life, when he spoke the picture would move, ”As we’re talking about music, Athena made the flute, Hermes made the lyre, which he gave to Apollo and also made the shepherd-pipe for himself and drew enchanting music from it. Pan had made the reed pipe with…well obvious enough, out of reed, and which sang as pretty as a nightingale in the springtime. And the Muses did not play in particular instrument, but their voices were more lovely beyond what anybody can compare.

Then there was Orpheus, one of the greatest musicians in Greek times, but on his mother’s side he was more than mortal. He was the son of one of the Muses and a Thracian prince, his mother gave him the gift of music and grew up in Thrace. Thracian people were the most musical of the people in Greece. Orpheus had no rival in his town or the world except the gods themselves, there was no limit to his power when he played and sang.

Does anyone know what would happen to the people and gods when Orpheus played?” he asked the class. Once he stopped talking, the painting paused to wait for the classes’ response.


((If you haven't posted before this post, please just say you were already in class. We need more people lol))

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[Anthony Davis]

Anthony arrived in class just in the nick of time. The professor looked like he was about to start. He sat near the back with a small smile at a few of the people who he knew. He looked up at the professor as he began his lesson on love. He sighed and couldn’t help but think of his own love life, or lack there of sometimes it seemed. He listened as the professor mentioned the Orpheus and asked if anyone knew what happened to the people and gods when Orpheus played. The boy put his head in his hand and thought. His sister had told him this once.

He remembered now that she had joked he would need it to charm a girlfriend one day. He raised his hand for the professor. “It would charm them Professor, as well as Animals, water and even rocks.” He said, hoping that he had remembered correctly. It would have been very embarrassing if he had been wrong after all that. Then again, if he was right then it might mean house points.

[Milly Edwards]

Milly walked into mythology and saw that a lot of the students were already there. The teacher was still at his desk but looked like his was about to start. She looked around for any of the students that she knew but didn't really know anyone. There was Anthony who was in some of her other classes and she thought that was a safe bet. She walked over to the empty seat next to him and smiled "Hey" she said and got her books and quill out.

The professor started to talk and Milly watched the picture movie whilst she took down her notes. She loved Mythology but sometimes struggled. She never put her hand up in class afraid of getting the wrong answer but most of the time, she knew the answer in her head.

Milly heard the question and heard Anthony respond. She wrote down his answer as she thought the same preying that she did know it. If she didn’t she would probably spend her next free period studying it.

[Arista Theodosia]

Arista walked into Mythology, she seen there were already a lot of kids in it. She nodded to Professor Drakos and smiled, he wasn't bad looking at all, then she noticed Adonia. Arista half forgot that she was in the class, she was such a greek nerd like her cousin, they used to study it all the time when they were little. Taking a seat next to her, she took out her book and her notebook, in the front of it she had drawn her two favorite gods, Hera and Hades, she always wanted to be her and to be his wife. It was a secret of hers that Adonia didn't even know.

As Liam started the stories, she was amazed by the movie pictures, well they were all over the castle but loved how they acted it as he narrarated the story. As she listened, she drifted off into another story that wasn't on the list: Psyche and Eros..or Cupid. She loved how it was like a forbidden love story, as she thought of the story, she heard Professor Drakos ask a question. She was about to raise her hand when she seen Anthony raise his first and answered it, he was right also. Smiling, she jotted it down and as well as write down the rest of the other stories also.

[Adonia Theodosia]

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Looking down at the book when Professor Drakos was talking about it, Adonia smiled a little bit. It had seemed like it was going to be a good book. Escpecially if it was Greek Mythology. Adonia couldn’t get enough about this subject. Her and Arista always read about it when they were kids. It was such a fun subject to be studying.

Once he took the book away and then he offered to give it to Adonia to lend. Adonia smiled, she couldn’t believe it. [black]”Really? Wow, thank you, professor. I shall bring it back once I am done reading it.”[/black] Taking the book back from Professor Drakos, Adonia turned around and went back to her desk, sticking the book and then her paper into her bag. Sitting down, she had seen another girl come into the classroom, Kaya. This girl was a Ravenclaw 6th year and also a Prefect. Adonia only knew her from being a Prefect and that’s it. Then there was Anthony and Milly walked in also. She smiled to them both, but they didn’t aknowledge her. It was ok. Adonia was used to it sometimes. In her first year, she was kind of ignored cause she was really engrossed into the class. Also she would spend most of time in the library or in her room. It was only till she was in her 4th year was when she started Quidditch. Then it came with the study groups and then in her 6th year, she was a Prefect, being on the Quidditch team and then the study groups. Now this year, there is just only Head Girl. She had to drop everything else cause everything seemed to overwhelm her.

Now, Arista walked into class. Her cousin. Class seemed to get started, so Adonia just smiled at her while she listened to the story. The moving pictures were really cool and it seemed to catch her attention. Right away, Adonia’s hand seemed to be writing down notes from the story. It all seemed really cool and all, but Adonia knew most of it. So when the question was being asked, Adonia raised her hand, but the professor called on Anthony. She didn’t mind. He had the right answer and smiled at him, writing down the correct answer.

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[Liam Drakos]

When Liam asked the question, Anthony raised his hand and answered the question right, ”Yes that is correct. Orpheus could play anything, but the lyre was his object. 10 points to Hufflepuff.” he said smiling to Anthony.

Liam walked around the room as he continued his story:

”There was little background to his life before he married, but he is better known for his music than anything. He sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, when the oarmen grew weary, he would play his lyre, and then they would row with the timing of the music and full of energy. That or if there was fighting on the ship, he would also play and they would forget their anger that aroused them in the first place. Some say that he was the one that helped them all when they passed the Sirens, when they sang; Orpheus snatched up his lyre and played a clear tune that drowned out the lovely songs that the girls say. Some say also that Jason gave them all wax and clogged their ears to resist the tune.

There are not scripts of how Orpheus wooed the maiden Eurydice,” he said her name in an enchanted voice that sounded like honey. He was going into his favorite part of the story, he also loved the name Eurydice, and it was like gold on his lips. ”Soon they were married, but their love was brief, as the bride walked in a meadow with her bridesmaids, a viper bit her and she died.” Liam looked at the painting, and seen that the viper just showed up and bit Eurydice and she fell to the ground with her bridesmaids beside her.

”When Orpheus found out, he was hysterical, he would not let her go that easily, he wanted to go down to Hades himself to find his beloved and get Eurydice back. No one has ever attempted what he was going to do, some say he was crazy, even a loon for thinking it, but he didn’t care. True love doesn’t break so easily. Walking down, he played the strings on his lyre and Cerberus relaxed his guard; the wheel of Ixion stood motionless; Sisiphus sat at rest upon his stone; Tantalus forgot his thirst; for the first time the faces of the Furies were wet with tears. There in the midst was Hades himself, ruler of the Underworld, Orpheus drew near to sing to him and his Queen:

O Gods who rule the dark and silent world,
To you all born of woman needs must come.
All lovely things at last go down to you.
You are the debtor who is always paid.
A little while we tarry up on earth.
Then we are yours forever and forever.
But I seek one who came to you too soon.
The bud was plucked before the flower bloomed.
I tried to bear my loss. I could not bear it.
Love was too strong a god. O King, you know
If that old tale men is true, how once
The flowers saw the rape of Persephone.
Then weave again for sweet Eurydice
Life’s pattern that was taken from the loom
Too quickly. See, I ask a little thing,
Only that you will lend, not give, her to me.
She shall be yours when her year’s span is full.

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Liam sang the words that Orpheus once sang to the Lord of the Dead, with a lot of mythological songs that he remembered, it was just something stored for a day when he could woo a girl and taught himself to sing the songs.

”He drew tears to Hades’ eyes and then he summoned Eurydice to him. Ok, what did Hades say to Orpheus and the deal he set up with him?” asking the class.
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[Adonia Theodosia]

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Hufflepuff got 10 points for them. Of course that is great and all, but Adonia really wants to win that House Cup since it was her last year. Maybe she could put a little House meeting together. Or maybe she couldn’t. Maybe no one would just plain show up at all.

Professor Drakos continued the lesson with more of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Even when Professor Drakos said the name Eurydice, Adonia swears she just felt her heart melt in her chest. It was just as smooth as butter.

Peeking over to her notes, it was writing down just the right notes it needed to be it. Now, what caught Adonia’s attention again was the professor’s singing. She raised her eyebrows. He wasn’t really that bad, it was nice. We need him in the choir. Adonia thought to herself. The choir class hasn’t really started yet, but they could use him… if only teachers were allowed.

Now, there was a question that needed to be asked. Biting her lip, Adonia was thinking of the answer. It was on the tip of her tongue, but how to put it? Oh well, she could try, but she knew that she couldn’t say it word from word as well as the professor sang his song.

Raising her hand, Adonia answered, [black]”What Hades told Orpheus that he could take Eurydice but he could no take one glance at her they reach out of The Underworld.”[/black] Adonia was going to continue on with the story, but she didn’t want to give it all away like how Matthew did last year in this class. He was such a know it all.

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