Disclaimer: Do not own JK's "magical" characters, The Shakespeare Sob Fest or Downton Abbey. Only mentioned as I'm currently watching Downton Abbey (which has Maggie Smith in it, three cheers for McGonagall!)
For those who do not know, I will be ranting on about Umbridge and Waldo. Umbridge is the name I gave my English teacher and Waldo is the boy who sits next to me. He is my arch-nemesis. He actually pulled the two tables that made our desk away the other day! It infruiated me! Anyway, here's chapter 2! Thanks for my 5 reviews. Never thought this story would get a bit popular so soon.
Chapter Two: Curriculum
When they walked into the Muggle Literature classroom, they looked around in awe. Instead of it being a normal classroom, there were comfy armchairs in different positions of the room and a stage in the middle of the room. The walls were a deep purple with little paintings of different Shakespeare plays charmed to act out certain scenes patterned on.
In the middle of the room, was a big wooden stage with heavy red velvet curtains and a door on either side to "backstage" which was charmed so nobody could see it when they went to the back of the stage. Opposite the front of the stage, were different coloured chairs with students sitting on them. They didn't even notice the teacher sitting on the stage steps until she "ahemed" loudly.
"Good afternoon, students." She said in a clear voice. She had a friendly tone about her. "Please, sit." She instructed to the Golden Trio standing by the door. They did what they were told.
"I'm Professor Kingsley." The blonde woman introduced herself. "Now, before I tell you about the curriculum of your 5th year, we all need to introduce yourselves to each other and myself. We'll start by using alliteration to introduce ourselves and I'll ask you a couple of questions about you. Alliteration is where two words, usually an adjective and a noun, have the same first letter. I want you to use an adjective which describes you but, only using alitteration. For example, I sometimes get a twitch in my leg what spazms so, my friends joke and call me Kicking Kingsley." The class laughed at this "Any questions?" Only a couple of hands popped up.
"Yes, you." She pointed to a Hufflepuff is glasses.
"How long have you been a teacher?" He asked.
"I've been teaching three years. I've spent a year at a Muggle school in their drama lesson, without magic. I've taught half a year at Durmstrang for their special drama program before they got a male teacher. And I spent a year and a half at Beauxbatons before I quit, took a couple of months off and got an owl of Dumbledore. Any more questions?" Nearly everyone's hand in the class shot up. Professor Kingsley frowned. "That's a lot of questions. I'll tell you what, we get through this excersise and then I'll bore you with my life story. Now, we'll all sit in a circle and go around." She waved her wand so everyone's chairs were in a perfect circle. "Let's start with you." She pointed to the boy on her right.
"Nervous Neville." He whispered. Professor Kingsley smiled.
"Neville." She repeated, looking at a piece of parchment. "Longbottom, right?" She asked. He nodded.
"What house are you in?" Professor Kingsley asked.
"Gryffindor." He said, looking down.
"Ah, one of the best houses in the school, I heard." She smiled. "Neville, why did you choose the word nervous to describe you?"
"Because I...don't like speaking infront of people, Miss." He whispered.
"Not to worry, Neville. We'll fix your nervousness soon enough. Next."
10 minutes later, a number of people had been questioned. There was Dorky Dean, Silly Seamus, Lovely Lavender, Partying Parvati, Prancing Padma (no idea...), Excited Ernie, Shy Susan and Bashful Blaise (really?) and many others.
"Ok, next." Professor Kingsley said.
"Popular Pansy!" She announced.
"More like Pug-faced Pansy." Ron muttered under his breath making both Harry and Hermione snicker.
"Miss..Parkinson." Professor Kingsley smiled after looking at her parchment. "What house are you in?"
"Slytherin." Pansy said, obviously proud of her house.
"Why did you choose the word popular to describe you, Pansy?" She asked.
"Because, I have loads of friends in Slytherin." She announced.
"Do you have friends in any other houses?" Professor Kingsley asked with a slight frown on her face.
"No, not really." Pansy answered.
"Well, hopefully during this class you'll be friends with everyone." The teacher offered.
Pansy's eyes flickered over in Hermione's direction with a look of disgust on her face before turning back to the Muggle Literature teacher. "Mhhhmm." Was all the Slytherin said.
"Ok, next."
"Dark Draco." Everyone's attention spiked up at this. Draco Malfoy was slouching there, looking quite bored and platinum blonde hair, which he hadn't cut in a while, was in his silver eyes. He wasn't wearing a Hogwarts jumper, and his shirt was rolled up on his right arm, making his veins very visible on his white skin. He was studying his nails, which were almost as white as his skin. He looked like he worked to perfection getting the "I Don't Care" look working. Even his tie looked like he spent almost an hour tying it so it was loose and hung from his collar in a "shoved it on" way going slightly diagonally. He looked gorgeous, if girls were into the "Depressed-bad-boy" look.
"Draco Malfoy." Professor Kingsley read of her parchment, in a much quieter and softer voice. "I'm guessing Slytherin?" He gave one stiff nod, still finding his finger-nails interesting. The whole tension of the room had shifted to a cold sort of room, where everyone was walking on eggshells to the Slytherin Spoilt Brat - to Hermione at least.
"Why did you choose the word "Dark" to describe yourself?" Professor Kingsley looked almost scared for the answer.
"Because, that's what I am. I'm a dark person. No happy thoughts, I'm not very nice." He drawled, his view not once moving from his nail inspection.
"Draco, I'd like to see you after class with your Head of House. That's Professor Snape, isn't it?" She asked. When he didn't answer, Professor Kingsley turned to Pansy who nodded.
She sent a quick Memo to Snape, asking him to come to her room after class for a matter involving Draco before continuing the Alitteration Introductory.
"Huggable Harry." Harry said with a smile, hoping it'd break the cold, dark mood of the room. To his relief, the class started laughing and everything lightened up.
Fortunately for Harry, Professor Kingsley didn't ask a lot of questions about him, The Boy Who Lived, just why he chose Huggable as his word (because I'm a very cuddly person, actually I don't know why..., what house he was in (Gryffindor) and if his last name was Potter (yup.)
Ron chose Random Ron and, aside from the other questions, he got some about his relations to Fred and George and had to answer each one before the teacher moved on to the next and final person.
"Honest Hermione." The Muggle-born said.
"Hermione..." Kingsley (obvs not the Order member) "Granger, correct?"
The girl nodded.
"House?"
"Gryffindor."
"There's quite a lot of Gryffindors here." the blonde woman, now sitting down as she had a leg spazm earlier, mused. Hermione nodded.
"Hermione, why did you choose the word honest to describe yourself?"
"Because, I am an honest person, on the whole. It's natural for me to tell the truth. I've had a few white-lies to cover up some actions but, that's only natural when you've been hanging around with Ron and Harry for the last 5 years." Making the class laugh.
"Thank you, Hermione." Professor Kingsley said. "Now, before you get to ask me questions, I'd like to tell you about your course. Fifth years are required to do three Shakespeare plays and one play of choice. The three plays you'll be doing are Much Ado About Nothing, which you'll be doing up until Christmas, Twelfth Night, which you'll be doing from February to April and the end of year perfomance, which you'll be doing with the other years from April to June." She explained. "The other play of your choice you will be studying on the short period of January to February. You'll get to choose that play." The class nodded. "Any questions? I'll only be taking four more questions, so then I've answered 5 for the day and I shall be answering 5 questions about me everyday." Nearly the whole classes hand's shot up.
"Shy Susan." She called out.
"Um, what does this class contain?" The young girl asked.
"Apart from studying and performing the plays, you'll be doing team-work with the other houses, script writing and learning how to do costume design for your own play you'll be doing around in November and your OWL's. But, I'll tell you more about that next lesson." She looked around before choosing another question from "Popular" Pansy.
"What's your blood-status?" The loud Slytherin asked.
"I'm Half-Blood. Muggle Mother, Wizard Father." She replied. "Any other questions?"
Hermione's hand shot up.
"Yes, Honest Hermione?""
What are the other years doing?" Hermione asked.
"4th years are doing Macbeth, background design and the end of year performance. 6th years will be doing Hamlet and Taming Of The Shrew, writing their own musical, special effect charms and also helping with the final performance. Finally, 7th years are studying Winter's Tale, Richard III, writing a play involving Magical History, NEWTS, a Ministry workshop and helping out with the end of year performance."
Everyone nodded and suddenly, the bell rang.
"Okay, everyone. You may go. Apart from you, Dark Draco." Professor Kingsley stood up and waved her class goodbye as they left.
I hope that was okay...
I got a spark of an idea when writing this. I want you to answer those questions during the Aliterration Introductory.
Alliterated name:
House (Pottermore/your fave):
Why did you choose that word to describe yourself:
Any questions for Professor Kingsley:
I'll show you an example;
Alliterated name: Stubborn Sopp
House: Slytherin
Why did you choose that word to describe yourself: Because I can be quite stubborn when I want to be.
Any questions for Professor Kingsley: Nope.
Your question will be mentioned in the next chapter. Now, for those feeling confused toward their Curriculum, I have it written underneath :)
4th Year:
*1 Shakespeare Play (Macbeth) (September - December)
*Backgroud Design (January - June)
*End of Year Performance (Shakespeare Play) (April - June)
5th Year:
*2 Shakespeare Plays (Much Ado About Nothing (September - December), Twelfh Night (February - April))
*Play of Choice (Dickens, Bronte) (January - February)
*Script Writing/Costume Design (All Year)
*End of Year Performance (Shakespeare Play) (April - June)
*OWLs (June)
6th Year:
*2 Shakespeare Plays (Hamlet (September - December), The Taming Of The Shrew (January - March))
*Special Effect Charms (All Year)
*Writing Their Own Musical (February - April)
*End of Year Performance (Shakespeare Play) (April - June)
7th Year:
*2 Shakespeare Plays (Winter's Tale (September - December), Richard III (January - March)
*Play-write, Magical History (November - February)
*Ministry Workshop (March-April)
*End of Year Performance (Shakespeare Play) (April - June)
I have no idea why the other years are important but, it is too me! Remember, review please :)