Symbolism & Innocence

Thank You

Harry's P.O.V

I took a shaky breath as I opened the doors to my -new- lecture hall. I had slept through my alarm that morning and had no time to stop by the tea house to grab a cup, leaving me tired with no caffeine. My hair was thrown up into a bun on top of my head seeing as my unruly curls would not cooperate; my white button up buttoned two higher then I normally would.

As soon as I walked through the doors the class silenced itself, leaving me with a heated blush on my cheeks as I set up everything for today's lesson. I scurried on throughout the class and set up my laptop as well as the projector, throwing in a 'good morning class' as I did so. I crouched down slightly; typing in my teacher login and clicked the slide I had prepared and stood in front of the class.

I scanned my eyes over the students and smiled once I reached a certain blue eyed boy with his hair pulled out of his face by a black headband. His red painted lips pulled slightly at the corners as he met my gaze, his knitted black sweater low on his frame, delicate collar bones on display. I nodded once at him and coughed quietly, tearing my gaze away from his.

"I'm sorry I'm late. My cat ate my alarm," I said, earning myself a few chuckles at my bullshit statement. I smiled at my students and clicked on the slide starting it.

"Who has ever heard the term 'eyes are the window to the soul'?" Multiple hands rose and I motioned for them to set them down.

"Good because that's our topic for today. Now in the mist of psychology we have the study of the body," I stopped and waited for the few immature giggles to stop, rolling my eyes I continued. "There are many tell tales of why someone is doing something and when they're not. Some people say that they -as in the eyes- can tell us much about a person just by gazing into them." I walked down the few rows of people deliberately making eye contact with those looking.

"Given that we cannot, for example, control the size of our pupils, body language experts can deduce much of a person's state by factors relating to the eyes."

"The pupils are the part of our eye body language we practically have no control over. As well as adjusting the amount of light taken in the process of sight, Eckhard Hess in 1975 found that the pupil dilates when we are interested in the person we're talking to or object we're looking at." I smirked as a few of the students shot there gaze down at their desks as I continued on, back facing the screen.

"As an indicator, check a friend's pupil size when you're talking to them about something interesting, then change the subject to accounting and watch their pupil's contract."

"For making contact and communicating with a person, effective eye contact is essential to our everyday interaction with people, and also to those who want to be effective communicators in the public area."

I looked up a few rows and looked at Louis, smiling slightly as I made it a point to stare at him. "All though eye contact is important, don't look to long." I smiled wider as he looked up from his hung position. "It can make them uncomfortable." I looked away as his cheeks grew pink and started to squirm a bit in his seat. "I mean haven't your parents every told you to not stare?" I got a few mumbled agreements and some more vocals, but otherwise the room was silent. I tilted my head in confusion and asked, genuinely curious, "I sometimes wonder if you're silent because you are bored or because you want to listen." I waved my hand around and clicked to the next slide.

"Did you all know that the direction someone is looking in can tell us about what they're thinking or feeling? Well, beside just what they're looking at. Can anybody tell me what else this might indicate?"

Silence.

I sighed, "Anyone at all?"
A few hands rose then and I pointed to a tall, stocky male "Yes, you sir."