The movie ended, and Professor Xavier clicked the remote to raise the screen before turning back to his class.

"So, who has the first thoughts?"

"That may have been the best thing I've seen...ever" squeeled Kitty.

"I have to agree, that was better than I expected when you said we'd be watching a Disney Princess movie for the first session of this class" added Scott.

"Professor, wasn't this course supposed to be about mutants in media?" Jean asked.

"And it was. A box office smash about a cryokinesic girl born with her abilities in a time where mutations were believed to be witchcraft or sorcery."

"And don't forget her sister's powers too" added Kitty.

The other students, and Professor Xavier as well, stared in confusion at the girl.

"What? That girl could jump like 3 times her height as a child, held a man by a rope who outweighed her, cut a taught rope in 1 swipe, and smashed an easily 100 pound wolf out of the air with a guitar. If that strength doesn't put Colossus to shame for a girl her size, what does? Plus spending 1/3 of the movie in the snow in thin dress clothes made for summer and the rest of the movie in light boots and a single hooded cloak. She even fell in a half frozen river which instantly solidified her dress and she was barely uncomfortable."

Kurt understood what his classmate was getting at."Kitty makes an excellent point. Zeir parents ver so focused on Elsa's abilities, zat zey never noticed Anna having powers as well."

"That is an insight even I hadn't considered when I selected this film for the course. But you are correct. Sometimes people have mutations and people never notice, maybe not even the person who possesses them."

"And are we just going to ignore that Elsa can create intelligent life with her abilities? Like we've met a LOT of Alpha class mutants who couldn't even come CLOSE to that," Evan added

Jean contended against the idea, "I think that was more for comedic value than to be taken any kind of seriously. I don't think anything in this movie was supposed to be interpreted the way we are. I mean, it IS primarily a kid's film."

Rogue replied, "It doesn't matter what it was supposed to be interpreted as. We took this class to look at things in ways others aren't looking at them. To see how the world sees mutants and responds to them. Fear when they don't understand, sometimes love and acceptance when they do. Isn't that right professor?"

"Correct. What mutants do with their abilities does not always sway public or personal opinions. As many of you know, not all parents are accepting of their child being different, and they do not always know how to help their child."

Spyke jumped in with a new point. "And about that. Her parents went about it the entirely wrong way. Why weren't they encouraging her to practice and learn to control it? It obviously wasn't something they could hide or stop from coming out, so why not find constructive outlets? I'm sure there was a metaphor in it for something like puberty, childhood anger, or something else, but it all turns into them sticking to the same solution which hasn't been working for all those years."

"Well, zey didn't have a school to help zem like vee have. How vould zey know how to teach her to use her powers constructively?"

"Why not have the trolls teach her? They knew about magic."

"Yeah, great idea, Kitty. Things might have been better that way. Take a kid from her parents after a traumatic experience to go live among creatures she didn't know existed so that she can learn to better use the powers which almost killed her sister," Rogue tossed off sarcastically.

"That's not exactly different from some of our lives, now is it, Rogue?" Spyke fired back.

"Now children, keep these discussions respectful. Both of you make points very close to our lives. The answers to these situations are as hard in fiction as they are in our reality. Do you remove a child from their home to give them a better chance at safely controlling their powers? Do you try to hide the abilities and attempt to appear normal? Do you look for a way to cure what you consider to be a problem? These are exactly the questions I wanted you to ask yourselves through this course. We can see our own situations by looking at them through the lives of others, or even through fictional stories. I want each of you to write a paper tonight, however long you feel you need, about an important issue facing mutant kind which this movie has raised for you. Class dismissed.

The students packed their things and left while continuing to discuss, quite heatedly, the ideas and events of the movie. A discussion course to open them up to thinking like adults about the situation of their lives which they were only beginning to understand.

As Scott was the last to leave the classroom arguing with Jean about the ethics of Elsa creating an army of snow monsters, Logan passed into the doorway.

"I still think you should have opened with Beauty and the Beast."