Originally Posted by evilblackdoxy

Settling in to her seat and with her parchment in front of her, Kurumi nervously glanced down at the floor as if expecting there to still be water there. There wasn't...so she was just being ridiculous...so her attention was back towards Professor Hadley as she began the lesson.

Curse Breaking...what did Kurumi know about Curse Breaking...not all that much besides the very basics and, well, her logic was telling her that there were methods around what first popped into her head, but the fact that they had had their sight taken from them sort of linked. "Since we were surrounded by total darkness, losing our sense of sight, is that connected to how Curse Breakers sometimes are required to work in tombs?" Tombs where lumos wasn't effect or any other sources of light.

Although...relying on your sense of TOUCH when there were curses around did not seem like the smartest of things either.

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Minerva rolled her eyes at Oakey and turned when Professor Hadley started class. She wasn't going to let him annoy her during class at least. She listened as the professor had said she still wasn't sure what was keeping them out of their common rooms. This brought a bit of a frown, she really wanted in her trunk for her candy at least, but her bed would be nice as well.

When Hadley asked the first question Minerva remembered the things they were going over last class and put her hand up, "Professor, we have to know that someone has been curse to be able to break the curse. So taking away are sight was a way to try to get us to use our other senes as well using our brain to determine what things are. The same might go for curse breaking. We need to use our senses and brain to know someone has been curse in order to do the curse breaking." Well it sounded like a sensible answer to her at least.

Originally Posted by emjay

And then class was beginning.. Ethan turned his eyes to Hadley as she began speaking. Oh.. curse-breaking? He supposed that was slightly interesting.. that was what she was trying to introduce last class with those boxes? Shrugging, he listened to the other answers then raised his hand. "Does it have to do with sharpening our senses.. sort of like what blind people have to do in order to function in society without sight?" Nothing like answering a question with a question.. but he honestly didn't know the first thing about curse-breaking and needed it to at least look like he was paying attention. Meh.

Originally Posted by nups21

Sitting back comfortably into her seat as the lesson started, Ira took out her parchments and quill and ink bottle and kept it ready to take notes. And also removed the notes she had taken the last lesson, since this was gonna probably be last lesson's continuation.

She had almost started doodling, but looked up as Professor began. Why the identifying process was important. Ira thought about it for a while. Like, seriously, when far more easier and quicker methods were available like revealing spells and what not, why did they have to resort to the seemingly slow and relatively difficult process? Maybe because curse breaking too was an art, and art needed to be felt.

She raised her hand up and answered, continuing her thoughts, "Professor, curse breaking is a skill.." And an interesting one at that! "..And I think that a skill needs to be felt. I mean, it shouldn't just be learned by rote learning, rather by our senses." Was she making sense? She hoped so.. "What I mean, is, trusting our instincts is good, very useful."

Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

Hannah secretly hoped that this lesson would be interupted early as well because she didn't like this class at all. It didn't make any sense to her. She remembered having to stick her hand in a box in total darkness and was glad that as of now it seemed like they were over that whole thing.

She raised her hand. "Curse-breaking isn't an easy job and you can be sure that you won't always have all of your senses to count on. I think it is important to be able to handle any situation that might be thrown at you... so what better way than to practice without one of your senses." Man that was a lengthy answer and so not Hannah's style.

Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife

Professor, I don't even wanna be a Curse Breaker. That's what Kat thought. She'd prefer to be an Auror but that will depend to her OWL and NEWT results soon. If she fails at it, well maybe she can find a position in one of the Quidditch Teams or... whatever life takes her.

Kat raised her hand. "Well, usually the sense of hearing can help especially when you're in trouble or you think you're in danger," Kat said. "And the sense of touch, well it can be useful as well. Actually all the sense are useful in different ways and in different situations. If one sense is unavailable, there's always another sense that can help." There's just too much to enumerate and Kat was just lazy. Not good.

Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

So that's what she missed!

During her absence the Professor had them playing a guessing game. Seriously, why did all the cool stuff happen after she was gone?! That could have been a pretty cool lesson, especially since Lex loved guessing games even though she was no good at them.

One thing she found strange though was the Professor saying the lesson ended abruptly. Why would it do that? Did somebody die??? Was that why they were learning about curse breaking??? O___O

Okaaaaay she had officially formed her opinion. The Professor tried teaching them curses in the last class, some idiot didn't do it right and someone else died. Yup. Now they were learning to break curses before bad things happened. That had to be it but seeing as she had nothing to offer she kept her mouth shut and waited to find out if the others were right.

Originally Posted by Steelsheen

Vickers pondered her question. It was quite unusual, and quite sudden, that they lost their primary sense, which was sight. But how was it related to curse breaking and numbers divination. He sat silently for a while mulling things over, then finally raised his hand "Professor, is it an exercise on lateral or creative thinking?..... to teach us that certain objects arent always what they seem, that our vision can be tricked to thinking its just one thing but in truth its something else?"

Originally Posted by Grisly Longbones

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Soon enough the lesson began and it seemed that they were starting right where they left off when Myrtle had created chaos. Which was good, because Emmanuelle was still curious about how curse breaking was connected to Arithmancy and the only way she was going to get that answer was if that lesson continued. Her went up at the professor's question. "Our other senses are heightened when we lose our eyesight, even temporarily, and it's useful to get used to that fact so that if we do happen to have to break a curse in darkness, for whatever reason, we can use that to our advantage?"

Originally Posted by Princesspower

Sarah raked her brain. "perhaps curse breakers get into situation where one sense or the other is compromised and they need to know how to work with their remaining senses." That was completly made up on the spot sort of a thing.

Originally Posted by hpluvr037

Soooooooooooooo excited! That's how he felt right now. Because they were continuing the curse breaking lesson finally, since Myrtle had so rudely interrupted their first crack at it. It was with an eager expression that Logan raised his hand. "Yes, Professor," he said purposefully. "I think it may help if you're actually cursed. I know a lot of curse breakers work like in old tombs or something. Even though they're professionals, they are bound to mess up and miss something sometimes." Except for Auntie Fina. She practically never made mistakes. "So it's good practice in still being able to think logically and not freak out when you've been cursed," like SOME people did when Myrtle showed up, "though I doubt it would ever be something so harmless as impairing only one of your senses."

He put his hand down. Then he set to scribbling all the other answers he was hearing, skipping anything that sounded like repetition of others' ideas. Logan squirmed in his seat a bit, unable to contain his excitement for the practical demonstration he just KNEW had to be coming in this lesson.

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Ella thought about Hadley's question for a few minutes, stroking her imaginary beard. How could something like the activity they'd done last class relate to curse breaking? Hmm...

After a few minutes, the small blonde thought she had a semi decent answer and raised her hand. "Professor, perhaps because when you lose on sense, your other senses are kind of on high alert. It's like they make up for the lost sense and help you to figure stuff out even when you're not fully functional. I guess when you're curse breaking, you'd want to be able to use all your senses to help detect the signs that something is cursed. All your senses are important for that. Not just the obvious ones like sight and touch."

Originally Posted by Jack-o'-LantERN

Originally Posted by Anna Banshee

Thinking back, Sierra remembered that last lesson. It had been cut too short, but ehh...this was Arithmancy. Distractions were always welcome as far as Sierra was concerned. Nevermind that now, though. So how was it all important to the skill of curse breaking?

Sierra raised her hand. "I think it's because curse breaking often times requires you to think outside the box. Lots of times, when we see things with our eyes, we automatically decide we do or don't know what that object is and what it does," she said. "If we allow ourselves the chance to touch the object, smell the object, or use any of other senses, we're opening ourselves up to more perspectives and thoughts."

Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight

Nerida raised her hand and said not quite a hundred percent on her answer. "I think its important because when we're trying to break a curse a lot of things can happen and our senses can be messed with so it would be good to learn how to be able to use the others if the situation were to happen." She had said that way better than she had thought it.