Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

Ooooo a guessing game!! She never did like those. Her answers always seemed so far off. Things were even more complicated with this being a class about numbers. It was hard to make an educated guess when you were terribly clueless. Now you'd think the child would throw open her text book instead of staring at the professor so blankly but well she didn't. All her attention was focused on the words Professor Hadley was putting on the board and even the words she was saying.

If only curses weren't so difficult. Couldn't they just guess what it was based on the symptoms...

A good question she would have to ask. "Professor...if you had a good enough knowledge of curses and the different kinds, would you be able to tell which curse it is simply by observing the object it's affecting?"

In other words she wanted to know if all this number work that was giving her such a headache was actually necessary. If all she had to do was study curses for the rest of her life she would for 2 reasons. 1. Because it'd be cool learning and using them and 2. because numbers were to be avoided when at all possible.

And now they were breaking a part a bunch of numbers that looked completely random to her. Sigh. This wouldn't go well...

She tried remembering what everyone had been saying earlier. This was why she needed to pay attention more

Maybe she was getting it a little...but not enough to put legible stuff on parchment. It would have been a waste of ink to try. Lex sat perfectly still in her seat and waited to simply go invisible. Once that happened she'd totally be safe. The Professor wouldn't be able to see her and she wouldn't know that the girl still had a basically blank parchment. Oh! It didn't have to be blank!! Lex scribbled the numbers then tried making pictures with them. Doodling was just as productive if you did it right.

Doo dee doo dee doo. Nothing to see here...

Originally Posted by Harry174

Laura looked at the Professor and smiled, this was an awesome lesson and now she wanted to do her best and try and figure this code out, she was sure that she could do it but what was the code, she looked at what the Professor had put down.



Laura was confused as to what to do next. "Professor what do we do next?" Laura was sure she was missing something but she couldn't think of what. "Professor I'm lost." Laura sighed.

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Oh yay! Puzzles! Kurumi had loved doing this a few terms ago and she was all but bouncing in her seat now to do it. Parchment and quill at the ready, Kurumi looked up when Professor Hadley performed the spell and just beeeeeeeeamed at the floating numbers that appeared. See, weren't numbers just beautiful? They were just...yes, beautiful. She was just going to leave her thoughts there for now because she had some thinking to do and shouldn't get distracted. And since they already knew what curse the numbers were representing...it shouldn't be too hard to figure out the parts of it's spell numeralization, right?

Kurumi decided to work with the Basis first, since that was the most obvious bit, and then work her way out from there. It would help with number groupings as well.


Oops...two of her answers there were essentially repeats of each other...but Kurumi knew that those were not the only two that needed some reworking anyway. For now, she would leave it and think things over a bit more. Some other ideas were sure to come to her while she relaxed her mind and thought a little more outside of the box, yeah?

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Dear Merlin, what have I gotten myself into! Emmanuelle had never had experience with this curse breaking stuff (obviously, since she was still a student), so a lot of the information was going right over her head. But, she decided to give it a try and if she did it right, great! If not, she would know that curse-breaking was most definitely not for her and that would be that. So here goes. She started off by copying down the notes about kernels and all that as well as the curse number it's self. Then she grabbed her textbook and copied down the 'meanings' of the numbers. That done, she began breaking down the number according to what she knew. When she was finished her parchment looked a little something like this:

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Jory copied the number onto his parchment. He stared at it trying to make sense of it. "Okay, let's go,'' he thought and he begun to write:

Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl

Originally Posted by sarahb

Umm...so now they had to actually figure out the curse and such. Addie stared blankly at the piece of parchment in front of her, but began to write some of the things that she needed to know out, including the key that included what the parts of the curse were and what the numbers meant.



Addie's work wasn't the best because she wasn't sure that she completely understood how the cursebreaking process worked. She had listened and everything, but it was still really confusing to her. She looked over her work, but she had no idea what to think of it, was it good or not. Well then, she would just have to wait to find out...right.

Originally Posted by MyPatronusIsaMoose

Oakey watched as the numbers appeared above the bracelet. He removed some parchment and set it down on his desk and began to write.

He looked down at the parchment and tapped the quill to his face unknowingly face up leaving some ink splotches on his cheek

Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight

Nerida looked up as the numbers appeared above the bracelet...That was cool! She quickly added the number to her notes. After she finished she continued listening to the rest of what Professor Hadley was saying. Break apart the numbers?? Interpret them...Erm...She would try.....


She looked down at her parchment...Was it okay if two of them were the same?? She didn't understand this at all she rested her head down for a second trying to relax her mind..Then maybe she could think straight and fix her work...It looked like it was wrong...

Originally Posted by SilverTiger

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

Now to get this right, Nessie would make sure she understood it all.

Turning back to her parchment, the red head scribbled more and more notes. She could see where she had went wrong in a few places. For one her groupings were completely wrong as were her ones. She rememered Hadley saying something about no master numbers so that had to be out of there.
As for the order, she had changed it and it looked highly wrong too. Maybe she just needed to seperate them without changing the order. It made sense in her head, because the zero, five and nine could all be connected in some way.

She had it now or at least she thought she did. Finishing off her work, Ness looked up and waited for what was next. This looked much more correct than before.

Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife

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Oh my god. What was this? More numbers to decipher. NOT COOL. AT ALL. Despite how much Kat hated doing this number stuff during Arithmancy, the Slytherin tried her best to decipher then correctly. But if she got wrong though, nobody should blame a dumb girl like her. SIGHS. "Here goes nothing," Kat told herself, preparing her brain for more thinking. UGH.



Once Kat was finished, she reviewed her answers and found no error in her opinion. Man, Arithmancy gave her a headache. Not good. She might need to take a rest after the class, though.

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

From Sierra's standpoint, the professor was talking, but there was nothing coming out but a foreign language. That's about how well she understood anything that was currently being discussed. She watched as Hadley cast Arithmos Revelio. That part Sierra knew. It was just this whole breaking up and interpreting part that she was pretty much clueless about.

Sierra copied down the numbers and began the process of staring at them. Maybe if she did so long enough, the answer would just fall out the sky. Heh. After a while, though, she raised her hand. "Professor?" she asked. "Can we work with a partner by any chance?" If so, she so called dibs on Kurumi Hollingberry!

Originally Posted by hpluvr037

Well he already knew it was a good question, but he still felt heartened to hear her acknowledge that. As she began to answer, he began to scribble frantically, his tongue sticking out of his mouth in concentration. His quill flew furiously across the page so that ink splatters jumped up onto his outstretched tongue. "P-tewey!" he said, spitting it out.

When she was done, he checked over his notes so he could begin to digest the information. Parts usually have min. 2 numbers.. Kernel/Range more likely to have 3+.. More numbers in curse=more complicated. Too many numbers=don't try to break.. Yeah, that made sense. "Okay, thanks! That really helps! But.. when do we get to learn how to do the tapping separation thing? That sounds much more reliable." And easier, and efficient.



He checked his work. Actually that all fits in fairly well with what she said. I'll just work under the assumption it's right and divide out the rest. So that meant he should divide the 5959 in half evenly. That meant the Range and Cline were both 59. "How it's activated.." he muttered. Physical touch and immediate effects again. Same for Cline. He added this to his parchment.

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Minerva listened as everyone talked about numbers. She felt a little confused. Well she always felt the number 13 was a bad number, maybe it meant something evil or bad. Wondering about this her mind wondered off away from class. She was thinking about how she hated the number 13 and how back home she always hated Friday the 13 and all those horrible movies.

Then she was brought back to class by the next activity. Oh they were doing an activity.. Crap Min, what was the activity.. Sitting up she scrambled to try to figure out what they were doing. Looking at the notes and then her book she wrote down the number in front of them.

Now it was time to work it out:



Well Minerva hoped that was right and hoped she wasn't noticed daydreaming especially in Hadley's class. Of all classes she could do that, this was not the one she wanted to. No not her head of house, that wasn't showing very good Puff ways now was it.