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"Demiguise? It sounds like part of a disguise. 'Demi' means half or lesser, and 'Guise' means attire," Rafe said a bit confused. "So it mean 'Half-Attire'...like going shirtless? And it could be related to zero because you a minus clothing?" Rafe had no idea what he was talking about and what being half naked would have to do with ancient runes. Rafe put his head in his hands. That was such a stupid answer, he thought. Everyone else was talking about these magical creatures and all he could think up was being half-clothed!
She giggled, "Alright... Half dressed. One point."
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Kmaslytheringirl1278 "It diguises you and you are now gone from the world yet still there No one notices that you could be there in the room with them." All K needed to say was it diguises you but she loved going into details.
"Gone from the world... gone. Alright, one point." and she moved to the next person.
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Magenta "..It becomes invisible when it gets scared" Magenta began, hoping paraphrasing everyones responses would help her come up with an answer. "So maybe the rune means invisible?!" she exclaimed before blushing. Really? Invisible? She could've come up with something better than that.
"Invisible... One point," she said anyone else?
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Tristin Oh meee gosh!! DING DING!!! It did rhyme with demiguise, yahoo. He got a cake annnd a point, hoow generous of our pretty Professor Lupa. First point.sniff. After the lesson, he'll head straight to the Owlery and write a letter to mum and dad, telling he actually got a point and a cake. Good timesss.
"Thank you Ma'am, the cake is yummy." He muttered, taking a bite out of it using a FORK, like he need one...he could've simply shoved it in his mouth, duh...!!
"You are welcome... but you need to keep answering my dear." She said and went to the next student.
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BonnieGinnyfan Ginny raised her hand"The Demiguise is Located in the far east,it is incredibly hard to find, as it will turn itself invisible if it feels threatened.That's why it symbolizes the number zero in the runic alphabet..."She blushed as she said those words"did i say it right?"she thought
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bone_baud10 Thomas raised his hand and said, "A demiguise can found in the far east. It is a very peaceful creature. It is hard to find a demiguise because it can turn invisible when it wants. The reason it number zero is because it is invisible to the human eyes. We also use the demiguse for making invisiblty cloaks." Hopefully he was right.
"Yes, but that's not a meaning..." She nodded. "I must not be explaining myself correctly." She conjured a fork for them.
She moved to the middle of the classroom, "
ATTENTION EVERYONE: I am looking for meanings for the
rune." she said "Let me show you what I mean... Miss Potter here said the animal will turn itself invisible if it feels threatened. Think about that, threatened... the rune can mean fear... or running from one's fears." She said "Master Turner mentioned invisibility cloak... another thing cloaks do is cover you. So maybe the rune can mean cover, shield... protection." She said "understand?" and moved on.
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Mrs. Weasley Abby smiles at Professor Lawson. "Demiguise represents zero because to the naked eye there is nothing there. The demiguise"s hair hides it completely. The Demiguise rune can mean hidden, nothing, mystery, invisible.
"Good, hidden and mystery we can add to the list." She said "One point. Anyone else?"
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Celandine Cela raised her hand thoughtfully. "It isn't just that it isn't there, I think... its more like, it is there, because zero as a number is present, but rather than being of itself, it is something that effects other numbers. like making a one into a ten or into a hundred. Um... so I guess what I'm getting at, is rather than zero and the demiguise both meaning nothing, they both represent what is not seen; the unknown quantity."
"Without quantity." She said and nodded, "One point"
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Zoerawrr CAKECAKECAKE!
He wanted cake... neeeeeeeeeded it.
Knew it would make him EXCEEDINGLY ill... and hyper... but...
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But it was right there.
Attampting to inconspicuously break some of the cake from the original slice, Jake smiled and quickly shoved it into his mouth.
"The 'emi'uise... errrr..." he said, trying to swallow the bit of cake down quickly as he put his hand up. "Like... they're all about the invisibilty cloaks, sooooooo... you can't see something... it ain't there... it is nil. It is nothing to you. Hence... zero."
And with that, he set about breaking off another piece of CAKE.
AH LURRRVE DE CECK!
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aussiegirl Oooh cake!!! Marcus, inclined his head towards Alessia. "Thank you" he murmured as he picked up the fork and began to dig into the cake. Mwhaha...he had cake and no-one else did. Everyone else in the room seemed to disappear as he focused on shoveling as much as the chocolate covered piece of heaven into his mouth. It was just him and the cake and nothing else mattered right now.
From his position at Alessia's desk hunched over the chocolate cake as though it was the last piece on the earth, Marcus spied a movement out of the corner of his eye and he turned his head and almost letting out growl at whoever who was stealing the cake.
Okay so he didn't growl but he wasn't exactly happy either and not because Jake was stealing the cake but because he knew he shouldn't eating anything sweet. Marcus, stood up reluctantly not really wanting to leave his cake unprotected and made his way over to Jake's desk. "You're not allowed to have anything sweet Mr Upstead...you know that." He grabbed the piece of cake that was in front of Jake and quickly shoved it into his mouth. Mwhahaha...try getting that back!!!
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Zoerawrr !!!
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"HEY!" Jake protested, twitching a little as Lawson STOLE the cake that was RIGHTFULLY HIS.
Yeah.
Ew... he wasn't going to try and get that back in a hurry. But... Lawson's cake was now unprotected, and Jake cast a shifty look towards it, before resigning himself to the fact that he wasn't charging across any classrooms to get cake. At least HE only turned crazy when he'd eaten some.
Although... he did take a bite.
NO! Jake sat back in his chair and sulked, pouting a little as he waited for the lesson to move on and end so he could learn and go down to the kitchens.
"Meanie," he mumbled.
"Master Upstead! Professor Lawson is not a 'meany.' I believe I said no eating the cake slices at your desks without a fork. You are not an animal. They are there to motivate you to participate in my class." She said looking at the boy disappointed. She didn't know he wasn't supposed to have sweets. "I hope it was worth it... Disobedience will cost you two points, and no more cake."
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Si CAKE! CAKECAKECAKECAKECAKECAKE! Pietro kept looking back and forth from Professor Lupa to that glorious cake. If he wanted cake, he was gonna have to actually talk &...this subject wasn't exactly Pietro's strong suit. Demiguises and zeroes and such things didn't really make sense to Pie. "Um professor is it because Demiguises turn invisible? You can't see the value of zero in person just like you can't see a Demiguise when it goes invisible."
"Can't see the value... worthless. One point." She said and conjured a fork for the little boy.
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Vampire_BaD_GiRl Nataly looked through her textbook, and saw the line '...ability to make itsel invisible...'
Well, that's easy. She thought and raised her hand. "The Demiguise has a special abilty to turn invisible. When he is invisible, it looks like nothing is there, and zero means nothing. That's why the Demiguise simbolises the number zero."
"Alright... now give me a meaning... one that hasn't been said before." She said.
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AmbiguouslyMe Tibi listened intently as other student offered their ideas. All of them seemed to make sense and he scribbled down the possibilities in his notes.
Possibilities... Tibi was suddenly struck by an idea. Considering it for a moment, he raised his hand.
"In addition to representing the unknown, when a demiguise is invisible, the unknown quantity also represents possibility -- possibility that anything could appear in that space. The possibility only ends when it appears and certainty returns."
Had that made sense? Tibi pursed his lips... he'd thought it was a good point, but maybe he hadn't explained it clearly. He started to speak again to clarify, but stopped himself.
"Possibility, good." She said and added, "One point."
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Deniiz Oooh, Evan got his answer to "reading runes". So you asked a question and pulled out three runes? Easy enough. He'd actually do that once he learnt all of the meanings. He wondered if it showed the answers of exam questions too. But remembering it was about life, he sighed. Probably it did not.
He giggled when Professor followed the smell and entered the class. That man was awesome! He watched his fight for cake with Jake Upstead. He laughed, and turned back to Prof. Lupa to answer her question with a sudden inspiration.
"We can't see a demiguise even if its right in front of us, so it may also mean the things that are so close, yet we can't see them." Right? In his point of view, right. What had that great man said: 'We can't see that the most precious treasures are the ones which are the closest to us.' So yeah, he hoped to be right.
"Inability to see what's before you... good, one point." she said.
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ginny37 Alexandra raised her hand and said, "Well, the Demiguise represents zero, and it's a creature that's hair helps with invisibility, so maybe it represents the unknown." She hoped she had it somewhat figured out.
"No my dear, the unknown is rune number 7... and we'll get to that one."
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ShadowThestral Damon was playing with his fork on the icing of his chocolate cake, drawing the little symbols of his text book as he thought. It was absentminded and he had a little bit of a thoughtful expression on his face. Blatantly ignoring the cake stealing that was going on further back in the class room, he half-raised his hand, more like he knew that he should. "Well zeros have properties too... But it can't be seen, so it becomes nothing to us, much like someone who is invisible. They're there, but they're not."
"Unseen... Good good... One Point. Next?" She said looking around the room.
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Anna Banana LouAnn glanced from Professor Lupa to another professor she hadn't met yet, then back to Professor Lupa once again. She was going to fail Ancient Runes, that's just all there was to it. She was falling behind it, she was starting to feel lost, and...Merlin, she needed to head to the professor's office at some point and time to try and get some extra assistance. Relax, LouAnn. Relax. Professor Lupa seemed highly skilled in this field, and LouAnn had no doubt her professor could catch her up in no time.
Okay, she could do this...demiguise...creature...rune...zero. Before she could talk herself out of answering, she raised her hand into the air. "A demiguise is a creature with the ability to make itself invisible. It takes a highly trained witch or wizard to even see a demiguise in order to capture it. We can't see the Demiguise, but it's still there," she said. "It's invisibility relates to the number zero. Zero is a number that means there are no quantities in a specific place within a number. Maybe the Demiguise rune is only present to effect the other runes in some way...just like a zero is present in a number to make it of a larger quantity."
"Only present to effect the other runes, alright... Dependent on others," she said nodding at the girl, "One point," she said and looked for the next hand.
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Hedwig18 Ana raised her hand "Demeguise is an herbiverous and peaceful creature, it looks like a ape with big black eyes and it has the ability to became invesible. I think is number 0 because when something is invisibible you can't see so is like it wasn't there the same goes for the zero it doesn't exist"
"Unexistant," she nodded, "One point, next?"
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LilFox06 Carter raised his hand. "Could it represent zero because it exists but doesn't have a physical presence? Like a demeguise exists, but you can't see it." He wasn't sure his answer made sense, but he had a feeling the cake in front of him was to blame if he didn't make sense.
"Non Physical, One point." She said and nodded.
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Walrus Jacoby raised his hand. "Well a demiguise makes its self invisible, so if we're reading it as a rune. as past present or future. I guess it would mean some thing like uncertainty. Like theres nothing there to show us what happened, is happening or will happen. Like its completely gone, like it was never there. Or like its only partially there." He did seem to say 'like' alot when he wasn't sure of himself...but it sounded good in his head. Hopefully it sounded good out loud too...
"Oooo Uncertainty... that's good. One point."
She conjured forks for all those who didn't have them and went to the board and wrote:
Demiguise (0)
Meanings: Nothing, Disguise, Half-dressed, Gone, Invisible, Fear, Cover, Protection, Hidden, Mystery, Without Quantity, Unable to see something before you, Unseen, Dependent on others, Non Existant, Non Physical, Uncertain.
"Let's move on... What's the second Rowling rune? The one that symbolizes the number 1, and tell me what is it's meaning. The Rune Meaning." She said and waited.