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Celandine raised her hand cheerfully, having already turned her book to the indicated page. "Hana Kotoba means 'The language of the flowers' or simply 'flower language'. It was actually heavily influenced by the Western stuff we were just looking at. Seems weird to me because often its totally the other way around."
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individual Evelyn looked up when she heard the professor say her name. Jitters? Her? Nah!...well maybe. Smiling slightly at the teacher, she got up and walked over to him when he gestured to her. "Hana Kotoba?" she repeated. 'Is that a trick question? The Japanese practice of Hana Kotoba...' she thought for a minute before answering. "Does it mean...flower language? Or language of the flower? Something like that..."
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Lockhartian Okay. So she joined the correct side with the Slytherins and then....a sound...which made her jump out of surprise. A metallic thing was in the place where the blackboard had been. Ooooh....interesting.
Page 221. Kaika raised her hand, "It means flower language, right?" she said, not precisely sure.
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The1HBIC Marie raised her hand, "It is the Japanese language of flowers Sir"
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Kaytone "Sir." Kay said with her hand up. "Hana Kotoba means the language of flowers." She said hoping she was right.
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Ellabella Fred turned to the page the professor sprcified in his text book then raised his hand to answer the professors question saying hana katoba means 'the language of flowers'.".
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Very good. A point to each of your houses for your answers."
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How it got there is not certain. But, some Wizarding Historians believe that it got there after Western Muggles began to migrate in mass to the Island of Japan due to their war around the middle of the last century." He offered the students the theory. "
Some scholars also believe that a form of Hana Kotoba separate from Western Floriography existed in Japan before the western influence. There exists some evidence of that in the symbolic way that the samurai treated flowers."
He waited a little while longer before conjuring a large stovepipe hat and turning it upside down to fill it with strips of parchment that had sentences written upon them.
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Will our team captains please step forward?"