Sophie saw the amusement in Sebastian's eyes as she had sneezed and damaged everything on her wood. She gave him a long pouting look before saying with a shrug of her shoulders. "It's okay. It must have looked comical." The prefect could have imagined it did when somebody sneezed in the middle of an incantation. Looking at her wood piece she sighed heavily. "It's totally damaged."
She glanced over at Sebastian piece of wood with a pin of envy going through her which she suppressed. It was her fault for sneezing at the worst timing not her Gryffindor housemate. Sophie glanced around the room as she waited for Professor Truebridge to come over.



Professor Truebridge came over and silently handed her a new wood piece. Beaming up at him she said simply "Thank you, sir!" Closing her eyes she focused her attention on carving again. Opening them she said out loud "Intaglio Wunjo wunjo wunjo wunjo wunjo!" This time the lines of the rune carved itself into the wood with care and precision. Producing a bite of smile across the Gryffindor prefect’s face she followed up her success with testing to carve the Thurisaz rune too.

The lesson moved on as the second method was introduced. Holstering her wand Sophie listened and thought about where she had read about galdr before. It was somewhere in her ancient runes textbook but she couldn’t put her finger on where.




Sophie didn't wait long before many of her classmates provided a range of different answers to the question about galdr. But it was Professor Truebridge's definition that she wrote down on a parchment. So a galdr was a chant or spell like Intaglio but with a musical aspect since you had to sing a certain rythm to awake the magic in the rune. Sophie thought hard on the similarites between Intaglio and galdr but came up with only blank thoughts. She needed more time to think.