05-13-2011, 09:47 PM
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Alexander River Hirsch
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SPOILER!!: Professor Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising  Smiling at the Hufflepuff first year, Fina shook her head. "Not particularly. The number system that we'll be using for pretty much most of your Arithmancy careers, unless otherwise stated or you delve further into Numerological studies would be the Pythagorean Number System. This is found in Chapter Two of your textbooks," Hadley informed them, waiting for those who wished to do so to turn to that appropriate page. "Using the chart listed, you'll assign each letter in the word the number. Add up all the numbers in the word together, but in most cases where we reduce to a single digit, with Paragrams, you're NOT going to reduce."
Hmm, perhaps they ought to practice with simple words for a bit. "Okay, so take a few moments to practice this by taking five words synonymous with who you are and translating them to a number equivalent, as I did with my last name, Hadley." Kita frowned. Ok. The calculations part should be simple enough... but five words synonymous to who she is? The girl didn't even know where she came from, forget about knowing who she actually is. She sighed and took out a parchment and quill.
Ok... so she had to include her name. So 'Lewis' would have to do. Hm... Where she came from... she didn't know that. Grr! So the only thing that linked in with her past and family would have to be the word 'Adopted'. What else, what else? Oh! Quidditch! How can she forget that? And... her house! Because she was sorted in there for a reason right? She clearly has the attributes or some of them for Hufflepuff house. Now that just left one... Her mind geared towards her personality and almost immediately, one word came into her mind: 'Craziness'.
SPOILER!!: Professor again Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Turning her attention back to the whole class; "Feel free to continue to work on your calculations for a little bit longer and if you feel up to it, then you may jump ahead to the next piece in writing a paragram," she paused, letting this sink in. Because they honestly didn't think that one word characteristics with NO meaning whatsoever would be considered one, right? "Which would be translating whole sentences into number values. And to do this, you must add together the values from each word to get a final value for that sentence. Again, remember, do not reduce." She reiterated the last bit sternly, once more, because she knew she always emphasized the reduction in any previous calculation they've done for Arithmancy. This was different. Ok... so it was sentence time? Kita was already tired from the previous calculations and she was already getting a migraine! But she was going to have to get used to it right? Because she was really starting to like Arithmancy, migraine or no migraine.
Ok! Sentence time! Now... what to write, what to write, WHAT TO WRITE?! And that's when the brunette had a flashback. A flashback from the one time she had sat in the Great Hall with her best friend just munching on some chocolate cake. She bit her lip in an attempt to stop herself giggling from the mere memory of that day and started scribbling down the sentence that had formed in her head.
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