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Lockhartian · 05-14-2011, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising

Treyen looked about ready to fall off his chair. Yea, they totally should leave soon because the last thing she wanted was a Prefect down on the ground.

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Making her way back up to the front of the room, "Right. So as I've just had you practice the process of transferring letters to numbers and thus to discover the numerical value of words and sentences, you're probably all wondering why or what is the meaning of this?" She paused, letting this sink in. "Honestly, compared to some of the other numbers we've calculated or WILL calculate in the future, there isn't much meaning to this so much as symbolism." Okay kids, throw stuff. Do it. Josephina could see it on their faces that they probably wanted to.

"Paragrams are more about symmetry, for instance, poetry with all lines having the same sum and construction of parallel passages. Some of you probably noticed during your calculations that some of your words ended up with the same values. That is exactly the kind of symmetry I'm talking about!" Hmm. Complicated much? It was about to get more so.

"Any questions?" She asked, glancing around the room. Because if they were all as beat as she was from the numbers, then she was game for assigning the homework and that was it.

Okay, first, he'd relaxed way too much into his comfortable chair, and pretty much woke up when he noticed he was almost falling off of it. Probably not the best thing to do while studying Arithmancy, no? Nor Potions, that would be disastrous. So, the Hufflepuff straightened himself, and...

...and look! Hadley was walking over there to the front. Good. This meant, they were going to keep going. This meant, they were going to find out what this numbers had to do with anything.

Or...not.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

Symbolism?! What the--He already knew how to do math, okay? And he knew how to assign numbers to letters, Hadley. This was so very uncalled for. And it was so clear on his face, as his mouth remained slightly open thanks to the shock of this important information. He frowned once he regained composure.

Though, perhaps Hadley was only doing this for the first years, yes? Okay, he could deal with that, it seemed fair.

And then he frowned AGAIN, there had been no similar or identical numbers in his calculations. Awesome.

He HAD to ask something, though, "I have one," he said, raising his hand, "Are we doing something else besides 'symbolism' in this lesson?"

Yes, he understood absolutely nothing of what Papergrams were. But, that shouldn't be something to be concerned about, Kurumi will explain him.

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Lockhartian Kappa Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The Eyrie Posts: 14,978 Hogwarts RPG Name: Ashton P. Walker First Year x11 x11	Eagle Eye [⅓ Badger Trio] Felon & Kafka ♥ Gilderoy Lockhart <3 [TEAM 947!] Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Treyen looked about ready to fall off his chair. Yea, they totally should leave soon because the last thing she wanted was a Prefect down on the ground. ____________ Making her way back up to the front of the room, "Right. So as I've just had you practice the process of transferring letters to numbers and thus to discover the numerical value of words and sentences, you're probably all wondering why or what is the meaning of this?" She paused, letting this sink in. *"Honestly, compared to some of the other numbers we've calculated or WILL calculate in the future, there isn't much meaning* to this so much as symbolism." Okay kids, throw stuff. Do it. Josephina could see it on their faces that they probably wanted to. "Paragrams are more about symmetry, for instance, poetry with all lines having the same sum and construction of parallel passages. Some of you probably noticed during your calculations that some of your words ended up with the same values. That is exactly the kind of symmetry I'm talking about!" Hmm. Complicated much? It was about to get more so. "Any questions?" She asked, glancing around the room. Because if they were all as beat as she was from the numbers, then she was game for assigning the homework and that was it. Okay, first, he'd relaxed way too much into his comfortable chair, and pretty much woke up when he noticed he was almost falling off of it. Probably not the best thing to do while studying Arithmancy, no? Nor Potions, that would be disastrous. So, the Hufflepuff straightened himself, and... ...and look! Hadley was walking over there to the front. Good. This meant, they were going to keep going. This meant, they were going to find out what this numbers had to do with anything. Or...not. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! Symbolism?! What the--He already knew how to do math, okay? And he knew how to assign numbers to letters, Hadley. This was so very uncalled for. And it was so clear on his face, as his mouth remained slightly open thanks to the shock of this important information. He frowned once he regained composure. Though, perhaps Hadley was only doing this for the first years, yes? Okay, he could deal with that, it seemed fair. And then he frowned AGAIN, there had been no similar or identical numbers in his calculations. Awesome. He HAD to ask something, though, "I have one," he said, raising his hand, "Are we doing something else besides 'symbolism' in this lesson?" Yes, he understood absolutely nothing of what Papergrams** were. But, that shouldn't be something to be concerned about, Kurumi will explain him.