05-21-2011, 12:12 PM
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Billywig
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Ezekiel Andrei de Ferreis Seventh Year | {TwistedHearts. ♥ || GRYFFINDOR | | Zara, Zeke, Regina, Icarus. ♥ || Yssa.} Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverTiger Renée wasn’t surprised that Kurumi’s hand had been one of the first to come up at the question, but she had been surprised that Simon had spoken up again. His answer concerned her, though, so she addressed that before going back to the others who had all been on basically the right track. “Simon, fire is not part of this form of Divination, and even if it was, I’d imagine the flames would float on top of the water and therefore not affect the creatures under its surface,” she said calmly, giving the Hufflepuff the slightest of raised eyebrows. That was definitely not something she had planned for any time soon, and not just because she’d already covered pyromancy last term and didn’t like repeating herself.
But then she turned to the others and gave them all a smile. Simon notwithstanding, they were making her feel proud that they were able to come up with answers. Even if Eino’s reasoning was rather amusing. She couldn’t say she’d ever heard it described in quite that way before. “Oil and water don’t mix,” she agreed. “The oil floats on the surface of the water, and then the motion of the pouring makes it move into random shapes that can be read.” It was fairly straightforward, although the question then remained if people thought it was in fact similar to previously discussed forms of symbol-reading in Divination. “Would you think that one could really compare the symbols seen in elaeomancy to those that could be found in tasseomancy?,” she went on to ask. Obviously oil would create looser symbols than tea leaves might, but indirectly it was all still similar. And she wanted to know their thoughts before she set out to let them try a bit of the former anyway. Whoah, whoah. What were they talking about? Oil? Tasseomancy, elaeomancy? Big words. Zara's head was exploding. Okay, so as she heard, elaeomancy was divination by water gazing. Tasseomancy was something like reading symbols/designs of an action? "Maybe?" she said questioningly as she raised her hand. "Well, they are both used for Divination, so probably those symbols have some relevance and relation to one another. Maybe they're kind of the same in some way." Zara said, biting her lip a little. She wasn't sure.
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