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Slytherin Seventh Year
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Originally Posted by TwistedHearts  Other symbols? Yes, a lot. "Erm, wait. There's the uh," she said looking down at her parchment. "Well, first I got circles which mean success and completion. But I guess everyone else got that too in the start. Then it turned into eggs." Zara continued as she read her parchment.
"Eggs are a good omen. It means creation, new beginnings, sacred geometry and all those." Still reading on, "And then it stretched into wavy line." She said, beginning to pout. This one she didn't like. "Means uncertain path," Zara had said softly.
Well she had to continue. It is a good thing that the line changed. She didn't want to have an uncertain path. "And now it's this...rectangle." She finished, looking at Professor Bishop. Okay, table was out of the choices. Now there was..a door, an envelope, a book. Zara hoped there wasn't any other rectangular stuff in the symbol or else she wouldn't be able to finish at all. And class was almost ending. *pout* Renée had turned her attention back to Selina and Kurumi, but as Zara spoke again, she turned her gaze back to the other Gryffindor girl. The entire description was fascinating, as most of it seemed more like regurgitation of what had been on the list rather than a true analysis and interpretation, but then, Zara was young. She had time to learn the methods. “Circles would most likely be the first to appear,” she agreed, “But you seem to have kept up with the changes.” Until the mysterious rectangle incident. The intent of the statement the girl had made hadn’t slipped past her, though. “The meanings don’t change when the symbols do. They clarify. You could argue that your reading actually was telling you that you had a new beginning, like coming to Hogwarts. And you’re your path is uncertain, unexpected. Going with that, I’d say the rectangle might in fact be a sort of doorway. Leading to your new path in life, as a witch.”
Of course, that was only her own interpretation of what the symbols could all mean, and had only been made to explain how the changing symbols don’t nullify each others’ meanings. Zara would have to try and understand it all on her own, as well as make her own choices, to have any of it actually make sense in the long run. That was her whole reasoning for having them all try their own readings. It was true she could make them for everyone, in her own way, but that wouldn’t teach them. Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn Why Josh really was more interesting than the lesson at the moment, Evelyn couldn't help but glance down to the bowl of water and oil sitting in front of her. Was she curious to see if she could see anything in the bowl? Pfft, of course not.
Maybe.
Yet, her gaze lingered on one particular spot. Hmm, it looked like the number eight. What more could two circles connected to one another look like anyhow? Realizing that she didn't get one of those list thingies, the Slytherin girl quickly summoned one before staring at the list. Huh, no number eight. There was an 'Hourglass' listed though. That could be close to looking like an eight.
Time running out...need to decide something....illusion...
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What? What did it mean time was running out? What did she need to decide!? WHY WAS SHE LOSING TIME?! "Professor...I think this bowl is broken." Obviously, it was broken. It was making her think. As she had that thought, Renée looked up as she heard Evelyn speak, and a smile flickered across her face. She hadn’t even really expected the Slytherin to truly try to do a reading, as she’d noticed her attention on Josh previously, but even so, the conclusion was amusing. Walking over to the sixth year’s table, she glanced at the bowl before looking at Evelyn herself. “I doubt it’s broken, but perhaps the meaning is just eluding you,” she replied, tapping her finger on the list in front of Evelyn. “Synchronicity is an interesting possibility, after all. Coincidences having meaning.” It made her wonder if anyone else had found an hourglass in their readings, at least. Even if she wasn’t there to discuss psychology, or philosophy. She wasn’t about to make Evelyn think, since it seemed that was the girl’s true problem with the reading.
In fact, that seemed to be a good reason to let them all wind things down, and she moved away from the Slytherin to head back to her own table before facing everyone again. “Okay, I think this is as good a time as any to bring things to a close. “I’m sure a lot of you have found some interesting things out, both in your readings and simply about the process of elaeomancy. Not to mention the elusiveness of symbols,” she said with a little grin. She knew there were at least a few who hadn’t exactly liked the given possible meanings for what they’d seen, not in the least Evelyn. In a way, it cemented her idea for the homework assignment. “Class is dismissed. Feel free to finish things up if you haven’t, or you’d like to, but other than that, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. The homework assignment will be posted outside my office shortly.” And at those words, she took a seat again, ready to wait for everyone to clear out so she could gather everything together again and clean it all up. She also had a feeling she’d be hearing from Selina or Kurumi soon, as well, which gave her another reason to get them all to finish things up.
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