SPOILER!!: Professor
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Pointy? "Not quite ... pointy... well unless of course perhaps you're referring to the fact that pinnacles, to some degree, point to your potential for achievement and success..." She said, flipping the girl's words around slightly. She was sure that wasn't what the second year was referring to, but you know, being supportive of her students was always good.
Quite a few students elected to know a bit about pinnacles, which surprised Josephina, but also pleased her. It was a bit more challenging concept to understand compared with the basic core numbers, but at least a lot of maths wasn't involved. Not really, anyway.
"Yes, yes, very good!" Fina exclaimed. "Each of your four pinnacles refer to a period in your life. The transition from one pinnacle period to the next is very strong felt, perhaps maybe two years before the actual Pinnacle period changes. Life-altering changes, whether it refer to your job, marriage, kids, will usually occur during the transitional period between pinnacles. Pinnacles are therefore, considered to be long-term. And though you'll all enter the second pinnacle of your life at different times depending on your life path number, I can safely say that ALL of you are in your first pinnacle cycle right now." Because well, none of them were 27 and all or they wouldn't still be Hogwarts students.
"Right then. Can I get one volunteer from each house?" She paused again before adding, "Preferably a sixth or seventh year, but if a younger student feels confident in their knowledge of Pinnacles...You may volunteer too."
Nika's mouth formed a small "O" shape as her professor explained what the pinnacle thing actually was. So it wasn't exactly point...
"Oh... Yeah... That's what I was referring to..." She said with a sheepish smile as her face turned a light shade of pink. No, it had nothing to do with her suggestion, but if the professor was going to go along with it then she may as well go along with it too. It would make her look less stupid... Or perhaps even
more stupid. This is why Nika's not a Ravenclaw.
Then she heard her professor speak to the class as a whole to explain these "pinnacle" things further. Nika quickly whipped out some parchment and a quill which she should have done earlier and began to scribble notes. "Four pinnacles... period of life.... Life altering changes...." She finished scribbling phrases down just in time to look up when her professor asked for volunteers. Normally Nika wouldn't mind volunteering, but not in a class like Arithmancy. Not in a class where she had absolutely no idea what she was doing. And hey, she did ask for older students so it wouldn't make her look bad if she didn't volunteer. So for now she'd just look around and see what others were going to do.
SPOILER!!: PROFESSORRR
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PhoenixRising Then there was Sierra, Katie, and Legend who all volunteered. "Hold your eagerness. I might need you guys a bit later on," she said, offering them a brief smile before turning back to her current four volunteers.
"Right then. Our four lovely volunteers are going to demonstrate how to calculate each of the four pinnacle cycles on the blackboard, using their own birthdays. Alex? You can calculate your first pinnacle for us and then explain to us the formula you used." She said looking at the Hufflepuff boy, before to the Ravenclaw boy, "You, calculate the second pinnacle." She paused, looking from Simon to Iris, as if deliberating which to give each. "Captain Bennett? You can show us the fourth pinnacle. And Iris will show us the third pinnacle."
She paused again, thoughtfully. "Actually, Gwen dear?" She looked back toward the disappointed young Ravenclaw. "One of the numbers that is important in determining what Pinnacle cycle you're in is the life path number. Think you could manage demonstrating how to calculate that number as a quick refresher?" She knew the girl was a first year, but she seemed smart enough.
Back to Legend and Katie. "As I've mentioned before, the ages that the Pinnacle Cycles influence you will vary based upon your life path number. Miss Mae? Prefect Chosen? There's table that provides the duration of your pinnacle cycles based upon your life path. Do you think you could work together to copy this table onto the board for us?"
Nika stared at Professor Hadley with her mouth slightly opened. HUH? What...? She didn't understand a thing. Well maybe it was a good thing that some smarter students were doing the work. She'd just take more notes and pretend that she knew what she was doing. If all else fails she'd raise her hand to ask for help.