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PhoenixRising 
Errr... had her ears been deceiving her or was Joshua Carter seriously upset over his number? Nonetheless, Josephina walked over and took a long look at the sixth year's parchment. "No... everything seems right... but maybe there's the chance of you using the name you go by, Josh, instead of Joshua. But like I've said before, this number represents your innermost desires. Not who you are as a person." There was a fine line between those two things; surely Josh was old enough to understand that.
"Right then. Now that most of us have calculated our heart's desire numbers," Fina began as she walked back toward the front of the classroom. "Let's take a look at what our first vowel, capstone, and cornerstone numbers mean. There isn't really a calculation involved in these numbers, but just use chapter 25 in your textbooks. Can anyone tell me how to find these numbers and what they mean? Please just give one."
Everything seemed right? No. She had not just said that. Nothing was right here. Oh, how he wished that he had done the calculation wrong. But as Professor Hadley went on speaking a little gleam of hope appeared in the boy's dark brown eyes. Yes, that could be! So, nodding at her, the Gryffindor quickly began calculating the new version...with Josh instead of Joshua.
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Originally Posted by Another Parchment
Josh
*6**
Matthew
*1***5*
Carter
*1**5*
(6) + (1+5) + (1+5)
6 + 6 + 6 = 18
1 + 8
= 9
NINE (9): You are the very soul of compassion. You want, above all else, to love the world and all that's in it. With your high ideals and power to influence others, you strive for universal perfection and universal love. You are deeply intuitive and charitable, often torn by your own emotional needs and the greater needs of others. In matters of the heart and friendship, you are loving and idealistic. In fact, you love of others seems boundless - because it is.
Well...now this was way better. Yup, better. It looked like it did fit better as he knew himself. But for some reason he was not feeling like he got the right number anyway. Because...because...eh. He knew why he was feeling like that
Joshua was his
birth name. Josh was only the shortened form of it that people liked to call him. So, the true name was Joshua, no Josh.
THEN SCRATCH IT ALL!!
Sighing with anger Josh scratched all the words and numbers on the parchment all in a sudden
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Originally Posted by Damaged Parchment
Josh
*6**
Matthew
*1***5*
Carter
*1**5*
(6) + (1+5) + (1+5)
6 + 6 + 6 = 18
1 + 8
= 9
NINE (9): You are the very soul of compassion. You want, above all else, to love the world and all that's in it. With your high ideals and power to influence others, you strive for universal perfection and universal love. You are deeply intuitive and charitable, often torn by your own emotional needs and the greater needs of others. In matters of the heart and friendship, you are loving and idealistic. In fact, you love of others seems boundless - because it is.
And what the Arithmancy professor said next did not help him at all. Innermost desires? Innermost? Desires? Seriously? Taking a deep breath, he looked up at the woman, disappointment could be read all over his face.
''But professor, that makes it only worse. I don't want to be a person whose innermost desire is THIS...'' he waved the original parchment wildly in his hand at this point.
''...i would prefer jumping off the Gryffindor tower!''
And here he might be whining over the number yet...the class was going on with the next question Hadley had asked. But, Josh had no apetite left for the class right now for one of his favourite classes had just betrayed him.