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Malachi Wild
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Text Cut: the lovely Professor Hadley Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising  Right then. Now that they had some ideas and views about types of families that existed in the world .... "Family comes from the Latin word, familia and in essence it is a group of people affiliated in some way or another, either by co-inhabiting the same residence, biologically related through marriage, or sometimes even friendships can be construed as a family." Hadley paused a moment. "Families, yes, while traditionally speaking they are a mother, father, and children.... as your basic nuclear family, can be anything. They can be your role models. They can be your teammates. Your housemates. Your neighbors. Your pets. Family is, really anything you want it to be. It's not just about living under the same roof and sharing DNA, but it's about affiliation. Connection. Mutual love and respect for one another."
She paused again, looking around the room. "So before we get to the calculations involved in today's lesson, I want you to write your own surname down on your parchment and come up with a word or phrase for each each letter in your surname. In an acrostic style. Something that you think is important to you or your family. I'll put an example of my own name on the board."
Heartwarming
An Italian
Deliberate in actions
Lovely. Most of the time.
Even can relate to you.
Your turn now!
Hmm, Professor Hadley doesn't seem like she's in a very good mood, Stella thought, even as the discussion had started, about the different types of families. She had stayed quiet, not even really taking any notes even though her parchment from the earlier contemplation was still out on her desk. She still didn't see the connection between family and Arithmancy, unless they were going to study more about family numbers or something to that effect. She thought there was something like that, and reached down for her textbook to check. At least the ultimate definition that the professor had given about family seemed to work with her idea from earlier. That it wasn't just parents and siblings. She still didn'tknow what relevance that had to numbers.
She set her textbook down again, unopened, as they'd been tasked to write an acrostic with their own last name as the subject. Maybe Professor Hadley had heard about their Muggle Studies homework from earlier in the term. Although she hadn't done that part of it, so she wasn't really looking forward to trying it now. Especially not if it had to be with her own name. She started writing something on the parchment under her earlier scribbling, though, after a couple more moments of fidgeting with her ring, figuring she might as well get it over with. Hopefully they weren't going to be graded on what it said, because she'd much rather just focus on Arithmancy.
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