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Text Cut: Professor Hadley Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising  As Josephina walked around the room and glanced at the student's poetry, she couldn't help but notice how some of them seemed rather serious and melodramatic, whilst others ... were just ... positive radiance. Some students obviously thought well of their families, others, not so much.
"So now that we've got some basic ideas behind what we think our surnames mean just from our own personal experiences with our families, let's add numbers into the mix." Of course. Because this wouldn't be a lesson about the mysteries of numbers with them. "In case you haven't realized it by now, one of the numbers we're going over today is the Family Name Number, which as you may have guessed, uncovers information contained in your surname. You calculate this number ... how?" Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Well someone at least had the courage. Even his answer hadn't been entirely complete. "Except you forgot one thing. Where you get the numbers. Which of course, you get the the numbers from the Pythagorean Number System." But as per usual, they wouldn't be doing their own surnames just yet.
"Because your family that you've formed here at Hogwarts is so important," at least Fina thought it was. "I'd like you to pick a famous historical figure from your house, be it your house founder, or just simply someone from history who was in your house who you find .... inspirational, and calculate their Family Name Number. Knowing that this number reveals one's inner subconscious response to life, how do you think their family name number fit in with the way their life led?" The Family Name number. Stella simply nodded as the acrostic mess concluded and theyd gone back to Arithmancy. She had known there was something, and now she didn't have to go back to her textbook to remember what it was. Others had given the answer to the question of how they discovered their Family Name number, though, so she stayed quiet. Even if she was curious about what Professor Hadley had thought about their acrostics, there was no reason to go back to that. Not when they were finally doing something she thought was relevant.
It was definitely interesting that they'd been asked to calculate the numbers for a famous person from their House, though. She knew exactly who she could focus on, although indirectly she knew she was probably one of the only people who could do the assignment and still be focusing on her actual family as well. She didn't like thinking about that, since she felt like it inherantly meant she should have been better at certain subjects than she was, but at least she wouldn't have to fall back on the Founders. And she could always just come up with another excuse if she was asked why she'd picked that person. Picking up her quill again, she started doing her calculations underneath her previous work.
Glancing at her textbook finally, she copied down the description that was assigned to the number eight, then just sat there looking at it for a while. Superficially, she didn't really see how it related. Not to most of what she remembered, both from books and what her mother could tell her. The longer she looked at it, though, there were definitely parts of it that fit.
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