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Mell
"Thank you Mr Goldstein, Mr Vickers, Miss Potter and Miss Reinhart. Ochre comes from a naturally tinted clay. The pigments in the clay are used to create tints. Because blood was one used to stain the runes, people chose to tint the ochre red so as to keep with the tradition."
Oliver moved to the back of the room to where the wooden archway stood. "Now I noticed some you go a little green at the mention of using blood to stain the runes." He paused for a moment as he ran his hand over the archway. "Personally I prefer the use of blood when staining the runes. And as usual there is a reason for this."
He turned his attention back to the students. "Through all the years that runes have been around both wizards and muggles have used them. So tell me this, if a wizard and a muggle carved a rune into a piece of wood and then used their blood to stain the rune, whose rune would work more effectively? And why?"
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Originally Posted by
sweetpinkpixie
[SIZE="4"]Cue another queasy look from the prefect. "...but I wonder if that is effected by those witches and wizards who are Squibs or Muggle-born..." Both had actual magical blood flowing within them, but their magic either never manifested itself or suddenly appeared.
He was right? That was awesome.
I guess it did pay off listening to the odd rants about natural paint and brushes in his muggle art class. But hidesight was 20/20. The Gryffindor made a small note of the ochre paint on his parchment and then turned his attention back to the Professor has he posed his second question.
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"Well, I would have to assume that since Runes use a specific type of magic, that a wizard's blood would be more powerful in effecting them because it is magic itself." He then turned as Kurumi asked a question. It was as if she had read his mind.
"Yeah, about what Kurumi said, if magical blood was more effective on the runes, does that mean--that uh, my runes won't be as effective as some of the other students'?"
Maybe his being a Muggleborn wouldn't matter.