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Leeness 
Numbers. YUUUUCK!
What was more horrid than taking an elective in a magic school? Taking an elective in a magic school that didn't really involve magic. Why had Elijah taken the class then? A) To keep his parents happy and B) The Professor was his Head of House and if he kept her happy then whenever he got into serious trouble she may go easy on him. It was called forward thinking. Would explain why Elijah enjoyed Divination so much.
In attempt to look the part for the class, Elijah walked in holding a large abacus. All of the beads of his abacus were a canary yellow to sport his house pride (and also to bring out the colour in his gorgeously dreamy eyes). He had no clue how to use one of the damn things, but he thought he could just move the beads about and pretend to be counting or something. Did Arithmancy even NEED abaci? Merlin only knew.
"Why hello, Professor," he greeted as he walked in front of her desk, making sure to subtly (or maybe not so subtly) show off his abacus. He pulled a small flower from his robe pockets and presented it to the Professor, "For you, Professor. You are looking extremely well today."
Always the charmer.
He made his way between the desks, noting who was currently present. He spotted Vickers nearby and Kurumi, both of which were ridiculously intelligent and both of which probably knew how to work his abacus if it came to that. Hm. Who to sit next to?
He decided on the 'Claw, figuring that keeping his distance from Kurumi voluntarily may make her want him even more. 'Playing hard to get,' as they say.
"Hellllllooooo Vickers!" he said cheerily, sliding his fine looking self into a chair beside him. Looking over his shoulder he gave Kurumi a small wave and a wink, that way she totally knew he was thinking about her at least. "How are we today, my fine 'Claw?" he asked, turning his attention back to his friend. "Do you like my abacus?"
Elijah briefly spotted the words on the blackboard and groaned somewhat. He didn't have any notes from last lesson... probably because he hadn't taken any last lesson out of sheer laziness. Thankfully Vickers seemed to have his, which made Elijah even more please about his choice of desk buddy. He pulled out some blank pieces of parchment and a quill before seeing how quickly he could shove a bead on his abacus from left to right.
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OCing stacking up his notes from last lesson, Vickers looked up and grinned as the Hufflepuff settled beside him,
"Oh hey there Elijah" he greeted back and was quickly taken with the contraption on Elijah's desk
"An abacus..." he murmured in quiet amazement. He hasnt seen those in a while, at least not around Hogwarts
SPOILER!!: Hadley
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PhoenixRising Listening, Josephina smiled when the students seemed to even know the geographical significance of the Chaldean method. "Yes, Babylonia, or as Prefect Greingoth made more specific, the southern part of Babylonia. Which is present-day Iran and Iraq, as Captain Marius added for us." Wealth of geographical knowledge it seemed, her captain had. Though she couldn't fight off the sense that Keefer and Sierra were perhaps competing to add the most originality and detail to their answers?
"Why is the number 9 omitted from Chaldean Numerology System?"
He sifted through his notes from last class and raised his hand
"Professor the Chaldeans regarded the number 9 as sacred and wanted to keep it separate from the rest of their usual numerological chart." There was something he was wondering about though, since last class. Up goes the hand again
"Professor, the Chaldeans still allow a person with 9 as a sum of their number to keep that number, but what meaning would they be using then, given how each number all the way to 52 as a specific meaning? "