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Bazinga Minerva made her way to the stained glass windows. One of her favorite places and she was meeting someone so she was trying to hurry. I'm so sorry Jory, I feel like I can never get anywhere fast enough. She glanced around a new habit since all the plant problems she had been around lately. She pulled her book out and tried to smile.
So Arithmancy.. Not one of her favorite subjects, but they had to get this homework done. "This stuff can be so confusing, can't it? Did you have one done you wanted me to look at?" She thought that was why they were meeting, but maybe she had been wrong so it wouldn't hurt to ask.
Jory was frowning over some definitions as he tried to get a better understanding of them when he heard Minerva speak.
"Hello, Minerva,'' he said, returning her somewhat forced smile.
"Very confusing.'' The Puff nodded and pulled out the parchment on which he had written his cryptogram. "This one is a mathematical one and it isn't a too difficult.'' Maybe he should have come up with a harder one? Anyway...
"Okay, so each answer you work out corresponds to a letter in the alphabet. Let's say an answer is three, then the letter would be C and so on.'' He handed over the parchment.
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[ (2*2*2), (30-9), (4+2), (4+2), (24/2), (16-3), (32/2), (30-9), (4+2), (4+2), (19*1)]
[(1*1), (9+9), (16-3)]
[(100/5), (2*2*2), (16-3)]
[(4/2), (16-3),, (19*1), (100/5)]
[(19*1),(100/5), (30-9), (2*2), (16-3), (7*2), (100/5), (19*1)]
"A little hint about this is the puzzle refers to a particular House,'' Jory added with a wink.
"And also where ever there is a M you swap it with an E.''