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Originally Posted by Elwood 1
The Ravenclaw was on the right track. "Very good Prefect Castell, I think this bird was anxious and scared and that theory goes along with the shortness of the tracks."
The brunette nodded at the Professor and smiled slightly. Anxious and scared. Yeah. It definitely seemed so. She momentarily wondered what had possibly caused it to feel that way.
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Originally Posted by Elwood 2
"And speaking of birds..." Professor Elwood said allowed to the whole class as she raised a hand to point at the Ravenclaw and Slytherin in the back of the group making eyes at each other. "What is going on with these two love birds? Mr. Montmorency and Miss Odessa, if you two could please remove your eyes from staring into each others and please look up here at me or the prints I would appreciate it." She hated to break up whatever little session they were in the middle of but she had Ichnomancy to teach.
..She turned her head to the direction the woman's finger pointed out. It was Dylan, and Aspen. Love birds, huh? Her eyes fleeted to the two, resting for a few seconds particularly on the snake. Well...it looked as though he had a thing for her....the way he stared. Not that it was any of her business.
So, biting her bottom lip, she forced her head back to face the Divination Professor, reigning her full attention back to the class with
slight difficulty .
Meh.
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Originally Posted by Elwood 3
She stood up and clasped her hands together. "Now how do you think this applies to an actual study of Divination rather than just tracking something? Well when a person is on a journey or a walk and they come across some prints they can interpret how their own journey will go according to the one taken by the animal that left behind the prints. So for instance if I was walking along and I found these duck prints I could assume that my journey would be a rather confused, short one before I had to turn back or change directions due to a hazard." See, simple really.
"So what I would like for you to do is walk around and try and find some other prints and interpret them as if you were out hiking or on a walk." Because they really were kind of.
Okay...mind back to the lesson.
Nodding some more, she took note of what Professor Elwood said about relatively applying the implication of the prints to one person's journey. She, herself decided that yes, if she was treading along and saw those duck prints, she'd take it as a sign that her walk wasn't going to be all pleasant and full of confusion instead.
Hm. Maybe Divination was starting to make sense to her now?
..They were going to walk. And find some other prints. Okay.
Crossing her arms, she joined in as her classmates began to scatter around the edge of the Lake. Step. Step. Step....making sure not to bump into anyone as her head remained down in search for prints.
"There you go," she muttered upon seeing a set of paw prints along the rocky side. She crouched down and eyed it intently for a few moments. This one looked rather confused too just like the duck prints. Err...it also looked as though there were spaces when the animal lingered for a while longer compared to the other areas. Some prints were contorted, inconsistent, seemingly uncertain but despite the constant swerving in various directions, it kept going on.
.......O.o .......
So...her journey was going to a long one but with incertitude and doubt mostly along the way?
Also.....Beezus straightened, swaying a bit as she stood up. Ugh. Stupid headache. Meh. Where was Professor Elwood?
"Professor!" She quickly jogged to where the woman was and caught sight of the two
love birds from earlier as she neared. What were they doing? O.o Oh, whatever.
"Professor, do we also take into consideration the surroundings where we found the prints? Or are we just supposed to focus on them?" She was curious. Her prints were found somewhere rocky, so it readily occurred to her that obstacles were dominant...but what if she found it on let's say, mud..with grass patches around? That would change the interpretation a bit.