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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Alexander River Hirsch
Gryffindor Third Year
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SPOILER!!: Professor and Belle! ^_^ Quote:
Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01  Quote: Gryffindor - Wands: Gryffindor is characterized as being brave and full of courage; ready to rush into dangerous situations.
Hufflepuff - Pentacles: Hufflepuff is known for trying to find the positive or worth in every situation, social interaction and responsibilities.
Ravenclaw - Swords: Ravenclaw is known for booksmarts, theory and strategy.
Slytherin - Cups: Slytherin is known for keen intelligence, stirving for what is needed and high aspirations and emotions
When she was finished writing this down she turned to West and the rest of the class. "Now assuming I didn't botch your all's house values, as set down by their founders, the Sorting Hat, and Hogwarts, A History, I see what Mr. Odessa is saying about the possible connection between each house and a Tarot card suit. The characteristics I've written on the board are ones that coincide with the ones of your houses AND each tarot suit." It was so awesome when things out of textbooks connected with things in the students' everyday life.
"Five points to Slytherin for Mr. Odessa's extra studies and bringing that to us to look into today." Very good indeed.
More on the suits of the Minor Arcana. "Despite the Hogwarts houses being connected to the Tarot suits the Rider-Waite deck has each suit connected to one of the four elements. Which, coincidentally, now that I think about it, also match up with your Houses according to some literature." Continuing. "Wands are representative of Fire and are for adventurers, ambition and passion. Pentacles represent Earth and talk of relationships, things of physical nature, money, and health. Swords stand for Air and matters of the mind and the voice. Because swords have a sharp edge it also represents the repercussions of our words and expressed thoughts. And lastly we have Cups which match up with the element of Water and represent emotions and oftentimes extremes such as hate or deep love. These are most connected to visions and psychic abilities."
A lot of information to throw at them all at once but it was all in their textbooks if they hadn't taken it down in notes. They WOULD need it for their homework though so hopefully they got at least most of it. "Now, before me move on I am going to quickly explain the basics of the Court Cards. These cards are pictorially representative much like the Major Arcana cards but there are only four different Court figures: the Page, the Knight, the Queen, and the King. There are going to be four of each of these figures in the deck, one for each of the four suits." Elwood paused to let that sink in.
"Some quick tips for reading Court cards when they come up in a spread. Almost always they represent a person in the reader's life, and although gender doesn't always matter, it usually does (Women are the queens, others are male). Each member of the Court stands for some symbolic meaning." She went back to the board to lay it out for them:
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* Four of each, one of each suit.
Pages - messages/messengers
Knights - movement/trips
Queens - creators
Kings - Mangers/Organization
"And lastly, a tip for when you draw Court cards, you can use the Zodiac sign that correlates with the element of the suit and use the attributes of it to make your reading of that particular card. (Oftentimes: Cups - Scorpio, Cancer, Picses; Pentacles - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn ; Swords - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius; Wands - Aries, Leo, Sagittarius)."
And that was her script for the day. "Now if any of you have questions before we begin now's the time. If not we are going to start our first reading called the three-card reading." She flicked her wand at the already crowded board to draw a diagram.
 "As you can see there are a few different types of readings to do with this spread but for fun we will start with the Past, Present, Future one. For this you can either work with a partner and each do a reading on each other or on your own by drawing for yourself. Go ahead and get started. You will need to draw each card individually and then palce them in the correct format. Please divine the meaning of each card to the reader before going on to the next one. We will only be using three cards, one per period of time (past, present, and future)." Callie turned to walk around the room as they worked, ready to help and answer questions as needed. Quote:
Originally Posted by hpfan18 Belle was soo keen on listening to the professor. She saw what the professor was writing on the board.
Belle thought it was really interesting. She saw her house hufflepuff and it described her well. She was known for trying to find the positive or worth in every situation. Belle smiled and nodded.
Then she saw the professor put more information on the board. Belle copied it down
After she copied them down, she heard the professor saying they could use partners for this card exercise. Belle got up and went to find a person to partner with. ... WHAT.
BLINK. BLINK. BLINK.
Alec furrowed his eyebrows slightly as he listened to what the Professor was saying. There was a lot of information being given out and... he couldn't really register all of it. Bits and pieces did stick out to him, though, the bits that seemed to be the most important. His eyes flew to the board once it was mentioned and... he smiled slightly. Yeah... this was starting to make a bit more sense now. Just a bit. He bent his head slightly and started scribbling away as the Professor continued talking.
Scribble... scribble... scribble...
Zodiac signs... hey, his one was a Hufflepuff! GRIN.
Scribble... scribble... scribble...
Okay. Wait... what? His head snapped back up and he blinked at the Professor. Oh... they could partner up? And pick out cards and explain them to the person they were working with and then place it down in the past/present/future section? That was what she had said, right? Nodding to himself, Alec scribbled down the last little bits before placing his quill down and looking around the classroom. He needed a partner... someone who wouldn't mind working with someone who... well... someone like him.
... BELLE!
GRIN. "Belle!" he called to the older girl, waving his hand a bit at her, "Erm... do you want to partner up with me?" Unless she was going to go and partner up with someone else... How awkward would that be?
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