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Originally Posted by Cassirin  That was the saddest. Thing. Ever. EVER. Mo leaned against his desk and gave Botros an extremely sad face. He completely understood that, although Botros was a professor and shouldn't have to leave his puppy at home. "My cruppy is called Dart, and he has to stay at my sister's while I'm at school. I miss him. Maybe we can have tea sometime and I'll show you pictures of stuff Dart peed on." Quote:
Originally Posted by hermionesclone Erm... he wasn't required to tell them whether they were right or not, right? Because Alec only knew some, not all the matchups in the textbook. It was probably because of this that the boy was really glad that Botros had come up to the front and decided to save the day. Botros to the rescue.
As the answers kept on coming, Alec felt his nervousness ease away a little. A grin spread across his face as he looked from person to person who answered. Small nods of encouragement were given here and there but the grin stayed. Thanks for answering the question? Yeah.
And he could sit down! Giving Botros a nod and a quiet, "Thanks Professor!" the seventh year headed back towards his seat and sat down.
Should he be surprised that West was up at the front? Not at all. If he had learnt anything from last term's competition, it was that the Captain was brilliant at runes. Thumbs up for you, Odessa. And, of course, the question was a good one. When would runic magic be a better use than spells? And what in that situation would make it a better choice?
Tackle one question at a time? Awesome idea.
The hand went up. "Well... you could use it in situations where you need something stronger than a spell. I mean... last year, we activated the suits of armour by inscribing runes on them and then making them attack the other teams or defending our own teams. We had to use spells too, yeah, but... using the runic magic was better and caused more powerful results than just using the spells." ... Pause. "And it would have been stronger than using Piertotum Locomoter. I... think."
The other question? "As... for the situation and what makes it a better choice... what about the time? Maybe if you have enough time to prepare for... say, a battle and aren't being attacked out of the blue, you could use runic magic to help."
Had he answered the questions? He hoped so. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tegz Dementors. West went very still at mention of those and his eyes came to rest on the Professor. Easily go wrong... explosion... yeah. Yeah. West never did find out exactly what had happened there, or why things had been tampered with, but he also hadn't thought it appropriate to ask. But he DID very very much remember Botros essentially saving his life. The old man had been his favourite since then.
After taking a second to recover from his own memories, West returned the professor's smile and sauntered back to his seat, folded himself into it, and then waited for Ella to go up there.
He liked her question well enough. West put his hand up.
"Ehwaz is a movement and transportation rune. You can invoke it magically to move things, or to make heavy things easier to move." Yeah. Pretty cool. "Like you could carve it or paint it on a giant stone and it'd be much easier to move. One of the theories that I liked is that the pyramids in Egypt were built in this way - muggle slaves did the grunt work, but wizardkind used Ehwaz among other rune symbols marked on the giant stone blocks so that they'd actually be easier to put in place without actually having to have a witch or wizard standing there and levitating them." Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin Y'know, for Mo, the reason that Runes were superior over mere wandwaving wasn't about Divination, and it was only in part about the extra oomph and enhancement of using a Rune... mostly, it was because Mo like the idea of using his wand and a Rune at the same time.
So even though he knew the question was done and they'd moved on, Mo had to offer, "Professor? Just... another nice thing about using Runes is that with a wand, no matter how fast you are, you can only ever cast one spell at a time. With a Rune, you can do multiple magicks at once. It's really the only way you can strengthen a spell as you're casting it... you use magic on your wand as you use your wand for something else." There. Just because it contributed to the conversation, and someone might not realize how dead useful Runes were.
Oh, la bella Ella was up, and Mo leaned in to take her question on seriously. An easy question, actually, and the hardest part would be to choose a good Rune for his answer. Mo let some of his classmates answer before raising his hand and waving it at Ella. Hey, la bella!
"GEBO, Ella. Miss Bishop." Always Gebo. Gebo was like an X, and X was a kiss. See? "As far as magical uses, Gebo is a relational Rune and can be invoked to strengthen those relationships... or even find them. Plus it's lucky! Or at least it could invoke luck. Balance, both physically and emotionally, which is really important for Quidditch and studying for NEWTs." And... yeah. [/QUOTE]
Questions. Questions were s e a r i n g into the little Slytherin boy's mind. Or they would be...
IF IT HADN'T BEEN BLOWN!!!!!
Cutty's mind was racing. His heart was beating SOOO FAAAST! He was over-stimulated. All of the classes talk of power, pyramids, possibilities, ideas, rows with prefects, USEFULNESS!!! and kruppies goin' pee-pee set the boy's mind into too many directions for the length of one classtime. His breathing became heavy and tears began to well into his eyes. He hadn't been this happy since he'd taken Professor Dursley's History of Magic class last year.
How happy was he to have been there. He caught up with his notes then put his head down-a blank stare upon his face as he tried to take-in all that had happened.
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