10. Arithmancy

“Arithwhatsy?” Fletcher craned his neck toward the interviewer in confusion. Were they at that stage of making up words now? He wasn’t really that comfortable here. Heck, he still had pants on. Pants AND shoes.

“Arithmancy,” the man behind the desk repeated, peering over his glasses with a skeptical LOOK at Fletcher. “Did you study Arithmancy at Hogwarts? We like our cursebreakers to have a foundation in numerical divination.”

Fletcher nodded and smiled. “Yeah, I know a Nancy. She was real good at crunching numbers, lemme tell ya.” He laughed, but the interviewer didn’t laugh with him. “What’s Arithmancy again?”