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Originally Posted by Nordic Witch  Derf had been reading in his textbook it seemed but he sorta confused her when he pulled in a muggle 8 ball referance. Professor Vance focused on the the belomancy aspect in her kind response. "Yes you're right Derf, in one version of the method you can attach yes, no, maybe and try again papers to the arrows and think of a question as you shoot your arrows. The arrow that lands the farthest away holds the answer to your asked question. "You can close your eyes, think of a question and draw an arrow blindly and the one you choose will have the answer to your question. NOPE! No real textbook reading over here really - he hadn't needed to previously and everything had worked out fine for him so why start now?! Nodding along as Professor Vance spoke, Derf came to the conclusion that this was JUST like a magic 8 ball...without the ball...and the shaking...BUT IN THEORY STILL!
Now he just wanted to start shooting arrows. Could they?
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Originally Posted by Nordic Witch "Before we get to our main activity i think it's wise that you all got to familiarize yourself with the arrows. Everyone please come forth and grab a quiver full of arrows to take with you back to your desks. When you've gotten your quivers i want you take a few parchments and teer them up into pieces.
On the parchment pieces you write 'yes', 'no', 'maybe', 'try again' and then you attach the parchment pieces with string that you should find on your desks to the arrows in your quivers. When you've done that i want you to close your eyes, jumble the arrows around in the quiver, think of a yes or no question and then draw an arrow from your quiver that will be the answer to your question." AHA! See? No need for him to read when his imagination did just fine - and wooooow he had even predicted the class activity with his imagination! He was starting to think, seriously, that he WAS a seer for REAL!
Hopping to his feet, Derf eagerly rushed forward to collect his quiver and then bounded back to his desk. Flourishing a piece of parchment from his enchanted suitcase, the first year set to writing down the appropriate phrases - which was made easy in that all the words were easily spelled - and then tried to caaaaaaarefully tear the parchment into pieces. Yeah, he was working backwards...which resulted in his 'maybe' and 'try again' pieces into, well, four pieces rather than two...but it was OKAY since he had enough string to still tie everything to the arrows. Just two arrows had two pieces of parchment tied to them - 'mayb' and 'e' on one and 'tr' 'y again' on another respectively.
Returning the arrows to the quiver, the first year tried to think of a good yes or no question to ask...but could honestly think of nothing at the moment. Well, no, that was sort of a lie since he could think of a bunch of things....but none of them really seemed all that interesting. Should he have a cheese sandwich after class, for example. Or if he should wear his phoenix boxers tomorrow.
And then he thought of IT! A lingering absurd and completely unreasonable fear that he had been harboring ever since the start of term. Considering that he clearly had the Inner Eye, this was definitely the best way to get his answers. He assumed the Headmistress was already under Imperio if his hunch was true so asking her would be of no help at all.
Shaking the quiver of arrows, Derf closed his eyes and nervously selected one while focusing on his question. "Is Professor Myers a Dark wizard?" he squeakily whispered as he drew an arrow from the collection and eyes widened wider than a mooncalf's when he saw the parchment.
GASP! HE KNEW IT!
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