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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Devin James Horton
Seventh Year
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Deanna Joyce Horton
Gryffindor Second Year  x1
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Originally Posted by Zoe  An eyebrow rose when she caught sight of Isabel Wright waving as she made her way into the barn. The headmistress noticed that the girl hadn't been waiting at any of them, but rather at one of the creatures. It made her wonder which one of them, she assumed, belonged to her ... or if she was looking after one of them for Wayland's extra credit project?
"Good morning, Miss Wright. Mind if I ask what you were waving at not too long ago?" She was merely curious. A direct question from the headmistress! What had she been waving at? The headmistress surely couldn't be referring to when Isa had waved to her friends Derf, Stasya, Emmeline, and Jessa, so Headmistress Hawthorne must have noticed when Isa waved to her rabbits. "I have rabbits here that Professor Wayland has approved for me to keep in the barn." You know, just to be clear that the rabbits were hers and she was allowed to have them here. Hopefully that would be enough to satisfy the headmistress' curiosity for now. If the headmistress wanted to know more about the rabbits she could always ask later.
SPOILER!!: Start of lesson Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoe The moment the hand on her watch went from 9:59 and struck 10:00, the woman wasted no time to get class started. Taking out her wand, she gave it a firm flick at the door of the creature barn. Immediately, it swung closed, resounding with a THUD! when it couldn't close any further. From here on out, those arriving late needed to tread with caution.
While looking out at the students with that same smile on her face, the woman continued to pet the Aethonan. "Welcome to our first lesson in the month of December," Regina stated almost whimsically. "I would first like to thank you all for still arriving to class promptly, even with the change in location." Speaking of location...
"As you all can see, beside me today is quite a stud." She paused, waiting to see if anyone got the joke. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes the headmistress made jokes. "This here is Phillipe, and he is one of the winged horses," she continued, gesturing to the other Equus fetus caballus standing out in the pasture, a light blanket of snow on their backs, "that Professor Wayland tends to here. I am sure many of you are wondering why I decided to hold today's Ancient Runes lesson here in the creature barn instead of our classroom up on the fifth floor, but I am hoping that the first question that I have for you will help you connect the dots before we go out and join our hooved friends."
She paused once more, only this time waiting to make sure that everyone was paying attention and heard the question she was on the verge of asking. It was essential to figuring out why exactly they were there.
"Over the course of the term thus far, we have spent some time learning about the Elder Futhark alphabet, how to carve runes, and chant galdrs. Today, we will be focusing on Ehwaz and working toward gaining a fuller understanding of how it works. With that said, what is something you know or remember learning about the rune?"
OOC: Hello, everyone! Thank you all so much for participating in my first ever lesson. I am so excited that you are all here! If you have yet to post in this lesson and wish to do so, act like your character has been here the whole time ... unless you want your character to show up late, of course. ;)
To kick of the lesson, Regina wants to know something (1 thing) that your character knows about the rune Ehwaz. Try not to repeat something that was already said, and remember that both correct and incorrect answers will be accepted. The lesson will continue in roughly 24 hours. Have fun!
Oh, they were starting know! Isa laughed at Headmistress Hawthorne's joke about the horse being a stud. He was a male horse, and males used for breeding were called studs. Funny pun there. Ehwaz. Uh, what did Isa know about Ehwaz? "Ehwaz represents change and forward movement." See, she knew things about runes. Sometimes Isa got the names of the runes confused, but she was confident that she knew what Ehwaz was.
You know what else was interesting about Ehwaz? It meant horse, and here they were having the lesson outside with the horses. So maybe they would be riding horses and using Ehwaz to make them go forward? Or maybe something else related to Ehwaz and horses? There were a lot of possible connections here with Ehwaz and horses, especially with Ehwaz literally meaning horse. Of course there were other things that they could use Ehwaz for like bringing change, but Isa wasn't quite sure how that related to the horses. Ehwaz could also be used for transportation, so perhaps the horses would have something to do with transportation as one of the magical uses for Ehwaz. Horses could be transportation when you were riding them, and Ehwaz meant horse. At the time that the Norse myths originated, horses were probably the only mode of transportation other than walking. Isa could see why this rune might have gotten this particular meaning. She actually loved studying runes. Herbology was still her favorite, but Runes was up there at the top of her list of favorite subjects.
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