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| YesJess! | Captain Goggles | Mama Badger | Eva's Soul Sister | An OG™ | It's all in the Numbers SPOILER!!: students! Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Claudine thought that her answer was excellent as well. Given the number of times they all had to count while stirring their potions each week, it had been one of the first ideas to pop into her head. Not that some of the other students hadn’t provided some pretty great ones too.
Yes, she had read Hogwarts: A History once upon a long time ago. Probably during her first year when everyone was stuck at Beauxbatons and she had found herself longing to come to Hogwarts. Those staircases though… Claudine had actually forgotten the exact number. She marveled at the facts Robinson revealed. Whoever took the time to realise such things?
Using her textbook, the seventh year flipped through the pages to take a good look at the meaning of the various numbers. There were mentions of money, balance, loyalty and a whole heap of other stuff but it all came back to one thing. Her hand went up after some time. “Any less or any more staircases would have totalled a different number. I think seven’s more accurate than other numbers as a representation of Hogwarts, professor.” Was it wrong that Winston was disappointed with Claudine's response? Somehow he felt she might have gone more into depth as to one of the words, but instead she merely agreed with the seven representing the Hogwarts essence and didn't elaborate. Of course he had been vague in his question, but he just felt like Claudine would have been one to go into more details. He nodded, because, yes doh, that was the point. Had there been fewer or more staircases, it would have totaled a different number. "Huh, so you don't think Hogwarts is a beginning? The beginning of a future unknown? You think it's greater represented by intellect and philosophy and culture?" He might have been playing devil's advocate because well, why not. It wasn't as if you could necessarily change the number of staircases at Hogwarts. Quote:
Originally Posted by Waddles A hundred and forty-two staircases? Why would anybody ever count those? That it might be included in a history book didn't occur to her. And even if it had, at some point somebody had to have counted. What if they counted wrong? Would they have to count twice??
Margaret was feeling rather contrary today, so she took a moment to check in the textbook for the number meanings. She didn't reeeeally think the number of staircases had been chosen specifically to mean something. Why would it? Had somebody built an extra staircase somewhere just to get it to be that specific number? That seemed unlikely. Nobody wanted to build staircases to nowhere. After reading over some of the numbers' meanings, she raised her hand. "I think there should have been fewer staircases, professor" she said. "If the number of staircases added up to 4, that would make more sense, because four means...um... stability, and security, and, um, don't you want staircases to be safe?" He smiled at the Hufflepuff who suggested fewer staircases. "Ah yes, or I suppose at least an easier way to navigate around them. The whole moving thing really does add this whole element of uncertainty to it, doesn't it?" How did students manage, he had no idea since as a grown person he struggled on the daily. "Moving staircases aren't very safe." So uh, perhaps four wasn't represented after all? Quote:
Originally Posted by MadAlice Violet looked through her book at some of the other number meanings. Really, a lot of them seemed to have something to do with Hogwarts, but none were quite all of it. One was beginnings, Five was change and transition, and Nine was endings and completion--those were all part of Hogwarts, but only part of the time. Three had elves and creativity and Four meant building, endurance and hard work--well, this castle was a building that had endured for centuries, and they certainly put in a lot of hard work. The one she like best, next to Seven, was Two, because it dealt with relationships and human magic. But...Seven meant magic, too, and Hogwarts was more than relationships. Seven seemed best, though it didn't quite have everything.
When she finally answered, she said "I think seven is probably the best number for Hogwarts, though I don't think it says everything about it. But...if you take the three numbers adding up to seven, they altogether say something about Hogwarts--One means beginnings, and this is the beginning of our life in the wizarding world; Four means endurance and stability, like Margaret said--and also hard work, which we do a lot of! And Two means relationships and collaborations, which are also an important part of Hogwarts. And together they all add up to seven!" Interesting way of looking at it!! Gold stars for Violet this lesson! "I'm thoroughly impressed with this logic, Violet! Yes, why look at the sums when you could break it apart and look at the individual numbers of 142. They certainly do on individual level represent Hogwarts, which cumulatively makes the whole seven thing make even more sense. Excellent thought process!" Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelliephone Truth be told, Evan did not want to delve too much into how he felt about Hogwarts - or magic school - as a whole so the question was something he thought he might prefer to skip. But he had a hard time not saying something in classes, probably a by product of Headmaster Trent's classes. So his hand raised, and he waited his turn. He wasn't sure if he was supposed to say his name again before answer, so he opted to not this go around and hope that wasn't against what Professor Robinson was wanting them to do. "I think seven is a good number, because at the end of the day the meaning for number seven is exactly what a school should be." And he supposed even Hogwarts had it's moments, since people seemed successful. Noah'd been here for three years and he seemed well adjusted and like he'd go places. And look at Chase!
And because he couldn't resist, he added a little more opinion. "I think it's really cool they had had all that forethought too." Assuming it was, in fact, intentional. "intellect. Responsibility. Invention. Culture. Philosophy. It's exactly the things that should be intentionally taught to students. And it's encouraging to have perhaps a hint that that was exactly the founders ideals." Sure, some people talked about that in History of Magic but with all the information surrounding Salazar Slytherin as well, sometimes the intentions could feel a bit tainted. At least to him. "Fair enough. The numbers are an ideal world. For what we can strive for, to make us the best possible." Winston said in response to Evan. He liked the fact that he seemed to bring the founders into it, although he wasn't certain of the founders knowledge of numerology. It was nice to see that just maybe they had put some consideration into it via knowing what the numbers meant. It wasn't as if numerology was a new field and there was Bridget Wenlock's fascination and studies with the number seven. So perhaps they had the foresight after all? Once it seemed like everyone had offered as much insight as possible, Winston continued the lesson. "So as a whole, we can collectively agree that seven is what Hogwarts should strive to be, but individually we can look at the numbers one, four, and two which each offer pieces to the puzzle. While we can't know for certain, it'd be nice to think that our founding members had some insight into number meanings with their designs, but we can only assume that to be the case..." Probably Rowena and Helga's brainchild. From what he could tell, he doubted Salazar and Godric had the patience to sort through numbers for the correct meanings for what they hoped for Hogwarts. "Each of the numbers one through nine gives off particular vibrations within the universe that we can use to help predict the future. According to numerologists, there are no such thing as good or bad numbers, as each number contains both good and bad and just because it’s not suitable for a person, doesn’t make it a bad number, but just that the vibrations don’t match."
He paused to make sure they were all keeping up with what he was saying. "So one of the simplest calculations that we can do in determining your own numerical vibrations, which will be used for our main calculation today," hint. "is to use your date of birth and calculate your life path number."
On the board, Winston wrote the following as an example, 8 February 2066
8 + 2 + 2 + 0 + 6 +6
24 = 6
"So my life path is 6, which is a number represented by harmony and community relations, so I think it’s safe to say that I find joy in keeping the peace in communities, particularly as an educator. Go on and use your textbook to determine your life path number and its meanings." ooc: Mini activity leading to the main activity is up! Basically just calculate your life path numbers and determine if the meanings are accurate. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me, but you're using the numerical value of your characters full birthdays and reducing those digits to a single digit! You'll have until approximate Wednesday morning/noon-ish CST (so about 36 hours) before we move on to the main activity! Feel free to use this and this as a resource <3
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