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Professor Shackleton smirked as she listened to the class split fairly evenly down the middle, "Aha! You see the dilemma? It is important to remember that despite how you may spell your name, if it is different on your birth certificate, you go with what is listed on your certificate! For example, I had a classmate when I was here at Hogwarts who used to spell her name Ann, A-n-n. Then, we started taking Arithmancy together and during the winter holidays, she went home to see her parents. She decided to practice her Arithmancy calculations and asked her parents to retrieve her birth certificate. Lo and behold, her name was actually spelled with an 'e', as in A-n-n-e! She'd been spelling her own name wrong for years!
"Moral of the story? Be sure you know how to spell your name the way it is written on your birth certificate because that is the name that counts in Arithmancy."
Professor Shackleton hopped off the desk and began walking to her left across the front of the room, "Now, what about the situation where you've been adopted and you know your original birth name? Which one counts then when figuring your Destiny Number?"
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