Mooncalf
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Boston
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Hazel Martin-Pryce First Year Diagon Alley Proprietor:
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| Granddaddy Ravenclaw | | Jermione Granger Quote:
Originally Posted by SeerCassandraTrelawney "Leave it to a Ravenclaw, that's the closest answer so far... Five points." She said with a nod and conjured a fork by his cake. Tiberius smiled broadly as the fork appeared. Points! And CAKE! Cake was the best part. YUM. Trying not to get distracted, Tibi listened as other students gave their responses. Quote:
Originally Posted by SeerCassandraTrelawney She looked at the class and said "While we do a rune reading by casting runes, in a similar way as Tarot cards, Tarots are used to foretell the future, runes are not. Remember, when you do a rune reading, you ask a question, address a particular issue, and it gives you a possible past, present and 'future', or rather what will be if you follow the path you appears to be on. The future is always perceived as mutable, changeable. You need to be very familiar with the person you are doing the reading for." She took a breath. "and a rune reading is done as an evaluation process, not as fortunetelling."
She pointed to the ravenclaw, "As Master Pryce pointed out, runes are rooted in the present, because they do not answer the question you ask, but they guide you to that answer through the essence of it, as it exists now. It's true that sometimes, knowing the true essence of something will allow you to guess at what the future will bring, but that's all it is, guessing. For instance, if you know that a wand was made to harm," she decided to emphasize "was made specifically to cause harm, one can then infer that it will, in the future, indeed cause harm; but runes, futhark, or Rowling, or any other, can not tell the future, only the present, and the reader is guided to their answer. So in essence using runes, you can merely examine cause and effect and be pointed to a likely outcome."
Did she lose them? That was long... maybe she should go back to the text book... no... questions... "Any questions?" "Um, professor," Tibi raised his hand, "Will we be talking about the meanings of these runes? I'm not seeing much explanation in my text." Tibi frowned. Was it not in the book? Tibi didn't do well when things weren't in books. "And... um, will we be doing rune-readings in class?"
Tibi scratched his head with one hand, while the other clutched his fork.
Mmm. CAKE.
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