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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Briallen Ashburry-Hawthorne
Gryffindor First Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Nyle Harden
Hufflepuff Second Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Iris Harden
Ravenclaw Second Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Calliope Barrington
Slytherin First Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Diamond Marchbanks
Gryffindor Sixth Year
Ministry Department Head:
Charles Hollingberry
Minister's Office
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Airey Flamsteed
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SPOILER!!: proffie 1 Quote:
Originally Posted by Maxilocks  Di nodded. "Right you are, Miss Hollingberry, Mr. Burn. Concealment is always going to be concealment, and yet it can differ." Change can differ. That was the point.
Merlin's socks, this kid... seemed to have no knowledge of table manners, none at all. Di decided not to tell him off [after all, she had told him he could eat the cookie] but her eyes wiiiidened [yes, yet again] when he conjured a glass of milk.
....
Good Lord.
"Yes," she said, after a moment's pause [in which she wondered if he was going to summon eggs-and-toast next. Fortunately, he did not]. "One temporary, one permanent." She didn't add that yes, she agreed, Runes equalled awesome. She did manage to give him a little nod, though.
"Exactly, Mr. Hudson," Di nodded. "There are limitless possibilities to every change and... if you want your cookie back, you're going to have to tell me what you did to it."
Hopefully, he hadn't eaten it!
Di smiled. "Yes, you can, Miss. Swynford." Unless the Hufflepuff had done a Champion GlitterPuff and decided to hide it in her hair. Di would prefer she didn't eat it then. "... and correct, correct."
Yes, indeed. "Gentle change, and bold change," Di agreed cheerfully. "Very good, Miss Stone."
"Right you are."
Must. Not. Follow. Student's. Gaze. To. Willie Cookie!Person.
Evil plot? Di... eyed Miss Shepard-Flores. She couldn't call that correct, could she? Because there had been no evil plot. It looked, however, like Miss Shepard-Flores wasn't done with the answer yet and as the Slytherin continued, Di's lips tugged up into a smile. Teaching them how to be sneaky? No, but if any of these students chose to pursue a career in Runes, they were going to know just how sneaky one could be, courtesy a proper knowledge of Runes.
"Good answer, good answer."
... and that was unexpected.
"No, Prefect Caddock," Di smiled. "They're fresh out of a bakery oven." Oh, and that answer? "Excellently worded."
Riiight. Di nodded. "Goes to show things aren't always what they seem, Miss Marlowe," she smiled. But that was another branch of the topic, altogether.
Okayyy. "Most of you have mentioned that the methods used differ," Di said pleasantly. "That's correct, of course. Change is change, but it can take place in dozens of different ways, and each of those ways is going to have some unique effects that set it apart. In a few months, this place is going to get warmer as spring sets in; but a few minutes ago I did the same thing - raised the temperature - by casting a simple spell. The final change in both cases is the same, but the methods that brought it about and their complete effects, really different. Can anyone give me another such example?" She looked around at them all. "Same final change, different methods?"
" It is not exactly change in a physical form, but could all of us ending up at Hogwarts be considered along the same way of thinking? We all come from different backgrounds, yet we all ended up on the Hogwarts Express on the same date and time." SPOILER!!: proffie 2 Quote:
Originally Posted by Maxilocks Di nodded. "Nicely said, Mr. Burn."
Why in the name of Merlin's pink toe was the Ravenclaw waving his wand about? Di resisted the urge to eye him. "Anything the matter, Mr. -?"
Yes. Name, please.
"Perfect!" Di said. "Gradual change and sudden change. You're on the right track, Miss Flores-Shepard." Shepard-Flores. Flores-Shepard. Di couldn't remember which bit came first, but ah well.
Oh. That could be reversed. Di set down another cookie in the Lion's plate. Maybe she should summon a jar full of cookies? The class did seem pretty interested in them.
Live babies? Eggs? Um. Yes. The Gryffindor did have a point, even if the answer made Di want to... eye him oddly. "Er, yes. You have a point there, Mr. Hudson," she said.
That... was a new one. "Nice example, Miss Shepard," Di said, smiling at the answer. It was at this moment that the Professor realized that the girl's last name was Shepard. Destiny Shepard. Evelyn Shepard-Flores. Or Flores-Shepard. Relations, maybe?
Di... would not have been surprised, if Miss Swynford had chosen that moment to [do a Champion Fletcher and] summon a glass of milk and drown its contents in one gulp - not given her answer.
"Nice answer, Miss Swynford," Di said. Even though it was probably an indication that the Hufflepuff wanted a glass of milk.
Firewhiskey? No. Butterbeer. Then again, Mr. Fletcher was of age. Unless he had been able to fool the Goblet of Fire. Or maybe it had just been scared that he would eat it, if it didn't choose him?
That aside, it took Di a few moments to understand where the boy was headed. Firewhiskeysicklesknutschange, eh? She liiiistened to him, letting him speak as she tried to make sense of it all in his head and, the moment he fell silent, sort-of-nodded.
"Yes." Um? "That makes sense, Mr. Fletcher."
Noitdoesn't.
Di smiled. "The first method was quicker, the second slower," she said. "Excellent answer, Miss Lee."
She turned to address the whole class again. "Most of the examples mentioned here show that change can be slow or quick, gradual or sudden - in other words, change may be gentle or it may be bold." She looked up at them all. "Can anyone tell me which runes are considered the runes of gentle and bold change?" Maybe Kurumi was speaking too much metaphorically...
" I believe Jera is the rune of gentle change," Kurumi said raising her hand. She scratched her head for a moment trying to remember the other one she had read about. " I think...it's Dagaz. The bold change I mean."
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