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This was why Josephina liked this Gryffindor; she always came up with the most interesting back-stories for why she was selecting a certain number. "You are correct with 9 being the number i was referring to about completion." Thinking about the girl's question, she pressed her lips together thoughtfully. "Why don't you tell me your thoughts on that? Do you-" she addressed the class now with this question, "think that the number 9 being the number of completion has anything to do with it being the final single digit? Or is it merely . . . coincidence?"
"Could I get some shout-outs for characteristics about the number nine? Anything at all you know about this number, please share out loud." Good way to start off with talking about a particular number.
Kurumi closed her book for a moment not wanting to spoil her thinking process by the text. What did she know about the number 9...hmmm... "
Growing up, the number 9 was always seen as a kind of unlucky number because one of the pronunciations of it in Japanese means suffering," she explained playing with her ponytail a bit. "
Perhaps it is connected a little to it being the number of good byes because we always feel a bit sad when we say good bye...you could call that suffering..." She was probably stretching things a bit, but it made some sense when you looked at it...or squinted really hard.
She then returned to her thought, rather question, she had asked earlier. "
I don't believe many things in life are a coincidence," she smiled.