Ancient Runes Lesson 3
 

Kassie walked in and asked the professor, "Is there a rune or spell I could ues to disable my seer abilities?"

Josey glanced at the new door as she walked in, but didn't pay it much mind. She walked up to the professor's desk and opened her mouth to say something, but she quickly changed her mind and sat in the first row.

Cassandra arrived in the classroom and looked over to the professor at his desk. She opened her mouth to say hello, but froze, mouth wide open. Looking down she began to back up and ended backing into a desk. Thoroughly embarrassed, she ran to her seat, opened a book and burried herself in it.

Touy came into class behind that Slytherin girl from last class. O well thought Touy she can't have something like that happen in the same class. Touy took a seat near the Slytherin girl she look harmless. I'm sure what ever happen was just the excitment of being locked in the class room. Looking around Touy saw Kassie had entered class.

Cassandra saw the Ravenclaw how was trying to help her in the last class. She figured, class hasn't started yet, so she could say hello. "Hi, I'm Cassandra... uhmmm thanks... you know... for last time." She smiled and went back to her book.

Ariana came into the classroom and went right to the back of the class, not feeling all that great. She pulled out her books and looked around at the students who were coming in.

Hi Cassandra I'm Touy nice to meet you. I was glad to be there. I hope this will be a nice normal class today. Anyways it was nice to meet you. Touy was glad that Cassandra seem ok with no lasting effects from last class. Touy scouched her chair up to the table it was hard being so short.

Cassandra heard her name being called and looking up from her book saw Rosalie. "Hey Rosalie! Did you see? Slytherin's in the lead... and guess who put us there!" She smiled more than proud of herself.

Cassandra then smiled at Touy and nodded in agreement. She dropped her gaze towards her book again.

Sana entered the Class. She looked over the class for a minute. Then she hurridly passed over the chatting crowd and sat next to her friend Marie. She said hi to Maire and continued her talk. She asked, " when did you come? I thought I'm late today!" Started to unpack her Bag.

Professor Opteryx considered this for a startled moment. "Um, well, that isn't precisely my expertise...though I would caution you against using runes to enhance or suppress your inner abilities. The results could be unpredictable and...unpleasant. You'd be better off researching on potions instead--they're better suited overall."

Seer abilities? Why would anyone want to supress those, he wondered to himself.

"If the question is short, go right on ahead," Professor Opteryx said, as he waved his wand at the blackboard behind him.

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A question to think about: What do the terms 'inverted' and 'reversed' mean in application to runes, and why are they different?

Moira sat down at a desk about midways between the Professor and the door. She took out her parchment and quill and prepared for the class to begin. The Professor was speaking to a student and she did not want to interrupt so she would just wait before she approached him. She wanted so much to get her stone translated.

She knew that it would be a bad idea to pin her hopes on this Professor being able to even read the Runes in the first place the teacher at the Salem’s Institute couldn’t. She gazed down at the stone that she held gingerly in her hand and examined the markings carefully. All that she was able to tell was that it was covered in some sort of symbols, but they were so strange almost more like writing than the runes that had been covered so far in class.

She rubbed her hand over the stone and for just a moment thought that it had glowed with an eerie green light.

Beck sat down at an empty desk and wondered what weirdness would be going on during this lesson.

Cassandra raised her hand.

"A 'reversed' or 'inverted' rune, or sometimes as a 'merk stave', refers to a rune that rotated when it was cast." She said sounding as if she was reading directly from the book "I read somewhere that whether or not reversed runes have any special meaning is a matter of debate. I know from experience that Tarot cards have different meanings when they fall reversed compared to those they have normally, since Tarot cards have asymmetrical designs. This is not the case though with the runes, where only just over half are reversible. So professor, is the concept of reversal something which has been inherited from Tarot, and as such is of modern origin? Or is there a historical precedent?"

"I just had a question about the staff. Do any of the Professors work for the Ministry? I'm assuming that Virohsa does, but is she the only one?" She asked him. "I tried to speak to the Headmistress about this, among other things, but she had other stuff to see to....and none of the other Professors are in their offices, so I'm at a bit of a stalemate." She rambled, and stuffed her hands into her pockets.

Kassie went rigid again and once more her voice went hoarse," The One is coming." she said. Then she went back to getting her stuff out of her bag. She had a strange feeling she had just used her 'gift'.

Sana adjusted herself as more comfortable manner. She scrubbed her chin with her brand new Red colour Quill and had think about the answer of the terms 'inverted' and reverse'. But adamently her mind was running back to some other interesting thing. And also she noticed her friend Marie as she scribbled something on her parchment.

Sara walked in with everything about her askew: her clothes, her hair, even her mouth which had a slight tilted frown to it at the moment. You could slightly hear her grumbling under her breath...something about mornings or something. She had her bag on her shoulder and you could just see a bright red hairbrush sticking out from under the flap. She sat down next to Patrick and threw her bag on the ground under the table. She quickly grabbed for the brush and brushed her hair. Then screwing her face up she changed her hair to a deep red and her eyes became bright purple. Then, she took her wand out and waved it in a circular motion in front of her face muttering a quick spell to put her make-up on perfectly. She took out a mirror and held it in front of her. She looked fine, at the moment though she SO didn't care! She stood up fixing her clothes then sat back down, grumbling some more.

She looked to Patrick looked like she was going to say something then stopped, quickly closing her mouth shut. She started thinking about the letter from her mother then stopped. You know what, she thought, I'm not going to waste my time thinking about her and her fiancee. I'm going to think about my schoolwork. That way I can become an Auror and get away from that awful woman with that awful man!

She looked to the board and read the instructions. Huh...there was something to think about. She turned her mind to the task at hand.