"Yeah, okay," Ryan said, rolling his eyes. He had already scooped up the runes into his hands and started shaking them. He even blew on them a few times. Old habits die hard....and Ryan was a Yatzee master.

Ryan mocked Cale saying "You have to say it out loud," and sighed. He rolled his eyes, looked down at the table, and said (rather quickly and quietly), "Will there be any more major bumps in the road for me and Rapunzel?" Whew. He had gotten through that part.

With that, he released the little tablety thingies onto the table while shouting "Yatzee!" He didn't even notice. Like I said, old habits die hard.

Runes. Textbook. "Umm....that one looks like Fehu, which can be possesions won or earned." To Ryan, that meant that Ravenclaw would be in possession of the quidditch cup, which....uh oh. "Oh no. That one looks like Jera Merkstave, which is a sudden setback." He hoped Rapunzel wouldn't break up with him when Ravenclaw won the cup.

Of course....it was COMPLETELY possible that Ryan was a total duffer when it came to Runes and he wasn't reading them or interpreting them correctly at all. That's what he hoped about the latter rune.

Barry looked around who to partner up with everyone had a partner he kept on looking for someone alone so he could partner with them

Ray noticed Barry and walked towards him. "Do you have someone to pair with?" Ray asked.

Absent-mindedly playing around with the set of confusing rune thingymabobs Professor Clark had given him, Clifford glanced around the classroom, looking for a suitable partner.

It seemed most of the boys had already paired up. Leaving him all on his lonesome.

Sniffle.

"Um no" said Barry for some reason he wanted to help Clifford "But if you don`t mind i`m pairing up with Clifford its nothing personal" he walked up to the slythrin boy and asked "Want to pair up" he didn`t like to see people sad

"Erm.. sure.. I guess." Clifford shrugged when Barry Weasley,second year Ravenclaw asked if he wanted to pair up. He did need a partner after all - and perhaps a Ravenclaw partner would be handy. They were meant to me smart, right? "Do you understand these rune thingys then?"

"I`m ok with them" said Barry he looked around Your supposed to ask a question and then throw the ruins at the floor. And then depending on the ones still up you`ll get an answer ask something go on"

"Oh - okay, that sounds simple enough, I suppose.." Clifford said, picking up his set of runes and shifting round in his seat. "So.. do you wanna do it first?" He needed to think of a question. Hmm.

"Fine" said Barry he muttered "Will I see Anahi again?" and threw the ruins at the floor he saw an ISA he looked in his text book "That means a challenge or fustration. It means that there might be a challenge finding her so it could be hard and fustration well maybe I get fustrated looking" then he looked at Clifford "Your turn"

Isawhosiwhatsit? Clifford blinked, his brain hurting more than ever. "Okie Dokie.. that's -- interesting." He mumbled, brow furrowed. "Challenge and frustration.. great.." These runes sounded SCARY!

"My turn.." Now for a question.. Most people seemed to ask questions regarding the girls -- but Clifford was pretty confident about his future with Evangeline. He didn't need any stoopid runes telling him about that.

"Will there be those yummy chocolate cakes at dinner tonight?" He asked, dropping the runes on the floor. "Fehu is showing.." He said, looking in the textbooks. "And that means -- Possessions won or earned.. hope and plenty, success and happiness.. Wooo! I guess that means yes!" RESULT!

Jason did like Clifford's question and answer.

"Thats good go again" said Barry he really didn`t have a question right now

"Another one?" Clifford wrinkled his nose, scratching his chin in thought. "Errrr -- okay then.." He shrugged, leaning down to retrieve his runes. "Will we get nice, easy Ancient Runes homework?" He asked, dropping the runes once more.

"Oh look.. is that Isa again?" He thought out loud, checking his textbook for the second time. "Challenge.. frustration.. thoughts.. Bleh." Did that mean Clark had some confuzzling homework for them? Great.

"That isn`t good at all" said Barry and he took the ruins thinking of another question.

"It's not good. Stupid runes." Clifford mumbled and grumbled moodily, glancing at Clark. Hopefully the runes were wrong and the Professer really was going to give them some easy homework. Hehe. "Go on then - ask another one."

Barry said " Will me and Clifford be freinds?" and then threw the ruins at the floor he saw Wungo "That means happyness but that can`t be right I`m not your freind ah" then he saw Perthrow "That means unknown so we might be freinds but we`ll be happy?"

"Oh ... erm ... that's nice." Clifford said unsurely at Barry Weasley, second year Ravenclaw's question and the runes answer. Happiness and unknown? Bleugh. "These runes are a load of ole' tosh if you ask me." He muttered darkly to himself. Fancy finding your future in a bunch of stones?

Hitachi thought a while and scratched his chin. "Well I'm not really familiar with this. Do you mind catching me up really quickly, Will?"

James was a bit surprised he'd been awarded points for an answer in this class. "Maybe things will be different this year." he thought.

It was then that he realized his name had been called out and he was still partnerless. He walked to Professor Clark, "Excuse me Sir, I'll partner with Jason...that is if I was the James you were refering to?" he inquired.
He rolled a rune around in his hand as he waited for an answer.

"Well ah why don`t you go now Clifford?" said Barry he felt a mixture of hate and freindship towards Clifford it was strange those stones can`t be true can they?

Cale chuckled to himself as Ryan quickly muttered his question under his breath. "Uggh, that doesn't sound good," he added as Ryan read off the meanings of his runes. "Are you sure that's Jera Merkstave?" he asked, peering at the last one with interest. "It doesn't look like it to me. Maybe you're reading it wrong," he suggested, flipping through his book.

Fabian frowned down at the Runes, "Well. Runes mean however you interpret them. It takes years for people to perfect accurate readings" he explained nudging the runes this way and that. This reading was completely strange though, very strange indeed. "I'm afraid you got most of its gist" his frown grew into a scowl. "Lets hope the communication has nothing to do with the ministry" he sighed to himself.


"Hopefully" Fabian sighed as he stood up. "Sure, you boys partner up and I'll go circulate the room" he smiled, but his smile came out awkward. That reading alarmed him slightly.

"Oh, heck," Ryan said. "I don't even know what merkstave means, but it doesn't look like Jera quite right, and Jera can't be reversed.....so that's the only thing I can think of." Ryan shrugged his shoulders, a bad habit that he had managed to stop doing all the time. Well......whether or not Jera here was merkstave could change a lot for Ryan.

So he raised his hand, because yes, it was that important to him. "Uh...Professor? What exactly does 'Merkstave' mean?"

"Professor, James is who I had been talking about and would like to partner with him sir. " James why don't you ask a qustion and see what the Runes answer is-ok? " Jason asked him.

James stood by Jason and took the Runes. "Okay..Let's see. How will my career in the Ministry turn out?", he said and cast the Runes on the ground.

The symbols appeared: Ehwaz and Kenaz

"Hmm..." mumbled James, as he flipped throught their text.