Lucy took out some parchment and a quill with her favorite colored ink. At the top of the parchment she wrote:

As she waited for the ink to dry, Lucy raised her hand to answer the professors question. "The in the first letter of the Elder Futhark, is F, or to go by its ancient runes name, Fehu."

"Well... right..." She turned to the board and pointed her wand to it with a fluid movement the words appeared.

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"Remember Fehu is the transcription of the word Eff. I hope this makes sense, but yes. Fehu is the first letter of the Elder Futhark." She smiled.

Alessia blinked a moment... then laughing hottily. "Oh Merlin, that's funny! E... because it's the first letter in Elder... you two are making me laugh when I'm supposed to be teaching." She smiled as she composed herself.

"My dear you need to review your book... The Elder Futhark is the 24 letter runic alphabet. We'll go through them in depth." She said. "And you are welcome my dear."

"Master Newtington, I don't tollerate people who come to class and do not listen, you may chose to leave my class now, but if I catch you not paying attention again I will put you in detention." She said firmly.

"Has anyone eaten their sweety yet? You will notice on the box is Fehu... and once you injest your sweety, another will show in the box." She said smiling. "Don't think it's just conjuring food, it isn't. It's summoning it from a stash in my office... so once that stash is gone... no more peppermints. Can anyone tell me WHY the box is doing this? Here's a hint... It's related to Fehu..."

Dani raised her hand tentatively. "Because Fehu is related to food?" She liked food. She liked it a lot.

Thomas raised his hand and said," I think it is related Fehu because Fehu means to earn something and now we earned peppermint from you."

Rachel blinked. Ok, huh?! Her hand froze over the piece of parchment on which she was writing notes as she tried to fathom what on earth the answer was here. Suddenly Jake's voice floated into her mind and said, "If you don't know, make it up. At least it looks like you're trying."

Smiling slightly, although worried as well, the fifth year hesitated once again before raising her hand. "Well Professor we know that Fehu is related to wealth and domestic cattle. If we focus on the cattle part then we see that it is somehow connected to food, since cattle in the olden days was a common source of nurishment. And also, I don't know how relevant this is, but food also starts with the letter 'F', which is the modern equivalent of Fehu. This might be a coincidence, but I've sort of learned that very few things are..." Rachel said, impressing herself with how much she actually knew. What do you know - maybe I'll even be a little right...

Lucy was a bit confused by the Professors question, so decided to let the other students answer the question, rather than making a fool of herself. Instead she wrote down what was on the board.

Miranda finally gave in and ate her peppermint. Mmmmmmm. Still chewing, she raised her hand.

"Is it because it's a wealth of peppermint, at least until it runs out, and it stands for wealth? Or does it have to do with the cattle/food connection?"

She licks her lips, thinking she'd much rather have peppermint than cattle.

Herminny raised her hand and said, "I think what the box represents is wealth which is is Fehu,but in a way if one person has more then their share another person is bound to have less, which I think is trying to say use you're resources wisely so everyone has enough and no one has too much or too little", that sounded right to her, she hoped she was right.

Okay, Hayley TOTALLY LOVED THIS TEACHER! She was NICE it seemed! Sure, she'd threatened that one boy with detention, but she'd been nice when Hayley and the other boy (who happened to have pretty great hair) gave the wrong answer.

Okay...sooo...why was the never ending until the supply ran out supply of peppermint frogs *omnomnom* related to fehu...

Hayley raised her hand, "Is Fehu related to like, food, or or wealth or something?" Hayley remembered that way back when, if people were wealthy, they often had biiiig feasts with their neighbors to show off said wealth. Hopefully, Hayley's answer had made some sort of sense.

"That..I'll sure be doing Professor! Now I am getting it.....I think" Sydney said as she jotted down her notes. "So basically Fehu is the first letter of the Elder Futhark" Sydney mumbled in a barely audible voice while twirling the quill between her fingers...

She quickly grabbed the Peppermint frog & gulped it down her throat..So far so good. As soon as she ate the frog, a new sweet showed up...
After her yummy experiment, Sydney flipped through the pages of her book.. Before raising her hand, Sydney decided to write the answer [which is definitely wrong] on her parchment...."Fehu means Wealth but it's original meaning is Cattle. So.... cattle = food & the peppermint frog is err a food??" Sydney bit her lower lip... "better stay quiet but I'm trying" She thought.

"Seriously?" Miles beamed as he quickly opened his box and didn't bother to wait for Professor Lupa's answer and peeked inside the shiny red box. OOOH! A sweet! Much better than a dragon! Miles took it and quickly popped it into his mouth, before realizing that another one had appeared. "Awesome! These are cool, professor." As he listened about Fehu, how could it be related to the box. "Well, it means wealth. And I guess sweets are wealthy to us." Miles laughed at this silly thought, but it could always be right.

Oh, Good Golly, it was Plymouth Morgan.

Before Daphne could properly greet her best friend's boyfriend, the Professor had begun the glass and in her own way, already addressed Daphne.

Invisible. I shall become invisible, thought Daphne with a sheepish smile and a hint of rosy blush. Suddenly, her empty piece of parchment became incredible interesting.

So did the class as it begun. It seems today's lesson would be on the rune of Fehu, which was known to be, in short, the rune of wealth. Her classmates were of the bright sort and had already covered most of the runes' bases. Although, Copernicus Kettleburn, in pure Kettleburn fashion seemed to have wrangled a last clever answer.

Sharing wealth. That was honorable. Ahh. Daphne scratch an itchy spot on forehead with the end of her quill. Yes, truly Kettleburn fashion.

In truth, Fehu did mean wealth but it also was meant to remind others to be charitable. If you were to give what you had in good spirit you in turn would become stronger, spiritually of course. Scribbling down everyone's answer, Daphne punished her lip severely for being a bit stiff. She could have at least tried to get an answer in.

Garret didn't know what the connection between this Fehu thingamajigum and the peppermint sweets was, but he didn't care. The only thing he knew about this rune was that his mum had cried when the rune came up just before Willie was born. The abundance thing the other students were throwing out made sense though, of course his mum had cried at the thought of having more boys.

Zeke raised his hand. "Well, Professor," he began, "according to the Anglo-Saxon Rune poem, 'Wealth is a comfort to all men; yet must every man bestow it freely, if he wish to gain honour in the sight of the Lord.' That makes me think that maybe wealth - the candy, in this case - is something we all want, but you have to give it away in order for it to really be worth anything?" He chewed his lip for a moment. "Maybe it's like what good does the wealth do if it just sits there? It has to be used or given away in some form, or it's not really worth anything in the long run." He didn't know if that made sense - it hardly did to himself - but he hoped Professor Lupa would understand what he was trying to say.

Chris looked at his sweets box and thought of the connection with Fehu. "Well Professor, the sign for Fehu is a cattle, which represents weath, right? Wealh doesnt just have to be based on money. Wealth in order times could be abundent in food. Which cattle may also represent that. So you have an abundance of candy, so I guess you are wealthy with candy." he said smiling.

Cela raised her hand, "Well, apart from the abundance thing, Fehu also symbolises generosity, and you are totally generous with the candy, professor." Cela pointed out, "It also symbolises nourishment and reward and candy totally gets MY brain going and I find it VERY rewarding, Professor Lupa." Cel turned to beam at Daphne and offered a little, slightly half-hearted but still noticeable air nuzzle for Plym.

Cedric raised his hand."Cause the rune of Fehu symbolizes wealth,money and cattle.And as you said professor,that if we want more,another candy will appear and the other meaning of Fehu is wealth is comfort to all and everyone can bestow it freely if they want to take a sight of it again."

"No Miss Devouche..." Alessia said.

"Close, Master Cullack, close." she said and then added, "Wealth is an abundance of material possessions, resources or riches. Not necessarily money."

"No Miss Corbette." she said and loved to the next desk.

"No Master Turner, but good guess." She said and moved on.

"No Miss Rider... but that is a good try." She said moving on.

Alessia lost it. She laughed and laughed. "No, Master Carden... Oh... but you are priceless."

Alessia looked over at the girl... "uhmmm I don't understand what you mean, but no... that's not the answer."

"Very very close..." she said nodding.

"No my dear, the box is a box it's the rune that's making the magic." She said.

"Not to food Miss Evans..." She said sweetly.

"Yes you are dear... don't worry. You are fine.... incorrect, but fine."

"Yes. A little long winded Miss , but correct."

"Yes Master Kettleburn, you and Miss Wright are correct. Class did you all hear Master Kettleburn's answer? Fehu is about abundance, wealth is worth nothing if it is not shared." She said proudly.

"Master Parker," she said with a smile, "I have a wealth of sweeties and I wish to share."

"Master Weasley you are correct in a way." She said with a smile. "And thank you for quoting the poem."

"Yes correct Master Potter, very good." Alessia was very happy about her students.

"Very VERY good Miss Toussaint. Generosity." Her kids were doing great with runes!

"So we've determined that Fehu is cattle... Having Cattle meant you were wealthy, so Fehu means wealth... being wealthy means abundance therefor, fehu means abundance... Fehu also means generosity... name ONE more thing Fehu mean?"

"Yes but the question was why is the sweety coming back, Master Leone."

ooc: Please don't spit out every single meaning, give other people a chance to say a meaning.