Carter looked down at his paper and began adding.
3+1+9+2+5+9=29
2+9=11
1+1=2

When he was done he looked up waiting for the next instruction.

L o u A n n
3 6 3 1 5 5

Reducing, that was something LouAnn thought herself to be capable of doing. It didn't seem to hard to simply add the numbers together and come up with some single digit. Hmm...alright, so three plus three plus...

LouAnn quickly jotted down her calculations as she silently thought about the steps to the process:

3 + 6 + 3 + 1 + 5 + 5 = 23
2 + 3 = 5

Jack was trying to guess where this was going, but so far he hadn't a clue, so he just followed instructions.

J A C K
1+1+3+2=7

He put his head down on the desk, turning his head to where he could still see what he was writing as he began to add the numbers together.

1 + 3 + 4 + 9 + 6 = 23
2 + 3 = 5

Sasori nodded as she listened to the professor's instructions, quickly opening her book to the right page and writing out the notes.

Kay worked on adding her numbers together. 'Let's see' Kay said.

K 2
A 1
Y 7
T 2
O 6
N 5
E 5

Ok, 2+1+7+2+6+5+5=28 Then, 2+8=10 Then, 1+0=1

Alright my number is 1.

Abby sits at her desk taking notes not really paying attention to what's going on when she hears that voice again. Her quill rips a hole in her parchment. Abby looks up and sees Jake acting not like Jake again, or is she just imagining this? Dark Arts? Runes that aren't Runes... If Abby had any sense, she would leave class right now.

Then Jake snaps out of it just like before. Abby's stomach ties itself up in knots again. Just ignore it like Professor Lawson said. Professor Shakleford will take care of things. I doubt he would hurt a teacher particularly not one without a wand. I wonder what happened to Professor Shakleford's wand? Abby breathes a sigh of relief. Jake seems to be back to normal. Well, normal for Jake anyway. Abby goes back to listening to Professor Shakleford and pulls out a new sheet of parchment. Abby writes her first name out:

[quote]A B I G A I L
1 2 9 7 1 9 3

1+2+9+7+1+9+3=32

3+2=5[quote]

Abby looks up at Professor Shaklefort and waits for her next instructions.

"Now, use the meanings of the rune corresponding to your number as your point of beginning for your interpretation." Alessia chimed in.

Marie looked up her meaning to her number.

1 = Unicorn
Meanings: Difficulty, Purity, Healing, Power, Beauty, Magic, Solitude, Strength, Simplicity, Wealth and Prosperity, Innocence and Nurturing and emotional acumen.

Celandine was doing her best to ignore Jake and focus on the class.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/m...unes/rune4.jpg

Oh great. She got the insane rune.

Celandine giggled a little, not even slightly sure how that applied to her, the meaning certainly did not match up with the numerical equivalent as per Arithmancy.

Kay looked through her notes to find want she needed.

Unicorn (1)
Meanings: Difficulty, Purity, Healing, Power, Beauty, Magic, Solitude, Strength, Simplicity, Wealth and Prosperity, Innocence and Nurturing and emotional acumen.

Jack had worked out that he was a 7.

He looked up the meaning: Mystery, Luck, Magic, secrecy, sin, evil, death. That didn't sound all that terrific to him. Luck and death together. Didn't make much sense to him. Was he going to be lucky because somebody else dies. What a dreadful thought.

Evan was so into listening to Jake's and the Arithmancy Professor's... arguement that he didn't hear the tasks they were given. He couldn't believe how Jake acted... that kid was always crazy, but not a bad one. He wondered if Shana knew this new Jake. The blondie hadn't know him for long, but he knew that he wasn't this kind of a kid. No way. Maybe he was confused a little in the dueling arena or something?

He snapped back to classroom. What--why were people writing down? He peeked at the paper of the Ravenclaw prefect, then got what they were doing. Runes and Arithmancy. Right. He immediately got to work:

Come again?

Reid sighed in relief, glad that the Professor had only told him off and not deducted any points or given him detention. That in mind Reid decided to keep quiet, he didn't need another case of foot in mouth during this lesson.

What was that? Oh first name, then reduce. Ok he could do that.

R- 9
E- 5
I- 9
D- 4

27= 2+7= 9

Ok that working out was simple enough but now he had to bring runes into. He was correct in thinking this lesson wasn't going to be fun. Sighing inaudibly Reid opened his Ancient Runes book to the correct page and looked for the number nine.

Looking down at what he'd written Reid frowned slightly, not liking the description given for the rune one little bit.

Laying with the side of his face resting on the desk, Jake listened to the next instructions and paused in his doodling of a snidget to get to work properly.

Staring at the meanings for a moment, the Jake inside of Jake let out a most INSANE laugh at the irony. "HAHAHAHAHAHA," he blurted out suddenly, interupting the calm of the classroom. And then, almost as soon as he started, Jake stopped.

Once that was done, Jake silently and inexplicably began drawing two little figures at the bottom of his parchment, one holding a wand on another, who was wandless. He picked up his wand from the floor and inconspicuously tapped the drawing, which began to reconstruct a fatal scene. Blinking a little, Jake lay his head back down.

More calculations? Kiri flipped to the next page of her notebook and started writing, mumbling the numbers under her breath.

Next, Kiri consulted her Ancient Runes textbook. The number two stood for...
http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/m...unes/rune2.jpg
Graphorn.
Meanings: Protection, Repelling, Strength, Danger, Teamwork, Risks, Determination, Deception, Love.

Kiri eyed the list of meanings. It seemed to be a very diverse and contradictory assortment.

Woah, boy! Dang, did that kid lose his nutter, or what? Nikki stared wide eyed in shock, at the Huffie who was mouthing off. Nikki didn't really know him to well, and didn't have many friends, but she was damn sure he was usually pretty swell. The Profs seemed to be kinda bugged out too...

While Nikki had been daydreaming about the nutter, everyone else had moved on. After she realised she was the only one not doing anything, she hurried along, and tried to drag the few words she'd heard into making sense. 'Pythagoran...textbook...corresponding...runes...s ingle number....BUGGER!!'


Ah, well. When all else fails, sneak a glance at the person next to you. But make sure they're in your house first. Cuz, y'know, they'd want you to get points and all...right??? The firstie tried to sneak a glance at what the girl next to her was doing. She and her friend were talking about how their names were close, or something. Neither of them would notice...

Nikki quickly copied down the girl's work, and sat staring at it. Finally, it clicked what she had to do. The brunette started scribbling furiously to catch up to everyone else.

N..5
I..9
K..2
K..2
I..9

Woot for having double letters!!! And a nice short name, too. Nikki put her quill down, and nibbled on another lolly. Time for step two.

5+9+2+2+9 = 27
2+7 = 9

SWEET! It was a bit too easy though...-yawn- Nikki tried to stifle a yawn behind her hand. She hoped the Professors didn't see. She was interested, but she liked to do more practical stuff.

Last part! Nikki munched on another sweet while she flipped to the right page in her Runes textbook. Hmmm, the 9th Rune...Aha! Here it was!

"Hydra (9)
Meanings:Loneliness, sadness, despair, guardian, regrowth, terror, doing too much at one time."

'Right...Time to interpret' She bent over her partchment, and wrote quickly, splashing ink over her parchment, and almost knocking over her inkwell three times. By the time she was finished, Nikki's parchment looked like this:

'Nikki Leanne Griffths, Ancient Runes/-splodge-mancy Lesson
N..5
I..9
K..2
K..2
I..9

-splodge-
-insert ink-
-insert more ink-
-insert a line of stars-

5+9+2+2+9 = 27
2+7 = 9

My number is the number 9, and so my corresponding Rune is the Hydra. It has the follo-splat-ng meanings:Loneliness, sadness, despair, guardian, regrowth, terror, doing too much at one time.

My interpretation of this is that I'm lonely because I'm doing too much, and therefore, don't have time to socialise. Because of this, I'm upset and wondering how I'm gonna get all this stuff done. Ummm, I'm also scared of the mountain of things I'm doing, and realise I should...uh, change, and be lessed stressed? I'm not quite sure how the guardian fits into everything...Maybe I get a familar??? That'd be cool...'

Nikki had tried to remove most of the stains, with a Scrougify spell, or something. Most of them vanished, or faded. However, somehow she managed to set fire to her parchment... Now there was a burn mark in the lower right corner, and she smelled smoky...-sigh-

She was confused about her translation, and wasn't sure she was right. But, at least she tried (she vaguely thought she should pay this much attention in Divination). After cleaning some ink off the desk, Nikki doodled a bit on the piece of parchment she'd used to copy Evelyn's work, and hummed a little ditty under her breath, waiting for the lesson to continue.

Okay, so apparently Edem was lost in thought, watching the verbal battle between Jake Upstead and Professor Shackleton, and was snapped back to reality when he noticed his classmates were already starting to do something. He pulled out his quill and a piece of parchment. Not really sure what he learned in his last Arithmancy lesson besides the transit cycles, he opened his textbook to get an idea on what he really was supposed to do. Pythagorean numbers?



That was all he could add to the interpretation. He couldn't help making a reference to the homework. It still hadn't come off of his mind.. Also, credits to the homework, he could remember almost every meaning to every Rune.

''Ah, Maths'' Josh murmured smiling. He was really wondering what they were going to get with all these names and numbers.

J O S H U A
1 6 1 8 3 1

1+6+1+8+3+1 = 20

2+0 = 2

After finishing his work, which was very easy (maybe because his name was short) he opened up his book to read the rune for two the Garphorn. He raised his eyebrows at the meanings. ''Nice, these are ok with me''

Graphorn (2)
Meanings: Protection, Repelling, Strength, Danger, Teamwork, Risks, Determination, Deception, Love

Abigail looked at her work ‘5...what was the ancient rune for 5 again...quintaped?’

Quickly she looked through her notes from the previous runes class and found that she was right 5 was represented by the Quintaped, and jotted down her answer.

Looking at the meanings she began to feel lower than she had before ‘great just great, that just sound brilliant’