"Oh!" Ellie gasped when he... ran into nothing? "You alright?"

She made a face as she looked at the 7... 7?

"That's a magical number, right? That's what Professor Hadley said?" she really hated Arithmancy. Numbers were numbers. All this confusion and hidden meanings made her sound dumb. "Try doing some magic." That didn't help her Ravenclaw image much, did it.

Heh. She really didn't remember her own wand at the time.

Nodding he smiles at her "I'm fine. Jus' took me by surprise thet's all."

Hmmm, tapping his chin, he thinks "Let's see...the letter 'G' is the 7th letter of the alphabet, let's try a 'G'."

Tracing a letter G midair, he watches as the 7 disappears. Stretching his hand out, he finds the wall gone. Smiling down at her, he nods "Ready?"

Pam walked until she took a wrong turn, "Ok, now how to get back?" She turned, but it was too dark to see. She took a deep breath. "Calm down Pam, it's only dark."

Wait, she smelled something. Lilac, she loved Lilac!!! "What's that spell? Oh! Lumos!" Light came out of the end of her wand, she looked down to find two lilacs. She picked the second one, and a door opened in front of her.

Okay so...this number seven had to get out of their way. But how? Listening to Trixie's explanation, Vashti felt just as confused as before, but at least her friend had asked a question that she could answer. "Seven's often considered a magically powerful number. It's also considered the number of completion, the perfect number basically, in some religions, and is significant in several other religions as well as throughout history. Seven days in a week, seven deadly sins, seven parts to Voldemort's soul, Harry Potter was born in the seventh month..." Hey Vashti, your history nerd is showing.

Blushing slightly, she continued, "But I'm not sure how that exactly helps us get rid of this thing. Is there a spell we can use...?"

"Alright, then let's just try walking through it together. If that doesn't work, I'd say maybe a Reductor Curse." Who knew what would work?

"Right-o. Let's try walking through on the count of three. One.. two.. three!"

Keefer strode confidently towards the giant 2, Adam in his wake. Just as he reached the number, he felt an invisible wall of air meet him, and he fell backwards. Getting up, he gave Adam a sheepish grin.

"Ok, clearly that wasn't it. Reckon we should try simultaneous Reductor Curses, then?"

Adam looked younger than Keefer, but this activity seemed to require creativity, not years of magical knowledge. Any opinion was valid at this point.

"Well this is just peachy," Daisy said walking through the maze. "Another maze." She popped the chocolate into her mouth and made her way in the second maze of this term. On the positive side there was no colorful bubbles and she was right about the numbers two and seven. Walking to her right and then a dozen lefts she finally came upon a wall with the number seven on it. She thought back to chapter four of the text book and smiled proudly. "I'm a pisces therefore I represent the number seven in my astrological equivalent of the number." She watched with a hopeful expression and then the wall split and she contined on her joyful way. "This is a lot easier than Defense Against the Dark Arts."

Reductor sounded like it reduced sizes of things.Thinking it was better than nothing Adam NODDED . "What's the spell though- what do I say- Reducto?"HE guessed madly

Coming around to her next section she found a table with stones on it and a note that read:
"Hmm, well sevens mystical, what's the seven gemstone?? Gold, no that's two, oh! Amthyst, my favorite stone." She picked up the amthyst from the table, and wall in front of her crumbled. She walked over the rubble, to the next section.

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ACK.

As Ty decided to take a left, he jumped about a MILE in the air as a very girly voice sounded right in front of him, needing a partner. As his heart thudded loudly, his brain processed the girl's request. Were they allowed partners? The Professor hadn't said that they couldn't...

Plus, this girl was a Ravenclaw and she LOOKED nice enough even though she, er, was kinda girly. But Lo was girly and she was AWESOME. "I can be your partner," Ty said as he walked to her, a little miffed that there was STILL a huge height difference between him and the older kids.He was supposed to be GROWING, for Merlin's sake!

Neptune eyed the boy. That was what he was - a boy. "Do you know how to protect me from evil numbers? And you'll have to hold my hand."

Important things here. She went ahead and offered her hand. "One and One makes two. And Two is better than One. So." She wiggled her hand. TAKE it.

"G?" What? Where did he get THAT logic?

And ready? "I'm quite ready to get out." Ellie said.

So she pushed him on. She was going to stay right behind him.

O__________o

"Bloomin heck Vashti how much research did you just put into that?" And without them knowing there was one connotation of the number 7 ticked off of the list. Maybe if they showed all 7 qualities then the number may let them pass. Well hopefully it would otherwise they would be stuck behind it forever. "I don't think anyone knows as much as you do..." she commented. And number two was ticked off the list, seeing as Vashti was the sole History Nerd in the room.

Right now what was she doing? Right a spell? "I'm not sure. A powerful spell seeing as it is so large and like...Intimidating." And they had ticked off number three for the Blonde was analyzing, even if it was totally obvious, the giant number. "But a spell might not work seeing as its not just important in the Wizarding World. Simple magic, no matter how powerful isn't the answer to everything." True they were in a Magic school but oh well and magic was all mystical, there goes number 4 and number 5 seeing as the girls were investigating the number 7's qualities.

What was that Vashti mentioned about its values in the every day world? "So it has a Spiritual type quality too?" she questioned totally ignoring the fact there was still a giant 7 there... And number 6 completed.

She turned back to the number biting her lip but to her surprise it had moved. "Erm...What did we do?" she asked an eyebrow raised. Well THAT was easier then expected. "Guess we are just so wise" she joked before proceeding onwards.

Pam walked over to the next section, and saw an instrument on a table. It looked like a violin. How is a violin supposed to help? She walked over to a mirror, and knocked on it. Well that wasn't made of glass, how was she supposed to get out of here?

Well thankfully she knew how to play it. She decided to take it and play a few notes. She tightened up the bow, and tuned just as she had done in class many times before. She just played a scale. As she played the wall started to melt a hole in it. When she stopped, there was just enough room for her to get through.

Oh! two means harmony. That made sense. She walkedd through and into the next section

"Um... I- They're not evil, they're just two numbers!" Ty said, staring at the girl as if she had just landed from Jupiter or something. Why on earth did he need to hold her hand? She was BIGGER than him. Already coming up with several agruments as to why he SHOULDN'T hold Weird Girl's hand, he sighed as she waved it in front of his face.

Not much point fighting here. "Yes, it is. But I like seven better - it's cooler than two," Ty said distractedly as he eyed their clasped hands. To say this was BIZARRE was like saying that... that... Er, well, like saying the obvious and REALLY understating it.

Weird Girl indeed. He kind of liked her. "Shall we go?" he asked, pointing their hands ahead. Hehe. That was weird.

Nodding, he explains "In the pythagorean system, the letter G is under the 7." Chuckling as she pushed him from behind, so they'd keep moving.

Reaching back, he grabs her hand, and holds it in his, behind his back. Ahead he sees a fork, remembering what he'd heard from the professor about the path less travelled, he looks down. Seeing the right path with hardly any foot prints he turns there.

When all of a sudden a 9 comes falling from the sky right in front of them. His eyes widening, he turns slightly toward Ellie "Uh...?"

Sophia ran through the maze, looking for someone to be her partner. She saw a boy up head. She ran to him and asked "Do you have a partner?" She needed a partner too. SIGHH Wow, he is tall she thought. He is older than me! Eek! she thought, smiling a little bit. She walked down to the end of the corridor and peered around the corner, waiting for the boys answer.

Ellie shook her head. Like that made sense.

She squeezed his hand reeally tightly. And made sure she was behind him.

Then there was a nine. "We... didn't talk about nines..." No they had not. Sevens and twos. But no nines. "Let's go the other way..." Why would he pick the path with no footprints anyway? Obviously the others had some sort of idea.

Pam walked over to a bright spot. She thought it was the out, but it happened to be just a light. Under it was a table, with a multitude of paints. Also was a paint brush, and one huge piece of paper. WHAT?!? Pam groaned. This wasn't making sense. This certainly didn't have anything to do with 2 or 7. Just a kids play area.

She thought about turning back, and heading a different direction, but she never crossed a fork. She'd just have to go this way. She walked up to the table and read the note.

She gave it a puzzled look. Well two had to do with unity, equalling one and one being two. So.... What? She would have to make the color of two? But what was she supposed to paint. Well, she remembered somethihng about it...... Purple? No that was seven. Orange maybe? She decided to try it.

She looked around, wait, no orange?!? How was she supposed to paint something if there was no orange, just blue, purple, red, and yellow.

"Yellow, and Red make orange.... Just as one and one make two." She said to no one in particular. Well, she found an empty cup, and poured red and yellow paint together. She mixed them together. She dipped her paint brush in it. "What to paint??" She asked. Well a two seemed right. She painted a big two on the paper, and it started to glow. "What the...." She looked to her left, and the bricks started moving out of the way for her.

She smiled, and walked through.

Nodding he turns back the way they came "Good idea." Walking forward he encounters the nine again. His eyebrows both raising this time, he looks at Ellie, and whispers "I don't think we can..."

Looking around he wonders what would help them equal 9. On the wall were 7 specks of green and 2 specks of blue. His smile broadening, he wonders if that's what was needed. Twirling his wand in a circle around all 9 he slowly brings the specks all together, forming a number 9 with the specks.

Turning back around where the first 9 had been he sees it's gone.

Vashti giggled slightly at Trixie's surprise at her little monologue but stopped when she noticed the giant number seven suddenly beginning to fade away as the older girl spoke until, finally, it was gone. Whoa. That was cool. Hehe. "Why yes, yes we are," she agreed, following her friend further down the walled path. But then, once again out of nowhere (things seemed to do that in this maze), a number NINE landed in front of them.

"Huh?!" she gasped, staring at it. "But I thought we were only looking for sevens and twos? What's this nine doing here?!" Stupid nine. Now they had to work out how to get rid of it. "So. Any ideas?" she asked.

Oh. It didn't let them pass. Pout.

Ellie curiously watched what JD was doing with his wand. What was that? Was that a spell? What?

Whatever. She pushed him around a left turn. Then a right. And..

She'd forgotten where they'd come from already.

Dumb creepy maze-classroom-thingy. Dumb Arithmancy.

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"Um... I- They're not evil, they're just two numbers!" Ty said, staring at the girl as if she had just landed from Jupiter or something. Why on earth did he need to hold her hand? She was BIGGER than him. Already coming up with several agruments as to why he SHOULDN'T hold Weird Girl's hand, he sighed as she waved it in front of his face.

Not much point fighting here. "Yes, it is. But I like seven better - it's cooler than two," Ty said distractedly as he eyed their clasped hands. To say this was BIZARRE was like saying that... that... Er, well, like saying the obvious and REALLY understating it.

Weird Girl indeed. He kind of liked her. "Shall we go?" he asked, pointing their hands ahead. Hehe. That was weird.

"We can't get seven people to hold hands. There isn't enough room between these walls." Neptune, wise and older Neptune, explained to the youngling. She was really putting her life on the line here, wasn't she?

She nudged his hand towards a corner. "I hope that we don't run into ANY numbers other than 2's or 7's," Neptune began as they started forward. "We'll just a shield, and scream for help if we run into bad numbers."

Good plan. Neptune MADE young boy Ty go first. Human shield.


THIS was constant vigilance, Headmaster Tate.

She was sure determined to get out of there... he thought with a smile on his face, at least she couldn't see that being behind him. "Wait! Over there..." he says seeing a table down another path.

Pam came to the last of her journey. (OOC: At least I think it is). The only thing she could see was a chalk board. Written on it was:

What did numbers and the alphabet come together. Wait. They did, there was something on it in her text book, but she had only skimmed that section. NO! She groaned.

"Well," she counted. "The second letter is B, and the seventh is G, and the ninth is I. So if I write the letters in the air with my wand...." Her voice trailed off. She counted the alphabet from one to nine, and wrote them in the air. They rearanged, not just eachother, but the shape of them to create a math problem.

7+2=9

She smiled. She had figured it out. She was smart, like how she had read about number seven. "Well you are in Ravenclaw." She said to herself.

The problem platered itself on the wall, and the bricks disappeared to the exit. YAY! She had found the exit.

Josey made her way through the maze, looking for any door in particular. After about a minute of looking she came across one, and two, great. She walked up to the door and it opened. Hmmm, strange. On the other side of it was, what looked to be the rest of the maze. With a strong feeling that something was not right Josey took a hesitant step forward and her foot touched...nothing. Josey grabbed on to the door frame and jerked herself back to stop from falling down a chasm who knows how far deep. Hmmmm, how was she supposed to get passed that, there was nothing for her to do, no clues, nothing.

Josey stepped back and looked around the area of the door. Then she found it. Just below the number 2, seemingly carved into the door was a riddle. It was hard to read, Josey squinted and read it slowly.

Look down below for answeres above,
make it fly high like a dove.

Josey was confused, look below? did that mean the bottom of the chasm? But how was she supposed to look down there? She shrugged and went to the door frame. "Lumos," she said, casting her wand down below. Nothing, it was still totally dark. For all she knew there was no bottom. She thought about the rest of the riddle. Fly?

Fly.

"Wingardium Leviosa," she said, pointing her wand down into the cavern. A bridge appeared in the middle of the cavern. Grinning to herself, Josey ran across it and on into the rest of the maze.

Patroclus had gone to turn to Evelyn when BING! the class room turned into a maze, and between them shot up a wall.

Instantly feeling alone, and rather threatened, Patroclus whipped out his wad, and began to walk. After about 5 paces, he stopped, "I bet it's the other way!" Turning, he conitued back in the direction he had came.

Coming to a corner, the boy pressed his back against the wall, and then with his wand out stretched, jumped around the corner.


It was empty. He needed to remember there was only number's in here, not Dementors.

PIcking up the pace into a slight jog, the boy conitued a long corridor of the maze, then down another which seemed to be running parallel to the first.

This was going to get confusing.