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First lesson since his most recent return to Hogwarts and Ethan Truebridge was sitting at his desk in the front of the classroom, a magical gramophone sat on his desk, the soundtrack of Les Misérables playing quietly.
The blackboard was apparently 'singing' along, as the words were sung on the record, in runic the translations appeared on the board and then disappeared again moments later.
Truebridge ignored it and kept his hazel-green eyes on the door, watching as the students began to file in.
"Sit wherever you like. Four to six people at each table if you please."
SPOILER!!: classroom description
The classroom is bright and airy, very clean and comfortable. There are no desks in this classroom, rather there are several wooden tables which would fit between four and six students quite comfortably. The tables are arranged rather higgledy piggledy, all out of alignment with each other and yet there is plenty of room to weave through the tables and walk up to the front of the classroom, or down to the back.
The front of the classroom has a large blackboard, charmed to write on itself,and when it isn't taking notes it quite often it has something to say, though you'll need to transcribe it from runic to English to make any sense of it. Truebridge also has a desk at the front of the class, set to one side, and a perfect view of all the tables arranged haphazardly around the room.
At the back of the classroom, set to one side, there is the door out into the corridor. Along the back wall there is a large bookshelf almost overflowing with books, mostly old, all very well taken care of. You're welcome to look at any of these books but if any harm befalls the tomes, there will be a severe price to pay. A long and comfortable couch takes up the rest of the back wall.
The windows along the remaining side, opposite the door and Truebridge's desk have soft white curtains that are almost transparent. When pulled they simply diffuse the light and ensure it is not too bright, allowing the room to stay bright and lit at all times. The window frames are the most interesting, if you go and inspect them, all of the exposed wood has been painstakingly carved with runes, mostly bindrunes and rune charms, set in ligature and carved then stained red. These have all been activated and almost thrum under your fingertips. No cold will pass these windows, no student will fall to their deaths. It is a barrier of safety and of comfort, and a good example of runic magic. The door into the classroom is similarly marked.
ooc note: Please note that class has finished. The thread will be open for a short time longer to allow everyone to complete the last task. Please read the following posts to catch up with the lesson, or the latest one if you wish to jump in on the current activity/question. Not all of Truebridge's posts are included here, just those relevant to the progression of the lesson.
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"He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
Simon had got it wrong will never mind maybe he could get the next one right, but then the question came and Simon was sure that he would get it wrong. "Is it like a snitch and a bludge." Simon wondered. "One can't work without the other." Simon had no idea if he was right he just hoped that the Professor wouldn't mind his guess.
Emmaleigh holstered her wand to listen as the professor explained a galdr. Hearing the next question, the little red head frowned in thought. She had no idea, but it couldn't hurt to guess right? "Is it because you have to repeat the name of the rune with Intaglio? It makes a kind of rhythm when you say it over and over again."
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Raising her hand, Ivory spoke a thoughtful expression on her face.
"The art of repetition." Her head bobbed in a little nod as she heard other people elaborate. "The repetition of different syllables and varieties of it versus the repetition of the rune. I would imagine it helps to better focus the intent. In both."
Oookay. Runes HAD been awesome until Truebs started confusing her with Galdr and whatever else that was. Lexi looked at her piece of wood and furrowed her brow. Chants. Something. Repetition. Oooookay. She was SO asking Truebs or someone to help her with this stuff after class.
She simply chewed on her lip and had a far away kind of look in her eyes as she clearly did not GET it.
The boy sat with a cool demeanor although in the inside he was freaking out. He was terrible at Runes and the class seem to pass by so quickly that he couldn't comprehend some things. It was also probably because he was focusing on freaking out instead of the lesson.
When Professor Truebridge told them to fine a rune suitable for them, Simon quickly changed to the chapter they had been told and stared at the page. Man, was this confusing to him. He scanned the page several times until he found two runes that he could relate to. Nauthiz because he needs endurance to over come his problems that, to date, he still had no solution to. Eihwaz because he recently moved from the US to England and he isn't nor likes change, but that was something that his parents had decided for him and had no word about it.
Having the chose runes Simon pointed his wand at the wood he was suppose to carve and said, "Intaglio Nauthiz, Nauthiz, Nauthiz, Nauthiz." he saw as the figure started to appear and sighed in relief. He wasn't so bad at it. Weird 'cause his best subject was Charms and he was doing horribly in that one. He then moved to his second rune, "Intaglio Eihwaz, Eihwaz, Eihwaz, Eihwaz." and saw the shape form.
This was awesome, but he wasn't going to expect much because this must be a beginners thing and would probably have some difficulty later on.
He noticed when the Prof fell quiet and then he saw runes glowing. That was one of the coolest things the boy has seen in a class so far. Well, here at Hogwarts. "Cool." he whispered very low, that maybe no one heard him, unless they were sitting right next to him. Simon wondered who had created those runes and if he could learn how to make them glow.
Simon barely got the concept of what galdr was, but he was completely clueless about the next part. The boy could feel a headache inducing at how much he was trying to think of an answer. He was going to need all the luck in the world in this class.
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Satine raised her hand timidly because she wasn't sure if her answer was correct especially after hearing the others, "Well like everyone said it deals with repetition, but does it also have to do with making sure your intent is clear and that you are focused on your end result..." she said letting her words trail off almost like a question.
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"5 points from Ravenclaw for being late. Would you care to share why you're late to my class?"
"I, I, I wasn't sure where to go....I don't know any students but my brother. He told me he would show me where the classroom was last night; he said he'd meet me this morning but he didn't, and I've been afraid to ask anyone. I'm really sorry. It won't happen again; I promise," she stuttered, embarrassed.
What a great way to start lessons....not only don't I have a clue what's going on, I lost house points! I'm really going to need to be more careful...maybe I'll ask someone else to show me where my classrooms are.
Charley had a horrible sinking feeling in her stomach now. She knew she could do so much better. She opened the textbook on her desk and began reading, hoping to glean something helpful from it.
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Bennet contemplated the question a bit deeper, "Well, in addition to the repetition, I think it is probably more the focus aspect of both the 'Intaglio' spell and a galdr. In order for the Intaglio spell to be effective, it required our absolute concentration. I know that as soon as I got distracted, the incantation lost its effect and I needed to begin again. Same goes with a galdr - it needs to be experienced wholly and completely. The entire body, all of your senses, need to be focused one hundred percent on the rune in order to truly experience all that the rune wants to reveal."
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"That's not bad for a start." Truebridge commented. "Good. Keep practicing."
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So.
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"[/color]
Sebastian looked up as Professor Truebridge seemed to be talking to him. "Thanks, Professor." He said with a mere smile and then looked back down at his wood. Okay, so he just needed to get the runes right without slanting them this way or that, and hopefully they would come out right.
Seb listened as Professor Truebridge explained what exactly a 'galdr' was as he put away his wand back into his bag. One part of the Professor's disussion about that topic caught his eye. Singing to the runes? Hah! You've got to be kidding me! He was not singing...or if he had to...it wouldn't be loud. He watched the fehu runes glowing and he put his head upon his hand. This seemed hard.
He tried to think of how the Intaglio spell would be similar to the basic galdr. Well he could find the differences, that was for sure, but similarities? He definitey couldn't think of any.
Patroclus was totally teasing her now by doing that flexing or whatever he was doing. If they didn't have to carve the wood, she would have really ripped the badge off of his robes. Patroclus was indeed a lucky duck.
Or his badge was lucky. Or the front of his robes were lucky.
Something was lucky.
Waving a gloved hand at his thanks and his mention of going to get the stuff, Destiny continued to work on carving the rune on the wood. It didn't really look like the rune in the book, but at least it didn't say some random girl's name. Leaning away from her wood and just about to sneak a peek at the rune Patroclus had carved, NOT that she was going to cheat, pffft! There is no cheating in wood carving! when..
HEHADMENTIONEDTAKINGOFFHISBADGE and OMGSHEWANTEDTOWEARIT!
Sure, he didn't mention letting her wear it, but taking it was off was one step closer for her to wear it. Yup, she could swipe it off the table WHEN he took it off.
Mwaha!
Trying to keep the smirk off her face, she turned back to the wood she and gave a nonchalant shrug of her shoulders. "I think you should. Wouldn't want you to have to go to you Head of House for a new one or anything."
That woman did seem worse than Lafay.
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"Focus on your work Destiny." Truebridge murmured as he walked past the girl. Yes we see you are distracted.
Yes we know you get distracted easily.
Yes we do hold you to a higher standard.
"Can anyone explain what a 'galdr' is?".
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"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
Patroclus smile vanished as Trueb's told Destiny to focus.
They had only been playing, but Patroclus didn't want to get his Snake into trouble, so he softly whispered, "After Class"
Turning his attention back to 'The Man' Patroclus could see the similarity and was more than happy to give his suggestion, "Professor, both seem to depend upon the repeatition of intent and focus to garner any results. With Intaglio, we were required to repeat the rune, to ensure that the spell created that rune and that siad repeatition could almost turn into a chant, rather that just a simple spell, just like a galdr."
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Truebridge obligingly took the gloves and shrunk them so that they'd fit the young Ravenclaw better. He passed them back with a wink and then moved on to the next table.
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Truebridge looked around. It looked like most students had got the hang of that method.
"The next method does not use wands, so for those of you who are done practicing the Intaglio method, please holster your wand and listen."
Truebridge started with a question,
"Can anyone explain what a 'galdr' is?".
Charisa smiled and clapped her hands together softly as she watched the gloves shrink. Wicked. "Thank you." She took them back from Professor Truebridge and slipped them on again.
Pointing her wand at the piece of wood was much easier business this time. "Intaglio thurisaz, thurisaz, thurisaz, thurisaz..." She spoke the incantation as she ran her wand over the wood, concentrating on her rune. And, what do ya know, it worked this time! The rune finished carving itself into the wood. Pleased with her work, although maybe the rune looked the slightest bit lopsided, Charisa put down her wand and turned her attention to the professor, who was asking a question.
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Originally Posted by Con_Stripes
So.
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
Charisa's hand rose into the air. Her expression was contemplative as she ventured to give her answer.
"It's similar to the Intaglio spell because it involves a chant and the repetition of that chant," she said. "Which, I suppose, is meant to channel the focus of whatever purpose the chant serves?" Yep. Question mark ending.
"I, I, I wasn't sure where to go....I don't know any students but my brother. He told me he would show me where the classroom was last night; he said he'd meet me this morning but he didn't, and I've been afraid to ask anyone. I'm really sorry. It won't happen again; I promise," she stuttered, embarrassed.
What a great way to start lessons....not only don't I have a clue what's going on, I lost house points! I'm really going to need to be more careful...maybe I'll ask someone else to show me where my classrooms are.
Charley had a horrible sinking feeling in her stomach now. She knew she could do so much better. She opened the textbook on her desk and began reading, hoping to glean something helpful from it.
JP whispered over to her.
"it's ok. I know how that goes. I was a first year once too. I'm JP. If you want ill show you around after class."
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JP whispered over to her.
"it's ok. I know how that goes. I was a first year once too. I'm JP. If you want ill show you around after class."
When she heard someone talking to her-well, whispering, but it was class-she jerked her head up, surprised. People tended to avoid her. Looking at the boy's robes, though, she noticed he was a Ravenclaw as well. Within reason, it bridged the personality gap-giving him a reason to not assume her life goal was to be a librarian or a hermit.
"Hi, I'm Charley. That sounds great. My brother can be terribly unreliable. What year are you now?" she responded, blindly pulling one of her many bookmarks from her bag, which sat on the floor next to her, and slipped it into the textbook, closing the book carefully.
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"Good. You're getting the hang of this." He noticed the boy was holding his hand a bit oddly. "See me after class, I can show you a few wand grips that you'll find more effective if you like."
"Those are some good suggestions and reasons. Practice carving them in your piece of practice wood now, with the Intaglio spell we have been working on."
Truebridge looked around. It looked like most students had got the hang of that method.
"The next method does not use wands, so for those of you who are done practicing the Intaglio method, please holster your wand and listen."
Truebridge started with a question,
"Can anyone explain what a 'galdr' is?".
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Pandora raised her hand. "A Galdr is one of the Old Norse words for 'spell' or 'incantation'. It was a chant normally performed alongside certain rites back when the Scandinavian religion was Paganism. It was mastered by both men and women, and was chanted in gala, or falsetto."
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"Yes. Please be sure to raise your hand before answering."
"Much better with the carving and the spell." Truebridge approved and then nodded again. "Yes it is. Though it is only truly 'arcane' until you learn more about it."
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
"Wow, amazing professor, nice examples" Raven exclaim
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Raising her hand, Ivory spoke a thoughtful expression on her face.
"The art of repetition." Her head bobbed in a little nod as she heard other people elaborate. "The repetition of different syllables and varieties of it versus the repetition of the rune. I would imagine it helps to better focus the intent. In both."
Yup, because it improved concentration...maybe.
Another answered, Raven is simply watching the discussion.
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"That's right. They look very good."
....
So.
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
"Thank you Professor", said Emily beaming.
.....
Emily put her hand up slowly, unsure of her answer, "Well it's similar in that we need to concentrate on the meaning and magical properties of our runes and it's intent." she said.
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Marie had no sooner shoved Salander and Professor Truebridge was there telling her to sit down, get to work and to... apologize to Sal. "But he sprayed water in my face. Why should I apologize to him?" She said still not realizing that it had all been an accident.
Feeling the tears start to sting her eyes she started to sit down. It was then that she realized she had actually knocked Sal to the ground. Oops, she didn't mean to shove him that hard. Guess he'll know not to spray her with water again though. Even though she was about to lose it and start crying at any minute now, she couldn't help when a small smile started to appear on her face as she watched Salander pull himself off the ground. Oh, and he was apologizing to her. Crud, that meant she should apologize too didn't it. "I'm sorry too... for knocking you on your bum." She still wasn't sorry for using him as a towel though. He deserved that since he was the one that got her wet.
Hearing Sal's next words though made her look at the boy like he was nuts. "Vacuum me up. Nah, I'll just use your robes some more." She said as she reached out and grabbed his robes to dry herself off a little better. "There all dry." She said letting go of his robes. "You can do something about this though." She said pointing to her hair that was still a little wet in the front.
Hearing Truebridge as he continued to walk around the room Marie decided she better actually do something here. Maybe the class would go faster if she did the work instead of sitting there moping and wishing for it to be over. Grabbing the goggles that Sal tried handing her earlier she finally put them on. She then pulled on the gloves... after removing her wand from its holster, and grabbed the semi-dry piece of wood laying there. Okay now, what was the incantation she was supposed to use. Being in her little mood she had totally missed what the instructions were. Not wanting to call the professor back over for fear of him taking points away for not paying attention she decided to just watch the others for a few minutes.
After seeing some of the other students complete the task she grabbed her wand and the piece of wood again. This was going to be easy. She was good with her wand... that wasn't the problem in this class. How the runes actually work, now there was the problem. Pointing her wand at the wood she began. "Intaglio Perthro Perthro Perthro Perthro Perthro..." She repeated as she traced her wand along the wood in the shape of the rune. Looking at the finished product in front of her she felt pretty good that she got it done on the first try.
Looks like she got done just in time too since they were now moving on to the next method of doing this. She listened as Truebridge explained. Then asked what a... galdr was. Ha, she knew that one. That was that crazy word Jimmy had taught her about in their last study session. Raising her hand she said, "A galdr is when you sing to the rune, like... chant the magic and activate whatever channel the magic is intended to flow through. Its Old Norse. Means Incantation, or spell." Now if only Jimmy was still in class he would know that she had been listening to him and that he was a good tutor.
Huh, how was a galdr the same as intaglio? "Um, with both you need a clear intent to cast the spell along with repeating the incantation over and over." Yeah, that one she wasn't so sure about. She hadn't gotten that far in her study sessions with James yet.
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"Not always beautifully." Truebridge murmured, "If the magic invoked is malevolent, the beauty of its form is irrelevant." Much like women really.
Malevolent magic. No, she supposed those wouldn't be beautiful, but hers wasn't violent, so maybe it did have beauty. It totally did. "Thanks, professor." She turned back to her own rune, about to start a new one, when Sabel asked a question.
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He nearly jumped to the ceiling when Truebridge spoke as he passed around behind both him and Arya. Thankfully his carved rune was already such a mess of curvy lines and jagged, rough edges that the streak that went through the center of it made no difference. So there was a balance to be had between how focussed one was and how much attention was paid to the rest of the environment for safety reasons.
Blinking, he glanced back at the Professor and then over at Arya. Her explanation brought another question to mind and he turned his eyes back to Truebridge. "Do Runes have to look like near-exact replicates of the ones in the books or can they be like handwriting? Individual based on the caster while retaining their magical properties? Is the effectiveness of the Rune more based on the intent than the accuracy?"
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"If it's recognizably the right rune then you are fine. The forms have been around since antiquity so there is less room for personal interpretation, particularly on those runes which are quite similar to others. Some prefer to draw them with a longer stave -that is, draw the main vertical lines longer- and others like them shorter. And too, we will cover in another lesson the concept of staveless runes. To be safe, start with your runes as close to the textbook as possible, but as long as it's recognizably the right rune, with vertical and horizontal lines making up it's form, you will be fine. The effectiveness is certainly based more on intent, and yet the form is still important, just as a wand movement is an important element to a spell." Truebridge answered.
His question was interesting, and she listened to Truebridge as he explained why the rune, for the most part, had to retain it's original form. It was interesting to say the least, and though she enjoyed carving runes, she didn't care as much about discussing them, even though she also knew they would eventually get to that during the lesson. So turning away from both men, she worked on another rune, having more success with it than her previous rune.
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Truebridge looked around. It looked like most students had got the hang of that method.
"The next method does not use wands, so for those of you who are done practicing the Intaglio method, please holster your wand and listen."
Truebridge started with a question,
"Can anyone explain what a 'galdr' is?"
It was when she heard the instructions to holster her wand that her her breaking her concentration and looking towards the front of class. Wand sliding neatly into her wrist holster and being replaced with her quill.
Ah. Her came the discussion. Listening to the discussion that she wasn't well-versed in, she scribbled notes in her journal. Eyes going to Ivory when she gave a response. Totally gonna be study buddies.
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So.
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
Kurumi flew to her notes and added the details the professor had given before thinking about his next question. "Well, when I first used the Intaglio spell, I didn't really have a rhythm that I was keeping and I ended up making my piece of wood fly across the room...and smack Adam square in the face." She paused for a moment as her cheeks flushed beet red. "With this particular spell, it seems like you almost need to sing it to keep the spell from getting out of hand and making the piece of wood fly across the room or start on fire." Kurumi's eye widened and a giant light bulb turned on inside her head. "Professor, is that why you have music playing in the background? So we could keep in pace with it while we performed the spell?"
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"Sir, with all due respect, this song like chant, isn't it similar to all types of spells. All magic has a rhythm to it. A body and flow if you will. So this specific enchantment is similar to Intaglio because like the spell it has a rhythm. Now we are just more aware of it because the rhythm is more crucial to the performance of this chant, sir. Is that what you meant by your question?" The tiny redhead asked still a little embarrassed by her question on what the galdr was.
Chris followed the professor's gaze around the class, and noticed something...different about a few of the runes around the room. She couldn't put her finger on what it was. They had ti be fehu if it was happening as he chanted...or she could just be crazy. "I think that... the reasoning and passion behind carving the runes is the same. You had to have something behind the wand moving across the wood in order to carve with Intaglio. You had to know why you were carving it. You have to know that it's a specific rune you're carving, not a random set of lines. To carve with galdr, you still need to know that," she said, amazed at herself for saying so much in respone to a simple question. In a class. With other people around. Listening to her answer. Just the thought made her sink lower in her seat, just in case her answer happened to be wrong.
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Text Cut: Mia and Matty
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"Thank you sir."
*Once the professor left Matty pumped a fist in the air then turn to Mia and the Slytherin.*
"Looks like your a Slytherin firefighter. And Mia Prof has faith in you too. Here I'll do one with you-"
*Pointing his wand to the bit of wood he started to say Intaglio wunjo, wunjo, wunjo, wunjo... This one was still faint but stronger then the first.*
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Watching the reactions from both Matty and Sal, Mia snorted and then burst out laughing. "It's five points, boys. Anyone would think you were just announced as the next Minister for Magic." She shook her head still chuckling under her breath as she pulled her piece of wood closer.
Right. She could do this. Both Matty and Professor Truebridge thought so. With another sweep of her wand across the wood, Mia once again said the incantation. "Intaglio...Thurisaz...Thurisaz...Thurisaz...Thuri saz...Thuris...oh hey!" She said looking down at her piece of wood. "I think I did it."
Okay so it was really faint and you had to squint to see it but it was there, she was sure of it.
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"Hey I'll take any points I can get."
*Looking at it Matty could sort of see a faint outline of the rune. It was really hard to see but the fact that Mia had tried and saw some success was the point. He smiled and nodded.*
"You got it! Wicked job Mia. Try another..."
"I like that Firefighter Salander..." he smirked, and flexed his arms this way and that goofily. He snickered when Mia said they were overreacting and points to the Hufflepuff boy "He's right, I'll take whatever point increase I can get too."He looks at the boy, and does the Saylen squint. He doesnt remember ever meeting him before other than this class "You gotta name kid?"
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"Make sure the classroom is as clean and tidy as it was when you arrived before you leave, Salander." Truebridge added as he walked over to the next table.
His eyes suddenly shifts back at the Professor "Will do Professor Truebridge." he replied, grimacing at their work area. Yup add Janitor Salander to that list of titles...
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Marie had no sooner shoved Salander and Professor Truebridge was there telling her to sit down, get to work and to... apologize to Sal. "But he sprayed water in my face. Why should I apologize to him?" She said still not realizing that it had all been an accident.
Feeling the tears start to sting her eyes she started to sit down. It was then that she realized she had actually knocked Sal to the ground. Oops, she didn't mean to shove him that hard. Guess he'll know not to spray her with water again though. Even though she was about to lose it and start crying at any minute now, she couldn't help when a small smile started to appear on her face as she watched Salander pull himself off the ground. Oh, and he was apologizing to her. Crud, that meant she should apologize too didn't it. "I'm sorry too... for knocking you on your bum." She still wasn't sorry for using him as a towel though. He deserved that since he was the one that got her wet.
Hearing Sal's next words though made her look at the boy like he was nuts. "Vacuum me up. Nah, I'll just use your robes some more." She said as she reached out and grabbed his robes to dry herself off a little better. "There all dry." She said letting go of his robes. "You can do something about this though." She said pointing to her hair that was still a little wet in the front.
Hearing Truebridge as he continued to walk around the room Marie decided she better actually do something here. Maybe the class would go faster if she did the work instead of sitting there moping and wishing for it to be over. Grabbing the goggles that Sal tried handing her earlier she finally put them on. She then pulled on the gloves... after removing her wand from its holster, and grabbed the semi-dry piece of wood laying there. Okay now, what was the incantation she was supposed to use. Being in her little mood she had totally missed what the instructions were. Not wanting to call the professor back over for fear of him taking points away for not paying attention she decided to just watch the others for a few minutes.
After seeing some of the other students complete the task she grabbed her wand and the piece of wood again. This was going to be easy. She was good with her wand... that wasn't the problem in this class. How the runes actually work, now there was the problem. Pointing her wand at the wood she began. "Intaglio Perthro Perthro Perthro Perthro Perthro..." She repeated as she traced her wand along the wood in the shape of the rune. Looking at the finished product in front of her she felt pretty good that she got it done on the first try.
Looks like she got done just in time too since they were now moving on to the next method of doing this. She listened as Truebridge explained. Then asked what a... galdr was. Ha, she knew that one. That was that crazy word Jimmy had taught her about in their last study session. Raising her hand she said, "A galdr is when you sing to the rune, like... chant the magic and activate whatever channel the magic is intended to flow through. Its Old Norse. Means Incantation, or spell." Now if only Jimmy was still in class he would know that she had been listening to him and that he was a good tutor.
Huh, how was a galdr the same as intaglio? "Um, with both you need a clear intent to cast the spell along with repeating the incantation over and over." Yeah, that one she wasn't so sure about. She hadn't gotten that far in her study sessions with James yet.
... and Towel Boy. At least as far as Marie was concerned.
He stood a little firmer now as Marie used his robes again as a towel. Then she pointed to the front part her hair that was still damp. Salander hesitated, not quite sure what a blow-dryer spell would be, but "Ok I'll dry that up-- Tergeo!" he cast as the spell sucked up the rest of the dampness from her hair-- and left it standing up.
Theres something about Marie innit?
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Truebridge looked around. It looked like most students had got the hang of that method.
"The next method does not use wands, so for those of you who are done practicing the Intaglio method, please holster your wand and listen."
Truebridge started with a question,
"Can anyone explain what a 'galdr' is?".
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"Much better with the carving and the spell." Truebridge approved and then nodded again. "Yes it is. Though it is only truly 'arcane' until you learn more about it."
So.
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
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Salander hadnt a clue what a galdr was other than the fact that it got the lad thinking about flying all of a sudden. When it was explained he looked up at the glowing runes around the classroom. Wow.... are they supposed to make their little wooden carvings glow like that?
His eyes returned to the Professor when he asked the next question. Huh."Well, Intaglio is a spell that carves the rune onto the wood.... so singing a galdr probably does the same thing-- grates the runes onto the wood."
Well all that singing will be grating on someones' nerves alright.
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Luin sat in the front of class, listening to th professor. As she looked through Chapter 5, at the runes, she quickly memorized all of the runes and their meanings. She though about which she would want to carve, deciding on Kenaz mainly because of the magical use of it being a study aid. She put on a pair of gloves and goggles when the professor instructed them to do so and start to try to carve the rune into the block, "Intaglio Kenaz kenaz kenaz kenaz..." after awhile she had the rune on there, although she took a few tries to get it perfect. She then holstered her wand, hastily writing down the meaning of the word galdr as the other students answered. That was one thing she didn't know and she would have to go back and make sure she had it down soon. Luin's hand went up almost as soon as the question was asked, as she was eager to have a good impression on all of her teachers, "As with Intaglio, there is a repetition involved and you have to focus on what your purpose is."
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"Not always beautifully." Truebridge murmured, "If the magic invoked is malevolent, the beauty of its form is irrelevant." Much like women really.
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Malevolent magic. No, she supposed those wouldn't be beautiful, but hers wasn't violent, so maybe it did have beauty. It totally did. "Thanks, professor." She turned back to her own rune, about to start a new one, when Sabel asked a question.
His question was interesting, and she listened to Truebridge as he explained why the rune, for the most part, had to retain it's original form. It was interesting to say the least, and though she enjoyed carving runes, she didn't care as much about discussing them, even though she also knew they would eventually get to that during the lesson. So turning away from both men, she worked on another rune, having more success with it than her previous rune.
It was when she heard the instructions to holster her wand that her her breaking her concentration and looking towards the front of class. Wand sliding neatly into her wrist holster and being replaced with her quill.
Ah. Her came the discussion. Listening to the discussion that she wasn't well-versed in, she scribbled notes in her journal. Eyes going to Ivory when she gave a response. Totally gonna be study buddies.
Tilting his head to the side, Sabel listened to Truebridge's reasoning and point. It was very valid and deadly true. One of the best ways to hide ill intent was to make it appear beautiful. A lot of creatures did it, some of the most beautiful being the most poisonous, so it only made sense that humans had adopted that practice and idea and put it to use. Either way, Arya's rune was still very beautiful in his opinion.
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"If it's recognizably the right rune then you are fine. The forms have been around since antiquity so there is less room for personal interpretation, particularly on those runes which are quite similar to others. Some prefer to draw them with a longer stave -that is, draw the main vertical lines longer- and others like them shorter. And too, we will cover in another lesson the concept of staveless runes. To be safe, start with your runes as close to the textbook as possible, but as long as it's recognizably the right rune, with vertical and horizontal lines making up it's form, you will be fine. The effectiveness is certainly based more on intent, and yet the form is still important, just as a wand movement is an important element to a spell." Truebridge answered.
His eyes were back to his own rune as the Professor explained the form and the weight behind it. Nodding slowly, he traced both the jagged and curved lines of the imposed carving on his piece of wood. "Always has to be some aspect of the true form, even if it is just a shadow." Sabel mused, tracing a finger over the carving before glancing up at Truebridge; so Plato did come in handy every now and then. "Thank you Professor, that helps a great deal."
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So.
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
Drawing his eyes back to his rune, he considered it's gnarled form before flipping the wood over for a fresh surface. There was slight disappointment that they would still be using a spell to carve again, rather than a muggle carving tool. But then again, he didn't suppose putting switchblades in the hands of young students exactly followed school protocols of safety.
Tucking his wand away, he couldn't help but smile at hearing the spell was much like a song. His eyes flicked to Arya with memory as he gave her a little nudge with his elbow. Perhaps they could sing together, like they did before. At least they had practiced tuning their voices.
He had to pull his attention away from her to glance up at Truebridge in consideration of the question. Answering with a response about creating the correct form, or a decently similar one to the original, as Truebridge had explained to him didn't seem like the grandest idea though the point was valid. Still he raised his hand to forward a similar, yet slightly different idea. "You still have to create the image. Although it's through a mental projection by which you trace the lines in your mind's eye, the practice of the movement and its pattern is the same as the movement of your wand when preforming Intaglio."
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"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
Freya looked up from her craved Rune to the Professor. He asked about what? The similarity between galdr and Intaglio spell? She raised her hand before she answer the Professor question "I think the similarity between the two of them are they both depend by the the repetition of intent?" she wasn't pretty sure with her answer and now she could feel her head hurts because she think to much. Runes definitely not her things.
Emmy raised her hand tentatively.
"Um, well, the repeating of the rune's name over and over is something like a chant, and a galdr is a chant...? Is that right?" she finished nervously.
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