Jaina held here green, black, and yellow stick. She poised her wand above the start of the 2 and recited "Fortunus lignum." while tracing it. Nothing happened. She concentrated some more on it and repeated tracing it again while saying "Fortunus lignum." The number began to glow over where Jaina had traced. "YES!" She brought her stick up to the professor to show her hard work---and yes, it had been hard for her! "Professor, here is my Chieng Tung stick if you'd like to review it before I leave." Jaina smiled because she was very proud of it!

Finished with his decorating, Simon repeated the two words over in his head a few times as he studied the stick before finally picking his wand back up. "Fortunus lignum" he said as he traced his stick from tip to tip with the end of his wand. The wood responding properly with the magic the spell gave of so he knew he had done it properly.

Deciding to keep it like many of his other classroom sovenirs, Simon pack up his belongings into his book bag resting the stick on top for safe keeping. The he got up and walked to the front, picking up a copy of the homework assignment and glancing at it briefly. "Thanks for the lesson professor," he replied before filing out of the room.

As the Arithmancy Professor told them all that about the Number Vibration magic, Riley sat there staring at his stick dumbly. 'It wasn't magical? It sure looks magical, switching back and forth from green to purple, like that. Hmmm..' that seemed pretty right to him. Then what she had set clicked in his mind.

'Ohhh, different type of magic.' he thought to himself, embarassed. He touched his wand to his magical-looking stick and then traced the number 3 while saying the incantation she had explained to them. "Fortunus lignum." Now it was supposed to pich things for him...and it was Magical!!!

As the Professor spoke about meanings, Spike got completely and utterly lost...and instead watched the changing colour of his stick. 'Flashing' was overstating the effect somewhat, but it was going from black to green and that was an achievement. However slowly the green appeared...

He tuned back into the Professor at the word homework. He pulled a face. Didn't the teachers realise there were so many more exciting things to be doing at Hogwarts than homework? He still had hide and seek to play, and a giant squid to tickle!

Meh.

AND he apparently had to do another spell on his stick. Picking up his wand, Spike spied the end which had the number he'd drawn on it. The eight was only visible whilst the colour was green, which meant waiting a fair while for the black to disappear. Dum-de-dummmm... "Fortunus lignum," he said, tracing the curved lines, carefully.

Did it glow? Or was that just the shade of green getting lighter as the black faded away? Hmmmm...

Well, that was good news. As long as Professor Hadley was sure that nothing would explode, Kurumi felt confident enough to just perform the benign spell on her stick. Looking around, other students had begun to glow or sparkle as the spell was performed properly. What would hers do? Maybe the ribbons would spin around?

Picking up her wand once more, Kurumi pointed it at her stick and she slowly and carefully traced the number three she had etched into it. "Fortunus lignum," she said in a nervous but stead voice. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, well, her wand did begin to glow a pale pink and the silver chain she had wrapped around it began to sparkle more brightly like the milky way. Taking that as a sign that she had accomplished the task, Kurumi beamed and looking up when the Professor spoke again.
Oh! How fun! Perhaps this gave her the opportunity share some more of her Japanese heritage with others. She had always enjoyed visiting shrines and using Chieng Tung - it only cost 100 yen to do so.

Gathering up her things, Kurumi picked up a Chieng Tung set, making sure Professor Hadley saw her do so, before adding it to the contents of her bag. "Thank you for today's lesson, Professor," Kurumi said as she zipped up her bag. Now it was a matter of finding some one to do the homework with. Waving farewell, Kurumi began to make her way out the door.

Oh yey! She was deffinatly keeping hers!
She put her stuff in her bag (including her newly decorated stick) and picked up the homework on the way out.
"Thanks and Bye professor." she smiled as she left. Arithmancy didn't seem as hard as she had first though. In fact, it could even be classed as fun. They had decorated sticks!

"Hmm?" Ellie said looking up to see Hadley. Well. Heh. She shoulda figured it was her, you know? No one else would approach Ellie as 'Miss Stone'. Which...she didn't really like anyone doing. It was just...formal. But, in class, she'd let it slide. Out of class, though, she'd want to be 'Ellie'. For sure.

"I just don't..." Get the point. Yeah. OR get HOW a STICK was supposed to ANSWER a question. Ludicrous.

She looked up at the professor and smiled, "No, I'm good."

Fib. Not a lie. Fib. There was a difference.

Okay. Good. He understood the first part. And then...blinked. Yes, he blinked, when she started on the stages of life or whatever. Arithmancy was complicated, thankfully Arya was writing it all down, no?

Hadley was right, though, this stick looked no more than a mere stick, a stick he could poke Jake with, haha, but they needed it to be magical? Hmmm, were exactly did the numbers thing happen to appear?

He started to think that perhaps he'd made the wrong choice by deciding on Arithmancy in his fourth year, maybe it was too late, but then...ooooh, a spell? Yeah, he liked spells, he was up for that. 'Fortunus lignum'? Yes, he could do that, doesn't seem too complicated, right?

And so, he did, the boy whispered "Fortunus lignum" and traced the wand over the golden part that held the number...and blinked a bit, well, he was doing a lot of blinking in this class, he was certain that was not a good thing. He thought he saw something sparkle...but then shook his head. He was probably tired anyway.

Or...wait a minute...that was supposed to happen. Oh, well, okay.

And...now they dismissed? What ever happened to the numbers, eh, Hadley? Well, he was done with decoration, like, for the rest of the year, he was free to go. "See you around, Professor," he said, with a nod, after grabbing his bag and almost taking Arya's notes with him and taking a copy of the homework along with his decorated stick.

Mmmmhmmm. Yeah, he was out.

Raven copied the homework written in the board, and back his wand into the holster and into the bag, together with the chien tung stick near him, he knows Professor notice everyone grabbing a set or two.
"no problem with the partners, we have common room, I'll just hang in there" Raven think it the best ways

for now time to gather all his mess, and get out quickly "Thanks for the lesson, Professor, good day again" Raven say it before he march up toward the exit

"Oh cool," Sakura said before turning back to her stick. Now to do that spell...

"Fortunus Lignum," Sakura whispered, following the Professors instructions to a tee. She didn't know if the spell had worked yet, it probably had, and if it hadn't well that was too bad. But she was going to assume that it had.

Class was over? Sadness.

Sakura hurriedly put everything back into her bag before getting up and grabbing the homework. "Great lesson professor," Sakura said as she bounced past the woman.

"Huh," Jake responded, not as a question but in a 'well whadya know about that' kind of way. He nodded and stood, packing his stuff away. Once the young man had hold of the assignment, he stopped.

And sighed.

And left.

The speelllll!

And they get to use even more magic. Which was rather strange to Evelyn, considering she was kinda looking forward to the 'no magic but logic' subject. No matter. At least this wasn't Transfiguration, and she mostly used Charms spells. Wooot!

"Fortunus lignum." she said, tracing her wand over the number seven she had created at the top of her flashing Slytherin candy cane looking stick. Hmmm, no go? Well then...she'll just have to try it...

AGAIN!

...

Aw there we go. The glow-y looking thing the professor was talking about. Hmm yea, she should've said that before hand, but thank Merlin she did! Otherwise the Slytherin would have left it as is after the first try.

And they could leave?

Huh. It seemed like a short lesson, but then again, it was fun. So it could just SEEM short, but in reality, they could've been here for like six hours!

Perhaps not that long, but it could happen!

Packing up her notebook, and her quill and ink, she slid the stick into a safe little place in her bag before placing her wand back into her wrist holster. Mwa! Done. Standing up, she slung the bag over her should before pushing in her seat and making her way over to grab a copy of the homework assignment and...a set. Bleh. Set of sticks. Pffft.

"Goodbye, Professor Hadley." she smiled, before moving out the door and going...wherever she was going.

Smiling brightly, his Fortune Stick twinkling just as brightly, Patroclus began to pack his things into his bag, before getting up and retrieve a Chien Tung set from the Professor, "Thanks for these," he gestured to the set, "And also for a really great lesson!"

It had started off a little bumpy, but the lesson had to Patroclus been one of his favourite lesson for Arthimancy!

Returning to his desk and packing the sticks, he grabbed his bag and the Prefect headed to the door!

Emily looked down at her stick, she had noticed her number give a faint glow, but she wasn't entirely sure because of the way the light bounced off her shimmering number. Nonetheless, she had faith in her abilities and popped her stick in her bag.

The lessons over already, she thought to herself as she copied down the homework. After a moment she placed her belongings in her bag and went to collect a set of sticks from the classroom before leaving.
"Thanks for the lesson Professor", she said as she left the room.

Alright, so now it is time to add the magic touch then, Chloe thought and with a wave of her wand said, "Fortunus lignum", and with a bit of concentration she got her glowing desired result. She saw the number 9 on her stick glow like stars in the nu=ight sky and then fade back to normal. It was beautiful:

Herminny then heard the professor say class had come to an end and assigned homework. She cringed slightly hearing it was a partner assignment but let that pass. She would worry about finding someone later. She did have a whole week to do it. So Chloe just gathered her things and as she passed the professor on the way out said, "Thanks for a a great lesson", and headed out to the grounds to relax.

Salander nodded silently and stared back down on the slim rod. Did it glow? It may have, but then again he wasnt entirely sure. He repeated the spell as he flicked his wand over the number "Fortunus lignum!" This time he noticed the silvery six glowing brightly then dimmed down slightly into a more subdued hue.



As he swung his messenger bag over his shoulder, he picked up a copy of his homework and gave it a once over Hmm looks like I'm gonna have to find a partner... He nodded his head at the Professor then left the room.

"Fortunus Lignum."

Elle focused and traced the numbers with her wand. She hoped she was doing it the right way.