This was Audrey's favorite class. Just as she had years before, she started copying down the runes. Obviously, she knew the answer. And the answer was simple.

"Well sir, that is the Elder Futhark, the runes alphabet that is named after old, as it has been around a long time, and Futhark, the first six letters in the alphabet," Audrey smartly said. Not in the bad way. In the good way. Cause she was smart. Very smart.

Right. She'd came, saw, and conquered, and now she was just ready to sit back down again. Or better yet--leave. She was still unsure about this man, and so she eyed him briefly before turning to head back to her seat.

...but then the swish swish of her clothes caused her to suddenly glance down, realizing that the man had indeed changed her clothing into a Viking costume. Ugh! She'd specifically said she was just fine with her regular school uniform, not that she wanted a Viking costume in her school uniform colors!

"Ugh!" she protested.

"The Elder Futhark," she mumbled unhappily, as she stalked back to her seat.

Yay! Ariana was a Viking! Without a beard! Professor Christiansen was by far the best one. Except for Shaw, but that was just 'cause he had a chainsaw
Oh... she was kind of wrong though... *blush* Oh well, take the advice and move on! Now, the table of runes... looked like the Elder Futhark to her, so that was what she said.
"That alphabet is called the Elder Futhark." Nice and simple!

Samira stared as all the other students turned into Vikings. Uh uh. Nooooo way. Samira was not wearing that. Hopefully, the professor would overlook her.

"Elder Futhark," said Samira simply, in answer to the question. She slunk back quietly, hoping he wouldn't notice her.

When his wand had landed on "Ancient Runes" while choosing his electives at the end of last year, Sally had a moment of fear that it was going to be a difficult class. However, as he sat in the lesson, trying not to be caught staring at the Professor's suspiciously light eyelashes (he had to be a Death Eater with those lashes), he was pleased to also realize that this was turning into a walk-through subject.

What with all these random twig-like doodlings and made-up words, Sally was entirely over-confident in the fact that he would pass the year with flying colours. No doubt about it.

Now, back to those creepy lashes....

Anasta Lora Riddle wants to be Viking, she comes before Tristan Christiansen and tells: "Sowulo (Sauil, Sigil, Sowelu) . It is the Sun as life force with moon force integrity and
a victory, glory and success in plans are the basic meaning of this rune".

Nooooonononononooo. NO.

Ellie did NOT want to be a damn viking lady. Not at ALL. -_________-

She examined her new costume with a distasteful look. Ellie raised her hand and spoke up before the professor could call on her. "Excuse me? Professor?" Or Minister of Norwegian Magic or whatever the heck he was. "I'd rather not be a viking lady. This costume is far too... revealing for my taste." Ellie said in a rather mocking tone. Seriously, did anyone else see how low-cut the neckline was?

Tayla gave a soft 'oh' when Professor Christiansen transfigured her clothes to a viking princess costume. She chuckled. "This isn't so bad after all. It's actually pretty!" she thought, happy that she had answered the question. She had brought her father's old Muggle celphone and decided she'd take a picture of herself when she got back to her dormitory - and then change quickly.

Tayla watched as the professor drew. It was the runic alphabet. She raised her hand and answered the question. "That alphabet is called the 'futhark'. And this version looks like the Elder Futhark."

Nooo not really.Why did they have to wear this horrible costumes?Serioulsy Fee loved ancient runes,it was her fave subject but still this was too much.How could this new teacher make her wear this?The blonde didnt look fashionable in it at all.Arrrghhh. It was really hard not to glare at the professeor right now but Fee didnt want to make a bad first impression.

Sighing she looked down on herself and shook her head.It was just for the lesson.

"Its called the Elder Futhrak he Elder Futhark or Elder Fuþark, Older Futhark or Old Futhark",the girl raised her hand,"and its the oldest form of the runic alphabet."

Sophie was sitting in the back of the room looking out the window when the noise and the moving of many feet made her come back to reality. The lioness prefect watched as Professor Christiansen from the Norwegian ministy transformed girls and boys into vikings. Sophie was pretty content in her unifrom so she didn't ask to get her clothes to transformed after the lesson moved. And besdies the lady viking costume was a bit too revealing which a Ravvie called Ellie Johansson soon pointed out.

Sophie doubted that Professor Christiansen would change the ravvies costume though. As an alphabet appeared on the blackboard the lioness prefect raise her hand saying softy. "The alphabet is called the Elder Futhark sir!"

Penny had been sitting at the back, wondering what on earth she was doing in this class....she had No idea what was going on, totally lost - and when the Professor asked questions, Penny wrote down the question on her parchment, filling in the answer when it was answered correctly...

She supposed (hoped) this class would get easier :-(

"Oh. Apologies." He said transfiguring her clothes back.

"Good. Elder Futhark. Very Correct." He said, "Why has alphabet been called Elder Futhark? Anyone Know? Ja?" He asked. "And other than for writing, what has runes been using for?"

Evelyn couldn't help but giggle quietly every time someone was turned into a viking. Especially Sierra, since the look on her face was less then amused. However, it was too soon where most of the class were vikings, and they were going on to the next questions.

Questions that she knew. Or at least understood what with his accent. Sorta. Maybe. "The alphabet is called Elder Futhark after the first six runes in the set. And...I suppose it's called Elder considering it was the first alphabet before it was simplified to the Younger Futhark." Probably not the first alphabet in the WORLD, but first...rune alphabet. If, that made any sense. "The runes have been known to be used for magical purposes as well. Like protection or...offense purposes." Just as examples. The whole 'divination' purpose of the runes, if there was one, made no sense to her really.

Again, she raised her hand, "It's called Elder Futhark because it is named after the initials first six letters namely: F, U, Th, A, R and K. There's also a Younger Futhark, so probably it was called Elder to state that it is discovered earlier than the younger and that the Younger Futhark is based on the Elder Futhark."

"It's used for magical purposes too. And in ritual works, which is why they were written on stones at sacred places."

''If i'm not currect proffeser runes are used for writing,divination and magic'' said Luna brightly

Were they going to study the Elder Futhark runes again?

Anyway, it didn't matter, because Helena still loved the subject. She wasn't completely sure about his first question, but she raised her hand. "I think that the runes were initially a series of sounds, and the word 'rune' comes from 'run', which means whisper. Does this relate somehow to the reason it was called that way?" Maybe? Maybe not?

As for the second question... "Runes were used for amulets and charms, or as an oracle for divination, for magic, rituals and spells." She remembered this from her first year. Hehe.

And... there was something else. "Can I... have my uniform back as well? Please?" Helena asked nervously, blushing.

Raising her hand Stella said, "The alphabet is probably called like that because er..." she said pausing for a second, "because it's the oldest runic alphabet." Thinking for a moment what could be the uses of the runes, she said not very confident about herself, "They probably used them maybe for communication and for er... Holy rituals and ceremonies for their gods." It seemed to be a reasonable answer so maybe it is correct.

Savannah's not sure about the first question, but she thinks she knows the second one. "Runes are also used in divination too, other than writing." Savannah replied. And she guessed she should take a guess at the first question. "I am guessing that they're also called Futhak because they're the first letters of the alphabet? I heard something about that from my dad."

Carter raised his hand hoping NOT to get turned into a viking. "It's named after the first few letters symbols of the alphabet. And the fact that it's super old." he said. Which was weird. English would be referred to the ah-buh-kah-dah-ee-eff. He much preferred the word 'English.'

"The runes could be used for divination." he said recalling lessons from earlier terms.

They also made a pretty fun arts and crafts project. But he'd keep that bit to himself.

"Erm" Serena said "The first letters spell out Futhark I think and you can throw the runes to work out what's going to happen in the future. If they land facing backwards, they mean the opposite"

Jamie's head was hurting, which resulted in a kind of confused expression where his head was slightly tilted to the side. As he kept stroking his beard, the boy realized that he looked totally sophisticated.

"Is it called 'Elder' because it's old?" The oldest, he believed. Wherever the Furhark part came from, Jamie had no idea, so he stopped right there. Now, next question. ER, "they're used for all sorts of different things in the wizarding world." Somehow, he couldn't see muggles using it as thoroughly.

This lesson was hard.

Rosemary raised her hand, "The Elder Futhark is named so as it is named after the first six runes that it is comprised of and due to it being being the first Runic Alphabet.... Runes were used a s a way of communication, spell casting, fortune telling, holy rituals and sacred ceremonies for the Norse gods as well as using them for Divination."

Seeing as the various students were transformed into male and female vikings, the captain was certainly glad he had opted out of the change himself. Simon raised his hand to offer a use for the runes which they continued to study. "Its called the Elder Futhark because it is the original alphabet using the runes given which include the seven whose first letter make up futhark," he said trying to think of a option for the other half of the question. "Other then writting they can be used for magical purposes such as protection and healing charms," he answered before lowering his hand back to the desk.

"Professor Runes have been used to play games right?" Simon had no idea if it was true or not so he just winged it. "The Elder Futhark is so call because it was name after a person?" Simon just guessed again, hopefully he was right but he doubted it.

Nika was having a tough time understanding this guy. All she could here was "Ja" and the rest was weird sounds pushed together. Would it kill this guy to speak some English? She shook her head as a no to the question. Runes isn't Nika's best. She can live with that.