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Arithmancy One: Introduction to Spell Numerization & Basic Curse-Breaking
The room was breezy, which wouldn't have been terribly strange for the November day except that the windows closed. Having just finished rearranging the desks for about the fifth time that morning, Professor Hadley settled on having the desks pushed together in pairs.
Resting her backside against her own desk, she was flipping through the latest copy of Numbers and You as she waited the arrival of the students.
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"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
Nora stared at all those numbers, and she finally raised her hand when she had an answer in mind. "Four and seven are in some way related, aren't they? Four is all about hard work, and seven is about... intelligence, but still, hard work." Was that right?
"So... forty seven indicates something between the two." If that made any sense.
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Gideon listened to what was being said, taking notes on certain things and all around trying to make sense of it all. At her last question, the Gryffindor mulled it over before raising his hand and answering. "Would it be a combination of the two numbers, 4 and 7....or a reduction of the number to its simply for which would be 2? " He questioned, not sure which way she meannt it to be derieved. "If the latter then it would involve harmony and relationships."
"Could the number 47 possibly use characteristics from 4 and 7 such as hard work and research? It seems to be a number that theorists would find most helpful." Cael truthfully had no idea, but he hoped he didn't sound like a complete idiot.
Ira raised her hand and answered, "Ma'am, should we take 47 as a combo of 4 and 7 or should we add it up till we get to the single digit number, like in this case, 4+7=11, then 1+1=2...so our final interpretation should be based on 2? If that is so, then maybe 47 represents same characteristics as 2 i.e. Harmony, unity, relationships, collaboration and duality"
"Quite right, all of you are!" Josephina beamed, making mental notes of the students who answered.
"Oh it's fine. Just see that you remember it next time, so no, i won't not take points away just because of that slip of the tongue." Fina frowned. Seriously, was he trying to SHRUG OFF not getting enough sleep? That was his own fault. Not hers.
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"Right, almost. Except I think your characteristics are ones that refer to the number four, not the number three."
"Yours what?" Hadley frowned. "We're not discussing numbers and relating them to YOU." Honestly. Slytherins. Were they so conceited that they thought EVERYTHING was about them? "Generic numbers. And their characteristics."
Flicking her wand, the list from their book with the numbers appeared on the board with a few additions
"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
William raised his hand. " I think you must add 4 and 7 together to make the number 11.This Then add 1 plus 1 which equals 2" William told the professor. " The number 2 represents relationships, harmony and human magic' Willaim explained to the professor.
Erin raised her hand feeling a little worried if her answer would be right. She'd met with Professor Hadley before, but the classroom is different. She smiled at her and started at once, "I think, we need to add up numbers 4 and 7, Professor. We are provided with the designated meaning of numbers 0 through 9 and so to come up with 1 single digit, we need to add two or more digits on and on until we get one single unified digit. The meaning of 47 would be that of number 2. We add 47 together and we get 11. We add the digits again and we get 2."
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Kurumi sat back a bit as numbers and what not were discussed. It was probably best to let the newer students answer these bits, right? Not to mention Kurumi was still a little traumatized from the slight eyebrow raise from answer. Besides, up to now had been mostly review.
Kurumi cocked her head to the side. Two digit numbers? Up until now they had always been told to reduce the numbers to a single digit, but that didn't seem to be the case this time around. Since people were already discussing adding and subtracting the numbers, even combining the meanings, Kurumi opted to think of something else - especially since they had just been discussing PEMAS. "Perhaps," Kurumi said when it was her turn. "You first examine the multiples of the numbers? In this case, 47 is a prime number and can only be divisible by itself and one, so it takes on the meaning of one? Or perhaps the fact that it is a prime number implies something?" She rubbed the back of her neck as she thought some more. "Say we had 45 instead of 47, then perhaps it has the characteristics of 5 and 8?"
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"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
Corey was staring at the professor in precisely the way that you did if you thought someone was a bit crazy and might do something weird or interesting if you watched them for long enough. This was supposed to be an introduction?
Luckily he had a grip on the theory, and wasn't this class pretty much all theory?
"Aren't all numbers in Arithmancy reduced except where they're master numbers, Ma'am?" He stuck his hand up and it sort of hovered there a bit.
"So instead of Four and Seven being the numbers to look at, You add them together and you get Eleven, and that is a master number so you don't really need to reduce it again. Well you can, but you have to take into account what Eleven means first, because its like, higher functioning and greater expectation and stuff. Eleven means vision and light aaaand.... being uplifting and inspiring and guiding people and stuff. And not working from a place of selfishness." So it was a bad number for Slytherins.
Other than that, 47 was the number for silver right? And a prime number.
Simon just sat there he was as confused as anyone could be, why he kept coming to these lessons he didn't know, he was never going to be any good at it so maybe he should just give up and nap in these classes, though what Professor Hadley would say he had no idea.
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Penny thought about 47 for a few minutes, putting her hand in the air .."Professor, the 47 would be reduced to a single digit..... 4+7=11 and 1+1=2" Penny consulted her textbook and then continued..
"The Number 2 means Harmony, unity, relationships, collaboration
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Josh, busy with eyeing the numbers and their meanings or whatever they represent on the borard, did not look away even the other students had started to answer the Arithmancy professor's question. He was merely thinking that he rather liked the number one and number five on that board. But he knew unfortunately it never meant he would get what he liked.
Eh...
Finally looking at the professor, the Gryffindor decided to express his thoughts about the question as well ''I think it is either the meaning on the number we get by reducing it to a single digit or the meaning that we get after combining what the two numbers represent, maybe taking out those qualities that do not match or fit well each other...which is rather hard to figure out since there's no negative meanings on the board.''
Did that make sense? Eh...yes or no, it was his opinion and he was proud of it.
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"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
Jory stared at the numbers thinking hard. He raised his hand. ''Uh, Professor, would we take the respective meaning for 4 and 7 and combine them? Like hard working researcher?''
Jory had no idea if he was on the right track.
"Quite right, all of you are!" Josephina beamed, making mental notes of the students who answered.
"Oh it's fine. Just see that you remember it next time, so no, i won't not take points away just because of that slip of the tongue." Fina frowned. Seriously, was he trying to SHRUG OFF not getting enough sleep? That was his own fault. Not hers.
ooc: it's only five points. As long you keep participating as you're doing, I wouldn't fret over it =)
"Right, almost. Except I think your characteristics are ones that refer to the number four, not the number three."
"Yours what?" Hadley frowned. "We're not discussing numbers and relating them to YOU." Honestly. Slytherins. Were they so conceited that they thought EVERYTHING was about them? "Generic numbers. And their characteristics."
Flicking her wand, the list from their book with the numbers appeared on the board with a few additions
"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
47... Hmm... Janice raised her hand hesitantly, and answered.
"Could we, like, combine the meanings? Well, not combine, but taking shared meanings from those numbers. Like, uhm, practicality, research, sober-mindedness and mysticism?" That couldn't be the answer, she thought. Impossible.
Selina looked intensely at the list that her Professor had just riddled off. How could 47 fit into that list? Well she could do a couple of things. She could add up the four and the seven to get eleven. Then from there she could add one plus one together and get two. That would give her the answer of unity and such that went along with two.
Or she could just do four and seven separately and give both of her findings, "Ma'am? You can either interpret it as two because of the addition of four and seven and so on. Or you could just do four and seven separately and combine the findings.
Jesifur looked at the list and read what was said for the numbers 4 and 7. Well, that sounded a lot like her. She always liked the number 47. She always liked math. She hoped she would catch on to the Arithmancy thing...
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"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number. [/COLOR]
Then Raven tried to answer the question, she raised up her hand.
"If I'm not mistaken, we need to add the combination of the number. For example like 47, so 4+7= 11. But... 11 is also a combination, right?"
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"Good, except ... remember that something disgusting to one person, might be yummy to another. But it works." Hadley told the young Puff. She liked Amethyst already.
Amethyst nodded, having understood what the professor was saying. After all, One man's Trash is another man's Treasure.
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"Okay. Keep your mnemonics aside for future lessons. We won't be needing them more for this lesson, but I thought that was a nice exercise to get you all thinking..." Because they were going to need it for the next part of the lesson, which was admittedly more challenging. And she had promised they would need their wands, so she best not prolong the second part of her lesson and make it her second lesson.
"Numbers have various characteristics associated with them. You'll find these located in a neat little number chart in chapter three of your textbook. Can someone please tell me the characteristics of ONE number between zero and nine?" This was important for the next part.
Amethyst raised her hand up high. She was going to pick a number no one had said. Four. "Professor, the number 4's characteristics are building, formation, and hard work." She liked the number four. It was very...'Puff-like!
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Flicking her wand, the list from their book with the numbers appeared on the board with a few additions
"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
"Well, Professor," She began, softly, and shyly, "The number four, as I said earlier had the characteristics of building, formation, and hard work. The number seven's characteristics are analysis, research, wisdom, and magic. Maybe, the number Forty-Seven will result in the combination of the characteristics?" In her head, it made sense. Whether or not all of the characteristics would be shared, she didn't know.
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"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number. [/COLOR]
Louisa listened intently as the professor asked the question. Hmm. The logic thing to answer was what most people had already said. She raised her hand anyway, "I guess we can combine the characteristics of the two single digits?" Yeah, she really had no idea whether this sounded lame or not, it was just the right thing to do.
"The exponents you don't really have to worry about for Arithmancy sake. But the parentheses you do. Sometimes, parts of an equation are in parentheses," Hadley explained, as patiently as she could. "So when parts are in parentheses, that component of the equation, you solve first."
Make sense?
Why did Ellie seem so dumbfounded right now and they weren't even dealing with numbers yet? It was simply words? Strange girl.
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Flicking her wand, the list from their book with the numbers appeared on the board with a few additions
"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
Why were they talking about them, then? This was the same thing that happened when people tried learning things from books. They're filled with things that are totally unimportant to what you want to know. Hadley was like a walking BOOK.
Ellie will be keeping a closer eye on this Professor from now on. Just in case she morphed into her true book form and tried to EAT her.
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THIS. This she knew. "You add them together, the four and the seven. It'd make eleven. And since eleven's an uber special, really awesome number, you don't reduce it anymore." And you could find whatever eleven meant in the textbook. Ellie didn't know offhand, and wasn't going to pull out the book unless it was COMPLETELY necessary. Which she was sure it wasn't, because she was positive she didn't need to tell Hadley what that special number meant. Hadley probably had the book memorized. OR her true form was an Arithmancy textbook. Either way, Ellie needn't waste breathe explaining what the Professor already knew.
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"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
Oh Marie knew this one, or at least she thought she did. With her hand in the air she voiced her answer. "With a number like 47 you would add together the 4 and 7 and come up with 11. Since 11 is one of the Master Numbers you leave it as that and do not break it down any further. The number 11 has the meaning of: Master of Illumination, the inspirational messenger, the number of light; one who raises consciousness, reformer of world problems, wants to uplift others, inspires by teaching own truth."
Yep, that's the way she seen it so that meant it was true... right?
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Uh, what? Tori had gotten the first part up til now but now they were going into TWO digit numbers?
"Don't you have to reduce the numbers first, professor, like do 4 + 7 so that you get 11? And then you look at whatever the book says for 11?"
This class contained too much referencing of textbooks for Tori's liking.
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"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
Marilyn raised her hand, "You simply add them together...The 4 plus 7 equals 11...And because 11 is, indeed, a Master number, you do not break it down further."
There were a few Master numbers, as well...Would they also be giving characteristics for them? Flipping to that page, she looked over the material...just in case.
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"Oh it's fine. Just see that you remember it next time, so no, i won't not take points away just because of that slip of the tongue." Fina frowned. Seriously, was he trying to SHRUG OFF not getting enough sleep? That was his own fault. Not hers.
ooc: it's only five points. As long you keep participating as you're doing, I wouldn't fret over it =)
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Flicking her wand, the list from their book with the numbers appeared on the board with a few additions
"Ultimately this list contains the essential characteristics of each of the numbers zero through nine. As such, what might this indicate for a combination of numbers such as 47?" Fina asked. Nice random, two digit number.
"Is the combination of the characteristics of the numbers 4 and 7.
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