Messer was looking around for someone to tag too when suddenly someone tagged him from behind. He frowned. He should had been more careful. And now apparently he's an eight. "Hello, I'm Messer." he greeted the girl. Now, Messer need to find a day. Hmmm.."October 27th." he said.

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Then he saw a Gryffindor girl. She said she's a three so he can tag her. Slowly Messer made his way towards the girl. "Tag! You're an eight now." he poked the girl in her arm.

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Messer heard a whistle sound come from Professor Hadley. Was that mean the game was over? DARN! He went to sit on the floor because he's pretty tired from running and tagging. He didn't really notice any pattern among the numbers, so the first year just let the other students answering that question.

Ella took a seat on the floor, smiling happily. She had really enjoyed the game because it allowed her to practice as well as meet some new classmates. Ella raised her hand after hearing the question. "Well Professor, I noticed that there are multiple choices when trying to get to the same personal day number. For example, when I was trying to be an 8, I could use October 9th or October 27th." She put her hand down, not sure if that was what the Professor meant by pattern.

Yes, he had noticed the pattern, despite the fact that he had only been tagged twice. Both hands hit the air with practiced precision. "Professor Hadley, I think there are multiple days that will reduce down to the same Personal Day Number. I think every nine days will repeat the cycle over again of reducing to one, then two, and so on."

Because for him, October 1 would get him a 9, and then October 10 would be the same.

Sierra froze in place when she felt a slight poke on her back. She whirled around to face--some Puffer. She'd never seen him before. Ehh... "A seven," she said. "Alright..."

"Let's go with...October 7," she said.

9 + 7 = 16
1 + 6 = 7

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...and just as she'd been tagged and figured out a new date, a sharp whistle sounded throughout the room. Dear MERLIN! Was it quite necessary to do that?! Sierra felt like glaring at Hadley, but of course she refrained.

...and then she wanted them to have a seat on the floor? Oh this just kept getting better and better. THE FLOOR! Like a bunch of animals! Or a house elf one...

Nevertheless, Sierra took a seat then raised her hand. "I did," she said. "The number I started with was nine, and each time I was tagged by a different number, all I had to do was match the date to the number I'd been given. For example, I just got tagged by a seven, so I chose October 7. Nine plus seven is sixteen, and then when you add one plus six, you come up with seven--the number I got changed to."

Of course she hadn't always gone the easy route. "Another way to do it is to find two numbers that add up to the number you're trying to reach. If I wanted to get to seven, I could choose a date like October 25, because two plus five is seven. So then I can just add nine to seven, come up with sixteen again, and add one plus six to get to seven," she explained.

Ira turned to see what the sharp whistle was all about. It looked like Professor Hadley had enough of the game and had decided to end it. Finally!

Ira wasn't too tired from the game,to say the truth. because the actual; case was, she was the one who got to tag others, but rarely got tagged herself! So nope, she didn't have had a lot of calculations to do!

Then came the questions. Pattern among the calculations? Were there? Other than the fact that they had multiple choices as some other students had already answered? Ira was too busy tagging and being tagged and calculating to notice any pattern! But one thing she knew and she decided to say it. She raised her hand up and answered, "Professor, I just know one thing.. that there are multiple dates for the same number. That is every number repeats itself after.. 8.. no, 9 days. So this is a pattern, right?"

Alyssa was glad that the game was finally over because that just meant that it was back to the lesson proper. She listened as the Professor asked her question, thought for awhile before raising her hand.

"Professor, there was definitely some kind of pattern. I guess it has to do with us using the Pythagorean Method of calculation, which has a series of 9 numbers. Because we originally derived our Personal Month Number using that method of calculation, any calendar day we use that adds up to our specific number in that table will give us our Personal Day Number.

Like for example since my Personal Day Number is 6, I could use the Calendar day 8th, 17th or 26th and I would still end up with a Personal number of 6. The pattern I see here, is that as long as the calendar day number for me added up to 8, I would always end up with a Personal Day Number of 6." Alyssa ended her answer, hoping that it made sense.

Minerva laughed when Kurumi tagged her. "Ok I know what my day will be it will be the first. 1+3=4. " She knew she was being lazy with that calculation but she was getting a bit tired. She smiled and looked around for someone to tag.

She then heard Professor Hadley and stopped moving. Hmm she thought about the answer to the Professors question. Then she put her hand up. "Well professor since we put all numbers to single digits it is a constant repeating pattern from numbers 1-9."

Sophie sat down on the floor and raised her hand. "Well, since we only have up to 9 numbers, every other 9 days will be the same number we needed." that was pretty simple, wasn't it? Sophie wasn't sure if she had put it in a understandable way though. "I mean, my month number was 2, so if I got number four, for example, the day would be the 2nd, because 2 + 2 = 4." Obviously. "I could think of another day that, if I summed up the numbers, I'd get 2. Like 11th and 20th. Or I could just use the 9-day pattern I said before. 29th should work too, then."

She looked around. Did that make sense? Well, it did to Sophie, at least.

"Yes!" Josephina nodded at the first year. "There are indeed multiple days within a month that you'll get the same personal day number." Every nine days, to be precise. Which Ella semi-picked up given the fact that 27 and 9 were both divisible by 9.

"Yes, every nine days, the cycle repeats. That's correct." Fina said, when her captain said it more blatantly than the first year had.

"That depends on what your personal month number is though," Josephina said when Sierra suggested matching the date to the number given. "It might not always work out like that." But her second method was definitely more reliable.

She nodded when another girl commented about the multiple date thing and the every nine days.

And then when the Slytherin male said something similar about the nine-day cycles. Same thing as before. So she gave him a nod as well.

"Again, it would depend on your personal month number though. Because you add that number to the day, to get your personal day number, if you recall..." Fina reiterated, as she had to Sierra. It wouldn't be like that every month.

"Definitely," Fina nodded at the third year. "It's definitely related to the fact that Pythagorean number system uses the numbers one through nine!" It likely wouldn't be the same, after all, if they used the Chaldean method.

Josephina nodded at Minerva who basically said what was said before about the repeating pattern of the numbers one through nine.

Nine-day pattern. Yes. Good, Sophie understood the pattern as well. Fina nodded at the first year before she addressed the whole class again.

"So we have our nine-day pattern with the personal day numbers. One other thing I also mentioned at the beginning of the lesson was that your personal day numbers would have a stronger influence on those days where your number is the same as your soul urge or life path number." She paused, glancing at each of their faces. "As stated in your textbooks, this is because you're adding what is a subtle influence to what is already a stronger influence in your lives. Did any of you come across your life path number or soul urge number in your personal day number for today? If so, then would you mind sharing what you think this means for you today?" If no one had that occur today than she'd just give an arbitrary example.

Ella shrugged as she had not come across either number in her personal day number for today. She raised her hand to let the professor know. "I didn't come across either of them in my personal day number for today, Professor." She then sat quietly, waiting for an example of what that might mean for a person.

Louisa furrowed her eyebrows at all the nerds students that answered that encrypted question. Well. She didn't have a clue of a pattern. All she knew was she was glad not to be flat dead on the floor after all the creeping and shrieking TAG she got from ickle students. Heh.

Listening to Hadley, again, who seemed to speak English again. Louisa's face brightened as she hopped over to her pushed-aside desk and grabbed the parchment that had her calculations on. "Professor, I think my soul urge number and personal day number are the same. Six." Looking down at the description of both, the girl walked closer to the woman, "My soul urge number says that I tend to protect, nurture, and love my family and home." Internal snort. Louisa then moved her eyes down, "And the day number suggests that it is a day to pay attention to work, family, or home."

WHAO!

With a very wide eyes, she looked up at Hadley rather surprised, "I think... I should send an owl home?" Louisa never corresponded with her family basically because they weren't than interested with her magic school but now that those numbers are so creepily matching... she was getting a bit worried.

Minerva thought she wasn't sure.. "Well professor I was trying to find calculations to add to seven a lot during the game. The team seven kept tagging me a lot and my soul and life path number was seven. Does that have any relationship?"

As Stacy thought what her personal day number, she saw Ella raised her. Stacy decided to raised her hand and said, "Professor, I didn't come across my personal day number, either."

Sophie hadn't come across either of them either. So she just sat quietly, waiting for the others to answer, looking around as they spoke.

Had she come across a 7? It seemed that the 7 was both her Soul and Life number. She couldn't remember! Oops, she thought.

She raised her hand and said, "Sorry Professor, I don't remember if I came across a 7 or not, I was... having too much fun," she said. She was sorry she couldn't answer the question with something better.

Brain cells are fried here :dizzy:
 

Alyssa thought for a moment. That question really sounded complex and after that game her brain was starting to fade out, but she forced herself to think and come up with an answer that made sense to the Professor. So she raised her hand and answered.

"Professor, unfortunately, my Soul Urge and Life Path numbers weren't the same as my Personal Day number today. But, if my Personal Day number was the same as my Soul Urge Number which is 9, does that mean that for today, I should rely more on my intuition, and not allow my emotional needs and the need to help others, to cloud my judgment and prevent me from finishing what I need to do?"



"And if my Personal Day Number for today was the same as my Life Path number which is a 2, does that mean that for today, I should be more patient in what I'm doing and to attend to details more? That rushing through a task today is not a wise choice to make."

Kurumi had been too exhausted from all the running around to have answered the first set of questions after the activity and, well, Kurumi really couldn't contribute to the next bit. Her Personal Day Number had been a 5 and her Soul Urge Number was a 6 while her Life Path Number was an 8. Kurumi idly flipped through the textbook and skimmed over the descriptions a bit. You could make parallels with all of the descriptions in some way really. They were all connected in a sense. Kurumi raised her hand anyway.

"My numbers didn't match up, but my Personal Month Number was the same as my Soul Urge Number," she said with her head slightly cocked to the right. "When we were playing though, I got tagged more by the number 8 than any other number." At least it felt like that to the prefect. "I am not sure of what sort of connections could be made there, but perhaps the pull towards the number 8, which is my Life Path Number, is stronger." That...or there were just a lot of active 8's during the activity. "There are some strong connections with my Soul Urge Number and my Personal Month Number on the other hand."

Today just wasn't a lucky day in terms of the numbers.

Ah good! A brave student who had the same and even volunteered her information! "I think it could very well be intending that you should connect with your family. After all, families are not the world's curse, you know? Most are quite supportive of you, if you're willing to just let them into your life." Of course there were the occasional few bad apples, but yea.

"I think... this means that on days when your personal day number is seven, then you should pay close attention to those days..." It might be the point of something significant in the girl's life, after all.


"If that were the case, then yes, hypothetically, you should pay closer attention to what your life path or soul urge number are saying..." Fina nodded, as the third year went on into some lengthy explanations.

Ooh. Interesting point. "I think that the fact that your soul urge number is the same as your personal month detail is indeed significant. It might prove that this month, for some peculiar reasons, has potentials and energies that only you can feel... some that yes, relate to your inner desires... your motivations, driving you along that path we call... life." Yes, Kurumi was onto something by pointing out that personal month number; after all, just because it might not have been AS significant as the personal year number, didn't mean it was void of value or meaning. There was still potentials and energies.


Right. Example time. "So ... two days ago, on the 15th of the month, my Personal Day number was ONE. Which for those of you who don't know, a one personal day number is significant to being a day to begin things and to focus on oneself. I bring this up because it just so happens that my soul urge number is also one. So what did this mean for myself, two days ago?"

Alyssa quickly referred to her textbook before figuring what the meaning meant before raising her hand to answer.



"Professor does it mean that two days ago, you decided to pamper yourself for a change and you did something that you liked to do where you were in control, instead of doing something someone else wanted to do?" Alyssa hoped that her answer at least made sense.

Zhenya had a small think about what the Professor had said... what did it mean? She raised her hand to give an answer, "Professor, I know the Soul Urge number is sort of like your heart's desire, and because the number one Soul Urge number means you more want to work independently and in the lead. So, you can sort of see how that really works with your Personal Day number of one, as you said it means a day to begin things, focusing on yourself. So it almost seems like having the same Soul Urge as the Personal Day number strengthens the meaning of the Personal Day number," she said.

Sierra thought that one over then raised her hand. Both cases of having a number one seemed to point back to a person wanting to do things for themselves instead of thinking about others. Sounded like a plan to Sierra.

"Well, Professor, is there something you've been wanting to do--for yourself--but you've been holding off on for whatever reason?" she asked. "Maybe the number one in both places meant that the fifteenth was a good day to go ahead and get that done--to do something for yourself, you know."

Louisa nodded politely at the professor's... words of wisdom. In all honesty, the girl thought the professors were supposed to say such things to their students, it was probably a part of their contract or something. She didn't really pay attention to the sincerity of it. Hadley did not know her personally, did she? Nope. HOWEVER, the girl was going to send an owl... just for the fun of it.

As for Hadley's twosome number ones, HMMM. Louisa pondered that for a bit. Focusing on herself... the soul urge said she liked independence and all... well. "Maybe, professor, you got yourself a chance of a new life? Maybe one that doesn't involve sacrificing your time to others?" Pause at the lame guess. The Louisa started babbling again, "BUT you had to give away your responsibilities as a head of authority, which's what your soul urge number indicates that you love, and you didn't?" MERLINSMELLYPANTS DID ROSLUND PROPOSE ALREADY!? A tiny bouncy version of Louisa was freaking out in Louisa's head.

It was the closest thing she could think of... so...

Ira was done thinking about the soul urge number, destiny number, personal numbers and all of them! She didn't actually hate the subject, but by now she had reached a kind of saturation point with the numbers.

She listened to the professor explain each student and nodded her head as a question was asked. To say the least, by now Ira was becoming a bit confused with all these numbers! So, she decided that instead of saying something foolish, she better keep quiet and let others answer. She could always take notes, whenever needed.

Minerva thought for a second and then put her hand up. "Professor two days ago maybe you shut your office door and instead of dealing with all our problems you took a break and did something to distress and make yourself happy."

After consulting her text book, Ella raised her hand hesitantly. She wasn't quite sure how to put this. "Well since both have to do with you focusing on-well, you...does this mean that on that particular day you were, well..." Ella closed her eyes, not wanting to meet the professors gaze. "...acting self centered?" Ella opened her eyes wide and tried to make it sound better somehow. "Not that I think you're self-centered, Professor!" She decided it was best that she stop talking and she looked down at the table.

Kurumi nodded, momentarily distracting herself with thoughts of her Soul Urge number relating to this month in particular. Her Soul Urge Number had strong connections with people, especially family. There was also the bit about, well, romantic relationships that seemed to be ridiculously spot on with the lioness. Her hand subconsciously reached for the heart pendant hanging around her neck and blushed. Yep...there certainly were things this month that she was feeling VERY strongly.
Kurumi looked up again when Professor Hadley moved the lesson along. A double day of feeling the energies of 1? That seemed sort of intense and Kurumi's initial reaction after checking her Arithmancy notes was that Professor Hadley must have been very irritable that day - probably something that Professor Scabior had done. Kurumi raised her hand. "Perhaps, professor, on the fifteenth you just needed to step back from everything and take a moment to yourself? Reevaluate relationships and tasks that needed to be handled." Kurumi often had days like that. Ones where you just needed to keep to yourself and focus on what you needed to do to get things done. Not to mention needing to examine some relationships and figure out where things were going.

Kurumi glanced at Louisa. Yep...things like THAT.

Pamper herself for a change? Oh. Maybe she was referencing the beginning thing. "Control, yes. Control and new beginnings..." But she wasn't about to concede into telling more details than that.

"Yes, that day would have had significance, as it would have been important toward my desire to lead... to take control." Take matters into her own hands, perhaps.

Fina frowned for a moment. "The soul urge number isn't sort of like, but rather it is your heart desire number. But yes ... you're quite on the right line of thinking."

"Do something new... that would help me toward my own expectations and life goals, you mean?" Fina said casually.

A new life?!? Merlin, it wasn't like she was on Death's Bed or anything! And really, what was that about giving away her responsibilities as head of authority? She was still Head of House, for Merlin's sake, not to mention, that completely contradicted a number ONE Soul Urge Number, which was about leading. "No. It's about a new beginning. A way to focus on myself and my independence. My expectations. My life goals." Not about giving up something like her independence or authority. HMPH.


"Yes. That is exactly what it means. That 15th day of October was a good day to start something for myself. Something that would help me towards living up to my life expectations." Fina nodded at the seventh year.

Shut her office door? Fina frowned at this suggestion. "I don't think... closing out my problems has much to do with this..." Unless she was referring to the ideals that she wanted to be alone. Independent. Away from teams. But no, she was pretty sure that wasn't the case really.

And now... Despite herself, Fina laughed. Not at the suggestion, but just because of how the girl said it. She seemed so ... reluctant to say it, yet she did. And it was just ... amusing. "There's nothing wrong with being self-centered, once in awhile." Just for the record and stuff.


Just as she was about to dismiss the lesson, she noticed Kurumi raised her hand to add something else. What was with people suggesting that she needed to reevaluate her life and take a moment to herself, two days ago? Did they think she was uptight or something? "Perhaps... yes..." she said, simply and quite nonchalantly. "Time to take a moment to myself and set a precedent for a new beginning, yes."

Casually brushing some strands of hair behind her ear, Fina said simply, "If there are no further questions, then class is dismissed. Your homework assignment will be posted on the notice board outside my office." But just before anyone could move or leave... "And please, have a chocolate on your way out," she added on last note, as she remembered the box Oakey gave her and she opened it, setting it on the desk nearest the door for them to take one.


ooc: if you haven't stalked my office, the chocolates were supposedly made extra sweet, but were accidentally made spicy. Of course your character won't know this until they try one :whistle:

Minerva gathered her things. "Thank you professor for the great lesson. Have a good day and thank you for the chocolate." she said as she took one and popped it in her mouth. She started to eat it, but her mouth felt like it was on fire. She began chocking and hurried in her bag grabbing a tissue to spit the chocolate out. She then drank some water that she always carried in her bag. She looked over at Professor Hadley, but didn't want to offender her by saying something was wrong with the chocolates so she just smiled and said goodbye again.

Why so serious, Professor Hadley? Could it be that some of the students were figuring things out? BREWING romance in the library as it were. Yep, Louisa and Kurumi had discussed this notion when Kurumi had first heard about the detention being given. It was such a cover up for what had really been going on. Selfish much? All signs pointed to it!

Gathering up her things, Kurumi took a chocolate, but didn't eat it just yet. She would save it as a snack for while she was studying later that evening. "Thank you for the lesson, Professor Hadley," Kurumi smiled, pocketing the chocolate. "And for the chocolate."

Kurumi was about to leave the room...but Professor Hadley hadn't exactly given the class a straight answer about what the numbers had meant for her...and the little lion was very curious. "Professor, we all offered up theories about what your Personal Day Number being the same as your Soul Urge Number meant, but...what does it mean to you?"

Its over already? Messer gathered his things up and put it back onto his bag. "Thank you for the lesson, Professor." he said and picked one of the chocolate. Who in his right mind can resist a chocolate? Certainly not him. "Good day, Ma'am." Messer said before he left the classroom.

Alyssa picked up her things and made her way to where the Professor was standing. "Thank you for another interesting lesson, Professor. Uh.....before I leave, would you like me to help you rearrange the tables back into the way you usually have them. It's no problem for me and I still have some time before dinner starts." Alyssa asked the Professor eyeing one of the chocolates as she waited for the Professor to answer. She picked one up, popped it into her mouth and almost laughed outloud. Trust Oakey to give the Professor chocolates that were spicy!! Thank goodness she loved eating spicy Indian and Mexican food, so the chocolate actually tasted nice. It was definitely different but still tasty just them same.

Oh now Ira understood what it was all about. She nodded her head at the explanations and took down whenever notes were required, which she could review while studying later.

And the class was over? It had been a good class! She gathered her things and put them in her bag, and then got up to leave. On the way out, she said to Professor, "Goodbye Professor! It was a nice lesson!"

And then she saw the chocolates! Wow! Just the sight of those chocolates made her mouth water. She went over quickly and grabbed some. She unwrapped one and put it into her mouth. And choked on it! Uff.. was it even chocolate that she was eating? Professor had certainly said it was chocolate! Chocolate was never spicy!

Grinning, she said, "Good joke professor,also a little too spicy!" Then she took her water bottle out and quickly drank some. And then left the classroom.

Zhenya was glad the lesson was over, because it was FULL of information. She wanted to go and process everything she learned. But she was also disappointed it was over because it was so much fun.

"Thank you so much for the great lesson. I really feel like I've learned a whole new language or something. Numbers and I never used to understand each other... but now I think we do!" she said happily. She took a chocolate and decided to save it for later.

Catching Kurumi's eye, Louisa's mouth twitched into a small smile. Unfortunately, Louisa's rather blatant hint got dismissed BUT Kurumi's subtle one was approved. It still didn't verify what the two girls were thinking about... well, what Louisa thought Kurumi was thinking about.

Taking a biscuit from the plate, the Ravenclaw was about to bid goodbyes to the rather moody professor and leave when she saw Kurumi talking to her. Quickly, she loped over to them and was all ears. Bringing the biscuit up to her mouth, she took a bite while listening to Kurumi, expecting something crunchy and sweet to dissolve in her mouth but... O__O "Errr... are those... barbecue biscuits, professor?" She gave the one in her hand a skeptical look. Kurumi might identify the problem, the girl had probably more cookies than books in her trunk. It was a criticize though, the girl was one heck of a smart kid. Pity it wasn't a Ravvie.

Let's see. She was still having some teeny tiny bit of questions and doubts about what Professor Hadley has just discussed. But she was trying to understand it so hopefully, Merlina and all the Headmasters would lend her a hand?

Yeah, dream on Beezus. A voice said inside her. With a sigh, she returned her things inside her backpack and walked towards their Arithmancy Professor. "Thank you for the good lesson Professor." Then she looked at the box of chocolates that she offered. "And thanks for the chocolates Professor. But I'm allergic." Then she smiled and walked out of the classroom.

Ella smiled, glad Professor Hadley wasn't upset about her suggestion that she might have been self-centered. She wasn't expecting her to laugh though, causing her to blush profusely. When Hadley dismissed the lesson, Ella grabbed her things and headed for the door. "Bye Professor!" She said with a wide smile. "Thanks for a fun lesson!" She grabbed a chocolate, popping it in her mouth. Within seconds, Ella's mouth was on fire. "Merlin's beard!" She said wide eyed. She ran for the nearest trash bin and spit the contents out. She looked around, wide eyed and then realized it must have been some kind of joke. Wow, didn't see that one coming! Ella, always able to appreciate a well executed prank, smiled again at Professor Hadley. "Good one Professor! A little spicier than I like my chocolates though." She giggled as she left, in search of a large glass or milk.

Watching as the students took chocolates, thanking her for the lesson, she nodded and waited a moment to see if anyone brought any questions to her attention. That was when she noticed Minerva nearly choking on her way out the door. "Oh... are you...?" but she was gone before she could say anything more. Hmm. Must have gone down the wrong pipe or something.

Shrugging it off, she blinked when Kurumi stepped backward into the room and asked a question. Huh? Oh. Trust the fifth year to ask such a question. "I think..." she paused, pondering the question a moment longer. "I think your theories were fairly close to accurate." As for what really happened on the 15th of October, well.... she didn't hide in her office per say.

Distracted momentarily by Kurumi's question, she blinked in surprise when Alyssa was leaving but then offered something or other. "Oh... oh ... no, that's alright, dear. It won't take me long to rearrange them." Besides, she wasn't actually sure how she wanted to arrange them for the next lesson. Best to leave them be till she decides. "Thank you for the offer though."

Allergic to chocolates? Oh. For some strange reason, her thoughts flickered at that moment to a certain former Head Girl, and for a brief second, she wondered about the girl and what she was doing since graduating last year. "That's alright." She sympathized. Considering she wasn't allergic; just hypersensitive to the sugar and caffeine within the substance.

Spicy? Barbecue? Josephina frowned at the three girls who had quite the adverse reactions to consuming the chocolate ... something almost similar to Minerva's choking fit before, but Minerva hadn't wanted to offend her, it seemed.

"Oh... Oh... Wait? They were spicy?" Fina frowned, staring incredulously at the box. Had Oakey been trying to POISON her? And yet, she mistakenly nearly poisoned half the student body!

Automatically, she closed the box of chocolates. "I'm... oh... I had no idea... they were a gift... and ... Well, you don't have to eat them. Please don't." Merlin only knew what else Oakey did to them.

Now that the game was over August caught his breath from running around the room and tagging people and went over to grab his things to prepare to leave. It really had been a great lesson and he had enjoyed the fun aspects of Arithmancy.

Walking up to the Professor he grinned, taking a chocolate. "Thank you Professor." For both the treat and the lesson. "Your lesson was really fun today, see you later."

He took a big ole' bite of the chocolate as he walked out the door, and after a scowl dumped the thing in the closets rubbish bin.

Louisa stared at professor Hadley. Neutrally. But if the girl didn't care about getting another detention, she would've GLARED at the woman. Seriously? She gave her students some questionable chocolate? Grrr. Louisa made a mental note to dump her piece in the closest trash bin. "Well.. thanks for the lesson today, professor, you're obviously unsettled about something. Have a good day. Really." She almost patted the professor's on the back. The woman was messed up, it was official.

Louisa grabbed her shoulder bag and stuffed her parchments and textbook inside it before heading out of the classroom.

Interesting. Kurumi nodded her head and attempted to look as though that were a fulfilling answer, but it really wasn't. Professor Hadley certainly hadn't made it seem like their guesses were accurate. Oh well, at least she had asked. A more detailed answer may have helped her come up with a means to analyze her one numbers.
Before Kurumi could say thank you, Professor Hadley was thrown into a small panic over the chocolates. Good thing she hadn't popped hers into her mouth immediately? Then again, it wasn't as if spicy was a bad thing. It was more of an acquired taste when it came to chocolates. "Spicy? Like...with chili flakes?" Kurumi asked, removing the chocolate from her pocket and giving it a sniff. "Adding a spicy component to chocolate isn't a bad thing per say. Chipotle mole sauce is spicy and uses chocolate...and I just tried my hand at making some orange wasabi dark chocolate truffles." She glanced up at Professor Hadley. She had given away someone's GIFT? 'that...sort of a no no in the rules of gift giving and receiving?

As the lesson came to a close Justin ent to thank the Professor.With a smile he bowed low and said, " Thank you , Professor. I didn't think I'd get the hang of working out the calculations. Today I was finally able to and the class has intrigued me. I look forward to the next lesson. "

Oakey was heart broken when He saw his gift to the Professor being distributed to his classmates by the Professor. Those Chocolates were for Professor Hadley, not for them. Oakey guessed he should have made that specific to her when he gave the gift to her.

He was in utter shock when the students who had taken the chocolate began spitting it out, tearing up and called it spicy. That was the last straw. Not only were his chocolates being given away by the Professor he had intended to give them to but now they were insulting them. They aren't spicy he told the class stubbornly they're extra sweet! He opened the box of chocolates that Hadley had closed and popped a piece into his mouth and began chewing, his eyes began to water and his face turned pink. He swallowed down hard, and looked at the Professor. I-I'm sorry Professor. He told Hadley looking embarrassed.

Poor Oakey looked crestfallen, almost heartbroken. Keefer felt badly for him. "Don't worry about it, Oakey. We can all make mistakes once in a while. Even my mother still has recipes turn out really wrong, and she's the best cook I know." He patted him on the shoulder. Just for good measure and to reassure the poor boy, he confidently strode up and grabbed a chocolate.

He plopped it into his mouth and bit down. Yes, definitely some kick there. But actually, it wasn't too bad. Once the shock wore off, they weren't half bad. "Oakey, these aren't bad. You should market these to Honeydukes in their unusual tastes section!" Or maybe he didn't know about this because the first Hogsmeade weekend hadn't happened. Either way, he would definitely consider buying these.

Either Keefer had a stomach of steel, or just a good taste for spicy foods, but it cheered Oakey up. Would they really take them? He asked his houses Quidditch Captain. He thought about it for a moment, and looked at Hadley for some kind of approval. If he was going to go ahead with this he would need to make his own chocolate, not purchase a box and charm it.

He popped another one into his mouth, his eyes teared up again but it wasn't as bad as the first. Good, they aren't deadly. Maybe he could do this? It was time for a change, if he was going to go ahead with this he was going to need to learn how to make chocolates. Now where did Kurumi go?

Stacy Malfoy gather up her things and said "Thanks for the lesson, Professor. I get it now." As she was walking out the door, she saw people eating the chocolate candy. Maybe I should try one. thought Stacy. She grab one and took a bite and spit it out right away. This candy is spicy. No wonder people are spitting it out. thought Stacy.