"Hi. Fancy." Anya greeted Messer with a smile. She then motioned that the seat was completely empty.

Ah. Apparently the Professor wasn't as cold as Anya was... oh well. She merely shrugged it off and pulled her robes closer around her.

She took some notes as the lesson progressed. She didn't really mind arithmancy. She was pretty good at the adding part. It was the reasons behind the adding that confused her. And what exactly her numbers were supposed to mean.

Oh! Activity! Brilliant. She quickly drew two circles on her parchment. She then added the bit that they had discussed in class. "Anything you can add off the top of your head?" she asked sliding the parchment over to Messer.

Meanwhile, she'd just check the book.

Arithmancy. Not one of the easier subjects Nessie took. The red head sat in her desk listening carefully. So far she could understand what was going on and nothing was too difficult yet. It was simple, they were talking about two different number systems. One included nine and the other didn't. Now how hard could that be? Eh seemed pretty easy.

Easy it was..only if you listened.

Feeling a little restless, Nessie began twiddling with her hair and before she knew it, she became more focused on her hair color and length then on the lesson going on. She twirled a long piece of her bright red hair, she hadn't remembered it being so long last year, but it was good it was growing. The longer the better it looked even though it was a hassle to look after.

What was Professor Hadley talking about again?

It was only when Hadley had finished giving out her instruction, that the fourth year realised the lesson was still going on.Ness looked at the board and saw what looked like two cirlcles intertwined. Yep..except what were they supposed to do with those circles? Who knew? people that actually paid attention.

Nessie let go of the piece of hair between her fingers and focused on the bored a bit more. She then did the most logical thing she could think of doing. She copied the circles down, but exactly as they were on the board labelling them with 'A', 'B' and then 'Both A & B' It looked alright to her and hopefully it was what they were supposed to be doing after all.

They had to... what?

Staring at the venn diagram... ahh, Nora recognized it. And... it sort of made sense. There was part one, part two, and the part that's both one and two. So, taking a piece of parchment, Nora started drawing a similar venn diagram, scribbling the numbers from one to eight in the common part of the two circles, and the number nine in just one of them. "Professor?" She raised her hand as she asked hesitantly. "Something like this? The blue circle can be the Chaldean, and the purple one the Pythagorean Number System?"

Sarah decided to work it out her way. She drew a table with the differences between the two systems.
"Can we include miscellaneous information? I did mine in a different way, is that okay?" Sarah asked worriedly.



Ooc: excuse the mess. I made it in tabular form. Then when I pasted it here, it converted it to tabs. I added dashes to make it clearer.

Messer returned her smile before he took a seat next to Anya.

A few minutes after he took out his stationery from his bag, Professor Hadley started the lesson. Type of Numerological System? Eeeerr..Okay. He only knew one, the Pythagorean System he didn't know the other one.

Say what?! Chalde...what?! He should read more Arithmancy books after this so he didn't look too stupid. And here come the activity. A diagram? Hmm..That he could do.

The Hufflepuff eyed Anya's parchment carefully. Well, she already wrote the most obvious one so he need to find something else. "I might." he picked up his quill and wrote another comparison. "Okay. Here you go. If you want to add something again." he slid the parchment back to Anya.

Anya was busy flipping through the textbook when Messer slid the parchment back. "I do. I just read some more stuff." she said happily picking up her quill. She added another line based on the charts she found. "Maybe one more each and we can call it good." she suggested sliding the parchment back to Messer. She should partner up on ALL her assignments! They were flying through this.

Josephina surveyed the room as some of the students jumped into working right away, but two students seemed to have this blank stare about them. Had she moved too quick? Expected too much from them? Granted they had their textbooks right there, but .... sometimes, it wasn't enough.

"Easiest way to start is by looking at what you KNOW about those two number systems. Reference your textbooks, if you must," Fina explained. She would define them, but that might ruin the task for them. Besides, technically speaking, definitions for each could be apart of the contrasting. Tis should help. Besides, for the younger students and for Ellie over there *coughs* ;D, it's not like she really expected them to know all there was to know about the two systems. A few basic principles.

ooc: I'll respond to more of you tonight... but looking good! ;D <3 [s]and may or may not continue until tomorrow. we shall see. ;D

Sierra had been quiet so far, but that just might be because she'd already learned the basics. Yes, she was actually NOT lost for a change in Arithmancy class. However, her eyebrows did furrow inward ever-so-slightly when the professor started drawing two, overlapping circles. A Venn-Diagram, she called it, and it really didn't seem all that difficult. It just involved a lot of time looking up information and then writing it down. Blahh.

Sierra reached for a piece of parchment and drew the two, overlapping circles. Her circles weren't that straight, so she frowned and flipped her parchment over. How was it that the should-be-easiest part of the assignment was turning out to be the most frustrating? When she finally got the circles as straight as she could, she started labeling the two sides and then the middle.

With all the drawing and labeling out of the way, Sierra flipped open her textbook and started reading. As she read along, she began adding information to each part of the diagram. Finally, she lifted her quill and reread what she'd done so far:

Sierra's Venn Diagram So Far

Taking notes on the two systems as he listened to what was being discussed, Gideon remained quiet simply paying attention. Pythagorean he was familiar with and Chaldeon was new...hopefully it wouldn't be too complicated else he knew he was bound to get them confused. The prefect watched Professor Hadley draw the diagram on the board with a flick of her wand, doing his best to contemplate what she was in fact asking of them.

Right...comparing and contrasting them both.

Gideon took out a clean sheet of parchment and began drawing his own Venn diagram on it so he could list what he knew and what the textbook said. Once the circles were drawn, the harder task was at hand and it took several minutes to both find and write down the descriptions under the appropriate titles. When he was satisfied with his work, the Gryffindor set down his quill and awaited the class moving on.

SPOILER!!: diagram

The Ravenclaw shook his head and looked back out the window, just to make sure it wasnt raining. "Alright Professor." he nodded his head then took his seat, promptly ommiting that he feels sleepy when its TOO cold. But its not that kind of cold COLD, so the Numbers Guru wouldnt have anything to worry about. At least not yet heh.

As the discussion started Vickers brought out his parchment and text and started to take down notes. When it was time for the activity he took out a fresh parchment and drew two overlapping circles, color coding them and scribbling down what he's read are the main difference between the two number system

"Okay." Without waiting for what stuff that Anya read, the Hufflepuff flipping his Arithmancy textbook looking for other stuff about the Pythagorean and the Chaldean system. "Sounds good to me." he nodded his head. "But I haven't find anything yet. Hold on a second." he told Anya without turning his gaze from the textbook.

"Got it." he picked up his quill and added some lines to their diagram. Who knew that partnering with Anya can be so much fun? "I already put one each. So that mean we're good?" Or she still wants to add something?

Blahh.

Looking at her Venn Diagram, Sierra saw where she'd misspelled the word Chaldean. Who knew how to spell that by heart anyway?! It wasn't like she used the word in her day to day language. So with a little bit of work and a lot of effort, she managed to change the letter O to the letter A without destroying her diagram.

...and now she needed more information added to the diagram. Actually, a lot more information.

Flipping a page in her textbook, she began to read again. Hmm. There were a few more similarities she hadn't written down earlier. Dipping her quill in ink, she added those in the middle section:

Sierra's additions to her Venn Diagram

Laura looked at everyone drawing, and decided she would ask the Professor something. "Do you have to do the drawing or can you just watch?" Laura wasn't very good with drawing and so she was going to watch the others do their drawing.

Oooh. They got to draw. This was awesome. Indy liked drawing. And venn diagrams. They were pretty. Indy smiled, as she drew her two circles. She was going to try and make this as pretty and neat as possible. Okay. Her circles were good. She decided to start on the pythagoran side. There we go. She looked at her text book as she wrote a couple of things down. She was careful not to go too over the lines, because she wanted it to be nice and neat. After she had wrote a few notes into that circle, she went onto the other half, and wrote some on there. She wanted to write as much as she can, but she wanted them to be kind of even. Perfect. It looked pretty good so far. She was impressed with it.

SPOILER!!: Indys venn diagram

She placed her quill down onto the table, and quickly over looked her work. She was proud of it so far. It was nice and neat. She thought maybe it could do with some more, so she leant over and read some more in her text book, to see if she could add anymore notes to it.

After reading her text book, Jen wrote down her chart

CHALDEAN-
Numbers 1-8,
Attention to names in daily social situations,
stop evolving in the days of Babylon.

Both- Number system we use in this class,
valid methods,
consider your name, month, day, and year you were born,
peoples names affects their character and birth date affects their destiny. Numbers carry the same meaning, quality, character, and nature

PYTHAGOREAN
Numbers 1-9,
pays attention to full name at birth,
continues to evolve.

Lana frowned a bit and pulled out a piece of parchment. She wasn't completely sure about this Chaldean system. She was just getting used to understanding the Pythagorean method. She just hoped that she understood the Pythagorean method enough to compare and contrast the two. Pulling out her notes from the previous term and the notes from so far, she started to look them over.

Jotting down what she could find from her notes, she pulled out her textbooks and started to look through it. Finding little bites of information from the books, she wrote it down on her notes. Getting what she thought she could from the books, she pulled out a fresh sheet of parchment for her chart. Glancing around, she looked to see if anyone was in need for a partner still or not.

Shrugging when she saw everyone with partners already, she turned back to making her own chart. Starting with the circles, she moved on to the labelling. Taking a peek at her notes, she felt maybe this was going to turn out pretty decent. Filling in all the information that she had gathered in their rightful places, she sat back looking at her parchment and smiled. It looked pretty decent in her opinion.

Laura looked at her twin sister and seeing that she was working, Laura sighed whilst she waited for the Professor to answer her question, Laura nudged Lana and whispered to her. "How do you do it?" Laura couldn't have done that even if she had three years to make it. "Your very good at this sort of thing." Laura sighed, why was she the one that was rubbish at most lessons, she did try her best but well she would never be as good as Lana, maybe that was why their daddy loved Lana better.

Sierra read and reread chapters two and thirty-five of her textbook. Finally, she'd managed to get enough information to cover all three sections of her diagram. That'd been her goal--to at least fill up all the sections. So dipping her quill in ink once again, she filled in the information she'd recently read.

The only part she wasn't sure of was the last thing she'd written under the "BOTH" section. It just didn't seem right to her, but she guessed Hadley would tell her if she'd done something wrong. She'd fix it then.

Sierra's Final Copy of the Venn Diagram

Ella had been dutifully taking notes as the Professor and other students talked and shared answers. She had remembered quite a bit of this information from last term and was happy she had paid attention in her first year. It was making all this seem much less confusing to the second year now.

So they were to make their own Venn diagrams, huh? Ella had done that before. Her dad liked to weigh his options before doing anything and often compared things using this method. It seemed silly in everyday life but for class, it was pretty appropriate and very useful visually. Grabbing her parchment and a quill, the second year got to work, occasionally flipping through her text to help add things to her diagram when needed.

Lana looked over at her twin and smiled softly. "It's all in the notes," she replied as she motioned to her sister's notes or lack of them. Frowning, she shook her head. "You have to start listening in classes," she spoke softly as to not disturb anyone working. Pulling her book between them, she pointed to the page and nodded. "Read here and you might learn something," she explained. She wasn't about to do all the work for her sister but she would at least point her in the right direction.

Laura gave her sister a small smile. "Thanks since." Laura looked where Lana was pointed to, oh so she had been colouring in her book and so there wasn't many notes. "I do try and listen sis but well the Professor do like to go on and on about things." Laura sighed and whisped. "And it gets boring after awhile." Laura looked at the book and started to read once she had read it she sighed. "This is why I don't pay attention, it makes your brain hurt." Laura whispered. "You have 9 numbers and each number has three letter, how do you know which goes where." She didn't really like her head of house of she would have ask for help ages ago.

Lana again shook her head. "Each letter gets a number. Both of systems use number, but only the Pythagorean one uses the number 9." she explained quietly. "So in your chart, you can put that down," she added as motioned to her sisters parchment. "Make a chart like the one on the board and start filling it out with things they have in common and what they have different." It really was straight forward after all.

Flipping to another page, she pointed to another fact. "You just have to look for the answers and put them down." She knew that sometimes came to her more easily than her twin, but she did try to help as much as she could. "Don't think about it too much. Just look at the basic of each system and more from there."

Anya grinned looking over their assignment. "Oh. I've just got one more to add." she said scribbling down a bit that she figured was important. She then smiled looking over their parchment once more.

"There." she said sliding it back over to Messer to examine.

She then smiled over to Messer. "We make a great team." she said. She absentmindedly played with her quill. She'd have to partner up with Messer more often.

Laura looked at Lana and signed she was never going to get this but she would try. "I wish I was as good as you." Laura whispered as she started to write on the parchment.



Laura give her sister a nudge, to see what she thought, hopefully the Professor wouldn't see that she had been doodling at the bottom of the parchment.

Kurumi cocked her head to the side when Professor Hadley answered and didn't answer her question. Was there something on her mind? Like missing a certain Astronomy professor? However, Kurumi couldn't think much on this as class began. The sixth year decided to sit out the initial question and answer segment seeing as it was mostly review and the younger students would benefit from it more, and instead wrote down a few refresher notes while she glanced at the still empty seat next to her every now and again. Arithmancy just wasn't the same without Treyen. It was....weird.

Kurumi picked her head up when they were given an assignment to do and Kurumi instantly cracked open the binding on her textbook to brainstorm some ideas before transcribing them onto her final diagram. Once she had a few ideas written down, Kurumi began to draw on an extra piece of parchment. Color coding, Kurumi LIVED for it. After a few minutes, Kurumi set her quill down and eyed her diagram.