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Magical Soul · 07-21-2013, 11:11 AM

The classroom was exactly the way it always had been; desks and chairs laid out in parallel rows, the small dais upon which the professor's big desk sat with a rememberall on it that's been obviously pushed to the side. The desks were freshly clean with a couple pieces of wood and a strange tool placed on top of each one of them. The professor would be standing at the door leaning slightly on his cane, waiting for the students to arrive and greeting them from the corridor. Once the students entered the classroom, they would find that the rectangular blackboard fixed to the wall over the dais had a message written on it:

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Originally Posted by Blackboard

"Please do not play with the tools or the wood pieces.
Take a seat and wait for the lesson to begin."

ooc: - Class has started, you may not RP your character walking in class late unless you're willing to lose some points.
xxx- Please refresh yourself with the Rules & Expectations for this class if you haven't already.

[]-> Class Progress:
[] Greetings
[] Q1
[] Q2
[] Practice time
[] Write in Runes!
[] Sharing letters
[] Class is over & little homework.

Magical Soul · 07-24-2013, 06:26 PM

Botros was busy working on a parchment on his desk, his tongue sticking a bit out at the corner of his mouth in deep focus. Until one of the students dropped their wood piece and startled him. He took in his surroundings, remembering they were still in class and noticed one of the younger boys staring around him, confused.

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Originally Posted by jrtpuplvr

Not knowing exactly what to do, Asher decided he could at least write his name.

He looked around, trying to see other students parchment to figure out what to do next. Hoping to not mess the next step up, he decided to wait a bit for another example.

"Do you need any help over there?" Botros waved at him, a small smile etched on his face. "Why don't you show me what you wrote so far?" He patted his desk and waited for the boy. "Anyone who would like to double-check their work--" Preferably from the younger years only, "--can come over, too."

DaniDiNardo · 07-24-2013, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Magical Soul

"Do you need any help over there?" Botros waved at him, a small smile etched on his face. "Why don't you show me what you wrote so far?" He patted his desk and waited for the boy. "Anyone who would like to double-check their work--" Preferably from the younger years only, "--can come over, too."

bdjgkkgfkgktu!!!

He was offering to check their work!! Granted she was already done and thought she'd done a wonderful job but there was no harm in ~~grabbing her things and rushing~~ heading over and getting herself a nice shoulder pat as soon as he saw how good she was doing.

He would give her a shoulder pat...right????

'Cause like, she didn't hurt herself or anyone else with the tool but never got one for that. She finished her work somewhat quietly and NEVER GOT PATS FOR THAT!! There wasn't much else she could do you know.

Lex hopped over to his desk with the widest of grins on her face and showed him her earlier rough draft, the one that came before she actually wrote them neatly and gave them to Cassia. It was good. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight?

Shoulder pat now?

TakemetotheBurrow · 07-24-2013, 06:42 PM

Alec's name in runes.

Okay, this shouldn't be too hard. The blonde pulled her notes towards her once again and eyed them carefully. When she felt like she knew what she was meant to do, she began writing it out.

SPOILER!!: Notes

When she finished, she tapped her chin and looked down at her work critically. Was that right? Luckily, Professor Botros spoke up not long after and offered to check people's work. The blonde smiled and grabbed her parchment, bringing it up to him.

"Professor, would you mind taking a look at my notes?" Nervous smile and all. She hadn't messed this up, had she?

Emzily · 07-24-2013, 06:45 PM

Theo could seriously feel a headache coming along, especially when Professor Botros started talking and wouldn't STOP talking. He did pay attention, though, since Ancient Runes was one of those classes that he usually sucked that. Had to sort it out with OWLs coming up next year and such. When he had finished explaining, Theo looked around the room for someone. Hmmmmmm... Ella was easy.

He picked up his quill and tapped it against his parchment for a few minutes, with his mind going blank. His eyes skimmed over his textbook, but that didn't help much either.

Oh, the board.

Ok.... Theo eyed each letter, and the rune that was written beside them. When he got moving, it surprised him how much he had gotten it. First, he removed one of the L's from Ella's name, because that wasn't needed, RIGHT?

Quote:

E - Ehwaz
L - Laguz
A - Ansuz

Theo eyed his work, then eyed the board. And if THAT wasn't right, then he really did need some help, because to him this was golden. Now, what word was he gonna choose next, hmm?

bitsyandtank · 07-24-2013, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Botros was busy working on a parchment on his desk, his tongue sticking a bit out at the corner of his mouth in deep focus. Until one of the students dropped their wood piece and startled him. He took in his surroundings, remembering they were still in class and noticed one of the younger boys staring around him, confused.

"Do you need any help over there?" Botros waved at him, a small smile etched on his face. "Why don't you show me what you wrote so far?" He patted his desk and waited for the boy. "Anyone who would like to double-check their work--" Preferably from the younger years only, "--can come over, too."

Asher blushed with embarrassment. He hated being the little guy in class and not knowing as much as the other students, made him feel not so smart. "Yes, sir, I do need some help." He got up from his desk, took his parchment, and headed towards the professor.

When he arrived at the professors desk, he placed his parchment down for Professor Botros to see.

Quote:

A= Ansuz
S= Sowelo
H= Hagalaz
E= Eihwaz
R= Raidho

"I think I wrote my name correctly, but I don't understand how to write the letter. I would like to say 'Have a happy summer' and 'See you next year'. This is what I have so far." He placed a second piece of parchment on the table.

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Have= Hav
A= A
Happy= Hapy
Summer= Sumr
See= C
You= U
Next= Next
Year=

"How would I write year? Are the rest correct? I was trying to write what they sounded like."

Emzily · 07-24-2013, 07:04 PM

Theo was going for simplicity here, because his brain felt like it was on overdrive. He bit the bottom of his quill when he tried to think of a message relating to Ella. Maybe he could write that she was cool... or good at Quidditch... or pretty? No... no... god forbid him writing that. Deciding that everything was lame, he went for something equally as lame without realizing it.

Quote:

To Ella,
you have nice hair.
From Theo

Cool. Theo grinned to himself, then looked around to check no one saw him grinning like an idiot. Was this real life? Was he completing an Ancient Runes activity with no problems? Even though he had definitely struggled on the 'air' part of 'hair'... hopefully it was good enough. Anyway - he wrote it all down in runes form.

Quote:

Ehwaz Laguz Sowilo
Jera Uruz Hagalaz Ansuz Wunjo Nauthiz Eihwaz Sowilo Hagalaz Ansuz Isa Raidho

Boom. Gosh, that took FOREVER.

Theo cleared his throat dramatically, picked up his Burin and got ready.

Magical Soul · 07-24-2013, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jrtpuplvr

Asher blushed with embarrassment. He hated being the little guy in class and not knowing as much as the other students, made him feel not so smart. "Yes, sir, I do need some help." He got up from his desk, took his parchment, and headed towards the professor.

When he arrived at the professors desk, he placed his parchment down for Professor Botros to see.

"I think I wrote my name correctly, but I don't understand how to write the letter. I would like to say 'Have a happy summer' and 'See you next year'. This is what I have so far." He placed a second piece of parchment on the table.

"How would I write year? Are the rest correct? I was trying to write what they sounded like."

Botros pulled the parchment closer to him and fixed his glasses on his nose bridge. "Eihwaz is for the long 'I', such as the pronoun 'I'. Your name is Asher, is that correct?" The man had forgotten the boy's name (like usual) but he'd guessed from the runic scribble on the parchment. "So you use Ehwaz the one equivalent to 'e'." he pointed behind him on the tablet written on the blackboard.

Next. Botros nodded approvingly at what the boy has written so far. "The rest is very good, great job. But you can't write 'see' as the single English letter 'c'. You write it as 'Si'. The same goes for 'You', you write it as 'Yu'." He pointed at those two words on the little kid's parchment. "You can write year as such." He took the quill from the boy and wrote down "Yir". "So it's Jera, Isa and Raidho." There! He looked back at Asher's face and smiled. "Everything good so far?" Who was he sending it to, by the way? HMM. Curious Botros was curious.

Text Cut: Lexa

"Hello miss Cambridge, let me see." He took the parchment from her hands gently and pushed his glasses up on his nose. "Good job, good job. There is a tiny mistake though, how do you write 'are' in a phonetic form? Do we pronounce the 'e'? Are..." He said it for her. "Same goes with 'friend'. What do you hear when I say it? Friend.." He repeated slowly and handed her a quill. "Write what you hear." He waited with a gentle look on his face.

Text Cut: Ella

Clasping his hands on top of desk, Botros nodded with a smile at the Hufflepuff Captain. "Sure, come on closer." He had high expectations for this one.

Emzily · 07-24-2013, 07:35 PM

Soooo... onwards with carving his name. First up was Thurisaz, which represented the first two letters of course.

Theo flicked open his textbook and skimmed down the page to find it, and it didn't take long. The chant looked relatively easy, too. He was grateful that he had a chance to practice chanting rune songs beforehand, because now they were kind of in his head. "thurisaz thurisaz thurisaz, th th th th th th th th th, thur thar thur ther thor, thu tha thu the tho, th th th th th th th th th." This one was surprisingly easy due to the 'th' noise that he was used to. He GRINNED when it carved into his wood. First try, man. Awesome.

Next up was, Ehwaz. One that he recognized, but had never chanted before. He cleared his throat once again, after finding it in his textbook.

"ehwo ehwo ehwo... e e e e h w o o o, ehwu ehwa ehwi ehwe ehwo... ehwo ehwe ehwi ehwa ehwu... e e e e h w o o o." He paused a little at each line on this one, and nothing really happened like it had done before, so Theo tried it again. "ehwo ehwo ehwo, e e e e h w o o o, ehwu ehwa ehwi ehwe ehwo, ehwo ehwe ehwi ehwa ehwu, e e e e h w o o o." Perfect! He was pretty much done, just one more to go!

Because come on, he wasn't gonna write Theodore, was he? EFFORT MUCH?

What's next? Oooh... Othala. OH - this one looked tricky.

TakemetotheBurrow · 07-24-2013, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Clasping his hands on top of desk, Botros nodded with a smile at the Hufflepuff Captain. "Sure, come on closer." He had high expectations for this one.

Ella smiled at Professor Botros and nodded, coming over to stand beside where he was seated and placing her notes in front of him. He reminded her so much of her late Granddad that she just wanted to reach over and give him a squishy hug but she refrained. That would...probably be extremely weird of her, right? Yeah.

SPOILER!!: Notes

"I think I got most of the runes right, Sir. I'm just not sure about the phonetic forms of the words." And she frowned at her notes before looking back up at the man nervously. Oh gosh, she wasn't going to disappoint him, was she?

Emzily · 07-24-2013, 07:47 PM

"othala othal othal" Well... that part was sorted. For some reason, Theo carried on to say a long, "oooooooooooo", which wasn't exactly right. He frowned and stopped to start again. The Slytherin took a moment to read over the chant, like he had done previously, taking mental notes of how the longer sounds went and how he could put it all together. It worked pretty well for him actually. He cleared his throat and had another go.

"othala othal othal, o o o o o o o o o, o o o o o o, othul othal othil othel othol, othol othel othil othal othul, o o o o o o" Not a bad job there, Theo.

There it was! His name in runes! He was sure that he had seen his name in runes before, but it was still exciting. He had a cool runes name, even if it didn't resemble the English word at all.

With a nod, Theo put down his Burin and placed his carved piece of wood gently away from him so that he could put the finishing touches on his note to Ella. Because there were a few words that he had missed off. Only little words, though, so that meant he was pretty much finished!

hermionesclone · 07-24-2013, 07:47 PM

So... he needed to start writing this out in hand form first, yeah? And then convert it and then... carve it onto the wood. That was actually one of those 'easier said than done' notions. Yeah...

ANYWAYS. Person. He tapped the end of his quill against his chin and frowned down at his piece of parchment. It was weird because... what was he meant to say in this mini letter? 'Hey, I think you're cool'? She probably already knew that, though. And it couldn't be too long either because then he'd be here ALL. DAY.

Frown.

Deciding on something he had told her before, Alec started scribbling something down. There. Not too long and not too short either. And completely 100% true too!

Text Cut: Parchment

... Was this... even right or...?

Emzily · 07-24-2013, 07:55 PM

With his textbook directly beside him, Theo skimmed down the page to find some of the missing words and runes from his message. He separated each of the words with a comma to make things easier to read. Not just for Ella, but for him, too. This was confusing stuff! Not taking too long at all, Theo finished his message.

Quote:

Tiewaz Othala, Ehwaz Laguz Sowilo
Jera Uruz, Hagalaz Ansuz Wunjo, Nauthiz Eihwaz Sowilo, Hagalaz Ansuz Isa Raidho
Fehu Raidho Othala Mannaz, Thurisaz Ehwaz Othala

He grinned, then attached the parchment to the wood with his name carved on it. Did he need to carve Ella's name as well? For now, this would do. He got up and went to the front of the classroom to show Professor Botros his parchment and carved wood. "Have I done it right, sir?"

Did he need to write the translation underneath? Or was that Ella's job to find out what he had written? Gosh, that would be tricky. Hopefully no one would write HIM a message...

the fastest seeker · 07-24-2013, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

"This is for yoooooooou!!!" And more grinning because even though she copied, it still got done!

Cassia stood there waiting for Lex to finish the letter. How niiice of her to write to her too. Well, it made sense, since Cassia wrote to her too. Though, Lex didn't know that, see? Did you see the nice part in it. Goood.

And she kinda got bored so she started looking around and watching others either carving, chanting or squinting at books. Heh. Good thing she was done.

Then turning back to Lex she grinned and took the letter. Whut? Still friends? Cassia rolled her eyes at the lioness, "Really?" She said pointing to the letter. "Should I have been worried about that because I hid the parchment from you?" Because she wasn't?

ANYWAY! "But I'm still flattered," She said reaching for the piece of wood that had her name.....or three letters of her name. She didn't get to complain, though, because she did the same.

Then Professor Botros checked her work. Ooops. Cassia just noticed the 'e'. "Better scratch those unnecessary runes,"She whispered nodding. And it wasn't that hard so it was a relief.

And now she wondered about her own. She took the letter and went to the Professor's desk. "Mind seeing mine, Professor?" She asked putting it before him and not really giving him a chance to say no.

DaniDiNardo · 07-24-2013, 08:20 PM

SPOILER!!: Cassia and Botros

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Botros pulled the parchment closer to him and fixed his glasses on his nose bridge. "Eihwaz is for the long 'I', such as the pronoun 'I'. Your name is Asher, is that correct?" The man had forgotten the boy's name (like usual) but he'd guessed from the runic scribble on the parchment. "So you use Ehwaz the one equivalent to 'e'." he pointed behind him on the tablet written on the blackboard.

Next. Botros nodded approvingly at what the boy has written so far. "The rest is very good, great job. But you can't write 'see' as the single English letter 'c'. You write it as 'Si'. The same goes for 'You', you write it as 'Yu'." He pointed at those two words on the little kid's parchment. "You can write year as such." He took the quill from the boy and wrote down "Yir". "So it's Jera, Isa and Raidho." There! He looked back at Asher's face and smiled. "Everything good so far?" Who was he sending it to, by the way? HMM. Curious Botros was curious.

"Hello miss Cambridge, let me see." He took the parchment from her hands gently and pushed his glasses up on his nose. "Good job, good job. There is a tiny mistake though, how do you write 'are' in a phonetic form? Do we pronounce the 'e'? Are..." He said it for her. "Same goes with 'friend'. What do you hear when I say it? Friend.." He repeated slowly and handed her a quill. "Write what you hear." He waited with a gentle look on his face.

Clasping his hands on top of desk, Botros nodded with a smile at the Hufflepuff Captain. "Sure, come on closer." He had high expectations for this one.

Quote:

Originally Posted by the fastest seeker

Cassia stood there waiting for Lex to finish the letter. How niiice of her to write to her too. Well, it made sense, since Cassia wrote to her too. Though, Lex didn't know that, see? Did you see the nice part in it. Goood.

And she kinda got bored so she started looking around and watching others either carving, chanting or squinting at books. Heh. Good thing she was done.

Then turning back to Lex she grinned and took the letter. Whut? Still friends? Cassia rolled her eyes at the lioness, "Really?" She said pointing to the letter. "Should I have been worried about that because I hid the parchment from you?" Because she wasn't?

ANYWAY! "But I'm still flattered," She said reaching for the piece of wood that had her name.....or three letters of her name. She didn't get to complain, though, because she did the same.

Then Professor Botros checked her work. Ooops. Cassia just noticed the 'e'. "Better scratch those unnecessary runes,"She whispered nodding. And it wasn't that hard so it was a relief.

And now she wondered about her own. She took the letter and went to the Professor's desk. "Mind seeing mine, Professor?" She asked putting it before him and not really giving him a chance to say no.

Yeah she saw how this was. You get one thing wrong and suddenly it's 'no shoulder pats for you'. Pffffft, she was onto him and his game. Depriving her like this but she wouldn't say she knew in case it was meant to be a secret of some sort...

Her attention went back to Cassia who was telling her to scribble them out, nah, she'd just rewrite them. They would look less messy that way.

This would only take her a minute. Lex got her parchment then found herself riiiiiiiiiiiiight by the Professor again.

SPOILER!!: Parchment

There! Now she was done. Lex took her wood back, rip off the other piece of parchment and attached the new one. "That should do it." Nod. "You have friend in your note. See why you should have just let me copy yours?" Then they wouldn't be having her repeat stuff.

There was a lesson to be learnt her Cassia.

Magical Soul · 07-24-2013, 08:59 PM

Text Cut: Ella

He pulled her parchment closer and looked through his tiny glasses, "Yes, most scholars have issues with phonetics." Good thing he didn't let them study Scandinavian first to learn how they exactly pronounced things. "Marvelous!" He announced with a wide smile and looked over his glasses at the blonde Captain. "They're perfect. Your hand will get used to drawing the runes in time, but you did this perfectly. Great job." He patted her shoulder and handed her the parchment back. First one with no mistakes!

... Alec Alec Alec... was it Mr. Summer? He peeked at the boy quickly.

Text Cut: Theo

Oh! He recognized the Slytherin at once, and Botros kept his gentle smile on his face as he inspected the parchment. Knowing the kid, he expected something flawed, not because Kinsley was a bad student but because he had little patience for something like Runes. But this, the runic script on this parchment, was actually perfect ~~if you ignore the clumsy drawing of the runes~~. He lowered his glass off his nose and gave him a wrinkly grin, "That's perfect, Mr. Kinsley!" There was more pride than surprise in his voice. "Great job!"

Although.... nice hair? Did the kids recognize nice hair when they saw it? Shouldn't they be eating candy and bantering about toys? O.O

Text Cut: Cassia

"Why, yes, of course dear. Come." He took the next girl's parchment and fixed his glasses back on his nose. Oooh those Slytherins were on a roll, it seemed. He gave her the same wide smile as Mr. Kinsely before, "Great job, Ms. Somerlad! How wonderful." PATPATPATPAT. They all needed more practice in drawing and carving those runes but it was alright, they were learning.

Text Cut: Lexa

Botros nodded as the Gryffindor fixed her mistakes, "Very good, very very good. Now your work is perfect as well." He placed a hand on her shoulder gently. "Your carving is pretty good, too. See how the Burin makes a smoother look than the Intaglio spell? But not with everyone. Some people find the spell easier and produce smoother shapes." He, personally, liked the Burin. And she got this clarification because she asked about it before. He might be a forgetful person but he would never forget anything runes or student related!

.....except their names.

Emzily · 07-24-2013, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Oh! He recognized the Slytherin at once, and Botros kept his gentle smile on his face as he inspected the parchment. Knowing the kid, he expected something flawed, not because Kinsley was a bad student but because he had little patience for something like Runes. But this, the runic script on this parchment, was actually perfect ~~if you ignore the clumsy drawing of the runes~~. He lowered his glass off his nose and gave him a wrinkly grin, "That's perfect, Mrs. Kinsley!" There was more pride than surprise in his voice. "Great job!"

Although.... nice hair? Did the kids recognize nice hair when they saw it? Shouldn't they be eating candy and bantering about toys?

His work was perfect? Theo couldn't help but BEAM at the professor as he took his work back. This was amazing. And it wasn't even THAT hard, which surprised him. Maybe he had just been thinking about it too much in previous lessons, and making it too complicated for himself. "Thanks, professor." He said with a nod, then went up to Ella's desk.

"Hi, Ella...." He dropped it very awkwardly in front of her, probably totally distracting her from her own work but oh well, "It's for you." And then he disappeared back to his table.

Expecto-Penguin · 07-24-2013, 09:23 PM

Alright so he had to write in Runes. He was gonna write his name first so he knew what his name looked liked when he wrote it in the runes language.

SPOILER!!: Kace's Notebook!

YAY! He figured out to spell his name! That was an improvement so far. Now he wanted to write his letter to Cassia. He wondered what he could write to her? He thought and then had an idea! He began to form his letter first!

SPOILER!!: Parchment!

There that letter looked official enough. Short and Sweet! Now onto decoding the letter....

SPOILER!!: Decoding!

He hoped he did the decoding right! And hoped he could get the carving right! He would ask, "Professor did i do the decoding right?" he asked unsure.

TakemetotheBurrow · 07-24-2013, 09:24 PM

SPOILER!!: Botros!

Ella watched nervously over Professor Botros' shoulder and bit her lip. Had she done things right? Meeeeep. The blonde nodded when she heard him comment on scholars, a little relieved that she wasn't the only one who struggled with the phonetics stuff. That was good to know. Also good? How wide he was smiling at her right now. BEAM! "I...really?!" She couldn't hide her surprise as she looked from her parchment to the Professor and back again. She did it! And she did it perfectly. Did he know how much this meant to her? DID HE? GRIN! "I...thank you, Sir. I'm really happy to hear that." And she again stifled the urge to tackle!hug the older man as she took back her parchment. "I'll just...go carve my name, then." Sheepish Ella felt sheepish now.

...

Once she was settled back in her seat, the blonde glanced down at her notes and decided to add her name in there. She'd originally thought she would be carving Alec's name into the wood but now that she was carving her own, she wanted to practice first.

Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.

SPOILER!!: Notes

Double checking her work, Ella was happy to see that she'd done a good job leaving out the second L and her name looked pretty good to her. This wasn't so bad at all, this writing in runes stuff. Maybe she'd write Oakey a letter in runes before he left? She knew he'd appreciate it so it was definitely something to think about.

Pulling the second piece of wood towards her, the blonde flipped her textbook to the right page and picked up her Burin again.

Ehwaz first. And....

"ehwo ehwo ehwo
e e e e h w o o o
ehwu ehwa ehwi ehwe ehwo
ehwo ehwe ehwi ehwa ehwu
e e e e h w o o o!"

Carve. Carve. Carveeeeee.

"ehwo ehwo ehwo
e e e e h w o o o
ehwu ehwa ehwi ehwe ehwo
ehwo ehwe ehwi ehwa ehwu
e e e e h w o o o!"

Done! And she'd just need to do a few mo- Theo?

"Hey Theoman!" BEAM! Wait...huh? "I..." But he was already leaving. Okay, then. "Thanks!" She called after him, giving him a smile.

hermionesclone · 07-24-2013, 09:36 PM

Now... he had to carve his name, yeah? Onto the piece of wood? But should he carve 'Alec' or 'Hair Boy'? Alec would be easier but... Hair Boy was her nickname for him. And she would understand who it was from if he carved that onto the piece of wood.

...

HAIR BOY IT WAS. ... Because... he was proud of the ruffliness of his hair today. And Candy Girl liked that nickname.

Text Cut: Parchment!

He looked back at the parchment and smiled. Okay. He just needed to carve seven runes. That wasn't... too bad, yeah? His flipped through his textbook until he reached the page where the Hagalaz Galdr was written out. H's... weren't too bad to chant along too. At it wasn't 'r'. Yet. Frowns for you, Raidho.

He picked up his Burin and the wood and held the two up in the same sot of stance as before. Chant and carve... chant and carve... "Hagalaz hagalaz hagalaz... h h h h h h h h h... hu ha hi he ho... hug hag hig heg hog... oh eh ih ah uh... h h h h h h h h h..." This was meant to glow too, right? Glow! Why aren't you--

Oh hey! GRIN.

Next... was... Ansuz. He peeked at his textbook quickly and blinked. Aw? As in that sound people made when they found something cute? "Ansuz ansuz ansuz... aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw..." There... were a lot of these 'aw' sounds. Breaaaaathe... And where was he up to, exactly? "... aw aw aw aw aw aw s s s s s s... aw aw aw aw aw aw... aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw..."

BLINK. BLINK. Could he stop now?

No?

Frowning, he stayed silent for a while, looking at the next Galdr in the textbook. Isa. EE-SAW. It represented masculinity or something which... well, he was a boy but he was no Superman. And he wasn't authoritative, which was something else that was written next to the magical effects part in the textbook. No way. Candy Girl probably had more authority than him.

... Moving on...

Chant and carve... "Iisa isa... i i i i i i i i i... i i i i i i s s s s s s... i i i i i i i i i..." So many 'I' sounds. But what was worse was that next was Raidho and that meant 'r' sounds which meant that the rolling of the tongue. He'd rather have Wunjo. Wunjo was an AWESOME rune.

"Rraidho raidho... r r r r r r r r r... ru ra ri re ro... rudh radh ridh redh rodh... or er ir ar ur... r r r r r r r r r..." Carve... carve... carve...

And... that... was only half of it.

TakemetotheBurrow · 07-24-2013, 10:03 PM

Ella's concentration was totally broken. The blonde eyed the block of wood and parchment that Theo had left, head tilted to the side. Him writing her a letter was a good thing though, yeah? Just like her picking him to share ice cream with in Charms was good. It meant that this friends thing was working out after all? Yeah. Now...she'd just need to wait to finish her stuff before reading the message.

Next up, Laguz.

"laguz laguz laguz
l l l l l l l l l
lu la li ke lo
(lug lag lig leg log)
ul al il el ol
lo le li la lu
l l l a a a g g g u u u
l l l l l l l l l!"

Carve. Carve.

"laguz laguz laguz
l l l l l l l l l
lu la li ke lo
(lug lag lig leg log)
ul al il el ol
lo le li la lu
l l l a a a g g g u u u
l l l l l l l l l!"

And then on to Ansuz.

"ansuz ansuz ansuz
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw s s s s s s
aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw!"

Carveeeeee.

"ansuz ansuz ansuz
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw s s s s s s
aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw!"

Done! BEAM!

Now she had her block of wood and her message and she attatched them together before getting up and walking over to Alec. He wouldn't mind the interruption, right?

Ahem.

"Hey, Hair Whipper!" BEAM! "I made you something." Nodnod. "Hope you like it." And since she probably couldn't just hug him in class like she wanted to, she gave his hand a small squeeze before heading back to her seat.

lemon · 07-24-2013, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Hmm? Botros moved from the first year Hufflepuff to the oddly quiet Captain and put a hand on her shoulder as he peered to her carved rune. Thurisaz? Why not Uruz? "Binding runes is something you make, there is no solid steps as to how you bind those runes together. It depends on your intent and the type of runes you use. So before you carve the shape of the bindrunes using the Bunir, you're expected to merge the Galdr songs into one." He gave the young girl a smile and waited a moment to see if she was satisfied with this answer.

"How do you merge the songs? Can you just choose any lines and put them together?" If it took too long to explain, could he show her after class? Alice seemed a little happier now, sitting up straight. Botros shoulder pats were her favorite. Had he noticed that she wasn't using Uruz today, though?

Ahem. No reason.

Setting the Burin aside and making mental notes to bother the professor about bindrunes after class, she started listening to Botros again. They were going to write in runes? Really? Now? Alice was excited, seeing as she'd never tried that before and wanted to do excellent work. To annnnyone in the classroom? Anyone she wanted?

Notes copied down, she quickly decided on her person and fished a scrap of parchment and a quill from her bag. Ready.

hermionesclone · 07-24-2013, 10:11 PM

Text Cut: *pretends this is the full parchment or something*

NO MORE RAIDHO!

Ahem.

So... the next one was Berkano... which was a rune that he wasn't familiar with AT ALL. And he wasn't familiar with Perthro either but seeing as he didn't have to carve that... it was okay.

Berkano... Berkano... bear... kawn... oh! "Berkano berkano berkano... bu ba bi be bo..." Chant and carve... chant and carve... "... b e e e e e r r r r r... ob eb ib ab ub... b e e e e e r r r r r..." The 'r' sounds... they were tricky. He needed to ask Botros about those at some point. Maybe there was an easier way to pronounce those and he was just... missing it?

Oh look at how Othala was pronounced! Oath-awe-law... Oath... in awe... and then a law.

... Concentrate Summers...

"Othala othal othal... o o o o o o o o o... o o o o o o..." So many 'o' sounds... "... othul othal othil othel othol... othol othel othil othal othul... o o o o o o..." This chanting and carving part... wasn't too bad. Especially closer to the end which was where he was at right now.

ONE MORE RUNE.

JERA. Yare-awe. And look! It was one that said something about comfort and harmony. Him and Candy Girl had never had an argument so... there. "Jera jera jera... j j j e e e r r r a a a... j j j j j j j j j... ju ja ji je jo... j j j e e e r r r a a a..."

HE WAS DONE! ... Yeah? Right? Did he need to show this to Botros? Or could he go and give it to Candy Girl right away?

Text Cut: Ells!

Alec looked around for a familiar head of hair when...

OH?

GRIN. "Hey Ells!" And she made him something? The very thought made the sixteen year old want to wrap his arms around the girl and give her a BIG hug. ... But... Botros. Classroom. Sigh. "I... thanks! That's really nice of you!" And she had to know that he'd love it, yeah? Because she made it and all. He grinned some more at the hand squeeze and watched as she walked away. Why didn't he write something to her? Something nice? And romantic?

... Nah. He didn't inherit any romantic genes so...

... And he needed a Candy Girl to find!

lemon · 07-24-2013, 10:18 PM

She'd write something small, right? It was her first time writing in runes, after all, there was no need for Alice to try being lengthy and end up ruining the assignment. Besides, doing badly in her favorite professor's class was an absolute no, so short and sweet it was. A couple of words could communicate her message just fine.

Hm.. phonetic form of her name first? Then rune replacement? She wanted to do her last name, too. Could she do her last name, too?

Alice went over her notes a few more times before attempting to write a couple more.

Text Cut: Notes

Felixir · 07-24-2013, 10:23 PM

Deciding that he could, to start with, work out how to write his name, Tobias began with that. He figured if he worked that out, then as he worked on his message Botros would be walking around and THEN he could tell him if the name was wrong before he carved it. Or tell him 'good job!' 'cause Tobias was like master of runes.

He carefully wrote deliberately large letters before cross-referencing with the other notes they'd been given about what letters would have to be changed and what runes then responded with what letters. Tobias figured that his name was already spelled phonetically, so he wouldn't have to change that. There were no double letters or Js or Ws or any of those other letters that they had to watch out for. Well... there was an I but a quick look at the runes told Toby he'd just have to go for the long I rune... Eihwaz. Simple.

There was the brief thought that maybe the A could phonetically sound like another vowel, but Tobias couldn't figure out what other one it could be... maybe U? Though when he thought about it, his grandfather always pronounced the A... so maybe he'd just keep it.

Swinging his feet merrily and humming eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever so quietly to himself, Tobias checked the rune name/phonetic equivalent list and write down the names of each rune he would need under each letter, and then looked to see what each rune was supposed to look that, and draw that underneath.

When he'd done THAT planning stage, he leaned back from his parchment and stared at it to check that it would look right. Not... not that he would know.

Right, so now to write out and translate the message (insert mischeviously smile directed towards the Huffie quidditch captain, ehehehe). BUT FIRST

Toby raised his hand.

"Professor, can you tell me if I've spelt my name right-" wow, that was weird to say "-please? Before I start carving it? I don't want to make a mistake."

PRETTY PLEASE.

WITH A RUNE ON TOP.

SPOILER!!: da parchment

Govoni · 07-24-2013, 10:29 PM

SPOILER!!: Professor!

Awesome, then.

In fact, while Dylan was awaiting that answer, he had most of it worked out...LIKE A BAWSS. He kept glancing between the board and his parchment...even though he had it written down for himself in his notebook. Habit, maybe? The Slytherin didn't know...but he was getting it done.

SPOILER!!: Letter pieces

After double-checking that bit, Dylan reviewed the other stuff...It was a rather long message...and he was glad that he wouldn't be carving this bit. Not that the carving bit was going to be easy, either. That was going to be quite lengthy, too.

SPOILER!!: Letter pieces

That seemed to check out, too....according to the rules Professor Botros had laid out, anyway. Dylan was getting rather excited about this assignment. Ugh. He'd be randomly writing in runes for now on. Everyone was forewarned. Letters written to home could be in this format. So, hopefully, they knew this stuff...

Oh, and then the last bit...

SPOILER!!: Letter pieces

It seemed right...MEH.

It was time to write up a final draft...