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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Ella smiled big at Botros and bigger at Alec when he got good feedback for his answer. Smart boyfriend was smart and Ella was proud. As for the notes, Ella took them down even if they were in the textbook. It always helped her remember things better when she wrote them down.

Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.

And then they were talking about the carving spell and Ella smiled softly, hand raised in the air. They'd used this a lot so she was very familiar. "Professor, the incantation of the carving spell is Intaglio and you want to press your wand to a surface and make the shape of whatever you wish to carve, concentrating on the shape."

With that said, the blonde got out her quill and began to draw over and over. And guests? BROWS for that. What kind of guests were they having?

Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.

Algiz looked like a little birdy foot, didn't it?

Miss Bishop was on a roll today, wasn't she? The professor didn't miss that she'd been the first to answer most of the questions, and correctly too. "That's correct. Intaglio, Intah-lio." He pronounced slowly for the new and the younger students. "And you point your wand at the surface where you want the rune to be carved, focusing very hard on its energy, and the value it represents." Pause.

"If I want to carve Algiz, for example, I say, 'Intaglio Algiz Algiz Algiz Algiz...' until the shape of the rune is perfectly carved on the surface." It was easy, you just had to have a fresh mind.

Botros stepped down from the small dais and went to miss Bishop's desk, peering over her shoulder to the drawing. "That's good, well done." With a smile he moved forwards.

Text Cut: Tobias

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Originally Posted by Felixir

Tobias was chewing on the end of his quill, and it had taken him about 10 minutes to realised that this wasn't a SUGAR quill but just a regular one. He suddenly stopped upon realising this and leaned back, looking at the feathered end of the quill. Ew. So he'd been eating a feather?

Why?

Why was he doing that?

Wrinkling his nose slightly, Tobias soon looked up to the front again. Oh... they'd moved on? GAH! What was WITH him today? Why was he getting so off track in the very class he'd been so looking forward to getting back to all summer? It was enough to really wind him up, and Toby had to fight the urge to get angry at himself. He focused on the thought that he could still do well in the rest of the lesson, and proved this to himself by sticking his hand up.

"Is it the intaglio spell thing, sir? You say 'intaglio' and then the rune and keep repeating the rune until you've finished carving it. Oh, and you need to like... sort of trace the rune as though you're writing it with the tip of your wand."

Right? Maybe?

That said, once he'd caught up on the notes from the blackboard Tobias practiced writing out the rune algiz. He didn't really need to practice it; it had definitely cropped up a couple of times in the letter he'd written to Botros over summer, but Tobias wasn't big-headed enough to believe that he was above practicing writing the rune. You could always do with practice, and you could always improve.

Like he could totally improve at how well he was doing in the class, and his brain would improve at staying focused.

Botros nodded at the little boy with a hint of pride, he knew that Mr. Tempus had the ability to carve Algiz as well as any older student.

Text Cut: Hannah

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

Hannah wrote down the notes on the board even though she was sure that writing them down would not help them burn in her mind any better. Moving on. The professor was asking about the carving spell. "Professor I think the incantation is defodio." She wasn't exactly sure about the wand movement.


Now she had to practice drawing a rune? What kind of waste of time was that? UGH! She pulled out a spare piece of parchment and got to work.

Aah. "No, dear. Intaglio is the correct spell. It's the spell to use if you want to carve runes and preserve their magical energy and value. You know it works well when the rune glow." He smiled and patted her shoulder as he passed by her desk.

Text Cut: Adi

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Adi made his notes, his little left hand flying over the page of his book as he wrote. the amount of stuff he had already learnt and the lesson had not even gone half way as yet! Incantation for carving? He knew! It was Intag... Intag....Intag what? He had forgotten! Arrrgh! Thhat was one of the most frustrating things ever! Having the answer on the tip of your tongue and not being able to recall it fully.

But he did know the answer to the other part of the question. Adi raised his hand. "Professor, you chant the name of the rune you want to carve. But there's the incantation that must be first said before the chanting. I um...forgot what it was.'' And who were these guests? He was curious but he pushed the thoughts out of his head and began practicing drawing the rune. Over and over and over the first year drew Algiz's symbol.

Aw, the boy was working hard as it is. Botros smiled at him, expecting him to had written what he explained.

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Originally Posted by Tegz

Since intaglio had been said, West didn't bother answering again with the same thing. He also didn't write down notes because he just never needed to, so it was just time to wait and see what or who these guests would be.

Ab passed by Odessa's desk and patted his shoulder on his way. The boy was quiet and not his rune!enthusiast self. Did puberty do this or was it something else?

Text Cut: Sky

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Originally Posted by lazykitty

Sky had been taking notes, since she'd had absolutely no idea about which rune was Heimdallr's. And considering the look she had received for her last answer, it was probably for the best.

Wait, had Botros said guests? What kind of guests did he mean? Did they have something to do with the statues in the corridor?

"The spell's 'Intaglio' and you repeat the name of the rune you're carving until the rune is complete." Well, she figured she better make up for her off the wall answer followed by her note taking silence. And what better way than this kind of complicated spell?

"Correct, good." The girl was one of the good students who followed his flow of thoughts easily, it was expected that she knew what he was talking about.

Text Cut: Tora

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Originally Posted by amadshade

Tora didn't know the spell to carve a rune. Hadn't known. Now she knew just from listening to her fellow classmates, but if she raised her hand to say the answer, it would feel like cheating to her, so she left it be. Instead she practiced writing the rune. Honestly it was pretty simple. Like an upside down broomstick... sort of. Still, she wanted to draw it right.

Photos!: Parchment!

Ok this was harder than she originally thought. Eventually (after twelve tries!) she got it right. Just to make sure, she drew two more. Apparently it wasn't luck! She could now draw Algiz! She circled the correct ones, so that when the Professor came around he would be able to tell which ones Tora actually considered successful.

Botros reached the next girl's desk and peered over her shoulder at her work. "Aaah. Very good, dear. Well done." Patpatpat. Shoulder pats were his signature.

Text Cut: Kace

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Originally Posted by hpfan18

Kace was hearing that they were having guests? Hmm...that was interesting. He wondered who they could be. Then he perked his ears up for this one. He forgot how to do the carving, good thing the professor was going over it. He tried drawing out the rune. It did look like a ducks foot actually.

He scribbled....scribbled....scribbled....and even more scribble till he got the shape right. Once he got the hang of the shape. He waited till hear how he should preform the spell.

He even wrote Algiz on his notes so he won't be confused.

And a hair pat for the little Hufflepuff who never failed to amuse them with his spontaneity.

Text Cut: Tag

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Originally Posted by Team ronmione

AHA! Tag was sort of lightly bouncing in his seat. Paying attention to the Professor a bit more he heard that the answer he'd given was actually correct. See now why Tag liked this class! He was rather happy about that too.

So, as Botros said Tag wrote down the notes he'd written on the blackboard. Those would come in handy in studying for his OWLS. Thanks Professor! For the notes, that is.

Uhhhhh.

Now he wanted to hear what the carving spell was. Oh oh. Tag couldn't remember that, so he sort of shrunk- if that was possible for a guy his height at his age- more into his seat. He should know this. Yes?

Then Ella said it was Intaglio. Tag would trust her. She was usually right, and rather smart. Yes? Yes! Though, he didn't write down that answer for the moment, in case Botros had more to say. Although, now that he thought about it, it seemed like Intaglio seemed familiar? Hadn't they used it in that maze activity in this class last year? Tag couldn't quite remember though. So he silently sat there.

In the meantime though, Tag started to practice drawing the Algiz rune. Being productive and all.

Botros was proud of the blonde lion for doing remarkably better in his class today. He patted his arm as he passed by his desk and made sure he was drawing Algiz correctly.

Text Cut: Adrienne

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Originally Posted by aaetha

Well. Adrienne shot a gentle glare at Tora- she wasn't properly mad, but she didn't like her friends being better than her at things, and she was pretty sure Tora was at least 12% better than her at Ancient Runes. Ugh. And now she was annoyed, so she couldn't even remember that rune incantation, even though she knew she'd done it last class. Besides, other people would surely answer for her, so she just added a rune drawing onto the end of her notes.

Photos!: Adrienne's Parchment

Okay, so that looked... totally fine. There was no apparent reason for her to practice it. Seriously, it was just three lines, how could it not look fine? So while other people were drawing Algizes, Adrienne spent her time drawing stupid comics. Yayyy.

..... oh. He was pretty sure there were more things than Algiz on this girl's parchment.

Botros took the parchment from the under the girl's arm and squinted at the drawing. "Miss.." He looked down at her nametag. "...Colbert. The Algiz rune is good, the story next to it... is confusing.Who's that with the pointy hat?" He squinted at it for a second before quickly composing himself. "This isn't drawing class. Please take your things and go sit by your Prefect." He looked over at the Ravenclaw prefect, "Mr. Barrington, I expect you to make sure the kid pays attention for the rest of class." Mhmm. His first duty in here, have fun.

Text Cut: Nerida

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Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight

Nerida wrote the notes as they appeared always good to have them to study for NEWTS...

Scribble....Scribble...

And then they were talking about the carving spell and hearing the spell already being said she felt no need to say the spell when it had already been said so with that the blonde picked up her quill and began to draw over and over...and over.

Guests? What kind of guests were they having?

Draw. Scribble. Draw. Scribble. Draw.

After like a hundred tries she finally drew it right!

This Ravenclaw seemed to be paying enough attention, good good. Botros smiled at her as he inspected her work and moved to another desk.

Text Cut: Alice

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Originally Posted by lemon

"Hofuo." Hofuo. The word sounded funny on Alice's tongue, but later she'd pronounce it so much to get the hang of it that her dormmates would want to draw on her face in her sleep. As for that quote, she grinned extra happily at her favorite professor and mimed swinging around a hammer at him. Very Thor-like saying, if you asked her.

And.. Miss Abbi Campi. Witch Eater? Really? Alice made bitey motions at the first year with her teeth. NOT in front of the professor, little one. After attempting to scare the eleven year old into silence, she tugged out a fresh sheet of parchment and began scribbling little Algiz runes on it.

Algiz. Algiiiiz.

Guests? Hm. Interesting. Algiz was more interesting, though. It looked like a chicken foot. Her classwork was doodling bird legs.

He patted the shoulder of the 'witch eater' as he passed by and gave her a do-not-eat-anyone-today look.

Text Cut: Wade

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Originally Posted by Charely Potter

Though Wade felt content with his suggested rune for Heimdallr, he was quite surprised at being contradicted. His brows rose a little as he well, never expected it. Even though she had misunderstood part of what he said about Naudhiz, he was still impressed though by the Slytherin first year girl's vocabulary. She must definitely have a interest in the subject as well.. He didn't believe Heimdallr had excessive needs, just knew he felt needed by the people, so to speak.

He smiled back at the first year, before opening his mouth about to explain that... when Professor Botros already beat him to it.. and explained his meaning much better. Heh. Wade smiled back at the Professor nodding in thanks.

So the proper rune for Heimdallr is Algiz, though Wade was fine knowing Naudhiz could partially be as well. Just not as much as Algiz already is. He didn't hesitate on jotting down the stuff already in his books for his notes. Sure, books had the answers, but with notes they required less page flipping and eye scanning to find the right answer.

Now for the incantation, Wade raised his hand, "Intaglio is the incantation. You're met to hold the wand firmly against the surface, concentrating on nothing but the carving until it's finished." He knew his memory wouldn't forget that, especially after hearing Ella say it too. He blinked about the guests part. That sounded interesting, whoever they were. Shrugging, he got to practicing on drawing the funny upside broomstick shape.

*Scribble, scribble, scratch, scratch*

Botros didn't really need to check the Head Boy's work but he still gave him a proud approving nod and a smile as he passed his desk. One of the best students.

Text Cut: Jacque

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Originally Posted by atmor

Did he know the spell? Yes, did he participate in classes? Very little. It wasn't hat he found the class boring, he just didn't think he needed to participate that much. Coasting -or the illusion of- was good enough for him, although he didn't coast since he retained almost everything he learned and even things he didn't want to know. Sometimes the overload was too much.

Now with the expectations of extras -he assumed there were some magical creatures on the horizon since Hogwarts professors enjoyed sticking strange things in their students hands and heads- Jacques' lip twitch slightly. Instead of displaying his discomfort however, he drew his rune.

Botros didn't notice the boy's discomfort, but looked over at his work and patted his shoulder. "Good job, good." And moved on to the next desk.

Text Cut: Kat

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Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife

Algiz. Alright then. Kat wrote that down on her parchment, as well as the facts about the rune. English letter equivalent was Z. Yeah, she learnt that before so it was no problem remembering that... but she wrote it down anyway just in case she needed notes to study for the end of the term. NEWTs was just as pressuring as OWLs were in her fifth year, but only harder. She'd have to remember her lessons back in her sixth year then, and hopefully they didn't all slip off her mind. Whatever, still useful for studying and stuff. More notes blahblah.

Oh, the spell. Kat remembered that from last term. She raised her hand. "What they said. It's Intaglio, professor." Since they had the wand movement checked too, she didn't want to repeat the answer because she already repeated the Intaglio answer. Yep.

The Head Girl got a smile and a nod from him as well as he passed her desk and made sure her Algiz looked well and not crooked.

Text Cut: Adelaide

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Originally Posted by GrapehGrape

Adelaide smiled back at West. Had she stared for too long? She was just thourghly shocked by the poetry thing. Not many people their age new those sorts of things. Anyways, back to the lesson.

She made a note of what Botros was saying...and the fact that she was probably going to really need to read through her Runes textbook because obviously a lot of people in here knew a heck of a lot more about Runes than she did. She didn't need to know the most at things, she just didn't like being left behind.

She quickly scribbled down all of the information on Algiz on her parchment. Sure it was in her book, but handwriting it would help her remember it better when it came to exam time. Carving spell? Never done that either. Yep. She was definitely behind. Everyone seemed to be saying Intaglio and Addi vaguely remembered seeing that in one of her books somewhere.

Drawing she could do. And guests? What kind of guests? Was that a normal thing? Adelaide looked around the room as no one seemed to really question it. Oh well. She'd find out soon enough. She began to draw the Rune, trying to get it as perfect as possible. After about five or six sketches, she had what she thought was perfect.

"How's this professor?" She said holding up her parchment for him to see.

Botros made sure to keep his cane out of the way of students' legs as he moved to the Slytherin girl's desk. "Aaaah. It is perfect. Make sure to draw the three short lines meeting at one point with the longer vertical one." It was important for the carving later. "Good job, dear." He gave her the parchment back.

Text Cut: Benzi

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Originally Posted by fire_faerie

Benzi Rider officially had no idea what anyone here was talking about. He had huffed when the Professor had said the Norse Gods had no plumbing, but remembered his promise to Mummy and kept his mouth shut. He had promised her that he would at least TRY to not purposefully lose points. Talking back might lose him points. Meh.

He needed to save the point losing to something far better than talking back to this really old Ancient Runes professor. He was ancient himself. BWAHA. Probably when the professor was born, Ancient Runes were just Runes. GIGGLE!SNORT.

Flipping over pages in his book, Benzi really did try to get his head into this runes thing. But then that drawing of a bird's foot came along, and people were calling it Algiz and he was again left flabbergasted at how other first years knew this.

Grabbing his quill, he dipped it in his inkwell and began to draw the shape of the rune, over and over. It really wasn't very complicated. Meh. Glancing in his textbook, he found the description of Algiz and read it, not really seeing the point of copying the professor's description on the board.

Hey! He needed this rune to spell his name. Cool. Sort of. But why does it have two colours in the description? Glancing at the other runes, Benzi saw that they had two colours too. "Professor why do the runes have two colours, one in brackets?"

. . . It was ok to ask an off-topic question right?

Well. That was a weird question, but a legit one. Botros came closer to look at the boy's work so far. "It's from two different sources. And sometimes we take our purpose of using the rune in consideration when choosing which color it represents." He smiiiiled at the boy, expecting him to understand what he just said. It was simple!

Text Cut: Fern

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Originally Posted by imaginarynumb3rs

Fern's face had been growing redder and redder throughout class. She didn't know any of these answers, and it was embarrassing. Tonight she would start reading that textbook and make flashcards. But for now she would remain ashamed and take as many notes as possible.

Lips pursed in concentration as she drew the Algiz, Fern quickly filled up one sheet of parchment and flipped it over to start on the other side. Every few seconds though, she glanced at the door, because she wanted to be the first to see these surprise guests!

Botros reached the young Hufflepuff's desk and leaned a bit to see her work. He patted her head gently, "Very good job, keep going." Patpatpat before he moved on to the next desk.

Text Cut: Asher

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Originally Posted by bitsyandtank

He was doing his best to write all the notes and scribble down the picture of the rune before the next task was presented. After waiting a few moments, and searching his mind for the correct answer, Asher finally landed on Intaglio. Just as he was about to answer, several other students shouted it out.

No need for him to answer what had already been said. Instead, he once again practiced drawing Algiz and went over how to preform Intaglio, so he would be ready.

Botros smiled proudly at one of the proteges in his class. "Good job so far." He encouraged the boy and walked on.

Text Cut: Nigel

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Originally Posted by Meizzner

Well it was a guess. Nigel thought the rune meat gods. Odin was a god so partially right. But yeah. Mostly wrong. And now was the carving portion of the class. Craving runes was pretty fun. Especially in the maze like last year.

Really guests. Well that is interesting. Nigel wondered who these guests where. Nigel did not feel the need to raise his hand as say Intaglio. Drawing sounded better now.

Algiz. It kind looked like one of Nigel's awesome stick figures or a plane upside down.

"Make sure the little Ravenclaw is on track with us." He reminded the Prefect. She didn't look troublesome, just had a short attention span, so it shouldn't be a problem. "Good job on those Algiz shapes, too."

Text Cut: Alexa

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

Algiz, look at that, she was right. But of course she was. She'd been scanning through the text and had actually taken the time to read it some time ago. She beamed at the Professor when he told her she was correct. He was kinda far away at the moment though so she wouldn't expect any shoulder pats...this time. See how selfless she could be?

While others were mentioning the spell and wand movement, she busied herself practising the drawing like the Professor asked. No need to repeat what everyone else was repeating, yeah?

After awhile though...it got boring so she stopped--GUEST??? they were having guests???

Lex looked to the door without giving it much thought. That's where any guests would come from, yeah? Or maybe they'd come through the wall??? WOULD THEY??? AND BREAK THINGS?? The Professor probably wouldn't be very happy about that but merlin was the idea exciting. What if they blew through the wall??

Her parchment was now long forgotten. She wanted to see something fall apart please.

Botros smiled calmly at Cambridge's work and patted her arm, "Well done." He noticed her eager glances up at the door and chuckled. The guests thing made them more excited than he thought it would.

Text Cut: Sonea

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Originally Posted by Sonea

Hmm, she didn’t had answered ANYTHING during this lesson and eh… would the professor think that she was lazy or just stupid because she didn’t had done ANYTHING besides making notes? Hmm, she didn’t hoped it because she wasn’t lazy END she wasn’t stupid either, but this lesson was just so… difficult! She wanted to be the best in everything, she wanted to be the top student from Slytherin, but… she wasn’t… So when the professor spoke again and gave them the time to make a few notes she did it immediately! She NEEDED her notes if she wanted to get a good grade for this lesson!

Haha, and this time she KNEW the next answer, she knew what the indication from the spell was, but before she could give the right answer, another student had already spoke, and because the others were giving the same answer as she had wanted to give she lowered her hand and didn’t wanted to speak again, she didn’t wanted to repeat what the others were saying!

With a irritated look in her eyes she started to practice the drawing, just as the professor had said them to do. She made this:

SPOILER!!: drawing

Botros looked at Duvessa's work and nodded in approval, "Very good job." He meant it, too. She was doing her best and it was enough.

Text Cut: Sophie

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Sophie didn't know the incantation for the carving spell. She didn't really like Ancient Runes, and therefore hadn't really read anything about it before coming to school. Add in the fact that her mother hated the subject, too, and that amounted to this class being Sophie's very first experience with runes.

So instead, she took out her color changing quill.

She set to work doing a rainbow drawing of six different Algiz shapes. If she couldn't give the incantation to carve the shapes, then she could at least do a really pretty drawing. ...and so were the thoughts of an eleven-year-old girl.

Oooh, colors. Botros smiled at the young girl's job as he passed by her desk and patted her arm, "Good job."

Text Cut: Alec (Kita)

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

So it WAS Algiz! And he got an 'excellent thinking'? Really? The boy grinned at Botros before grinning over at... oh HEY girlfriend! Beaming girlfriend! GRIN. Was it okay that he was proud of himself? Yeah? Okay. Still grinning -- because why not? -- he took hold of his quill and started scribbling down some notes about this particular rune.

Scribble... scribble... scribble...

... There. Okay. His eyes flicked up towards the board again and he tilted his head. It didn't look like it was a hard rune to draw, Algiz, but sometimes, drawing was hard. Especially for a slight perfectionist like himself. He looked down at his parchment and frowned slightly. A Y with a line down the middle from the top too. Or a footprint of some sort. That was an easy way to remember this.

And... there was no need to mention what the spell and wand movement was, yeah? Because smart people were smart and he wasn't going to repeat the answers. The seventeen year old bent his head and started working on the rune, practising the drawing just like Botros had told them to. Over and over the rune was drawn on until...

... THERE. He was done. GRIN.

And the grinning Hufflepuff boy was grinning. Botros gave him a wide smile and checked his work quickly, expecting it to be as good as always. "Very good job, Mr. Summers." Patting his shoulder and on to the next desk.

Text Cut: Minnie

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Originally Posted by Bazinga

Why was her head always swimming in this class.. Like always a swimming mess of confusion. She heard it, she studied it, but it just never ever made that much sense to her. At least with Mr. Accent it was some what fun to listen to, [s]rest his plant eaten soul [/s, but this she was struggling. It wasn't that she didn't like Botros he was a super sweet man she just never got that point of the Runes stuff. It was just different.

Now they were making.. what? She remembered the spell yes.. yes they had done it how many terms now. About to put her hand up she realized she was a little behind and everyone had theirs up already. Well it seemed she had become quiet in many classes this term. Oh well at least she some what knew what she was doing.

line.. line.. scratch that.. no that's not right.. Scribble.. scribble..


She looked at her parchment and back up at at the board. Yes that will do. It works at least.

Botros nodded at the Hufflepuff prefect's parchment, "That's good, well done. Make sure the long lower line is straight." With a smile he walked on.

Text Cut: Cassia

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Originally Posted by the fastest seeker

Eeeh. Okay. So her answer wasn't correct for the reasons the professor just said. The man did look muscular to her. Well, not like Thor but he wasn't bad, good for him, he should keep it up, whatever he was doing. Or wait...he was probably dead now.

Moving on!

Finally something she remembered! Excitedly her arm shot up in the air as she spoke. "The carving spell is intaglio. We say the rune's name which we want to carve, after Intaglio until it's carved," She carved all the runes last year! She know!

And now they had to draw? This lesson was becoming interesting. The fifth-year flipped to a blank page and reached for a quill. She stared a bit at the rune then started working on her parchment slowly and carefully. It might have taken her a while but she was finally done. She sat back upon putting down her quill on top of her drawing and waited. And did he say guests?

Oooh, more color. Slytherin girls liked colorful drawing it seemed. He smiled at her and nodded, "Very good job." This was enough for class checking-up, right? His knees were starting to ache anyways, and so he inched between the desks toward the dais to lean on his big desk.

"For you to feel the Algiz rune and what it really means, we're going to need some help..." He took his wand from the desk and waved it at the door...