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As soon as you step through the fifth floor and head towards the classroom, you find the professor standing just outside the door cradling the top of his cane with his hands. His usual and signature relaxed smile on his face as he waits for the students to file into the room.
The classroom is the ordinary Ancient Runes classroom, it's clean, it's neat, and there are hardly anything interesting in there. The small dais, that has the professor's big desk, faces three rows of desks and a blackboard is hung up on the wall behind it. There are name tags perched up on each desk, some have names already there with updated years, and others are empty for the new students to fill.
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For new students:
Please write your name and year on the name tag and tap it with your wand to make it into a desk name tag.
For returning students:
Sit at the desk with your name tag already set on top.
Everyone:
Keep your voices down until the lesson starts.
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*The older student at the front looked beyond nervous. Rom was just thankful that it wasn't himself up there. He would be just as red from nerves, but would end up turning into a mute and never being able to get his question out. All those eyes looking at him... This question was a bit easier to answer. Raising his hand he added his answer.*
"Galdr means protection, making me wonder if that was its original use. As for a rune of protection I would go with Algiz. It is meant to protect yourself and others with a kind of shield."
Whoa. No she did not know what a galdr originally meant, nor could she recite one, though that boy from the stables seemed to know all about them. He was singing? Chanting? Whatever it was, it creeped Gwen out just a little. This whole invoking runes thing just sounded more and more like those culty people that Gwen's dad always told her to stay away from. She took a deep breath. Cult-ish or not, this was her world now. She was going to have to learn to live with it.
Finally, a question that she might be able to answer. She scanned the list of galdrs in her book struggling to make the letters stop swimming and make sense. It was doubly hard in Ancient Runes, because these words were all unfamiliar to her, so she was never sure if the letters were in order or not. Finally she settled on one that she liked most. She raised her hand. "Algiz might be good for protection." It was Algiz, right?
Delilah smiled when she watched a familiar blonde walk to the front of the class. Aw, Tag seemed so nervous. She definitely couldn't blame him though. To stand in the front of the class and talk.. yeah, no. She couldn't handle public-speaking. Not at all.
As for the first question.. well, there was no point in repeating what others had already said so she decided to go for the next question. She hesitated for a moment before raising her hand and shifted her gaze from Tag to the professor. "Uh.. Thurisaz? Isn't it a protection rune as well?"
Aw, the Gryffindor was obviously nervous. Botros kept nodding at him encouragingly, Kildare had been getting better and better in runes over the last few terms he earned the top student rank. No need for stuttering. Asking about Galdrs after discussing Gandrs was good, Botros wanted the kids to know the difference between those two.
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Hand up, the blonde waited for her turn and then offered, "I think it originally meant incantation? As for the protection stuff, I guess it depends on what you'd want to protect?" Because while one rune might protect your property, another would protect yourself.
"Yes, miss Bishop. A Galdr is an incantation that invokes the runes and summons their magical energy to be used." It would've been better if she was willing to chant one of them to her fellow students, though.
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Now that was something Sander had mentioned before, so he raised his hand.
"Galdr is an old Norse word meaning incantation. The verb gala is also used to mean " to crow". It was only later that the word came to mean magic."Sander gave the meaning to the word.
"Since we are talking about protection, one of the runes for protection for yourself and your family, is Eihwaz and the Galdr sound goes like this...
Iwaz iwaz iwaz
e e e e e e e e e
iwu iwa iwi iwa iwu
iwo iwe iwi iwa iwu
e e e e e e e e e " Sander crooned the sound for everyone to hear.
Huh. This was a brave one for chanting in front of everyone. Botros nodded at him, "Correct, that is one rune we can use for protection. Good singing skills, too." Hehe.
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... Alec shook his head. Not the time. His hand went up in the air, his grey-blue eyes on the blonde haired Gryffindor up at the front. "I agree with the others. Incantation." Ells and Sander. And he was going with them because smart Ells was smart and Sander seemed like he knew lots. Could he perform one? ... He paused. Performing one in front of the whole class. Sorry, mate. Summers wasn't the name of performers.
Protection. Protection... "Well... one is Fehu. Erm... it helps to protect property and... valuables, I guess," That sounded right, right? "The textbook also mentioned something about the Galdr for this rune providing... good luck?" Yeah? Right? Yeah.
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"There's the Fehu galdr, which could be used for protection of valuables? I think it goes something like... fehu fehu fehu... f f f f f f f f f... fu fa fi fe fo..." The Hufflepuff trailed off here as though he was finished, but in reality just couldn't remember the rest. He squeezed up his face and tried to remember, and eventually just cracked open his textbook the teeeeeeeeeeeniest bit, and lowered his head to peek inside and give himself a hint. Suddenly he lifted his head back up again, and enthusiastically and confidently finished off the rest of the galdr. "... of ef if af uf... f f f f f f f f f..."
When he'd finished he looked expectantly from Tag to Professor Botros.
Toby did good?
"Precisely, yes." He smiled at both of them. Aw and look! The younger Hufflepuff was willing to chant in front of the others. Botros clapped for him when he did so, he even chanted along some lines.
SPOILER!!: Thurisaz people
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This dude was Alec's best friend, was he not? Unless Adi was mistaken. Gosh, the poor guy was nervous! No need to be, dude!
Alright. Question time. Adi sure knew the first part though he had to think of which Rune he would want to use. After some time he raised a hand. "Galdr means Incantation,'' he said. ''The Rune I would want to use is Jera. According to the text, it has to do with harmony and it leads to good results because of right thoughts and action.''
Jera? Okay. Botros nodded at the young boy, "Jera does bring harmony and inspiration. You can chant the Galdr as so;" He cleared his throat and started in a low-tone serene voice. "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.. jur jar jir jer jor.. j j j e e e r r r a a a." Pause. "The part between brackets must be chanted in a lower voice than the other lines." He clarified.
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Well this question-asker was... stuttery, that's for sure. But it was a good question, and Adrienne took a few moments to think about it before answering slowly. "It means, euh," something to do with words, repetitive words if she remembered correctly. "Chant, perhaps?" That sounded very wrong, but she didn't really have anything else in mind to say. "Intonation?" That one sounded closer, but honestly she had no idea if she was right or just sort of making things up.
Could she perform one? Well, not from memory, of course. They had a bunch of repeated syllables, and though she'd read through her textbook two or three times since the beginning of the year, she'd paid much more attention to the more interesting parts, like the meanings of the runes and, her favourite, their associated myths and gods. Repeated syllables were just kind of... eh. But the second part, Adrienne could certainly answer that. "For protection I'd probably go with something like Thurisaz. It's a lot about that, and I think it kind of uses the whole 'the best defence is a good offence' way of going about it." Destruction of enemies and all that.
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Delilah smiled when she watched a familiar blonde walk to the front of the class. Aw, Tag seemed so nervous. She definitely couldn't blame him though. To stand in the front of the class and talk.. yeah, no. She couldn't handle public-speaking. Not at all.
As for the first question.. well, there was no point in repeating what others had already said so she decided to go for the next question. She hesitated for a moment before raising her hand and shifted her gaze from Tag to the professor. "Uh.. Thurisaz? Isn't it a protection rune as well?"
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As Lux copied down more notes, she listened to the next person ask a question. He seemed so nervous that she felt bad for him. Clearly he did not like being the center of attention in class. Not even sure what the answer to the first question was, she decided to focus on what Rune she would use for protection. Looking at her chart for a few moments, she raised her hand when she made her choice. "I would go with Thurisaz, since it deals with counter-spells and you know they say that the best defence is a good offence."
"Yes, a Galdr is equivalent to a magical incantation, it is a chant that brings out the magic in runes." So the girl was correct. "Thurisaz is associated with the norse god Thor. Chanting the Galdr of this rune is more about force and fighting back than it is about protection." He turned to the Hufflepuff kid next, "Using it with counter-spells is perfect, yes." But that was defense and fighting back, not protection.
SPOILER!!: Algiz people
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West tried not to hide astonishment and amusement at Tag being called up to ask a question, but soon enough settled down to listen to what it actually was, and even sort of mentally cheered the guy on to get him through the stuttering.
Y'know because apparently he was nervous? Well okay.
West decided to go with the last part of the question. He put his hand up.
"I'd go with Algiz for protection." Keeping his answer simple over here, but a literal shield could happen from Algiz, and if not a shield then strengthening. He didn't need to elaborate on that did he? No, West didn't think so.
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Lex gave the board a once over. All things she'd done back in her Third Year. It took up the majority of her days just trying to get it done, working with Mo of course. He made things not nearly as long and tedious as they could have been. Like the Professor said, she wouldn't actually have to write this stuff down so looking was the furthest extent to which she went.
Lex slumped onto her desk and turned her attention to Tag. He'd be asking the next question yeah? The girl rested her elbow on the desk and rested her chin in the palm of her hand, trying to look interested but these questions were all routine stuff. When would they get to break something loudly and violently?
While listening she heard everyone else giving the definition for Galdr. She wasn't about to repeat a fixed meaning so...skipping right along...to a rune for protection? There weren't like a ton of those to begin with.
"I'll go with what Odessa said, Algiz. It's down in the text for protection, that's as legit as it needs to get." No big fancy explanation there. Algiz, protection, boom she had an answer.
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Sooo, Sophie had pretty much listened throughout the duration of this class, but it was only now when she decided to speak up again. Heh. Imagine that. Sophie Newel being quiet.
Uhhh...
Sophie raised her hand. "A Galdr is just one of those chants, right? If so, I did one of those school year. It turned out pretty good," she said. Although, she pretty much couldn't remember what she'd chanted about... "I'm going to echo the others and say Algiz for protection, but really, you could say any of them here. There's runes for fortune, and if you wanted to protect your fortune, you could use that one."
...and so on and so forth.
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LOLOLOLOLOL.
The moment Tag stood and spoke up, Astrid tried not to laugh out loud. She was just smiling and all, no big deal. She contained her giggles too so that she didn't disrupt the class. Don'r worry, she was good at that now. But anyway, she focused on his question though. Not the fact that he was stuttering (which was sort of impossible to ignore because that really SUCKED for the Leprecorn). So, Galdr. Right. She knew what that was.
Raising her hand, Astrid answered. "It's the Old Norse word for 'incantation'." She didn't have to take longer than a minute to think of that! It was an accomplishment! As for the protection question... Merlin, could Tag ask any more obvious questions? "But if you're looking for protection, I would say Algiz. Well, it is the protection rune." The other runes were also used for protection, sure, but nothing's more than the protection rune itself.
ALSO LOL TAG'S TOMATO FACE. Astrid just grinned.
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This guy looked NERVOUS. He could probably win the So Nervous Prize if Beverly wasn't the winner already. Except, the thought of going up in front of a classroom and play professor made her dizzy. Up there? Her eyes would probably roll to the back of her head and she'd pass out. She could sympathize with this Mr. Kildare dude.
So answering wasn't as much of a chore anymore. Usually the confident and loud ones made her nervous.
Beverly raised her hand. "Um..." Oh wait. Several others said what she was going to say. WHAAA. Compose yourself, Wayne!
"U-Um, what they said," she said, shrugging her head in their direction. "Algiz, it stands for protection and safety... Um, would any other rune like, a specific kind, still provide protection for certain occasions?" Like one only for magic or one for traveling or...yeah. Get it? Algiz couldn't be the only one.
Lowering her arm she hoped this was the last question. Her arm was getting tired and her face was probably flushed. THIS LESSON TOOK HER OUT OF HER COMFORT ZONE. Not NICE. >__<
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*The older student at the front looked beyond nervous. Rom was just thankful that it wasn't himself up there. He would be just as red from nerves, but would end up turning into a mute and never being able to get his question out. All those eyes looking at him... This question was a bit easier to answer. Raising his hand he added his answer.*
"Galdr means protection, making me wonder if that was its original use. As for a rune of protection I would go with Algiz. It is meant to protect yourself and others with a kind of shield."
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Whoa. No she did not know what a galdr originally meant, nor could she recite one, though that boy from the stables seemed to know all about them. He was singing? Chanting? Whatever it was, it creeped Gwen out just a little. This whole invoking runes thing just sounded more and more like those culty people that Gwen's dad always told her to stay away from. She took a deep breath. Cult-ish or not, this was her world now. She was going to have to learn to live with it.
Finally, a question that she might be able to answer. She scanned the list of galdrs in her book struggling to make the letters stop swimming and make sense. It was doubly hard in Ancient Runes, because these words were all unfamiliar to her, so she was never sure if the letters were in order or not. Finally she settled on one that she liked most. She raised her hand. "Algiz might be good for protection." It was Algiz, right?
"Algiz is the perfect, most useful protection rune in general." Though none of them chanted the Galdr of this rune, tsk tsk. Botros started chanting for them, "elhaz elhaz elhaz.. z z z z z z z z z.." He made a deep whistling sound before continuing, "Uz az iz ez uz.. oz ez iz az uz.. z z z z z z z z z.. m m m m m m m m m." It needed a lot of practice, yes, he was aware. But now they knew how it should be chanted.
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Tessa glanced around as the question was asked. It seemed the first few parts had been covered, so she decided to address the last question the boy had posed. A few others had mentioned a few runes for protection- she raised her hand to add her own thoughts. "Another Rune for protection would be Nauthiz- although I can't say that it would be the first choice of everyone. It has a large focus on will, and there are people that don't have the strongest of will power and may not be able to use this effectively," she reasoned.
"Nauthiz is more about overcoming a distress, its Galdr gives you the strength to have that invincible magical will, yes, but not so much for protection as you mentioned. Unless that will to summon the magic makes it easier for you to create a magical shield." Now the chanting part. "naudhiz naudhiz naudhiz.. n n n n n n n n n.. nu na nu ne no.. nudh nadh hudh nedh niodh.. nut nat nit net not.. un an in en on.. n n n n n n n n n."
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Galdrs were... embarrassing, and Mo was happy to let some of his classmates give examples in his stead. He just wasn't in the right place mentally to put on a crowing performance, not when the answer didn't strictly call for it. Like his more moderate classmates, Mo opted for the last part of the question.
"I think maybe I'd invoke Mannaz with the appropriate Galdr. It's supposed to increase memory and mental powers, as well as dreaming, so I think it would be perfect to invoke Mannaz right before studying or an exam. Or even at night, if you want colorful dreams. " Mosef did not want colorful dreams, but the other uses seemed particularly useful.
"Mannaz for family protection." Botros pondered this for a moment before he nodded his head. Again, he would've preferred the boy to chant its Galdr, or at least try. But no worries, the professor was going to do it anyway. "mannaz mannaz mannaz.. m m m a a a a a a n n n.. mu ma mi me mo
mun man min men mon.. um am im em om.. mon men min man mun.. m m m a a a a a a n n n.. m m m m m m m m m.." It was like humming! An easy Galdr.
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Emily was certainly not going to go up there and perform in front of everyone just yet, but she was willing to at least participate in the second part of his questioning. "Well, I suppose I'd use Uruz, for strength and speed, that would definitely help as far as with needing up in your face physical protection..."
Especially if she ever wanted to break free from her plant obsessed mothers dreams of them working together in the ministry's environmental protection department. Eww.
Aurors just had more fun...
"Good choice! Its Galdr goes like this." He cleared his throat and started, "uruz uruz uruz.. u u u u u u u u u.. u u u u u u r r r r r r.. u u u u u u u u u.." Another easy Galdr.
Botros smiled at the Gryffindor who asked the question again and allowed him to go back to his seat. "Galdr chanting needs constant practice, remember that. We'll get to it in details in later lessons." He nodded before leaning forwards on his cane.
"We've talked lengthly about the runes as magic symbols, I'd like us to move to talking about runes as characters in an alphabet. Who can tell me anything they know about runic alphabets?" Anything at all.
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Leah had no idea what Galdrs were, so she quietly listened for a moment, and when the next question was up she opened her mouth. "The Elder Futhark that we talked about earlier is a type of Runic alphabets, isn't it?" Leah asked. "Very ancient. Like in the 7th centuries." What century was this? Oh yes, the 21st.
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Ian thought he could take a shot at this one. He raised his hand. sir. I would think that it was important to the early users of the alphabets to have a common set of characters that provided meaning to them. it wasn't much! but it was the best the second year student could come up with.
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"We've talked lengthly about the runes as magic symbols, I'd like us to move to talking about runes as characters in an alphabet. Who can tell me anything they know about runic alphabets?" Anything at all.
ooc: - there is one more question after this and then we're wrapping it up!
- Please don't go overboard with your answer, it's okay if your character doesn't know the correct answer.
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So Huxley was doing the whole listening, page flipping, dozing, head-turning-as-if-paying-attention sort of thing. Fellow students asking questions to fellow students and Professor adds a few things in yada yada ok she gets it.
But now this other question coming from the elderly man and Huxley raised a lethargic hand in reply "They were used to mark gravestones and tombs, usually indicating who was buried there and anything noteworthy about them or the clan they belonged to, it also says whoever it was that did the carvings or commissioned for the tombstone to be raised."
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"We've talked lengthly about the runes as magic symbols, I'd like us to move to talking about runes as characters in an alphabet. Who can tell me anything they know about runic alphabets?" Anything at all. [/indent] ooc: - there is one more question after this and then we're wrapping it up!
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Galdrs were fun. West actually had no problem doing them in front of people if necessary... he'd rather know how to make the magic happen than get all embarrassed about it after all. Next question?
Something he knew about runic alpha... well. West put his hand up. "Even though we refer to it as a runic alphabet, technically runes aren't alphabets at all, though the Elder Futhark, is actually named in much the same way as what we call 'the alphabet', since F-u-th-a-r-k are the first runes in order, kind of like how Alpha and Beta are the first letters in the Greek Alphabet." Futhark. Alphabet. See? That was how stuff got named.
Anyways. That was enough. There was plenty to say, plenty of things that could be good answers to that question, but West just stuck with that.
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Ohhh, Delilah had been wrong. This class was quite interesting and it looked like she had done a decent job trying to answer questions so far. And it helped that the professor was nice and helpful, too.
Um. Um. She gave the question some thought before finally answering the question. She raised her hand and said, "Runic alphabets can be read both ways as in from left to right as well as from right to left.."
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Woah wait! What was going on?! why were some students stuttering and being all weird with their...singing. And even the Professor did it not to mention he was praising them. WHAT HAD HE MISSED?!
Galdr chanting? THAT was what they were doing? Kevin looked around him with a look of pure confusion on his face. He did not get this class and all the singing, it was too difficult for him but at the same time it looked like it would be fun to be able to chant like that. Maybe he should practise as well....He opened his mouth to just sing some random letters when the Professor asked the next question...mweh better luck next time.
Another textbook question. Good, he probably could answer this one. "I read something about Runa meaning whisper or secret" was that good cause that was one of the only things he knew. "So these stick figures are actually code language?"
What was with all of the chanting? They weren't actually invoking any runes right now, so why chant? It seemed a bit pointless. And they were back to questions Gwen couldn't answer. There is more than one?" At least she thought there was. And that was literally all she knew about runic alphabets. "Also you can spell your name with runes." He had done that at the beginning of class, no? Gwen might have to look up how to spell her own name in runes. On second thought, she might convince someone else to look it up, then just tell her. All that reading stuff hurt her brain.
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"We've talked lengthly about the runes as magic symbols, I'd like us to move to talking about runes as characters in an alphabet. Who can tell me anything they know about runic alphabets?" Anything at all.
Okay. See? Algiz was right. Astrid grinned. Never underestimate the original protection rune. But now moving on to the next question, which was a complicated one and Astrid would take forever in thinking of something up with checking her textbook. She wanted to get stuff right without checking it on her textbook. Kinda like a challenge to her. Which was getting more and more impossible. Merlin.
So uhm... Astrid slowly raised her hand. "There's the Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, and the Younger Futhark." Three out of many runic alphabets, see? Professor Botros did ask for anything they knew about runic alphabets so there was her answer. Heh. She tried her best anyway. Wasn't that what counts the most?
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What did she know about runic alphabets...? Almost nothing, but not enough to have her sitting quietly and having nothing to contribute to the discussion they were having in class. Lex thought over her answer before shooting her hand up to give the next response. "They're believed to have Scanidnavian origins mostly and were once affliated with the Vikings, right?" Right? Actually no. She had no idea how right she was being here. Her memory of runes and Vikings was rather limited but they made a good fit in her mind...hence her answer.
Pay no attention to her, it must have been all the sitting still and not getting to hear loud, obnoxious and destructive noises that usually got her mind racing a mile a minute.
The Professor not saying there was someone else to answer the question got her thinking that portion of the class might have been over by now? It was just as well. Questions from them weren't any more comforting in the absence of using the runes.
There was always next class.
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Adorable Botros was adorable, clapping and chanting along to the Galdrs like that. Ella couldn't help but smile. Botros was the best.
After hearing the next question, the badger switched gears from Galdrs to runic alphabets, listening intently to her classmates. A lot of good things had already been mentioned, some of which she'd recognized from the lesson where they had to create messages with runes. Speaking of, Ella now knew what she could add to the discussion.
"When you write with runes, the words aren't divided up like we're used to with spaces between them. Dots are sometimes used, though, to help separate the words. Pretty helpful, especially when you're trying to decode a message." And n'aww, now Ella was remembering the message Toby had written her. Big smiles for him just cause.
*Romulus felt a little bad that he wasn't able to chant the rune. But he just needed practice. Right? Now here was a question he knew. Roms hand shot up as he answered that professor.*
"The runic alphabet was used by muggle as well as witches and wizards. The muggles later used it to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. So in a way it helped form the English we speak today."
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Alec's attention turned over towards Tobias, who had followed on to chant the Galdr for Fehu. A small grin spread across the boy's face as he looked from the younger Hufflepuff and back to Botros. Yeah... that was how it was done. Thank you, Badger Boom. Awesome chanting.
Anything they knew about the runic alphabet. The seventh year sat back and tried to think about an answer that someone else hadn't said. He wanted to say something about a certain Norse God but... that was generally linked to the magic behind the runes and not the alphabet part, right? Should he mention that or... go with another answer completely?
... Another answer.
Remembering something he had made a small note on before, Alec raised his hand in the air, his eyes on Botros. "It was around from... the third to the... thirteenth? Yeah, the third to the thirteenth centuries." ... Pause. "And then they were replaced by the Roman alphabet." Nodnod.
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Caleb raised his hand. THIS he at least knew a little something about! "Well you can easily translate a lot of words into the runic alphabet. Some of them might be tricky since some of the runes stand for two letters, or a sound instead of just a letter, but usually it's pretty easy and super cool seeing your name in a different alphabet!" he said. Would that be their homework? PLEASE LET THAT BE THEIR HOMEWORK!
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Toby tried to guess how long the class had been on for. Much longer than his usual period of concentration, but he'd stuck it out and was trying harder than ever to try and keep focused. Aaaaand this question... he knew about Elder Futhark, and he'd read his textbook over the summer, but he just couldn't seem to place an answer very well, but he raised his hand and tried anyway.
"The lines of the runes in Elder Futhark are all either diagonal or horizontal, and they're all straight lines," he began, lowering his hand again and fiddling with the feathered end of his quill as it stood in his inkpot. "That way they're all easier to carve, AND when they're carved in wood you can angle it so there aren't any lines that go with the grain, 'cause then it might close over or something as the wood changes over time, or be hard to read and... maybe the rune wouldn't work so well. Like its magic and stuff. Maybe."
Maybe.
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Aw, the Gryffindor was obviously nervous. Botros kept nodding at him encouragingly, Kildare had been getting better and better in runes over the last few terms he earned the top student rank. No need for stuttering. Asking about Galdrs after discussing Gandrs was good, Botros wanted the kids to know the difference between those two.
"Yes, miss Bishop. A Galdr is an incantation that invokes the runes and summons their magical energy to be used." It would've been better if she was willing to chant one of them to her fellow students, though.
Huh. This was a brave one for chanting in front of everyone. Botros nodded at him, "Correct, that is one rune we can use for protection. Good singing skills, too." Hehe.
"Precisely, yes." He smiled at both of them. Aw and look! The younger Hufflepuff was willing to chant in front of the others. Botros clapped for him when he did so, he even chanted along some lines.
SPOILER!!: Thurisaz people
Jera? Okay. Botros nodded at the young boy, "Jera does bring harmony and inspiration. You can chant the Galdr as so;" He cleared his throat and started in a low-tone serene voice. "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.. jur jar jir jer jor.. j j j e e e r r r a a a." Pause. "The part between brackets must be chanted in a lower voice than the other lines." He clarified.
"Yes, a Galdr is equivalent to a magical incantation, it is a chant that brings out the magic in runes." So the girl was correct. "Thurisaz is associated with the norse god Thor. Chanting the Galdr of this rune is more about force and fighting back than it is about protection." He turned to the Hufflepuff kid next, "Using it with counter-spells is perfect, yes." But that was defense and fighting back, not protection.
SPOILER!!: Algiz people
"Algiz is the perfect, most useful protection rune in general." Though none of them chanted the Galdr of this rune, tsk tsk. Botros started chanting for them, "elhaz elhaz elhaz.. z z z z z z z z z.." He made a deep whistling sound before continuing, "Uz az iz ez uz.. oz ez iz az uz.. z z z z z z z z z.. m m m m m m m m m." It needed a lot of practice, yes, he was aware. But now they knew how it should be chanted.
"Nauthiz is more about overcoming a distress, its Galdr gives you the strength to have that invincible magical will, yes, but not so much for protection as you mentioned. Unless that will to summon the magic makes it easier for you to create a magical shield." Now the chanting part. "naudhiz naudhiz naudhiz.. n n n n n n n n n.. nu na nu ne no.. nudh nadh hudh nedh niodh.. nut nat nit net not.. un an in en on.. n n n n n n n n n."
"Mannaz for family protection." Botros pondered this for a moment before he nodded his head. Again, he would've preferred the boy to chant its Galdr, or at least try. But no worries, the professor was going to do it anyway. "mannaz mannaz mannaz.. m m m a a a a a a n n n.. mu ma mi me mo
mun man min men mon.. um am im em om.. mon men min man mun.. m m m a a a a a a n n n.. m m m m m m m m m.." It was like humming! An easy Galdr.
"Good choice! Its Galdr goes like this." He cleared his throat and started, "uruz uruz uruz.. u u u u u u u u u.. u u u u u u r r r r r r.. u u u u u u u u u.." Another easy Galdr.
Botros smiled at the Gryffindor who asked the question again and allowed him to go back to his seat. "Galdr chanting needs constant practice, remember that. We'll get to it in details in later lessons." He nodded before leaning forwards on his cane.
"We've talked lengthly about the runes as magic symbols, I'd like us to move to talking about runes as characters in an alphabet. Who can tell me anything they know about runic alphabets?" Anything at all.
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Ah yes. She had been correct. That was always a good feeling. Emma scribbled down notes as the other students spoke their answers, many of them with similar ideas of strength and protection. And now they were moving on to the next question. 'What else was there to know about the runic alphabet?' She raised her hand slowly, smiling up at the man when called upon.
"Well, sometimes the runic inscriptions were used for personal letters, greetings to friends, political and non political proposals, and sometimes even love letters.." She answered, smiling again at the thought of older times. Everything was so much more romantic then..
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The alphabet itself, now that was something Adrienne didn't often think about. "Even though the runes were around, them put together as an alphabet wasn't actually a thing until, uh," she closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair for a moment, trying to remember. "The year 200. CE, that is." She'd always preferred using CE and BCE instead of AD and BC, because everything being based around religion had always bothered her.
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"We've talked lengthly about the runes as magic symbols, I'd like us to move to talking about runes as characters in an alphabet. Who can tell me anything they know about runic alphabets?" Anything at all.
Runic alphabets. Yes. Adi knew a bit about these. He raised a hand. "Professor, the Elder Futhark was used in the second to eight centuries. The Anglo-Frisian was used during the fifth to the eleventh centuries.'' Er. That was all. His brain couldn't remember anymore centuries for more alphabets.
Asher was on a small steak of being right in this lesson now maybe he actually knew more than he realized. Just maybe. He listened to the professor again. He raised his hand after a little bit of thinking about it. And hearing others. "There are twenty-four runes divided out into three groups called Etts "
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Beverly watched as professor Botros chanted for Algiz. She absentmindedly mimicked him by mouthing it, and did her best to write it down for future reference.
The questions still kept coming. This time from Botros himself. Bev raised her hand. This was an easy answer, yeah? "The Elder Futhark is made up of twenty-four staves, and they are commonly divided into three groups of eight; also referred as aetts. I'm certain the aetts are named after Freyja, Hagal and Tiw." That's what her worn out text book said.
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Errr, Lux could not really remember much about the Runic alphabet. But she did know that you could spell your name in different alphabets, granted some were more difficult to work with than others. Raising her hand, she said, "You can spell your name out in Runes."
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