Cris was still trying to ascertain whether his answers made sense or not, when Leah leaned over to whisper to him asking whether they could share their ideas. Cris smiled and nodded at her. "Sure here's what I've got" Cris pulled over his notes to let her read them. Tell me what you think,[/b]"





...and then Professor Domingo came around to see what he had written down. A hint? She was giving a hint about an even that the number 5 could represent in his life. The characteristics he had identified for the number 5 had been perfect balance, the union between man and woman, harmony...event? Wait could it be? Marriage?

Cris quickly turned to look at Leah, "Do you think the event Professor Domingo is talking about is marriage? I mean it seems to make sense. Since 2 is female and 3 is male, and the characteristics are harmony, opinion and balance, that would be the only event that would be applicable," Cris explained how he came up with that conclusion.

Now for number 10. The Professor had not mentioned whether his conclusion about that number had been correct, so Cris decided to delve deeper.

"Leah, the Professor said the number 10's characteristic is equal to the combination of the characteristics for the numbers 1,2,3 and 4. That means it represents is all things, reason, opinion, division, unity, harmony, space and matter, justice and order.

Now with that in mind, I recall reading somewhere, that the Greeks considered 10 the greatest number because they associated it with the tetractys, which is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows. Since, the tetractys symbolized the four elements i.e. earth, wind, water and fire, it was also considered a mystical symbol, by the Greeks.

So since the Tetractys is symbolic to the Greeks and they considered it the most powerful number, and that number possesses all those other characteristics, it would stand to reason that 10 represents everything there is in the universe. To make a long story short, I believe the number 10 characterizes the universe....as a whole. Am I making any sense here?" Cris looked over at Leah, even as he tried to comprehend what he had just concluded.

Number five? The number five arises from 2 (first female number) + 3 (first male number)..Therefore means a union between man and woman!!!
Number 10? the most important number, as it is formed by the sum of the first four numbers (1 +2 +3 +4 = 10), expresses the totality, the final realization.

Lucy said: "The number ten, Professor, might be the number of perfection?"

Zahra snorted. "Maybe for YOU. I did ALL those numbers." Even though she definitely wasn't supposed to. "Copy that down and I'll share my EXTRA house points with you." She wiggled her eyebrows at him. THEN she read HIS notes.

And frowned.

And looked back at him. Then at her notes. Then at his. "OHHH I get it. Like a ten. Ten is a perfect score or whatever. I'm a 10. I made myself 10 on my list, but I'm not a mix of boy and girl. Just girl. Just SUPER girl though. So you're probably part right. Cool, man. We got this."

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Originally Posted by Lolita Domingo (Post 11623624) This young lady needed some refinement, that was certain. "Yes, that sounds excellent. I expect your findings on the matter on my desk by next week Thursday." Perhaps that would teach her some refinement, no?

....REALLY? PROFESSOR DOMINGO WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MAGICAL FRUIT POOTS?!?!?! FOR POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111

Yessssssssssssss. "I got you, Professor-O! I'm on it. Operation Fruit Poots is underway!!!!!!!!" AND Z saluted her. MAN! WHAT LUCK! AWESOME.

Confused firstie totally lost
 

Angel was totally confused as to what she was doing and all she knew about numbers were you either did some weird and fancy thing with them or you just added and subtracted them.



Angel looked at her work, she had no idea if she was on the right tracks but well that was all she knew about counting from one to ten, most rockets did that before a mission and she wasn't sure what else they could mean and a guess was better than nothing right?

"There are a few vegetables left up here if you want seconds!" she called as she reached the front of the room. Now who was next? Reaching Ethan, she nodded approvingly. He was clearly putting thought into it. As was Jasmine with her ideas of conflict and peace. Next was Simon, who also seemed to have some good ideas and sensible combinations. They were all three on the right track.

SPOILER!!: Penelope

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Originally Posted by griffin (Post 11623639) Her toga was fixed. Penelope hoped that nothing awkward like that would happen to her in class again. It was really embarrassing that her first impression on the new professor had been one of awkward togas. Her work had been great, but the toga made her seem awkward. At least nothing really bad had happened. The toga fit properly now, so there was no point in worrying about it more. "Thank you professor. Muchas gracias," Penelope whispered. Penelope listened to what the professor had to say about everyone's answers. Her answer for ten had been spot on. Proud of herself for figuring out 10, she listened to what the professor said about 5. Love... event in your life... She took notes on some other answers. Opinion and division, harmony, love, event, male and female numbers... What was a big event in your life about love? Event about love, harmony... Penelope was on the right track now. It wouldn't be too hard to figure out what it was. Marriage. It had to be marriage. What other events about love and harmony were there? "I think five is marriage."

Ah, a bit of Spanish. Perhaps she wouldn't give up on the British just yet. Lolita watched as the gears turned in this promising young lady's head. "Indeed! Five is marriage, well done!" she smiled. Yes, she had an intuitive grasp on this already.

Miss Cambridge seemed to be a bit lost. "Keep trying, muchacha. Don't let the vegetables get you down." This one was clearly a carnivore if her barely touched food was any indication. At least she had the common decency to take one.

On to Cris and Leah. Another one that had successfully figured out five. "Muy bueno, muchachos. Excelente." It sounded as if they were still trying to make sense of their verdict on ten, so she let them think a little longer.

Who had just asked a question? Lucy Petersfield.. interesting surname. "Spot on for five, very close for ten" She smiled once more. One more trip around the room ought to do it, since the students were starting to figure it out.

Had she been to Mr Whitlock's desk yet? Lolita didn't think so. What had he come up with? Hmmm "Keep trying, Mr Whitlock." He had veered a bit off course, but certainly not as far as Bean Girl had.

Choosing to ignore said Bean Girl's comments about Operation Poot or something, she made her way back to the girl who had not put her toga on at the beginning of the lesson (Angel). She simply shook her head and made no comment. This is what happened when you didn't follow directions to begin with: you missed the instruction and had no idea what was going on. Lolita decided to let her learn the hard way.

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She clapped her hands several times to get the attention of the class. "¡Atención! Back up here, please." Lolita paused several seconds to allow them to finish their sentences. "I saw many good thought processes, and a few of you even figured out the answers by the end." Some of them had clearly memorized a textbook, though, which was not the type of critical thinking and deep understanding she was looking for. Anyone could look up answers, what she wanted to know was if they could riddle them out themselves.

"So five, as the union of the first male and female numbers, was thought to stand for love and marriage." She nodded in the direction of the several who she'd heard that idea from. "Now ten unites the properties of uniqueness, polarity, harmony, and all of space or matter because it is a combination of one, two, three, and four." This was the hint she had given them. "Therefore, ten is the number of everything and was the Pythagoreans' most revered number, since it represented the whole of the cosmos." More appreciative nods toward those who had come to this conclusion.

After a slight pause for scribbling notes, she continued. "So to summarize.." With a wave of her wand, the equations disappeared and the vibratory influences they had discussed appeared.

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Vibratory Influences ONE: generator of all numbers, not actually considered a number; characterized reason TWO: first female number; characterized opinion and division THREE: first male number, combination via addition of 1 (unity) and 2 (division); characterized harmony FOUR: second female number, represented space and matter; characterized by justice and order FIVE: union of first male and female numbers; characterized love and marriage TEN: unites 1, 2, 3, and 4, represents the idea of everything; characterized by the cosmos

"Now for the task. Remember how I said Arithmancy could help us understand ourselves better? We can use these basic vibratory influences as building blocks to get other numbers. For instance, six is the product of 2 and 3, the first male and female numbers, and when the two genders combine after marriage, the 5, new life is formed. So six represented creation." And much more, but that was the most commonly used characteristic. "I would like to hear YOUR ideas on the numbers seven, eight, and nine. There are multiple answers possible, as the ancient literature has little consensus on how the Pythagoreans viewed these. Once more you may pair with someone or not, it is up to you." And she wanted to see creativity and a solid thought process here, not just textbook answers.

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OOC: You will have between 24 and 36 hours to complete this task. This is the main activity portion of the lesson, so feel free to post multiple times!

Zander watched as Professor, Professor had walked around and took a look at his parchment. She did NOT look very impressed. Awh. And he still didn't have a partner. Wait Miss Carrington? Who? Zander followed his professor's eyes and found that Miss Carrington was Lux! Oh. Sweet!

Zander shyly made his way to the girl, "Uh, Hi Lux," he said with a warm smile. "You, uh, still need a partner?" he asked her. Hopefully she did because Zander's notes were definitely lacking.

SPOILER!!: Zander's pitful notes, he's rubbish at numbers

Five: (2+3) Male number, so good stuff

Ten: (1+2+3+4) Female number, so not so good stuff?

She liked him, Nigel could tell. It was the hair. She had amazing hair, he had amazing hair. She was insulting him. It all fit. Too bad he was taken. Nigel though his second answer thing was very insightful. You do not want a women's wrath,or a God's Wrath, that was for sure and he thought he would at least get half a point for the Spanish numbers.

He was now approaching the class in the i don't care attitude and enjoying it for what it was worth. Anyway it sounded like she was making all of this stuff up. But no, it was serious. Better than Divination at least. It had that going for it.

Maybe ancient people thought Pythagoras was a nut job and only appropriated want he did after his death. Now that would be awesome. On another slightly random note. Nigel would hated to be known as a Pythagorean. Sounds awful.

Well he had his fun on the parchment and decided not to write Seven Ate Nine on his parchment. Too lame...and horribly punny....But maybe he should. Was Agatha looking at his parchment? Well that is one way to break stereotypes. 'There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.' Such a good quote and really does apply to Ravenclaw.

Much Better

Adi grinned at Professor Domingo. "Thanks, Professor.'' Oh, someone needed help? Who was Moore? Was it that first year Ravenclaw kid. He waved to the guy. Adi could help. But he would need help himself with what the Professor asked. Practical event?
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OH! Five meant marriage. Okay, Adi wouldn't have been able to figure that out. He added in the new information to his previous notes as Domingo continued on. Okay. Seven Eight and Nine. The third year was stumped. Maybe it had something to do with expanding the family?

Honestly, he had no idea what else to write.

He smiled when the Professor gave him an approving nod. Yes, headed in the right direction. Despite getting her assuring nod, he still felt a little wibbly-wobbly about Arithmancy, he'd have to find people to study with. He copied down the answers that the Professor wrote on the board carefully into his notebook.



He paused. Now they had to figure out seven, eight, and nine, hey? Hmm... He rested his chin on his hands. Seven could be opinion and division plus love and marriage. But what would that even mean? He had no clue. Eight could be something to do with love and marriage plus harmony. Then nine could mean justice and order plus creation? He copied down these in his notebooks but what did this mean exactly?



Now Simon was lost...... Ehh..... Okay

Bree was finding this lesson rather facinating even though her mind had drawn a blank thus far. She had never thought of how numbers could represent us as people in being. How cool and chilling. She wrote down the notes on the matter and as she thought about the current question of whar what 7, 8, and 9 could represent she added her thoughts aon that after a bit of thought.

She was a little nervous as she put down her quil if she had even gotten close to the right answer but she felt good knowing she tried.

Austin waved back to the Hufflepuff named Rehman, although he wasn't too keen on going over to the guy. Austin liked working alone. He jotted down notes for five, six, and ten as the teacher spoke, now understanding things a bit more. Five meant marriage, and six seemed to mean first child. This made a lot of sense, and he was amazed to find that numbers had a lot of meaning. He had heard how older muggles thought their Arithmacy was hard, but they would flip to find that wizarding Arithmacy was a lot harder.

He quickly fixed his notes to match he ones on the board.

If six was the first child, would seven be the second child number? IS there a 'grand kid' kind of number? Maybe nine meant 'Elderly', or first grandchild number. He scribbled on his paper, now trying to think of what seven and eight meant. Well, two parents can get a house together, so maybe seven was a housing number of some sort. That would make sense, since after marriage, you have a kid, and then you get a house. What does a family do after they get a house? Do they have a second kid? That makes sense, so eight could be some sort of sibling relationship.

His new notes didn't seem as great as the professors, but he wasn't entirely sure what would come next. He was stumped when they were asked to figure out number five, and yet it was so simple.

Oh, hello there! Smiling at Zander as he joined her, Lux nodded. She definitely needed a partner because this subject was so hard. Numbers were so very confusing. Looking at his notes, she could see that he was on the same track as her. "We are both on the same page with that... And apparently wrong." Sigh. The Professor was speaking again, and confusing her even more.

they needed to work out the meanings of MORE numbers? Seriously?! Mentally groaning, Lux supposed that it was good she had a partner for this. "Let's get started then."

okay this was all confusing… Bay just didn't know what to do or where to start.. after the kabobs everything kind of went down hill… he still doesn't know how he managed to get an OWL in Arithmancy. Could he just bang his head against the desk now… looking around he saw everyone start their number things… he looked around nervously… and he tried to write down numbers…

could he totally just die now.. everything he just wrote down was total guess work. UGHHH why did this class have to be so hard.

Leahhh
 

So they were accurate when they concluded that the number 5 represented marriage. And as for the number 10, it represented everything? They had it almost there. A tad off but almost there. Cris quickly copied down Professor Domingo's explanation.



So what did 7, 8 and 9 represent. 'The in-betweeners, that's what they were,' Cris thought to himself. 'Okay let's first figure out what these numbers might represent.' Cris told himself as he began writing down his thoughts.



Did that totally make sense to him? Cris figured it did. Whether the Professor agreed with him was another matter. Pulling his journal over to Leah, Cris showed Leah his conclusions.

"Does this look right, Leah?" Cris asked the younger puff.

Adi had indeed heard what was said to the Slytherin girl. He nodded at the Professor and focused his attention once more to his parchment. What if he did the same like he had done with five and ten?



There. He had made some adjustments. Adi wondered if he came close to the correct answer.

Blink Blink. Jasmine was still rather confused. Professor Domingo might as well have been speaking to her in Spanish. In fact she might have understood everything better in Spanish because the English version was a little hazy. Jasmine was trying her best to think things through. She just hoped that her answers weren't too far off.

Now they had to explain 7, 8 and 9. Jasmine updated her notes having gotten further explanation from the Professor. She studied the information and tried to come up with a rational answer. Unfortunately the ideas weren't exactly flowing. Finally Jasmine came up with some possible answers and wrote them down in her notebook.



Jasmine hoped that she would someday be enlightened and begin to have a clue about Arithmancy. This was the first class that she could ever remember where she felt totally out of the loop.

She was not even acknowledging him now. It was meant to be. But it seemed if he wanted the correct answers, all he would have to do is look down and to his side. Agatha was getting all the praise and points apparently. Nope not going to cheat off a third year.

Wait, what was going on now. Did she just make them partners or something. "You chose to do all the work. I chose to write really bad puns and not care....But fine" Nigel looked at her notes, impressed. They were actually really good. Nigel's had some /mean/ stick figures on his. But that was about it. They were still doing the Seven Ate Nine thing. Weren't they?

Sigh.............."Here"

Doing actual work is exhausting.

For the partner!
 

He grinned when Professor Domingo gave him some encouraging words. Arithmancy was hard man. None of this made sense at all....

How could he keep going now? :whaa: BUT HOW?

Simon had absolutely no clue in which direction he ought to go from the thoughts that he had already made so he decided that it would be best to find a partner. He glanced over at Cutty and then called out to him. "Cutty! Want to team up?" he asked, sending a hopeful glance in his dormmate's direction.

Simon & Cutty
 

Cutty pulled out a clean sheet of parchment to reorganize his notes.



Professor Domingo's answer left Cutty guessing. Left him eager to spot the patterns. Not so much to please her, but for his own selfish gratification. Did gender play a greater role than meaning? Why were some numbers figured by multiplication and not addition? And besides being a convenient hint, why should five have been excluded in figuring the vibrational energy behind ten? Was there a significance for numbers one through four? What would happen when they got to much larger numbers?

Maybe they were looking at any variant of numbers provided they were smaller than the one being looked at. There had to be a pattern, though. Something that the discoverers were looking at to form a conclusion. He amended his notes.

If seven was a combination of a male number representing harmony and a female number representing justice or order, perhaps it could've been thought of as balance, rather than five. In Cutty's experience, marriage was as far from balance as anything you could get, though he did not regard this as a bad thing. Merely, he thought it inaccurate. Though, maybe it was something different. Maybe the pattern was 1+1, 1+2, 1+3, 2+3, 2(3), 2+5, 5+3, 5+4, 5+5. The last three might have also been combinations involving 3. 3+4=7, 3+5=8, and 3(3)=9, but then you'd have the combo breaker with 10.







"Hey Holden, want to compare notes?" He said leaning nearer to the boy.

Our mental synchronization....
 

"JINX!" exclaimed Simon as practically he and Cutty had asked each other to team up at the same time. Woah, man. They were definietly on the same wavelength today. His eyes widened in suspicion for a brief second. "Uh, sure." Simon pulled out his notes and looked for the next three numbers that they had to solve.



" Not sure if this is right, but I was guessing that perhaps nine had something to do with governments. I don't know why, but it seemed to make sense. What do you think?" he asked his dormmate as he was unsure about it all. The Professor said he was going in the right direction though....

Hmmmm...

Lex was still scowling down at her blank parchment when she heard the Professor approach and encourage not to let the veggies keep her down....If she had to guess the Professor wanted her to keep trying and that wouldn't have been so bad if she actually knew what they were on about. For a few moments she kept staring at her parchment that was still relatively blank until some explanations started rolling in at which point she began her religious scribbling. Couldn't miss a thing. It would be the difference between her understanding and not.



After taking everything down she gave another look at her parchment. They had to find 7, 8 and 9 and they were mixing other numbers? Was that it? Alexa chose the wrong day to not sit next to a Ravenclaw. As dumb as they were, they came in handy during this type of thing, there was no denying that. It looked like she'd be attempting on her own though. Pity.

Lex squinted at the numbers for a while before realizing it would get her nowhere. Picking up the quill didn't help either because she still didn't know what direction she was going in but at some point she had to start scribbling, if only to fill in the spaces. Merlin was she happy she didn't have an Arithmancy OWL to worry about at the end of this year.



Welp, no one could say she hadn't tried.

Beverly slowly raised her gaze to look up at Professor Domingo. What could five represent in their lives? An event? Glancing back down at her parchment, she made a few tweaks. So two and three are added, that's like...bonding...getting together...

Ha. Haha.

A sudden out of the blue thought crossed her mind. It was almost enough to distract her, but she pushed it to the WAY far back of her mind. Numbers. Arithmancy. She needed to think about that kind of stuff.

Focusing back on the task at hand, she dipped her quill in ink and started jotting notes and fixing a few things.



So...she labeled which were male and which are female...now for the rest. >.<

Mentions of Cutty + Simon.
 

The Slytherin nodded back at the professor and examined his answer. Well, that worked and was pleased himself. The better news? He can get more kebabs. But yeah, maybe in a little while, he’d go savor his little achievement first, because learning Arithmancy is a bit of a challenge, no?

The explanation was revealed shortly, and Ethan nodded in understanding as he copied the exact answer for Five and Ten. Well, he’s close all right, and that was good. At least his answer didn’t come straight from a textbook. That even made him feel smarter and whatnot. Moving on!

Whaaaaaat?

More numbers??? The Slytherin scrunched up his nose as he re-read the writings on the board. Six is the product of the male and female number, which could only mean a first born child, correct? But what about numbers seven to nine? Seriously? Ethan controlled himself not to do a head desk, instead, he concentrated on the smell of food. Yes. That should be enough to drive his brain to work, no? And so…more experimenting happened.

Scribble, scribble, scribble. Head scratch. Scribble, scribble, scribble.



“This is crazy stuff.” Ethan thought as he cradled his head while writing his interpretation. Stuff’s hard, you see? The Slytherin put his quill down, got up and got himself some more veggie kebabs. Analysing stuff that he doesn’t know makes his stomach protest for food. Besides, growing kid. As he munched happily on his food, Ethan nudged Simon and gestured the boy to let him see his notes. Sharing is caring…and he just might get something more sensible from his fellow snake. He too, turned to Cutty who’s just behind him. “Watcha got, Mordaunt?” Three heads are better than two. See? That even seemed relevant in Arithmancy. Three is greater than two. Heh. As Ethan took a peek, the Slytherin choked at Cutty’s work. Cough, Cough, Cough. “Are you Pythagoras’ decendant???” Those numbers just looked…intimidating for the boy. Yup.

That was weird, dude. O__O
 

"Juh..!", But before Cutty could get the word out, Simon had already uttered it. Too eerie. For the first time in his life, Cutty's face mirrored that of the person with whom he was communicating quite unintentionally. Wide-eyed suspicion.

It had suddenly faded, however to blank consideration as he looked down at his dormmates notes. "I was lookin' for a pattern. Trying to see if it mattered which numbers we combined to arrive at 7-9's numerical vibration. What I see is that the first three numbers are found by combining 1 with other numbers, then the next three are found by combining 2. Like, 2 plus 3 is five and 2 times 3 gives us 6 and so on. So I was wondering if the next set would be combinations of 3 or perhaps 5." He took a blank sheet of parchment and demonstrated for his dormmate just what he meant.
"If that's the case, then I think you'd be close with your answer for 9. Only, you've got the meanings for 4 and 6, which gives us 10." He spoke casually, though. Not his usual judgey self. Or he was holding it all in, as he was prone to rudeness. "I think you meant 5, anyway. Which gives us..."

"But if there is a pattern with 3, then maybe 9 might be..."

Cutty looked to his dormmate to try and glean anything of comprehension, although to his weak amygdala he was more likely trying to read an expression that suggested he was being followed or believed.

catchup and Cris
 

Number nine: Nine are the months that the child uses to grow and be born..
Nine might be the number of the birth!
Number eight is the number that reminds me of the snowman and the track of the little cars..
Professor might be the number eight the number of the fun?
Number seven..seven are the colours of the rainbow..seven is the number of perfection!

"If I am you might be too. We might be related. Mordaunt's not common as all that." Or the wizard by the same name at the train depot seemed to give that impression. Maybe he could convince Ethan that they were actually family. Cutty knew not of any relation due to his father's with-holdings, but he figured it couldn't hurt. On the chance that Ethan should be prefected. There was nothing so cushy as the position of al-vizier.

From his years of selling sweets to the student body, Cutty had gotten rather used to arranging numbers. He'd also gotten rather quick and scrolling the complicated symbol for silver sickles. Maybe it was helpful here. The number arranging, not the sickle symbol.

Not being able to answer the question of "what else" on the first attempt, AJ just kept quiet and tried to think of something to add, but how could you really do that when nothing was making sense to you at all? Who would have thought that she ever would have wished for regular muggle math again. Numbers were just numbers... why did they have to mean something more? She listened to everything the professor said and made notes, notes that she didn't understand of course.

That was the only thing that she was sure of. She knew that there was way more to it, but she was stumped. The first year turned to her textbook for guidance. Hopefully she could make some sense out of this!

Angel was totally lost here and the Professor had just stared at her work without talking about it, well she didn't care what this crazy Professor thought of her, she was going to do what she was doing and the Professor could either love it or hate it she didn't care what the Professor thought.



She was totally and utterly lost and would be speaking the Professor Bentley at the end of this lesson to see if Arithmancy was needed because she was starting to lose her marble with all this crazy numbers, give her muggle number lessons everyday.

Snorts at all the bean talk, but for now my girl is in her own bubble. :)
 

Combining their characteristics? What characteristics? Like a characteristics of a boy and girl? She could do that. She eyed her sister and the look on her face showed that she was just as confused as she was. Maybe they should hold some kind of class for the kids who were first years who had no idea what was going on before they had to endure a real class. AJ thought that after the lesson she would have to find somebody who understood this rubbish and get them to put their heads together. The lion didn't really care about the subject, but it was frustrating her to no end that she was so lost.

Okay so adding masculine and feminine didn't exactly add much considering that male and female already pretty much said that. Racking her brain she added a few more things to her notes. Remembering that the professor said something about love and harmony she decided to throw that in there too.

Sophie glanced up as the professor verified that what she'd wrote down so far was correct. Cool. So at least she didn't have to redo what she'd already done and could just go from there. She was actually surprised she'd managed to do so well so far. Usually, this subject was one of the three she wasn't so great in.

She copied down a few more things onto her parchment:

ONE: generator of all numbers, not actually considered a number; characterized reason
TWO: first female number; characterized opinion and division
THREE: first male number, combination via addition of 1 (unity) and 2 (division); characterized harmony
FOUR: second female number, represented space and matter; characterized by justice and order
FIVE: Five is a combination of two plus three, and since two is a female number and three is a male number, I think five could represent love. It sort of makes sense to me, since we weren't told that we could also combine 1 and 4 to equal 5. It's like we purposely added just the female plus male numbers. <333
TEN: Ten is a combination of ALL the numbers listed above. We were told it comes from adding combinations of 1, 2, 3, and 4, and since we also got to 5 by adding 2 and 3, I think ten means EVERYTHING. So it would equal reason (1), opinion/division (2), harmony (3), justice/order (4), and love (5).

SIX (2x3): Represents creation, new life formed after marriage.

SEVEN:
EIGHT:
NINE:

She started to dip her quill in ink when she felt a tap on her shoulder. Oh, heyyy--a partner! Yeah, she needed one of those in one of her worst subjects. She slid her parchment closer to the girl, so she could see Sophie's answers for the first part. "The professor said these were right," she said, pointing to the top of her parchment. "Let me see what I can come up with for seven, eight, and nine."

She turned around and started jotting down a few things.

Leah
 

Cris checked what he had written down, when Leah pointed out his conclusions for the number 7. "My bad, it's supposed to be a combinatiion of both 3 and 4 not a product of 3 and 4, so that would add up to seven. Thanks for pointing that out to me. Here let me correct that," Cris thanked Leah and he took back his journal and corrected what he had written down before turning to read Leah's answers.

As he read, something else popped in to his head, so he decided to mention it to Leah.

"Your conclusions make a lot of sense. I noticed that about the number 9 and that it should logically be 3 times the harmony, but what does that mean? Universal harmony? I just doesn't make sense at all. And I was thinking, since 7 has the characteristics of 3 and 4, could one of its characteristics be peace too? You know justice, order and harmony combined? Let me go through my answer for 7 and 9 and revise it a little."



"So how does this look now?" Cris pulled over his journal to show Leah his revised answers.

Cutty & Ethan!
 

Oh pattern hunting! thought Simon. That made sense. That was probably the most logical approach to it all. Before Simon could respond to let Cutty know if he were following him, Ethan had nudged him. Good, Ethan was joining. The three of them would be able to tackle this problem together. Teamwork was always good. Simon passed his notebook back to Ethan for a second with a quick, "I'm not sure if anything is right there, but that's where I was starting from. What did you deduce?" he asked with a friendly grin. He nodded again. "Seriously, he probably has a secret time turner that's allowed him to travel back in time and learn this art from the real people who invented it," teased Simon playfully before becoming more serious. " He's a genius."

Now back to Cutty. He nodded again. "I see what you're saying that makes more sense.. Yes, I did mean five," said Simon turning a hue of pink with embarrassment. He crossed that note out. *Ahem*. Right, now where were they? "That was an interesting observation perhaps... If the pattern was three, then the pattern could be 3 plus 5 plus 1 or it could be 2 plus 1 plus six...?" He raised an eyebrow. He thought perhaps he was following his friend. He jotted down some notes.

Hmmmm...

Austin looked over his notes and took what the professor had to heart. He decided to think about the other aspect of it, the math side. Well, Six had a lot of numbers that could add into it, so does Eight. On his paper, he wrote down all the addition combinations next to his already written notes.



With this, Austin tried to find all the ways that they could be combined. He had already covered the human aspect, now for the 'cosmos' aspect, as he called it. He decided to start with six. Five meant marriage, while one meant unity. Maybe the unity of marriages? This leads him back to a child, so he thought he was okay on that one. Four meant Justice, while two meant opinion. Combining those two could mean the opinion on justice? But that didn't make any sense. Adding two threes together meant extra Harmony. So maybe that means there's Harmony between a family that has opinions on how to discipline their first born child.

Seven. He wasn't entirely sure what six was, so he wasn't going to worry about the addition of six and one right now. The next option would be five and two. Five, again, was marriage, while two was opinion. With what he already had, maybe seven was the choice of two married people who want to have a second child. The only thing he could pick up from the next addition of numbers was that seven was both discipline and harmony, which should be good between married people.

Eight. The addition of seven and one, and six and two he disregarded, for he wasn't entirely sure what seven or six was. So he focused on the latter two. Five and three would be the Harmony between two people who are married. While the two fours meant extra Discipline, which he wasn't too sure about. He'd have to check that out later.

Nine. The only one he really could work with was five and four. Which he gathered was something along the lines of marriage and discipline. He wasn't sure what that meant. Maybe discipline in a marriage?

He was starting to get flustered with all of these possibilities, and he wasn't sure what to do. So he wrote down what he could, and waited for the professor to continue.

Sophie squinted her eyes at her parchment, not because she couldn't see what she'd written, but because she was thinking hard about what the answers might be. Finally, she put her quill to her parchment and jotted down a few ideas.

ONE: generator of all numbers, not actually considered a number; characterized reason
TWO: first female number; characterized opinion and division
THREE: first male number, combination via addition of 1 (unity) and 2 (division); characterized harmony
FOUR: second female number, represented space and matter; characterized by justice and order
FIVE: Five is a combination of two plus three, and since two is a female number and three is a male number, I think five could represent love. It sort of makes sense to me, since we weren't told that we could also combine 1 and 4 to equal 5. It's like we purposely added just the female plus male numbers. <333
TEN: Ten is a combination of ALL the numbers listed above. We were told it comes from adding combinations of 1, 2, 3, and 4, and since we also got to 5 by adding 2 and 3, I think ten means EVERYTHING. So it would equal reason (1), opinion/division (2), harmony (3), justice/order (4), and love (5).

SIX (2x3): Represents creation, new life formed after marriage.

SEVEN: Maybe seven is a combination of two and five. Two means opinion and division, while five means marriage. Maybe seven means being able to keep your individuality (uniqueness) despite becoming one with someone else. Kind of like being true to yourself.
EIGHT: I don't think we'd get too much by adding four to itself, so I think eight is a combination of three and five. Three means harmony and five means marriage, so I think eight means learning to live with the person you married (living in harmony) and getting along with them. Maybe it means you work together to have a happy life.
NINE: Maybe nine is a combination of three and six. Three means harmony and six means new life, so maybe this is the decision to have a second child. Or maybe it means a new life together as a husband, wife, and child.

She turned around to her partner and showed her what she'd come up with. "What do you think about this?" she asked, pointing to the seven, eight, and nine. Also... "I'm Sophie, by the way."

Adi nodded at Professor Domingo after she spoke. Okay. Back to more thinking. He studied his answers as he tried to come up with real life applications for the numbers. Once again, he began making adjustments:



Okay, Professor Domingo. Is this any better? Adi seriously hoped so.

Zander gave Lux the best smile he could muster under the circumstances. Ugh. It's hard to try to be happy when you're being bogged down with all this number nonsense. SERIOUSLY, WHAT WAS THIS WOMAN EVEN TALKING ABOUT ANYMORE!? Yeah, Zander's lost. Really lost. And apparently so was Lux.

"Hm... Okay, uh seven, eight, and nine?" he thought outloud. Well he looked at Lux with a perplexed face. "So seven and nine are males?" he questioned more than he stated. "Which leaves eight to be a female?" That's all he really new according to Professor, Professor over there.

The third year began scribbling down on his pair quite vigorously.

SPOILER!!: Attempt at this number mumbo jumbo

Seven: Male; 3 (harmony) + 4 (Justice and Order) ; 1 (Unity) + 2 (Opinion) + 4 (Harmony) + 2 (Opinion) + 5 (Love) ;

Eight: Female; 4 (harmony) + 4 (harmony) ; 4 (harmony) x 2 (Opinion and Division)

Nine: 3 (Harmony) x 3 (Harmony) ; 1 (Unity) + 3 (Harmony) + 5 (Love) ; 4 (Justice) +5 (Love)

"Uh, that's all I've got?" He said as he showed Lux his notes. He could figure out the whole what numbers add and multiply, but the whole what they all mean together thing was completely lost on him.

Lux was relieved that she wasn't the only person who was clear
Y confused by this lesson. Whatever this Professor was trying to get at was lost on her. But yes, Zander seemed correct in the genders of the numbers, so that got him another nod from her.

Looking at his notes, she saw all the math work and tried to make sense of it. So the meanings were gathered from combining the meanings of other numbers? Was that how this worked? "Maybe Seven means harmony, justice and order." The other combinations he did could work, but that seemed the easiest since it only involved adding 3 and 4 together. "Maybe Eight is Four but extra powerful. Because I'm not sure about harmony and division working together." Unless that made sense after all; in that case just ignore her. "For Nine, I like unity, harmony, and love because it seems the most romantic of the options." Every once in a while this Puff liked romance, so 1 + 3 + 5 seemed like the best option to her.

Now his marginally good work was getting criticized by someone 3/4 years younger than him. Just his luck. Not that anything she was saying was wrong or anything. And was that a surprised look on her face. At least one of his answers was clever.

"Yeah, i did not think you could just do three times three. Since it is just multiplying harmony...So yeah probably just means a good relationship. Married or not, if doing three times three"

Shrug.

That was just a guess.

Zander tried to encourage Lux with small nods as she spoke. It really sounded like she was unsure of herself too. Was Arithmancy just like not a third year thing? The small boy looked around the room to try to see if everyone else was just as lost. Most people looked busy at works, so either they all got it and Zander missed something important OR everyone else was just really good at faking it. Probably the latter. Annnyyyways, back to this number nonsense.

The third year nodded as he jotted down what she said by underlining the favorited options. Then he looked back at his parchment and decided to scribble some more down too. "I added a few possible meanings for the number nine?" he told Lux quietly. "I'm not sure if I'm even close.... But what do you think?" He added. Hopefully she'd have some more ideas because at this rate Zander was running out.

As she made another pass near Angel, Lolita just shook her head. "I'm not sure I appreciate your lack of respect for this subject, Miss Valentine. Just because you're a Gryffindor that does not give you an excuse to refuse seeking out help." And now it wasn't going to be the professor who would give it to her. This was the school of hard knocks, not just magic.

As for the other Valentine (Aubrey), she was at least on the same planet as the rest of the class. "A good start. Now think of ways to add or multiply to seven, eight, and nine. Use those numbers' characteristics for combinations." Once again, if she needed help, she could always seek out an older student.

It appeared that Leah and Cris had made revisions since last she saw. "I like what I see in seven. Peace as the combination of justice, order, and harmony. Astute." Next she decided to check on Mr Moore, who seemed to have much more written down now. "A very Ravenclaw approach you have here, dissecting each number into all its possible addends. Similar to what the Slytherin trio over there is doing," she said, gesturing towards the Mordaunts and Mr Holden. "Try using five as meaning love in general instead of marriage and see where that gets you. And don't forget six symbolizes creation." He didn't seem to have included six anywhere.

Ah, what had Miss Newell come up with since gaining a partner? Scanning her answers, Lolita nodded. "A good explanation for nine. Many people take it as the number for family or union." Which is actually similar to what Grayson had as well. "Good thoughts on eight with compromise, Mr Whitlock."

Back to Mr Rehman again. "Seven and eight are coming along nicely. What about thinking of nine as a sum rather than a product?" Nearby were Miss Carrington and Mr Adair. "Good thinking to find several different combinations." She looked for a specific place to focus their attention. "And what happens when harmony is broken by division and differing opinions?"

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OOC: The activity will be finishing in 10-12 hours.

Jasmine was very surprised and relieved when she got a "Bueno" from the Professor. She took her suggestion and tried to think of different combinations that she could use to come up with 7, 8, and 9. She still didn't really know what she was doing, but Jasmine was trying to think things through and come up with a new interpretation.

Jasmine picked up her quill and wrote her second set of answers in her notebook.



After completing her notes, Jasmine continued to try to think of additional number combinations. She was beginning to think that she was becoming repetitive with her answers so she scratched out a few ideas and began again.

Add the numbers together? She could totally do that. Of course the problem was not addition, but figuring out what they meant. At the very least she was making progress and obviously was doing much better than the sister she shared a face with. AJ couldn't help but to wonder what it was on her parchment.

Focus Valentine. Staring at her parchment she scribbled some more things down.

She had absolutely no idea if she was even warm, but she tried so nothing could be said about that.

Adi looked up at Professor Domingo as she addressed him again. He grinned, pleased to hear that he had at least made some more progress. "I'll try the sum, Professor.'' Back to work!



So, the Hufflepuff was not sure about number nine. Help, Professor Domingo!

Oh right, six meant creation. Austin looked back down at his notes, and decided to add six in. For seven, six plus one could mean the unity of two creations? Or maybe it was the creation of unity... It could be that it meant when two beings are created to be united? Like peanut butter and jelly. It was a simple comparison, but those were two muggle items that usually combined well together. He wasn't sure why, but they did. He added it to his notes, and moved onto eight, which added six and two. If six was creation, and two was opinion, then was the addition of the two, one's opinion of how they were created? That made a lot of sense to him, so he wrote it in his notes. His last update with six was six added with three. Three was Harmony, but he wasn't sure how he could combine that with creation. Was it harmony in creation? Or created in harmony? He wasn't sure either way, so he just wrote down the two characteristics.

Now it was time to think about five as 'love' instead of marriage, like the professor suggested. for Six, five and one could mean the unity of love, such as a friendship, or family member. Five and two, easily was someone's opinion on love, or maybe their orientation? Such as a guy decides he loves another guy, or that they don't want to be in love, which could easily make sense. Love was just all sorts of weird that Austin wanted nothing to do with. Five and three was a little harder than the others. Three meant harmony, but that just seemed to have a similar connection with both marriage and love. You need to have harmony in both. He just shrugged his shoulders and wrote down his thoughts. Five and four was another easy one. Discipline and love. Which could easily mean that someone was disciplining someone else, but they were doing it out of love. To protect a child... or something.

Penelope went up to get more vegetables. The vegetables were really good. Gracias, profesora. Los vegetales son muy bueno."

Okay, time to think of what these numbers represented.



OOC: Sorry if any of the spelling is wrong. Spellcheck on my computer doesn't like Spanish.

Cutty + Simon
 

This…is too confusing.

The Slytherin got his parchment off of his table and joined Cutty and Simon’s tandem. Professor Sunday didn’t seem to mind partnering up with them, so why not? Although he’s not sure with his theory or solution, there was no way he will give up on this challenge. He likes solving problems, and this problem definitely made him more determined. So…let’s see. Seven and Eight seem to be okay with the boy, but nine seems to be a bit elusive. “I think multiplying same numbers such as three and three could have a negative outcome. Too much of a thing can be bad, right?” Muggles always say that anyway. “I’m good with Seven…and Eight…any thoughts on Nine?” he said as he showed them his answer:



While he was waiting for his mates to comment, he took a peek at Simon’s and Cutty’s work. He noticed that Simon’s answer and his are common…and he took note of Cutty’s possible combinations:

Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.

“We have to consider what the professor said about the numbers having a gender…and that Male Numbers are the Goody Ones…and the Female Numbers are the Baddie Ones…” Right? “So…I think that’s one of the clues we need to consider to get a correct answer." He then took another peek at Cutty’s parchment. “Yes, I agree with number nine. Peace sounds right to me.” Peace and Order. Yup.



“You know, Cutty. I wouldn’t be surprised if we are actually cousins. It’ll be really cool.” Because he’s got cousins in Durmstrang which he can’t for the life of him, bond with. Cutty’s just like Mordred, and thankfully Ethan can tolerate him and vice versa.

Including Leah in this xD
 

Cris breathed a sigh of relief when Professor Domingo, accepted their findings for the Number 7. He quickly added his findings into his journal.



All they needed to do now was figure out the number 8 and nine. As he listened to Professor Domingo provide possible suggestions to his fellow classmates, Cris turned to look at his notes before coming up with a plan. Turning to his young friend, he shared his idea with her.

"Leah, I was thinking. We've been using combinations of numbers to derive the possible characteristics of both 5 and 10. Maybe we should try doing that with the number 8 and 9 too. Let's see whether we'll be able to come up with a more applicable description." Cris suggested before he picked up his quill and began scribbling down the meanings for each of the combinations.



"What do you think, Leah? Does my reasoning for number 8 make sense?" Cris leaned back to allow Leah to read what he had written. Cris figured that while Leah was trying to figure out what he was trying to say, he'd continue to work on figuring out 9's possible characteristic could be.

Adopting the same premise that he had used when deriving the characteristic for 8, Cris continued to scribble down his thoughts, canceling out what he had written previously.



Was he making any sense at all? Cris knew that his conclusions differed with those the other students had come up with. But Professor Domingo, did say that there were various interpretations. Hopefully, theirs was one of them.

Gazing at Zander's paper, Lux was happy to see how far they had come along with this assignment. Okay, maybe their guesses would turn out to be wrong, but that was a part of learning. At least they were starting to grasp the concept even if just barely. "Awesome job, Zander! You are an amazing partner." Beam.

Clearly the Professor thought they were doing okay, and her question made Lux think even harder. "Arguing and fighting...? Maybe Eight is related to that. Which means that it would be 4 x 2 instead of 4 + 4." Curiously she wondered if she was right and what Zander thought.

Lack of respect for the subject, Angel was getting angry now, it wasn't her fault she didn't have a clue what was going on, give her normal numbers anyday, she was struggling to keep calm now the Professor needed to be taught a lesson and well if she didn't stop picking on her, she would soon get one, didn't the Professor know you had to earn respect first.

Angel just stared at the Professor a few seconds before looking down at her work, she didn't think it was that bad, seriously there was no secret message behind 7, 8 or 9, otherwise surely someone else would have found about it duh. Yeah the Professor had done the impossible and wound Angel up, she was normally so calm.

Angel scribbled out her work and tried again, not caring what the Professor thought of it or not.

Cris ^^ and Angel
 

Jasmine and Aubrey had tried again by the next time Lolita made it around to them. "Chicas buenas, much better thought processes." More and more students seemed to be getting the hang of this. The parchment in front of Agatha and Mr Hair seemed rather dismal. Lolita did not particularly care for the sordid affairs of teenagers, so she moved on quickly.

She had come to Mr Rehman again. "Ah, your interpretation for nine is perfecto!" Excellent, he was coming along nicely now. Moving on to Austin. "The thought process is definitely there now, chico. Good reasoning." As she moved toward the Slytherin trio, Miss Wright spoke to her on her way back from the food table. ¡Oh, en Español! She blushed. "Muchas gracias, chica. Have a point for excellent manners and a rudimentary command of my native tongue." Excited, she forgot all about her parchment and went straight over to the three gentlemen.

Time for the Mordaunt-Holden trio. The first thing she saw was the nine on Ethan's parchment. Was he overemphasizing that it was male and good? Perhaps. She simply sniffed and moved on without comment. Peeking at Leah and Cris, she said, "I like your choice of stability for nine. Good wording." And always the helpful badger, Miss Abbott was offering to assist the cranky Gryffindor, whom Lolita would deal with later.

Miss Carrington and Mr Bay were still discussing their next attempt, but Angel was done. Yes, she needed to be done. "Miss Valentine, you did not take my advice and seek assistance. Rather, you continued on with a bad attitude." Because she could see the glares across the room, you know. Lolita Domingo had eyes. "You need to learn to unbend your pride. I am taking three points from Gryffindor. You can earn them back if you submit to me an explanation of why your behavior and attitude in class today is not beneficial for your learning or others'. On my desk by next Thursday." Same time as Bean Girl's fruit poot parchment.

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"Many of you are familiar with Arithmancy as having right or wrong answers with just one way to do things. Today you started the process of thinking logically and critically about the subject rather than simply spitting out formulas or definitions from a textbook." She resisted the urge to both roll her eyes and cast glances at particular students. Instead, she simply waved her wand at the board. "What you see for seven, eight, and nine are a compilation of YOUR ideas, many of which were well-reasoned."

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Originally Posted by Chalkboard Vibratory Influences ONE: generator of all numbers, not actually considered a number; characterized reason TWO: first female number; characterized opinion and division THREE: first male number, combination via addition of 1 (unity) and 2 (division); characterized harmony FOUR: second female number, represented space and matter; characterized by justice and order FIVE: union of first male and female numbers; characterized by love and marriage SIX: female; characterized by creation, originality, or beginnings SEVEN: male; characterized by conflict or individuality EIGHT: female; characterized by compromise, cooperation, or balance NINE: male; characterized by peace, stability, or enlightenment TEN: unites 1, 2, 3, and 4, represents the idea of everything; characterized by the cosmos

She flipped her long, flowing locks behind her shoulders. With a quick glance to make sure none of the young men were drooling, she continued on. "The Pythagoreans developed their understanding of these vibratory influences over decades, but you just spent one class period. If you feel a bit overwhelmed then I am not surprised." After all, not everyone could have the intuitive grasp of things that she did.

"Your homework will be posted on the announcements board immediately following class. Please take care of your kebab debris and deposit your togas in a pile under the board for the elves to collect." Where was that elf? She was supposed to be here to collect the laundry.

"¡El fin! You may leave."

Professor
 

Hmm...so this class hadn't been such a bad idea after all. For one, Sophie had actually gotten through a lesson where she didn't feel lost and confused. Nevermind the fact that this lesson was just her making guesses on numbers. Then there was the professor, who Sophie decided could give valuable advice about hair, makeup, and boys. She just might have to stop by her office soon.

Sophie jotted down the last of the notes then quickly cleared off the mess from the kabobs. She shifted her weight from one foot to the other as she debated on whether or not to do what was going through her mind. Finally, she sighed and approached the professor. "Erm, Professor? May I talk to you after class, please?" she asked.

GULP.

Had she actually made it through the lesson? AJ was a bit surprised that the professor thought she was coming along, but she would take the praise. She smiled over at the woman. AJ looked over at her sister. Look at Angel losing points when she was always so concerned that AJ would be the one to lose them. My, my, my... how the tables have turned.

The first year looked at the board, and it still didn't make much sense to her, but it was better than the beginning of the lesson. She jotted down all the notes and gathered her things. "Bye professor." She was going to wait for Angel out in the hallway. She needed to know how she felt about that little point loss that happened back there. AJ totally didn't care. It was nice to see her sister not be so by the rules sometimes.

Austin finished up his notes, and packed up his things. If the notes on seven, eight, and nine were all from what the students had figured out, were they the right answers? He assumed so, since the professor was the one who picked out the answers. He was not looking forward to the homework though. If the class were this hard, the homework was bound to be just as hard. But that wasn't his concern for the moment.

He went to the back of the classroom, and changed into his school robes. On his way to the front of the class, he picked up his bag and kebab mess, and dropped off his robe. "Bye professor." He said with a nod. Austin walked out of that classroom, still barefoot. He loved being barefoot during the class, and definitely needed to try it more often.

Ethan looked up, and caught the Professor putting her nose up in the air. What? Did his answer offend her? The Slytherin looked back at his mates, shrugged, and collected his parchment. He could let the two copy from him in their study area back at the common room if they want. Soon though, the answers were revealed to them. Well, the young Snake wasn’t surprised to see that he only got one answer correct. Well, technically he got nothing since his answer for Nine came from Cutty. But then again, those are compilation of their answers. Does that mean that they are smarter than the ancient dudes? They spent decades on this, versus them who only spent about an hour. Hmm. Hogwartians just might be a bunch of smartypants after all. Sorry, Claws.

Wanting to get out of the classroom right away, Ethan copied the right answers off the chalkboard.

And whoa, wait. Homework??? He will grunt and whine after he exits the room. Merlin, this class really did cause a massive headache to the boy. In silence, the boy cleaned up his mess and headed towards the back of the chalkboard to change again in his school uniform. And as instructed, he folded his toga and placed it under the board. “See you around, Professor.” Ethan waved at her and turned to Simon and Cutty, tapping their tables. “Let’s go, chicos! Lunch is waiting!”

Zander was just about to reply to his partner, when he was interrupted by Professor, Professor. Ooh. He looked up at the explanations on the board and then back at those on his parchment. Were they even close? Nah.... But whatever. The important part was that they at least gave it an effort right?! Unlike that one Gryffindor that got house points taken away. Hpmph. Not cool.

Zander beamed as Professor, Professor announced the end of class! AH thank Merlin! It certainly had gone on for way too long for his liking. He looked over at his partner and smiled, "Looks like we're all done! It was a lot of fun working with you," well not really a lot... It was Arithmancy of course. That's never really fun.

Then he ran off to the back dividers and took off his toga and changed back into his normal robes. Much more comfortable. "See yah Professor," he smirked. "Oh, Adios!"

Surely he had heard incorrectly? His interpretation was perfect? O_O Adi was pleased to hear that (after he got over his initial surprise). He smiled at the Professor. "I'm glad. It seemed so difficult at first.'' Everything about this subject seemed difficult to him.

Adi packed up his belongings and grabbed his kebab stick and after changing out of the toga, prepared to head of out the classroom. "Bye, Professor. Nice lesson.'' Yep, it certainly had turned out alright.

So.....her work wasn't...wrong. There was a start. Lex looked down at her interpretations, not sure she was willing to question anything. If she was right, she'd take it and move on.

A glance around the class told her she hadn't been the only one struggling...and that some lions needed straightening out but not by her. Heavens no. Anytime she tried helping she got the raw end of the stick so she'd mind her business and hope that Angel knew she'd be earning back those three points whether she liked it or not. Though that would have already been clear, yeah? No need for her to say anything at all.

Lex leaned forward, hearing they were dismissed. They could go now?? She evanesco-ed her kabob, opting to have the elves make her one filled with meat after she left the class. It was an inspired idea but goodness Professor, remember the carnivores next time.

"Later Professor." The Gryffindor grabbed up her things and headed from the room with the promise of food when she left.

Cris listened as Leah shared her thoughts in what she figured were the characteristics for 8 and 9. He was about to comment on what she had said when Professor Domingo spoke up and explained what her own findings were. He was glad to hear that both he and Aleah's conclusion for 9 was acceptable. As for 8, well at least he now knew what it represented.

Picking up his quill, he quickly copied down the answers. As he was writing, the Arithmancy Professor announced that the lesson was over. Packing up his things, Cris turned to Leah. "It was nice of you to agree to partner up with me. I liked working with you," Cris smilingly informed his young badger friend.

He then went to the back of the classroom and walked behind the divider where he proceeded to remove his toga and put on his regular clothes again, before placing the toga on the pile of togas under the board as directed. Returning to his desk, he then picked up the line empty kebab stick and any bits of grilled veggies that had fallen on his table and threw them into the waste basket.

Picking up his backpack, he walked over to where their Professor was standing. "Gracias Profesor. Por una lección muy interesante. Era muy esclarecedara. Espero que el resto del día sea bueno. I am looking forward to your next lesson. Buenas Tardes," Cris thanked Professor Domingo in both Spanish and English.

...then he stood aside and waited for Jasmine to catch up with him.

Thanks for very interesting lesson Professor! Bye!

So their first Arithmancy class was over? Jasmine copied the last bit of information into her notebook and prepared to gather up her belongings. She had gotten some positive feedback from the Professor about her answers, but she still felt like she was grasping at straws with her interpretations. This class was going to be tough, no doubt about it.

Jasmine got up and put her bag on her shoulder. On the way out, she passed Professor Domingo and said, "Thanks Professor, see you next time". Then she headed toward the door, hoping to catch up with Cris before he left.

Textbook answers were always boring but sometimes necessary when you don't care. It was a perfect defense mechanism. It left you giving the right answer and the Professor moving onto someone who might give them a better more creative answer. Perfect if you ask Nigel.

Oh, they could leave now. Awesome. Nigel burned up his notes with his wand because it was fun and packed up the rest of his things. This class was pretty fun. Maybe because he like the feisty Domingo.

"Later, Señora. I think i will keep wearing the toga though"

Because really. Who doesn't want to look like a Roman God....Seriously.

*POP!*

Ears flapping, whisk in hand, Tinka Apparated into the middle of the classroom. "Ohhh Miss Domingo. Tinka sorry Tinka be late. Tinka be using her whisk-ey and lose track of time." Her ears twitched and she looked at the pile of clothes. Quick as a lick she scooped up the pile and kept it towering over her head. In a muffled sort of voice she squeaked, "This be all, Missus Professor?"

Okay, so...there was no backing out now. The professor had heard Sophie's question, and it looked like they'd be meeting up after class. Here...or the office? Hmm... "I'll meet you in front of your office," she said. "Thanks." She turned and started to head out the door, when...

COOL! A house elf! What was even better was that the elf was doing the professor's laundry!

As she walked out the door, Sophie was already planning on asking the professor where she could get one of those. A house elf, that is. Maybe it could do her homework for her, too! So cool!

Sophie left out the room and headed down the corridor.

Shame he could not keep the toga. After that semi threat from Domingo. Nigel reluctantly gave it back to her. He really liked that toga. But he was way to lazy to go out and buy/make his own.

"Well, It has be fun Professor Domingo"

Still want that toga though

With a quick "de nada" to Mr Newell, she continued staring down Hair Boy. That's right, put it back. But despite his seeming lack of caring, she had actually taken a bit of a liking to the Prefect. "Sí," was her simple reply.

She nodded at Sophie to acknowledge that she was leaving. And now to the elf. "Sí sí, Tinka. I can take care of the mess from the food." A simple vanishing spell would be plenty. "Oh, and one more thing." She leaned down to whisper in the elf's ear. "That will be all."

Little elfsie ears flapped to and fro. "Missus be so helpful! Missus no need clean up food if she no want to." But then pretty professor lady gave Tinka a special task. "Ohhh yes, missus! Tinka be right on that!" Tiny elfsie arms grabbed the few remaining togas that had fallen off the teetering pile. With a loud CRACK! she was off to the laundry room.