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IC Date, time, location: Thursday, 8th December, 1pm 2091 , Room of requirement (password to get inside is crystal ball)
A RoR room will be utilized for this afternoons divination lesson to not let the frigid december weather interfere, since a heavy snow storm of the previous night, put an effective stop to a lesson outside on the grounds. As you step over the threshold to the 'classroom' you'll find that the room is pretty spacious and warm, but not stuffy.
The desks and have been grouped in a half circle and all the chairs are cushioned for comfort. Professor Vance is standing in the middle of the spacious room dressed in shimmering red robes, sipping on a steaming cup of tea, next to several cloaked objects, and overhead something is floating around cloaked too.
"Good afternoon, please find a desk, we will begin shortly." Professor Vance chirps warmly as the first students step inside. All the cloaked objects are perfectly masked in black silk as to not give away what the lesson will be about just yet.
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Rooney had no answer for the question, but mainly because he wasn't paying any attention as soon as food and drink was revealed. He helped himself to tea AND cookies and..maybe listened to a few of the answers. He couldn't be bothered to answer things and so he settled back where he had been beforehand with cookies in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. Tra la la. He was here, wasn't he? That was enough for right now.
Professor Vance hadn't said that they could only have the tea if they answered.
After dropping her book she folded her arms, even reading about this lesson was stupid! Oh, she wished that she could drop this lesson but she just KNEW that her mother would get angry with her if she did so. Closing her eyes irritated she wondered WHY her parents were so determined for her to follow every lesson, even the stupid and boring ones! But, although she had promised mum to go to this lesson, she had not promised anything about doing her best or trying to work hard. No, she only had promised her parents to actually GO to all her lessons so… Nobody could be angry with her if she wasn’t doing anything at all? Faking couldn’t be that hard… Especially not in this lesson! So when the question was asked she kept her mouth shut and sat silent with her arms folded on the table before her. She just… Sat there, silent and with her mouth shut because, why saying anything while she wasn’t even trying to learn something?
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Juno had no clue what the professor could be taking about. The only thing she knew that the centaurs did was look at the stars and occasionally they would burn herbs to narrow down a prediction by looking at the shapes in the smoke. She didn't think that took a steady hand. But she raised her hand anyway, and when called on answered, "I don't know what that practice could be but I do know that Centaurs generally stargaze to make predictions and to narrow them down better, occasionally they will burn sage or mallowsweet and read the symbols in the smoke produced. But I don't think you need a steady hand for that."
Juno was utterly confused...which was new for her. Esme was really good at Divinations and had kept her informed on things.
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Etta didn't understand why they had to guess what they would be studying. Shouldn't the professor tell them that, really? She sighed and absently tapped the end of her quill against the parchment, trying to come up with an answer.
.... She could only come up with star-gazing but people already seem to have answered that anyway so she just remained quiet, waiting for the professor to explain. Etta realised she needed to do a lot more reading when it came to this subject. Ugh.
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Like any other late student, River dashed towards the Room of Requirements where Laurel was holding her Divination class. He was asked earlier that week for his assistance, and River promised that he will be there. As much as he wanted to be prompt and early for the Divination lecture, his duties as the school healer held him back from being punctual. But he was here, taking in a few deep breaths before entering the room.
River quietly turned the knob of the door, and stepped inside the room as quietly as possible. He didn't want any attention to himself, especially now that he's late. The man stood at the very back, giving Laurel a nod of acknowledgment. He'd have to apologize to her later for being tardy.
And...was that tea? And biscuits?
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Hattie really didn't like guessing answers. Not when she didn't really know the subject too like which was exactly how how she felt with Divination. She could probably take a lucky guess, but Hattie had this thing about being wrong. So she needed to think about it, and take a more educated guess. The blonde bit her lip, as she thought about it. Centaurs did it. She figured maybe it was star gazing, but that wouldn't necessarily take a steady hand, since you didn't really need to use your arms or hand for that. But maybe it was related some how.
"Is it related to looking at the stars, and the constellations, and what they mean at that specific time?" It felt like an educated guess to her.
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Class had started and Janelle turned her attention toward Professor Vance, as she began to speak. So they were supposed to hold this class outside, if not for the weather. Janelle enjoyed outdoor classes, but not particularly in the cold and snow. Her mind started to wander back to their previous lesson at the lake. She snapped back to the present when the first question was asked.
Given most of the clues, stargazing seemed to be the correct answer. One piece of the puzzle threw Janelle off though. Needing a steady hand to perform the reading. Now that part she wasn't sure about. Janelle continued to listen to her classmates' responses. However, since her answer had already been given a number of times, she remained quiet. She kept thinking about that steady hand piece. Maybe she could come up with something to add
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Etta looked mildly surprised to see the baby younger Hufflepuff suddenly sit down next to her. "Hi." She'd obviously seen him around but they never really talked? Weird. But he seemed kind of adorable. Hmmm. Disco ball... "Yeah! Maybe. I hadn't thought of that.." Frankly, she didn't like the subject all that much BUT the girl hoped it would be interesting, to say the least.
"Your name is Derf, right?"
Derf was actually trying not to get his hopes up tooo much since he was still feeling a bit miffed over the merpeople let down at the start of term...but with so many covered objects again it was kind of hard not to get excited. Anything that tickled his curiosity in the right way HAD to be good, right?
Pursing his lips and giving his disco ball idea a bit more thought, a few nods here and there as the older Hufflepuff spoke. "Yup! That's me," he grinned. And he was about to confirm her name...buuuuuuuuuuuut Professor Vance started the lesson.
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Turning her attention to her students again as she slipped her wand back into its holster, Professor Vance asked of them. "Can each of you give me a guess as to what divination method we will be learning about today? The hints I can give you are that it's a widespread ancient practice, usually preformed outside, the centaurs used to preform it, and you need to have a steady hand and arm to able to perform the reading." Gesturing to the tea wagon she said "Feel free to help yourselves to some tea and biscuts as you consider and give method guesses."
Well...maybe if they all used heating charms and stuff then they COULD go have class outside...although Derf was a bit confused as to what they would be doing outside at this hour since his initial thought to Professor Vance's question had to do with the stars...and you couldn't see those right now. Save for the Sun that is. And one did not need to be outside to burn herbs either...so the standard centaur divination answers were out. Which now had the first year in eager crisis because this was NEW INFORMATION?! And what he had been begging for the first lesson - after merpeople that is.
AND THEN TWO GRYFFINDORS WERE TALKING ABOUT ARROWS AND BOWS AND OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!
Now that made much more sense given the time of day and everything.
"I agree with them!" Derf chirped, pointing to always-talks-smart Charlotte and the Gryffindor prefect. "Bows-s-s-s are S-S-SUPER important to centaurs-s-s too! Like like...kind of how wands-s-s are to wizards-s-s-s! Bows are even made from wand woods-s-s!"
Did this mean he was going to get to see Thereos again?! Although...it would be terribly rude to ask the centaur to come to the castle AND make his way up all those stairs...
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Zelena bit her lip and scrunched her nose in thought, her fingers drumming soundlessly on the desk. She vaguely remembered something about Ancient Greeks, centaurs and smoke. She wasn't too sure if this was going to be done due to rules but maybe this was the answer. She slowly raised her hand. "Professor, what about the art of Pyromancy? I think there are more specific forms but that term is the only one making an appearance in my mind."Zelena replied with a tone of not having as much confidence as usual.
Zelena was the first to offer up a guess. Turning her gaze to the snakette Professor Vance responded. "A good guess Zelena, but we will not be burning wood or plants today to study fume patterns like you would do in a pyromatic reading." It was though a potential lesson topic for another lesson and location.
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"I don't really know," Kitty answered, raising her hand when no one else was answering. Her respect for Divination was a recent development and she hadn't really studied all the different kinds of Divination there were. "The first thing I thought of when you mentioned centaurs was stars, because I knew centaurs read or used to read the stars." It seemed a lot like Astronomy to her.
Kitty sounded her voice next making the most obvious association cause of her centaur clue which Laurel considered in hindsight maybe put the students off track. Oh well it was too early to tell. Nodding to the eagle prefect Professor Vance said "Centaurs read the stars and are very passionate about astrology, but that isn't the method we will be studying today."
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He had actually heard something about what she was talking about. He raised his hand then looked at the professor. "I've actually heard something about the whole sage and mallowsweet thing," he said. "Apparently, they looked for shapes and symbols in fumes." That would also explain why the professor would have rather been outside for this lesson.
Now Laurel regretted mentioning centaurs at all, but oh well she just had to roll with it. It certainly showed clear interest from the students in centaurology. Blue eyes stopping on Brent as he spoke up with the same line of thoughts as Zelena and Kitty. "It's the centaurs that burn mallowsweet and sage herbs to refine their stargazing findings. Looking for shapes and symbols in fumes is not what the centaurs do its related to the divination methods that fall under pyromancy like daphnomancy." Professor Vance replied with a smile in the youth's direction.
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He had read the Divination textbook. But when he wasn't interested in a subject it didn't stay with him. And Divination was sadly enough not his favourite.... Still, he felt like he had to say something. Give some sort of answer. He had learned that even giving bad answers were rewarded for trying. "Stargazinomacy" he answered convincingly.
Looking over at Mason that had discarded his book when the lesson had started. "Stargazing is a most fascinating subject, but it's not what we'll be studying today plus the weather and time of day isn't right for us to able to effectively stargaze." Laurel responded with a kind glance in the seniors direction.
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"I thought the centaurs were too busy protecting the caves? " Carlton mused. At least, that was what professor Myers had had assured him of. The fire babies seeds were protected by the centaurs, every night. So Carlton didn't need to worry about them. Others mentioned stars and Carlton got all excited. "THUNDERBOLTS!" Ahem. "Is there a technique which includes lightning, professor? That must be a cool way to do divination and since centaurs were cool, it only made sense.
Focusing her attention on Carlton she repeated confused. "Caves? The centaurs that reside here at Hogwarts live in the Forbidden Forest." As for his question Professor Vance replied kindly "There is actually a divination method that involved lightning Carlton it's called astrapomancy. We will not study it today though." Manipulating the weather wasn't something she did unless she had very, very good reason to.
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When she spoke about what they could be doing the first thought was the Tea, but then she said something else. Centaurs? What did they do that could be done in the room of requirement. Was it something with the stars. "Will we be studying the mars and other planets ma'am?" She had no clue why you would need a steady hand for it, but she thought that Centaurs looked to the planets and stars for information.
Natalia's guess was in the same area as many others before her. It was a popular topic it seemed so Laurel was going to remember it for her future lesson plans. Meeting the head girl's gaze with a smile pursing her lips Professor Vance replied. "No, we will not be studying mars and other planets today, a good guess though."
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She didn't think that took a steady hand. But she raised her hand anyway, and when called on answered, "I don't know what that practice could be but I do know that Centaurs generally stargaze to make predictions and to narrow them down better, occasionally they will burn sage or mallowsweet and read the symbols in the smoke produced. But I don't think you need a steady hand for that."
Juno spoke up after Natalia giving a similar guess like many of the other had done before her. "Astrology might be the practice you are searching for Juno but we won't be stargazing today or burning herbs to read fumes today." Laurel replied with a smile. Had her clues been too hard?
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The blonde bit her lip, as she thought about it. Centaurs did it. She figured maybe it was star gazing, but that wouldn't necessarily take a steady hand, since you didn't really need to use your arms or hand for that. But maybe it was related some how. "Is it related to looking at the stars, and the constellations, and what they mean at that specific time?" It felt like an educated guess to her.
Hattie sounded her voice next and made the educated guess that they would be looking at stars and constellations. Had Caroleena been teaching about planets was that why the majority thought they were studying that? Shaking her head slightly Professor Vance responded kindly "No, the method we will be focusing on today doesn't have a relation to stars and constellations just to centaurs."
It was a joy to teach when the students seemed to be in a good and imaginative mood, could it have something to do with not being outside and freezing? Whatever the reason for the good mood, it certainly made teaching easier. When the last student had quiet down Professor Vance revealed with some excitement etching her tone of voice. "As Mr Salander, Ms Kettleburn and Mr Ashburry-Hawthorne so cleverly figured out from the cluess and earns them a house point each, our class focus for today will be Belomancy."
"Belomancy is a form of divination that was widely practiced in ancient times by Babylonians and Greeks among other cultures. Even our forbidden forest resident centaurs used to practice belomancy ages ago before they found other ways to interpret the messages of the planets they are so in tune with." Centauromancy or Astrology even were topics for another time and place.
"Belomancy is the divination form that interprets the flight and movement of arrows as they hit a target to understand what lies ahead. Does anyone have a clue as to when, in what circumstance or occupation shooting arrows for future guidance might be of assistance to you?" Laurel finished before she started to pull away the silk from the cloaked objects beside her to reveal several quivers with arrows in different shapes and sizes sticking up as well as bows. When her eyes landed on Healer Reed, Laurel smiled at him and indicated with a hand wave that he could if he wished take a cup of tea and a biscuit.
OOC: Theorize freely, be creative! All answers count even wrong ones. Let your characters answer the question of when they think or in what circumstance or occupation shooting arrows for guidance of the future might be of assistance? I'll move on around 7 pm GMT on monday night.
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Determining that enough students were assembled to be able to start Professor Vance cleared her voice, and took a few steps forward as she spoke. "Welcome everyone to another lesson in the wonderful art of divining the future. The divination method that will be our main focus today I'd have liked to have held outside, but yesterdays snow storm and awfully chilly temperature made that impossible." With that in mind she took out her wand and conjured forth a tea wagon complete with steaming water, tea bags, cups and cookies by the left wall.
Turning her attention to her students again as she slipped her wand back into its holster, Professor Vance asked of them. "Can each of you give me a guess as to what divination method we will be learning about today? The hints I can give you are that it's a widespread ancient practice, usually preformed outside, the centaurs used to preform it, and you need to have a steady hand and arm to able to perform the reading." Gesturing to the tea wagon she said "Feel free to help yourselves to some tea and biscuts as you consider and give method guesses."
Ooc: Class has started! Feel free to jump in late, just post as if you've been there from the start. Use the hints to guess the divination method. I'll move on tomorrow around 2pm GMT+1.
Skylar had been eyeing the tea wagon that the Divination Professor conjured with distaste, as she contemplated why Professors thought it was necessary to provide students with refreshments during the lessons. It all continued to make the third year very skeptical. Yea, no helping herself to the refreshments, sorry Professor, but she still didn't trust it.
She would, however, daydream about the lesson, which was exactly what she was doing until she realized that she missed the opportunity to give her suggestions as to the method they were learning about today. Yup, what Tenacius had said sounded legit with centaurs and arrows. She might as well follow her own arrow, which was in itself metaphor enough for a divination class. Pursing her lips, she jotted down some notes on arrow divination, which admittedly wasn't much that she knew, but all speculations for now. But if she had to guess, the direction the arrow went and pointed probably had things to do with it...
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It was a joy to teach when the students seemed to be in a good and imaginative mood, could it have something to do with not being outside and freezing? Whatever the reason for the good mood, it certainly made teaching easier. When the last student had quiet down Professor Vance revealed with some excitement etching her tone of voice. "As Mr Salander, Ms Kettleburn and Mr Ashburry-Hawthorne so cleverly figured out from the cluess and earns them a house point each, our class focus for today will be Belomancy."
"Belomancy is a form of divination that was widely practiced in ancient times by Babylonians and Greeks among other cultures. Even our forbidden forest resident centaurs used to practice belomancy ages ago before they found other ways to interpret the messages of the planets they are so in tune with." Centauromancy or Astrology even were topics for another time and place.
"Belomancy is the divination form that interprets the flight and movement of arrows as they hit a target to understand what lies ahead. Does anyone have a clue as to when, in what circumstance or occupation shooting arrows for future guidance might be of assistance to you?" Laurel finished before she started to pull away the silk from the cloaked objects beside her to reveal several quivers with arrows in different shapes and sizes sticking up as well as bows. When her eyes landed on Healer Reed, Laurel smiled at him and indicated with a hand wave that he could if he wished take a cup of tea and a biscuit.
OOC: Theorize freely, be creative! All answers count even wrong ones. Let your characters answer the question of when they think or in what circumstance or occupation shooting arrows for guidance of the future might be of assistance? I'll move on around 7 pm GMT on monday night.
What circumstances shooting arrows for future guidance might be of assistance? UH, what sort of question was that? Would it be any different from using tea leaves or calculating numbers? Also, were they going to be shooting arrows? IS THAT why the Professor had the lesson here because space was required? Somehow, Skylar felt this lesson could get dangerous .... potentially.
Also, why the Healer was present. Yes, she'd noticed him slipping in. And she guessed it wasn't by accident he was present for this lesson.
"Shooting arrows might be of assistance if other divining methods weren't effective and you wanted to try something else. Or perhaps wanting confirmation on a particular destiny of the future..."
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It was so strange for the blonde, attending a lesson IN the Room of Requirement, when she'd been spending so much time in here for other purposes lately. Mostly hiding... But... Um, you know. It was a perfect place to have peace and quiet. And apparently, she was newly antisocial. So, that was happening.
Whispering the provided password, Olivia stepped into the room and took a curious look around. She first noticed that the professor was dressed as though they were about to hold a séance. Her robes were shockingly red... And... Well, yeah. Nothing else appeared too special. It was just another day in the "Divination classroom". Forgive her if she saw this as a missed opportunity. The Room of Requirement was a place your imagination could run wild!... That simply wasn't the case right now. It could change, though. They would see.
Not answering anything right away, Liv did help herself to tea; digging the thermos out of her bag. It needed to be refilled and Professor Vance had offered. So... she'd been busying herself with that. Until this new question had been asked, of course... What was Divination usually used for? For people to find their way. Even if that wasn't specific to the Belomancy method, it was still true. In fact, Olivia had never heard of shooting arrows to divine anything. That sounded seriously a little ridiculous, but of course, she was keeping that thought to herself.
"When you're traveling, Professor? Maybe if someone was trying to figure out the road ahead? What paths to take...."
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Kimi thought about the answer to the professors question and raised his hand and said "Whenever one is travelling it may come in handy" Kimi wasn't sure if it was correct but it was worth a try
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Kane had no idea HOW you could possibly figure out the future from arrows. Seers really did try to take ANYTHING and turn it into a type of Divination, didn't they? Well, he'd faked his way through the last class - time to do the same thing.
He raised his hand. "Well, I think it would be good if you were looking to try and figure out what path you need to take in life. You know, like you're shooting towards your future and letting the arrow tell you which way to go," he explained.
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Arrows? Daisy blinked for several seconds at Professor Vance in confusion. Was she actually telling them that people use to figure out their future by shooting arrows? Look, Daisy had heard some pretty weird stuff in the Divination classroom but this probably took the cake. Arrows. Honestly. She only hoped that this meant that they were going to be shooting arrows later.
Which honestly sounded AWESOME.
"Professor, could it be useful before a battle?" Y'know, because arrows were battle weapons, right? Why everybody was talking about paths and lost people she did not know. CLEARLY, it was the battle. Yup.
NO. WAY! Arrows? Why? She never had heard of that before, no muggle were using arrows to predict the future, not that Leesha knew anyway. But… It wasn’t exactly that she knew much about muggle divination so… Who was she to judge? Hmm… Staring at the arrows she realized that she still wasn’t interested in the divination part of it, she just… Wanted to shoot with them, that was all! Not that she ever had shot a arrow but… It looked cool to do so! Only shooting, but not predicting, that was what she wanted to do during this lesson but she feared that she wouldn’t be lucky today.
And the question? Well… She never had heard of this divination form before so she couldn’t answer the question, even if she WANTED to do so! Even thinking about a possible answer seemed stupid and useless so why try? She was here to attend, not to do much work so… why bother?
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Divination with arrows? Sounded interesting. Probably not one that Isa would use regularly though. Seemed like the sort of thing that had more to do with the body movements of the archer and physics than any divinatory meanings. It would be fun to try it though. "Belomancy might be useful when you are trying to decide if you should do something or not." Was this the sort of thing where you focused on a question and depending on where the arrow went it gave you a yes or no answer? Given all of the different factors involved in archery, Isa wasn't sure that she would want to base important life decisions on her archery skills. Like what if you decided not to do something just because of where the arrow went but really the only reason that the arrow landed there was because of her form and aiming. Was that how belomancy worked? Making decisions based on where the arrows hit on the target? She would have to wait and find out how this actually worked before judging it too harshly. Maybe there was more to this method of divination than she was thinking or she might have misconceived how belomancy readings were done. It should be interesting to learn more about belomancy today.
"Uh... maybe before making a big life decision, to know whether you're doing the right thing or not." Etta answered, raising a hand. She didn't know anything about arrows used for future guidance so she really couldn't come up with something a bit more interesting but heh. At least she tried and that's what counts, right?! RIGHT.
The girl stared at her parchment for a moment. Maybe she could draw... Derf? She couldn't professionally draw but you know, something to do until the professor moves on to the next question.
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So they were working with arrows today. Was that why the Healer was here? Professor Vance already assumed someone in this class would get hurt by an arrow. Smart move on her part for sure. Nat looked around as she started to talk about the arrows and the different things. Her next question made Nat think, but she honestly didn't know the answer.
So instead of raising her hand and just guessing the seventh year decided to stay quiet and look in her book for a bit. Maybe she'd find the answer there or maybe she would just wait to see whtat the rest of the class would say.
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Honestly...the combination of arrows and the healer being present were making the first year's imagination spin off into ORBIT. This totally meant that they were going to shoot arrows...and that it was potentially dangerous BECAUSE the healer was here. Why else would the man's presence be necessary UNLESS there was a HIGH PROBABILITY of injury?!
But wait...what had the question been? Centaurs and belo...belo...what was the term? The divination by bow and arrows stuff. That. Why did centaurs need it? He was glancing around the classroom trying to read his classmates on their responses to figure out if that was true...which it didn't SEEM to be...and he only knew about centaurs and their coming of age ceremony thingy when it came to bows and arrows. He had happened upon that in the library while looking at old yearbooks! THAT sounded NEAT.
So...OH...okay...he thought maybe he had it.
And Etta, he would totallt sit still for you for some drawing practice if you needed. Mum told him that his right side was his best, which made this your lucky day since that was the side he was presenting to you!
"Can can can...the arrows-s-s work kiiiiiiiind of like muggle magic 8 balls-s-s?" he asked, not knowing at all how humans used bows and arrows for this sort of thing. "Like...you write down 'yes', 'no', 'maybe', 'try again later' sorts of fings and then you s-s-shoot the arrows-s-s and the one fat flies-s-s the farthes-st is the ans-swer? Or the arrow you draw first from the...er...arrow backpack?"
Oh...wait...not HOW it worked by WHY you would use it? Didn't divination all work the same way in that regard?
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Hmm... Well, okay then. Brent hadn't really expected to get the question right anyway. He nodded in response to what the professor was telling him, showing that he was following along. He still wasn't too sure about Divination or even his ability to correctly follow any of it, but he was still following along.
...and there was another question. He didn't know the answer to this one either, but at least it was one of those questions that kind of sounded like the professor was just looking for thoughts. "Well, I'd say the accuracy part of it is probably obvious," he said, raising his hand. "Maybe how likely something is to happen is determined by how your arrow flies." Brent could just picture himself asking a question about his future then shooting the arrow to see how well it flew. An arrow that missed altogether and didn't even reach the target might be a no, and a bullseye would be a definite yes.
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OH, YES! Now this she could get into! She was really good at archery!She was suddenly really excited about this lesson. But thought about the question. Juno thought long an hard about this question.
Juno raised her hand and waited to be called on. Once she was, she replied, "Well, in order to shoot an arrow, you have to be completely focused on your target. If you are not completely focused your arrow will either be slightly off or miss the intended target completely. So I think Belomancy could be guidance in your life on what you should do as well as which way you should go direction wise. Because if you chose the wrong path or lose focus you could not only lose yourself mentally but you could also mortally harm yourself." Was that too deep? Some times Juno got too deep with her answers.
She flushed a little, slightly glad that Leon was not here.
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Whoah he nailed it? Awwyea! He gave Char and Derfy derp a thumbs up when the Professor confirmed what they were discussing today. Guess he knew how to read clues after all.
And what kind of divinatory purpose can this be used for? Now that was a bit tougher to find out. All he knows for sure is that the representation for the Astorlogical sign of Sagittarius was a centaur with a bow and arrow. So he sat quiet for a moment and thought.... and thought so more....
Well he remembers a story from one of mom's books and so goes his hand raised up high "Professor, I remember a Muggle story from this book my mom has, this guys named Robin Hood. Its said that he climbed the highest tree and shot an arrow across Sherwood forest. He told his Merry Men that wherever that arrow falls on the ground, thats the spot where he should be buried. So I guess people can use arrows to make certain decisions, sorta like allowing fate or chance to determine things for you."
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Janelle pondered the different answers that her classmates had given. When the professor revealed Belomancy as the correct answer, she nodded. Well that would certainly make sense. You would definitely need a steady hand for shooting arrows. Now as to when that would be useful.........Janelle would have to think about that.
She remembered reading something about the use of arrows and raised her hand. Whether this was the answer the professor was looking for, she did not know. Janelle took a whack at it anyway. "I know that arrows were sometimes used to answer questions. People would attach different answers to different arrows and then shoot them. The one that went the farthest would contain the answer to the question. So........you could pretty much Belomancy in any situation where you unsure of something and needed a question answered." Did that answer the professor's question? Janelle wasn't quite sure, but......oh well.
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Also, why the Healer was present. Yes, she'd noticed him slipping in. And she guessed it wasn't by accident he was present for this lesson. "Shooting arrows might be of assistance if other divining methods weren't effective and you wanted to try something else. Or perhaps wanting confirmation on a particular destiny of the future..."
"Interesting thoughts Skylar," Laurel praised. "Belomancy can be used together with other divination methods to confirm particular destinies of your immediate future."
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What was Divination usually used for? For people to find their way. Even if that wasn't specific to the Belomancy method, it was still true. In fact, Olivia had never heard of shooting arrows to divine anything. That sounded seriously a little ridiculous, but of course, she was keeping that thought to herself.
"When you're traveling, Professor? Maybe if someone was trying to figure out the road ahead? What paths to take...."
Looking over at Olivia she nodded "Yes, very good Olivia. Belomancy is often used by lost travellers to find the right path to take to safety or just to get out of a forest."
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Kimi thought about the answer to the professors question and raised his hand and said "Whenever one is travelling it may come in handy" Kimi wasn't sure if it was correct but it was worth a try
"Good Kimi, belomancy is definitley handy when one is travelling and doesn't have a compass to guide what direction or path to take forward." Professor Vance answered with a smile.
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He raised his hand. "Well, I think it would be good if you were looking to try and figure out what path you need to take in life. You know, like you're shooting towards your future and letting the arrow tell you which way to go," he explained.
Kane seemed to be on a similar train of thought as his peers but he focused more on how it could impact a persons life. Smiling over at him Laurel answered "Yes, belomancy can assist with life path to take guidance but it matters what you think and feel too."
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Look, Daisy had heard some pretty weird stuff in the Divination classroom but this probably took the cake. Arrows. Honestly. She only hoped that this meant that they were going to be shooting arrows later.
Which honestly sounded AWESOME. "Professor, could it be useful before a battle?" Y'know, because arrows were battle weapons, right? Why everybody was talking about paths and lost people she did not know. CLEARLY, it was the battle. Yup.
Daisy raised her hand next. Looking over at the snakette with a smile Prof Vance replied. "Yes, arrows can be useful before a battle to predict its outcome, but they are also used in battle as weapons and should be handled with caution and care."
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"Belomancy might be useful when you are trying to decide if you should do something or not." Was this the sort of thing where you focused on a question and depending on where the arrow went it gave you a yes or no answer? Given all of the different factors involved in archery, Isa wasn't sure that she would want to base important life decisions on her archery skills. Like what if you decided not to do something just because of where the arrow went but really the only reason that the arrow landed there was because of her form and aiming.
Isa raised her hand after Daisy and Laurel turned her attention in the badger girl's direction. Nodding she responded "Yes, belomancy can aid you in making desicions on if you should do something or not. Its most accurate when you ask yes or no questions like if you should or shouldn't eat an apple or go or not go to a party. More complicated the less accurate the answers will be."
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"Uh... maybe before making a big life decision, to know whether you're doing the right thing or not." Etta answered, raising a hand. She didn't know anything about arrows used for future guidance so she really couldn't come up with something a bit more interesting but heh. At least she tried and that's what counts, right?! RIGHT.
Henrietta sounded her voice next. Turning to the badgerette Laurel nodded "Yes, good Henrietta! Belomancy can be of assistance in big life desicions if you ask yes or no questions but ultimatley of course its up to you if you follow the outcome of the reading."
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"Can can can...the arrows-s-s work kiiiiiiiind of like muggle magic 8 balls-s-s?" he asked, not knowing at all how humans used bows and arrows for this sort of thing. "Like...you write down 'yes', 'no', 'maybe', 'try again later' sorts of fings and then you s-s-shoot the arrows-s-s and the one fat flies-s-s the farthes-st is the ans-swer? Or the arrow you draw first from the...er...arrow backpack?"
Derf had been reading in his textbook it seemed but he sorta confused her when he pulled in a muggle 8 ball referance. Professor Vance focused on the the belomancy aspect in her kind response. "Yes you're right Derf, in one version of the method you can attach yes, no, maybe and try again papers to the arrows and think of a question as you shoot your arrows. The arrow that lands the farthest away holds the answer to your asked question. "You can close your eyes, think of a question and draw an arrow blindly and the one you choose will have the answer to your question.
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...and there was another question. He didn't know the answer to this one either, but at least it was one of those questions that kind of sounded like the professor was just looking for thoughts. "Well, I'd say the accuracy part of it is probably obvious," he said, raising his hand. "Maybe how likely something is to happen is determined by how your arrow flies." Brent could just picture himself asking a question about his future then shooting the arrow to see how well it flew. An arrow that missed altogether and didn't even reach the target might be a no, and a bullseye would be a definite yes.
Brent got her attention next. She listened and then replied kindly. "Yes an arrows flight is important, but not as important as where the arrow lands on a target or if it misses all together since where it hits can determine how things will go in a quidditch match or even on a date."
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Juno raised her hand and waited to be called on. Once she was, she replied, "Well, in order to shoot an arrow, you have to be completely focused on your target. If you are not completely focused your arrow will either be slightly off or miss the intended target completely. So I think Belomancy could be guidance in your life on what you should do as well as which way you should go direction wise. Because if you chose the wrong path or lose focus you could not only lose yourself mentally but you could also mortally harm yourself." Was that too deep? Some times Juno got too deep with her answers.
Gazing over at Juno Professor Vance beamed "Good Juno, you touched on an very important point! You need to be focused and not be afraid to look for guidance in belomancy for example when you need it because taking wrong paths/desicions can lead to you getting yourself into mortal danger." Like with that strange portal...
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Well he remembers a story from one of mom's books and so goes his hand raised up high "Professor, I remember a Muggle story from this book my mom has, this guys named Robin Hood. Its said that he climbed the highest tree and shot an arrow across Sherwood forest. He told his Merry Men that wherever that arrow falls on the ground, thats the spot where he should be buried. So I guess people can use arrows to make certain decisions, sorta like allowing fate or chance to determine things for you."
Tenacious unexpectedly brought up a muggle story that actually could be related to belomancy. Professor Vance smiled over at the lion prefect. "Interesting, I've not read Robin Hood, but it can definitley be associated with belomancy since people have used the method for centuries to make life decisions and/or determine if something is good or not for them."
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She remembered reading something about the use of arrows and raised her hand. Whether this was the answer the professor was looking for, she did not know. Janelle took a whack at it anyway. "I know that arrows were sometimes used to answer questions. People would attach different answers to different arrows and then shoot them. The one that went the farthest would contain the answer to the question. So........you could pretty much Belomancy in any situation where you unsure of something and needed a question answered." Did that answer the professor's question? Janelle wasn't quite sure, but......oh well.
Janelle was the last one to raise her hand. Looking over at her Professor Vance smiled encouragingly. "Very good Jannelle, people usually think of a question and then attach yes, or no feathers to arrows and then shoot their arrows up into the air. The arrow that lands farthest away would be the answer to their question."
After Janelle had quieted down and Laurel had responded to her she deemed that it was high time to move on with the lesson, but a summarization was of course in order first. "Belomancy can as many of you have touched on be of assistance in everyday life desicions you make about what to do or not do. Something to remember though is that belomancy is most accurate when you ask yes or no questions. More complicated questions will lead to less accurate answers."
"Lost forest travellers have often used belomancy to find what path/direction to take to get out to safety and it has also been used on the eve of a battle to get a prediction of what side will win." Laurel finished to let that sink in for a moment.
"Before we get to our main activity i think it's wise that you all got to familiarize yourself with the arrows. Everyone please come forth and grab a quiver full of arrows to take with you back to your desks. When you've gotten your quivers i want you take a few parchments and teer them up into pieces.
On the parchment pieces you write 'yes', 'no', 'maybe', 'try again' and then you attach the parchment pieces with string that you should find on your desks to the arrows in your quivers. When you've done that i want you to close your eyes, jumble the arrows around in the quiver, think of a yes or no question and then draw an arrow from your quiver that will be the answer to your question."
OOC: Mini activity time! No post minimum. Do what Laurel instructed, take an arrow quiver, attach (yes,no,maybe, try again) parchment pieces to the arrows, jumble the arrows and then have your characters ask at least 3 yes/no questions that they draw an arrow answer to for full credit. I'll move on around 7-8pm GMT+1 tomorrow night. Have fun with it! Be creative!
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Listen, Char was too busy thinking about ARCHERY and how exciting it was to answer that next question, okay? She'd got the belomancy thing but then her mind had gone ahead and wandered as it was prone to do. But now back on track! Yeah! She knew she should have brought her own stuff!
She jumped up and went over to fetch a quiver. This was exciting! Hmmm which one? Which... ooooh that one! Perfect. Charlotte went back over to her seat and immediately dumped out the contents of the quiver, and began writing up the Yesses, Noes, and Maybes and the like, and tying them onto the arrows.
Char didn't know what she was going to ask them, but it wasn't about that for her, it was about the arrows themselves. Maybe they'd get to shoot them too! Or maybe they'd get to do some from their wands and see how that effected the divination part?
Yup, this topic definitely had her attention.
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