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Originally Posted by Roselyn  Narrowing her eyes at her notebook, Evelyn had been listening to what everyone was saying, and she may have taken a few notes down here and there, yet...good Merlin. Could she get a replay on all those spells bouncing back and hitting their casters?
Ahahaha...
Anyways.
After keeping silent for most of the discussion, the Slytherin was taking her time in absorbing all of the information as well as looking up the next three numbers and piecing them together to discover what sets off the spell. Hmmmm....time to raise her hand. "The fact that they all point towards touching it in some way?" Well, that IS what happened in the demonstration. "By either hand or magic? The number five describes physical touch while the numbers two and seven both tells of either human or magic, not to mention the number two is all about unity...so...touching it physically or by magic would set the spell off."
THATMADESENSE! Maybe. At least that is still what she saw from people trying to get the chocolate. Oh good; Evelyn was still with her in the class! For a moment, Josephina had thought the seventh year had fallen asleep or something, as she'd been keeping such a low profile. "Yes. The grouping does relate to touch. And magic." Quote:
Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl Awesome, another correct answer! She was on a roll after completely zoning out for part of the lesson. Hopefully she could keep this up.
So the 527 said something about what set the spell off. Vashti looked back down at her notes, focusing on the two, five, and seven. So there was the "humans/human magic" again...glancing down at the seven, she spotted the word "magic" again. So...magic in general? Then she looked at the five and spotted "physical touch." Hm... She raised her hand again.
"It says that the spell is set off when someone tries to open it physically or magically?" "Physical touch. Magic. Very good. " Fina nodded encouragingly at the sixth year. Now they seemed to be getting this. Quote:
Originally Posted by Trish Penny had an idea, and she was probably wrong - again!.... but she put her hand in the air "Professor, if the 28 is means human and human magic.... and the 080 stops movement of said humans...Well maybe 527 is us to call non-human magic like a house elf or Unicorn..?"...lowering her hand again...Well you never know - she MIGHT be right  Ah... she was getting ahead of the lesson, as Kurumi had been trying to the whole lesson. "527 could be telling us to call on non-human magic as a way to avoid setting off the spell, yes." That was true. Quote:
Originally Posted by Granger1814 Hmm, yes, this one was a bit easier than the other ones. Or so she thought. Kourtney studied the numbers and their characteristics for a few moments, picking out certain things that they appeared to have in common. Her hand rose. "The spell seems like it'd be set off by human magic or human touch, like demonstrated earlier when a spell was attempted on the box and a freezing charm was the object's reaction...attempt of magic to open the box, which led to a freezing charm to the target object of a wizard...thus allowing no movement from said target." She put her hand down. Hopefully that was correct? She was still a little uncertain about this entire numbers business. Fina nodded again. Students were getting it now. Finally. Either that or they were just exhausted and agreeing with their classmates so they could be dismissed. Quote:
Originally Posted by nups21 Ira looked into her notes and tried to make a meaning of the numbers 5, 2, and 7...She studied them for a few moments before answering.
Ira raised her hand up and answered, a bit doubtfully, "Maybe, it means that the box should be opened without movement? I mean, using non-verbal magic? That way, the person trying to open it won't be hit by freezing charm due to movement...." There wasn't any harm in trying, right?
But they had to find the range, i.e what activates the spell....What activates it?! "Or, professor, human magic activates the spell! Doesn't it? So something other than human magic must be used to open it so as to not cause the spell to activate..." Ira hoped that the professor understood what she really wanted to convey. "Using non-verbal magic, while a good idea, is still magic," Hadley replied to the young Gryffindor. "So while you wouldn't be affected by the movement, you'd still be affected by the use of magic." Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Oh dear, Kurumi hadn't expected Professor Hadley to get so excited about her answer. It was rather silly of her to think so, Kurumi not the professor, since she knew that the Arithmancy professor loved numbers. If she didn't, why else would she teach in this field? It seemed that what she needed to do when thinking about these number combinations was take the meaning of the numbers literally. No over analyzing for this lion if she could help it
"Whenever a witch or wizard tries to touch the box or perform a spell on it, the spell will be activated," Kurumi asked, feeling a bit more confident with this answer. "Professor, one of the properties of seven is solitude...does that mean that if a witch or wizard were to attempt to open the box with someone else that the spell would react differently? Or...if the one trying to open the box had their own type of magic?" She hoped that the wording on the latter part was obvious enough to get her point across?
Yep, she was still holding out for some special guests this lesson. Ah, there was Kurumi, jumping ahead again, as she posed another question. "It would still react though, as even if you tried to open it with company, there's also the number 2 there, which means unity. So it counter-balances the solitude represented by the number seven." Quote:
Originally Posted by HogwartsHokage Jenny gave a huge sigh. She didn't even bother to look at her notes this time. She saw no use in understanding Arithmancy now.
But Jenny didn't want to stop answering just yet. She quickly wrote down some notes on her parchment. Affects human movement...causes target to have no movement... Hm. Time to go back to those moments when the other students tried to open that box.
A few minutes later, Jenny raised her hand. "Since you warned us not to touch the box, I guess any physical touch would set off the spell. Magic also sets off the spell as well, so it's best not to perform magic either..." And she stopped there; if she said any more, it would just be pure speculation. "Yes, precisely." Fina nodded as another girl suggested the same as her classmates. Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Oh my dear Merlin! See.This was why Sierra should have dropped Arithmancy. What language was the professor speaking anyway? This didn't sound like any number combination Sierra had heard before. Whatever happened to the good ole Life Path Number?
...oh, yeah. That was first year.
Blahhh. Okay, five...two...seven. Five...two...seven. Arggggh! Kurumi Hollingberry! Why must you always ask a question in response to a question?! Her replies always confused Sierra. Always. She tried to block the girl's voice out as she thought about the meanings of all those numbers.
Five...two...seven... Sierra glanced at her textbook to see what the numbers meant.
Erm... "Maybe it means that the spell is activated through the physical touch of someone magical?" she suggested, her hand raised. "So, I think it's the magic within us coming into contact with the box." Oh look! Sierra was trying it out! She looked perplexed though, but that was to be expected, considering this material WAS advanced. What they were learning was just the very basics of curse-breaking and spell numerization, but if they wanted to pursue curse-breaking as a field, they'd learn this more in depth. It was always good to expose to the basics.
"Magic and contact with the box, would both set it off, yes." Quote:
Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88 Alyssa head was beginning to spin again. Thank goodness they were down to the 2nd last set of numbers. She tried to break down the numbers
5: Change, transition, progressive thinking, resourceful, freedom, versatility, physical world, physical touch, verbal
2: Harmony, unity, relationships, collaboration, duality, humans/human magic
7: Analysis, research, solitude, wisdom, spiritual focus, investigative, mysticism, magic
She thought for awhile and attempted an answer. She raised her hand and said,"We know that the number 2 relates to humans and human magic, 5 relates to change and physical touch, and 7 relates to spiritual focus. So could it be that the combination of the numbers 527 means that in order for any change to happen or the spell to activate, the spell requires for a human to invoke human magic interaction with the object either through verbal or thought.". Alyssa heard her own answer and even she knew that it didn't make sense. At first Josephina hadn't been sure what the second year had been trying to get at, but as she listened at the girl elaborated, Hadley nodded. Really she'd been saying the same thing as everyone else, after all. "Yes. The grouping is activated by human magic, regardless of whether its verbal or non-verbal." Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Simon looked at the Professor, to say he was a Prince he wasn't very good at this sort of thing and his summer teacher, he hated that he had to have lessons in the summer had told him that he wouldn't be able to do Arithmancy perfectly at all and his father had been mad about it because he loved the subject but Simon hated it. "Well it came into my head, I remember reading somewhere about people being able to use numbers like 2 and 8 to see into the future and so I thought that was what you ment." Simon once again said the first thing that came into his head.
Simon smiled again. "527 could mean something to do with spells, you have to get a book and go to the 5 page, 2 spell along and the 7th line of that spell and that is what the meaning is." Simon was getting very confused. "So it could mean that someone nasty will use a spell to take over the world." In his head?! It just came into his head?!? Merlin, Simon. He should play the lottery if numbers were just coming into his head.
"Yes. 527 does have to do with spells, but not the way you described it," Fina complimented him on his first part. But going to the fifth page and the second spell on the page? What? Silly Simon. Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkphoenix Orr nodded at Prof. Hadley's reply to her answer. So it wasn't just limited to wizarding folk rather it was referring to humans in general. And while listening to answers given to the other students, Orr quietly thought about the next set of numbers.
She looked at her parchment
So the 2 obviously referred to humans and since it was clear by the Prof.'s answers that the core causes no movement. And well, Orr didn't really know what to do with the 5 and 7 but she kept on glancing at their meanings in her parchment. She focused on the resourcefulness aspect of 5 and the investigative aspect of 7. So maybe...yes...that might make sense plus the talk in class about non verbal magic..at least it made a little sense to her.
Orr raised her hand and asked, "Prof. Hadley? could 527 indicate that a person's resourcefulness ie their mind and analytic understanding of the box would help them be more investigative using their logic, through the use of non-verbal magic perhaps to understand how to open the box? It just makes sense to me that the spell would sense the person's investigative intent on how to open the box."
Who knows? she could be completely wrong and misinterpreted the Prof.'s hints and answers completely but she could be half right as well Looking now toward another Ravenclaw, Josephina listened as she explained what she thought could set off the spell with those particular numbers. "But how would that activate the spell? The person's investigative intent." In other words, not exactly what she was looking for. Quote:
Originally Posted by luna-p Ashley looked at his notes, and then at the number, and tried to find some kind of combination of words in all of the characteristics that made sense before raising his hand to try.
"Is it magic that's performed by a human that tries to change the box physically?" As before, he was really just guessing, but he was determined to figure this out, and to get at least one of these right at some point, and the only way he could do that was by continuing to try to come up with something, even if it sounded bad or wrong. "It's the foremost. It's magic performed by a human. But not changing the box physically..." Oh no, that part of her interpretation was slightly off. Quote:
Originally Posted by anolan807 "Could it have something to do with the physical part and that is why we were not suppose to touch the box?" "The physical part, in reference to humans physically touching the box, yes." Hadley nodded at the young Hufflepuff. "As many of you seem to have figured out or guessed upon, its physical and touch and magic that activates the spell if the grouping is 527." Hadley paused, letting this sink in for a few, before going on. "The two in the middle of the numbers is representative of interconnectedness between the five, representing the physical world and physical touch, and the seven which is about magic. Specifically though, these numbers are in reference to human magic and human physical contact."
"Before we move onto the final part of the number, the cline, though a couple ways have been mentioned already, how can we avoid setting off the spell if its only affected by human touch or magic?" ooc: Meant to post sooner, but I'm going to try to wrap this up tonight. Can I have a time turner, please? <3
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