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Book and quill ready to for him to make notes? CHECK! But first, the question must be answered. Adi's hand shot up right away. He was leaning towards the muggle side for his response because this topic had been brought up before in his family, given his mom's background and what her own side of the family believed. ''Karma is believed, in the muggle sense, to be that whatever you do has an effect on your future. It's sort of like that saying 'What goes around comes around'. So, if you do bad stuff, you'll get bad stuff in return.'' Adi was not sure how he felt about that. Good and bad things happened to persons regardless of what they did.
Tiara had heard that 'goes around' phrase before. "Karma certainly does involve 'bad stuff,' as you put it." But there was more to it than that, which she would surely hear soon.

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So KARMA. That one was easy. Toby raised his hand.

"It's like a roundabout." ................ "What goes around comes around. Being kind to people, all that stuff." Even though that wasn't actually a reason to BE kind, or anything. Karma was just a thing that some people thought happened. Toby had never really thought about it.
Hmmm. "An interesting analogy, Tobias!" And she wasn't surprised that he would choose to focus on the kindness side things.

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First question.......karma. Janelle raised her hand, ready to give her thoughts on the matter. "Karma is like the scale that balances things in the universe. You do something good and good things will come back to you. You do something mean or bad and sooner or later something equally as bad wil happen to you. It may not be right away, but it will happen."
She had heard the scale analogy before, but that just meant it was probably a good one. "Good summary, Miss Guidry." She had pretty much hit the nail on the head.

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Her conversations ceased and all eyes were on the professor. Karma was an interesting subject to her. "If you're going to be a meany you can bet you will stub your toe or something." Instant karma was the best.
Interesting that people seemed to be focusing on the 'bad side' of karma. "Might I suggest travel by broom, then, Miss Valentine?" she quipped. "Good example."

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Karma. They had learned about karmic debts in the lesson that had been combined with muggle studies. Professor Tanner wanted to know what they knew about karma. In the muggle sense? "Karma is a sort of cause and effect. Bad actions will lead to bad things happening to you, and good actions will lead to good things happening to you." Sort of. She wasn't entirely sure about that. Jangle had done a pretty good job of explaining karma in the muggle sense. In the arithmancy sense? "In arithmancy there are karmic lessons and karmic debts. Karmic lessons are numbers missing from your name, and karmic debts are about things like abuse of power." That she knew more about. She also knew about how to calculate those numbers if she had remembered how to correctly, but Professor Tanner was probably going to talk about that in the lesson. Would they be learning more about karmic numbers today? Maybe karmic lessons? Or finding their karmic debts? Fascinating stuff. This should be an interesting lesson.
Good, someone did know a bit about the Arithmancy side of things. "Correct, the main two parts are karmic lessons and karmic debts. We won't have enough time to get into both of those today, though." She could spend an entire term on them, after all.

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Angel looked at the Professor "It's been a great day." Angel smiled then listened to the question and raised her hand. "Professor isn't Karma when you do something wrong you get punished for it." Angel thought about something. "I used to watch a programme called My name is Earl, he made a list after being hit by a car." Angel smiled, "It's a brilliant programme Professor."
Sometimes Angel Valentine drew odd parallels that Tiara really did not understand at all. This was one of those times. "I cannot say that I know of the show, Miss Valentine, so I will just take your word for it relating to our topic of discussion." It was a head-scratcher, that answer.

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Now they were getting started, and firstly talking about Karmic/Karma. Zhenya raised her hand; "Professor a karmic number is the interpreted from ones name, and shows you what area you will," how did she explain it in words? "Um... struggle in." She supposed that would be clear? All this study and cramming was making her brain mushy.
Tiara nodded along as Zhenya responded. Janelle had alluded to this already, but now it was being elaborated. "Yes, it does come from the birth name. And also correct on the areas of struggle." Perhaps not the most eloquently worded, but who was to say she herself always had wonderful wording?

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Karma, though? Sophie gave a mild sigh that they were digging deeper into this topic, but she went to raise her hand... and then put it back down as people gave the first answer she'd intended to give about karma in a general sense, then Penelope and Zhenya in particular went on to provide solid information on arithmancy-related karma, too, so... there wasn't really much that needed to be added to the discussion, was there?

Sophie didn't think so, so her hand stayed down and she simply picked up her quill and wrote down her own definition of karma in general, then arithmancy-related aspects of it. Still avidly paying attention, okay? Just nothing to add. Coasting. Taking everything in... and also resisting the urge to antagonize Tobes beside her. End-of-term feelings were getting to her, okay? She wanted to have all the fun with him as often as she could, even if it was in the middle of a class, which... had almost landed them in detention with Flammy, so she was TRYING REALLY HARD TO RESIST, OKAY?

Don't poke the Tobes, Sophie Brown. Don't.
And then there was Sophie Brown, who was staying uncharacteristically quiet. She almost always had something to add on the topic. Perhaps she was a bit emotional with the impending graduations as well?

"Well, you all did an excellent job of conveying the general idea of karma." Clearly they knew a lot about it, so she didn't need to bore them by going over it all again. She began to walk around the room, spreading her sunshine, as it were. "Let's see what else you all know.. If you had to guess, where do you think the idea of karma first came from? I welcome ridiculous guesses, as long as you have a solid reason!"
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