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Arithmancy 2: Introduction to Elemental Arithmancy Just before they all leave for the winter break, as the wind howls outside the castle windows and snow piles heavily on the school ground, it is time for yet another Arithmancy lesson. As the students step into the classroom, they might immediately sense that the temperature is considerably lower in here than it is in the corridor, likely due to the presence of swirling clouds just above their heads and obscuring the ceiling almost entirely. _____________ OOC: Class has started! Lesson progression: - Part 1: Water! What is it good for? - Part 2: Water! What's in the numbers? - Part 3: Water! What are the numbers? - Part 4: Water! Demons!! |
Another Day another chance for Eloise to complain about why she has taken this class until she enters the class and sees whatever Sissay has that's cool and elephant related.is that an ice-ish elephant...maybe. Eloise might need her eyes checked. Let's try and not have her head hurt this time. Sure she was passing and all. But it took so much more effort than she wanted it to to get ok grades. "Hey Professor Sissay. I like the purple" Also, come on Sissay some heating and warming charms would have been appreciated in here. You want your students to concentrate don't you??? Siiiiigh..she is just going to find a seat and think of what she will bribe the twins with over Christmas break |
There were plenty of distractions caused by thoughts about the holiday break happening in Stasya’s head. Wondering how many of her aunts and uncles she’d see, if she’d be allowed to invite Koen over. If Chase was going to be at any of their holiday celebrations, including Demyan’s birthday. Adding that to everything that was usually going through the tall blonde prefect’s mind on any given day, it all led up to her nearly not having noticed the change in temperature upon entering the Arithmancy classroom. Until she’d glanced up to see the swirling clouds overhead, then her green eyes took in the professor and the other additions to the room. “Good morning, Professor Sissay,” she said brightly, pulling her robes around her closer as she finally realized it probably would have been nice if she’d bolstered her personal heating charms on herself before she’d come to the lesson. She’d just have to hope things would get warmer before long, like an activity or something. The ice sculpture wasn’t too promising on that front, but she could hope. Until then, she made her way toward a seat to wait for the lesson to begin. |
Nina Castillo could not wait until they went home for the holidays. Not because of Christmas, but because she needed to refill her prescription of contact lenses. Which, by the way, she still did not have on hand!!!! All of this to meant that she had been squinting and dealing with massive headaches for the past two weeks, as she was far too stubborn to wear her glasses throughout the castle. No one would see her with glasses on. she would rather die. She was managing to make it work, albeit with mild discomfort. As the Slytherin made her way into the Arithmancy classroom (it was one of her favorite lessons), she quickly hurried inside and paused only for a moment to acknowledge her Professor (one of her favorites) with a moment of eye contact. Once she drew her gaze away, she quickly hurried to the middle of the room to find a seat for herself. Again, choosing a seat was of great importance. Immediately she had spotted Eloise, even without 20/20 vision the fourth year could recognize the demon from any distance. With that in mind, she selected a seat as far away from her dormmate as possible, while still avoiding a seat in the front and those in the back. She was very particular. |
"Why is it so co-oh..." Ice sculpture. That answered her unfinished question. Obviously one couldn't have a room too warm with an ice sculpture in it, otherwise you'd have an ice puddle. That'd be water, for those of you not gifted with wordplay. Anyway, Archer found herself a seat and sat with a "Morning, professor." And if she didn't seem like the usual jovial, joking, annoying in some's eyes Archer, it was because she'd just found out that she'd be spending the holidays back at her father's place in America instead of him coming to Britain as usual. Apparently, he had to stay close to work this year. Pbbbbbt. |
As the days passed and the holiday break drew nearer and nearer, Rylee grew more and more excited. She couldn't wait to go home and be with her siblings and see her nephew. From a wedding, to parties, dinner at Stefan's home and visits with friends there was nothing getting her down. Okay, there was one thing but she was doing her best not to keep reminding herself of it. Not even the much colder atmosphere of the classroom was going to break her spirits. A little cold wasn't a big deal. Fixing her robes around her a little more she made her way to her usual desk. "Good morning, Professor! I really like your purple shawl," she greeted brightly. Purple was in fact her most favorite color if she had to choose a favorite. Settling into her seat, the fifth year began taking out what she would need for the lesson placing it neatly on her desk. |
A Drewett during the cold weather was always the quiet type. Like, a quieter type. He didn't like doing much when it was cold, but he didn't want to skip another day of class again. Feeling cold wasn't a valid excuse, but he had made sure to put a heating charm on himself. One does grow proficient in those charms here at Hogwarts. It was cold here most days of the year, but some days were certainly just colder than the rest. Today was one of those days. The classroom lacked its usual heating charms, but Drewett didn't notice due to having one on himself. "Good morning, Professor Sissay," the Ravenclaw greeted the woman with a little smile. He moved comfortably through the classroom and occupying his usual seat on the second row, not bothered by the cold like everyone else seemed to be so he was a bit confused at the sight of others pulling their robes close to themselves and the presence of the professor's purple shawl too. Hmm. He was clearly missing something here. He did notice the elephant thing on the platter. Or something that looked like an elephant. Drewett wasn't too sure. What did that have to do with the tomatoes and cucumbers though? It vaguely reminded him of...face masks. Just the cucumbers, at least, because he didn't think tomatoes were supposed to be on anybody's eyes. He could also stop overthinking and overanalyzing now. |
Analiese Allanach-Senchuri couldn't wait until the Christmas holidays arrived. I mean, who wouldn't be excited to go to Calais? Yes, she was going to France over the Christmas holidays. That called for a reminder of basic French. She was planning on visiting the library afterwards to remind herself of the French she knew. Using her own books, of course. The library didn't have French books. Or did it? Suddenly, Analiese remembered the American shopkeeper called Gemma Pell in Paris she met during her trip to France. Ah, the struggle Gemma had to go through just to introduce herself to Analiese's mother when they were trying to buy sweets from her shop. Je m'appelle Gemma Pell. Analiese and her mother still joked about it. The 12-year-old wrapped her cloak tighter around herself as she walked into the classroom. She noticed it didn't have its usual heating charms. "Good morning, Professor Sissay." She greeted the woman with a warm smile. She walked to her usual desk at the front and set her book bag down beside it. The young Ravenclaw sat down and immediately noticed the ice sculpture. A rather poorly designed sculpture in her opinion. And was that... slices of cucumber and tomato? |
Avalon could do this. She only had to make it through a few more days before Christmas break. She did enjoy school, especially being at Hogwarts, but she couldn't deny that she missed her family. And she was in dire need of some rest and relaxation. Between her studies and Quidditch practice, she was exhausted. Nevertheless, she knew she had to keep her stamina up until the holidays arrived - starting with Arithmancy class. It didn't help that the room was freezing cold and extra dreary looking. Avalon was glad that she wore her scarf, but wished that she had remembered to bring her mittens. "Hello, Professor Sissay." Avalon greeted the woman politely with a wave as she slid into a seat toward the front. And was that...a waterfall at the front of the classroom? With a bowl of vegetables? Yet another bizarre lesson set up. That seemed to be the norm at Hogwarts. Avalon wasn't complaining though. At least her professors tried to make lessons as interesting as possible. |
Quidditch was an important aspect of every witch's life, especially for avalon, who was an avid quidditch fan. But arithmancy was one of those subjects. Vivienne walked and said hi to sissay and sat down between avalon and analiese. She wanted to get the most out of her lesson... especially in the present. |
Up until this year, Tina enjoyed arithmancy, but now it was by far her least favorite subject. It was nothing against Professor Sissay. She just... hated being wrong. It made her look and feel stupid in front of everyone, and it seemed to happen more often in this class than the others combined. The only reason she was here ar all was because she wasn't allowed to drop the class in the middle of the term. Whatever. It was what it was. Tina tried to concentrate on happier things as she made her way to the classroom. She could do this. Only a few more days, and she'd be back home in France for the holidays. She smiled, imagining the fun that awaited once she got back to Chateau Croyance... the food, the games, maybe even an extra gift or two for her since her birthday was a few days ago, and... MUMBLING MATAGOTS! WHY WAS IT SO COLD IN HERE! The temperature change jerked Tina out of her thoughts, and she looked around the room and soon found the explanation for the cold, an ice sculpture at the feont of the room that looked suspiciously like an elephant. Hmm... again with the elephants. Tina was beginning to wonder if Professor Sissay had some kind of obsession with elephants. Speaking of the professor, Tina greeted her with a "good morning" and a polite nod as she passed on the way to her usual seat at the back of the room. Now she was ready for class ro begin... she guessed. |
Here goes nothing. Or, rather, here goes Józef. When he entered the classroom, he was ready. The third year was definitely not one to shy away from a dare, even - and maybe especially - if everyone was going to see it. Even if this dare wasn't exactly funny, really. "Morning, Professor," he said rather quickly, before moving forward and hugging the Professor. The briefest of hugs. The most uncomfortable of hugs. WHY WAS HE HUGGING A PROFESSOR?!?!?! Letting go in what was hopefully a short enough amount of time that Professor Sissay would not have realised what had happened, Jó darted straight for the row of seats at the back. Once seated, he sunk as low as possible into his chair. Please don't make him miss Quidditch. |
Christmas break was fast approaching and he wanted nothing more than to be at home hanging out with his older brothers and his parents. There were going to be cookies, food, and wayyyy more time to sleep. He needed to catch up on some sleep he'd been so busy studying as of late that he hadn't had time to get a good nights rest. With as much of a smile on his face as he could muster he strolled into the Arithmancy classroom. "Hello Professor Sissay" He noticed that there was some sort of waterfall, some cucumbers and tomatoes.... what in the dickens were the going to be doing today? Sure he tolerated arithmancy only because he felt like one day he would need it. Finding a seat away from the front, but not too far in the back. He hated when he had to bob and weave to see the professor or the board. Hashtag not a fan. Grabbing his notebook and moving his sweater a bit closer he waited for the lesson to begin because he wanted to get going to some food. He was hungry and that was absolutely no good. |
Well, it wasn't every day that you saw a professor greeted with a hug. Vita wasn't against hugging or anything, but she was fairly certain a simple hello or good morning would do. Perhaps that Józef kid had a crush on their professor. The thought made her smile a little as she passed the older woman. "Morning Professor." It was cold in here, did she know? Being cold made Vita sleepy and being sleepy did not go well with trying to wrap her head around...whatever it was that they were going to be learning today. All she could do was take her seat, hug her arms, and hope that the subject matter was stimulating enough to take her mind off of the temperature. ...Also the trickling of the waterfall kind of made her want to use the loo. So there was that. |
............... ????????????? Lucas? Was? Confused?? Was Józef HUGGING Professor Sissay? Was he seeing this correctly? Sissay was great, sure, but this was Jó, after all. Wasn't he supposed to be too cool to be hugging professors? Was he feeling okay? Or maybe this was a new Józef who liked doing things like that. Thoughts about how cold the classroom was didn't even register in his brain, not when he had so many other questions because of whatever it is that had just happened. Instead, he shot the Professor a wide smile and said, "Hey, Professor. I like the waterfall." Pause. "And the elephant is pretty cool, too." It was probably not a good idea to name it. And then? And then he was moving right past his usual seat to sit down next to Józef. You know, for moral support. Not that Lucas could do anything if anyone said anything mean but, well, the thought was there, right? |
Whatever opinion Eiji had had of the subject had shifted favorably. Had the professor noticed him around the grounds every Sunday performing the spell and checking his potions ingredients for harvest? Because the Slytherin most certainly had been performing it in spades - not that he was doing so for any sort of validation. And it was showing in his brews. And now, with this new information from Nina on certain extra curriculars of his classmates...there was a renewed purpose to this method. The brew was almost ready...another week and it would be perfect and then he could move on to phase two... Greeting the professor with a polite nod of the head and nothing more, Eiji moved toward a set and got himself situated. |
Verona had always felt there was something magical about numbers. It was difficult to pinpoint one exact aspect that she most liked about them. Perhaps it was how she found it incredible that small calculations could solve massive problems or perhaps it was just the mental challenge that she enjoyed. Regardless, she always looked forward to working with numbers and that was revealed in her illustrious smile as she entered the Arithmancy classroom. Odd....very odd. The brunette's expression slowly morphed into one of perplexion. Her eyebrow raised and her illustrious smile became that of strongly pursed lips. Had she walked into a Transfiguration or Care of Magical Creatures class or something? Why in the name of Merlin did the classroom resemble an exotic location consisting of a waterfall, cloudy skies and an...elephant sculpture? Very strange, indeed. Hesitantly, the Ravenclaw nodded at the Professor in greeting and then took her seating trying to place the logic of the classroom together. |
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy was it so cold in here????????? Anahera stopped right inside the doorframe, shivering. It was cold enough OUTSIDE, why did Professor Sissay have to make it cold INSIDE too? Couldn't she have postponed this type of lesson to, well, not winter? Was she allowed to go back and get her scarf and beanie? Also maybe woolen gloves? Going by a couple of impatient students behind her, trying to get past, the answer was probably no. With a sigh, Anahera walked into the classroom, hugging herself and gave the professor a polite nod in greeting despite it all. "Hello, Professor." Would they be practicing heat spells? Or, err, heat....numbers? Was that a thing? After a quick glance around, she moved to sit down next to Patrick, scooting her chair a little closer to him instinctively because W A R M T H. |
Numbers were not her thing, but she knew she had to go. She was trying to learn as much as she could, with Owls next year, she had to be more on top of subjects she was bad at, like this one. So Chloe headed into class and looked around. The minute she walked into the class she was ready to walk back out. Not because of the class itself but the cooler temperature hitting her and the sound of water that only made her need to do one thing. She needed the loo but it was too late for now. Hopefully she could hold it through class. "Hello professor" nodding as she headed for a seat. Why was it cold in here? |
Text Cut: oh its Erik ok "Good morning Eloise, thank you." Ayana smiled easily at the redhead, a creative young woman with far too much energy for mischief. She was fond of her. Text Cut: SilverTiger "Good morning to you," Ayana replied with a grin and a nod towards the Prefect, noting that she seemed to be cold. Well, it was certainly quite chilly in the classroom. Perhaps she'd allow the ice sculpture to melt? They wouldn't need it for the entire lesson. Hmm. Text Cut: ArianaBlack Ah, one of her brightest students. "Good morning, Nina," Ayana smiled, and watched the girl closely as she sat. Her essays were always excellent, but Ayana was constantly disappointed by her lack of participation in class. Perhaps today, in the spirit of the holidays? Text Cut: lazykitty "Hello Archer, good morning," Ayana smiled warmly, despite the cold, at her next student took a seat. Hmm. She didn't look quite as happy as she usually did. "Everything alright this morning?" Text Cut: Koylander "Good morning Rylee, thank you very much," Ayana beamed at the young woman. Knowing her students felt comfortable enough in her classroom to address her in this manner made her heart soar. Text Cut: Kimothy "Hello Drewett," Ayana smiled, and noticed him eying the contents on the table. Good, good. No one had seemed to notice the indoor clouds just yet, quite in line with the attention of teenagers. They never seemed to look up. Text Cut: SneakySeverusSnape One of her youngest and brightest! "Good morning Analiese," Ayana watched as the girl came and sat in her usual spot, right in front of her. She stepped a little to the side to offer the girl an easier view of the table and its contents. One must never deny the curiosity of the young ones! Text Cut: Fireheart "Good morning Avalon," Ayana gently smiled at yet another of her youngest. She really did have a soft spot for the underclassmen and their brilliant imagination and creativity. Text Cut: Kayla Taaffe And another one, to complete the Ravenclaw set! "Good morning Vivienne," Ayana smiled at her, and gave the whole trio another warm glance. Studious, creative students, these Ravenclaws. Living up to the house standards, as far as she was aware. Text Cut: MadMadamMalfoy Another Ravenclaw, albeit one who seemed less eager. Tina often worried her during classes, and she tried to encourage the girl to participate more. "Good morning Tina," Ayana nevertheless greeted her with a wide smile, and watched as she walked to the very back. Perhaps when they returned from the holidays she'd request for her to sit closer to the front. Text Cut: Harron Peasley aka hugging Józef Out of all the scenarios that were playing out in her mind at all times, this next one definitely did not seem at all likely to occur. Young Józef, a Gryffindor and an interesting lad, walked all the way to the front of the classroom, greeted her then... hugged her. Bemused, Ayana's eyes sought the other students' gazes before returning to Józef, who had already managed to run away. "... Good.. morning, Józef," by Hypatia, that had been unexpected. "Is everything alright this morning, dear?" Ayana wasn't overly fond of hugs, so she hoped it was simply an odd morning, and not the beginning of a routine. Text Cut: siriusblackliveson "Good morning Patrick," Ayana recovered from the shock named Józef Kowalski and his hug, and smiled at the prefect. He too did not seem to take in the indoor clouds yet. Perhaps she'd request them all to look up once she began the class. Or, better yet, she'd see how many noticed of their own volition, for her personal amusement. Text Cut: TakemetotheBurrow Still not entirely over the hugging incident, Ayana caught sharp Vita's look and smiled at her with some amusement. "Good morning Vita," she nodded at the bright Slytherin, and watched her find her seat. Text Cut: hermionesclone "Good morning Lucas, thank you very much," Ayana chuckled at the young Gryffindor's words, and glanced back around at the ice sculpture in the shape of her patronus. "How is your little elephant doing?" she remembered how excited he had been, all those months ago, with her little charmed creation. Text Cut: sweetpinkpixie Ayana, blissfully unaware of any brewing being done by Eiji, smiled warmly at one of her top students as he walked into the classroom. "Good morning, Eiji." He seemed to be in.. good spirits? Mediocre? She could rarely tell. Text Cut: Talikins Ah! Her next student seemed to notice the clouds! By Hypatia, that had certainly taken a while. "Hello Verona," Ayana greeted the young woman as she walked in, and noted with some amusement the perplexed expression. They'd all have their answers soon enough. Text Cut: Lislchen Had Anahera voiced her thoughts, Ayana might have considered shifting the lesson plan towards 'heat numbers'. Climate altering arithmaturgy is a fascinating subject, but quite intricate in a school setting. "Good morning Anahera," Ayana greeted the young woman with a smile and a nod, and watched as she took her seat. They really were all very cold, considering that it's December and they're in the northern parts of Britain. Were they not used to it by now? Text Cut: Bazinga "Good morning Chloe," Ayana greeted the latest arrival with a warm smile, noting that she too was very cold. Perhaps the ice sculpture had been much, but an elephant shaped structure was much more fun than some blocks of charmed ice. In her humble opinion, at least. At exactly 9am, Ayana waved her wand and the classroom door shut. "Hello class, and welcome to our final lesson before the winter break!" she beamed around at their now very familiar faces. She was already quite fond of them, and a few in particular stood out as very proficient young Arithmancers. She couldn't be prouder, or more excited about introducing the topic of today's lesson. "Today we'll be moving away from analysing our seven digit numbers and understanding the deeper meanings of combinations," she began, and she was sure this would make several students very happy. While she found the analysis fascinating, she knew it could often get very dreary for teenagers, especially in the mornings, or directly after lunch. "If you haven't spotted it already," Ayana looked around her class and caught some of their gazes, "today we will be discussing water. What are some properties of water that you know of? Magical and not, what is it used for, why is it so essential to life?" Starting off small, just to grab the magnitude of this wonderful, magical, important substance that exists in the world. OOC: I'm terribly sorry for the wait, life decided it will fight me at every turn today. You'll have between 24 to 36 hours before we move on to the next question! |
Vita smiled wider, noting the way their professor reacted to being hugged. At least she'd been a good sport about it. The seventh year decided she was a fan of the woman, she was. Properties of water. Water was... wet. Not a particularly clever answer, but it was the first one that came to mind. Luckily the brunette had enough sense not to say that out loud. "Our bodies use water to function. Without it, we wouldn't be able to..be." And that made it essential to all of their lives. |
....... Maeve was shook. Honestly. So shook, she hadn't even been able to greet the Professor, because she'd walked in time to see her younger housemate had given his professor a hug?? UHHH??? Had she missed something? At least Professor Sissay seemed rather chill about the whole thing. Maybe it was being so close to winter break. Or maybe it was the general chill vibe of the classroom. Either way, she was relieved at Professor Sissay's words that they'd be stepping away from seven digit number meanings, because HALLELUJAH. No math today, please. Water. She could do that. Even if the sound of the trickling made her have to use the loo just a tad. "It's essential for hydration too. It also has several states it could be found in... like liquid or solid or gas." |
Thank goodness they weren't doing more number analyses today. Avalon was already halfway checked out for winter break, and she wasn't sure that her brain could handle it. She glanced over at the waterfall as Professor Sissay asked the class to name some properties of water. It seemed like a relatively basic way to start the lesson. Avalon waited for a few other students to answer first before raising her hand -- she didn't want to seem too eager. "It's important for a lot of different subjects here at Hogwarts, like potion-making and Care of Magical Creatures. Without it, we wouldn't be able to create all the cures and draughts we have. We also wouldn't have the Black Lake, so we wouldn't be able to learn about the Giant Squid, grindylows, and merpeople." She remembered from potions class that one of the most crucial ingredients when it came to brewing was standard potioning water. Not to mention that it was the base for a lot of other liquids used in potion-making. And Care of Magical Creatures would be a drastically different class without water. |
"Just found out where I'm spending the winter break," was Archer's reply to the professor asking if she was okay. Soon the lesson was started, forcing Archer to put aside thoughts of rain in place of snow and all the other unfortunate things going to her father's meant (I mean she loved the man and it was really more the location she objected to, but still). Did they really have to sit in a cold room to talk about water? Like Vita had said, it came in all states so....unless this was just a lead in question and they would indeed be dealing with the solid state of it. "It helps regulate both our body temperature and our blood pressure." Which made it the original 'regulator' (sorry, Warren G.). "Ooo, and it controls the Earth's climates and weather patterns through the ocean currents and temperatures. For example, when high humidity, wind, and warm temperatures on the ocean's surface combine, they create a hurricane." Er, those were the slim basics of it, anyway. She was sure there was more to it than that, but then it would be verging into science so... |
Situated in his seat, it didn't take too long for the Slytherin's brow to raise once class began....and they would be talking about water? Was this some sort of association with elemental magic? ....could you become proficient in these forms of magic by breaking down magical properties numerically? Only...the professor had said that they were not doing analysis today, so perhaps not. Still, his interest was tickled a fair bit. Water though. It was associated with Slytherin house, so he wondered if himself and his housemates would potentially have an advantage in today's lesson. He certainly hoped so. "It is conjurable," he offered up, somewhat lazily, upon raising his hand. Most of everything else had been touched upon. |
Would you look at that the first couple answers where even nerdier than what even Eiji the biggest nerd she knew said. Scratch that it would be a battle between him and Drewidiot. She means Drewie..Drewett. Eloise sighed and thought about anything to add to the lesson that was groundbreaking. Water in winter. Yeeeah Eloise got nothing well maybe.... "Its deadly" Which too beee faaaair can be said about basically anything but it was an answer. So there you go |
Eniola took her seat and greeted the Professor, significantly happier the closer she got to Christmas holidays. Why is water essential to life? You'd think that'd be obvious, no? Eni thought to herself and yet she only really had one thought that stood out the most to her. Raising her hand she said, "Transportation. Muggle and Wizard kind alike use water for transportation quite often. It's quite essential to many people all over the world for that one purpose alone, let alone all the others." |
Tina slumped down in her seat, trying to make herself as small as possible - not an easy task, as she was one of the taller students. Maybe making herself less visible would make her less of a target to be called on. If she didn't have to say anything, she wouldn't be wrong and look stupid. She wasn't sure what to think when Professor Sissay said they'd be looking at the deeper meanings behind combinations. Don't get her wrong, she was glad not to be doing number analysis again, but this sounded awfully… uncertain. She perked up a little bit when she heard they were learning about water today. That sounded rather interesting, and - Did she hear that right? A question with clear-cut correct answers? Thank Merlin! Finally a question she felt confident answering! Tina sat up straighter as her hand shot into the air. After being called on, she said, "As far as properties go, the chemical formula for water is H2O, which means two atoms hydrogen and one atom oxygen in each molecule of water. One non magical use for water is hydroelectricity, or electricity created using the movement of water to power generators." She sat back in her seat, feeling pleased with herself as she finished speaking. |
What could he say other than what had already been said? Sure it was something they needed as humans to survive because they needed water to stay hydrated. Eiji was right that it was conjurable.... wait was that even a word? Letting a small sigh out as he looked up he finally did notice the clouds. Oh Merlin no. he did not want to get wet today in class. he wanted to enjoy his day not have this happen. Raising his hand, "well it helps grow things, like crops for food, or things needed for potions." He knew that first hand because of his summers with his grandparents. Dry summer meant that the crops didn't come in and that meant people couldn't make the potions they needed or eat the small round of crops they grew. |
It is conjurable? IT IS CONJURABLE?! THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE? Analiese silently thought to herself as she listened to the other answers. Her hand shot in the air immediately when she thought of a suitable answer. "Water is used in homes for drinking, cleaning, food preparation, maintaining lawns and plants, and removing sewage waste. Commercial use is very similar but usually operates on a larger scale in facilities such as hotels, office buildings, restaurants, shopping centres and military bases." She added... a short essay to the lesson, you could say. The young Ravenclaw listened quietly to her classmates' answers and internally faceplamed while remaining her normal, smiley look. |
The smile immediately spread across his face when Sissay mentioned that special little elephant she'd let him keep. "Dani the elephant is great! She's stopped trying to jump into inkpots and has been trying to hang out with my other dormmates....." His voice trailed off slightly as some part of his brain, some weird anxious part, started reminding him that he was talking too much. Did Sissay want to know any of this? He doubted it. But she was talking so he focused on her talk about combinations and deeper meanings and...... water? What was the connection there?? He just sat there, staring at the elephant sculpture up front, almost as if he expected the secret meaning to pop out of nowhere. But no, no answer came to him and even if it had, his mind was already starting to wander........ .......... What were they talking about again? Water? Blinking, Lucas glanced first at Sissay and then some of the others as they started talking about water and the different things it's used for and....... did someone mention that it was deadly? Okay, no, he wasn't thinking about that. Instead, he raised his hand in the air to offer something. "The planet wouldn't be what it is and wouldn't sustain life if it didn't have water" Pause. "And, I guess, when we explore other planets, we usually look to see if it has water because if it has water, then it'll sustain life, right? Bodily functions, hydration, all of it. And a new planet that has water is a huuuuuuuuge discovery." Was he answering the question? Probably not. |
This classroom was TOO cold. Trinetta was not a fan. Thankfully, since it was December anyways, she'd been wearing her sweater to class as opposed to just her vest, but her hands were still cold and she was currently sitting on them to try and keep warm. She raised her hand to add her answer, though, and hoped that the sooner they'd get through this Q&A portion of the lesson, the sooner the professor would explain why it was so cold and hopefully do something to fix it. "It could be argued that water is the most powerful element," she stated. It certainly was in her opinion. "It can put out fire, and given enough time and force it can break down the Earth...we're really all at the mercy of water," she said. She realized a moment later that that was a TAD dramatic but...where was the lie? Honestly? |
The sound of the water, why was it here? Why did it not happen until she hit the classroom that she had to go? Sitting down she was going to do everything in her power to not have to ask to go, she couldn't afford to miss class, but she couldn't afford to have an accident in front of cute boys either. What would Finlay think or Calyx, Merlin that would make her hide in her dorm the rest of term, even give up Quidditch she'd be so mortified. So concentrating on the professor when she started talking Chloe was determined to forget the water, forget her problem, and just.... Water? She was asking about water, Chloe should have known. Listening to everyone talk about the biggerst thing she was trying to forget at the moment she raised her hand, "It flushes your body by making you have to use the loo and go pee and sometimes, well, just the sound of it makes you realize you have to go pee or makes you have to go more even if you had to go a little." Yes, that was her answer, because that's what she was thinking about. |
Nina watched as her classmates entered the room, she had already pulled out her materials for the lesson and organized her desks a couple of times to allow for maximum note-taking space. Practicality was very important, obviously. But so was comfort. As for her classmates, far too many of them were overly-chatty, something that while she had grown accustomed to, she still did not approve of. Her demeanor only changed when some boy (Maxie, from the looks of it-- though she couldn't be sure of it without her contacts) decided to HUG Professor Sissay???? Nina watched with an unimpressed expression on her face. Had the boy meant to do that or had he simply forgotten that they were at a school, not a daycare? Nina truly worried for some of these kids. Thankfully it did not take long for the lesson to actually begin, and Nina once again drew her attention to the front of the room. She did have a feeling the elements would somehow be linked to their class today, though focusing on water specifically had taken her by surprise. While the first question was rather open-ended, surely Professor Sissay hadn't wanted people to blurt out whatever they wanted. Eloise's answer made absolutely no sense (but then again, who is surprised) (no one). Eiji's answer was highly disappointing, he could do better than that. He was just being lazy. She made sure to give him a look to convey that. Nina didn't raise her own hand, though she did have plenty of thoughts. She agreed with most of her classmates, water was clearly an essential element to sustaining life. Without water many of the practices at Hogwarts would cease to exist. Chloe McCarthy, however, ought to do a better job at reading a room, ew why would she mention peeing. |
...after Chloe's answer, Anahera briefly worried SHE was going to need a quick trip to the toilet as well. But it seemed that the coldness of the room had basically counteracted that need. After (half) listening to most of the other answers, she raised her hand and said, "It's one of the four classical elements." Nobody had said that before right? Not in so many words anyway. And maybe if they answered Professor Sissay's question(s) fast, they'd be allowed to practice their heat charms. Yes? |
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And of course, he'd dive right into the properties of water. His brain immediately thought of every single concept on chemistry, physics, and biology he could think of that could be connected to water. There were so many of them. Water cycles, body temperature regulation, thermodynamics, photosynthesis, light infraction, marine life.... It was a list. He could go on and on about it. He got a bit too excited. "It has high surface t-tension, Professor," Drewett said, his hand raised up to answer the question. There it was. The nerd was out. |
Text Cut: TakemetotheBurrow Ayana's brow went up as her smile increased, turning towards Vita as the Prefect answered her question. "Being. Interesting. So, what is the stuff of life?" the words were important here, the concepts, but she wasn't giving anything away just yet. Text Cut: PhoenixRising "Quite correct, it takes on various forms," Ayana nodded and smiled at the girl, glad to see her participating. Even simple answers were important, especially in this lesson. Text Cut: Fireheart Oh wonderful, wonderful. "Water serves many purposes, especially at Hogwarts, and provides a natural habitat," Ayana summarise young Avalon's words with a smile and a couple of nods. "Very good Avalon." Text Cut: lazykitty Ayana did not need to consult her numbers to figure that Archer certainly wasn't pleased about her holiday plans. She would check in with the girl perhaps before they all leave, to make sure everything was alright, but right now the Arithmancy professor was quite impressed with the answer offered. "So water regulates, it controls, it morphs, and it supports." Ayana nodded, considering these uses. Certainly without water, there would be no sea and no climate at all, it's at the very heart of the basic earthly support system. Interesting. Text Cut: sweetpinkpixie It... what? Ayana blinked at Eiji, slightly disappointed. "Correct, it is indeed conjurable," and a few more things, but if that's all he could come up with then okay. "Any other uses for water that occur to you?" Text Cut: oh its Erik ok "Very good Eloise, it has the power to take life away as well as provide it," Ayana continued to slowly walk at the front of the classroom, taking time to consider each answer that was given. She hoped they were all doing the same, for this is the type of thinking she wanted to encourage and cultivate in her students, a broad mind, a keen sense of sharpness about the world. Text Cut: gritandgrace Ayana positively beamed at Eniola, with her non traditional answer that perfectly highlighted how genuinely versatile water is. "Wonderful Eniola, an excellent answer," she nodded at the girl as she brushed past her row. Very, very good answers so far, Ayana was happy to note. Lots of variety with each response. Text Cut: MadMadamMalfoy Ayana certainly didn't know where Tina's enthusiasm suddenly came from but she wasn't about to complain. Her answer was spot on, and very scientific. She wondered if the girl had muggle parents working in scientific fields, or in wizarding academia. "Quite right Tina, well done! Water is used, primarily by muggles, for energy," she nodded and smiled at her. Text Cut: siriusblackliveson "Good, very good! Provides life, aids in creating potions, essential for growth," Ayana happily nodded towards Patrick, and glanced at the tomatoes and cucumbers on her desk. A good source of inspiration, that! Very good. Excellent. Text Cut: SneakySeverusSnape Ayana took in a breath to start summarising Analiese's words, but... well. That list was quite extensive. "Excellent Analiese, you've captured just how varied water's uses are in our world," in a very succinct manner too. These young Ravenclaws must read a lot, or be extraordinarily smart. Ayana hoped it was a bit of both. And perhaps specifically Analiese's parents work in the muggle water companies? Text Cut: hermionesclone Dani the elephant? Sissay's smile grew as young Lucas talked. While she had some reservations about his choice of name - Dani was far too mundane a name for an elephant in her opinion - she appreciated his enthusiasm. She only hoped her charms would be strong enough to last the little elephant a while. And as for his answer, Ayana's eyes twinkled merrily. "We do look for water first, because of its countless uses to us as humans, and generally to life itself as you mentioned. Excellent, Lucas." Text Cut: Lissy Longbottom Ayana immediately liked this phrasing. It could certainly be argued. And water is indeed a very powerful element. She wasn't quite sold that they were at the mercy of water; after all, water did not have a unifying consciousness of any sort, so it had no capacity for ill feelings towards humans. Which is quite comforting, if one were to consider repercussions. And as Eiji had so kindly pointed out, water is conjurable and therefore easily put to work. "Very good Nettie, it can overpower other elements, that's an interesting observation." She let the rest of it slide, though her dark eyes lit up with amusement. Text Cut: Bazinga Well... alright. Ayana was usually not a fan of bathroom discussions in her class, but perhaps young Chloe here was in need of a visit. She should have gone before class, but if it was urgent Ayana would excuse her when they started their activities. "Yes Chloe, it aids in the filtering of toxins from your body." Technically, the job of the kidneys, but without water that whole mechanism doesn't function. Text Cut: ArianaBlack Another lesson, another quiet Nina. After the break, Ayana would be insisting on participation. It genuinely irked her to see the bright girl sit silently, and her talks with Carmine only reaffirmed this resolve. "Nina? Anything to add?" Text Cut: Anahera Indeed it is! "Very good, it is one of the four elements, and it's a fact we will do well to remember, once we return for the break." Not to spoil their upcoming module, but they would be dealing a lot with the elements until at least February. Text Cut: Kimothy Another scientific one. Ayana was never quite used to the delight of discovering such analytically inclined students. "Yes it does, which is one of the many ways in which it helps plants survive," drinking from the ground like a straw. Good, very good. Sustaining life. Ayana raised her hand to signal the discussion had come to an end, and to return the attention to her. "Water, as we know and as we have heard now in the classroom, is essential to very many aspects of life. The sheer variety of uses and functions make it one of the most unique substances known to arithmancers," she said, eyes twinkling and arms moving around, animating her speech. The numbers are off, if you will, in the most delightful way possible. Hypatia herself had been quite fond of elemental analysis. "Now, what do you think would happen if we were to try and cast our trusty Number Revealing charm on water?" she'd promised no analysis work, but she'd never said they weren't going to be working with their most favourite charm. She had to leave them some food for thought over the break, not to mention introduce some new mathematical concepts. This would be an exciting lesson indeed, if she managed to cover all her topics. "This presents a number of issues off the bat. If I cast on this ice sculpture, would it show me the same values as if I were to cast on the waterfall? And what about the tomatoes? There's water inside them too," Ayana gestured to the various objects, ending with pointing upwards towards the clouds, letting them ponder by themselves if they think the water there would also have the same values. There was another, bigger problem as well, to do with the very nature of the spell they had learned, but that was for the activity portion of the class. "Think of the numbers and their meanings, and the combinations that we've learned so far. What numbers would we see, in your opinion?" Ayana's cloak, dimmer now that there was no sunlight to shine on it, swished gently as she turned to tap the board, where the single digit number meanings then appeared. Much simpler than having them all waste time finding the correct page in their textbook.
OOC: the numbers are coming ^__^ feel free to come up with some more combinations that you think would make sense for water, or have your students be way off if that's more their style! | Same amount of time until we move on! |
Oh, so that was answering the question, then? His smile only grew as she spoke but he soon found his eyes wandering back to the ice sculpture itself. Countless uses to life and humans sounded right, but he was still failing to understand what this had to do with Arithmancy. Could you find the meaning behind water? Was that what they were doing today? This already sounded like a lesson that was going to make his head hurt. His eyes wandered over towards the board when the numbers and meanings started to appear on there. What numbers would they see? ...... Uhhhh....... Yeah, he didn’t know. Not at all. Could they guess? Because he only had guesses at this point and no real meaning behind those guesses. So, it was with that thought in mind, that he raised his hand up in the air. "Okay, so, for that ice sculpture, I’m thiiiiiiinking........ a four would fit? Because...... uh...... oh! It’s structured and rigorous. It’s a solid, basically, not the normal liquid consistency of water, you know? That’s how it can keep the shape of an elephant." Was he rambling? "And it would be hard to move something like that." He was rambling. |
Take that one best friend Nina Castillo. Her answer was actually a good one. Shows how much you know about arithmancy or water in this case. Ok...to be fair she is probably smarter than Eloise her but lets not get into that. Wait, how did tomatoes get involved..oh water in them. But why not talk about humans at that point we have a lot of water in us. Weird. "So would it just be as simple Double Eight if you tried it on like you for example since we have water in us like said????" Hey it was a question or would it be the exact opposite for like a puddle or something. We were making waves with this lesson weren't we. |
......what was THAT look for, Nina? Offering her an equally unimpressed look - because what answer had she even provided? - his hazel-green eyes all but challenged her to do better than him the next go around. Put your galleon where your mouth was, Castillo. Even more irritating was the professor calling him out too, it gave him Care of Magical Creature flashbacks which were the most unappreciated sort of flashbacks. The desire to offer a sarcastic quip was there, but he valued his time too much for that and potentially spending it in detention again was not optimal. Plus, he rather liked Professor Sissay. She was intelligent and interesting. Maybe someone Grandpa Charles could get friendly with and then leave his Uncle Ryu alone. Hmmm. "Alchemy," he offered with a light shrug. "Ingredient or harnesses its elemental qualities. Sometimes both depending on the procedure." There. And since he had challenged Nina to a battle of the intellects - mostly to try and expose her in the process - he would be sitting this question out. Though his thoughts immediately went to forces of nature, tsunami, and the number 77 or 99 being present. Which was, also, somewhat uninspiring and lacked insight. It was a rather straight forward thought. |
Anything to add? Nina shook her head. She had plenty she could have added to the discussion, but she would rather not contribute to the lesson in anyway. It would be far too risky. And she didn’t take risks. Instead, the Slytherin feigned disinterest as others continued to give their answers to the question. She did, however, see the LOOK that Eiji had given her. And she knew exactly what he meant by it too. He was so agitating. And it wasn’t going to work. Only it did work. Because if there was anything worse than outing herself in the middle of a lesson, it was that smug look that Eiji Rasting wore on his face. And so without a proper analysis of his potential motives, Nina’s hand shot up to answer the next question posed to the class. There was a first time for everything. “Different bodies of water have differing characteristics by their very nature,” having to do with their size, mineral content, location, etc. “Surely as a result, arithmancers could associate different numbers with each.” It was obvious, really. Nina was almost surprised that no one else had thought to raise the point yet. “Take a lake for instance, they are completely surrounded by land giving them rigidity and structure, qualities one can associate with the numerical value of 4. A river, in comparison, is free-flowing and changes in size, shape, and volume dependent on many factors. Association with the number seven would make much more sense.” She kept her back straight and her eyes on Professor Sissay as she gave her answer with confidence. “Perhaps an ocean could be associated with the numerical value of 1, as it is boundless, full of life, and entirely it’s own entity, unlike the others.” Really she could go on and on with these examples. There were so many different examples to draw from. Seas, gulfs, ponds. She had hardly even touched the surface. HA. She looked back over at Eiji to give him a look to convey that she had one-upped him and dropped the figurative mic, before turning back to realize what she had just done. Immediately her hand flew up to grab a lock of hair, which she began twirling around her fingers. “Like, um, maybe?” |
...what was happening? Nettie watched Nina and Eiji in interest, her mouth pulling in to a small smirk as she watched the two Slytherins go back and forth. It was always fun watching Eiji get in to arguments. It was amusing watching him get all worked up about something, but it was ALSO amusing when someone put up a good fight and provided a successful argument against whatever he was saying. But, this was Arithmancy, and Nettie's brain was already hurting and they were only on the second question. So who had the better argument? She had no clue. She didn't really CARE either. But it was still amusing, and Nettie always enjoyed when the drama in the classroom didn't revolve around her. It didn't happen often, but when it did - it was refreshing. She raised her hand after a period of thought to drop her two knuts in to the conversation. "I think 9 would be good for water, because it means complexity, and as we've established, water is a VERY complex element," she answered simply. Arithmancy was probably not nearly as difficult as she made it out to be, most days. |
"I think Nina has it completely wrong. She hasn't even accounted for the basic chemical formula of water, H2O or for the basic properties, power and potential for destruction it holds, no matter which state it's in," Archer started with....wait was that a bit of her chuckle returning? Why yes, yes it was. "With that in mind, I think that there are a few basic numbers that would show up in regards to water, no matter the state: the double nines showing the aforementioned power, with one of those nines being the central figure revealing water's underlying complexity; an eight for its pure infiniteness," Was that even a word? Oh well, it was now. "as the water that's on Earth now is the same stuff that's been here since the planet formed, also for the repetitiveness of the water cycle itself; a three for it's the very foundation for life on a planet; and possibly a six for the chaos it can sometimes cause." Ugh, that had been a mouthful. As for the objects? "I think that if you cast the charm on the ice sculpture and the waterfall, you would get the same numbers. After all, they're still both water, just in different states. But the tomato wouldn't have the same numbers, since it's a plant, something that, while it depends on water to survive, is still something fundamentally different." |
He supposed Nina had a point but he wasn't so sure that Sterling had it right either. Sure water had a base that was always the same H2O but it didn't always have the same properties, creeks were something he could drink out of as a kid. Lakes were contained so often dirty as all get out. So he supposed that while different they were still bodies of water. "I think I agree with both Nina and Sterling. I think that even though all water has the same chemical make up its all different. Like we drink out of streams, but we would never drink lake water. Some oceans have more salt in the water than others. Some of the oceans are really cold water but are really warm in others. Doesn't that actually account for something?" Wow he never tried to start these kind of conversations in a class he wasn't 100% confident with. It wasn't something that he often did and he was kind of surprised in himself. He was writing down all of the things on the board he began to wonder if 13 was as unlucky for water as it was for other things in the world but kept it to himself. Nope not going to go down the rabbit hole today. |
Did that really just happen? Did she actually give a correct answer to an arithmancy question? Tina positively beamed when Professor Sissay praised her answer. Maybe this class wasn't such a lost cause after all! Her sudden burst of confidence diminished slightly when she heard the next question, though. Great, another one of those vague, opinion-based questions she hated! Too much guesswork and uncertainty for her liking… she dealt in hard, undebatable facts. While her classmates seemed to be focusing mostly on the ice sculpture and waterfall, Tina turned her attention to the bowl of cucumbers and tomatoes, pondering possible numbers. The first one that jumped out at her was 8… infinity, repeatable, life. The water inside those vegetables sustained them as part of a living plant, and the vegetables themselves would, in turn, provide life-sustaining nourishment. Okay, that was a good start. What else? She thought for a minute. What about 3? That meant foundation, versatility, growth. Water was one of the foundations needed to grow a seed into the plants that eventually produced those vegetables, so that sort of fit, right? Or was it too much of a stretch? Unfortunately, Tina didn't consider either of her ideas concrete enough to voice out loud, so she kept quiet. She knew she'd made the right decision as soon as Hogwarts's resident loudmouth over there (Archer) piped up. Wow… just why? Disagreeing was one thing, but there was a right and a wrong way to do it. Mentioning names and calling someone wrong in front of a classroom full of other people was definitely the wrong way! And that insipid chuckle - as soon as Tina heard it, she was 100% convinced that the Hufflepuff knew what she was doing and was actively trying to humiliate that other girl (Nina). If there wasn't a professor present, Tina would've let her have it, but she wasn't worth the loss of house points. She had to bite her lip to stop herself from scoffing. Honestly, she didn't know why she continued to be surprised by that one's complete and utter lack of tact! Just when Tina thought all kinds of chaos was going to result from that comment, her attention turned to the Slytherin prefect who spoke (Patrick). Thank Merlin some of the leaders in this school showed conduct befitting the rank they held! She gave an appreciative nod, as if to say, I agree with what he said. |
Text Cut: hermionesclone The first answer! Ayana smiled warmly over at little Lucas, and made sure not to look even a little bit disappointed at the quite incorrect response. The purpose here was to learn, not get a lucky break! "It is true that four symbols structures, and solidity but would you think this elephant resembling ice sculpture is structured? Notice how it's already melting, and the charm has changed its shape from regular ice to an elephant, would that change the numbers you might get?" food for thought, little Lucas. It's important to keep thinking. Text Cut: oh its Erik ok No, no waves. "A double eight!" Ayana repeated with a wave of her hand, indicating the particularly bright red tomatoes. "Double eights mean so much life, life bursting at the seams, the very object you're casting on overflowing with life," she exaggerated her tone just slightly and on purpose, and looked again at the red fruit. "But this poor tomato is, quite frankly, a little dead don't you think? And the clouds aren't very alive either... You're right that water provides life, but does it inherently exhibit it? What if we had a fishbowl?" thought food for you too, Eloise. This is excellent thinking, excellent! Text Cut: sweetpinkpixie Another somewhat disappointing series of long minutes from Eiji Rasting, but Ayana was far too wrapped up in everyone else's excellent thinking to dwell on the surly Slytherin. Giving him a nod, she moved on. Text Cut: ArianaBlack ft. Bold Text This... was possibly more surprising than Mr. Kowalski's hug at the beginning of the lesson. Honestly. Ayana had been sure she'd need to have a stern talking to with the girl after the holidays. Wonderful! Wonderful. She hoped these academic challenges between Nina and Eiji continued. "You've raised some very interesting points, excellent thinking Nina. I do especially like your reasoning for one being associated with the ocean," Ayana's voice almost had a whimsical tone, remembering her first time trying to assess the numbers and meanings of water. Futile, of course, but they did not know it as of yet. Nina had arrived pretty close to the point she will be making soon, and for that she received a very warm smile and several slow, pleased nods. Text Cut: Lissy Longbottom Nine! Quite good, quite good, as wrong as the rest of them but an excellent attempt! "Very good thinking! Nine is the epitome of complexity," oh that had rhymed, how wonderful, she'd need to remember the turn of phrase, "but have we established that water is complex? Its uses are complex, like creating energy or providing a habitat for life, but what about the water itself? Brain food in the form of questions is the best way to keep the wheels turning. Text Cut: lazykitty By Hypatia, this was antagonistic. Ayana didn't appreciate the tone, though she very much liked the girl's thinking. Hmm. "I must intercede here, please do not tell your fellow students that you think they're wrong Archer," Ayana began, addressing that first before anything else. "Especially during discussions, I request fact based and thoughtful opinions from everyone, and encourage a thought provoking dialogue, there is no room for wrong or right among opinions," and, certainly not about water. That's the wonderful thing about it. "Now, about your own opinion. It's very, very well thought out, just like Nina's. Your suggested numbers are excellently picked," Ayana nodded, the warm smile returning as she remembered the girl's case for nines and sevens. Certainly, it would make sense for there to be lots of those. "But you have touched upon a point that I would like you to think of.. Water, is a singular thing, two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. How would you cast the spell on the tomato? I can't see any water. I know it's there, but I can't see it? And how about those clouds above your head?" There's a certain... problem, that they'd be touching on very soon. Text Cut: siriusblackliveson Ayana loved Patrick's response, and the accompanying warmth she felt from it. Very, very good. Very good. She hoped he had a wonderful Christmas, just for this. "You've touched on a very good point there Patrick! How many times do we really interact with pure water? It usually has salts and minerals in it, when we drink, or dirt, or any other assortment of non-water things. It certainly sounds like that presence would change the numbers we would expect to see." Ayana was nigh on trembling with excitement. Or was it cold? It was quite cold in here. Perhaps she'd let the elephant melt, to get some warmth back into her bones. Text Cut: MadMadamMalfoy Alas, more quiet from Tina's corner. Ayana had hoped that the girl might be opening up a bit more, and maybe would be encouraged by Nina's sudden outburst of speech. She offered her a questioning raise of her brow, quietly encouraging. She thought the girl had a very good head on her shoulders. She'd do very well with the number charts that were lined up for their spring module. Ayana raised her hands once again to bring the discussion to a close. "Let's summarise, or attempt to, shall we? Water is complex and vast and structured, we've heard double sevens and eights and nines, we've heard one, we've heard four, and a six," there may have been more, but those were the ones that she had remembered. "What about the figure two? Water exists in harmony with the earth does it not? Once upon a time, this entire planet was covered in water," Ayana began pacing in front of the class again, weaving her story with hand waving and a steady, engaged tone. "Or a five, did anyone say five? Water is one of the most adaptable substances I can think of, one that wears down mountains to make changes nothing else can. And what about zero?" she looked around, her dark eyes twinkling as they often do when she'd ready to teach something huge, "Death? Water is dangerous, Eloise here pointed that out. In the Dead Sea, where nothing lives, water is empty. One could argue that the salt content is the real culprit, but the salt without the water wouldn't be a sea." Ayana waited a few moments to let the concepts settle before pulling out her wand and pausing next to the waterfall, where the water was still happily trickling down. "Let's test our theories then? Emfanizou Arithmou!" she pointed her wand at the little formation, and the number that appeared as she circled the tip were numbers they had already seen - for the rock behind the water. "Well, it's not the rock I wanted, let me try that again," Ayana cast the charm once more, and new numbers emerged. Three eights, two sevens, one five and one six. "Exciting! Who was right?" Ayana turned to the class with an amused little grin. "But wait! Let me cast again, just to double check..." she quickly piped up, and on the second go an entirely different set of numbers emerged. Four nines, one zero, two fives. Curious. Very curious. Interesting right? The Minoans thought so too. "I'd like you to practice your charm, casting on the waterfall or the ice sculpture, or even the clouds, and tell me if perhaps you can arrive at some concrete numbers," Ayana spread her hands wide, and stepped aside for them all to have space. Her little 'slip up' with the rock will be touched upon at the end of the lesson, if she had some time left over. She still wanted to introduce them all to elemental probability calculations and its exceptional use in predicative arithmancy. "Try, while you're casting, to see if you can spot any reoccurring figures, or any sort of discernible pattern!" Good? Good. OOC: Numbers and water and hints of maths oh my! You can use random generators to come up with the numbers, or just have fun with them! The students shouldn't have much of an issue with the spell, they've been using it since the beginning of term ^__^ | I've had to mess around with the times for this lesson and I apologise that there isn't a bit more for this part, you'll have up to 48 hours to complete it before we move on. Go forth and numberise! (that's not a word, I know, but it's late and I like it so we're keeping it cheers good night) |
Wait....the professor was basically telling Archer not to be Archer there. So, who was she supposed to be, then? She gave a nod to show that she understood Okay, so the numbers changed. That was definitely unexpected. Like, not even between the ice and the waterfall, but on the waterfall itself. Mind blown. Though, it did make her excited to try it for some reason. "Emfanizou Arithmou!" she cast, aiming her wand for the clouds overhead. 1725316 She cast the spell again and got 1620333. The triple three was interesting.... |
Trinetta raised an eyebrow when Archer started going after Nina like that. Dang, tell her how you really feel. She frowned, because she hated when people talked to her friends like that. At least, SHE considered Nina a friend. Did she consider her a friend too? It was impossible to tell with that girl. Still, the air in which she'd addressed her just didn't sit right with her, and she had some THOUGHTS that she wanted to get off her chest. She waited for a moment, collecting her thoughts in to a way that was more...acceptable than what she really WANTED to say, and then raised her hand. "Water all contains the same three molecules, yes, but I think you also need to think about what else is impacting those molecules. For example, the ice sculpture is just made out of H20, but does the fact that they're frozen and not able to move and create friction impact the numbers? What about the impact of salt upon ocean water? Or fluoride in tap water? I don't believe it's just black and white, there's a LOT of variables to consider," she piped up, looking at the older Hufflepuff girl. So let's all take a chill pill, yes? They were literally arguing over water. She then turned to Nina and gave her a reassuring smile. She'd liked her answer and thought it had raised good points. She was PRETTY sure that Sissay was trying to get them to see that water was VERY complex and all the numbers could apply to it. That's why the numbers she kept getting were different. They ALL applied in some way or another. Grabbing her wand, she decided to go for the waterfall and waved it, muttering "Emfanizou Arithmou!" as she did so. 9800601. She took notes on that and then waved her wand again. 2301884. She scribbled those down as well. |
*link to the site used in this post for the numbers* About that smirk Nina was hoping to wipe off his face? Yeah, about THAT. It only widened as she, somewhat, predictably played right into his hand and spoke THE most she had in any class to date. Not only that, but she full on revealed her antics to anyone who was paying attention. Speaking methodically and passionately in one instances and then doing that insufferably hair twirl the next with that terrible 'like, um, maybe?' that absolutely no one should but. It was, in a word, perfect. And totally worth the disapproving look that Professor Sissay gave him yet again. Whatever. It did seem as though at least one person was paying attention to what others were answering, which felt rare here at Hogwarts sometimes, but the fourth year found himself rolling his eyes a bit because honestly? Anyone who knew Eiji knew he had no problem calling out stupidity - looking at you, Trinetta - and while he was usually all for it this was not the case and his eyes briefly narrowed on the Hufflepuff prefect. Briefly. He attuned this sort of blatant ridicule as someone merely trying to stir the pot and provoke a reaction - which was why he provided no other and instead rested his hazel-green eyes back on Nine with a warm smile of approval. The sort he would give Rebecca when she finally mastered a concept she had been struggling with and, setting his ego aside, mouthed a 'You got me' in her direction before lifting a piece of paper he had turned into a score card for the lesson. Two for Nina because she had given the better answer and therefore won the round and one for him because he had to give himself some credit for aiding the victory. It was only fair. Setting the paper down when the professor moved things along, the Slytherin readied his wand and debated which to give it a go on...though he ultimately decided to go with the clouds. "Emfanizou Arithmou," he commanded somewhat lazily, he would rather be doing this on potions ingredients, and waited for the number sequence to reveal itself. "....7443815." .......hmmmm. He supposed he ought to interpret those before trying the spell again, but he instead wrote them down on his parchment and gave his wand another flourish. "....3991841." Repeated numbers in the same place in the sequence. That was interesting. |
Nina Castillo was VERY nervous all of the sudden. Though she had made the conscious decision to arise to Eiji’s challenge, she hadn’t given the action ample thought. Meaning that she had only realized the consequences of such an action once it was too late to backtrack. She did try, however, to backtrack, that is. The like um maybe was meant to do just that. And despite Professor Sissay’s encouragement, Nina Castillo was very upset. Because the Hufflepuff Prefect who had answered after Nettie gave an answer that not only challenged her own, but did so with malice. Despite the fact that Archer had come after her answer, Nina took it very personally. She may not have looked it, but the fourth year was incredibly sensitive. And hearing the words ‘Nina has it completely wrong,’ followed by ‘she hasn’t even accounted for’ just about did it. It made the Slytherin feel small and insignificant. The one time she had actually spoken in class with insight to offer, she was immediately shut down. And despite Patrick’s attempt at peacekeeping and Trinetta’s counter-argument in Nina’s defense, the light had still drained from the fourth year’s eyes. Nina could think of a million arguments as to why Archer was wrong to say any of what she did. Of course water has a consistent chemical formula, but that was simply one component and couldn’t possibly be used as a generalization. Fructose, mannose, and glucose all had the same molecular formula. But they were most certainly not the same. They each had different tastes, different impacts on one’s blood sugar, found in different sources… She could go on and on. Chemical formulas also negated the possibility of an enantiomer. Formulas could be similar, but the molecule could have completely different biological effects dependent on the chirality. A chemical formula certainly meant something, but it couldn't be made the entire basis of systematization. So no. Archer’s argument was completely two-dimensional and insufficient and Nina…. Wasn’t going to verbalize any of these thoughts. Because her feelings were hurt. And this was the last time she would ever speak up in class. She had firmly decided. Eiji’s warm smile and score card, while sweet, didn’t help much either. She gave him a half-baked smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes, before turning her attention to a spot just beyond their Professor. She didn’t want to engage in the rest of the lesson…. When they were given the go ahead to cast the number revealing spell, Nina distractedly picked up her wand. With very little conviction, she looked up at the clouds above, ”Emfanizou Arithmou” and tried the spell. But unfortunately nothing happened. Again she tried, ”Emfanizou Arithmou,” this time a stream of numbers revealed themselves before quickly disappearing. Though she didn’t have enough time to jot them down before they had disappeared, she did have a chance to glaze her eyes over them. 6993633. ”Emfanizou Arithmou,” again due to the lack of focus the numbers quickly disappeared, but she remembered enough of the last set to know that the numbers had slight variation. 9766843. |
Ok Professor she was more talking about Humans than the tomato but since it didn't really matter either way to her. She just shrugged and let it be. She was more interested in Nina actually answering a question which sounded perfect to her and Archer immediately disagreeing with her and being wrong. Which made Eloise burst out laughing. The one time Nina nina nina speaks in class. Oh how great is that Oh she was having a great time in this lesson...anyway Emfanizou Arithmou again. Stil sounded like a failed magician which only helped her remember it. Good right? "Emfanizou Arithmou" aiming it at the clouds...Hmm...this did seem right 6942069 Or was it right? |
Talking about water properties was one thing. Maeve was one hundred percent OKAY with that, but the second numbers got involved with it ... the sixth year just stared and listened. Or tried to listen. So if double eights meant that it was themselves, since they were alive .... a waterfall might have a six? Since waterfalls could be chaotic? Or because it was a controlled waterfall, it made it less chaotic. Water was dangerous? Then why was everyone always saying to hydrate and drink more water??? Heck, even her aunt was on her about drinking water and now... well, Professor Sissay was saying something about the Dead Sea and Merlin, the sixth year was even more kinds of confusing. But Number Revealing Charm. She knew that one if only because it was a charm. When the numbers appeared and she would have to interpret, that was where she was lost. She would try though. "Emfanizou Arithmou," she cast, on the waterfall, because she was curious as to if it would have a six in it being how it may have been chaotic. Or not. Who knew? 6697928 Huh. So did that make it chaotic??? Two sixes ought to mean something. |
It was safe to say that at this point, Lucas was overthinking. He might've been quiet and looked like the quiet type but his brain was L O U D and he didn't know what to do about it. Everything Sissay was saying was registering up there and it was....... a lot. And then she was talking about DEATH?! Death and water and the Dead Sea?! Oh merlin oh merlin oh merlin. It...... took a while for him to realise that people were moving and doing something and he was just..... sitting there. Doing nothing. A small pink tinge appeared on his cheeks as he grabbed another piece of parchment and wrote the word 'numbers' on there. It seemed as though everyone else was just casting the number spell at some of the different water objects around the room so..... he'd do the same. Yeah. That was it. Taking out his wand, he pointed it up at the clouds above him and said, "Emfanizou Arithmou!" A spell that took a while to practice around the safety of random rooms and his dorm room was now a spell he didn't have a lot of trouble with. The only thing he'd have trouble with now was interpreting the numbers they produce. 3 7 3 7 7 3 2 ........... ?? Yeah, Lucas was confused. |
Ayana waited a few minutes for everyone to get started, then she began walking around the room, correcting techniques and arm movements for those students who still haven't managed to perfect the charm. It was important to unlearn bad habits as quickly as possible, as they had mostly performed the charm during their time away from her classroom. "This discovery dates quite far back," they were short on time, and there was much to teach, so Ayana spoke as they practiced their spell. Numbers appeared and disappeared quickly around her as she walked, and she examined each with much enthusiasm. "What you're all doing has been done before, by very confused Arithmancers. How was this possible? Does water exhibit all properties? Does it exhibit none? Is there something wrong with the spell, does it not work when it comes to water? Why is it so special?" Text Cut: lazykitty Ayana's first stop was at Archer's desk. "A lot of repetition in that second one, not so common to see even when testing on water," she nodded, humming slightly, and breezed past her with a smile. Text Cut: Lissy Longbottom Were Trinetta and Nina close friends? It certainly seemed so, upon this very public display of defense. Ayana appreciated the slew of good thinking that came with the argument, though she gave Trinetta a look to signal that enough was enough. "Double zeros on that first one, very unlikely," Ayana noted. Maybe Nettie had hit a patch of dead bacteria. That's the wonderful thing about water, and the rest of the elements, which she will get into in a few minutes. Text Cut: sweetpinkpixie Ayana found it remarkable how little she missed being a teenager, and how much she took pleasure in not understanding their antics in the slightest. Nina's play, while frustrating, was fairly obvious even to her but Eiji's paper and the rest of eluded her entirely. Excellent. Maybe they could discuss Arithmancy now? She peered down at Eiji's parchment. "Combinations of one's and eight's are always terribly exciting aren't they? An innate singular life, usually, but no so fitting here.. Very interesting," Ayana smiled, encouraging him to turn on those thinking wheels. Text Cut: ArianaBlack One did not have to be a teenage specialist to understand the situation at hand with Nina. It irritated Ayana, to see the girl back down so quickly, and sincerely hoped Trinetta would give her friend here a stern talking to about standing up for your opinions. It started with Arithmancy, but it was an important lesson in life. Ayana had half a mind to drill it into the girl herself, after the lesson. "Where are your numbers Nina?" she asked, looking down at her parchment. Text Cut: oh its Erik ok "Eloise, care to share with the class what it is you're finding so amusing over there?" Ayana asked with slight raise of her brow, truly failing to see what would make the girl burst out laughing like that. And there weren't enough numbers around her head, which meant the girl needed to practice some more. "Spotted anything interesting in the numbers?" Text Cut: PhoenixRising Ah, Maeve. She didn't seem to be involved in any of the current classroom commotion, a fact Ayana greatly appreciated. "Good form on that cast Maeve. Interesting set of numbers too, very.. unruly result. Double six's and double nine's, that's not a sight you see every day," Ayana noted with an amused smile. The numbers were messing with her students, it seemed. Sneaky little things. Text Cut: hermionesclone Oh, very sneaky numbers. And Lucas here just as appropriately confused as he should be, that many sevens in any number was highly irregular. "This is quite the peculiar result, correct? Three repetitions of seven's and three's, very irregular. Why don't you try one more time?" to see if he could get something even more outrageous of course. Ayana did like this little exercise. Though, there was a reason why none of this made much sense. Perhaps it was time to let them in on the secret. "I promised you in the beginning of our lesson, that we would be leaving any further analyses to our lessons after the break. As we have just seen, there really is nothing to analyse. How can water be all powerful, all chaotic, all structured, all singular, a collective, all of these and more at the same time? Is each section of water different? We would be wasting hours of analysis on something that would likely turn out to be wrong," Ayana looked around the room, making sure she had everyone's attention. "This is because, as the ancients found out a long time ago, elements cannot be analysed. They simply aren't things. They're not spells, they're not singularly occurring. Water does not have a beginning and an end. Neither does air. Water and air together are known in arithmancy as arithmaturgically pure. The clouds above our heads are an excellent example of the two pures together. You were targeting the water, but the same result would have happened had you had air in your mind as well," Ayana spoke slowly, and made sure they were all still with her. "There is a spell, a variation on our Number Revealing charm, that incorporates intent into your casting. We will learn it when we return in January." As a preface to the Number Altering Charm, which would take up the bulk of their studies, and probably require a lot of practice. But, that is for future them to worry about. In the spirit of the holidays, she'd prepared a fun little exercise. It ought to be fun. She hoped it would be fun. Water is fun right? Time to raise the temperature in here. With a flick of her wrist, the room gradually began to get warmer, and the ice sculpture quickly started to lose all semblance of an elephant. "The other two elements, fire and earth, complete the list of traditional elements that were singled out by the ancient Greeks, precisely because of their strange Arithmaturgical properties. Water and aether," Ayana transitioned to the traditional word with emphasis, "are the pures. Earth is the base, and fire is the energy. This ties into alchemy a little bit, but please try and remove those associations from your mind." Okay. Here we go. "These properties make the elements uniquely malleable to manipulation. The elements are the very basis of this world, and Arithmancers have found a way to shape them into their needs. We will go into the theory of this around February, but for now I thought a fun little demonstration will spike your interests in the topic." Ayana took out her wand, her lips twitching, and moved to stand at the centre of the classroom. The events happened in very quick succession. Was she showing off to her students? Absolutely not, that is highly unprofessional (yes, yes of course, awe-filled faces were the best). As the room continued to get warmer and warmer, she cast a swift Incendio into the air, followed by a string of murmurs. The fire turned into a ball, which in turn separated into half a dozen smaller balls of fire. A sharp eyed student might notice that some of these balls, no, all of them, appear to be.. smiling? Was that a hint of a face? Or were those tiny smokey numbers, forming the shape of a mouth? Twisting her free hand at the clouds above their heads, the water droplets that made up the thick colombuses suddenly dived down, straight into the smiling fireballs. Ayana added the water from the waterfall too, and siphoned the ice from the scupture, creating a big - warm! - globule of water. The numbers resembled a slot machine, constantly switching as the twisting globule of water broke off into smaller balls, again about half a dozen, in varying sizes. Finally, with twists of her wand, the swirling water began to morph. Each ball seemed to grow limbs, two arms, two legs, the edges appearing like waterfalls as the looped in on themselves to keep the water tight within the formation. There they were. Her little water demons, now animated like little watery humanoids. Anyone ever heard tales of golems? This was the process, more or less. "The aim is to not to get wet. Freeze them using glacius, vaporise using well aimed heat charms - that means no fire, we don't want anyone to get burned - or stop them in any other way you see fit." The water humanoids, seeming to conspire amongst themselves already, started making a circle around the desks, moving much much quicker than a human person would be able to. They're made of water after all. "The students left dry at the end of our little activity can submit their next essay a foot shorter than what is requested," Ayana grinned, and took several large steps back. The demons knew not to get to her - it was all in the numbers - but Hypatia only knew what the students had planned. The mission? Drench the students! The plan? Run at them real quick! The two largest demons, seemingly the head of the little pack, haphazardly stomped their way towards the nearest students with glee. As much as water can stomp, you know SPLISH SPLASH SPLISH SPLASH OOC: final activity! Run from the super speedy water demons, |
Where were her numbers? ”I didn’t have a chance to write them down,” she shrugged. She had lost any enthusiasm for the lesson after the whole debacle. Nina Castillo wanted to go back to the dormitory. …… Um. She had only tuned in at the very end when she heard they may be getting wet. Nina wasn’t wearing waterproof mascara. And her hair looked incredibly nICE today. She did NOT want to leave the lesson a soaking mess. And to think, she had really admired Professor Sissay. But this? This was such a cruel way to end what was already the worst lesson of her entire life. So naturally, Nina began SQUEALING as the demons began charging. And she immediately ran to the corner of the room, knocking down a desk to take cover behind it. She wanted no part in this game. |
WHAT WAS HAPPENING!??!?! :whaa: Anahera had, admittedly, zoned out a little during the past ten minutes. It had got a bit too academic for her taste and she was going to blame her lack of concentration on the fact that it was still FREEZING in here (had Professor Sissay not read about how temperature could affect one's ability to focus? had she???). It was definitely impacting Anahera's brain. Mhm, that. Which was when she literally jumped in her seat slightly when all of a sudden the professor not only warmed up the classroom but had conjured up small balls of FIRE. With faces. And then there was water...with faces. And hands. And feet. And just...a lot was happening. Instinctively, Anahera dove under her desk to get away from the water things. At least she was already holding her wand. From this lower vantage point, she cast a Glacius in the direction of the nearest water droplet she could see from down here. Hopefully that hadn't just been a student taking a sip of water and missing their mouth. Sorry (not sorry) if that was the case. |
Catching up Text Cut: Mini activity catchup Tina was still wondering how one could analyze something with different number sequences when the lesson moved on. Oh, so the simple answer was you couldn't. That made sense… well, sort of. Tina had to admit she was rather curious about the variation of the number revealing charm and the way Arithmancers had found to shape the elements to their needs, but she was even more curious about the fire Professor Sissay had just cast. Why fire? She thought they were talking about water! Her eyes widened as the fire separated into balls and - were those fireballs smiling? Before she knew what was happening, there were droplets from the clouds and water from the waterfall and ice from the sculpture and balls of water with limbs forming - water demons. Wow, those things were creepy! So the next activity was basically a water war, only with water demons instead of wands or squirters. Tina wasn't sure what to make of that. She was glad it wasn't number analysis, and she was skilled in wandwork so she could probably hold her own to the creepy critters. The problem was if she didn't hold her own, she'd be wet and embarrassed in front of everybody. The part about a foot off the essay went in one ear and out the other. Tina didn't care about having less homework; she was more concerned with not humiliating herself at the moment. Tina needed a strategy - and fast! Otherwise, she was a sitting duck. Okay, Tina, think… she thought frantically. She had it! Alternate hitting the demons with everything she had and hiding. "Glacius!" she cried, aiming at the nearest demon. "Glacius! Glacius!" She may have thrown a Glacius Duo in there somewhere too, just in case the original version wasn't strong enough. Once she finished her initial barrage of spells, she cast a shield charm on herself. Would a shield charm even work to keep out water? She had no idea; she'd never tried it before. Just in case, she crouched behind her desk for cover, her eyes peering over the top to search for the demons. She wasn't about to let her guard down! |
Ayana watched with great pleasure (sorry) as the students suddenly sprung into fight or flight mode, and a glance at the clock told her that quite many of them might have that foot shaved off from their essay lengths. It seemed that in her excitement, she'd allowed the lesson to run on for a bit too long. Stepping up to the board, she quickly wrote down her expectations for the holidays - mostly that they all return safe and sound and rested for the new year of learning, and opened the classroom door with a wave of her hand. "Happy holidays class! We'll be seeing a lot of number altering arithmancy work when we return." She'll be seeing them in 2099, and she sincerely hoped her little demonstration had at the very least sparked an interest in the subject. Text Cut: ArianaBlack The biggest splasher heard the squeal, and made directly for it, stomping and dousing several students along its way. SPLISH SPLASH, ball of water to the face? YES! Text Cut: Lislchen The two smallest water humanoids danced around each with glee, flicking water! everywhere! they! could! YOU get water and YOU get water and YOU, under the table, you ALSO get wat- Uh oh Text Cut: MadMadamMalfoy The tallest of the water formations, noting he could splish splash people's desks, set out to do just that! Oh another desk there! A ruined parchment, all wet! Droplets shot out of its head as it seemed to GIGGLE with GLEE. Oh another desk, but with a person! TWO prizes! JUST as it was about to step down on the desk, it- didn't :O THE STUDENT TRICKED HIM! OOC: hey guys! This ran a little longer than I had planned for (telling dates is really hard, did you know?) Thank you to every single one of you who attended the lesson! You're all the best! |
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