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sweetpinkpixie 
“P-P-Professor, you said that overlaying runes without knowing how to properly do so would be worthless…” she said in a mousy voice. “Do you…could you…um…perhaps provide some general guidelines about this so that we can avoid making something ‘useless’ for our homework assignment?” Failure, after all, was a very scary thing. What if she made some protective jewelry that ended up producing the opposite effect and sent the owl meant to deliver the assignment to him to its doom. Not only would the owl die, but it would appear as though she hadn’t done the assignment!
Tristan looked surprised. "Zere iz no need to use bind runes in your zwellery." He said. His accent as heavy as ever. What had given her the idea? He didn't like it... it was a vast topic... now he would have to tell her about it...
"Zere is a course about bind runes at ze Norwegian University of Runic Ezucation, ja?" Did she get that it was a vast topic? "One class iz not beink enough." He nodded and frowned. "I vill tell you some basik points. Remember zat symmetry is important. Ze bind rune should not look like..." He didn't know the word so he decided to repeat what he had already said. He thought it would get the point across! "Ze bind rune must be symmetrical, ja?" He paused and nodded. "Ven you are incorporatink your name or initials into ze rune. For your protection. Remember zat runes are beink phonetic. Zey are representink ze sound rather zan ze letters. I give you an example, ja? If your name iz startink with a hard C, you vill use Kauno for ze K sound. If your name iz startink with a soft C, you vill use Sowilo for ze S sound." He hoped she understood. "Ven you combine ze runes, you must not place zem wrong. Do not place zem upzide-down. Zat could reverse ze meaning, ja?" Unless she wanted the reverse meaning... not that the students used invoked runes...
He nodded and frowned again... he had letters to respond to...
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Miss Marilyn "Forgive me, sir...but I'd love to partner with this Gryffindor if she desires help..."
Marilyn smirked. She was not trying to be condescending at all.
Tristan nodded. "If you are knowink about ze bind runes, you give her help, ja?" If the girl wanted more help...
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nogoodforyou They had to make their own jewelry? That was so cool! And protective runic jewelry? Even better! Helena just couldn't wait to get out of there and start that. She didn't even bother to write that down, since she wasn't going to forget about it. Hehe.
After she packed her stuff, the girl stood up and smiled at professor Christiansen. "Have a good summer as well. Goodbye."
... and she walked out of the classroom.
Tristan nodded and smiled. "God dag. Sank you. "