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Originally Posted by nogoodforyou  A bit curious? Helena was a little bit more curious than that!
Alright. Books related to Divination?
The girl had a feeling that professor Bishop was not referring to the Divination (text?)books. "Maybe... there are some ancient ones with... ancient magic? That has something to do with Divination?" Uhh... or maybe she shouldn't have said anything at all.
This was confusing. Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn She was NOT going to be taking her eyes off of Destiny...herself. Good Merlin, she didn't even know what to call Destiny in her mind! It was rather confusing!
On the other hand, just because she looked like Destiny, didn't mean she wasn't going to act like her normal self. Which meant, Evelyn took out her notebook, quill, and ink as usual, setting them up all perfectly on their table before leaning back in her seat and crossing her arms, ready to sleep. Yup, her normal self. It was only when the Professor started speaking that she noticed all the books. Oh, snaps. Where did those come from? "There are books specifically written to have information about divination...aren't there?" Soooo...a divination book...would be related to divination.
And....yea. That's all she could think of. Quote:
Originally Posted by fanficfanatict Selina sat up as Kurumi walked in the room and smiled at her friend, the Common Room had been a real revelation to Selina as of late. She knew the value of her friend's friendship, especially in this class. After all of the trouble Selina had gotten them in throughout the past two years in Divination she was still a fierce friend and was always there to lend a hand... of course since the Common Room incident she had a slightly better control of her issues.
Then she directed her attention to Professor Bishop and rose her hand, "Well ma'am, I suppose you could use books for research. To get more specific, we use books to learn information so that when we put the practical knowledge into practice it is not as confusing. I mean if you try to just do something without any information on what you are doing isn't that counter-productive. So I guess this could relate to Divination because everything dealing with the future or interpretations of that future need to be dealt with in a manner of deep studying. The future is such a tempermental thing that isn't it just smarter to learn about how to deal with it then just be oblivious?" Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley William raised his hand. " The books on Divination can be used for learing about everyone's religion" William said to the professor. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lockhartian Treyen looked towards Kurumi as the Professor asked her if she was alright. His eyes managed to look to the door who had probably suffered more than Kurumi, though. But soon looked to Bishop again. And raised his hand.
"Well, books can be related to anything, actually," any field of research that is, "Whether to pass knowledge on, or simply throw them at people," like Josh, that was going to be burning books, apparently.
"But in Divination, the books that are used have to have some meaning, or being sacred somehow," he nodded, putting down his hand.
Then his eyes followed someone's voice. THE GENIUS. Of course, she was RIGHT about that, Treyen winked towards her and nodded, as if to say 'Yes, there are books about Divination'. Good, Destiny. Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicGlitter Ariella raised her hand. It was a difficult question - she wasn't sure she had a right answer or not. "Books with pictures would probably be more related to Diviniation. By looking at certain shapes and meanings in pictures, you could find out what certain objects might mean in a crystal ball." She paused for a moment, thinking. Come to think of it, she did have a question. "Could a book give a hint what may be coming in the future?" Quote:
Originally Posted by dracosgurl Maria thought for a minute. She raised her hand. "Well, usually a book has a lesson to learn. Sometimes you can predict what that lesson is before you finish the book" she guessed. Renée had pretty much expected to receive some answers regarding simple reading of books to learn about Divination, that sort of thing, so when she heard the students answer that way, she merely nodded. “Of course books can be read to learn more about other forms of Divination. If you look in the right places, you can research anything. And yes, some books are rather obvious in relaying the message it’s meant to give. However, this wasn’t exactly what I was after, or at least not what we’re going to be discussing this lesson,” she replied gently, noting everyone to give them a point anyhow. They’d at least tried to come up with an answer, and she hadn’t been specific, really. There was no need to say they were completely wrong and disregard the answers. They weren’t. Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Simon looked at the Professor and smiled raising his hand he said "Maybe you can use the books to read peoples minds and maybe some books are very old and can be used to tell you about divination." Simon had no idea if he was right. Of course, then there was Simon. Dear, sweet, naïve Simon who she still suspected tried to give crazy answers to her questions just to get a response from her. Sadly, it worked, if only because Renée still wanted to try and get him to realize he actually knew things about Divination, but he just needed to let it come out. “Not quite, Simon,” she replied gently. “Books can only be used to ‘read people’s minds’ if the person has written their thoughts down inside. Although you’re correct that books can tell a person about Divination. They can’t do much more than tell us about it without interpretation, though.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Quick Quotes Quill Aham… so the books aren’t here because there is no more spece in the library for them, the girl realized. Now… how are we going to use them? Judging a book by the cover? Nah… that can’t be it. But then… what other explanation could I give? Hmm? After some time, the young ravvie finally had an idea.‘Maybe we could… tell something about a person’s personality by judging the book they pick?’, she answered. Probably it’s wrong, but it was the best idea I could come up with! Moving on from Simon, Renée regarded Gwen with another smile, especially since it had seemed a lot of thought had gone into her answer. The young Ravenclaw did have an interesting idea, even if it wasn’t necessarily Divination-related. “True,” she said slowly. “A person’s choices can tell something about their personalities. That isn’t necessarily Divination, however.” It was still a good answer, so she made a mental note to give the girl a point. Even if stereotypically a good answer should be expected, from a Ravenclaw at least. But they were still looking for the subject of the lesson. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady There he was...
It was another Divination class and Josh Carter was, of course, present in the classroom sitting silently on a random seat in the middle he had chosen the moment his eyes caught it. Yet, when the boy bothered to look around at the people answering Professor Bishop's question to see who were speaking every time a voice was raised, he saw his beloved she-snake sitting at the back row, as usual, next to her friend Destiny who had just spoken out to answer the question.
Divination books having info about divination. Well...was not this kinda obviously Destiny?
Whatever...
Smirking at his girlfriend (the one he sees as Evelyn), the Gryffindor boy stood up and slowly left his own seat, only to claim the empty one next to Evelyn. Hehe...
Now it was the time to answer this question ''We can burn the books and try to read the smoke...'' Bwahahaha...yea he was not going to read any textbooks and he was sure that his she-snake was going to love this answer. Therefore, looking into her beautiful hazel eyes and smiling warmly, he expected a nice reaction from her. That was definitely not what they were going to be discussing in the lesson today, and Renée gave Josh a bit of a look. If he brought any of her books near a fire, she was definitely going to be a bit, well, angry. However, she wasn’t that surprised at him giving that as an answer, just as she wasn’t surprised when he’d shifted seats to sit near Evelyn and Destiny. Even if she wondered what would happen if he discovered the little secret that was going on between the two girls. She wasn’t going to say anything about that, though. The pyromania was another thing. “We are not going to be burning any books in this lesson, Mr. Carter,” she said succinctly, especially inside the classroom. Or ever, at least around herself. “I’d imagine someone might have tried that as a form of pyromancy, however.” Once again, not around her. Text Cut: apparently we won't drag thing on xD Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Kurumi continued to rub her nose and felt extremely self conscious when Professor Bishop asked if she was alright. Kurumi's hands flew to her lap and she nodded her head. "I'm...alright..." And she sure hoped that the door was as well.
At least it didn't seem like she was going to have to dwell on the awkward for too long as Professor Bishop began the class. She had read about some traditional forms of divination from books, but those seemed a bit dry to her at the moment and her mind wasn't able to focus on it for too long. Instead, her mind wandered to a game her brother Takashi and her used to play on rainy days during the typhoon season when they couldn't go down and play at the river. "Perhaps you could take a book, any book really, and ask a question to it with your hands on the cover. Then, you close your eyes, turn to a random page, and have your finger find a random spot on the page. Where ever feels natural to yourself. Then, you open your eyes and read the sentence your finger landed on," she suggested. "I suppose the page number you have opened to and the number of lines from either the top or bottom could also be taken into consideration." Kind of like combining the subjects of Divination and Arithmany in a rather complicated manner. "Using a dictionary in this case could probably be very insightful." Quote:
Originally Posted by Trish Penny raised her hand...Professor, books can be used to read short term of the future, where the person uses a book and with eyes closed and flips it open, open their eyes and the first word the eye sees is the used for the reading.... although it can be done on new years eve with the bible to see the future year", taking a breath. Quote:
Originally Posted by elllla_Wtwins Thea smiled, scooping up the big white cat. 'Hm. Well if it's alright, I'll just keep her here?' To save her from terrorising the rest of the animals around the tower..
'A book could help you? Like.. you could pick a book and open it at a random page.. and you could maybe put your finger on a random..' Thea wrinkled her nose. 'Picture!' She grinned. 'Aaand, it could help you! Or tell you something..' Thea nodded, making her whole body wobble. Maleficent chirruped in annoyance. Quote:
Originally Posted by dragon_star Ooh! Ooh! Savannah knows this!
"You randomly open the book," Savannah started to say. "Then you point at something random. The words or picture that you are pointing is the answer to the question that you asked. People usually perfer bibles or Shakespeare." But of course, there are a lot of uses of books. "You can also use books to find the meaning of the shapes and patterns you see in tea cups, clouds, crystal balls, etc." Renée took a breath to get back into her normal mode as several others tried their hand at answering her question, and she had to smile at what they were saying. “It seems we’re going to be getting into the specific topic of this lesson quicker than we thought,” she said with a bit of amusement, her glance landing on Kurumi, Penny, Thea, and Savannah. “What you all described is the basic idea behind bibliomancy. Literally, divination by means of books, and yes, most historical instances, especially in the Muggle world, involve the use of the Bible. Although, any book can be used, if the proper methods are followed.” She lapsed into silence for a moment, wanting to discuss the methods after a few more topics of discussion.
“Before we go into the basic ideas of how to go about using bibliomancy, although in general we already know the method,” since most of the answers she’d responded to had delineated a loose idea of that, “I have another question for you, and this relates more to the idea of bibliomancy than anything else. It can be compared to a couple other forms of Divination, almost directly. Can anyone give me at least one of them?” Of course, she was aiming for two forms, although she had a feeling Tarot might also be mentioned yet again. That was fine, even if she wasn’t about to bring Tarot up yet again on her own. There wasn’t really a need to keep going back to her preferred method of Divination. It just seemed to happen, one way or another.
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