Whose bright idea was it to mix magic with math? How was Arithmancy even applicable to the real world? Six year of education in the subject still hadn't taught Jezzabelle the answers to these questions.

It's some form of torture, that's what it is. Make people learn a complicated system designating numbers to letters and then add them up to tell you things about yourself. It seemed almost as pointless to her as divination.

Still…she had shown great improvement.

"Your number is wrong Miss Antoinette. You didn't reduce properly."

Sighing she tapped her parchment and started again.

Arithmancy equals ridiculous.