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Old 11-20-2012, 06:52 PM   #777 (permalink)
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Minerva watched as he tried to figure it out. Then when he questioned her she gave him an automatic look. She knew that this was her weakest subject, but no one ever questioned her when it came to school work. How could he possibly be questioning her. A thought then crossed her mind, was she.....wrong. Did she do something that wasn't right in her own puzzle. That would be so embarrassing if she did. "Let me take a look..." She took the parchment from him and started looking. No.. no her puzzle looked correct. So what was going on. Where did this S come from... She wasn't sure. Looking back over her work she began to smile.

Looking up at him she chuckled, "Harvey Watson I think you need to start spending more time in the books and less time with Ella." She looked back at the parchment. Then pointed, do you see this S that you questioned.. Look back up at the puzzle. It's a 5 not an S. It should be 10/5=, not 10/s... Where on earth did you see an S. Are you getting enough sleep?" She still laughed about it a bit. "Once you have that 5 in there you should be able to fix the question marks. Now don't forget to move these X's, because they need switched to L's." As Minerva was about to give the parchment back to him she then noticed something else. "Hold up.. I almost missed an error." She looked at it closer, "Yes Harvey right here... I don't think you are going to get a right calculation with a 44/1. I think that 1 should be a different number." She looked at him and wondered if that all made sense. "Does that help at all?" Handing him back the parchment she hoped she wasn't more confusing then helpful.


He showed her the parchment, he then saw a smile cross over her face as she chuckled "What do you mean?" he asked confused as to why she wsa telling him that, though he couldnt see how he could spend any less time with Ella. That was .. that was too hard for him to do! Just being in different houses was tough on them both let alone spending less time, but at the moment he was glad that the common rooms were locked out cause he got to watch her fall asleep and he could watch her sleep before he left. He then looked to where she was pointing, he turned a slight pinky color as he realised what had happened. "Umm I think so..." he was if you counted the hours he spent laying in bed thinking about Ella, he heard her laugh a bit more at this. He nodded "Yeah ok I will do those changes right now" he said about to take the parchment back when she asked to see it again. He wondered what had happened now, he looked to where she was saying. "Ahh yeah I knew that was 11.. just missed adding the one digit" he chuckled and nodded "Yeah that helps.. not being a claw today.. am I?" he chuckled as he shook his head. Maybe she was right.. Ella being on his mind all the time was making him make these mistakes? He then amended the changes that she had told him about

Ok so this is what he had and now he had to change it

SPOILER!!: cryptogram

A-X-D-(7-2)-(10/5)

(3+3), P, D, (44/11), P

(10-7), (9-8)

D, X, (13-5), (25/5), (7+0)


Adding clues


A-X= L-D-(7-2= 5), (10/S= ?)

(3+3 = 6), P, D, (44/1 = 4), P

(10-7= 3), (9-8 = 1)

D, X= L, (13-5 = 8), (25/5 = 5), (7+0 = 7)


Becoming

A-L-D-5-??

6-P-D-4-P

3-1

D-L-8-5-7


And adding the changes she talked about what he ended up with was

SPOILER!!: Partly solved cryptogram

A-L-D-5-2

6-P-D-4-P

3-1

D-L-8-5-7


"[B]Ok now I have to figure out the numbers now.. from the Pythgorean Number System.. right.. well it looks right to me now so time to add some more letters.

He looked at the Number system

1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9
A---B---C---D---E---F---G---H----I
J---K---L---M---N---O---P---Q---R
S---T---U---V---W---X---Y---Z

SPOILER!!: Partly solved cryptogram 2

A-L-D-5-2

6-P-D-4-P

3-1

D-L-8-5-7


Adding changes

A-L-D-5-2 ....... Number 5.. could be.. E.. N.. or W.. I am.. thinking it is E.. number 2.... could be B..K...T could be B or.. T I think.. so.. lets do T

6-P-D-4-P ... Number 6 could be.. F..O.. or X.. I am.. thinking.. F..or O.. lets go.. for.. F.. and 4. mmm.. D..M.. or V... .. man could be either of those!!.. umm.. I dont know that one.. umm I will.. go.. for.. M

3-1 .... Number 3 could be.. C... L.. or U.. well.. being a two letter.. word.. it seems more likely to be.. U.. the 1.. A.. J.. or S... well thats easy.. it cant be anything.. other than S.. so thats US..

D-L-8-5-7...... Number 8 could be.. H.. Q.. Z.. .. going for H.. on that one I think... number 5... E.. N.. W.. .. mm I think E... .. and 7 is... G... P.. Y..... I think its.. gonna be a Y.


Ok he was time.. to write that out properly now

SPOILER!!: Partly solved cryptogram 3

A-L-D-E-T

F-P-D-M-P

U-S

D-L-H-E-Y


"That right? I dont think so.. it still looks very umm... wrong.. I mean.. it doesnt make sense to me" he said looking over his work and looking over at Minnie.. maybe she could.. nudge him onto the right track without actually telling him what it was.. kind of.. thing.
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