SPOILER!!: Moaning Myrtle!
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Originally Posted by
Moaning_Myrtle 
"Where do you people keep getting SEVENTY-EIGHT from?" Myrtle declared in exasperation, throwing her pearly hands up in the air. "Ravenclaw house used to be able to adddddd, when I waaaaaaaaaaaaas a Ravenclaaaaaw......."
GEEZ.
If only Beezus was fond of making scenes, this particular would've been a huge opportunity. But it was Moaning Myrtle they were dealing with here. She was rather complicated.
Pardon me? "
I do know how to add, Myrtle. It was your answer that was wrong." Well, she was. And Beezus wanted her to know that. Not only because she was slightly insulted, but because the ghost had taken the time to imply that Ravenclaw house wasn't as prominent as it was years ago.
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Originally Posted by
DanialRadFAN01 "Thank you Miss Castell, and you are correct, there are only 78 cards in the type of deck we will be learning to use." The ghost had guessed just a hair too high.
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You're welcome, Professor." And yes, hear that Myrtle dearest? She was correct. There are ONLY 78 cards. And they'll be learning about that today? That's kind of a lot of cards.
SPOILER!!: Professor Elwood!
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Originally Posted by
DanialRadFAN01 There had been many guesses but the students were mostly answering correctly. Apart from the Myrtle outbursts things were going good so far. "Right so like many of you said the Rider-Waite Tarot deck has seventy-eight cards. They are split into three categories: the 22 Major Arcana, the 40 Minor Arcana, and the 12 Court Cards."
She paused for a minute for them to write this all down and to give Myrtle, Alexa, and Dylan a quick look before moving on. "Sometimes the Major Arcana cards are called 'Face cards' because they are the ones with the drawings rather than the numbers. Now I would like you to all remove your decks of Tarot cards from the boxes on your desks and pull out all of the Major Arcana cards. Once you've done this, open your textbooks to the chapter on Tarot Cards and then raise you hand to present what you find on one of them." Simple enough, right?
"So basically what I need you to do is pick one with a picture on it, like this one," the Divination professor said as she held the Fool card up for them all to see. "and then look it up in your book and present your findings to the class. Go ahead and get to work."[/color]
When Professor Elwood began elaborating more on the subject of the day, Beezus also started to jot down some important points that were mentioned, particularly how it all went down to 78. Mhmm. Major Arcana, Minor Arcana and the Court Cards...
Pulling the box closer to her, she opened it and took out her Tarot deck and drew a random card.
The Empress.
Whoa. Was the deck psychic? It knew that she was Paulie's and Kaiden's Empress. Well, at least when she haven't bequeathed it to Elliot yet. So, what does it say? Not wasting any time, the brunette laid her textbook open on her desk and opened it to the portion of the Tarot cards.
Mhmm. Hmm? Oh. Eh? ....Oh, okay.
Hand up. "
Professor, I got The Empress card." See? Flipping it on its sides to show the class. "
It is the third trump under the Major Arcana. Related words to this card are Fertility, Comfort, Physical Attraction, Health, Desire, Nature, Beauty." Shrug. "
And uhm..." Let's take a direct passage from the book, shall we? "
The Empress sits on a throne wearing a starry crown, holding a scepter in one hand. The Scepter is representative of her power over life, her crown has twelve stars representing her dominance over the year, and her throne is in the midst of a field of grain, representative of her dominion over growing things. She's kind of the symbol for fecundity and....repository for all things nourishing, sustaining and feeding others." Yep. That was it.