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SPOILER!!: cartography crew
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Originally Posted by Thorbert O. Kenting View Post
"Don't forget the deeeetailssss! Labeling is your friend!" Thorbert was pleasssssed with the efforts of the children, even if some of their sketches proved rudimentary. It was all about practice here!

The extremely tall man moved about the space, towering over the girl first, and then the boy. He took note of their work and sighed happily. These could be future cartographers and he was seeing them in their early years! It waaaarmed his heart!

"If you don't mind my assssking," Thorbert's hand waved airly about before resting on his hip, "What do you think are the benefits of mapping the castle?" One didn't map just to map! There was purpose and technique behind ever masterpiece he made and he was interessssted to see if the kids got that too!
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Details, yes, those were important. Evie assumed she didn't have to draw brooms in the section that made the broom closet, but perhaps she should mark where windows were in the great hall and where the staff table was. She added those details quickly, just after the man walked by her after observing her map.

As she continued mapping, Evie looked up when he spoke again. She thought about the question before putting out a hesitant answer. "To find out its secrets?" It made sense to her, and it was actually something she wanted to know. "And it would help first years and transfer students," like herself, "to not get lost." That would be very helpful.


This was... really a lot trickier than it looked, wasn't it? Or perhaps it was just Toby, seeing as he always seemed to be going at about a hundred miles an hour that it was easy to miss the details and so having to deliberately look for them now was just... tricky. But manageable. But tricky.

The Hufflepuff squinted at his notebook and poked his tongue out the corner of his mouth in concentration and did his best to relay the details of the Entrance Hall on the page of his notepad. He was back to standing at the door looking into the Great Hall, roughly mapping the location of the tables before going into proper details, when the guy in charge spoke again, and Toby looked around.

Uhh. Well.

"It helps you know where to find things and not get lost, like Evie said," he said, while still pondering on it. "And, if things change, like in Hogwarts where things change and move and appear and disappear a lot, you can look back on the maps you made and compare it to see what's different. Unless the map is magic and changes with it. But I know muggles like to look back at maps of places how they were years and years ago and see what's different now and stuff." Toby looked back to his notebook and tried working on those details a little more. "And it's nice to be able to point out places without having to actually be there." Y'know, that visual representation could be very helpful.

There was no way that his map was accurate here. Not a chance, not on his first go. But it seemed to be more or less right and Toby was proud enough of what he'd done so far. Buuuuut, question.

"Does the castle being unplottable make the whole map-making thing trickier? Or does that affect finding out the general location, rather than the inside and the details?"
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