Indigo would never pretend that Arithmancy was his best subject. Or even one of the top five. It just hadn't seem like the most important. Even if it was sort of interesting, he didn't have the time right now to take a deep dive into Arithmancy and learn it all. He had NEWTs to study for this year. He couldn't spent any more time on Arithmancy than absolutely necessary.

Indigo didn't feel much like answering questions out loud. But he felt bad not saying anything. He was sort of stuck in a bad situation here. Either option he chose would make him feel extremely anxious. That predicament ran through his mind for a few moments before he realized he should maybe actually be thinking about an answer to the question. What he knew was that Arithmancy was a subsection of Divination, so it had something to do with telling the future. There were also numbers involved. The basics of Arithmancy was about assigning numbers to letters and adding them up and then the result would tell you something. That was pretty much the extent of Indigo's knowledge about Arithmancy.

Slowly Indigo raised his hand. "My name is Indigo Rousseau, professor. In order to do a calculation you would first need a word. Something to assign numbers to, and what the results will be based on." Was that right? If it wasn't he was never going to speak in this class again.