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MadMadamMalfoy · 05-08-2019, 05:57 PM

Tina was still trying to come up with a good answer to the first couple of questions when Professor Sissay's voice jerked her out of her thoughts, and she jumped slightly. She didn't expect the professor to directly address her, well not at that moment anyway! She gave a polite nod in response to the instructions and took out a spare piece of parchment to make a name tag. Although her outward expression remained stoic, inside she was laughing to herself. This name tag thing was giving her flashbacks to that crazy charms lesson last term! Except this class was far less frustrating than that one had been…

She wrote her name (and her house and year too, just in case) on the scrap of parchment- she even dotted the I with a tiny butterfly, as she usually did - and neatly propped it on the edge of her desk where it would be easy to see. She'd just finished doing that when the professor moved on to the next topic: names. Upon hearing that, Tina was glad she'd remained silent for the first question. It sounded like her line of thought had been way off!

Tina considered Professor Sissay's points about names… different names used for the same thing and the same name used for different things (or people), and a thought occurred to her. What about nicknames? For example, her given name was Fantine, but everybody always called her Tina… well, except Professor Wishart last term, but that was beside the point. Calculating somebody's name number using a nickname would yield some very different results than a given name, so how did you know which one to use? Did one have more significance than the other? That could present a problem… but the professor had asked for problems interpreting words, not names, right?

Once again, Tina doubted the answer she had was good enough or even relevant enough to voice out loud, so she remained in attentive silence, taking careful notes on the points raised by the professor and her classmates.

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MadMadamMalfoy Mackled Malaclaw Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Hazbin Hotel Posts: 11,149 Hogwarts RPG Name: Sydney M. L. Masters Slytherin Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Maddox B. Buchanan Gryffindor Seventh Year	Rhibear ~ Madam Solo ~ ❄ Showtunes > Everything ❄ ~ Accio Jedi ~ Gryffinclaw ~ Just a doll Tina was still trying to come up with a good answer to the first couple of questions when Professor Sissay's voice jerked her out of her thoughts, and she jumped slightly. She didn't expect the professor to directly address her, well not at that moment anyway! She gave a polite nod in response to the instructions and took out a spare piece of parchment to make a name tag. Although her outward expression remained stoic, inside she was laughing to herself. This name tag thing was giving her flashbacks to that crazy charms lesson last term! Except this class was far less frustrating than that one had been… She wrote her name (and her house and year too, just in case) on the scrap of parchment- she even dotted the I with a tiny butterfly, as she usually did - and neatly propped it on the edge of her desk where it would be easy to see. She'd just finished doing that when the professor moved on to the next topic: names. Upon hearing that, Tina was glad she'd remained silent for the first question. It sounded like her line of thought had been way off! Tina considered Professor Sissay's points about names… different names used for the same thing and the same name used for different things (or people), and a thought occurred to her. What about nicknames? For example, her given name was Fantine, but everybody always called her Tina… well, except Professor Wishart last term, but that was beside the point. Calculating somebody's name number using a nickname would yield some very different results than a given name, so how did you know which one to use? Did one have more significance than the other? That could present a problem… but the professor had asked for problems interpreting words, not names, right? Once again, Tina doubted the answer she had was good enough or even relevant enough to voice out loud, so she remained in attentive silence, taking careful notes on the points raised by the professor and her classmates. __________________ Old voices I had thought long since dead whisper of another life I might have led If I could take that second chance, If I could make my life anew, If only dreams came true...