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Professor R. French put the last tidying touches on his classroom, finishing off by writing a GR33TING to his class on the ancient chalk board. The room is ordinary in the sense that there are desks in rows and cobwebs in the corners. What might strike the N0RMAL Arithmancy student as peculiar is the cans of paint, cauldron of brewing potion, and long sheets of parchment waiting for the students in the front of the classroom.
The new Arithmancy PR0F3SS0R is awaiting his students with his fingers knitted together and resting on the bulge of his belly.
OOC: I don't care if you're "late". Keep posting arrivals for now. Keep posting numbers. Class hasn't STARTED started, we're only warming up . OOC: No more shouting numbers, K? We're ADDING the random #'s now. Add the #s. HAVE FUN WIH THAT LOL. But you may still arrive if you want. OPEN DOOR CLASS.
OOC: This is where class has started. So.... be here. Or not. 0r n0t. Iz c00l. 100101! Post what your charries know about BEARDS. K.
OOC: YES OKAY, have your student come to the front, ladle Beard Growing Potion into a cup, DRINK, and sit back down -- a BEARD *WILL* grow onto EVERYONE'S FACES that consumes the potion. You can decide it's make and model . Amount of potion consumed is proportional to BEARD. So...little potion? Pencil mustache? TOO MUCH? Flood dragging beard? With me? yes okay thanks.
OOC: So... dip the beard in paint, dribble the beard on the parchment, COUNT YOUR DRIBBLES. I encourage you to go to PAINT and make your drawing. It isn't necessary, but hehe anyone can draw dribbles, right? hehe DIP, DRIBBLE, COUNT. Go 2 it, yes okay good thanks.
OOC: On the homestretch now! Once you've COUNTED your beard drippings, condense your number down (if necessary) [12 becomes 1+2 = 3. 3 is your number!], then get your READING from the CHART. Do what the chart tells you to do. Take this LESSON with you for LIFE. Yes okay well done very good okay.
UPDATE: OOC: I'm gonna leave this open through Monday. RP ALL YOU WANT OKAY? Just don't set things on fire? Or if you do... I dunno. NO POST ON SUNDAY from me, and I'm not expecting to post until MONDAY EST. Play. Have fun. Practice with your number. Paint the walls with your beards.
Since this professor didn't really seem to care much what they did, she turned to the girl next to her who had just answered with a string of numbers that Tora was fairly certain was incorrect. Might as well have fun with this. "Ahhh. I suggest you don't actually write out all those zeros as it will take over your lifetime. Instead just add them on to the number would be two million billion gazillion seventy-nine billion, six hundred sixty-nine million, one hundred ninety-five thousand, two hundred and nineteen, point one four one five nine plus R2D2. Although I believe you did some of that math incorrectly there in which case the actual answer would be two million billion gazillion seventy-nine billion, six hundred forty- three million, two hundred ninety-five thousand, two hundred and twenty-one R-D, point one four eight five nine. As you can see I added in the R2-D2 and fixed a couple of your calculations." She winked and grinned at the other girl to let her know that she was just playing along. She agreed, if this guy wasn't going to give straight answers, then the only way to respond was with even more crooked ones
"Actually,"Adrienne pointed out over Tora's shoulder (she was starting to like this new professor, if only because he made all of the students so frustrated), "You did quite a bit of that wrong. The real answer is," cue glance at her parchment and deep breath, "Two thousand million billion gazillion seventy-nine billion, seven hundred forty six million, nintey nine thousand, one hundred eighty-five point three nine six five plus R2-D2 plus 2i plus Obi One Kenobi. This is of course under the assumption that the magic number is seven. If it's three, then the answer would be two thousand million billion gazillion seventy-nine billion, seven hundred forty six million, nintey nine thousand, one hundred eighty-one point three nine six five plus R2-D2 plus 2i plus Obi One Kenobi." There. That had been extremely satisfying to say, and she had just remembered why she used to like math so much.
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"No, of course not, no no, don't confuse the class, please. It was Jeremy. Right around the time of the fifth annual goblin Olympics."
Confusing the class? Oh no, that was clearly his job. Was there even a Jeremy Gryffindor, ever? Lex shot the man an incredulous look. Of all the house histories to mess up he chose theirs and claimed their founder to be a non-violent man when the dude owned a bloody fantastic sword.
She couldn't wait to see where this was going.
Seeing as this was only the first class she didn't feel inclined to get into a debate like Sarah had tried doing, instead, she flopped into a seat, folded her arms and waited for something to happen. Something did. Random number shouting. No thanks. Lex would just wait for the next part of the activity.
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Professor French cleared his throat to begin again, "I'm going to need someone to perform the ancient Egyptian art of ADDITION on all the numbers shouted! What RANDOM NUMBER have we created here today as a class??? Anyone? Please perform the addition."
Oh? Soon something else did happen. Counting all the numbers shouted when she hadn't even been paying attention??
HAHAHAHHAAno.
Even if she could remember all the numbers she wouldn't have wasted her time because a few dense firsties had shouted numbers well out of the range of her attention span. Over a million? How about no? Lex cast a glance around the class waiting to see if anyone would actually attempt.
"Professor?" She finally spoke up when it seemed only Sarah would be bothering. "I don't think I understand the aim of this exercise and I'm afraid I can't remember the numbers called earlier..." How in merlin's beard was this an art?? They called random numbers and were expected to remember and add them afterwards? If this was a way of removing curses she saw no progress in the near future.
Alexa was over this class.
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Was Alice the only one who thought this man was pure genius? She had been sitting in the middle of the room, remaining silent but awed as ever. Jeremy Gryffindor? Beheading house elves?
This professor was brilliant.
Except when he asked her to do that much arithmetic. No thanks, guy.
"Professor, I can't do your sums. I couldn't keep track of how many i's that boy was calling out," she stated, jabbing an accusing thumb back at her boyfriend. Too many imaginary numbers to count, clearly.
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Add all those numbers? Now that was highly impossible. Adi was totally sure of that because no one had written out the numbers as they were called out. Plus some called really huge numbers that had tons of zeroes. Nope. Mission impossible. It was like being in a math class all over again!
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Professor French cleared his throat to begin again, "I'm going to need someone to perform the ancient Egyptian art of ADDITION on all the numbers shouted! What RANDOM NUMBER have we created here today as a class??? Anyone? Please perform the addition."
Add the numbers? ALL OF THEM? But... hadn't someone shouted out a number in the thousands and someone else about a million gazillion and... and... Alec's face paled. That was a lot of numbers and addition and even if he thought he was pretty decent at Arithmancy, there was no way he could add all of those numbers too. It was just too confusing. Just thinking about it was bringing on a slight headache.
Although... there was someone who was able to add them all up, it seemed. Three people. Working together. Calculating. Alec's eyebrows rose as he watched them converse about it. ... They... were younger than him, right? They looked like it. Maybe. And was the answer right? Did he know? Nope.
He sat back a little and looked from the three girls to the Professor. He'd just wait for the correct answer to be given, if there was one. This was completely different to one of Hadley's classes.
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Anya had been standing at the door for several minutes. What was going on? The Gryffindor even stepped out of the classroom and circled the entire floor to make sure she was in the right place.
... apparently that place was no longer sane arithmancy but mental number crazy ville.
... and now he wanted people to add up the numbers people have been shouting? ... did someone have a list or something? Because she'd missed most of the numbers. Not that it mattered. It looked like nobody was taking this seriously.
The lion quietly slipped into one of the desks and got out some parchment. Well... two could play at that game. Let her nonsensical doodling begin.
Maybe she'd compare her doodles to Ella's later.
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Jayden was absolutely thrown off. Hadn't someone called out a million gazillion and R2D2? This was going to be absolutely impossible. Yes she was a Ravenclaw, and yes, she had been brilliant in class with Hadley... but now...
"Well sir. With R2D2 and a million gazillion and all of the other numbers thrown in, I believe the sum is Meow."
MEOW. o__O
This class was absolutely bonkers. But if he could be throwing out questions that made no sense, then she could do the same, right? And then maybe perhaps she would earn bonus points because cats were cute.
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Honestly, Mo should have been writing down the numbers. He'd thrown down his quill at R2... something and then just hoped against hope that they wouldn't be asked to tally up the numbers.
And then they were asked to tally up the numbers. It was good some of his classmates had written everything down, but Mo couldn't shake the feeling they were wrong. Call it his Ravenclaw instinct, but since the guy up at the front of the room had only a passing acquaintance with generally accepted history, he might also only be passingly acquainted with the concept of addition.
Maths wasn't really a Wizarding subject, anyway. So maybe it was a riddle. Mo scrunched up his shoulders a bit and offered, "I think it's... the number of hairs on your head times the number of stars in the sky plus the grains of sand on the beaches of Mars. Plus R2-D-thingy plus Obi Kobi-thingy plus... 2i." And Mo gave West an apologetic look for that.
... Was Jake supposed to understand any of this? Because he had a problem with Arithmancy to begin with. Anya always had to help him. And now... what in Merlin's name was even going on? His eyes darted back and forth, listening to people call out. After a moment of internal panicking he started scribbling things down on his parchment.
It was gibberish, really. But it made him look busy, and that was what he was going for. He wasn't going to admit that he had no idea what to do.
Tobias was totally distracted by this point, between looking out of the window and writing out loads of numbers on his parchment just for funsies and occasionally looking at stunned at those who were giving legit answers.
Ravenclaws.
Well................ he hadn't said anything yet, soooooooooo may as well give it a shot. He raised his hand and, when one of the Ravenclaws drew breath, he threw his answer in.
"Is it the amount of licks it takes to get to the centre of a Blood Pop?"
..................... Professor dude said WHAT now!?
yeah she was glad she said nothing...
this is crazy. Sure it was numbers and math and that's what Arithamncy as all about, yeah? but she didn't get it. Nothign of this excersise gave her any hit about today's lesson or anything they would be doing this term and she was upset..
still upset cause it was GODRIC gryffindor. Now if he had gotten Salazr Slytherin wrong ariana would of marched straight to the front of the room called him and idiot and left, but she was amused for n...........
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Yep, she'd caught that look from West and returned with one that said exactly what she was thinking; 'This professor's absolutely bonkers'. And then he upped the crazy by asking them to add the numbers. Let me repeat that. THEY WERE BEING ASKED TO ADD ALL OF THAT. Nuts. Though, it seemed like everyone else had chosen to jump aboard the crazy answer train, so that's what she continued with. "The answer is Princess Leia."
Shrug.
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Caleb was getting very frustrated. Was this a joke? THIS was what his education was going to be like? He just rolled his eyes at this nonsense. He wanted out. NOW. He knew Arithmancy would be the worst!
"The answer is obviously 42, the answer to life and EVERYTHING," he said with a smirk. Hehehe
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Caleb was getting very frustrated. Was this a joke? THIS was what his education was going to be like? He just rolled his eyes at this nonsense. He wanted out. NOW. He knew Arithmancy would be the worst!
"The answer is obviously 42, the answer to life and EVERYTHING," he said with a smirk. Hehehe
"You forgot 'the universe'," Adrienne pointed out. "It's, 'life, the universe and everything'." Anyone who'd read the Hitchhiker's Guide was a friend to her, and she made a quick mental note to look for the firstie snake after class, when they'd no longer get in trouble for chatting (although, given this professor's laxness for other rules, and for actually teaching, it was certainly possible she'd have no trouble at all holding a conversation with someone several desks away from her).
Kace just stared blankly at the board. He noticed ALL the numbers people just shouted out. It seemed like it could equal to a million bazillon gajillon. Yup that seemed logical to his mind. He was liking the professor though.
Errghhh....he was trying to add them up. Then after about four numbers he gave up. Yup he wasn't TOO good in math. It wasn't his strongest numbers. Plus he loved hearing the other student's answers. He chuckled at the Infinity answer. I mean it was logical enough for his liking.
"You there? I didn't hear your number, yes please thank you."
"Great, Hufflepuff work. Just great, thank you."
"You only need to give your number ONCE, please and thanks. No need to keep at it."
"You have still not said a NUMB3R. Can I have a volunt33r to please explain to this confused young woman what a NUMB3R is? Yes please? She may need the nurse."
"Yes, okay, okay. Zero is excellent, great job."
"More Hufflepuffs. I knew you'd excel in this, yes yes! History doesn't lie or fail, thanks!"
"Decimals are good, great work, very good yes thanks."
"Did you need the loo, too?"
"Exactly! Yes! Yes, yes yes, you are doing it exactly right!"
"Yes, I think so, I think that is exactly right. Random number, thanks yes!"
"Solid number, great work, good job. Anyone know if it's prime?"
"A little louder please, yes? Okay."
"Two to you, t00! Yes thank you too!"
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Professor French cleared his throat to begin again, "I'm going to need someone to perform the ancient Egyptian art of ADDITION on all the numbers shouted! What RANDOM NUMBER have we created here today as a class??? Anyone? Please perform the addition."
OOC: No more shouting numbers, K? We're ADDING the random #'s now. Add the #s. HAVE FUN WIH THAT LOL. But you may still arrive if you want. OPEN DOOR CLASS.
Taylor gave him a weird look at what he said but then shrugged. Her eyes grew and she rubbed her head at what he said next. No one in their right mind can add that many numbers... She had forgotten half of them and the ones she haven't forgotten were some of the huge ones... She just blankly stared at the professor, tapping her quill lightly against her parchment, hoping that he wouldnt really expect them to add it up.
Asher looked around the room. Some of the students were frantically trying to add up the numbers while others were creatively making up answers. Sure, he should have been writing them down, but how was he to know they would need to add them all together.
Figuring there was no possible way for him to find the answer, and not having a creative bone in his body, Asher placed his forehead on the desk and waited for the next task.
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First off, Arithmancy was NOT in Beezus Castell's list of oh-awesome subjects taught around Hogwarts. She only ever attended and exerted effort during classes because she had such respect for Professor Hadley....
..but right now..........
This has got to be her new FAVORITE (next to Herbology of course) subject. Unexpected change of mind? Hah. Why not? The Professor teaching it was Professor French.
French.
French.
FRENCH.
FRENCH.
Hasn't anyone realized anything? Even Ella? Frrrrrrrench. Paris. UGH. *EXTREME MENTAL FLAILING* ....Aaaaaaaand he was full of humor, very witty. That was it. She had a crush on him. Merlin, she was even swooning all the while he was talking. And those white hair....the glasses...
*SWOOOOOOONING*
And they were screaming numbers? They can scream all they want. She'll just swoon over Professor Frrrrrrrrrench. Then addition was happening. Oh she was adding alright.
"UM, UM....sir, the answer won't happen to be 1.....4......3, right?" GIGGLE!SQUEAK.
Nigel did wonder if he was kidding or being rhetorical. But sure why not go to the loo. It would save him from trying to add all these crazy random numbers. It was not something Nigel wanted to do.
Plus there was the fact that Nigel did not write any of the numbers down. So... Yeah. Though Nigel could not comprehend what the number sixty eight had to do with the loo. Strange.
"Oh yep, yes. Of course. But not in the classroom, please thanks, and you must FIRST give me the mag1c number. Of course."
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Whoa. Add ALL of those numbers?
Lucian glanced down at his parchment, where for a reason he jotted down the numbers being shouted out, but he'd missed most of them. He ruffled his hair and glanced around. This dude was serious, huh?
Okay... Lets see...
Well. That...didn't look right. Lucian chewed on the tip of his quill. M'no. The number on his parchment was too big. Impossible. Yet, he raised his hand. "Erm, well, it has to be around the million-billion-gazillion...?" A hint to the one adding them all up. His eyes darted to the Gryffindor girl who'd said that, then he looked at the professor like: Is that even possible?
"Around? That's not precise, please be precise thanks okay."
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Up popped her hand.
"A rather big one, Sir," she said seriously, as you could see from her VERY serious expression (that felt unnatural). Nope. She couldn't do it anymore and she broke out into a grin, lowering her hand. Technically, she'd been right because it should make a 'rather big number'. Unless it was some silly answer. Probably was. One, maybe? It was totally going to be one now. Wasn't it? Silly Arithmancy stuffs. Hopefully someone had a better ide- OHHH.
"INFINITY."
Whut. Hi.
"Only infinity? Please check your calculations again."
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What in the name of Merlin...
This was not like any Arithmancy class Penelope had ever attended. It was just shouting random numbers right now - which was easy so no complaints there - but the professor seemed kinda odd. Which also didn't have to be a bad thing but...still. She wasn't used to it. And she definitely hadn't kept track of all the numbers that had been shouted, so there was no way she was gonna be the person to add them all up. Nope. She was just gonna sit here and try to pay attention to whoever actually remembered all the numbers enough to add them together.
"Please don't cheat in my class. If you need to use the loo, wait your turn okay."
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Olly was too busy staring at the professor in confusion to notice Schuyler at first. That is, until she moved to sit next to her. THEN she did notice her of course. "Hi." At least they could sit through the insanity - because seriously, what else?! - of this professor together.
She glanced at her friend for a moment when she did shout a number (nine, interesting) only to have her attention abruptly diverted back to the professor when he addressed her. Wait...what? "What?!" History doesn't lie or fail? What was that supposed to mean? They weren't in History of Magic Class. So what on Earth was he talking about? HUH?
...and then he asked them to ADD UP the numbers. Olly turned to full on stare at Schuyler at this. "Is he serious?!" She didn't even bother lowering her voice as she looked around at the other students again. Some of which were trying to provide answers. "Why?!" That queston was directed at the professor again, accompanied by an incredulous look. Again,
HUH?
"I'm Professor R. French, yes. I believe I made introductions. The answer is not Y, no, no please try again. Y is for another class, yes."
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"I said my number the first time you asked its 79669194962" Sarah said. Sarah laughed at the thought of HER needed a nurse. "and you need St. Mungo's" she said under her breath.
Now onto addition, "including my own number, exluding Abbie's as I need to to write it down to add that, yet mentally so far the number is 79669195219.14159 + R2D2 and then plus Abbie's number which is TWO THOUSAND MILLION BILLION GAZILLION. So let me add Abbie's number to the calculation". She took out a new page and began to write out TWO THOUSAND MILLION BILLION GAZILLION in numbers. First 2 then a lot of zeroes.
In between writing she said, "We can all speak rubbish and give a rubbish answer, as like professor like student. Even the professor is excersising his creativity this lesson so so can we"
"You need to speak less. Sometimes less is more and it would be a great deal more in your case.Two thousand million billion gazillion to the power of r2d2 more yes thanks. Please put your head down and give it a rest. Everyone knows that the House of Jeremy Gryffindor is prone to migraines."
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Since this professor didn't really seem to care much what they did, she turned to the girl next to her who had just answered with a string of numbers that Tora was fairly certain was incorrect. Might as well have fun with this. "Ahhh. I suggest you don't actually write out all those zeros as it will take over your lifetime. Instead just add them on to the number would be two million billion gazillion seventy-nine billion, six hundred sixty-nine million, one hundred ninety-five thousand, two hundred and nineteen, point one four one five nine plus R2D2. Although I believe you did some of that math incorrectly there in which case the actual answer would be two million billion gazillion seventy-nine billion, six hundred forty- three million, two hundred ninety-five thousand, two hundred and twenty-one R-D, point one four eight five nine. As you can see I added in the R2-D2 and fixed a couple of your calculations." She winked and grinned at the other girl to let her know that she was just playing along. She agreed, if this guy wasn't going to give straight answers, then the only way to respond was with even more crooked ones
"Are you quite sure? I think you left out at least one number. Perhaps 8 numbers. Did you account for infinity please okay?"
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What. Was. This. Lesson?
Józsua stared at the professor, not understanding what he was supposed be doing or WHAT THE ACTUAL POINT was.
Add the random numbers?
But some of the things shouted out, which appeared to get the most praise from the prof, weren't EVEN numbers!
Brow furrowed, his expression darkened as he looked around the classroom..
Learning was no fun when he was frustrated and didn't understand.
Euh..
"Don't cry because you can't do the math. We're not all gifted like the ancient Egyptians were in our sums. Please, relax, okay."
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"Actually,"Adrienne pointed out over Tora's shoulder (she was starting to like this new professor, if only because he made all of the students so frustrated), "You did quite a bit of that wrong. The real answer is," cue glance at her parchment and deep breath, "Two thousand million billion gazillion seventy-nine billion, seven hundred forty six million, nintey nine thousand, one hundred eighty-five point three nine six five plus R2-D2 plus 2i plus Obi One Kenobi. This is of course under the assumption that the magic number is seven. If it's three, then the answer would be two thousand million billion gazillion seventy-nine billion, seven hundred forty six million, nintey nine thousand, one hundred eighty-one point three nine six five plus R2-D2 plus 2i plus Obi One Kenobi." There. That had been extremely satisfying to say, and she had just remembered why she used to like math so much.
"7 is never the magic numb3 on a full moon, or in July, or east of Tahiti. And 3 can only be used if you're near the equator at sunset in summer."
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Confusing the class? Oh no, that was clearly his job. Was there even a Jeremy Gryffindor, ever? Lex shot the man an incredulous look. Of all the house histories to mess up he chose theirs and claimed their founder to be a non-violent man when the dude owned a bloody fantastic sword.
She couldn't wait to see where this was going.
Seeing as this was only the first class she didn't feel inclined to get into a debate like Sarah had tried doing, instead, she flopped into a seat, folded her arms and waited for something to happen. Something did. Random number shouting. No thanks. Lex would just wait for the next part of the activity.
Oh? Soon something else did happen. Counting all the numbers shouted when she hadn't even been paying attention??
HAHAHAHHAAno.
Even if she could remember all the numbers she wouldn't have wasted her time because a few dense firsties had shouted numbers well out of the range of her attention span. Over a million? How about no? Lex cast a glance around the class waiting to see if anyone would actually attempt.
"Professor?" She finally spoke up when it seemed only Sarah would be bothering. "I don't think I understand the aim of this exercise and I'm afraid I can't remember the numbers called earlier..." How in merlin's beard was this an art?? They called random numbers and were expected to remember and add them afterwards? If this was a way of removing curses she saw no progress in the near future.
Alexa was over this class.
"You haven't waited for understanding. This is a warm up exercise. I don't know how you're already behind, okay yes thanks. Please keep up, don't fall behind, do your sums now."
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Jayden was absolutely thrown off. Hadn't someone called out a million gazillion and R2D2? This was going to be absolutely impossible. Yes she was a Ravenclaw, and yes, she had been brilliant in class with Hadley... but now...
"Well sir. With R2D2 and a million gazillion and all of the other numbers thrown in, I believe the sum is Meow."
MEOW. o__O
This class was absolutely bonkers. But if he could be throwing out questions that made no sense, then she could do the same, right? And then maybe perhaps she would earn bonus points because cats were cute.
Meow.
"Meow? M30W? Is that with or without the addition of R2D2?"
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Honestly, Mo should have been writing down the numbers. He'd thrown down his quill at R2... something and then just hoped against hope that they wouldn't be asked to tally up the numbers.
And then they were asked to tally up the numbers. It was good some of his classmates had written everything down, but Mo couldn't shake the feeling they were wrong. Call it his Ravenclaw instinct, but since the guy up at the front of the room had only a passing acquaintance with generally accepted history, he might also only be passingly acquainted with the concept of addition.
Maths wasn't really a Wizarding subject, anyway. So maybe it was a riddle. Mo scrunched up his shoulders a bit and offered, "I think it's... the number of hairs on your head times the number of stars in the sky plus the grains of sand on the beaches of Mars. Plus R2-D-thingy plus Obi Kobi-thingy plus... 2i." And Mo gave West an apologetic look for that.
"Yes.... yes, okay, you are on the right track yes, thanks, great work. I believe it was a kenobi okay, but you aren't far off. Far enough off to be wrong, but also close to right good work okay."
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Doodle doodle doodle.
Tobias was totally distracted by this point, between looking out of the window and writing out loads of numbers on his parchment just for funsies and occasionally looking at stunned at those who were giving legit answers.
Ravenclaws.
Well................ he hadn't said anything yet, soooooooooo may as well give it a shot. He raised his hand and, when one of the Ravenclaws drew breath, he threw his answer in.
"Is it the amount of licks it takes to get to the centre of a Blood Pop?"
"Have you measured the t0ngue yes? No?"
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..................... Professor dude said WHAT now!?
yeah she was glad she said nothing...
this is crazy. Sure it was numbers and math and that's what Arithamncy as all about, yeah? but she didn't get it. Nothign of this excersise gave her any hit about today's lesson or anything they would be doing this term and she was upset..
still upset cause it was GODRIC gryffindor. Now if he had gotten Salazr Slytherin wrong ariana would of marched straight to the front of the room called him and idiot and left, but she was amused for n...........
little ravenclaw said what?
was that the right answer?
she blinked at the younger girl almost in awe...
whut!?
"I've told you already okay? Yes. That answer has been given, plus now we are n0 longer giving out NUMBERS. We are adding. Please try your sums yes okay."
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Yep, she'd caught that look from West and returned with one that said exactly what she was thinking; 'This professor's absolutely bonkers'. And then he upped the crazy by asking them to add the numbers. Let me repeat that. THEY WERE BEING ASKED TO ADD ALL OF THAT. Nuts. Though, it seemed like everyone else had chosen to jump aboard the crazy answer train, so that's what she continued with. "The answer is Princess Leia."
Shrug.
"Ah, no, no I think you mean the question? She was of course the inventor of the cauldron in 130 BC. This Arithmancy ONE ZERO ONE. If you have history questions, let's wait until class is over. Visit my office for your questions yes okay thanks."
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Caleb was getting very frustrated. Was this a joke? THIS was what his education was going to be like? He just rolled his eyes at this nonsense. He wanted out. NOW. He knew Arithmancy would be the worst!
"The answer is obviously 42, the answer to life and EVERYTHING," he said with a smirk. Hehehe
"MmK, yes no. No, you didn't completely carry your numbers. Carry your numbers. You must carry them, okay yes thanks."
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Kace just stared blankly at the board. He noticed ALL the numbers people just shouted out. It seemed like it could equal to a million bazillon gajillon. Yup that seemed logical to his mind. He was liking the professor though.
Errghhh....he was trying to add them up. Then after about four numbers he gave up. Yup he wasn't TOO good in math. It wasn't his strongest numbers. Plus he loved hearing the other student's answers. He chuckled at the Infinity answer. I mean it was logical enough for his liking.
"I think you'll have to speak up so the rest of the class can hear you."
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Asher looked around the room. Some of the students were frantically trying to add up the numbers while others were creatively making up answers. Sure, he should have been writing them down, but how was he to know they would need to add them all together.
Figuring there was no possible way for him to find the answer, and not having a creative bone in his body, Asher placed his forehead on the desk and waited for the next task.
"No, no, I'm afraid not you there okay yes? Napping is for another class, quite sure, tut tut yes okay."
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Originally Posted by ....Bee.... what.
First off, Arithmancy was NOT in Beezus Castell's list of oh-awesome subjects taught around Hogwarts. She only ever attended and exerted effort during classes because she had such respect for Professor Hadley....
..but right now..........
This has got to be her new FAVORITE (next to Herbology of course) subject. Unexpected change of mind? Hah. Why not? The Professor teaching it was Professor French.
French.
French.
FRENCH.
FRENCH.
Hasn't anyone realized anything? Even Ella? Frrrrrrrench. Paris. UGH. *EXTREME MENTAL FLAILING* ....Aaaaaaaand he was full of humor, very witty. That was it. She had a crush on him. Merlin, she was even swooning all the while he was talking. And those white hair....the glasses...
*SWOOOOOOONING*
And they were screaming numbers? They can scream all they want. She'll just swoon over Professor Frrrrrrrrrench. Then addition was happening. Oh she was adding alright.
"UM, UM....sir, the answer won't happen to be 1.....4......3, right?" GIGGLE!SQUEAK.
"Yes and no. It depends, okay? It depends. The numb3rs are not all here, we must first have all the numbers okay? Yes." And also, "Are you quite alright? Squeaking, as everyone knows, is the first sign of dragon pox, a disease discovered in 584 AD in the Himalayas by the Goblin King."
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Was Alice the only one who thought this man was pure genius? She had been sitting in the middle of the room, remaining silent but awed as ever. Jeremy Gryffindor? Beheading house elves?
This professor was brilliant.
Except when he asked her to do that much arithmetic. No thanks, guy.
"Professor, I can't do your sums. I couldn't keep track of how many i's that boy was calling out," she stated, jabbing an accusing thumb back at her boyfriend. Too many imaginary numbers to count, clearly.
For the first time since class had begun, Professor R. French smiled. He unclutched his hands from his plumb middle and gave THIS Gryffindor, House Jeremy, a parade clap.
"Too right. TWO RIGHT. This has been a nice warm up project to get your math juices flowing. Some of you are dumb as socks, but a few - like this one of House Jeremy Gryffindor [Al1c3]- are ready to really start INTERPRETING the NUMB3RS around you. FOR HOMEWORK - you must complete the calculations from this warm up - if the young gentleman [west 0d3ssa] will be so kind as to REVEAL the invisible number and it's multiplier, yes please okay? And INTERPRET it's m3aning! What did this random number MEAN? What can you GLEAN from the NUMB3R we randomly CREATED in Ar1thmancy ONE class?? Okay yes thanks."
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With the warm up and homework out of the way, it was now time for the lesson to ACTUALLY begin.
"As everyone knows, Arithmancy was first used by the Huns in the year 1030. They were also responsible for inventing bowling and the two - Arithmancy and Bowling - are often ONE and the same. More on that later yes okay? Okay. Today TWODAY we will be focusing on how to INTERPRET numbers that YOU YOURSELF YOU okay can generate."
TWODAY, yes okay.
"Let's begin with YOU telling M3 how much and what you know about FACIAL hair? B3ARDS to be exact, okay yes. Please be precise. B3ARDS."
OOC: This is where class has started. So.... be here. Or not. 0r n0t. Iz c00l. 100101! Post what your charries know about BEARDS. K.
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Professor French cleared his throat to begin again, "I'm going to need someone to perform the ancient Egyptian art of ADDITION on all the numbers shouted! What RANDOM NUMBER have we created here today as a class??? Anyone? Please perform the addition."
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"Let's begin with YOU telling M3 how much and what you know about FACIAL hair? B3ARDS to be exact, okay yes. Please be precise. B3ARDS."
HEH. She had a nice number. *proud*
WHAT EVEN WITH THIS MAN.
Firstly, adding the numbers people had shouted out was next to impossible considering that some of the people had made up numbers. Why did those people have to make it hard for the rest of them? So you might as well go ahead and say that the number they had come up with was in indeterminate form or something because there was no way they were going to come up with a real number.
Unless they were talking about sets, but that was a different issue entirely.
Ariel would have raised her hand to note something about the impracticality of their responses, however, the pace at which the class was moving barely gave her time to breathe. And before she could even think about opening her mouth, the professor was on to the next subject.
Which was... BEARDS?
How were beards and numbers even sort of related? Well... Ariel could think of one way. The girl poked her hand into the air. "Vell, beards tend to grow in a random pattern as far as the 'air follicles are arranged, but ze amount of growth does maintain a consistent average from person to person." Or at least, it sounded like it should. To be honest, Ariel didn't know a lot about facial hair.
"7 is never the magic numb3r on a full moon, or in July, or east of Tahiti. And 3 can only be used if you're near the equator at sunset in summer."
"Well," Adrienne pondered, "Since it is September and I'm pretty sure it's not a full moon, I guess seven can be the magic number." She supposed it could be a full moon, but she usually tried to keep updated on when new and full moons were going to be, and she didn't remember seeing anything about today. "But technically, everywhere is east of Tahiti, so does that mean that it's neither seven nor three?" She wasn't sure whether she was looking for an answer or not, but she said it anyway, because she was simply curious.
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Originally Posted by Professor R. French
"Too right. TWO RIGHT. This has been a nice warm up project to get your math juices flowing. Some of you are dumb as socks, but a few - like this one of House Jeremy Gryffindor [Al1c3]- are ready to really start INTERPRETING the NUMB3RS around you. FOR HOMEWORK - you must complete the calculations from this warm up - if the young gentleman [west 0d3ssa] will be so kind as to REVEAL the invisible number and it's multiplier, yes please okay? And INTERPRET it's m3aning! What did this random number MEAN? What can you GLEAN from the NUMB3R we randomly CREATED in Ar1thmancy ONE class?? Okay yes thanks."
Dumb as socks? Adrienne giggled. In her opinion, socks were pretty darn intelligent, as clothing goes. She jotted down the homework thoughtfully and began wondering whether it was worth it to actually try applying the stuff she'd learned last year, or if it would be easier to just write down a bunch of made-up smart-sounding things.
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With the warm up and homework out of the way, it was now time for the lesson to ACTUALLY begin.
"As everyone knows, Arithmancy was first used by the Huns in the year 1030. They were also responsible for inventing bowling and the two - Arithmancy and Bowling - are often ONE and the same. More on that later yes okay? Okay. Today TWODAY we will be focusing on how to INTERPRET numbers that YOU YOURSELF YOU okay can generate."
TWODAY, yes okay.
"Let's begin with YOU telling M3 how much and what you know about FACIAL hair? B3ARDS to be exact, okay yes. Please be precise. B3ARDS."
"Well, to begin with, yours could use some grooming." Oh, dear, she really hadn't meant to say that. Adrienne pressed her lips together and mentally cursed herself for blurting it out, but figured it would be easier to just keep talking than to pretend she hadn't said anything. "They grow on faces, often men's but sometimes women's too, and, um, they're made out of hair," she finished rather lamely. Adrienne quickly jotted down everything Professor French had said about... Huns, was it? and went on to shut herself up because otherwise she'd probably say something else offensive.
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Yeah I broke that mirror, so what? ll NOT backward ll Official Gryfferin ll Lemon's favourite
Alexa's eye twitched. This man needed to stop calling the man Jeremy Gryffindor. It was giving her an irritated tick. Also...he just called them dumb and gave them homework in the same breath. Was she the only one raising an eyebrow at this psuedo!santa guy?
She was prepared to sit for the entire class and wait to be dismissed but then he was asking about beards.
Oh yeah! Beards totally have everything to do with Arithmancy, didn't everyone else know??
Scowl.
"Beards are something that almost no girl can grow." So it didn't actually matter much to her, see? "Boys seem to like them though, like Ascanius." Because there was that one conversation that one time. Lex glanced to the floor then to the door. Where the hell was a man eating plant when you needed one? She'd give it 'til the second class because Christiansen has lasted that long.
No longer.
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Asher lifted his head off of the desk. He was thoroughly confused and momentarily considered walking out. The fear of losing points for answering wrong was less than the fear of losing points for walking out, so he decided to stay and give it a try. He knew he must be missing something. What was the professor trying to ask of him.
"All I know about beards, since I don't have the luxury of having one yet, is that they are...well...random. Just like the numbers we shouted out. Each beard is unique. There are no two exactly alike." He took a breath and continued "Some are rather large, others small. Some are full and others missing spots here and there."
With a giant smile upon his face, Asher straightened himself in his seat. He had no idea if his answer was even remotely correct, but he had answered. He tried.
Ar1thmancy I, One, 1 
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. Amount of potion consumed is proportional to BEARD. So...little potion? Pencil mustache? TOO MUCH? Flood dragging beard? With me? yes okay thanks.
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