It had taken Benny a lot of time to pick out the songs they were supposed to bring into class for today's lesson. He supposed he could have asked Adi to help, being as the Hufflepuff was the more musically connected of the two of them. But in the end they had to be special to HIM. After all, he supposed that was the reasoning for them needing it, especially in a subject such as Arithmacy.

But alas, he had a list of three songs that resided on the table in front of him. And then Professor Tyner was asking about them and how they made him feel. The only thing he could think of while he thought about it was that he felt somewhat connected to them, the lyrics mostly. Though a musical group with dragons in the title had its own appeal.

He remained quiet however and before long they were moving on to something else, the fifth year listening carefully as the woman read from their arithmacy book. The part where it talked about transit cycles specifically. Three more numbers that had three different meanings that dealt with three different aspects of yourself from which you got your calculations. This time it was their full name.

As instructed, Benny looked up the meaning of the 't' in the professor's name, reading through it a few times to try and get a gist of it. At least something he might be able to vocalize. Adi and Lux both had interesting things to say about it, stuff that made some sense to him to, but he figured to maybe add a little more. "You may have been easy to upset or cry do to the high strung emotions," he supplied after he first raised his hand. "And were fine with moments to yourself in between your learning."

Angel looked at the Professor and smiled. She had picked her songs because they were just so amazing and she loved them, and in a couple of them they had heartbreak in, she also picked the last one because it was funny but the Professor didn't need to know that right.

Angel listened to the next question. "Is it because you are always trying to learn new things and you explore but you have to be very careful otherwise you will be in serious trouble as you will start to get a lot of self pity." Angel smiled.

Brave? Perhaps. She tried to be fearless and not let the opinions of others keep her from doing things. It was a trait she got from her Gryffindor parents, no doubt, and she simply offered the professor a smile at the compliment.

People had some interesting song choices, but Zander's... hahahaha. He TOTALLY made that up on the spot, didn't he? Sophie gave him an amused look and tried to see if he had even written anything down or if he had come up with those right then, but she couldn't see. One could bet she'd tease him about it after class, though.

Sophie smiled fondly at Tobes' song choices, then went ahead and took some light notes as the professor spoke some more, considering Transit Cycles and flipping through her textbook to reference the page to keep up. Interesting, this was, and she wanted to go ahead and figure out her own stuff straight away... but the professor wanted them to practice on her name. She could do that.

"It talks about traveling," she offered with a raised hand, "and seeing the world. Maybe you were a really curious kid, the kind who was always crawling or walking everywhere and wanted to see everyone and everything. Very mobile. Always on the go, probably drove your parents loony wondering where you'd run off to." If the transit thing was right, of course.

There was one major problem with talking about these songs and that major problem was that Toby had one of them stuck in his head. It was so distracting too, and he was sorta FIGHTING the urge to dance around in his seat at the happy music. 'Cause NO... this was LEARNING time, y'know? Yeah.

OKAY SO... basically life was like that complicated note music, that was what Toby was hearing, though he was only really half-concentrating, so focused was he on his determination to NOT get distracted. Just wasn't working. But he DID pick up on the stuff about Transit Cycles, and looked in his textbook to try and follow along.

At the prompt, Toby found the right part of his textbook and stared. Uhhh... this was just for the first two years of life, right? Well... Toby didn't know much about the first two years of life. The only baby he'd ever known was his little brother Curtis, who was still only a couple of months old. Still, Toby usually liked to try answering, so he stuck his hand in the air anyway.

"Uhh, I reckon... well, strain and high strung emotions, that's like... what people usually say happens with two-year-olds, right? So maybe it would have been, uh... moreso. Then there's 'looking for new activities and eager to learn', that could be learning about the world and being super curious, like how sometimes you get those REEEEAL curious kids who want to know about everything, like little Ravenclaws, and sometimes get themselves into trouble. I dunno about the business part, but seeing the world makes sense. I mean, when you're new to the world, of course you're gonna see more and more of it every day, right? But maybe in this case there'd be way more moving about and learning about surroundings and stuff? Maybe, I dunno."

Oh, hey! This would have been similar to an interpretation for him too, right? 'Cause he had a T name and all. He... wasn't sure how fitting it was to him, not knowing much about how he'd been back then.

Simon was frantically scribbling down all the information that Professor Tanner was lecturing on. As Arithmancy wasn't his strongest subject, he needed to have notes on everything.


Simon paused. Wait. They were supposed to be looking at her name, weren't they? He quickly shifted his glance to the letter 'T'. Then he read the description. Taking notes here and there.



Alright, now.. How would this apply to Tanner from birth to age two. :err: Well this was going to be tricky to phrase. Ermm.... Simon jotted down some notes to collect his thoughts and then raised his hands to offer an opinion. "It talks about benefiting from 'solitude'. This may be important for a two year old so they understand that it's okay to not be with their parents every second of the day. Though I'm not sure if it's a really good idea to leave two year olds alone... But anyway... As for 'strong desire for knowledge', 'new partnerships', and 'travel and see the world' that could relate to your natural curiosity to learn new things and make new friends?"

That kind of made sense, right?

Alright Kace got this kind of? He shrugged and began to look in his textbook to see what the letter T meant. He skimmed through and copied it down in his notes just so the Professor could see...



Now she wanted to know how it applied to her physical transit? Whatever that meant. She wanted to know how it applied to her birth year to two years old. Ermm let's see here. He began to reread it and then it clicked. He raised his hand and gave his answer. "Professor I know that when you are a child you will be okay with being alone for a bit. It will help you find ways to learn about the world and learn things on your own. It will benefit you in the long run. You can even make new friends when you were a toddler? You will need to be cautious of how much you share with your friends though but I mean it wouldn't matter TOO much since you can't really talk when ur a toddler." he added in with a sheepish grin.

Did he answer the question? He hoped he did!

That look did NOT go without his notice, SOPHIE BROWN. And though Professor Tanner was able to put meanings to his song choices-- which on the record, yeah that's totally why he chose what he did AHEM-- but Sophie Brown knew him better than that. Obviously she saw right through it and new that he had completely made up those picks off the top of his head. And he was also absolutely sure that she would bring it up later and tease him mercilessly about it. Oh Merlin.

He brought this one upon himself, really.

Anyways, he listened intently as Tanner went on to explain the significance of letters and such, and the different names and cycles. Huh, if a person didn't have a middle name, would that mean they just didn't have a me-- Oh. Adi was all on top of that. Was the kid real into Arithmancy or something? Remind Zander to nudge him before OWLs. Ahem. Anyways, he skimmed through his textbook, listening to what others had to say all the while.

Well, in his expert opinion HA there wasn't much else to add on. Emotions. Travel. People had hit it all, really. Solitude and-- Huh? "I reckon the high strung emotions make tons of sense, since babies cry at anything, really. Don't know any better. But erm, would a one year old really benefit from meditation?".... Or a better question would have been, do babies even know how to meditate?

Norah smiled proudly at Professor Tanner 'cause didja hear that? She had said something WISE. Oh yeah. Except now they were doing more arithmancy type things instead of flutter happiness type things, so she wasn't too sure that wiseness would last. The third year wrote 'Transit Cycles' in small letters under her original title of 'Happy Music Things' which she'd written at the top of her parchment before pulling her textbook towards her.

The Puffer took the time to read the letter's description twice through, then looked up and put a hand in the air. "The book says stuff about lots of emotions, which makes sense 'cause babies under two cry a lot even when we don't think there's a reason to be all emotional." That she knew. She'd had to go through that two whole times with her ickle brothers. "And then there's all that about wanting to learn and explore, which totally makes sense too 'cause babies don't know a whole lot and they learn so much when they're ickle just from looking around and their parents doing stuff." Learning the whole entire english language and how to walk and everything was nothing to be taken lightly, nope.

Leah could not wait to find out how her own name reflected her physical cycle, but knew that it would come sooner or later. Now was the time to analyze the Professor's first name. She flipped her book open to Chapter 28 and found the section about the letter T. Then she read.

But she could not understand how a two-year-old would have "strain and high-strung emotions" blah blah blah. Even she did not make sacrifices and stuff, and she was fifteen. She read the text again and this time oooooh developed a new idea. The Hufflepuff raised her hand high. "Professor, do you have any sibilings?" Leah asked when she was acknowledged. "Because then you might have sacrificed willingly for them even though it might bring you burden."

The thought of that made her want a sibiling again. But what could she do?

"Right, lots of good ideas, some of which I didn't even think of myself. Please take a look at your own first name. Remember, each letter assumes the value from the Pythagorean system. TIARA totals..." She wrote up 2+9+1+9+1, then thought for a second before writing the sum 22. A Master number! "So in total, my physical transit lasted the first 22 years of my life. Some of you will be finished with yours already and some could be only halfway through." She loved how varied and particular this calculation could be. "Go ahead and find how long your physical transit lasts, then give me one big summary of all your letters' interpretations. Go!" This should be fun.

Nah, she was wrong. But the Professor had said it was a good idea, so yay!

Now they were working on their own names. See? Leah was right about THAT. Fortunately, her first name was only four letters long, so she did not even have to work as hard as some people. She flipped all the way back to Chapter 2 and matched each letter of her name to the Pythagorean system.

L - 3
E - 5
A - 1
H - 8
3+5+1+8 = 17

She did some mental calculations (yeah she was better at that thing now) and found out that her physical transit lasted for the first 17 years of her life only! *freaks out* Leah only had two years left. Oh well. She turned back to the original chapter and read the descriptions about each letter.

This was weird. Three quarters of her first name talked about love and it was plain weird. Like, she did not even have a boyfriend yet?? Marriage in two years? Purrr-lease. Anyways, she put together all the interpretations and made a story of some sort. "Professor, apparently I have to consider my future caaaaarefully but I may face change in many parts of my life. I also have extra independence and leadership in my personality, which I think is true. I come up with original AND inventive ideas wow." she finished, running her finger over the page while her other hand was up in the air. "I also need a lot of love." The Hufflepuff added softly.

Norah smiled gratefully at Professor Tanner's praise, before dipping her quill in ink and starting on her own calculations. Glancing back and forth between the page on Pythagorean thingy mabobs and her own parchment, she wrote:

SPOILER!!: Parchment

N=5
O=6
R=9
A=1
H=8
5+6+9+1+8=29 2+9=11 <-- IMPORTANT NUMBER THINGS STAYS 11.

She squinted some more at her parchment. Was she supposed to reduce the 29? 'Cause if it was 11 then she'd already finished her whole entire cycle thingy and that wasn't a lot of fun. Norah put a hand in the air and asked, "Professor? Am I s'posed to reduce the numbers or not?" That was only the amount of years bit, though, so she could keep going, yeah? She flipped forward a bazillion more pages until she got to the one they'd been looking at before, with the letter-y things. N meant adventure, O meant emotions, R was understanding-y stuff, A was independence, and H was brain stuff. Okay, so. That kind of made sense, right? In terms of an order of stuff? Norah raised her hand to contribute what she'd figured out. "I start out exploring and adventuring a lot, which makes sense because like we said before kids do a lot of that. And then I get more emotional and affectionate, probably because people start really getting to know other people by that time. And then I'll understand a lot more, and after that I'll be more independent, and I think people get more independent when they know more things, so. And then I'll come up with a lot of ideas...I dunno about what, though." TA DA! She hadn't done all that stuff before being 11 though, so hopefully she had until 29.

Her interpretation was spot on? Awesome! It really was a struggle to do readings on babies since they were so young. Her other classmates had some interesting insights as well!

As they were asked to calculate their own transits, Lux opened her notebook so that she could work everything out. Since there were no calculations involved besides totaling the number equivalent of each letter in her fist name, she wouldn't need to do much math for this.

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L - 3
U - 3
X - 6
3 + 3 + 6 = 12

So she was already done her physical transit. Not that surprising since there were only three letters in her name. Interesting that it happened when she was 12, as that was her age when she started at Hogwarts and began to grow up more.

Consulting the textbook, she read up on the meaning of each letter before raising her hand to contribute. "My first stage lasted until I was three and while I don't think I traveled much as a baby or thought about my future, I did make a lot of friends and liked to do finger painting...so that would be expressing myself creatively." And clearly the marriage thing wouldn't even get a mention because she had been a toddler at the end of her cycle??? "My second stage lasted until I was six and apparently I was lazy at that time. I think it's because I used to watch more tv when I was younger though I always liked to be active as well. I still liked to finger paint and I also started drawing and using colouring books which kept me being creative. I also saw my relatives a lot, though I didn't have any emotional issues to deal with." After pausing for a moment she continued on with her last letter. "My third stage lasted until I was twelve and I don't really see how it related with my life. I thought boys had cooties so I wouldn't kiss any let alone LOVE one." Because the idea had been seriously GROSS up until she was closer to being thirteen. "Ummm, I was able to make decisions quickly??" Other than that she was stumped.

Interesting interpretations his classmates were volunteering but Adi could not wait to get started on his own calculations. And after watching Professor Tanner do her thing, he promptly followed suit.



The fifth year looked up from his work just as Norah asked about reducing the numbers. They DID have to do that, riiiight? Except for the three Master Numbers, of course. Anyyywayyy, Now came the tough part. Finding the interpretations for each of the letters in his first name. Adi looked over at his guy bestie. Benny had such a looooong name, yo. Good luck, Dragon.

Sooooo, each letter:
A= independence and leadership
D= growth and an increase in self- confidence.
I= feelings of self-pity and insecurity.
T= strain and high-strung emotions, looking for new activities and are eager to learn.
Y= You are in search of new friends and contacts with others of similar intellectual needs. There may be some minor health problems.
A= independence and leadership.

Adi raised his hand after thinking about what he was going to say to Tanner and the class. "My Physical transit lasted until the first six years of my life.'' Gosh, he had been soooo young, huh? ''I developed self confidence, independent and leadership traits but there are also feelings of self pity and insecurity lurking about...'' Imagine that. His insecurity had been around for a SUPER DUPER LONG TIME O__O He had never realised it until a few years ago when it really showed its ugly head.

"Those latter emotions and feelings caused me great strain and it is possibly why I went of in search of a new activity, cricket.'' WOAH! It alllll made sense, didn't it? He did become a member of his local Cricket Club at the age of six and in the process was one of the youngest members of said club. "I think it's the cricket that made confidence in myself and develop the leadership qualities and I did make lots of friends from that point on. Also, I did have health problems. Sprained pinky and dehydration, I believe.'' All the pain came with the game. Yep.

Sophie simply griiiiinned away at the professor's response to her answer and nodded in understanding. So the interpretation WAS true, though. That was cool that it worked out for her. And THEN they got the go-ahead to do their first name, and Soph was VERY eager for this - but, as she worked, someone asked about reducing the numbers... and if they were SUPPOSED to, Soph was already doing it wrong. So. She... was just going to keep doing what she was doing and she'd redo it if Tanner told her to.

Text Cut: Parchment

S = 1 (ages 0-1)
O = 6 (ages 1-7)
P = 7 (ages 7-14)
H = 8 (ages 14-22)
I = 9 (ages 22-31)
E = 5 (ages 31-36)
= 36

Merlin, that was quite awhile, wasn't it? Thirty-six whole years? She wasn't even HALF of that yet. Rubbing her forehead, she peered at the meanings for each transit, considering and comparing them to her life... and, surprisingly, they seemed pretty on-par. She scribbled notes beside her letters, then raised her hand to share.

"My physical transit lasts till I'm thirty-six. The first stage only lasted from birth to one year old, and it says it was an exciting time full of surprises and extraordinary events, which... well, as a baby, I think pretty much everything is surprising and extraordinary. And my second stage lasted from one to seven years of age, and... there's stuff about strong emotional experiences and developing leadership skills. Third stage, from when I was seven to fourteen... experiencing disappointment in relationships and unexpected events, yeeeep..." All kinds of accurate. "My fourth stage, the one I'm in now from fourteen to twenty-two, s'all about coming up with new ideas and success and knowing what I want and being ambitious and going for it."

Which was exactly what she was doing. The bit about needing the love and attention was scarily relevant, too, as she'd become needier than ever in that way, but... that wasn't the kind of thing she was going to verbalize.

"My later stages last from twenty-two to thirty-one, then thirty-one to thirty-six, and are about emotions and success and change and stuff about finances, which I think seems pretty appropriate for that time in my life." So, basically, her physical transit was eerily relevant. Kind of cool, but also... very weird. "So, in general, mine seems to... pretty well make sense with different stages of growing up." As long as she had understood the task and had done it correctly, she was very satisfied with it, yes.

That was pretty cool, how some people could already be done with this cycle and others nowhere near it. Like, it wasn't a cycle with a definitive time placed on it; it all depended on your name. That made Toby even more EXCITED about looking for his OWN cycle thingy.

RIGHT THEN. Let's get STARTED. Toby bounced MOAR in his seat as the energy built and built inside him, and he felt like a rocket about to take off or something. Best to try and SHAKE some of that energy out with his arms and legs yEP YEP YEP. ANd then... to work. Okay. COOL.



Merlin, okay, so... just from what Toby had thought about so far with this thing, it seemed pretty accurate. Like freaky accurate. Like accurate to the point where Toby was suddenly very convinced that his name had essentially dictated his life and decided at once that that was another thing on the LIST OF THINGS to side-eye ye olde birth parents for.

BUT YEAH. Anyway. Now to... share? OKAY. HAND: UP.

"Soooo, MY physical thingy lasts 'til I'm twenty-one. My name begins with T too and I've already said what I think about those two years, so I'll skip that." Just, y'know, 'cause otherwise he'd be repeating the same stuff. Couldn't exactly tailor it to suit his own life as he didn't remember anything from back then. "Then from age three to age eight there's, ahem, strong emotional experiences, lots of responsibility to deal with and like to do with sensitive emotional issues." Toby cleared his throat awkwardly there, because it was all accurate and he didn't really want to go there. Soooo quickly moving on and not looking in Soph's direction, as she was the only one in here who knew about stuff. "Then, age nine and ten, more emotional-" Like seriously with all the emotional stuff? Dude. "-and... and a strong need for love and everything." Hurrying past THAT TOPIC TOO and staaaaring at the parchment as he fidgeted about. "Next there's ages eleven to nineteen, where I obviously am now. Tons of ups and downs, highly strung and vulnerable to stress and accident prone and all that, says about needing to learn to control moods, which is... yeah."

Toby glanced up and fidgeted nervously with his parchment. This wasn't fun anymore, but after a brief pause he just went on and cheerfully finished the rest, though speaking impressively fast.

"Age twenty, time of change and progress and independence and leadership which makes sense 'cause I'll be a proper adult and all that. Age twenty-one, feelings run deep and there's lots of freedom and lots of change and an 'exciting time of surprises and extraordinary events' which is good." WHEW. BREATHE. "... And that's it."

Done, okay. Cool. BOUNCING MORE BOUNCING OMG COULD HE DO THOSE STAR JUMPS NOW PLS.

Okay, they were doing well. She was proud of them. So she didn't have a brainwave about a particularly fun activity for this lesson, unfortunately, but you couldn't expect something great every time, right?. "Alright, everyone. I'd like you to form groups of 2 or 3 and complete the mental and transit cycles for someone else, the same way you did for your own physical transit." It was always a bit more unbiased when someone else did it. "A few notes before you begin: if you have no middle name, your surname is used for both of the last transits. If you have two middle names or two last names, simply combine them together into one long name." Especially in more modern times, people often had non-traditional name situations. "Let me know if you have questions. Otherwise, form groups and get working!"

OOC: You'll have around 48 hours to complete this activity. Because we're so close to the end of term, there won't be homework for this lesson, so this counts for a few more points than normal. You need at least three posts for full credit.

His answer got agreement...and a wink?

Interesting. Benny listened then to each of the other answers being offered and the responses Professor Tanner gave to them. Each with its own perspective on the meaning in the woman's life. He could only wonder what would happen with his own calculations. But he didn't have to wodner long, given they were then told to work on them. So the fifth year picked up his quill and went to work.

SPOILER!!: First name work

B - E - N - J - A - M - I - N
2 + 5 + 5 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 9 + 5 = 32
3 + 2 = 5

So if he understood it all correctly, his physical transit had only lasted the first five years of his life. That meant Benny was certainly finished with the period of his life since nearly ten additional years had passed since that time.

The Gryffindor was about to try the interpretation of the various letters but stopped when Tanner spoke up again. He must have gotten behind or distracted for the professor was moving them on. She wanted them to break off into small groups and working on each other's calculations. Guess he'd have to work on the previous stuff after class, the fifth year marking a line beneath his work to break up his first name with whatever he was working on next. Benny then looked to Adi as one of his go-to-options. "Want to work together?"

Kace was pleased the professor understood his explanation and now onto doing his name. He used his quill on his parchment and began to do his work. He needed to do his calculations first.



Now after he did his transit cycle. He realized it landed on 11. So it lasted the first eleven years of his life. That wasn't too bad. Now onto his name meanings.



Now he heard his classmates explanations and he was dumbfounded. "Ermm Professor I have NO clue how to break down my reading at all. I mean I got my letters and the meanings and my transist cycle..." he said pointing to his paper.

Ooooh good! She had 'till twenty-nine, then. That was a relief, considering she'd been eleven three ENTIRE years ago, and she still hadn't done all the stuff she was s'posed to do. Phew.

Once she'd corrected her calculations on her parchment, Norah jotted down a few more notes before looking up for somebody to work with. This was the hardest part of all the things, y'know, finding a partner. Sigh. Double sigh. She stood by her desk and fiddled with her parchment as she scanned the room for anybody willing to work with her. "Does anybody need a group?" She'd be a good partner, okay, she promised. Pinky promised, even.

Yes, yesh, YEAH! Sports rocked, didn't it? Being at Hogwarts made him miss cricket and hanging out with the teams and what not at his club buuut hey, the summer was almost upon them. That meant he could get all caught up with the club then.

Speaking of getting caught up...

Partners, huh? Adi never had a problem working with person or persons and was surveying the class right now, wondering who he could grab to work with him. He needn't look far.

"Nah. I don't.'' Hehe. Adi still didn't get why Benny had to ASK. I mean, the two were besties. Benny should just be like 'You're my partner for this activity.' It was what Adi would have done, anyway. LOL. "Just kidding with you, Dragon.'' Already Adi was scribbling down the other boy's name in his book, just below where he had done the calculations for his own first name.



Thank Merlin Adi did not have to do anything with Benny's first name. The middle one was long enough as it is. Hehe. Buuut the last one wasn't so bad. Oh, that reminded him. "I have a fun fact for you, Reindeer,'' Adi began as he found back the page with the Pythagorean system. "Atreyu is an American metalcore band. I could lend you a couple of their albums sometime if you're interested.'' Because they produced AWESOME music! Annnnnd Adi was suddenly envisioning a blond Chinese Fireball headbanging to rock music. LOLLL.

Shaking his head and smiling slightly, the Hufflepuff began to assign numbers to the letters of Benny's second and last name.

These calculations weren't all that hard. He still wished he could've used a calculator or something just to avoid all the little mistakes he tended to make on a normal basis. But... You know. Hogwarts and modern day muggle technology didn't really go hand-in-hand. Would calculators even work at Hogwarts?

SPOILER!!: Number things for first name, yup hi

Z 8 (Ages 1-8)
A 1 (Age 8-9)
N 5 (Ages 9-14)
D 4 (Ages 14-18)
E 4 (Ages 18-22)
R 9 (Ages 22-31)

8+1+5+4+4+9= 31

As he finished up the calculations, he flipped through his textbook for some insight on the meanings of things. His physical transit thingy lasted for SO long. But Sophie's was pretty long too, so it meant all hope wasn't lost.

Anyways, he didn't feel all too confident about his Arithmancy skills yet, even though he had been studying SUPER hard for OWLs yup, so instead of vocalizing his interpretations, he decided to just go for writing them all down first. Then he could volunteer to say things afterwards. That way he could be sure that he didn't majorly screw up or anything. Yeah. Good plan. Total Ravenclaw material, right here folks.

SPOILER!!: interpretation things, apparently

First physical transit stage thing lasts until age eight… And that’s all about being inspired, making progress, and overcoming limitations. Which makes sense because as a kid you get inspired by tons of things and it’s the best time to grow. Maybe. Then the next stage goes from 9-14 so I pretty much just got through with that one, well, basically. It’s been a few years. And that was all about expanding horizons and experiences and travel. Says a change of residence could happen and it did because now I live at Hogwarts and that happened right in-between this stage at age 11!! And ages 14-18 (which I’m in now, I guess) is all about expressing feelings and health. I guess this makes sense because I’ve been through a lot this year and I kind of bottle that up…….. Next one. Ages 18-22 is all about inspiration again. I guess the first time didn’t work all the way. Or maybe I need more? And then finally it’s all about insight and understanding. Since it’s the last one in this transit thing for the physical, it means I’ve kind of come to terms with myself or something?

And by the time he finished with that first off, his hand was majorly cramping. And second off, apparently it had taken way longer than he had expected because everyone was moving on to partnering up and he still hadn't had a chance to tell people about his. Eh, it was okay though because some of that stuff he didn't really want to share with the rest of the class. Though... A lot of it was scary accurate.

Weird. Who'd ever think that Arithmancy was legit?

Anyways, pairing up. Of course his mind went straight to Sophie Brown. They had made such a great team with the chalk stuff last year and Arithmancy just meant Sophie Brown. You know? Not that Zander didn't associate her with a ton of other things because he did, but Arithmancy was their-- Yeah, anyways. Grabbing his notebook, he walked over to where she was sitting which wasn't too far off, actually and gave her a small grin. "Partners?" And oh. Toberson.

Uh. Professor Tanner said groups of three counted too, right? "We could uh, do a trio thing?" Would Toby be okay with that? Or would the two of them rather keep it a Tophie thing...? Umm.

EXCELLENT. Time to move onto partner work and bigger and better things. Tanner DID say groups of two or three... and Sophie looked immediately to Tobes AND Zander. She wanted to work with BOTH OF THEM and do TRIO WORK. WOOP. ALL THREE OF THEM. FINALLY.

...But Zander was sitting with Simon today. Would he want to pair up with the Slytherin, then? Since he had sat by him instead of her this class? Maybe the Gryffindor needed some bro time. Soph could respect that, if that was the case. So... maybe just Tobes it was. She'd leave Zander alone.

But then Zander was coming over. HEHEHEEHE. TRIO TIME IT WAS.

"Tobes haaaaaaaas to work with us. Tobes? Whaddya say? TRIO?" She wiggled her eyebrows over at the Hufflepuff and beckoned him welcomingly with a hand, looking far too happy with herself and maybe even bouncing a little in her chair with excitement. Just a little, okay?

When Professor Tanner asked Lux if that was her real first name, she nodded. Yep. That was what was on her birth certificate.

Below her first cycle she wrote down the extra information she had been given. Looked like it was time for some group work so she would need a partner or two. Scanning the room, her eyes landed on Norah who was asking if anyone needed a group. They had fun in the Divination/History of Magic lesson, so she didn't see why they couldn't have fun here too.

Grabbing her stuff, Lux headed over to her fellow Puff. "Hey, I'll work with you!" She wondered if anyone else would join them.

Angel was falling behind, she had been busy daydreaming about the summer holiday for some strange reason and thinking about everything that had gone on this term, especially with Kevin, it wasn't as fun without him around though she still had her handsome boyfriend anyway it was time to try and catch up



Angel loved this, A in her name meant something about leadership, when she was a baby was she like Tommy from Rugrats. The others were confusing but the last one said something about this is not the time to hurry, did that mean she couldn't marry her boyfriend fast like she wanted? Now though she had to find a group, seriously was it her or was this lesson going by way too fast, it probably was just her since she kept daydreaming about things.