Rebecca Davenport
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Ravenclaw Head of House Professor COMC & Arithmancy
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Post by Rebecca Davenport on Oct 20, 2007 20:27:40 GMT -5
It had seemed like ages since she had spoken to her beggining Arithmancers. It would be a bit longer considering she wasn't even in the room at the moment. What was in the room were desks and chairs and a chalk board, upon which was written a chart: Hopefully the class would remember what to do with it.
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Post by jacquelynchaput on Oct 21, 2007 11:57:47 GMT -5
What a waste of time this class was. Jax had determined that quite frankly after she never really solved for herself the question of why her mother left when she was three, and why no one had predicted the Deva invasion or what happened to her Gryffindor friend, Felicity. If these numbers were supposed to tell the future of sorts, then where was the fortune telling? Where was the notice that....'Oh! Just to let everyone know! Deva are invading!' Jax would like to see the number for that one. Something consisting of three sixes came to her mind, but she wouldn't say anything. All she needed was a detention or something for calling out the nonesense she now found in this class.
Entering the class, no one was there. She debated turning around not wanting anything to do with the stupid numbers she saw on the board. She couldn't remember exactly what they were....something about each letter of her name coordinating with a number and then adding them all together. Yea, that sounded right. But Jax decided she wasn't playing that game, she had an even better one.
Sitting down at a desk, somewhat in the middle of the room, she took out some parchment, a quill, and started to write.
Jax looked at her results, not really knowing if she had done correctly what was supposed to be done, but it did look right to her... It was very interesting to see that a lot of what she had come up with happen to point out the number three. Jax wondered what that meant, and when she went back through, she noticed how close it all tied in together. She'd have to ask Davenport when she got to the room. And then one last thought hit her, and almost made her nervous...
Jax let out a sigh of relief. Neither her, nor her mother, were threes. Not that she...believed in the fortune telling of numbers....that is.
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Rebecca Davenport
Hogwarts Staff
Ravenclaw Head of House Professor COMC & Arithmancy
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Post by Rebecca Davenport on Oct 28, 2007 18:39:15 GMT -5
"Miss Chaput, you do know that you'd need Mr. Shaw's middle name, as well as those of Misses Jedynek and Hjort, correct?" the Professor announced coming from the back of the room and noticing the work of the young Ravenclaw. "But yes, some impressive connections to be made. Not that I personally hold too much stock in the divination part of Arithmancy."
Seeing as it was to be a very small class, Becca perched herself on a nearby desk, ready to have a discussion rather than give a lecture.
"Shall we try..." Becca craned her neck to look at Jax's list again, "Backstabber, kidnapping, and... Devil again. You seemed to have missed a letter there."
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Post by jacquelynchaput on Nov 3, 2007 14:05:32 GMT -5
Jax looked at her work, and as the professor announced herself from the back of the room, Jax instinctively jumped up and covered her paper. Couldn't have anyone thinking she actually was supposed to be in Ravenclaw. When did she actually fit any stereotypes? She looked up at Professor Davenport giving a meek smile, while internally she was kicking herself. "Why? Soes the middle name really make that much of a difference?" she asked her looking back at her math and looking at the fact that she had in fact missed a letter in the world devil. Darn! That screws that up, she said to herself, almost scolding.
"What's your more interested in then with Arinthmacy, then, Professor?" Jax didn't want to let anyone in on the secret that she found future telling of any sort somewhat interesting. She hadn't even taken Divinations. For Jax, this was about as divine as her class schedule got, except for the impression that that professor in Muggle Studies gave off seemed different.
As the professor spoke, Jax made her corrections with Devil, and wrote the other words down as well. Jax figured that if the professor was giving her words, she too must have already done something like this. Professor's always did know these things.
Jax looked at the three answers she had gotten, not checking over her work to see if she had messed up again, and moved her paper to where the Professor could see it more clearly. "That's interesting, no?" she asked the professor, noticing for herself that the numbers that were all '3' were backstabber, Robert Shaw, blood, lesson, traitor, betrayal, and rat; those that were all '7' 's were Felicity Hjort, and now devil, Jax wasn't too sure about that one anymore and wondered if middle names really did make a difference; all the '1' 's were now kidnapping, purity, snitch, and her own name. The list continued but Jax didn't make any more notes. She still was unsure of what it all meant any ways.
She wrote one last word down and figured it out.
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Rebecca Davenport
Hogwarts Staff
Ravenclaw Head of House Professor COMC & Arithmancy
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Post by Rebecca Davenport on Nov 17, 2007 19:54:32 GMT -5
"The connections are interesting, yes," the professor agreed, looking over the new figures. "But it would be faulty to believe that they were all equal just because they all have the same number. Many times the similar numbers indicate a balance: good versus evil for example. We don't want to make assumptions about the numbers anymore than we want them to rule our thinking." That last bit was probably the most dangerous part of Arithmancy. People became so all consumed by the numbers that they wouldn't eat something that didn't match.
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Post by jacquelynchaput on Dec 1, 2007 22:26:44 GMT -5
Maybe it was the class that sit just right with the third year, or maybe she just wasn't supposed to understand it. "Then if the numbers don't mean the same when they match up, then what do they mean specifically to each of the words and why do we have this class?" Jax wasn't meaning any disrespect, nor was she saying it in a rude disposition as she looked up at Professor Davenport with confusion filtering through her eyes, her brain obviously working harder over the supposed-to-be-simple concept.
"I don't think I get it..." Jax trailed off and looked back at her paper, sighing in her frustration and defeat.
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Rebecca Davenport
Hogwarts Staff
Ravenclaw Head of House Professor COMC & Arithmancy
watch where you step please
Posts: 698
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Post by Rebecca Davenport on Dec 8, 2007 14:24:56 GMT -5
"Well, let's take your number for instance," Becca suggested, looking at the girl's work and noticing that she had given herself a 1. "Independent, focused, and determined. Those are the qualities of a one. And while associating yourself with other ones... or threes actually... will tend to bring a balance in your life, do you really want that number to dictate who you are? Ones also tend to be self-centered and domineering. Do you want other people to judge you by that one number?" With this, she pointed to the word snitch.
"Then again, the common number here could also mean you have a future in Quidditch, correct?" Becca surmised, knowing the young girl before her was on the house team. Surrounded by the other words, it took on one meaning, but the other may very well be the connection to Miss Chaput.
"The point is, you don't want to let the numbers rule your life. Use them, let them guide you if you will, but don't let them dictate who you are or what you believe."
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Rebecca Davenport
Hogwarts Staff
Ravenclaw Head of House Professor COMC & Arithmancy
watch where you step please
Posts: 698
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Post by Rebecca Davenport on Dec 30, 2007 15:23:21 GMT -5
{class is over. 10 points to Miss Chaput for doing the class all on her own ;D }
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