Lesson 2: Numerology

[Apharius Redrush]

Professor Apharius swept into the classroom in her usual manner, greeting her students warmly.

“Today, class, we will be exploring a personal aspect of divination: Numerology,” and with a wave of her wand, the chalk wrote the topic on the board. Underneath the title, the chalk then wrote the numbers 1-9 before dropping back down onto the tray.

Turning to face the class, she asked, “What is the definition of numerology?” A very eager Hufflepuff girl raised her hand. “Is that where there’s a number that represents your name?”

“Very good; five points to Hufflepuff. Does anyone know how we determine what number represents our name?” she looked around expectantly, but when no one raised their hand, she continued with the lesson:

“In order to determine your personal number, at least a general sense, you must take the letters in your full name and assign a number to it according to this chart,” and the chalk once again wrote on the board, only this time it placed each letter of the alphabet under each of the numbers until the board looked like this:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z

“Please copy this down in your notes, for you will need it for the activity. There will be extra credit, which I will explain next time. For homework, I would like you to read the chapter on Numerology in your guidebook. When you have finished copying this chart down, you are free to leave,” Professor Apharius told the class. She then left the room and entered her office.


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Use these sites for reading material:

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
-http://www.russellrowe.com/numerology_information.htm#Correspondence%20Between%20Numbers%20And%20Letters%20For%20The%20English%20Alphabet
-http://www.aboutnumerology.com/learnnumerology1.php

See you all next time!!!!

[Dastan Cross]

Dastan climbed into the Divination Classroom, despite knowing that he was likely to hate every second he spent in this class; he was really unsure at this point why he was taking it, other than he felt a need to finish everything he started. Grumbling to himself, Dastan took a seat next to Eirwyn. He was coming to view this girl as something more like a tentative ally than another nuisance to be annoyed with. At the very least, she could keep him from failing this miserable class.

As the teacher began her lecture, Dastan was surprised to see that it was going to be about Numerology. He never really considered Numerology a Divination practice; He'd always thought of it as an Arithmancy practice. He supposed it made sense, though. It was at least something he didn't absolutely despise with every fiber of his being. In fact, he had studied it tentatively a while back, just for the hell of it and to help him get used to the British number system.

As the chart came on the board, however, he sighed in disappointment. There were actually a number of more advanced charts. Why had the teacher selected the simplest, and thus the most boring, version? He was more interested in the legendary chart that had proven with numbers that Adolf Hitler was the Anti-Christ. He didn't believe that nonsense in the least, but at least it had something interesting to go with it.

Finally, the teacher gave out the homework. Sighing with boredom, Dastan read the chapter on Numerology in the book and then finished copying down the chart. With that finished, Dastan turned to leave, wondering whether he would be able to stand the activity that was sure to follow later in the day.

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Good job on this one, Mr. Cross.
7.6/10 for this lesson
A few more details couldn't hurt (if possible).