Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 121 Arithmetic Divination

The first Divination lesson ends with the Trelawny tradition of predicting a person's death.

It's no wonder that Professor McGonagall, who is always rigorous and serious, said: "Divination is the least rigorous subject in magic. I don't have much patience for her. There are very few true prophets, and Professor Trelawney..."

She didn't say anything more, but the meaning was clear.

After the divination get out of class, it was already lunch time. Sainz said to his roommates, "You go first, I'll come right after you."

He turned around and found a deserted place and walked out from there.

It was eleven-thirty again, and Sainz appeared in the arithmetic divination classroom.

He had to admit that he had some misunderstandings about the course, and that what he had said to his roommate before was due to his own shallowness.

Regardless of whether predicting the future is reliable or not, it is obviously more convincing than Trelawny's divination.

No wonder Hermione said to Ron in the original track: "Divination is rubbish compared to Arithmancy."

Sainz's previous forced understanding of it as logical cryptography was not entirely wrong, but it was obviously one-sided.

Since the word "divination" is included in the name, the research purpose of this course is naturally still to predict the future, at least that's what Professor Victor said.

"Numbers have secrets, they can tell us a lot, our discipline doesn't let you interpret vague patterns, one is one and two is two.

It is never ambiguous and does not have a thousand different meanings. It does not require us to infer meaning from randomly scrawled characters, nor does it require us to interpret messy images that may not have any meaning at all.

Arithmancy is a method of divination based on numbers and names."

A Ravenclaw student asked: "Professor, why are these two aspects related?"

“Mr. Benton, this is a very old concept.

Have you ever had this feeling that sometimes, you don't need to actually see someone, just hearing his or her name, you will have a general impression of this person in your mind? "

Not only Trist Benton, but everyone else, including Sainz, nodded in acknowledgement.

"You see, this is the charm of names. They contain important clues to reveal people's personalities and destinies."

"What about numbers?" Roger Davis asked. "What do numbers mean?"

Everyone was curious about the secret. Compared with relying solely on the fortune teller's own interpretation, this subject of cause and effect was obviously easier for people to accept.

Professor Victor waved his magic wand and nine numbers, 1 to 9, appeared on the blackboard.

"It goes back to the ancient Greek scholars, 25 centuries ago, who were trying to find a more accurate method of prophecy, a method that everyone could understand, rather than a method that only the prophets themselves could interpret.

After research, they found that the simplest numbers actually contain the secrets that can reveal the future.

They believe that each number, from one to nine, has a unique personality and can help us understand everyone and everything.

Later, wizards who were proficient in both gradually combined the two concepts. After centuries of continuous improvement and supplementation by wizards in later generations, today's arithmetic divination was formed. "

"Professor, what should we do specifically?"

“This is what we are going to study today, and there are many methods, and it is very systematic.

But first we will look at the system most widely used in arithmetic circles, which extracts three main numbers from a person's name."

She then displayed three phrases on the blackboard: personality number, spiritual number, and social number.

"Now, everyone, take out your pens and papers, and the computing power in your heads.

Pure theory is always boring, so let's do a practical operation directly. Now, write a name on your scrap paper, Nicolas Flamel.

Does anyone know who he is?"

Roger raised his hand and said, "Famous alchemy expert, inventor and owner of the Philosopher's Stone!"

"Yes, using this Mingren as an example will give us a clearer understanding of the accuracy of arithmetic divination."

"Please teach us what to do quickly, professor!" Some students were already eager to see the divination results.

"Okay, now take out another piece of paper and write down the numbers 1 to 9 in order. After you've finished, write down the twenty-six letters of the alphabet in order under these nine numbers.

After the first letter is written, it will automatically wrap to the next line. For example, if the ninth letter is "I", then the tenth letter "J" will be written under the number 1, and so on.

When everyone had finished writing, she said, "Now let's look at the name Nick Flamel and write down the numbers corresponding to the letters of each person in his name and see who they are!"

“教授，是5、9、3、8、6、3、1、1、6、3、1、4、5、3！”

"Great! Now add up all these numbers and what is the sum?"

……

"58, Professor!"

“Not bad, 58!

But that’s not enough, we need to get a number less than 9, and add its ones and tens digits together!”

"13!"

"One more time!"

"4! Professor!"

"Yes, the final result is 4! This number is his personality number!"

"So how do you find the other two numbers, professor?"

"Don't worry, children, don't worry!

Now find the vowels in his name and write them down!

Calculate the sum of the numbers of the vowels."

Soon someone announced the result: "22!"

"Very good, the rules are the same as before, keep adding."

"4!"

"Very good, this is his heart number, did you notice? Nicolas Flamel's personality number and heart number are the same, which is not very common.

Now let's calculate his social numbers.

I think someone has discovered the pattern. Yes, it is to add up the numbers corresponding to the consonant letters, that is, the letters other than the vowels. What is the result? "

"36!"

"What was the final number?"

"9!"

"Yes, it's 9. This is the very important third number implied in his name, the social number!"

"So, Professor, what do these numbers represent?"

"Of course, this is the point. Open your textbooks, turn to the middle, page 101, and see what each number represents.

Now, let us interpret Nick Flamel in light of these facts.”

A student said: "Professor, according to the meaning of these numbers, he is an honest person and always works hard."

Another person said: "He is very stable in his relationship, but sometimes he gets angry or suspicious inside? Is that right?"

“It also shows that he always showed his generous and humanitarian side to the world.

It seems to be true!"

Professor Victor said: "We should also pay attention to one point. After the analysis, we should also see if there is any number in his name that appears more frequently than others."

"Yes, Professor, yes, it's 1 and 3!"

"So what does this mean? Look again!"

“It shows that he is still a perfectionist and is very focused on what he does!”

"And his money comes so easily!?"