Elegance
Age 12 / 155 words
Dennis couldn't understand why Colin chose not to do arithmancy.
Sure, it had a reputation for being a hard subject but Dennis didn't get that either. Okay, it wasn't exactly easy, but it also wasn't all fuzzy like potions or herbology, or mutable like transfiguration -- which didn't so much have a set of rules as vague guidelines and a swish it and see principle. Arithmancy had rules and logic and its own kind of perfect beauty, everything carefully built on everything else with no end in sight
Arithmancy took numbers and letters, figures and forms, and made them dance with impossible grace, mapping out worlds with their slow twists and twirls and shining rotations. Colin thought arithmancy made easy things complicated, but Dennis knew that if you could just get it right, the infinitely complex could be reduced to the elegantly simple.
On the paper numbers danced, and in his head the universe span accompaniment.
Dennis couldn't understand why Colin chose not to do arithmancy.
Sure, it had a reputation for being a hard subject but Dennis didn't get that either. Okay, it wasn't exactly easy, but it also wasn't all fuzzy like potions or herbology, or mutable like transfiguration -- which didn't so much have a set of rules as vague guidelines and a swish it and see principle. Arithmancy had rules and logic and its own kind of perfect beauty, everything carefully built on everything else with no end in sight
Arithmancy took numbers and letters, figures and forms, and made them dance with impossible grace, mapping out worlds with their slow twists and twirls and shining rotations. Colin thought arithmancy made easy things complicated, but Dennis knew that if you could just get it right, the infinitely complex could be reduced to the elegantly simple.
On the paper numbers danced, and in his head the universe span accompaniment.