I almost hate to say this, Professor, but the numbers don't lie-- it is a day that I feel I have something important to say. I've been doing some calculations and found I might've spoken too hastily before about the Arithmantic significance, but I feel I must be honest with what I've found.
It's quite possible that you fell to ruin because those numbers ultimately mean "completion" or "the end of things." And since it can indicate attraction to money, I think that offers us an explanation of why you said the lottery winnings have led to ruin. It was a bad set of numbers to play beyond the money itself.
What kind of analysis is that? That's nigh on divinational. Are you just summing the digits or something? There's a reason the numbers aren't just 4,5,6,6,7,8
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Really, Terry, you are overcomplicating the sequence and misunderstanding what I do. First of all, summing is not a terrible method of determining initial properties, even if it isn't the most precise or gets into the greatest grain of detail, although I will agree that it's quite too related to divination to give us the complete picture-- but please don't forget that it's still elementary arithmancy. Or do you forget that Numerology is including in our textbooks? For one, when you're addressing someone who may not understand more complex arithmancy, it's gentler to start from the basics. Also, just because we can perform more complicated analyses doesn't mean leaping to them first thing
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Sir, aren't you just being a bit... well, paranoid about all this number business? Or does it have to do with up-coming exams? Is this a quiz for us to solve, sir?
Oh! And Snape is a Potions Master! Fuck, I know std. ingredient 4 is newt's eye and 42 is the blood of an innocent babe (muggle), but what are the others? Crap, how am I going to pass my N.E.W.T.s if I can't even remember whether 15 is mandrake root, veela hair or pixie uteri?
Fifteen is pixie uteri, and for the love of Merlin, put yourself together, Terry! Find me in the library, I took out twenty-three potions books for supplementary reading.
Well, it's not like we've even done a review of the SI numbers this year and I've never really gotten the hang of potion arithmancy, so it hasn't been useful!
Right, now see here mate, that's too many books. If you had said four, maybe it would work, and I could just slack off and read about an eight of what was checked out, but twenty-three? I really can't be arsed to care that much.
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How much did you win?? And you're going to buy me booze with it, right???
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How did you all think I got involved with the Death Eaters, anyway?
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I almost hate to say this, Professor, but the numbers don't lie-- it is a day that I feel I have something important to say. I've been doing some calculations and found I might've spoken too hastily before about the Arithmantic significance, but I feel I must be honest with what I've found.
It's quite possible that you fell to ruin because those numbers ultimately mean "completion" or "the end of things." And since it can indicate attraction to money, I think that offers us an explanation of why you said the lottery winnings have led to ruin. It was a bad set of numbers to play beyond the money itself.
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Right, now see here mate, that's too many books. If you had said four, maybe it would work, and I could just slack off and read about an eight of what was checked out, but twenty-three? I really can't be arsed to care that much.
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