Terry Boot and Professor Binns' Extra Credit
Chapter 9: Warning, this story contains math
"Terry, there you are. I've been looking all over for you."
Terry turned around, and was surprised to see Ginny Weasley, looking at him. "Hi Ginny." He said, trying to hide his blush.
"We finished looking over your extra credit. I liked it." Ginny said.
"Really, uh .thanks." Terry responded.
"Well, see you around." Ginny said, then walked away towards Gryffindor tower.
"Smooth, really smooth Terry, you are finally alone with her and what can you say. Hi Ginny. Thanks Ginny. Stupid stupid stupid." Terry muttered to himself, as he walked to the library to meet his Arithmancy study group.
He walked to the table where Neville Longbottom, Sally-Anne Perks (a Hufflepuff girl), Hermione Granger and Cho Chang, were sitting. There were times when Terry worried about Cho, along with the rest of Ravenclaw. She had become withdrawn after Cedric's death, to the point of locking herself in the dorm, resigning from the Quidditch team and not talking to anybody. Recently, she had started talking to people again, but that was only about schoolwork. In fact, she was burying herself in schoolwork, spending every spare minute either working on her own assignments or helping younger students with theirs. The Arithmancy study group was one of her projects, and although Terry didn't really need help, he found it didn't hurt.
".And then you divide the parabolic function derived in part one by zero, getting the spontaneous generation constant, the exact amount of magical energy needed to create something out of thin air without it exploding." Cho was explaining.
"But you can't divide by zero! It's against basic mathematic principles." Sally-Anne cried.
"Where did you learn that?" Neville said, curios.
"Muggle School over the summer. It was pretty clear that division by zero is impossible, from what they taught us." Sally-Anne said.
"And you trust muggles to know anything when they can't use magic?" Cho asked, a little hastily. "You said the same thing about the square root of negative one when we were doing time travel equations."
"I can't use an imaginary number." Sally-Anne replied.
"You go to Muggle School over the summer?" Hermione asked, looking fairly impressed, and interested by the idea.
"Yes, my mom originally didn't want me to go to Hogwarts because I wouldn't get a traditional well-rounded education and I had to agree to go to summer school to get her to agree to send me at all. It's a bloody nuisance."
Neville whispered to Terry, "What do you think the chances are that Hermione will ask her parents to send her to Muggle School over the summer?" Terry gave out a little giggle.
"What do you think is funny Terry, Neville?" Hermione asked.
"Nothing, nothing." Neville responded but he was still giggling a little.
"Oh, Terry, Ginny was going to give you back your paper, if you haven't seen her yet." Hermione said.
"Er, she actually already returned it to me." Terry responded.
"That's good, how is it going?" She said.
"I still need two more people from Slytherin and one each from Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Gryffindor and the Heads of houses to read it yet, but it is going alright." Terry replied.
"Well I'll read it for Hufflepuff, if it's ok. It will be a good break from solving indeterminate form equations." Sally-Anne said.
"And I'll look over it, if you want." Neville said.
"I guess I'll look over it when you two are done, but we really should get back to Arithmancy." Cho said.
"Cho, don't bother, I can probably find someone else, if you're too busy." Terry said.
"Oh, no it will be no problem." Cho said.
"Have good luck with the Slytherins." Sally said, as she picked up the paper and started reading. Cho moved to help Neville with his derivation, which he was having trouble with.
***
Rowena Ravenclaw looked over the enchanted looms she had installed in the dungeons, which were quickly weaving tapestries to be placed all around the school. Godric had wanted to simply magic them, but Rowena always felt that if things were actually manufactured instead of simply magiked they had greater permanence and beauty. She had needed Salazar's support, but she had won in the end, on this at least. It was nowhere near as important as where she was losing on all the other fronts.
After the first battle on random student placement, they had had an argument about how to choose the students who would be invited. In the end, they went for the familiar solution that each would choose twenty students who would live in their dormitories to invite separately, and then would share the lists with each other to avoid overlap. Whoever lost the student in question to the others dormitory, could then choose to invite others. In fact they were going to meet to discuss their lists tonight.
On top of it, Rowena had lost the fight over who taught what spectacularly. They had agreed that they would teach Potions, Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, The Dark Arts and their Defenses, Magical Creatures, Magical Lore, Latin, Runes, Astronomy, and Divination. Salazar would teach Potions and the Dark Arts and their Defenses, although Helga tried really hard to get potions saying that Salazar would teach them poisons which was nowhere near as important as knowing healing potions, she had lost that battle when Rowena and Godric had them each brew a couple of complicated potions, all of which Salazar had made admirably and Helga failed miserably with the Draught of Living Death. Helga had been given the Herbology job as conciliation and was put in charge of Magical Lore; seeing as she was more knowledgeable then any of the others except Rowena in this field and Rowena flat out refused it. Godric would teach Transfiguration and Magical Creatures; even though Rowena was a little worried he'd bring a dragon into the school. Rowena, on the other hand, was teaching Charms (one of her favorites) as well as Latin, Runes, Astronomy and Divination because the others said that she was more qualified than the others in these fields and wouldn't listen to her when she said this would be too much. She still had a slim hope of getting Salazar to teach Latin, and would perhaps give Astronomy over to Bulrian, who she had instructed quite thoroughly in the subject, but had for the most part resigned herself to being way too busy.
She got up and walked to the great hall, where they were going to have a meeting and probably another argument, hopefully not a fight.
***
Salazar went first with is list of students, who turned out to all be from established wizarding families. Rowena saw no problem with his list, but did have four overlaps that had been divided evenly. Helga had no overlap with Salazar, which sped things up. Godric, too, had had two overlaps, but his major problems came from another source.
"You can't invite the son of a Necromancer to this school. I will simply not permit such a dark wizard in the school." Godric yelled at him.
"We agreed at the beginning that we would each choose our own students, Godric, and it is Salazar's right too invite him." Rowena had said, trying to calm him down, though from the look on Helga's face it was clear that she, too, doubted Salazar's choice.
"While, shall we move on then," Salazar said.
"Yes, ok I'll read my list now." Rowena said, seeking to move away from this argument. Her list went fine, and she discovered that she had three overlaps with Godric, but none with Helga. In addition, there were five students on her list who drew some criticism; two wards of the church, a mapmaker's apprentice, a weaver and a young romany.
"How do you expect to get those children out from under the eyes of the clergy, Rowena?" Godric asked.
"And how dare you let one of those traveling thieves into this school?" Helga added.
"It would be better if we just didn't invite the children of muggles. They are generally worse at magic anyways, and we risk detection with everyone of those students you admit." Salazar said.
"Be quiet Salazar." Godric said menacingly.
"We decided that we would each get to choose our students individually, not in council, and I believe I can get these students here without attracting too much attention, so if you would please move on." Rowena said.
Godric, then reluctantly, began reading his lists, and there were no overlaps on the list that hadn't already been resolved when Salazar's and Rowena's lists were read. However they soon got to bicker over his students.
"The court page, Godric, you have got to be kidding me!!!" Salazar snarled at him. "There is no way you could hide that, and you were worried about Rowena and the Church!!! The baron poses more of a threat, and you know this won't escape his notice!!! He isn't going to be happy when he hears we inhabit his castle!!! And seven other muggle born, three aristocrats. You must be mad!!!"
"Salazar, calm down." Rowena said, grabbing his robes, trying to pull him into his seat.
"If you get rid of the Necromancer, I'll get rid of the page." Godric said.
"No." Salazar said.
"Come on Sal, it's a good deal. You shouldn't be so dismissive." Helga said.
"No, and don't call me Sal." Salazar snarled at her.
"Remember what we decided at the beginning, we could invite anyone for our houses that we see fit, and none of the others objections could stop them from coming." Rowena said, trying to calm him. "Godric, are you sure you can get him without anyone noticing?"
"Absolutely." Godric said.
"Now Salazar, sit down and be quiet so Helga can read her list." Rowena said. Slytherin reluctantly obliged, glaring at the other three and muttering about this being his idea in the first place.
Helga's list was extremely surprising. It was composed half of the relatives of village healers and other lower class magicians, and half of the children of farmers and herders.
"So now we're admitting the common rabble." Salazar said.
"Am I teaching basic literacy now? I was hoping you would take the ability to read into consideration." Rowena said.
"There is nothing wrong with not being able to read, I'm sure some of your choices aren't all that much better." Helga retorted.
"These are farmers children, they were born in the mud and are destined to die there. You can't wash that out of their blood Helga." Salazar said.
"Any buffoon can seem if they are dressed in finery and claim a aristocratic background, but are not much better than filth Salazar, while the truly worthy man can appear as filth and it doesn't lessen his value one bit." Godric said.
"Do whatever you please, but this will not come to a good end. Now if you'll excuse me I have work to do and can't be wasting my time with you fools." Salazar said and walked out of the hall.
A/N: Another long one. Please don't be scared by the math, it really wasn't that bad and I couldn't resist punning on two of what are, in my opinion, the most philosophical of mathematical principles. Don't worry; Salazar stays on for a few more years, even if he is not entirely happy.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the HP realm along with her associates, need I say more?
Me, Thank you for your review, we really do need more Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.
Chapter 9: Warning, this story contains math
"Terry, there you are. I've been looking all over for you."
Terry turned around, and was surprised to see Ginny Weasley, looking at him. "Hi Ginny." He said, trying to hide his blush.
"We finished looking over your extra credit. I liked it." Ginny said.
"Really, uh .thanks." Terry responded.
"Well, see you around." Ginny said, then walked away towards Gryffindor tower.
"Smooth, really smooth Terry, you are finally alone with her and what can you say. Hi Ginny. Thanks Ginny. Stupid stupid stupid." Terry muttered to himself, as he walked to the library to meet his Arithmancy study group.
He walked to the table where Neville Longbottom, Sally-Anne Perks (a Hufflepuff girl), Hermione Granger and Cho Chang, were sitting. There were times when Terry worried about Cho, along with the rest of Ravenclaw. She had become withdrawn after Cedric's death, to the point of locking herself in the dorm, resigning from the Quidditch team and not talking to anybody. Recently, she had started talking to people again, but that was only about schoolwork. In fact, she was burying herself in schoolwork, spending every spare minute either working on her own assignments or helping younger students with theirs. The Arithmancy study group was one of her projects, and although Terry didn't really need help, he found it didn't hurt.
".And then you divide the parabolic function derived in part one by zero, getting the spontaneous generation constant, the exact amount of magical energy needed to create something out of thin air without it exploding." Cho was explaining.
"But you can't divide by zero! It's against basic mathematic principles." Sally-Anne cried.
"Where did you learn that?" Neville said, curios.
"Muggle School over the summer. It was pretty clear that division by zero is impossible, from what they taught us." Sally-Anne said.
"And you trust muggles to know anything when they can't use magic?" Cho asked, a little hastily. "You said the same thing about the square root of negative one when we were doing time travel equations."
"I can't use an imaginary number." Sally-Anne replied.
"You go to Muggle School over the summer?" Hermione asked, looking fairly impressed, and interested by the idea.
"Yes, my mom originally didn't want me to go to Hogwarts because I wouldn't get a traditional well-rounded education and I had to agree to go to summer school to get her to agree to send me at all. It's a bloody nuisance."
Neville whispered to Terry, "What do you think the chances are that Hermione will ask her parents to send her to Muggle School over the summer?" Terry gave out a little giggle.
"What do you think is funny Terry, Neville?" Hermione asked.
"Nothing, nothing." Neville responded but he was still giggling a little.
"Oh, Terry, Ginny was going to give you back your paper, if you haven't seen her yet." Hermione said.
"Er, she actually already returned it to me." Terry responded.
"That's good, how is it going?" She said.
"I still need two more people from Slytherin and one each from Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Gryffindor and the Heads of houses to read it yet, but it is going alright." Terry replied.
"Well I'll read it for Hufflepuff, if it's ok. It will be a good break from solving indeterminate form equations." Sally-Anne said.
"And I'll look over it, if you want." Neville said.
"I guess I'll look over it when you two are done, but we really should get back to Arithmancy." Cho said.
"Cho, don't bother, I can probably find someone else, if you're too busy." Terry said.
"Oh, no it will be no problem." Cho said.
"Have good luck with the Slytherins." Sally said, as she picked up the paper and started reading. Cho moved to help Neville with his derivation, which he was having trouble with.
***
Rowena Ravenclaw looked over the enchanted looms she had installed in the dungeons, which were quickly weaving tapestries to be placed all around the school. Godric had wanted to simply magic them, but Rowena always felt that if things were actually manufactured instead of simply magiked they had greater permanence and beauty. She had needed Salazar's support, but she had won in the end, on this at least. It was nowhere near as important as where she was losing on all the other fronts.
After the first battle on random student placement, they had had an argument about how to choose the students who would be invited. In the end, they went for the familiar solution that each would choose twenty students who would live in their dormitories to invite separately, and then would share the lists with each other to avoid overlap. Whoever lost the student in question to the others dormitory, could then choose to invite others. In fact they were going to meet to discuss their lists tonight.
On top of it, Rowena had lost the fight over who taught what spectacularly. They had agreed that they would teach Potions, Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, The Dark Arts and their Defenses, Magical Creatures, Magical Lore, Latin, Runes, Astronomy, and Divination. Salazar would teach Potions and the Dark Arts and their Defenses, although Helga tried really hard to get potions saying that Salazar would teach them poisons which was nowhere near as important as knowing healing potions, she had lost that battle when Rowena and Godric had them each brew a couple of complicated potions, all of which Salazar had made admirably and Helga failed miserably with the Draught of Living Death. Helga had been given the Herbology job as conciliation and was put in charge of Magical Lore; seeing as she was more knowledgeable then any of the others except Rowena in this field and Rowena flat out refused it. Godric would teach Transfiguration and Magical Creatures; even though Rowena was a little worried he'd bring a dragon into the school. Rowena, on the other hand, was teaching Charms (one of her favorites) as well as Latin, Runes, Astronomy and Divination because the others said that she was more qualified than the others in these fields and wouldn't listen to her when she said this would be too much. She still had a slim hope of getting Salazar to teach Latin, and would perhaps give Astronomy over to Bulrian, who she had instructed quite thoroughly in the subject, but had for the most part resigned herself to being way too busy.
She got up and walked to the great hall, where they were going to have a meeting and probably another argument, hopefully not a fight.
***
Salazar went first with is list of students, who turned out to all be from established wizarding families. Rowena saw no problem with his list, but did have four overlaps that had been divided evenly. Helga had no overlap with Salazar, which sped things up. Godric, too, had had two overlaps, but his major problems came from another source.
"You can't invite the son of a Necromancer to this school. I will simply not permit such a dark wizard in the school." Godric yelled at him.
"We agreed at the beginning that we would each choose our own students, Godric, and it is Salazar's right too invite him." Rowena had said, trying to calm him down, though from the look on Helga's face it was clear that she, too, doubted Salazar's choice.
"While, shall we move on then," Salazar said.
"Yes, ok I'll read my list now." Rowena said, seeking to move away from this argument. Her list went fine, and she discovered that she had three overlaps with Godric, but none with Helga. In addition, there were five students on her list who drew some criticism; two wards of the church, a mapmaker's apprentice, a weaver and a young romany.
"How do you expect to get those children out from under the eyes of the clergy, Rowena?" Godric asked.
"And how dare you let one of those traveling thieves into this school?" Helga added.
"It would be better if we just didn't invite the children of muggles. They are generally worse at magic anyways, and we risk detection with everyone of those students you admit." Salazar said.
"Be quiet Salazar." Godric said menacingly.
"We decided that we would each get to choose our students individually, not in council, and I believe I can get these students here without attracting too much attention, so if you would please move on." Rowena said.
Godric, then reluctantly, began reading his lists, and there were no overlaps on the list that hadn't already been resolved when Salazar's and Rowena's lists were read. However they soon got to bicker over his students.
"The court page, Godric, you have got to be kidding me!!!" Salazar snarled at him. "There is no way you could hide that, and you were worried about Rowena and the Church!!! The baron poses more of a threat, and you know this won't escape his notice!!! He isn't going to be happy when he hears we inhabit his castle!!! And seven other muggle born, three aristocrats. You must be mad!!!"
"Salazar, calm down." Rowena said, grabbing his robes, trying to pull him into his seat.
"If you get rid of the Necromancer, I'll get rid of the page." Godric said.
"No." Salazar said.
"Come on Sal, it's a good deal. You shouldn't be so dismissive." Helga said.
"No, and don't call me Sal." Salazar snarled at her.
"Remember what we decided at the beginning, we could invite anyone for our houses that we see fit, and none of the others objections could stop them from coming." Rowena said, trying to calm him. "Godric, are you sure you can get him without anyone noticing?"
"Absolutely." Godric said.
"Now Salazar, sit down and be quiet so Helga can read her list." Rowena said. Slytherin reluctantly obliged, glaring at the other three and muttering about this being his idea in the first place.
Helga's list was extremely surprising. It was composed half of the relatives of village healers and other lower class magicians, and half of the children of farmers and herders.
"So now we're admitting the common rabble." Salazar said.
"Am I teaching basic literacy now? I was hoping you would take the ability to read into consideration." Rowena said.
"There is nothing wrong with not being able to read, I'm sure some of your choices aren't all that much better." Helga retorted.
"These are farmers children, they were born in the mud and are destined to die there. You can't wash that out of their blood Helga." Salazar said.
"Any buffoon can seem if they are dressed in finery and claim a aristocratic background, but are not much better than filth Salazar, while the truly worthy man can appear as filth and it doesn't lessen his value one bit." Godric said.
"Do whatever you please, but this will not come to a good end. Now if you'll excuse me I have work to do and can't be wasting my time with you fools." Salazar said and walked out of the hall.
A/N: Another long one. Please don't be scared by the math, it really wasn't that bad and I couldn't resist punning on two of what are, in my opinion, the most philosophical of mathematical principles. Don't worry; Salazar stays on for a few more years, even if he is not entirely happy.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the HP realm along with her associates, need I say more?
Me, Thank you for your review, we really do need more Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.
