Post by Nicole Halley on Jan 17, 2024 12:10:44 GMT -8
Wednesday, Early Afternoon | Ancient Runes' Classroom
Ole took a sip of her tea and grimaced. It was ice cold. She'd let it sit too long in the drafty castle. Picking up her wand, she warmed it and then turned her attention to the pitiful fire in her hearth behind her desk. Stoking with with a charm, she stood for a minute in the heat, letting it fight back the winter chill. She needed to pay more attention to the temperature in the classroom. Some students had a hard enough time focusing on her instruction, they shouldn't have to worry about getting frostbite. She had a tendency of getting a bit too wrapped up in some lectures she could lose herself. Today's lesson had been one of those fascinations. The History of the King's of Britain. A topic that would most certainly be covered on the N.E.W.T.s, but that wasn't what drew Ole in. It was one of the rare texts that existed in a muggle form and a wizard form. The muggle version, recounted very inaccurate events of the kings from the trojan era to the anglo saxons. The original text, De gestis Britonum, had been written in elder furthark by a twelfth century wizard. The first record of the prophecies of Merlin. Information so sensitive, nonmagical people were forbidden from reading the real translations. They were all tricked into believing a catholic cleric wrote the text while the wizarding world used it to learn the origins of many spells and enchantments still used to that day. It was a foundational piece of information that would have been lost if the study of ancient runes hadn't been maintained. She liked to emphasize that with the sixth and seventh year students to keep them motivated while wading through ancient inscriptions and the risks of mistranslations.
It wasn't a subject for everyone, and Ole understand as much. She was happy to teach any student who was interested regardless of their aptitude. Casting a spell on a stick of chalk, she set it to write out tomorrow's in-class exercise for the third year students, the runic text of the Codex runicus for introductory translation. Satisfied, Ole sat down at her desk. She had homework to grade and liked to keep regular office hours. As she corrected the assignments, she let her mind wander to Merlin and ultimately Yuri Blishen. She hadn't reached out to her old mentor yet since returning to the wizarding world. She was afraid he was disappointed in her decision to stay so long in muggle academia. She had kept up on the public reports of his work cataloguing, translating, and preserving his find under Stonehenge with great interest. The possibilities contained in that discovery were limitless. She was desperate to know what Yuri's team was learning that wasn't public information. Ole wasn't sure if she was welcomed anymore.
Tags: @camille
Notes: I just used wikipedia to set the stage: here. Students would normally use Professor Ole or Professor Halley to address her. I know it doesn't matter for purposes of writing, but it's pronounced O-Lee... an outside the box nickname for Nicole that I've always appreciated.
It wasn't a subject for everyone, and Ole understand as much. She was happy to teach any student who was interested regardless of their aptitude. Casting a spell on a stick of chalk, she set it to write out tomorrow's in-class exercise for the third year students, the runic text of the Codex runicus for introductory translation. Satisfied, Ole sat down at her desk. She had homework to grade and liked to keep regular office hours. As she corrected the assignments, she let her mind wander to Merlin and ultimately Yuri Blishen. She hadn't reached out to her old mentor yet since returning to the wizarding world. She was afraid he was disappointed in her decision to stay so long in muggle academia. She had kept up on the public reports of his work cataloguing, translating, and preserving his find under Stonehenge with great interest. The possibilities contained in that discovery were limitless. She was desperate to know what Yuri's team was learning that wasn't public information. Ole wasn't sure if she was welcomed anymore.
Tags: @camille
Notes: I just used wikipedia to set the stage: here. Students would normally use Professor Ole or Professor Halley to address her. I know it doesn't matter for purposes of writing, but it's pronounced O-Lee... an outside the box nickname for Nicole that I've always appreciated.