Chapter 162 163. Arithmetic Divination Professor Victor

During the class, Scott accidentally looked at Snape several times.

He had to keep using the brain block to prevent Snape from snooping.

After the potion class, Scott couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he walked out of the classroom.

The next class was the elective class time. After saying goodbye to Milton, Scott came to the arithmetic classroom alone.

Arithmancy refers to a kind of divination that uses numbers to explain people's personality and destiny, or predict the future.

Another name for it is "numerology".

This kind of prediction of the future does not require special talents like the divination taught by Professor Trelawney.

In the divination class, students often interpret vague images by looking at crystal balls, tea leaves or palmistry, or summarize the inner meaning of things from random graphics or randomly written words.

Arithmancy is just the opposite. It is based on a series of rules and rigorous mathematical operations.

Mathematics is a field that Scott is familiar with and good at.

However, arithmetic divination is somewhat similar to big data deduction, and it is impossible to make some magical predictions like Professor Trelawney of divination.

However, after today's arithmetic divination class, Scott seemed to have gained something.

He felt that he seemed to have underestimated the potential of this course.

After class, he couldn't help but walk to Professor Victor, who was in charge of the arithmetic divination class.

"Professor Victor." He asked politely, "I wonder if you have time to talk to me about the problem of arithmetic divination."

"Mr. Trollope?"

Professor Victor looked at Scott in surprise.

He was a bald middle-aged wizard, very tall and thin as a bamboo pole.

He wore glasses on his face, and the lenses of the glasses were very thick, so Scott could hardly see his eyes.

"Oh, let's talk about the problem of arithmetic divination."

Professor Victor nodded awkwardly and said woodenly.

"Of course, it's rare that a student is really interested in this course."

With that, he turned around and left the classroom.

Scott looked at his back in confusion, "Professor Victor?"

"Huh?"

Professor Victor stopped and turned back in surprise.

"Why don't you catch up?" He asked strangely.

"Yes."

Scott hurriedly followed.

He saw that Professor Victor was indeed very dull and not good at speaking.

Along the way, Victor came directly to his office without saying a word.

He did not greet Scott, but pushed the door and walked in.

Scott also hurriedly followed him into his office.

The first impression of this office was messy.

The whole office was full of piles of parchment.

Scott followed Professor Victor and walked through the piles of papers cautiously.

They were like walking through a maze, and it took a long time before they finally came to Professor Victor's desk.

Professor Victor put down the book in his hand, looked around for a while, and scratched his hair.

"Do you want to drink something?" He asked a little uncomfortably, "Oh, sorry, I rarely have guests here, and I don't know where my teapot is."

"Don't bother, Professor Victor."

Scott said politely.

"Okay then."

The upright Professor Victor nodded immediately and sat down behind the desk.

Then, he took out his wand and tapped on the table.

Hualala...

In an instant, countless parchments automatically floated up and shuttled in the air.

After a while, some parchments flew to the vicinity of the desk, and they were connected end to end to form a long scroll.

The rest of the parchments fell from the air again and returned to the pile of papers.

At the same time, the feather pen in the ink bottle on the desk shook, and flew directly up to write a series of numbers on the blank space of the long scroll.

Professor Victor looked at the long scroll, breathed a sigh of relief, and his expression became more relaxed.

"Oh."

When he saw Scott, he was suddenly stunned, as if he had forgotten Scott just now.

"Sorry." He said a little unnaturally, "I was calculating a difficult problem before class, and I couldn't settle down until I got the answer."

"Of course, it doesn't matter."

Scott said with a smile.

Professor Victor nodded, "You want to talk to me? What exactly? Of course, Mr. Trollope, I remember that you have always performed well in the arithmetic divination class."

Scott saw clearly that he had to be more direct when talking to people like Professor Victor.

"After today's class, I suddenly had some new insights into the course of arithmetic divination."

He said directly.

"Originally, I thought that arithmetic divination focused on logic and could not make predictions like divination. After all, divination requires special talents..."

"No."

Professor Victor interrupted him excitedly.

"Arithmetic divination is a subject that is not inferior to divination!" He emphasized, "Of course, my course actually requires talent!"

"Of course."

Scott nodded quickly.

"Just today, I suddenly had a different idea about arithmetic divination."

"Really?"

Professor Victor's tone was a little surprised.

"Can you tell me, Mr. Trollope, what did you realize today?"

"Of course, that's exactly why I wanted to talk to you."

Scott organized the language.

"I think maybe I've been wrong about this subject. It's not Muggle numerical calculations, although what we're studying in class is somewhat similar to that."

He said somewhat uncertainly.

"That shouldn't be true arithmetic divination, or just some superficial knowledge, because arithmetic divination is also a form of magic."

"Congratulations on noticing that, Mr. Trollope!"

Professor Victor stood up excitedly.

He said happily: "I have been teaching this course at Hogwarts for more than ten years, but the young wizards have not learned the true essence of this course. I want to say that this is all because of the magic of arithmetic divination. It’s really too profound!”

He lowered his head again and looked at Scott through the thick lenses of his glasses, "Did you think of anything else? Mr. Trollope!"

"If I'm not wrong..."

Scott said.

"Divination and arithmetic divination should each have their own advantages. Divination does not require known conditions. As long as a person has the third eye, he can see some possibilities in the future by interpreting some vague images."

Professor Victor nodded repeatedly when he heard this.

"Arithmetic requires certain known conditions," Scott said. "We can use this magic to infer the past and the more recent future."

"What you said is not wrong!" Professor Victor pushed up his glasses excitedly.

Scott continued to speak out about his feelings.

"Although arithmetic divination requires known conditions and it is difficult to predict the future that is too far away, it should have advantages that divination does not have."

At this moment, he seemed to be blessed and blurted out the words.

"The results of arithmetic divination will be more accurate and detailed than divination."