Hey brother!
Ben, throughout the years at Hogwarts
We get to see inside a lot of Harry's classrooms
But some of the subjects they just don't mention or completely skip over; like Professor
Sinistra who teaches astronomy, do you even remember that name or how about?
Professor Vector "that Arithmancy Witch" Ron said that one time, like what's her deal?
I wanna know about her
But, sadly we probably won't ever really find out too much because Harry never took arithmancy even though apparently it was Hermione's
favorite subject. I wouldn't care except any time
She said arithmany I'd be like what on earth is arithmancy? Is it like is it like math for wizards?
Because it does seem like they should still need to know like
some math, doesn't it? Like in Goblet of Fire, Ron's dad can't even tell the difference between the number 5 and the
number 20 on like British notes and yeah
We're supposed to casually believe that wizards can easily calculate
17 sickles into a galleon in 29 knuts into a sickle. Doesn't making change in the Wizarding World sound like a nightmare? I mean
Who deals in 17? Sorry that's 17, 34, 51?
Is 51 not a prime number?
Huh, the more you know.
It feels like it should be a prime number. In any case we have done some digging and discovered what
Arithmancy actually is, and, what's awesome is that it's one of the only Wizarding classes that you as a muggle could actually do yourself
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It turns out? Yes! Arithmancy is
Sort of wizard math at least in that it involves numbers and a lot of adding. Where the magic comes in though is
Interpreting the numbers to predict the future and establish connections between different people, places, things, or whatever.
Thw word Arithmancy is actually derived from a two Greek words Arithmos and Manteia which mean numbers and divination
respectively. Which is hilarious because Hermione famously hates divination itself
Which is just interpreting different shapes and symbols to predict the future but loves Arithmancy
Which is essentially the same thing except with math which if you ask me totally adds up (laugh sequence)
What so how does it work? Well the main clue we get from the books is the textbook Hermione has for arithmancy which is called
Numerology and Gramatica. Now, I'm certainly no expert in numerology or anything
but I understand the basics enough and that it's mostly
learning what you can about a person via the letters of their name. Each letter of your name would be assigned a number from 1 to
9 based on this chart, so for example Jonathan Carlin would look like this.
Then you would take all of those numbers and reduce them by adding them together
Mine add up to 59 which you would then reduce again by adding the two digits together
That would make 14 and then one more time to have a single digit, one plus four
equals five. Five would then be my character number which I would then probably go and look up in numerology and
Gramatica and learn the meaning of. Now,
I don't personally have a copy of numerology and grammatica,
But, I did find a handy chart online that breaks down the meaning of each different number. Five is the number of
Instability and imbalance indicating change in uncertainty, fives are drawn to many things at once but commit to none
They are adventurous energetic and willing to take risks.
They enjoy travel and meeting new people
But may not stay in one place very long, Fives can be conceited,
Irresponsible, quick tempered, and impatient. Quick tempered?! I do. What? No! Now, personally
Now I am not totally sold on that description
But it's not the only number you can calculate if you apply the same formula with just the vowels of your name
you will come up with your heart number
and if you do just the
Consonants you'll end up with your social number. Now each of those numbers actually uses the same chart to determine meaning
But tells the meaning of different parts of your personality the character number is best used to determine people's
Compatibility ie if you have the same character number
you're probably going to get along the heart number is your
Inner-self, your desires and fears and the social number is your outer self the one you let the world see and yes
I agree it does kind of sound pretty bogus sort of like horoscopes except now
There's lots of fun math involved because everyone knows what horoscopes was missing was math
Well the good news is we found an arithmency calculator online, so you don't have to do the math
I'll put a link in the description and these fun news is that even though I place no
stock by this in a real life
It is a class taught at Hogwarts meaning that in at the Wizarding World
There must be something to it so with that in mind, Ben Derek
And I got to work calculating the character Hart and social score of every name creature and a magical object
We could think of in Harry Potter and some of the connections were kind of unbelievable for example the first thing we stumbled upon was
some really basic things like oh
Hey, Harry, and Ron had the same character score of two, and that would mean they're best friends
And they are and Hermione's character score is four in like two and two is four so yeah, Harry Ron Hermione
Together makes sense as great friends James and Sirius also have the same character score of seven and again our best friends
So that's cool
But what makes this
Complicated is that the more you look up, the less it makes sense because do you know who else has the same
character number as James and Sirius?
Voldemort... and Umbridge... and Rubeus Hagrid and filius Flitwick and Godric Gryffindor
And do you see how maybe all these people aren't so chummy maybe or maybe they are compatible
But just happen to choose different sides
So it was really fun was when that two things happen to have the exact same score like check this out
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore and
Order of the Phoenix come out to the exact same thing like what are the odds of that also fun fact
Did you know that order of the Phoenix was originally going to be called Dumbledore's army
And Harry's group of students was going to be called the order of the Phoenix? Tom Marvolo Riddle and Borgin and Burkes
Also, come out to the exact same score which is crazy
I agree
But what's even weirder is that
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix, Tom Marvolo riddle and Borgin and Burkes are actually all sharing the same
Score, so at 7, 5 and 2, character heart and social, Dumbledore and Tom Marvolo Riddle are basically the same
And you know what? When you go to the chart of meaning... it actually still makes sense how comforting the phrase is the chart of
Meaning by the way that cool. What's wrong well?
I don't know allow me to consult the chart of meaning sevens are perceptive understanding and bright
seriously scholarly and interested in all things mysterious
I dare said that would describe both Dumbledore and Voldemort 5 as the heart number would mean that internally they are irresponsible
Conceded and quick-tempered which again
I think fits if you're honest with yourself about Dumbledore 12 year old Harry you can handle that basilisk can't you?
and for the two of the social number it literally says
Opposing forces day and night good and evil it's like weird right, but don't worry it gets even better
adorably sharing the number of
577 are Molly Weasley and
Arthur Weasley
Perfect as always although oddly
Helga Hufflepuff is also a 5 7 7 which really just makes me think even more than wrong should have been an awful ball
Or perhaps that reveals more about the nature of Gryffindor that you must choose to be brave. I know just what to do with you
Gryffindor! Another interesting group of characters lands at 2, 6, 5, just listen to this list how
Perfect is it? Lily Evans Defense Against the Dark Arts
Death, Fawkes Ignotus Peverell. That's the one that Harry is descendant from and wait for it
JK Rowling. Another important part of Aritmancy is the number 9 which represents completion and
Achievement to the fullest degree for example Fred Weasley's character number is a six and Jorge's is a three together
They are a nine they complete each other
But with that in mind guess what you get when you run
Godric Roweena Helga and Salazar through all together at the same time
nine nine nine
Spooky right. Don't worry it gets better
Maybe the three men most responsible for Voldemort's downfall are Dumbledore, Snape and Harry
And if you run their three first names Albus, Severus and Harry through at the same time guess what you get?
Nine nine nine the names Harry Potter and Tom Marvolo Riddle run together
Nine nine nine and like I want my bragger. I dig what Jonathan Lewis Carlin is my full name also nine nine nine
Just saying and if you want to remove my middle name adjust to Jonathan Carlin it matches Harry James Potter at five eight six which
Also matches, and I'm not kidding the chosen one
and if you're wondering about the rest of the office the Benjamin Pratt Carlin matches are on Weasley at two seventy four and
Derek Kanab and our is the same as heir of Slytherin so you know like watch out for him Derek
you don't happen to have a
Secret chamber somewhere in the office that we don't know about, do you? Now do I think JK
Rowling was actually using some sort of numerology when she was developing the names for various Harry Potter characters?
Almost absolutely not because well it might seem amazing that there's so many coincidences
Even that is sort of subject to debate because we're searching for a three digits right so you might think you're out there's
999 possibilities
but of course anything with a zero in it doesn't count because that's not a
Possibility so remove all of those from play and then obviously anything under
111 wouldn't count either
But so what that's still gonna be like close to
800 right? Wrong, one of the weird thing we noticed as we started charting all of these names out on a giant
Spreadsheet was a particular diagonal that all the names seem to be allowed to land on in fact. There was only
89 possible combinations of numbers and of course I'm a cherry-picking all the fun ones to tell you about there's others where it makes way
less sense like it's harder to draw comparisons between Hermione Granger the cursed child and the giant squid all of which land on a
449
Unless, the cursed child from the play actually is Hermione
And she eventually becomes a giant squid and travels back via time-turner to the school
No, no
But either way looking up all of these different things and trying to draw connections between the characters via their arithmetic score was
super fun
so, I will include a link to that spreadsheet we showed earlier where you can see the rest of our results as well as a
link to the aritmency calculator the chart of meaning and an article that just
Includes way more in-depth information about arithmancy and my question for you, and everybody else is. What was your score? Does it match your
Personality?, or is it in fact way off? Also let us know if you find any other fun connections another one I didn't quite mention
Was that Newt and Tina land on the exact same score which is so adorable, but then so do Kowalski and Snape so yeah?
That's harder to make sense of unless
Kowalski is a triple agent, and he's going to betray Newt but eventually actually be saving him and
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