Arithmacy

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> And in PoA, Hermione gives up Trelawney's Divination class so she 
can 
> concentrate her entire attention on Arithmancy.
> 
> Arithmancy sounds, to me at least, like a magickal way to deal with 
> math.
> 
> Anyone?

I assumed that Arithmancy is simply numerology-- the "-ancy" suffix 
does mean magic. I can't remeber where I saw this in PoA, but there 
was also mention of her textbooks, or some brief description of her 
homework that soudned very distinctly arcane and magical.

The thing that threw me though was that Hermione said "It was my 
father's favorite subject." But her parents are both Muggles, right??

Maybe one way of interprettijgn this is that the course does cover 
aspects of higher math as well as the magic of numbers.

Thoughts?

Suzanne