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Gryffindor First Year  x5  x6
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Originally Posted by Ivana R  "Professor, I was wondering... we can say that when someone is hating someone else we can observe an icy mood lingering between them. Would be the ice the main ingredient of this potion?" She frowned, feigning interest, trying to grate the second carrot. Which she didn't expect was that the carrot had become smaller and she grated her own finger instead.
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She took the ingredients, pursed her lips and tried to tie the wormwood around knotgrass. "Somebody help me! I can't tie this wormwood!" Cosgrach nodded at her, oblivious to her grating and whatnot.
"Not the main ingredient, but it serves for that purpose, yes."
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And then, after some time, Annabeth had to be dramatic again.
Cosgrach didn't even understand WHY she was SHOUTING, but he was next to her shortly after. Cleaning his hands magically, he placed the wormwood under the knotgrass and bringing two ends of it together, neatly tied it.
"There."
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Originally Posted by WeasleyGirl Sooo, wormwood and knotgrass. Hmm. Which one is which? The boy raised his hand. “Professor, which one is the wormwood?” Ah, these firsties.
He walked by the kid and pointed at the wormwood. "This one." The kid (Hugo, right, yes) could tie it by himself though, right?
Right.
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Originally Posted by littledhampir;11664315[B "Professor, why do we add ice cubes? Why can't we just add a little more water? Wouldn't that be the same thing?"[/B]
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"What are the importance of the carrots? And why do some of them have to be grated and not the others?"
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"Professor, why do we add carrots? They're not even magical. Also, what do the wormwood and the knotgrass do? And why does the wormwood have to be tied around the knotgrass?" Hayden with questions again!
Maybe he shouldn't even leave her side. Not that he minded. Questions showed she wanted to LEARN, and that was his job here. So not bothered at all, he was in eye-contact with her again and shook his head at her first question.
"Ice is cold," he said in the simplest form, "and we need cold now." That was the reason they didn't light a fire, but added ice, see? They would keep the temperature low.
"As for carrots, not every ingredient have to be magical. The magic of other ingredients is enough. Carrot itself helps with especially the eyes, both physically and metaphorically to see the faults of that person, and the potioneers still don't know why half of it has to be grated, but this is the best way it works." In potions, as well as in pretty much everything in the world, you just didn't know everything.
"Wormwood is the symbol of bitterness, and it tastes bitter as well Bound with knotgrass, every feeling you have changes into bitterness and hatred."
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Originally Posted by carpediem "What makes the ingredients in the potion interact the way they do, Professor? Is potions kind of like chemistry, but with cooler ingredients and more danger?" Because seriously, what made everything interact like this? It was a burning question man, BURNING! Cosgrach briefly laughed at the question, not because it was funny, but because...
"I was going to ask you guys that in the next lesson." It didn't matter, though, he could still ask that and see how many of them had paid attention now.
"Their magical properties, as well as chemical ones, combined with your magical abilities makes a potion, potion."
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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Professor Culloden came over to Jasmine with a confused look on his face. How was she going to explain her careless mistake? "Professor, I don't know how, but I made a huge mistake. I put whole leeches in my potion instead of just the heads. I'm so sorry, I must have lost my concentration." Now her potion was ruined. Jasmine was so upset with herself that she didn't know what to do. "Could I possibly start over?" Jasmine didn't know whether Professor Culloden would allow it or even if there was enough time left in the class. She just knew that she could make a proper potion. Of all students...
Cosgrach didn't have time for disappointment, though. He shook his head, too focused for words, drew his wand, cleaned a spoon from her kit and fished out the leeches with it. He then examined them and vanished them the next second, cleaned the spoon and put it on her table. It took him only a minute or less while he did those, so Jasmine could keep silent in that time?
"No need to start over," he said at last as he looked at her, "but I hope you're aware this'll be a poor work. It's okay, though, I know mistakes happen. You may continue." He shrugged and smiled.
See this, class? He didn't EAT everyone that made a mistake.
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Originally Posted by Cassirin Dot Scourgified the stick and then plopped it into the cauldron and sloshed her potion juuuust a bit counterclockwise before catching herself. CLOCKWISE. Ten times.[/color] Quote:
Originally Posted by kayquilz OH NO HERE HE WAS GOSH --where could she hide? Under her desk? Before she COULD, though, he was there. Yikes. She gulped and blusheddddd. "Um--I'm okay--I think I'm good--no issues here, sir--" she said softly, but she was TOTALLY LYING SHE WAS NOT OKAY AT ALL NO. ...???
Cosgrach raised his eyebrows suspiciously. "If you made a mistake but not let me know, I promise you it'll be bad." But she was, uh, at least 15 years old, pretty much sane and responsible now, so he let her be and walked to another student.
He would be watching her, though. He certainly would.
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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin He took the other carrots the ones that were not grated and placed them in his cauldron all at once. Then he took his shavings and sprinkled them on. So he needed to wait five minutes for the ice to melt. He waited and was humming a tune. After what seemed like four minutes, he noticed the ice was melting! Actually... his potion was becoming a fail.
Cosgrach wasn't quite in the mood to check every single student, so while he was busy with another one, Kace added the carrots before the ice had melted. Which was a problem, actually. But this was a hate potion, and it hated, well, everything, so it didn't give any warning.
Hopefully, Kace would understand his mistake. If not...
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Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline One...two...three...four...five...six...seven...ei ght...nine...ten.
And one for good luck.
With that he returned to his station and added all eleven ice cubes into the cauldron at once as instructed. Y'know, this was the phase Cosgrach would expect a student to mess up the least, so he didn't sit down with them and counted their cubes. So he didn't see Benny add eleven too. So he couldn't vanish his potion. And this was a sly potion, meaning it didn't usually warn people if they got a step wrong, and Benny's wasn't different than the rest of the class, so...
Oops.
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Originally Posted by Cassirin 'Cause Dot's ice cubes were melted and she was tired of grating and maybe these last ones could be just sort of chunks and not really grated?
With just a little peek at her desk mate, Dot quickly dumped her ungrated carrots into the cauldron. They disappeared beneath the surface of the liquid, and she sprinkled the grated (and sort of grated) carrots over the surface of the water. YES GOOD. BRING ON THE NEXT STEP. Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles No points then? The boy didn't frown. He simply nodded. There were worse things to worry about, like a certain missing Hufflepuff. "Okay sir. I'll just take my points when I help you invent the hug potion." That was fine and all. Kyroh accepted it so simly? Wow. This kid was someone else's . He couldn't be a Scabior.
Anyways. A Scabior or not, Cosgrach actually liked the kid and nodded at him.
"Sure." Then, he would certainly award him some points, because inventing was hard.
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Originally Posted by Tegz Ruby simply waited until the professor wasn't looking so he couldn't get on her case about it and added all ten carrots. Ungrated. There. Nobody would even know. And nobody knew, since the potion barely gave any hints about it. It looked as if it was all correct.
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Originally Posted by Lislchen While doing that her gaze drifted off to the two boys next to her. She kept on stiring though.
And stiring....and stiring... ...and watching...and watching...
"I believe that's about right stirring." Not that Cosgrach was 100% sure, because he wasn't anyone's potion-sitter. And anyway, the GIRL would be the one drinking that, so not really his problem.
Cosgrach walked to the front and tapped the blackboard with his wand again.
"If you have done everything right, the steam from your potion should be visible to the eye and it should make you only slightly nauseous. If you don't feel anything, then you might as well vanish it and start over."
Was that clear? He paused briefly and then continued with reading the next steps.
"Stir eleven times clockwise with wooden stick. Do clean it before using. Then add two crow feathers. Stir once clockwise with metal stick. Add another two feathers and stir clockwise with metal stick again. Go on like this until all feathers are added. Do not stir after the last couple of feathers. You don't have to remove metal every time to clean it - just keep it inside the cauldron until last feather is added."
All clear?
Now, who was vanishing their potions?
OOC: Like Cosgrach has said, the nausea feeling isn't strong enough to make your character vomit. The steams only affect the brewer, so the wrong ones won't be affected by other vapours. Wrong potions do look as if they are all right, though (in case your characters want to fake it  ).
This is a catch up point, as I'll post again probably more than 24 hours later.
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