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|  Answering some questions! (and Jessa) Stuck inside with Sirius | *Splish-Splash* | bamBAM | ☁ Spooktacular ☁
SPOILER!!: Jessa Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo  "Found this book up in the Ravenclaw library." To answer Cam's question. Her gaze shot momentarily to the book before resting on him again. "I wanna change the texture of the dolls I'm working on." Because why NOT go all out with an experiment when you had the means? Just as she'd altered the undead birds to be more like normal, she wanted something aesthetic to work on her new subjects of focus. "There's a chapter on skin textures, how to brew them, the pros, the co--"
The sound of the book slamming shut was enough to draw her attention from her friend.
A deep scowl set itself on her face at the Professor's words. Prefect Eagle? "Jessa Cambridge." Her tone was even, laced with an air of calm that she was not at all feeling. Bad enough she got reminded about this badge WITHOUT people replacing her name entirely with just the title and the animal her house was associated with. "You can keep the "Prefect" if you'd like but I'd appreciate being referred to by at least one of those."
Never having been a particularly willful child, Jessa turned and dropped the book into her bag without another word. Miserable lot was right, and he was the biggest one.
The same look of detached indifference she'd held since the first Potions lesson in which she learned the man's temperament could be seen now as she turned to scourgify her cauldron. A cup of water was then added before she turned to her pumpkin again.
Non-verbally--as she'd done the cleaning charm--Jessa cast diffindo, cutting the pumpkin open at the top with the precision of someone who'd been cutting things open since their Second Year. It was always interesting to note the varying textures in the things she cut open. This pumpkin wouldn't be making any top 10 lists but it presented very little challenge.
That done, she waved her wand over the opening, animating the innards to hop out; yet another spell she used all too often and would be making more use of this term. Always good to get practice where she could. Once the last of it had evacuated, the Ravenclaw leaned over to peer inside, just making sure nothing got left in there. So far so good. Jessa scourgified the cup too before filling it twice with the pumpkin pulp and adding it to her cauldron.
Non-verbal incendio to set the flame aaaaannnddd......set to medium......done.
He'd been on his way to help the firstie with his spell work, when Perfect Eagle caught his attention for the wrong reasons again. Firstly, he didn't remember asking them to use magic to scoop out the innards. It was unnecessary, fundamentally lazy AND could taint the potion in unanticipated ways. But it was her addition to the cauldron that made him once again reach for him wand.
"I don't believe I told you to add the water yet, Prefect Eagle," Ignatius said, his tone scathing.
With that, he non-verbally vanished the contents of her cauldron, AND her pumpkin. Good job there were one or two left...although they weren't in the best of shape.
A flourish of robes, and he was back to his original purpose.
SPOILER!!: Daehyun and Katy Quote:
Originally Posted by debpetrisor Since he'd been staring at his empty notebook while others had been filling the classroom, Daehyun jumped in his seat when the professor banged his pointing stick against his desk, his attention immediately averting to the scary man.
Miserable lot? He wasn't sure what to make of that, but soon it was all forgotten when he'd told them what they would be doing... turn heads into pumpkins? Whose heads?
... could he disappear?
Trying to push the horrifying thoughts away for now, he focused on the professor's instructions, scribbling down everything he was saying, making sure he wasn't missing any details to make that task even more difficult later on. Then came the moment of carving out the top lid of the pumpkin, and he stared nervously at his wand, wondering if he could pull it off by himself, having never cast Diffindo before, although he'd read about it.
Hesitantly putting his hand in the air, he asked, "P-professor? Could you-could you please help me cut this?" Better ask the scary man than severe someone's limbs off on his first try.
It seemed in the meantime though, Katy had beat him to it. He gave the slightest of nods to the Slytherin.
SPOILER!!: Maxton Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterloo Maxton scribbled the instructions down in his notebook, just to make sure he didn't miss anything important. Potions took all of his concentration and he really didn't want to mess up, The method seemed pretty straight forward so far. Cut open the top and scoop out all the goop inside. Easy peasy!
"Diffindo!"
He moved his wand in the circular motion that the Professor had demonstrated and ta-da!
Now to get out the goop. But first, he had a question.
"Excuse me, Sir..." the fourth year thrust a hand in the air to get the attention of the Professor. "Why is a potion necessary for this? Wouldn't it be quicker and easier to transfigure a head into a pumpkin?"
Right?
His head span round towards the voice, a smirk curled on the very farthest edge of his lips. Ah, a good question indeed. And one he'd been planning to get to, in good time. "Ponder on it a while, and we'll open it up to the rest of the class."
SPOILER!!: Shera Quote:
Originally Posted by Pucki Shera looked over at Daehyun for a moment and was going to help him, because he was her friend after all, but another older student had already demonstrated how to cast diffindo. That was good.
Then she shifted her attention back to what she needed to do. Using her spoon she started scraping out the innards of the pumpkin. That wasn't too hard and actually she managed to finish that step quite quickly, just holding her pumpkin up in the light so she could check there were no more seeds left inside it.
While she was certain that she had gotten them all out, she raised her hand for the professor anyway. "Um, sir, you said it's vital to get all the seeds out. What would happen if we didn't manage to?"
Cause she needed to add that to her notes.
But she also quickly went back to sorting out the seeds from the rest of the innards of her pumpkin. That took her a bit longer than just pulling the innards out of her pumpkin, cause because she needed to check a bit closer to make sure she had in fact gotten all of them.
Step two completed. Go Shera.
He'd been making his way back to the front of the class when another hand went up.
Yes, he had indeed said that.
"Look at the end of our ingredients list," he said, stepping on to the dais at the front of the classroom and pointing to the instructions he'd written so far on the board. "10 seeds. Leaving one in your pulp now will offset the balance of the whole potion."
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