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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Kirsten Delbin
Hufflepuff Fifth Year
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Mateo Theodore
Slytherin Fifth Year
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Alana Potter
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Bart Culloden
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie  Truth be told, Derf was getting hungry looking at his potion and he wasn't even really THAT much of a fan of pea soup. But there was also that association that potion brewing tended to have with cooking, making stew, that tended to get his tummy muscles going. The Hufflepuff was on stir, eeeeeeeer, something when suddenly the professor was shouting at him and he jumped in his seat while also dropping his spoon into his cauldron...and is sunk riiiiiiight in his split pea soup potion. Derf hardly had time to breathe let alone apologize when his potion was vanished, GONE, .........along with his spoon. "Sorry...professor," he mumbled sheepishly, ruffling his hair and looking over at the remaining ingredients at his station.
"Disastrous," he sighed as Zita strolled by. Ruffling his hair and letting out yet another heavy sigh, the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end when Zita leaned in to whisper to him. "Uh...y-yeah...sure," he nodded, watching her go back to her seat.
And then Zoryn pulled through yet again. "You're a life saver," he grinned at her while she poured half her potion into his cauldron, not yet putting together that this meant that portion control and remaining ingredients to be added would now needed to be recalculated at LEAST - considering he had no idea Zoryn had also incorrectly followed any other instructions prior to his return to his seat. "I really owe you BIG time."
Uh...what step was this potion on now? "Pumpkin seeds," he read from his parchment, grabbing a fist full of them and beginning to count them off. It was THEN that he realized he may need to recalculate. Seeing as he had HALF the potion in his that meant he ought to reduce the number of pumpkin seeds in half too, yeah? Pushing five pumpkin seeds out of his hand, so that he had five remaining, Derf plopped the first one into his cauldron and watched it sizzle and POP into oblivion with his counter-clockwise stir. That was a good thing, right? Glancing over at Zoryn with a shrug, he added the second...stiiiiiiir...and then third...stiiiiiiiir...and then fourth...stiiiiir...and then the last seed was plopped in and juuuuuuuuust as he was about stir when...
KABOOOOOOOOM
.............................SPLAT
FAILED POTION EEEEEEEEEVERYWHERE...and most of it right in the Hufflepuff's face, covering his entire body. SPOILER!!: notes
Pompion Potion
turns the drinker's head into pumpkin; brewing time of 50 minutes
Ingredients:
2 cups pumpkin innards, densely packed (sorted so no seeds)
3 flitterby moths
100g fresh bouncing bulb, stunned if necessary
4g fresh foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) flowers, petals only
10 fresh pumpkin seeds
Instructions:
1.Use diffindo to cut open the pumpkin. ✔ ✔ thanks Zoryn
2. Using a metal spoon, scoop out the innards, pulling out the seeds and putting to one side.✔ ✔ thanks Zoryn
3. Put two densely packed cups of pumpkin innards in the bottom your cauldron with a cup of water. Set over medium heat. ✔ thanks Zoryn
4. Whilst waiting for the cauldron to come to a light simmer, grind 3 dried flitterby moths to a fine powder in your pestle and mortar. ✔ thanks Zoryn
5. Add these to the cauldron and stir clockwise until the contents turns grass green (4 complete stirs should do the trick).✔ ✔ thanks Zoryn
6. Stun your bouncing bulb. Peel off the purple skin, and chop finely with a silver knife. Weigh out 100g. Add to your cauldron and stir enough to incorporate. ✔ thanks Zoryn
7. Let your potion simmer for 30 minutes. You may carve your pumpkin whilst you wait. ✔ thanks Zoryn
7. Pluck the petals from the foxgloves, and weigh out 4g. Crush to release the juices and chop roughly. Add to the cauldron, and stir until potion changes to a dark purple. Wash hands after handling the foxglove - it is toxic if consumed alone. ✔ thanks Zoryn
8. Add the pumpkin seeds one at a time, stirring anticlockwise between each. The potion should turn a bright orange.✔
9. Carefully ladle a sample of your potion into a labelled vial and hand in for grading. If and only if I deem your potion safe, you may also take a bottle from class to do with as you wish. Z had gone back to her seat and had been working on her own potions again. She was just about to add her pumpkin seeds when she looked up to admire the view a few workstations away when SPLAT happened. "Oh my god Derf!!!"
Taking off she headed towards his workstation, "Derf are you alright?" She pulled her wand out and cleaned up up the mess. Was he hurt though? Did the potion burn him at all? She put her hands on his arm and looked at his face to see if there were any burns or anything wrong. "Healer.... Healer we might need help over here."
She glanced hoping Ronan was doing better so that precious Derf could get taken care of.
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