| Ramora
Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Valhalla
Posts: 5,663
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Kayla Calrissian-Carter
Gryffindor First Year  x7  x4
|  Dem Carters | even 🕊🕊 have pride | | Expecto PAWtronum 🐈 | U-NA-GI
Text Cut: Replies! Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19  Okay, she had been completely off but Claudine didn’t mind. At least Heath was closer. She was intrigued that they were focusing on sweets. How did she feel about sweets? Neutral. Just plain neutral. Anyway. The Snakette remained focused, trying not to lose interest in the vast amount of information coming their way. Seriously. It was impossible for her to make any notes and so she wound up making doodles of Chocolate Frogs in her notebook. Claudine found it fascinating all the trouble that had been caused by said Frogs though. That poor Duke. Even poorer Mr. Smith.
Well, it was obvious, wasn’t it, what at least one of the ingredients could be. “Chocolate must be one of them,’’ she volunteered, a hand up and fingers of it wiggling. ”It might’ve been. We just don’t know.” It had been a good guess though, great even. ”But, it isn’t one of the surviving two ingredients. A lot of potioneers do tend to use it when trying to recreate Mr. Smith’s potion, though.” Yep, potion recreating was much more complex than one would think. Quote:
Originally Posted by astrocat oooh they were learning about candy today? Ashley loved candy. Specifically, muggle candy. She preferred her candy to be inanimate, and she didn't like jellybeans that tasted like barf. "Uh, well, on of the ingredients is probably chocolate, and the other one is, i dunno. Magic? Sugar? A magical ingredient that I've never heard of before?" Were chocolate frogs dark chocolate or milk chocolate? It was hard for her to say, seeing as she didn't eat chocolate frogs. She ate regular chocolate that came in a bar and didn't jump... ”A definite maybe on all three! There could’ve been a spell or two involved, a lot of potions use them to manipulate and bind the molecules in them together and produce different effects.” Was she getting too complex here? Hopefully not. ”But none of them are the known ingredients.” Quote:
Originally Posted by MadAlice A potion! Hmm, Violet had always thought it was a charm that made Chocolate Frogs hop. Well, what was in regular chocolate frogs? She thought back to those Christmas holidays when Miss Howard had let her help her make homemade chocolate frogs, and raised her hand. "Well, regular chocolate frogs have Croakoa in them, so maybe Mr. Smith's did, too? Along with something else." Violet fumbled through her thoughts. "Rat tails, maybe?" Well, they made your hair go up in the Hair Raising potion, maybe they could make a frog go up, too. Uh….”Croaka? Is that a new thing…?” Gurmeet had never heard of it before, and she’d worked in potions and cooking for a long time. Maybe it was from a different country? Needless to say, it definitely wasn’t one of Mr. Smith’s ingredients. ”It’s hard to say no on the rat tails, because we just don’t know, but I can say that I hope not.” She didn’t much like the thought of rat tails being any where near any kind of food. And she could safely say that the current potion in use didn’t have them either. Quote:
Originally Posted by mellamaet
Oh, well, not bread. She quite expected that actually. Everyone's candy related suggestions seemed like it made so much more sense. Although now she was craving for bread. Maybe she could sneak into the kitchens in between this and her next class?
At Dr. Sharma's next question, Serena pursed her lips thoughtfully before blurting out an answer. Better not make a habit of providing wrong answers during class all the time.
Two ingredients, in a potion that makes chocolate frogs jump. Cocoa would be too obvious of an answer obviously, and maybe the chocolate frog was simply infused with the mystery potion.
She raised her hand and took a guess "It could be leaping toadstools? Since they jumped and all that, and maybe, some other ingredient that would boost that jumping effect? Maybe something like the Exstimulo Potion...?" She trailed off uncertainly. It seemed like a whole lot of complicated potion brewing just for chocolates. "Is that even possible Dr. Sharma? To mix one potion with another to combine their effects?" She couldn't help ask.
”They could’ve been….” Gurmeet nodded thoughtfully. ”But they’re not the two known ingredients.”
And a question she could answer. ”It’s definitely possible to mix two potions together. But, it involves a lot of math, experimentation and knowledge of which substances can mix and which can’t to get it right and not blow something up or otherwise cause harm to oneself or others.” So, don’t try it, kids. Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin Phoebe beamed hugely at the professor's response to her. It had been somewhat pleasant, but it had been a real answer. And no dismissal. SEE? Someone should tell the Headmaster that it didn't have to be so hard all the time.
"Sugar, maybe? Sugar make me hop all over the place, honestly." ”Makes a lot of people hop all over,” she replied with a smile. ”And it could’ve been in the original potion, but it’s not one of the surviving ingredients.” Twas a shame too, because now she was craving something sugary. Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Professors never wanted to answer her questions so Kinsay wasn’t surprised when Dr. Sharma evaded it too. She really did want to know the answer though. For now, she paused that train of thought to pay attention. It was a little embarrassing to see so many of the others know so much about the history of sweets. Was she supposed to know all of this too?
It made her sink in her seat a little bit. She felt proper horrible. Something else that made her feel proper horrible?
The mention of rat tails.
If rat tails were one of the secret ingredients to chocolate frogs, Kinsay would never eat one ever again. And that’s a promise.
”…. Um…. Helium?” It made balloons float. Jumping was a bit like floating. ”Probably not. The temperature required to for helium to exist in liquid form,” because it obviously couldn’t be used in a potion in gas form, ”is too low. It would cause the other ingredients to freeze, at best.” Thus, ruining the potion. So, that was the one thing she could safely say no to. It was a good guess though. Plus, she’d exposed her classmates to some chemistry! Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy Despite being nearly correct, Heath couldn't help but feel he'd just made a fool of himself with his guess. He should've known the dates had nothing to do with machinery! He only gave that answer because his other idea had been said, and he didn't like to copy other people's answers. He took notes as he listened, hoping the act of writing would distract him from his emotions, and for a time, it did.
Then the mention of chocolate frogs made his stomach turn. Please tell him they weren't going to try to recreate Mr. Smith's chocolate frog recipe today! Okay, the idea of using a potion to make candy do something actually sounded pretty fun, just not frogs. Couldn't they make chocolate owls instead? Or maybe chocolate spiders that spun candy floss webs? Or chocolate shaped like any other animal that they didn't have to dissect a couple of terms ago…
Heath got so carried away with his chocolate animal ideas that he nearly missed the question. This time, he was determined not to let the nerdy, muggle side of himself show again and name a magical component, but what? As he listened to his classmates' answers, something someone (Serena) said gave him an idea. "Maybe a bouncing bulb?" he said after raising his hand. "Since it's known to jump, maybe using it in the potion would make the chocolate frogs jump too?"
Was that answer too similar to that girl's? Probably. Was it way off the mark? Probably, but it was the only idea he had. ”Could’ve been. But its not one of the surviving ingredients.” Jeez, these students were creative and thinking!
And no, they weren’t going to try to recreate Mr. Smith’s potion today, don’t worry! Quote:
Originally Posted by Dances_With_Potter Ivy was FASCINATED. So fascinated, in fact, that she didn’t even care that she had been horribly wrong for once. This lesson was so cool... except that now she really wanted chocolate. Thinking about the common potion ingredients she knew, which was admittedly a limited list, Ivy raised her hand and picked a couple, ”How about... frog brains and lacewing flies because frogs would hop after flies!” she suggested. Oh, Merlin help her. Gurmeet did try to keep the look of disgust off her face. But, frog brains? Ew. ”Another one of those things that I hope wasn’t in there. But it is possible.” And possible that she would never eat another chocolate frog again if that were the case. No one had guessed the two surviving ingredients, which actually surprised her. ”You all had good guesses. But, I think you’ll be surprised at how common these two surviving ingredients are. Or, one of them anyway.” She turned and wrote the two ingredients on the board and moved aside so they could be seen:
Quote: Coffee Beans
Capsaicin (from hot peppers) ”The coffee beans, of course, have caffeine in them. This plays a major role in keeping the molecules moving once they’ve started. Capsaicin is the compound in peppers that makes them hot. It is the also what gets the molecules in the chocolate frog potion moving. This movement is important because that is what causes the potion to make the frog hop.” She was trying not to go too much into the chemistry of it all, since this was a potions class. Also, she was running out of time and she needed to get them started on the potion. ”Now, we might not have Mr. Smith’s entire potion. But, these two ingredients have been used as a springboard to the potion that is commonly used for chocolate frogs today and that is the potion that we are going to be brewing today.” Gurmeet turned to the board again and wrote the entire ingredients list: Quote: 4 teaspoons ground coffee beans
2 cups water
3 drops capsaicin
2 teaspoons cream ”Now, if you look in the cabinets in your workstations, you’ll find a metal teapot, a French press, pre-ground coffee beans, a dropper bottle of capsaicin and a quart of cream.” She pulled each item from underneath her table and held them up as she mentioned them. ”Take your teapot and measure out two cups of water into it,” she demonstrated as she went, ”then turn your cooktop on mid heat and place the pot on it. As you wait for that to boil,” the teapot would whistle when it did ”open your French press and measure out four teaspoons of the ground coffee beans into it. Also, who knows the purpose of the cream?” Just curious to see how many of them could figure it out. [COLOR=Red]OOC: We've reached the actual brewing portion, yay! I'll move us along sometime tomorrow! Until then, have your character have fun with the odd potions method!
__________________ Days of Potter 2023:___________________________ Which Bertie Botts Flavour Are You?
You are Salt! |