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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Logan Paton
Gryffindor
Sixth Year

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Gillyweed Beery
Slytherin
Second Year

Ministry RPG Name:
Tallulah Gamp
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Now this was a student she had to take caution with. Curious and eager. A delight for Shreya to see such zeal for the subject, sure—but those students were the ones that were often tempted to brew advanced potions. Potions that they oftentimes weren't ready for.

Shreya chuckled a bit at Cornelia's enthusiasm and rapid-fire questions, thrilled at her eagerness nonetheless. "You will learn about polyjuice in due time,"Shreya replied, not wanting to lie to her pupil, but also not wanting to spoil the lesson plans she had for the upcoming term. She was quite excited to teach the polyjuice potion, to be perfectly honest. While she considered leaving it out of her course plan, she figured it was better to educate the students on dangerous potions rather than ignore them. "I am a proponent of brewing complex potions in a controlled environment. No use in pretending that they don't exist! So you can expect to brew it at some point during your Hogwarts career." No promising that it would be during her first year, but of course, she would have to wait and see. As long as Shreya stuck around, that is.

She paused a bit, trying to make sure she answered all of Cornelia's questions. "It is an incredibly challenging potion to brew correctly," she said earnestly. Her voice took on a more serious tone as she continued. "It takes a long time and a very steady hand. Even the best potionmakers have struggled with executing it correctly. Not to mention there are extremely dangerous long-term consequences if anything goes wrong." She didn't want to go into the gory details with such a young student. Hopefully that warning would be enough to prevent Cornelia from wanting to try it.

Now the last part of the Slytherin's question was one that stumped her. How to answer it without showing her extreme distaste for Rosier would be challenging. "I don't think that taking it necessarily makes you a bad person, no. Though there are a lot of ethics involved. If your intentions are pure, if you have permission of the person you are polyjuicing into, and if you are not breaking any laws, there are some acceptable uses." Shreya thought back to the Battle of the Seven Potters. A perfectly justifiable use, in her opinion. "However, it's easy to take the potion down the path of darkness." With that, she folded her hands on her desk, looking at the first year intently in case she had any more questions.
Maybe she shouldn't have asked so many questions all at once. She didn't blame the professor in the slightest, but a lot of information was being shared in a short amount of time. Her little eleven year old brain could barely keep up with it all. Even so, she was listening the best she could. Even if it was just key words and phrases that were processed in her mind.

Her face did scrunch up a bit in disappointment when the professor vaguely told her that she would be learning how to brew the potion later. And then she was throwing out a few big words out there that went over the Slytherin's head. Nevertheless, the point had been made: she likely wouldn't be learning the potion any time soon. It was hard too brew, took a lot of time, and it was dangerous if done wrong. Cornelia sighed. Life just wasn't fair.

But the woman's response to her last question was rather interesting, and the words that were said made sense. To a point. As for laws or anything of the sort, she didn't know a whole lot about that. But now the first year's thoughts fluttered to determining whether or not their headmaster's intentions were pure. While some of his methods were ... shocking, to say the least ... he did seem to want to better wizardkind, which didn't seem bad to her. She shook the thought away, figuring she'd come to a proper conclusion on her own in time (likely well before she would be brewing Polyjuice, sigh).

Cornelia's focused returned back to the questions she had about the potion. Getting information was why she was here after all. "Has it ever been made successfully by someone young?" She was interested in knowing if someone had (surely she could do it too if someone had, right?), but, assuming the answer probably be vague, she followed up with a lighter question that was also important to have answered, "Does it taste good and look pretty?"
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