Heath was a bit… hmm about this lesson. No, he didn’t feel hurt or betrayed, mainly because he noticed that the potion didn’t look right before drinking it. That and in order to feel betrayed, he’d have to have trusted the person or thing in the first place, and his experience with Rosier last term still kept him from fully trusting anyone… except the girlfriend, of course, and maybe a couple of other friends. Speaking of whom, seeing Claudine smile eased his mind considerably, and he gave her a small smile in return. He was glad she was okay!

While he understood the point the professor was going for, he wasn’t sure if this was the right time or way to go about it. Didn’t most of them already learn not to blindly trust things last term? Maybe this was geared more toward the first years who weren’t here then? Never mind… Heath had long ago learned that he didn’t have to understand the professors’ reasoning, just go with it.

He considered the next question carefully. Others had already established things like color and smell, so what else was there? He vaguely remembered reading about scientific tests that could be performed to identify a potion, but he didn’t know all that was involved in the process so he kept quiet about it. As he thought, something the professor said earlier gave him an idea, and he raised his hand and said, “Could examining the potion’s consistency - how thick or thin it is - help identify it?”