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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19  Oh, yes. Claudine knew that her answer was most likely not what Hernandez was looking for but she thought that her answer did make sense. Most of the other answers made sense and she approved of how some of her classmates thought.
So… the Noxious Potion.
Interesting.
The seventh year flipped her textbook’s pages until she came across the potion. “The smoke the potion emits,’’ Claudine began before lowering her hand. “It can be used to obscure an attacker’s vision. Hopefully it’s thick enough…” "That is one way of distracting them...although the smoke is probably the least distracting aspect of the potion, once someone is exposed to it," Javier pointed out with a small smirk. No one seemed to really care about their surroundings when they felt like they were going to be sick or pass out.
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Originally Posted by Watson The vines couldn’t get her down that much!! “The worst they can do is trip me, right?” she said confidently back to Claudine. Hehe. She’d show those vines one day…. But maybe there was a potion that could work? She opened up her textbook, beginning to flip through it as her peers offered answers to the Professor’s first question.
The Noxious Potion?
She heard someone else flipping through pages and turned her gaze to her right to see the Slytherin doing the same thing. Claudine was smart. And Lisa prided herself on being smart so Lisa followed Claudine’s lead and flipped through her textbook to get to the exact page.
Her eyebrows raised when she read the text. That sounded dangerous but oh hey what was this essence of insanity? Hmmm… one to come back to later naturally… She read the instructions and then paused. “It could give you a quick escape if you’re in a pickle! Maybe even knock out your opponent for a moment or so?” she offered. "Usually it doesn't render anyone unconscious, but they'll be too busy gagging on the fumes and will be incapacitated that way," Javier explained with a grin.
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Originally Posted by astrocat Ash flipped through both her textbook and her own notes.
Milk, doxy eggs, sulfur, lemon juice, armadillo bile, flobberworm mucus, whale oil, mountain troll dung, poppy seeds...
"Many of the ingredients are at least a little bit toxic or irritating, right? So... this potion would irritate or poison you... I think. Oh, there are muggle things like this, I get it."She squinted at her notes. "I would hit them with the potion, or however you're supposed to use it, and then I'd run away while they're like... dealing with the effects of whatever."
She started reading a bit more on the potion, curious about how to use it and the specific effects. "Good thinking, Miss Fox. While the smoke isn't necessarily TOXIC, it can make you quite sick until you escape from the fumes," Javier explained. So not toxic in the sense that you'd need an antidote to prevent dying...but it certainly wouldn't be pleasant.
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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Potions was one of Kinsay's least favorite classes. She understood that it was important for its practicality, but if she ever needed a potion, she could just buy one, ask Teddy to brew it for her, or follow a recipe herself! It hardly seemed necessary to waste year after year learning how to brew potions in a class when she could just pull out a recipe book and do it herself. Why'd they need entire lessons dedicated to it? Hogwarts wasn't using it's budget properly. Maybe Kins would complain to her mum who could then complain to the Minister for Magic.
It's not like people went around and memorized every single ingredient and every single step for every single potion anyway. That's impractical. And a waste of time.
And Kins had better things to do with hers. Like sketch things in her notebook. That's how she ended up spending most of her time in potions lessons. Professor H probably didn't care much anyway. He had bigger and better things to be grumpy about. She could tell. As for the question posed to the class, she liked Claudine and Lisa's answers.
So she just looked up, taking a break from her notebook, and nodded in agreement.
Kinsay James was being...uncharacteristically quiet today. Or maybe not. It was hard to tell with that one - Javier often found most Gryffindors to be super chatty, but compared to him, EVERYONE was chatty.
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Originally Posted by Lady of Light Soo.. there are potions that CAN take effect immediately? Hmm, interesting. Valentina flipped through the pages of her potions textbook - until she came across the relevant potion. She curiously read the text. Um.. looked like it's going to take a while to brew.
"Like Claudine and Lisa mentioned, it can help you escape the situation quickly. A distraction." "Good job, Miss Nichols," Javier responded with a small smile.
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Originally Posted by Stefan Noah opened his textbook and read through the ingredients of the Noxious Potion, wrinkling his nose in disgust. Sulfur...TROLL DUNG and two cups of those, no less. There was even a side-note telling them to try and not pass out. Well, that's exactly what the potion was about, right? Noxious. It's supposed to be poisonous and or unpleasant.
"Aside from distraction," which by the way he had mentioned earlier, "I suppose this can also be used as a trap. From intruders and such." Noah said, lowering his hand. "Or it can also be used to subdue certain creatures...or even plants if they are resistant to wand magic, especially if they are massive. I mean, this potion contains sulphur and other acidic ingredients that can penetrate not just the body, but can spread in the air as well. It can cover so much ground, like a slow-burn kind of thing." Again, interesting stuff, but he just can't comprehend why he'd have this potion in his person. "It certainly could. You could set something to open a vial of potion if an intruder trips a wire - and once it starts seeping out the noxious gas, it works VERY quickly," he explained.
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Originally Posted by Chelliephone The use of the Noxious Potion seemed quite clear in the name to him, and Evan thought Ash had defined it quite well. Noxious could technically mean harmful or poisonous, but either way would sufficiently distract anyone from being able to pursue while they just... slipped away. Considering he had nothing else to add, instead he focused on the ingredients and how to make the potion - all the while also thinking about the fact Professor Hernandez had said they would be testing this potion.
He quite hoped the effects were just on the side of harmful and made the kids... dizzy or something. Another one who was being awful quiet. Perhaps they were just thinking of all the ways they could weaponize this potion?
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Originally Posted by MadAlice "It would help you if you faced a group of attackers, too," Violet added. "The smoke and fumes would affect more people than you could fight off at once with a wand." "Ah, good thinking Miss Blackthorne. It's certainly a better way to ward off a larger group of people than some spells," he nodded in agreement.
"As many of you pointed out, the Noxious Potion is an excellent self defense tool because the literal purpose of it is to make someone sick. It won't poison them or cause any lasting damage, but once you are exposed to it, you'll feel dizzy, nauseous, and eventually you'll be gagging uncontrollably. The effects generally don't last more than a few minutes even with exposure to the largest batches - but it's still unpleasant and takes a while to fully dissipate in the air and work its way out of your system once inhaled. As many of you mentioned, it's a brilliant way to take down many people at once, and buy you time to make a quick escape."
Javier waved his wand and the table in the front of the room was suddenly filled with the ingredients for the potion that he'd had magically concealed during their lecture. He'd pre-measured most of the items and created a tray containing all the necessary ingredients for each student. Each one contained a large jug of milk, small little vials and cups filled with various items such as armadillo bile and doxy eggs - and one whole lemon. The trays also had one very important piece of equipment - a simple cloth face mask.
"Now, brewing this potion is relatively simple, but it isn't exactly pleasant on the nostrils," he explained. "These masks are more comfortable than clunky gas masks that you've seen in other labs, but charmed to keep most of the stink out. Nothing can QUITE get rid of that mountain troll dung smell, though," he added with a small frown. The masks would prevent anyone from getting terribly sick, however - once you put them on, it wasn't any worse than some of the barns out in their Care of Magical Creatures lessons. "And don't worry - the potion doesn't release any lethal fumes until it's been fully prepared and you cast your activation charm on it."
"Head on up and grab a tray of ingredients. You may head back to your tables and begin the brewing process," he said before standing aside, signaling that they could start coming up and grabbing their trays. As he did so, he waved his wand again and the potion recipe scribbled itself on the board, although the recipe was also in their books if they preferred to follow along that way.
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Noxious Potion
Potion emits a green smoke makes you feel nauseous and sick, eventually rendering the person who inhaled the fumes gag uncontrollably.
Ingredients
* Milk - to fill cauldron half way.
* 5 Doxy eggs
* 10 grams of Sulfur
* 2 ounces of armadillo bile
* 4 cups of flobberworm mucus
* 1 cup of whale oil
* 2 cups of Mountain Troll Dung
* 1 Lemon's juice
* Handful of Poppy seeds
Procedure
* Clean cauldon (scourgify)
* add milk, filling cauldron half way
* start cauldron on low fire (incendio)
* Crack each doxy egg and add to cauldron, stirring once counter-clockwise after each egg
* Put gloves on, then take each gem of sulfur and crumble it with your hands before adding to the cauldron
* Measure out the 2 ounces of armadillo bile while vigorously stirring the potion clockwise until it is in a full spin
* Add the armadillo bile
* Wait for the spinning to stop on its own
* Spoon the 4 cups of flobberworm mucus into the potion with a wooden spoon
* Add the cup of whale oil from the side, drizzling it in slowly
* Using a nose clamp to avoid most of the smell, add the troll dung as quickly as possible (note: try not to throw up into the potion)
* Juice a lemon into mortar, adding a handful of poppy seeds once the juice is collected and crush everything together
* Add the lemon-poppy mixture into potion
* Cast “Dilapsus” on the potion, using a brisk jabbing motion
* Quickly, using baster, fill a 10 mL flask with potion and seal it shut with a cork, or seal it shut using magic if you prefer
* Vanish the remainder of the potion, preferably before it starts giving off gas (Evanesco)
OOC: Alright, this is actually the MINI activity, and tomorrow night I will open the MAIN activity so you have the remainder of the lesson to complete both. As Javier said, the masks he has given them will prevent anyone from getting sick - they can still smell it through the mask and will probably be a bit grossed out, but no getting sick, passing out, gagging, etc. should be happening while they're brewing. As I said you have about 24 hours to get started, I'll move us along at that time but you'll still have plenty of time to complete both activities!
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