| Kneazle
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Rhode Island, USA
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Sloane W. Fordyce
First Year |  Cheesy Mac
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Originally Posted by Mrs D Tennant  Jayne turned around "So you don't die from suffocation" she laughed Macadrian chuckled and chimed in, "Sure, avoiding suffocation is certainly an important purpose of this charm!" Quote:
Originally Posted by relly1611 Jessica practiced her charm as she listened to Professor Shackleton. That was a though question.
"There are certain products that can be traced by their smell, so removing it can make them undetectable. So this charm could be useful to hide things." Jess tried an answer. "But I'm not sure how it could be important for cheese." "Aha, this is a very good point about this charm, but keep thinking as to other ways this charm applies to cheese." Quote:
Originally Posted by LisaPotter1125 Astrid beamed up at the Professor as she walked by her desk, clearly proud of her accomplishment. Then she raised her hand and said, "Well professor, I think that this charm would be helpful in lots of ways. For stinky cheese, simply taking away the odor makes its possible to eat it or cook with it, without having to hold your nose throughout the process." she laughed quietly and tossed her now unnecessary tissue into her bag.
"Also, it could come in very useful during potion brewing. There are often some awful smelly ingredients that we are required to work with. This would help with that. Maybe even to take away the smell of a potion all together." she added. "You bring up an excellent point and the one that I was mostly thinking of - using this charm allows you to eat pungent cheeses without being disgusted by the smell, but still allowing you to enjoy the flavor of a well-aged cheese! And your application to potion brewing is very original! One point to you!" Quote:
Originally Posted by MsMorgan Mariel threw her hand in the air. "This spell might be beneficial for the person who cultivates and sells this kind of cheese. The smell may be off-putting to people and without the smell, more people may be willing to purchase it." "You know, I hadn't even thought of that application, but you're exactly right! That would be an excellent use of the charm. Poor cheese cultivators shouldn't have to go around town smelling like feet! One point to you!" Quote:
Originally Posted by evanna11 Meanwhile, she was thinking about the question the teacher..prefessor had asked. "Well, if you want to surprise someone with stinky cheese the surprise doesn't get ruined by the smell...Also, if there are others things in the room that do smell nice, you wouldn't be able to smell them so good because of the smell, but with this charm you can. "
Then she added.
"And if you have stinky socks, you can use that spell and say to your mother that you already washed them. Oh, and some people might get nauseous if they smell a certain smell, and if you use the charm they won't." "Imaginative application! Who are you surprising with stinky cheese?" Macadrian laughed before continuing, "Oh, I do like your idea of not letting the stinkiness of the cheese hide the lovely scents that may be in the nearby vicinity. A very good point. And you've provided other great examples, though I hope you don't like to your parents often!" Macadrian winked and added, "One point to you!" Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Anna raised her hand to add her input to the situation. "Well, as disgusting as this may seem, rotten, smelly cheese attracts insects we don't particularly want around us," she said. "For example, flies are attracted to smelly cheese. Removing the smell from the cheese wouldn't attract unwanted insects."
"As for ways it would help us with items other than cheese, I guess it would make things more tolerable to be around. I mean, who wants to constantly smell something that is rotten or nasty? It would surely help make things easier to be around," she finished. "A very insightful point! Repelling insects from foods would be an excellent usage of this charm. One point to you!" Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Before he could try the spell again, the Professor addressed them with a question. Oh for Merlin's sake! He was trying to practice a charm, not THINK! Sighing quietly, it was too late. She had interrupted his train of thought and he just HAD to raise his hand.
"Removing the odor from smelly cheeses would allow one to consume the cheese without being distracted from its rancid smell." Dominic suggested, before turning his focus back to the cheese. "Very practical application of the charm to cheese! One point for your effort!" Quote:
Originally Posted by LizzieEvans Lizzie heard the girl's suggestion, and raised her hand to add Maybe it could be a good way to stop mice for example from finding the cheese and eat it? "A very astute application of the charm! One point to you!" Quote:
Originally Posted by deviljo8586 Sapphire raised her hand and instead of trying to find a answer why it would help she wanted to ask a question "Professor taking the smell out of cheese might be good so that mice and rats can't find it and eat it, but what about blind people how would that benifit them if that charm was used on them?" Sapphire knew that she would probably be ridaculed amoung the other Slytherin's for this question but in her mind she thought to her self "someone could easily do that as a mean prank" "Avoiding the mice and rats is certainly a good idea for this charm. As for your question, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Are you implying that blind people smell? Otherwise, I don't suppose there would be any reason to use it on a blind person over any other person. Hmm." Macadrian was pretty sure she was simply missing the meaning of the girl's question. Perhaps she meant 'how would blind people find their cheese without the smell'? Quote:
Originally Posted by Luna Laufghudd She heard the professors question and looked up. "Professor, is it so that one doesn't have to get nauseated by the smell of things?" she said raising her hand. "Or maybe so that animals wont get attracted to smells of food that youre keeping somewhere, or maybe so that the smell of the food wont pass onto another food?" "Excellent idea about the odor from one food tainting another. One point to you!" Quote:
Originally Posted by mmesnape Patricia held her hand high before answering, "Apart from keeping your home from smelling foul because of foods or other sources of strong odors... I would imagine that if you had a sick person in the house, one that feels nauseous, it would avoid giving them the heaves. Pungent smells could provoke that, couldn't it?" She remembered her uncle Tenebrius being so sick that he couldn't stand any strong odors around him... certainly not this foul smelling cheese that she had just neutralized the smell. "Very true! Sounds like you're still thinking along medical purposes of magic, like your last lesson! One point to you!"
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Stepping back to the front of the room, Professor Shackleton announced, "Alright. I think that is enough of the Anti-Odor Charm for now. The room smells much better than it did before, so I assume you all have accomplished your goals. Time to move on to the next charm, whose incantation is 'Firmus lac lactis.' Any guesses what this charm might do? Keep in mind, this whole lesson pertains to cheese in some way." Mainly because all I can do is think of food twenty four hours a day...
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