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Former Professor Valon Kazimeriz
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Professor Kazimeriz shuffled about the classroom, observing the students as they worked. He reflected that perhaps he should have made less of the parchments affect the memory, as it made the assignment harder for the students. On second thought, it was better that they learn how to brew while incapacitated... usually when one is creating an antidote, one is doing it not as a lark but because one HAS been poisoned, and learning to brew quickly and despite disability was a good skill to acquire in the relative safety of a classroom setting. Quote:
Originally Posted by DH Vixen 
Turning to see if Carter was still okay and not hiding again, she started to chop up the innards before moving to crushing the fluxweed.
Kazimeriz nodded with approval at the young girl as she brewed. "Nice technique..." he commented, watching her efficiently dice the innards. Quote:
Originally Posted by HannahLongbottom
He raised his hand. "Sir, should I use hellebore as a calming ingredient? Or would moonstone be better?" He was seething, casting dark looks at everyone around him. The sooner he sorted this out the better.
"Powdered moonstone would be far more effective." Kazimeriz answered the boy. "Moonstone is an ingredient which can restore emotional balance." Quote:
Originally Posted by Celandine "Professor can I just try our antidote? Cos like, um the thing with the stuff and the spell is hard!" Kazimeriz smiled at the fair haired Ravenclaw. "You will try your antidote, but first you must cross check to see if you identified the ingredients in your potion effectively, using SpeRevelio. I know you know how to perform that spell, Miss Toussaint." Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaytone Kay looked at Marie and yelled back at her. "I AM NOT A CRY BABY!" She turn back to her work and finished the base potion. "You need to calm down so we can get this done." Kay said folding her arms. "Good advice-- do not let the potion's affect overpower you, whether it is a physical, mental or emotional impairment, you must remain focused on the goal if you are to succeed. Remember, when brewing an antidote to save a life, you have no room for failure." Kazimeriz smirked at his students. Quote:
Originally Posted by Danae My parchment was a 3, but.. I haven't felt any emotional effects... Or any effects at all for that matter. I was feeling rather depressed earlier but I managed to get my mind off of it by classtime. I thought perhaps my potion was a sort of euphoria potion and so the two emotions canceled each other out... But I'm not sure. Is that even possible? Delana wondered, just finishing up with her potion and looking up to the professor. Maybe she was wrong about this, but just in case she was right, she'd have the counter-potion done and ready. Kazimeriz glanced at the young girl, raising an eyebrow. "Move along, now, time to check your parchment. Use the sperevelio charm." he encouraged. Quote:
Originally Posted by DH Vixen Placing all her ingredients in her cauldron, Mina looked down at her parchment and then back up at Carter. "I was thinking maybe it's more than one mystery ingredient. We have multiple symptoms and all," she replied as she leaned over her cauldron. It was starting to boil and she was quite happy she had lit both their cauldron earlier so that they would be hot and ready for their quintessence. "Ashwinder eggs would help with my heat flashes and cold sweats, bubotuber will help the itching, but some Abyssinian shrivelfig would stop the swelling. I don't know." She was starting to get worst. "I feel like I'm on fire now and I'm so blue," she cried. "We really need to figure this out."
So much for not crying "Good thinking... try pre-soaking the shrivelfig in a tincture of water and undiluted stinksap before you add it to your potion; it will make it more effective." he recommended with an encouraging nod. Quote:
Originally Posted by individual "I didn't do it!" she cried out, snickering, watching the top part of the jar break off. When the jar was scooted back over to her, she stared inside, grimacing. "It looks disgusting." she said, even though it pretty much just looked like white cream with a little tint of brown.
Sticking a finger in it, she noticed how cold the stuff was, and that it also had the consistency of yogurt. 'Guess it's not that bad.' she thought, giggling again, before spreading the stuff on the burn. "Okay, okay. I'll use moonstone." Evelyn spoke, hearing Destiny repeat that she should use that instead of the Glumbumglumblebumble *Laugh* stuff. "Do you have any?"
"There is powdered moonstone in a jar on the shelves, please help yourselves to some..." Kazimeriz directed the girl with a nod. Quote:
Originally Posted by Windsfreak ... He completed his first potion! It took him reletively 40-45 minutes to do so. Matheu was proud of himself. Let's just hope it works! "Excellent work; now do a sperevelio charm to reveal the contents of your parchment's potion and make sure you chose the correct ingredients for an antidote." Kazimeriz asked. Quote:
Originally Posted by TSnitch "MOONSTONE,YOU IDIOT! Don't you know that glumbumble, put you in a melancholy mood. Moonstone makes you calm!"Tori screamed at him in reply.She was shaking from head to toe with fury. She turned away from him to watch her cauldron simmer for a few more minutes. Kazimeriz smirked as he watched the girl basically losing her temper; she obviously had an emotional reaction to the potion and fortunately, she was going down the right path by choosing moonstone. Hopefully she wouldn't act out in her rage and tip over her cauldron or anything like that... pretty soon she would start to fall ill, after all, if she did not have an antidote ready soon. Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Marilyn Amidst the pain, Marilyn couldn't help but smirk at Evelyn Flores, another Slytherin housemate. That girl was going to burn this place to ashes. The blonde's smirk quickly turned into a smile. That actually wasn't such a bad idea...
What was I doing again...? Oh!
She looked at Destiny and sighed. I think that rat spleen would be a better choice. Leeches are tricky little buggers and Im already irritated. She busied herself with crushing the fangs and grinding the moonstone into a fine powder...Okay...as far as the poison goes, im thinking maybe essence of murtlap mixed with snake venom...Snake venom should be a good substance to eat away the poison with the murtlap essence to balance out any harmful effects the venom might have on the body. Also, maybe the murtlap could soothe the itching...
She turned to the cauldron and checked to make sure everything was as the directions indicated. So ar, so good. Kazimeriz nodded with approval as the student brewed. "You are doing well; hurry now, for time grows short." Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin There was a pestle in his hand, and Copernicus at least at the presence of mind to grind whatever was in his mortal into a very fine powder. He checked at one point and decided it was fluxweed, although he had no real reasoning for that decision. He just knew it was.
He dumped the contents into the cauldron and then found the instructions on a piece of parchment on the table. He was boiling now, and a small change to the flame size would bring it down to a simmer. But what was this about a mystery ingredient?
Hmm. Cope searched the page and found "It's your memory, you dope" in his own handwriting in the margin. Ahh. So, he needed a mystery ingredient to combine with the quintessence to counteract the symptom of memory loss. Memor... no! Don't forget. THINK. Memory. What improves memory??
Quickly, Cope dumped out his entire bag of potions ingredients, searching through for ANYTHING that would affect memory. Half of them were scooped back into the bag, and Cope was left sorting through some of the more exotic ingredients they seldom used in class.
He blinked. Whoa! Potions class. What were they doing in Potions class? And why was he holding feathers? Annnnd... ooooh. A simmering cauldron. He dropped the feathers one by one into the cauldron. CLEARLY that was what he was supposed to do, right? RIGHT? "Good, Mr. Kettleburn. Keep focused on your brew, you are doing well." Kettleburn looked completely bewildered. He snickered to himself a bit, noticing Kettleburn's expression was not unlike the normal expression of their addle-minded Divinations professor. At least Kettleburn's condition was only temporary. Quote:
Originally Posted by TSnitch "Josh sorry about that. I just feel like an emotional wreck right now as you can probably imagine." Tori said turning to Josh apologetically. She was ready to turn off her potion to test it out. Instead she called the professor over, "Professor, I think mine is ready." Quote:
Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady ''It's okay'' Josh said while stirring the substance in his cauldron before he turned back to Tori ''Actually i'm more hooked with, you know, how i am going to make up for my words, better say, yellings at Rose''. He was really in trouble. Probably she was not going to talk to him again even, he thought, his visual existence might disgust her after all those stuff. He sighed loudly when he was finished with his potion as well and he tried to keep his body still and his mouth shut as he felt the rush of anger coming back. ''Ehem, erm ehehe'' he stared back at Tori ''Sorry'' he coughed ''Professor, Professor!'' 'No you cannot yell at a professor, hold yourself boy!' ''I think i'm finished too'' Quote:
Originally Posted by destinyjazzhands Destiny watch Evelyn play with the fire. She was enjoying it too much. Destiny leaned in over Evelyn's cauldron to see how it looked. It didn't smell anywhere as bad as her own. 'It'll be done when it simmers. When the bubbles disappear. Which should be soon, now that the flame is down.'
Turning to her own potion, Destiny noticed it didn't have anymore boiling bubbles. Hurray! Destiny's potion was complete! 'What do I do now? She could ask Evelyn, but she probably wouldn't give her the right answer. Or she would tell her to boil her head in it. Yeah, Destiny will just ask the professor. 'Professor! What do we do when our potion is done?' "Go ahead and perform the SpeRevelio charm to see if you correctly identified the ingredients in your potion, then. If you have, you may consume a draught of the antidote you created. Then we'll see if you are correct... or if you are doomed." Kazimeriz smiled wickedly. Quote:
Originally Posted by The1HBIC "Poison, what poison? You been poisoned?" Marie asked looking at the girl who said her name was Kay. "What is a SpeRevelio? Is that a dance or something?" Marie couldn't figure out what dancing and poison had to do with each other but hey, she didn't even know who the girl sitting next to her was so who was she to say anything. "Five points to the first student who will correctly demonstrate the SpeRevelio charm for this young lady." Kazimeriz offered casually. Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaytone Kay thought she would be laughing on the floor if she wasn't so emotional right now. "Marie we are going to try this now." Kay said looking at her. Kay put her wand on the table and looked at their potions. They looked just right and it was time to do the spell. "Ok, Marie you have to get your wand out and do what I say. Do you understand?" Kay asked picking up her wand again. She would make Marie do hers first. "Professor we are ready to do the SpeRevelio." Kay said with her hand up. "Go ahead then, do not dilly dally!" Kazimeriz nodded to give her permission to proceed. Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin The notes in front of him said that he needed to boil his mixture until it thickened and then allow it to simmer. And once that was done, he could check his work. But could he take the potion? Because... even though Cope didn't remember being poisoned or making the potion in front of him or ANYTHING, he saw his notes and he was starting to feel really cruddy.
Poisoned cruddy.
Once the potion had simmered, Cope filled a phial and set it carefully on the desk beside him. "Sperevelio," Copernicus muttered. He read the revealed potion with great interest, but... he had no clue if that's what he made. He just... couldn't... remember.
"Professor, can I drink my..." Oh, Potions class! "Indeed you may, Kettleburn. At for Merlin's sake I hope you stayed focused enough to brew correctly." Kazimeriz smirked as though he were extremely amused at the thought of his students' plight. Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaytone Kay watched Marie's parchment. She didn't know what would happen. "I guess we wait and see." Kay said to Marie. "I will do mine now and see what happens with it too." Kay said dropping a couple of drops on her parchment. Kay waved her wand and used the spell. "SPECIALIS REVELIO!" Kay hoped that this would be it. The class and Marie were getting scary. "Professor REALLY need some help." Kay said looking at Marie and hoped she didn't go any more nuttier. "Yes, dear childe, how may I assist you?" Kazimeriz asked casually. He really was rather enjoying this class; it was both a potions lesson AND a defense lesson, when you stopped to think about it. Also, it gave him a small measure of satisfaction to note that Lawson had not truly taught them to be vigilant - the DADA professor should have cautioned them against absorbable poisons, certainly. He would have, were the position still his. Quote:
Originally Posted by SenoritaMaxie Tell her his symptoms? "I'm more concerned about you, at the moment," Fyo said truthfully. He didn't think she was alright - how could she be? They had all absorbed some sort of poison. But, whatever was wrong, she was not letting it on -- and that, of course made him doubly concerned.
Didn't she know what she meant to him?
"I feel majorly unhappy," he admitted, as he rummaged through his ingredients, and came on a bit of pomegranate. That was it! The said ingredient was of good use in the Strengthening Solution, and he felt weak - rather wrecked - from tears and sadness, at the moment. Yes indeed, it would be of help, too, if descriptions were to be trusted.
"Lissy?" He looked up, and the anxiety in his tones was clear. "What symptoms do you have?" He really needed to know, if he was to help her find the mystery ingredients she needed. Bad, BAD poison!
"Do not despair, Mr. Balouch, you are doing well. Do endeavour to hurry, for class period is almost at an end." Kazimeriz said with an encouraging tone.
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