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Originally Posted by Luna Laufghudd  Yeah, uhm. Cool. Miranda nodded and scribbled stuff in her notebook.
Ingredients that made you fat... Hmmm...
"Professor, how about chocolate?" She said with her hand raised. "And not the dark kind...but the one with lots of milk in it." Could be? Snort. "Chocolate is good. We might add it for flavor later." She said nodding to the girl. "But it isn't an active ingredient." Quote:
Originally Posted by Herminny "Puffer fish eyes perhaps, it's used in the swelling potion which blows you up like a puffer fish which is pretty much becoming fat", Herminny replied squinting, her eyes burning a bit from the horrible smell of what she now knew was the antidote, just great. "Yes, Very good Miss Telerino. Puffer fish eyes is an ingredient. Next time raise your hand." She said bitterly. Quote:
Originally Posted by Emms Emma looked at her notes. Huh, a potion that's supposed to make you fatter.. what a weird one. What ingredients would be in it?, she thought. She looked around the room and saw her cousin sticking up for Oliver. She wrote in her notes: Could be used as a disguise. She raised her hand to answer the Professor's question. "How about corn syrup?" she said. She remembered that foods that make you fat have a lot of sugars, and artificial additives. "It's present." She said not going into detail. Quote:
Originally Posted by Kris Alex looked around she was average height and weight for an eleven year old girl, now the Professor wanted them to make a fattening potion? Did they have to drink it.. She hoped not. Alex secretly snickered in her mind at the chocolate, it was actually pretty healthy for the body as long as the person didn't over do it. She didn't know what ingredients made a person fat.. other then eating too much so maybe, "Sugar?" Alex asked raising her hand, "I mean Sugar can fatten a person considerably if they just constantly eat it." Alex knew it wasn't but it was the only thing she could think of that was logical. "It is also present," she nodded. Quote:
Originally Posted by Ameh ...excuse you, Professor?
Raiden's eyes narrowed and he stared at the woman, clearly perplexed. In his head, he recounted the things he'd just said. And in those things, he found nothing that should have been taken offensively. He'd corrected a student's misled thoughts that being fat somehow kept you from starving to death.
"Pardon, Professor, but I fail to see how I was putting down a classmate. People who are overweight are still quite able to starve to death. The body needs nutrition, not just fat masses. I was just pointing out that it's probably not possible for this potion to stop you from dying if you're starving." He paused. "As for the usefulness of this potion, I believe I was the one that asked that question. I don't particularly approve of the idea of using it to punish vain people for being the way that they are, and I'm sure there are many other ways to teach people that they should be grateful for their bodies."
He shrugged.
"I just didn't understand what the uses of this potion could be, is all. When there are plenty of other ways to do it that are probably far quicker and easier."
As for ingredients... the prefect bit his lip and considered for a moment before volunteering an answer.
"Moke skin, ma'am. They can shrink at will, so one would assume they could also expand." Hecate looked over at the prefect and smiled. "I didn't say you were wrong, Master Kururugi, you are indeed correct, but I'm the one that's supposed to tell the students if their answer is incorrect. And I frankly do not care if you approve or not. This is my classroom, and I will teach what I see fit. I believe your question has been answered. The main reason for this potion is to help patients survive procedures when their bodies aren't large enough to withstand the pressures the healers put on them. It is a safe, temporary way for the patients to gain weight. In the muggle world when a patient needs to gain the weight, the 'doctors' need to delay the procedure, or surgery, so they can eat and gain it the natural way. This isn't ideal." She listened to his and answer and said. "Actually Moke skin is an ingredient in the antidote, but that was good educated guess." She said and nodded. Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli Jarod Eli turned around and shot the Prefect a look. A look that, to him, said she's gonna use it to fatten us up for the slaughter! The Slytherin prefect was probably first on the lady's list for talking back. Poor chap! He wanted to raise his hand; maybe if he answered well she would not target him as well. But it would probably be better to say nothing.
He had to get a message to Anni and the prefects, so they could all be rescued from the Evil Lafay. But how? The obvious: a note.
Eli took out his quill, pretending to take notes (ok, he actually took notes as well as a cover). But he also scratched a quick note on a tiny scrap of parchment:
He palmed the scrap of note, waiting until he could find a way to pass it back to Anni and Gold without LaFlame seeing him. Maybe he'd even give it to the Slytherin prefect, too. He was mean to Eli, sure, but surely he didn't want all these snakes to be in burned up like fat little piggies. Right?
Right? ... This kid was already taking notes. Good bloke. Quote:
Originally Posted by Snape631 Willow was glad to see the potions professor had not left. She rather liked her lessons. She raised her hand to answer the question "Would large amounts of sodium and sugar make you fat?" "Yes, but too much sodium will raise your blood pressure and it would not help in cases of surgery." She said and added. "Sugar is present, but to combat the high blood sugar effects there is another ingredient." Quote:
Originally Posted by SenoritaMaxie Eli sounded pretty sorry. Gold gave him a little smile, the kind that told him it was alright, and would have responded to Marie if Professor Lafay had not told her to return to her seat.
But she wanted to talk to Marie! She hadn't since ages, and Marie was nice and pretty and fun. Inward POUT.
"Yes, professor," Gold said, rising to her feet and returning to her seat, after giving Marie a little smile. Where she sat down next to Chris. Well, at least she could sit with Chris, again. Even though Eli sounded like a nice, though scared, kid. Gold still couldn't figure out what he was scared of, though. Probably Professor Lafay.
AND the lesson had started.
Time to tune out of all the other thoughts, and tune into what Professor Lafay was saying. Wait, fattening potion? EEK. Gold had never been fat. Biting on her lower lip, she raised a hand,
"Butter can make one fat," she suggested. Butter. It sounded like a yummy ingredient. Professor Kazimeriz had had a penchant of introducing potions that contained unique ingredients, such as kneazle breath and dew harvested from rose-petals, and a lot of other, lovely things. Though Gold was sure she had forgotten a few. ".... and herbal water." THAT was known to cause fatness. "There would probably be fluxweed in a fattening potion too, professor, since it's one of the most effective agents of change."
She lowered her hand. "Butter is present, indeed, and fluxweed is an ingredient. Very good Miss Laksh." She said. Quote:
Originally Posted by Balvir Zane raised his hand again, "What I mean Profess Lafay is that if a Auror or Magical Law Enforcement has a picture in circulation in a foreign land, this potion that we're brewing can be used to disguise the person, without the worry about things like taking it every hour like polyjuice potion." He thought that sounded well thought out, but it was probably still wrong. "As for ingredients....what about animal fat, such as pork lard." "Yes, I understand. As for animal fat, it's present, but it isn't pork lard." She smiled. Quote:
Originally Posted by individual Really? This potion can keep you warm...
That was extremely random. Raising a brow, she looked down at her notebook, listening to the others and their answers on things that make people fat, the one most ringing in her head was, chocolate. Bleh. She still didn't understand how people can eat the stuff. "A lot of starch can make someone fat." she said after raising her hand. Also used as a thickening agent when cooking, however, she couldn't help the cringe at someone's answer of 'pork lard'. That's just gross. "A starch is present Miss Flores, very good." She said. Quote:
Originally Posted by PattyH. Patroclus waved back at the totally awesome Gryffindor Prefect, one miss Gold Laksh, as he popped down into the spare seat next to his fellow lion Tori.
As Professor Lafay revealed the purpose of the lesson, Patroclus became undeniably ecstatic. He had always wondered what being fat would be like, here was his opportunity. Due to his family's excellent genes, and his love of sports and exercise, a fat Patroclus was a very unlikely future prospect, but not if Lafay had anything to say.
"Could Lard be a possible ingredient, as it is a biproduct of fat," Patroclus smiled as he answered, "or even Suet, the fat found in sheep kidneys, I know that is edible, due to its use in cooking, so it would have no severe adverse affects on us kids and our developing hearts". "It's present, but it's isn't suet..." She said and moved to the next student. Quote:
Originally Posted by leo Lucy was shock to see that she's going to make a potion that would make her fat. She didn't want to get fat. But was excited to make the potion to and to see how she would look if she got fat.
She raised her hand and said "How about chocolates, Professor?" "For taste, yes. At the end." She repeated. Quote:
Originally Posted by hermygirl Nia rested her chin on her hand thoughtfully. She wasn't exactly sure how she felt about the whole getting fat thing. She'd always been lucky, one of those people that could eat what she wanted when she wanted, and still stayed her slim athletic build. Her Quidditch training probably had something to do with it too. As for this lesson, Ravenclaw needed points, so she'd try it. It could be a bit of a laugh too - as long as she could take the antidote before leaving the lesson.
Before answering the Professor's question, Nia had a question. She didn't feel she could think about ingredients, without knowing how the potion might work on the body. Was it an illusion of being fat, or did it swell the body?
She raised her hand. "How does the potion make the body fatter?" she asked, a curious look on her face. "I mean, does it swell the body...or is it more of an illusion...or is a fluid sent to the body in the muscles to make them bigger?" She stroked her quill under her chin. "Because the depending on the method of getting fatter, different ingredients make sense. For the swelling route, the puffer-fish eyes is the obvious choice, as has been mentioned...though Exploding Fluid from horn of the Erumpent - which would expand on explosion - might be useful in small amounts. Whereas the fluid method maybe you'd expect more oil and butter." She smiled. "No one here will be ingesting Erumpent horn fluid... Not only would I be fired, I'd be locked up in Azkaban for life for blowing up my students." She said. "It's a highly dangerous substance. What the potion does is target the fat cells in the body and feeds them allowing them to grow quickly." Quote:
Originally Posted by TeamHermioneGranger Anni looked down as a small piece of paper landed in her lap. She read it quickly, stifling a giggle. Although, it was an interesting idea. Eli certainly had an imagination!
'Proffessor, why are we actually talking this potion? I know people explained it's uses, but none of them are really necessary in this particular situation..' "You are taking this potion to make sure it works." She said answering the question. Quote:
Originally Posted by city_girl_95 Amy nodded, the ravenclaw girl was right, but, this was potions, surely it was just another potion they had to learn. She listened to the potions mistress question, well anything could make you fat, if you eat to much and don't work it off, but I guess, fatty foods, and lots of sugars would have the fastest effect she said, after putting up her hand "Yes, you are right." she said nodding to the girl.
"Think Magical ingredients everyone." She said.
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