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10-09-2013, 04:50 AM

Potions. The one class that could be counted on to pretty much stay the same. When she was younger, Sky might have found that fact kind of on the boring side. But now that she was older and after all things she'd been through at this school, she was thankful for it. It was nice to have a bit of calm in the middle of the storm, so to speak.

Anyway, she quickly filed into the classroom, said a polite "Hello, professor," and found herself a seat towards the middle of the room. Ready.

"Hello Miss Carter-Hope" Hecate said to the girl.

Minerva had to go to this class. She had to go. It was for her future. She needed potions to be a healer. As she walked down to the potions classroom she started questioning why she wanted to be a healer so bad. She couldn't pick something that didn't need potions. Standing at the door she took a deep breath. She could do this even without the support she had last, she could. One last breath she walked through the door holding her head up.

She stopped and nodded at Professor Lafay, "Hello Professor, hope you are doing well. She turned and headed towards the back like she did in the last lesson, but that didn't turn out well either with Tillstrom showing up and standing behind her. No Min wanted to show she was over things so she turned and went to her typical front row workstation. Putting her things down and pulling out her cauldron she got ready for the lesson to start.

"I am, and hello to you Miss Wheatborne," She said and nodded in the child's direction.

His first Potions lesson! Adi was excited! He couldn't wait to get started. This wasone of the lessons he had been looking forward to very much. "Good day, Professor!'' he greeted the woman who was by the desk. Might as well introduce himself too. "I'm Aditya Rehman,'' he added politely. He had learnt this was one of the stricter Professors so... he's be on his best behavior.

Okay. Time to find a seat. Adi followed the older girl (Sky) towards the middle of the room and chose a seat.

"Good Day Master Rehman." And she continued writing some notes as she sat at her desk.

Yay, potions. One of the good classes, one that could be counted to never change. And it had the same Professor, could the class get any better? She smiled upon entering. "Hello Professor Lafay," with this she found a seat in the frontish part of the room. She was so not ready to sit in the front, where Professor Lafay could always see what she was doing.. Yeap not yet! Maybe next class Nerida would gain the courage to sit in the front..

"Hello Miss Eventide," she said to the girl.

Wade wasn't sure why, but he kind of liked the look of the dungeon as he headed down towards where Potions class usually began. It would be his first Potions class for his final year. He could see Min far ahead of him, and rather than run down to catch up, he merely took his time, lowly whistling along the way...

At least until he approached the door. Once inside, Wade's eyes searched for the Professor before he found her at her usual desk, waiting. He smiled at her, "Hello, Professor Lafay.. Doing alright?" He waited to hear her response before making his way towards the cauldron closest to his Mouse friend, Min. He smiled at her before dropping his bag by his seat and getting situated before facing the front again. He wondered what they would be working on today.

Oooo the Hufflestud was in the house... "Doing great... Congratulations on becoming Head Boy, Master Elisabeth-Potter."

Time for potions.

See, this was the kind of class that was right up Ascanius' alley, yeah? It was taught by a beautiful woman and it was methodical and logical. Nothing wiggy or annoying or tedious.

So with a casual smirk he walked into class and took in Lafay's look today. Nice. Real nice. Smirk. "Hello Professor."

Now where to sit.

"Hello Master Karten." She nodded to the boy.

Potion was always a good time. Probably just because Nigel liked potions and make he could make with simple ingredients. It was interesting.

"Hello, Professor Lafay"

Now what will they being learning to make today?

"Hello Master Barrington," She greeted the boy.

Caleb had REALLY been looking forward to this class, and he'd been looking forward to seeing his grandmother. Even though they never really like...TALKED, and he sometimes forgot what she looked like, he wanted to see what she had to teach them. He also wanted to prove himself, since he knew that word would probably go around that Lafay's grandkids were here, and he did NOT want anyone thinking she'd go soft on them.

Although from what he knew of her, he wouldn't have expected special treatment anyways.

"Um, hello Professor Lafay," he said with a smile. Should he call her gran?? He couldn't remember ever addressing her before! What did he call her? Just PROFESSOR? What did he DOOOO?

Ahhh the Captain's grandson. "Good morning Master Newell." She said.

Ahaa, Potions. Schuyler had been fond of the subject back at Salem, so she expected she would like it here at Hogwarts as well. As long as the professor wasn't half-bad. That counted when it came to liking and disliking classes.

So, Schuyler walked on in to the classroom and bid their professor hello before she weaved between a few desks. She came to one in spot where she liked, her bag went to the floor, and she took a seat.

Leisurely, she glanced around the classroom, just checking it out.

Hecate watched the girl bid her hello, and reciprocated in turn.

Potions. West wasn't excited, which was odd because usually he was really into potions. There were other reasons that he couldn't really bring himself to get too eager. So he entered the room in silence, found his usual seat in silence, and waited.

In silence.

*blink*

"Master Odessa." She said irritated, "You have been in my class often enough to know I appreciate manners." And he one of her Slytherin at that! "You greet someone when you enter their classroom."

Potions class bright n' early

With her book bag slung across her shoulder, Huxley made her way down the dungeons, pausing by the doorway momentarily to take in the sights (and smells) of the Potions classroom. Well it was just as she had expected it, which was a good thing really.

"Good day Professor Lafay." the Ravenclaw greeted the other brunette cordially. "I've just about finished sorting the stockroom Ma'am, just need to work on sprucing some of the labels." Just so that the Professor was aware she didnt go all the way to bother her over nothing.

She turned her head as her gaze scoped out the best place to sit-- ah one pretty close to the supplies cabinet. Of course.

"I'll check your work after class to see if it's acceptable..." She said, "and good day to you Miss Huxley"

After greeting Lafay with a quiet, "Morning, professor," she set her things down next to West and took her seat in silence. And then observed.

Hi Lafay. Alice was watching.

Pity the potions mistress had stopped bringing her kid to class, though. Mommy Lafay had been interesting.

"Morning Miss Fischer" She said with a nod.

The classroom smelled exactly like an egg fart.

And Cutty would know.

The pungent odor put him in a good mood, which manifested in a unpleasant-looking smile. He headed over towards Tweebus Number Two (Caleb Newell) and took a seat.

"Manners Master Mordaunt..." She said echoing what she said to Odessa. The boy was a first year, so she wasn't as irritated... still.

It as time for potions and ariana was just the most chipper EVER.. except no really. Ariana was never really a fan of potions, mainly cause she just wasn't good at is, not as good as she should of been anyway. so walking into the room she plastered a small smile on and greeted her lovelyand evil head of house, " Good day professor Lafay." except it wasnt that great, she was tired, mkay.
so she sat down, and waited.

"Good Day Miss Logan" She said to the girl.

Tobias had no reason to be any less cheerful than usual, and so he was extremely chipper as he entered the room, big grin on his face. He gave the professor a cheerful wave and a "Hi Professor!" before taking a seat and readying his parchment, quill and ink, ready to take notes.

"Hello Master Tempus," She greeted.

Potions. Of course, Kat would never miss out on a Potions class. This was her last term in Professor Lafay's class so she felt like it was a requirement and responsibility for her to be here. Clearly, people just didn't know how much passion Kat had for the class even if she didn't exactly show it all the time. The Head Girl entered the classroom and looked around. Still the same... but she'd miss it after graduation. And yeah, she was trying to push the thought away for a bit so that she didn't feel bad.

"Hello, Professor Lafay," Kat greeted her Head of House then went to take a seat in front. Because nobody else sat on her seat until she left the boundaries of Hogwarts for good. Nobody at all.

"Congratulations on becoming Head Girl Miss Hudson." She said.

Hi, hello, he was here. Potions was never a struggle to get to on time, since it was just down the corridor. And thank goodness for that, because Theo had been almost late on many occasions already this term. Bad prefect. Anyway... he took a seat at the back of the classroom because he didn't feel in the mood for being right under Lafay's nose.

"Morning." Theo said quietly as he ruffled around with his stuff.

"Prefect Kinsley." She said looking at the boy, "Front and center please..."

Potions.

"Hello Professor." The blonde then gave Lafay a polite smile before heading quietly over to a seat. A seat that happened to be by a Theo and he got a small smile too. Oh Hai.

After taking out her parchment and quill, Ella folded her hands and waited for the lesson to start. Silently, of course.

"Hello Miss Bishop." She said.

Barely any lesson interested her so far. Not that they were bad but they were just normal. Some of them were actually bad. Like waiting for a bird to die!!? Seriously? What was that! She wasn't impressed, nope. She had hopes for potions though. Hopefully, they'll get to brew some interesting potion. One that could come in handy.

Fingers looped around her bag straps, the fifth-year entered the classroom her eyes observing the faces. She wasn't late, good.

Before taking a seat she approached her head of house and nodded, "Good day, Professor Lafay," With that she turned on her heels and made a beelines for one of the seats.

"Good Day Miss Sommerlad" She said

Laura walked into the potions class and smiled. "Hello Professor." Laura decided she would be friendly today. "Did you have a great summer Professor?" Laura then went and found an empty seat and sat down and waiting quietly for the lesson to start.

"It is none of your business Miss Hyde." She said.

Lafay... Sarah wondered why she was taking this subject, then she reminded herself that although it was stressful, it was useful. Also, making the potions herself allowed her to save money. "Hi Professor" she greeted.

She sat down, as that was the instructions and took out her things from her satchel. With the triwizard thing coming up, she would have to work hard not to daydream

She turned to the girl and said "Hello Miss Edwards."

Potions!

The boy ruffled his hair as he headed down the corridor towards the Potions classroom. After certain things that happened last year, Alec did feel better about this class than he had previously. That didn't stop him from feeling slightly nervous, though. He didn't even know why he felt particularly nervous today but... it just seemed to happen. Hence the hair ruffles. ALL the hair ruffles!

He hastily fixed his hair before stepping into the classroom. So he wasn't late? Yeah? Awesome. His eyes scanned the classroom quickly before resting on the Potions Mistress. "Hello Professor!" he said, walking forward and giving her a small smile. He was about to ask about the Little Professor but... decided against it. It wasn't as if the two, Alec and Lafay, were particularly close. It'd just be a little awkward, yeah?

Shrug.

The seventeen year old headed over towards an empty seat towards the middle of the classroom and sat down. His quill and parchment were pulled out and his bag dropped to the floor, under his desk. There. Yeah. He was ready!

"Hello Master Summers," She greeted the boy.

There was nothing like a good few chocolate frogs to wake a girl up before Potions class. It wasn't all that likely that she'd fall asleep during Professor Lafay's class but she couldn't risk being even a little drowsy either because this was a class riddled with explosions if you didn't do it right--not that she minded but the last time she spoke of exploding cauldrons she was promised certain death at the hands of the lovely Potions Mistress.

Lex walked into the class, without much haste in her step. There was no need. She was perfectly early and wouldn't break a sweat trying to be earlier. Though was it possible to sweat in some place so cold? She didn't know.

Glancing around the room she spotted a certain pessimist with an interesting look on life (Steelesheen). Alexa walked over to her and plopped down next to her and the...er...supply cupboard..."Hello Professor." Eyes on the strange claw. "And we're sitting here because?" Lex was sitting here out of curiosity and choice. What was Huxley's excuse?

Oh but there was Cassia. HAI CASSIA!

"Hello Miss Cambridge" She said with a nod.

What was today's class...Potions..

The redhead yawned briefly as she made her way through the Dungeons. She was feeling a bit under the weather today, didn't really have any explanation for it, other than the fact that her head was hurting. But, regardless of that, here she was.

Nicola ran her fingers through her hair, making a quick check for any strands of hair trying to form a knot, which she highly doubted judging by the fact her whole purpose of being revolved around her flowing locks. And being that her fellow redhead before her who graduated last term; a Miss Ness Dixon, had passed on the Redhead Title to yours truly, she had to represent for all of her fellow redheads out there!

She entered the classroom, taking a quick glance at the Professor at her desk. Nicola cleared her throat before saying in a calm tone, "Professor Lafay.." Without a moment of hesitation the seventh year made her towards a seat and placing first her things, then her bum down. Quickly crossing her legs, Nicola then flipped some of her hair out of her face. Letting out a soft sigh, she began to examine her nails a bit as she waited for class to start.

"Miss Kusakindla," she greeted.

Potions potions potions.

Nodding a hello and a smile toward the Professor as she entered the classroom, Charlie did so too with the few people she knew, before finding a seat towards the middle and putting her bag down beside her. She had everything, right?

And a bobble. Spotting the object on her wrist, she tied her hair into a ponytail before putting on her glasses. Ready for this lesson, uh huh.

She nodded back to the girl, but wouldn't smile back... she didn't want to look 'soft.'

Adrienne entered the Potions classroom briskly, giving Lafay a civil nod in greeting before heading straight for her usual seat from last year. She left her notebook, quill, and ink in her bag for now, since she didn't think it was really worth it to take her stuff out if she was just going to put it back away again to brew a potion- then again, sometimes they began the lesson with notes and then got to the potion-making part. She debated the problem mentally for a moment, and then got out her stuff anyway, placing it on the table in front of her and making sure everything was lined up at right angles. Cauldron at the lower right, quill parallel to notebook edge, inkwell in the upper left corner. There.

Hecate nodded to her girl as she saw her greeting.

So it was potions time already?

Kace made his way to the classroom. He noticed the professor was already in the classroom and some other students as well. Kace gave a nod and greeted her with, "Hello Professor Lafay." and then he made his way towards his seat. He found one seat in the middle because he did have trouble seeing especially when it got smokey and steamy in this room. He even put on his glasses sometimes too but no one really knew he wore any.

He sat by his cauldron, took out his notebook and quill and waited for the lesson to begin. While he was waiting he couldn't resist the urge to doodle.

"Hello Master Lecium" She greeted.

Potions class, while never the most intellectually stimulating of classes, at least had the advantage of being a class that often got one's blood pumping - from poisonings, explosions, awful smells, or just fear for one's life from Lafay. So yeah, it was safe to say Mo was looking forward to class.

He entered the room and took a seat sorta... in the middle of people. Let's see who we blow up today, hmm? "Good day to you, Professor Lafay."

"Good Morning Master Branxton." She said.

Well... here we go. Potions was smack dab in the middle of her ability, or so she thought. She wanted to bring that up so she would definitely pay close attention this class. "Hello Professor," she nodded towards Lafay before going around to claim a middle-frontish seat. No need to be directly in front of the Professor, but Tora didn't like to be at the back of a class.

"Hello Miss Gallaway" She greeted the girl.

OH, HECK YEAH.

Now this was the class Sophie had really been looking forward to! She was only eleven-years-old, and having somebody like her grandmother be one of her professors was a really big deal to her. Aunt Sierra had said her classes were awesome, but that might just be because this professor was also her mother.

Either way, Potions seemed really awesome. Sophie's mom was a Potions Mistress, too, so this sort of thing ran in her blood. She didn't hesitate to go right into the room and head for a seat. "Hello, Professor," she said, grinning as she passed by the woman. She took her seat and said not another word as she waited for class to start.

"Hello Miss Newell." She said eyeing the child.

Annabeth entered the Potions classroom quietly. She knew Professor Lafay enough to know the best strategy to make her happy was "talk to her the strictly necessary; think about a question at least ten times before asking her; follow her instructions carefully; keep the things clean and tidy always..." It was so easy!

The girl was very happy to see Mrs Lafay again, her eyes sparkled with joy. She wanted to run and hold her tightly and ask her about her little daughter... Instead, she looked at the teacher and greeted her with a nod, smiling slightly. She was not sure whether the Professor had seen her greeting, however she didn't want to bother Mrs Lafay asking her about it. Then she took a seat near to her friends and waited for the class to begin.

She returned Glasswell's nod with one of her own.

Marissa walked into the potions classroom and smiled ah the professor and waved slightly, "Hello Professor." she said as she made her way to an empty table and sat down.

"Hello Miss Burrate" She said.

Hecate took her chalk and charmed it to write it on the blackboard.... "Alright Class... tell me your favorite potion, what they are used for. The one the majority likes will be the one taught in today's class."

FearlessLeader19

10-09-2013, 12:07 PM

Lookie! Anna was sitting next to him! Adi grinned and waved but could not say anything to her because Professor Lafay started to address the class. This was interesting. About the potion they would be brewing today.

Hmmm.

What Potion did he like the most? Adi never had much encounter with potions but he did know about a good set to have a favourite. He raised his hand. "The Polyjuice Potion would be mine, Professor. I like it because I find it fascinating at how it transforms someone into another person.''

Yep. Fascinating indeed. Adi also knew it was not to be used to transform into animals.

oh its Erik ok

10-09-2013, 12:59 PM

Weasley174

10-09-2013, 01:15 PM

Laura raised her hand. "Professor my favourite potion will have to be the Polyjuice Potion because I could become anyone I want to be, it seems such a great potion and if you were in trouble you could disguise yourself as someone else." Laura really thought that it would be fun to change her appearance.

Ivana R

10-09-2013, 01:29 PM

Annabeth waved back at her friend Adi, smiling at him.
"If you need some help during this class, I can help you", she muttered to him.
Then she turned her head to Lafay, as she heard the teacher asking a question.

Hecate took her chalk and charmed it to write it on the blackboard.... "Alright Class... tell me your favorite potion, what they are used for. The one the majority likes will be the one taught in today's class."

The girl raised her hand.
"Professor Lafay, Antidote for Common Poisons is one of my favorites." Would it have something to do with the fact she had worked as babysitter to Lafay during last Summer? Of course not, she had never felt afraid of being poisoned by the teacher... no, no, no... Annabeth repeated it to herself, afraid that the teacher could read her mind. She took some time before adding, "I think Cure for Boils will also be very useful for us." She pointed one finger to a big red point on her right cheek.

Sonea

10-09-2013, 02:11 PM

Sitting in the classroom she stared at the professor, of course she knew a few potions she liked, but she didn’t wanted to speak out lout to tell the class about them, she hated the winter, it was cold and boring… SO she was in a bad temper this day and because of that she kept her mouth shut and didn’t answered the question. But… she stared at the professor, she remembered what had happened the previous year and she wasn’t so sure if she liked the head of her house… And because the professor had warned her to not make any problems she stayed quiet and just… sat there, listening…

Bazinga

10-09-2013, 02:47 PM

Minerva couldn't help but blink at the pleasant mood Lafay seemed to be in. Well that was interesting and she greeted the seventh year.. nicely okay Minerva was sure it was the end now, Lafay being nice. Sitting down she couldn't help, but give a small smile as Kitty sat down next to her. Wade had seem to take the place of her usual shield lately and she was grateful for the protection friendship.

When Lafay asked about potions she looked up, was that a joke, the woman clearly had a potion in mind right? She couldn't help but groan in her head as people started right off with polyjuice potion. Don't give her ideas people. The happiness potion might be fun if Lafay would test it for them. Biting her lip not to giggle she put her own hand up, "Calming Draught professor, it helps to calm a person down." Min knew this potion well.

TakemetotheBurrow

10-09-2013, 02:50 PM

Favorite potions, eh? Ella listened to her classmates and frowned slightly when Elixir to Induce Euphoria was mentioned. That reminded her a little too much of what had happened with the ice cream and she was still a bit upset about that. Ice cream was her favorite ever, y'know? It just wasn't the same since the ice cream here had been messed with.

Anyway, what was her favorite potion? After thinking about it for a minute or two, her hand went up.

"My favorite is the Dresden Draught, Professor. It enables the drinker to stay awake and concentrate better on whatever they are doing." Which...was extremely useful when you found yourself trying to do a million and one things during the day.

aaetha

10-09-2013, 04:09 PM

They got to decide what they were going to be taught? That was new... well, Adrienne certainly wasn't complaining, that was for sure. She was always glad to have a say in things, although being that things were usually majority rules, she wasn't usually represented in the final choices. Well, still better to make an attempt at getting her ideas out there and- had two people already said Polyjuice Potion? Really? Adrienne had never tried the stuff, of course, but it looked absolutely disgusting, and from what she'd read transformations could be incredibly painful. No, thank you. Hopefully they'd be outnumbered.

Hmm... favourite potion. Adrienne had a few, but she should probably only list one, as Lafay tended to be rather literal in her questions and she'd only asked for a singular favourite potion. "How about Erumpent Potion?" Not particularly useful, just kind of awesome. "It explodes when it touches things," she added as its uses. Why would you need that? Adrienne had no idea, but she was sure she could find something to do with a liquid explosion.

Kimothy

10-09-2013, 04:34 PM

"Thank you, Professor," Kat thanked Lafay. Yeah sure, it was about the badge. Didn't it bring some sort of Slytherin pride or what? Because it did make Kat feel proud and that stuff. She had her reasons to be proud of it. Head Girl and all, so why not?

But the lesson was about to start. Favourite potion? What they'll be brewing in class today. That was awesome. Kat thought of a potion she liked best, which was a bit hard because she had a lot to choose from. Like Polyjuice, Fameludos, and those interesting ones. It took her a while to choose one potion, even if it was part of a tie of her favourite potions... which was pretty much everything. She liked Potions and it was hard to choose just one. "Magical fireworks. It's not exactly a potion, but I guess the name already speaks for itself. The potion will make magical fireworks and we don't have to ignite a flame in order for it to work." It was something she'd like to brew since hadn't really brewed it before so she was taking this chance.

Princesspower

10-09-2013, 05:07 PM

Her favourite potion... Sarah had lots of favourites. The acne one would be useful for teenagers. The anti paralysing one would be good for a paralsed person, although none were present in the class. Wit sharpening potion or Draught of piece.. wit sharpening was easier, so perhaps.. Sarah raised her hand, "How about Draught of Peace... it would be useful for those with OWLs, NEWTs, Quidditch and Triwizard participants." She said, "when a person stresses, it destoys the neuron connections in their minds. So all practice will get undone"

Colley

10-09-2013, 05:21 PM

Her favorite potion? Caterina was rather partial to Felix Felicis herself. Who didn't like to win? She certainly liked being a winner. However, from what she knew of the potion, it probably wasn't one that Lafay would do in one class. Took too long. She was also interested in Quodpot Solution. They could make some of that and then they could all go play Quodpot, yes? ...No. That was probably a no go also.

Oh? Oh? What was this? Cat turned her glance to the other Kat and grinned. "Magical Fireworks sounds like a good favorite to me, professor." In fact, it was now her new favorite. Nod. She was going with the Head Girl on this one.

Charely Potter

10-09-2013, 05:55 PM

Wade merely smiled back, happy she was doing great."Thanks, Professor." She was so nice to him, and he liked when Professors were nice. Made the lessons more pleasant and enjoyable. So now the fun things can really begin. His hair had waved a little like the wind afterward.

Having already been seated and comfortable, his eyes ventured to the board as the chalk began to write on its own. ..Hmm? Favorite potion.. His brows furrowed for a moment. There wasn't a lot of potions he could remember taking often, let alone be his favorite. His face looked around the class as he heard a few mentions.. Wait. After seeing his best ruffling mate, Wade rose his hand, "There's.. the Sleekeazy's Hair potion. Makes your hair more manageable." Not that he needed it, heh. But it was the first that he thought of.

Lissy Longbottom

10-09-2013, 06:10 PM

Wait, they got to PICK what potion they wanted to do? SO AWESOME! Caleb immediately sat up in his seat and raised his hand straight into the air. "Polyjuice potion!! It lets you turn into another person, what's NOT to like about that one?" he said in excitement. Anyone who DIDN'T want to do that was just crazy. CRAZY!

amadshade

10-09-2013, 06:19 PM

Tora thought for a bit, listening to what everyone else was saying in regards to what potions they would want to learn. She liked the idea of Polyjuice Potion, but she didn't think there would be enough ingredients in the Professor's store cupboards. She thought about how useful the Draught of Peace would be for her, she knew she had a temper, but she wanted to make something more... interesting. Finally she decided on a very interesting potion.

"Well, Felix Felicis would be really cool to learn how to make," she said with a slight grin and a glint in her eye. Then she thought of the actual potion she was asking to make. "Um, well, I've heard that that's a really tough potion... so if we can't do that one, then how about Invisibility Potion?" she asked brightly. Invisibility was almost as good as Felix Felicis, and could be really useful too.

Team ronmione

10-09-2013, 07:18 PM

So...potions. Not Tag's best subject. Not Tag's most decent subject. Probably his worst subject. But, he was still attending classes because he could improve himself, yes? Yes.

Listening to Professor Lafay. Tag didn't know too many potions off the back of his hand but there was one that a Ravenclaw seemed to have said that caught Tag's attention. "Felix Felicis." He said smiling and pointing at the younger girl. "It's a luck potion. An, who doesn't want luck?"

Luck for life stuff, luck for school, luck with friends. It was an all around good thing. Hopefully. But maybe too much luck....

Also, maybe he needed Felix Felicis. For a leprechaun he had not the greatest luck in the world.

Emzily

10-09-2013, 07:32 PM

Front and center? Really? Theo hauled himself out of his seat and slumped down into one of the ones at the front. How embarrassing, and that meant he had to fully listen to the lesson. Favourite potion? Hmmm... well, now that he thought about it, he couldn't remember any.

Apart from one, of course.

"That Polyjuice Potion." That was it's name, right? "Pretty cool." Theo's hand lazily flopped onto his desk. He heard people talking about the luck potion and daaaaang, that was a good one, why hadn't he said that?

pundantic

10-09-2013, 07:46 PM

"Hello Master Karten." She nodded to the boy.

Hecate took her chalk and charmed it to write it on the blackboard.... "Alright Class... tell me your favorite potion, what they are used for. The one the majority likes will be the one taught in today's class."

Master Karten? Who the heck is Master Karten? His last name was Stark. Was she okay? Zen? That might explain somethings, yeah? S'weird.

Settling into his seat, he just watched her cautiously and didn't answer her first question. He supposed his favourite potion would have been calming draught. S'not that it did much for heights, but it did enough to actually get him on the pitch.

the fastest seeker

10-09-2013, 08:09 PM

So they were going to choose the potion they were going to brew? COOL! Cassia liked the sound of that and a smile tugged at her lips taking in the news. That was why Professor Lafay was at the top of her list while Professor French was at the bottom of it. The woman here let them have a say in what they were going to do. Unlike the man who forced beards on all students. Her forehead creased slightly at the horrible memory. She pushed it to the back of her mind then turned her full attention back on the lesson trying to think what was her favorite potion.

She had a couple of choices on her mind but since there were quite a couple mentioned she decided to back up ones that had already been brought up rather than suggesting a new one.

"The Magical fireworks one is cool," She said. Slytherin girls thing, yeah?

She didn't mind the other mentioned ones like the polyjuice potion and the Felix Felicis, those two were quite cool as well. Same for the hair one.

AlwaysSnapesGirl

10-09-2013, 08:13 PM

Favorite potion? Penelope had never really thought about it honestly. Sure, there were potions she thought were more useful than others, but she'd never really thought of one as her favorite. They were just...potions.

So she just listened to the others for now. The Polyjuice Potion seemed kinda cool but was also kinda strange to her too. It was weird to think someone could look exactly like her or she could look exactly like someone else by taking it. It could be really bad depending on why you were using it. Felix Felicis sounded pretty good though. What wasn't to like about something that gave you good luck? Also the hair potion sounded good, but she could manage her hair just fine without it, so it wasn't at the top of her list. Might be nice sometimes though? Probably. And fireworks were fun. So that one was fine with her too.

Daemon

10-09-2013, 08:26 PM

Benzi thought about the question for a minute or two, and listened to everyone else's answers in the meantime. Some seemed sort of pointless and the fact that the two potions his sworn enemy had said were the ones he was currently most interested in annoyed Benzi enough to decide he was NOT going to say them, on principle.

HMPF.

"Yeah, Polyjuice Potion is a great thing," Benzi stated with his hand raised. He wasn't really sure he'd be able to MAKE said potion, but it would still be really cool to get a head's start on learning how to do it.

hermionesclone

10-09-2013, 08:42 PM

Favourite potion? What if you didn't have a favourite potion? What if... what if you just... happened to think most potions were okay? Apart from the not so great ones. You know, the ones that were likely to harm someone. Alec didn't really like those. He also didn't like the one that made them smell something funky in a tightly enclosed space. ... Yeah... Alec REALLY didn't like that one.

Before he could do so much as face at the memory, the sound of a familiar voice was heard, making him turn his head. HAIR POTION? The boy full on GRINNED at his best hair ruffling mate when he mentioned the hair potion. Trust Wade to think of hair at a time like this. See, why didn't he think of that? Mental hair ruffles for you, Curly Wade.

But... question. Could he just... name one that hadn't been mentioned? One that he liked, somewhat? "Professor?" he started, raising his hand in the air, "There's the Wiggenweld Potion! It's a healing potion! And... and it helps to awaken people from magically induced sleep." Also... did she say that the most popular one would be taught in the lesson? AWESOME.

... Wait... which potion had been mentioned the most?

TeafortheSoul

10-09-2013, 08:43 PM

West shot a small smile at Alice when she sat with him. Not so hard right? And honestly in this particular instance it helped to have her right there.

*blink*

"Master Odessa." She said irritated, "You have been in my class often enough to know I appreciate manners." And he one of her Slytherin at that! "You greet someone when you enter their classroom."

Hecate took her chalk and charmed it to write it on the blackboard.... "Alright Class... tell me your favorite potion, what they are used for. The one the majority likes will be the one taught in today's class."

West didn't respond immediately, but his gaze fell on the professor. "Yes ma'am. Good morning, Professor."

He didn't sound particularly excited about it... but at least he was polite.

And then class started. West was surprised at some of the answers given, since she had said whatever had the most likes would be taught in today's class... and some of those took too long, or were too difficult, and just wouldn't be taught unless they were theory, and what was the fun in that? He supposed he could be smart and choose one that had been chosen to increase its chances of being brewed, but West felt disagreeable in general, and polyjuice didn't sound like fun to him in his current mindset.

He put his hand up. "My favourite is probably the fameludos draught, because it increases endurance and stamina, and the fake fire illusion that it produces is cool, Professor."

Hand down.

Goblinfrog

10-09-2013, 09:07 PM

What potion was her favorite? This one made her pause, there were just too many. Polyjuice potion was her first instinct, but that might be a little weird. More than a little, actually. It seemed incredibly useful, but not just for briefly turning into someone in the class.

So Raven went with her second choice "Felix Felicis is probably my favorite." Who wouldn't love luck and happiness? "It seems kind of like the magic ice cream of last term, just it wears out and you can accomplish real goals."

DaniDiNardo

10-09-2013, 10:21 PM

Oh? It was student's choice this lesson?

The majority were already saying polyjuice. Lex had her favourite, of course she did but at this rate it'd never win, might as well help another cool one win, yeah? Lex raised her hand. "Polyjuice! Yes! Let's do that one!" Of course....who would she wanna look like? Could she be Cassia? The girl had a nice face--oh oh oh! Or she could be Theo and mock him for a while. She could probably out Theo him if she tried and he'd never hit her for it...she didn't think he could bring himself to hitting his own face.

If polyjuice didn't win then fireworks had to on account of explosions and she liked those a lot.

They could keep them afterward and the homework would be something epic, explosive, spectacular. On second thought...she wanted the fireworks. Could she change her vote? Was it too late?

No?

Expecto-Penguin

10-09-2013, 11:40 PM

Kace was interested that it was a student's choice lesson! His ears perked up and he was sitting up straight. He thought of what potion he would love to make. He heard his fellow classmates say they wanted to make Polyjuice Potion. He would like to learn that but he remembered it was a complex potion to do.

He heard other ideas and the one idea that stood out to him was the Felix Felicis. He wanted a potion that would make him lucky one day. He raised his hand, "Professor i would like to make the Felix Felicis! That sounds like a cool potion to make!"

Cassirin

10-09-2013, 11:50 PM

Mo scooted down his bench a bit to be closer to Miss Caterina Moretti, who was... well, look at that. She was now his lab partner. Funny how that worked. Magical fireworks earned her a look, mostly one of speculation and consideration. It wasn't a bad thought, but did it qualify? Technically speaking?

He considered some of the other options. What did they really have time for? Nothing he could suggest that would win at this point. Shrug shrug shrug. "Volubilis Potion, professor."

Anna Banana

10-09-2013, 11:59 PM

Oh? Any potion they wanted?!

PERFECT! They pretty much held the world in the palm of their hands now, because...you could do so, so much with potions. Now Sophie just had to hope that a really good potion would be said by the majority, because although all potions were good in their own way, some were way better than others.

She didn't even have to think about her answer. She raised her hand and said, "Felix Felicis, because it makes you lucky and successful at whatever you try to do." So obviously she'd think that one through carefully and attempt something really awesome that might even make her go down in history.

Steelsheen

10-10-2013, 12:55 AM

The brunette was readying her potions materials when she felt someone join her workarea. The sullen side glance melted away quickly when she saw who it was "Hello there Lex" the dark eyed Ravenclaw greeted the Gryffindor blonde with her usual smirk, raising an amused brow at her question "--Because it's free." Elusive smile. Take that as you will Lioness.

quote was here before phone eated iiitttt :(
Huxley nodded demurely at the Potions Mistress. She was pretty confident with her organizing skills, but would always welcome if the Professor wanted to shift a few things around.

And now the class was starting, of which the first question got this Ravenclaw to nearly drop her jaw. They could suggest any potion and the Professor would teach them that today? And doth her hearing deceive her or is a certain potion's name echoing gleefully around the room? Suddenly it was Christmas morning "I am also keen to learn the Polyjuice potion Professor. It would certainly provide an opportunity to develop certain skills sets such as patience and precision which are desirable traits in future Potioneers."

Droo

10-10-2013, 02:29 AM

Really well this was a bit different. So they got to choose the potion well. Nigel would love it to be Felix Felicis. But that seemed a little too hard for students to do and why would you want to do a polyjuice potion in class. That is best left for "personal" uses. Nigel raised his hand and suggested.

"Elixir to Induce Euphoria. It is used to cause irrational happiness upon the drinker."

Causing people to become inexplicably happy did seem like a lot of fun. Plus Nigel did not think the potion was too difficult. Nigel did hope that Felix Felicis won. Liquid Luck did sound awesome.

Laura raised her hand. "Professor my favourite potion will have to be the Polyjuice Potion because I could become anyone I want to be, it seems such a great potion and if you were in trouble you could disguise yourself as someone else." Laura really thought that it would be fun to change her appearance.

Annabeth waved back at her friend Adi, smiling at him.
"If you need some help during this class, I can help you", she muttered to him.
Then she turned her head to Lafay, as she heard the teacher asking a question.

The girl raised her hand.
"Professor Lafay, Antidote for Common Poisons is one of my favorites." Would it have something to do with the fact she had worked as babysitter to Lafay during last Summer? Of course not, she had never felt afraid of being poisoned by the teacher... no, no, no... Annabeth repeated it to herself, afraid that the teacher could read her mind. She took some time before adding, "I think Cure for Boils will also be very useful for us." She pointed one finger to a big red point on her right cheek.

Favorite potions, eh? Ella listened to her classmates and frowned slightly when Elixir to Induce Euphoria was mentioned. That reminded her a little too much of what had happened with the ice cream and she was still a bit upset about that. Ice cream was her favorite ever, y'know? It just wasn't the same since the ice cream here had been messed with.

Anyway, what was her favorite potion? After thinking about it for a minute or two, her hand went up.

"My favorite is the Dresden Draught, Professor. It enables the drinker to stay awake and concentrate better on whatever they are doing." Which...was extremely useful when you found yourself trying to do a million and one things during the day.

They got to decide what they were going to be taught? That was new... well, Adrienne certainly wasn't complaining, that was for sure. She was always glad to have a say in things, although being that things were usually majority rules, she wasn't usually represented in the final choices. Well, still better to make an attempt at getting her ideas out there and- had two people already said Polyjuice Potion? Really? Adrienne had never tried the stuff, of course, but it looked absolutely disgusting, and from what she'd read transformations could be incredibly painful. No, thank you. Hopefully they'd be outnumbered.

Hmm... favourite potion. Adrienne had a few, but she should probably only list one, as Lafay tended to be rather literal in her questions and she'd only asked for a singular favourite potion. "How about Erumpent Potion?" Not particularly useful, just kind of awesome. "It explodes when it touches things," she added as its uses. Why would you need that? Adrienne had no idea, but she was sure she could find something to do with a liquid explosion.

"Thank you, Professor," Kat thanked Lafay. Yeah sure, it was about the badge. Didn't it bring some sort of Slytherin pride or what? Because it did make Kat feel proud and that stuff. She had her reasons to be proud of it. Head Girl and all, so why not?

But the lesson was about to start. Favourite potion? What they'll be brewing in class today. That was awesome. Kat thought of a potion she liked best, which was a bit hard because she had a lot to choose from. Like Polyjuice, Fameludos, and those interesting ones. It took her a while to choose one potion, even if it was part of a tie of her favourite potions... which was pretty much everything. She liked Potions and it was hard to choose just one. "Magical fireworks. It's not exactly a potion, but I guess the name already speaks for itself. The potion will make magical fireworks and we don't have to ignite a flame in order for it to work." It was something she'd like to brew since hadn't really brewed it before so she was taking this chance.

Her favourite potion... Sarah had lots of favourites. The acne one would be useful for teenagers. The anti paralysing one would be good for a paralsed person, although none were present in the class. Wit sharpening potion or Draught of piece.. wit sharpening was easier, so perhaps.. Sarah raised her hand, "How about Draught of Peace... it would be useful for those with OWLs, NEWTs, Quidditch and Triwizard participants." She said, "when a person stresses, it destoys the neuron connections in their minds. So all practice will get undone"

Her favorite potion? Caterina was rather partial to Felix Felicis herself. Who didn't like to win? She certainly liked being a winner. However, from what she knew of the potion, it probably wasn't one that Lafay would do in one class. Took too long. She was also interested in Quodpot Solution. They could make some of that and then they could all go play Quodpot, yes? ...No. That was probably a no go also.

Oh? Oh? What was this? Cat turned her glance to the other Kat and grinned. "Magical Fireworks sounds like a good favorite to me, professor." In fact, it was now her new favorite. Nod. She was going with the Head Girl on this one.

Wade merely smiled back, happy she was doing great."Thanks, Professor." She was so nice to him, and he liked when Professors were nice. Made the lessons more pleasant and enjoyable. So now the fun things can really begin. His hair had waved a little like the wind afterward.

Having already been seated and comfortable, his eyes ventured to the board as the chalk began to write on its own. ..Hmm? Favorite potion.. His brows furrowed for a moment. There wasn't a lot of potions he could remember taking often, let alone be his favorite. His face looked around the class as he heard a few mentions.. Wait. After seeing his best ruffling mate, Wade rose his hand, "There's.. the Sleekeazy's Hair potion. Makes your hair more manageable." Not that he needed it, heh. But it was the first that he thought of.

Wait, they got to PICK what potion they wanted to do? SO AWESOME! Caleb immediately sat up in his seat and raised his hand straight into the air. "Polyjuice potion!! It lets you turn into another person, what's NOT to like about that one?" he said in excitement. Anyone who DIDN'T want to do that was just crazy. CRAZY!

Tora thought for a bit, listening to what everyone else was saying in regards to what potions they would want to learn. She liked the idea of Polyjuice Potion, but she didn't think there would be enough ingredients in the Professor's store cupboards. She thought about how useful the Draught of Peace would be for her, she knew she had a temper, but she wanted to make something more... interesting. Finally she decided on a very interesting potion.

"Well, Felix Felicis would be really cool to learn how to make," she said with a slight grin and a glint in her eye. Then she thought of the actual potion she was asking to make. "Um, well, I've heard that that's a really tough potion... so if we can't do that one, then how about Invisibility Potion?" she asked brightly. Invisibility was almost as good as Felix Felicis, and could be really useful too.

So...potions. Not Tag's best subject. Not Tag's most decent subject. Probably his worst subject. But, he was still attending classes because he could improve himself, yes? Yes.

Listening to Professor Hecate. Tag didn't know too many potions off the back of his hand but there was one that a Ravenclaw seemed to have said that caught Tag's attention. "Felix Felicis." He said smiling and pointing at the younger girl. "It's a luck potion. An, who doesn't want luck?"

Luck for life stuff, luck for school, luck with friends. It was an all around good thing. Hopefully. But maybe too much luck....

Also, maybe he needed Felix Felicis. For a leprechaun he had not the greatest luck in the world.

Front and center? Really? Theo hauled himself out of his seat and slumped down into one of the ones at the front. How embarrassing, and that meant he had to fully listen to the lesson. Favourite potion? Hmmm... well, now that he thought about it, he couldn't remember any.

Apart from one, of course.

"That Polyjuice Potion." That was it's name, right? "Pretty cool." Theo's hand lazily flopped onto his desk. He heard people talking about the luck potion and daaaaang, that was a good one, why hadn't he said that?

So they were going to choose the potion they were going to brew? COOL! Cassia liked the sound of that and a smile tugged at her lips taking in the news. That was why Professor Lafay was at the top of her list while Professor French was at the bottom of it. The woman here let them have a say in what they were going to do. Unlike the man who forced beards on all students. Her forehead creased slightly at the horrible memory. She pushed it to the back of her mind then turned her full attention back on the lesson trying to think what was her favorite potion.

She had a couple of choices on her mind but since there were quite a couple mentioned she decided to back up ones that had already been brought up rather than suggesting a new one.

"The Magical fireworks one is cool," She said. Slytherin girls thing, yeah?

She didn't mind the other mentioned ones like the polyjuice potion and the Felix Felicis, those two were quite cool as well. Same for the hair one.

Benzi thought about the question for a minute or two, and listened to everyone else's answers in the meantime. Some seemed sort of pointless and the fact that the two potions his sworn enemy had said were the ones he was currently most interested in annoyed Benzi enough to decide he was NOT going to say them, on principle.

HMPF.

"Yeah, Polyjuice Potion is a great thing," Benzi stated with his hand raised. He wasn't really sure he'd be able to MAKE said potion, but it would still be really cool to get a head's start on learning how to do it.

Favourite potion? What if you didn't have a favourite potion? What if... what if you just... happened to think most potions were okay? Apart from the not so great ones. You know, the ones that were likely to harm someone. Alec didn't really like those. He also didn't like the one that made them smell something funky in a tightly enclosed space. ... Yeah... Alec REALLY didn't like that one.

Before he could do so much as face at the memory, the sound of a familiar voice was heard, making him turn his head. HAIR POTION? The boy full on GRINNED at his best hair ruffling mate when he mentioned the hair potion. Trust Wade to think of hair at a time like this. See, why didn't he think of that? Mental hair ruffles for you, Curly Wade.

But... question. Could he just... name one that hadn't been mentioned? One that he liked, somewhat? "Professor?" he started, raising his hand in the air, "There's the Wiggenweld Potion! It's a healing potion! And... and it helps to awaken people from magically induced sleep." Also... did she say that the most popular one would be taught in the lesson? AWESOME.

... Wait... which potion had been mentioned the most?

West shot a small smile at Alice when she sat with him. Not so hard right? And honestly in this particular instance it helped to have her right there.

West didn't respond immediately, but his gaze fell on the professor. "Yes ma'am. Good morning, Professor."

He didn't sound particularly excited about it... but at least he was polite.

And then class started. West was surprised at some of the answers given, since she had said whatever had the most likes would be taught in today's class... and some of those took too long, or were too difficult, and just wouldn't be taught unless they were theory, and what was the fun in that? He supposed he could be smart and choose one that had been chosen to increase its chances of being brewed, but West felt disagreeable in general, and polyjuice didn't sound like fun to him in his current mindset.

He put his hand up. "My favourite is probably the fameludos draught, because it increases endurance and stamina, and the fake fire illusion that it produces is cool, Professor."

Hand down.

What potion was her favorite? This one made her pause, there were just too many. Polyjuice potion was her first instinct, but that might be a little weird. More than a little, actually. It seemed incredibly useful, but not just for briefly turning into someone in the class.

So Raven went with her second choice "Felix Felicis is probably my favorite." Who wouldn't love luck and happiness? "It seems kind of like the magic ice cream of last term, just it wears out and you can accomplish real goals."

Oh? It was student's choice this lesson?

The majority were already saying polyjuice. Lex had her favourite, of course she did but at this rate it'd never win, might as well help another cool one win, yeah? Lex raised her hand. "Polyjuice! Yes! Let's do that one!" Of course....who would she wanna look like? Could she be Cassia? The girl had a nice face--oh oh oh! Or she could be Theo and mock him for a while. She could probably out Theo him if she tried and he'd never hit her for it...she didn't think he could bring himself to hitting his own face.

If polyjuice didn't win then fireworks had to on account of explosions and she liked those a lot.

They could keep them afterward and the homework would be something epic, explosive, spectacular. On second thought...she wanted the fireworks. Could she change her vote? Was it too late?

No?

Kace was interested that it was a student's choice lesson! His ears perked up and he was sitting up straight. He thought of what potion he would love to make. He heard his fellow classmates say they wanted to make Polyjuice Potion. He would like to learn that but he remembered it was a complex potion to do.

He heard other ideas and the one idea that stood out to him was the Felix Felicis. He wanted a potion that would make him lucky one day. He raised his hand, "Professor i would like to make the Felix Felicis! That sounds like a cool potion to make!"

Mo scooted down his bench a bit to be closer to Miss Caterina Moretti, who was... well, look at that. She was now his lab partner. Funny how that worked. Magical fireworks earned her a look, mostly one of speculation and consideration. It wasn't a bad thought, but did it qualify? Technically speaking?

He considered some of the other options. What did they really have time for? Nothing he could suggest that would win at this point. Shrug shrug shrug. "Volubilis Potion, professor."

The brunette was readying her potions materials when she felt someone join her workarea. The sullen side glance melted away quickly when she saw who it was "Hello there Lex" the dark eyed Ravenclaw greeted the Gryffindor blonde with her usual smirk, raising an amused brow at her question "--Because it's free." Elusive smile. Take that as you will Lioness.

[spoiler=Lafay]quote was here before phone eated iiitttt :(
Huxley nodded demurely at the Potions Mistress. She was pretty confident with her organizing skills, but would always welcome if the Professor wanted to shift a few things around.

And now the class was starting, of which the first question got this Ravenclaw to nearly drop her jaw. They could suggest any potion and the Professor would teach them that today? And doth her hearing deceive her or is a certain potion's name echoing gleefully around the room? Suddenly it was Christmas morning "I am also keen to learn the Polyjuice potion Professor. It would certainly provide an opportunity to develop certain skills sets such as patience and precision which are desirable traits in future Potioneers."
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"So it sounds as if polyjuice is the potion to brew..." She told the class. "Does anyone remember what the ingredients were in it?"

Bazinga

10-10-2013, 03:00 AM

Minerva groaned softly when she heard Lafay say it was going to be polyjuice potion. Not that she really minded making it. It was a more advanced potion and she was up for the challenge, it was the thought of testing it out that freaked her out more. Who would she have to test it with. She glanced at Wade could be worse people. Maybe if they had to she could just become him or something. Shrugging the thought away for now Min pulled out her parchment ready to take notes on their lesson. She would need it for her NEWTs anyway so why not get a jump.

Thinking about the ingredients she raised her hand, "Professor there are leeches, and broomslang skin needed to make the potion." Plus something off the person they were going to become or would they use their own piece to make it so in the end it would become a potion that would turn them into themselves. Well that made no sense, but she figured they might trade, who knew all she knew was thinking about the possibilities gave her a headache.

Charely Potter

10-10-2013, 03:08 AM

Hmm.. Polyjuice potion. Wade's brows furrowed for a moment, before shrugging. Could've been worse. Assuming they would end up drinking it themselves later on.. Sure, there were some his closest friends like Indy, Min, Alec, and Ella whose appearance he would be okay with trading... Still though, he liked being himself very much already. But oh well.

Now the ingredients for it? Wade rose his hand to answer, "Knotgrass is also one of the ingredients." He knew the most important one too, but instead he let someone else get the chance to say it.

lazykitty

10-10-2013, 03:10 AM

Wha......? Polyjuice Potion? What were those guys thinking? Though, she felt partly responsible, since she hadn't piped up soon enough to add her vote to the Felix Felicis column. But, as long as she didn't have to turn into anyone she didn't like. Or..... actually that might be fun, see how badly she could mess stuff up for them.

Anyway, ingredients. "You need a piece of hair or something like that from the person you're turning into."

lemon

10-10-2013, 03:45 AM

Hecate took her chalk and charmed it to write it on the blackboard.... "Alright Class... tell me your favorite potion, what they are used for. The one the majority likes will be the one taught in today's class."

She smiled back at West a little before proceeding to watch Lafay scold him for not providing her with a proper greeting.

... was she turning into Bellaire now or what?

Favorite potion? Alice didn't have a favorite, but there were plenty she wanted to brew one day. "Gregory's Unctuous Unction is an interesting one, professor. It makes the drinker believe that whomever gave them with potion is their best friend."

A million uses for that, for sure.
The Polyjuice potion, then. It definitely wasn't something she wanted to brew in class, but she'd manage it. Alice stole another glance over at West and then lifted her hand into the air again to offer an answer. "Fluxweed's an important ingredient in that potion, professor." Mutability of the body for changing and whatnot. Super important to the purpose of that concoction.

And then her gaze went to West again. Smile, West. If she could have forced his face into happier expressions in the middle of class, she would have.

Zellanna

10-10-2013, 03:53 AM

Maika raised her hand. "Um, powdered bicorn horn is in it, right?" After a pause, she couldn't help asking, "Doesn't it take too long to brew for us to do it in one class session?"

DaniDiNardo

10-10-2013, 05:02 AM

The brunette was readying her potions materials when she felt someone join her workarea. The sullen side glance melted away quickly when she saw who it was "Hello there Lex" the dark eyed Ravenclaw greeted the Gryffindor blonde with her usual smirk, raising an amused brow at her question "--Because it's free." Elusive smile. Take that as you will Lioness.

Because it was free...?

Well! Couldn't argue with that logic. Lex had learned from a recent conversation with the Ravenclaw that asking her questions was a mistake. You'd only end up more confused than you were at the start of the questions and would be no closer to finding out an answer either. There was nothing worse than wanting to know something but being unable to. The fourth year gave her a slight raise of her eyebrow but that was about it for the daring to question. More questions later though, mmkay?

Attention to the Professor once again. Polyjuice won?? WOOT!! Who's hair could she pluck? Did they need permission? What if she didn't feel like asking? Was donating your own hair optional? Suppose she didn't want anyone walking around with her face even as she went around being someone else? Was there a way to ask all these questions without getting hexed??? Probably not so she settled for simply answering the question asked of her.

"Lacewing flies are used in it as well."

No questions Lex, no.

hermygirl

10-10-2013, 10:42 AM

Polyjuice potion? Benjy wrinkled his nose. He didn't know anyone he wanted to turn into, especially since it'd mean having to drink something contain one of their hairs. Like, ew. As if Lafay would let them play around with it anyway...

Sigh.

He raised his hand. "Not just any fluxweed, if I remember rightly," Benjy responded to the Gryffie Captain's answer. "Doesn't it have to be picked at the full moon?" And that was an important difference.

Emzily

10-10-2013, 11:34 AM

"So it sounds as if polyjuice is the potion to brew..." She told the class. "Does anyone remember what the ingredients were in it?"

No way.

He couldn't remember most of the ingredients, apart from the most obvious one. Theo raised his hand and said, "A part of the person you're turning into. Like, a hair." Borrowing limbs was a bit extreme, of course.

amadshade

10-10-2013, 12:06 PM

Tora honestly had no clue about what ingredients were in this particular potion, and so she remained silent. It would be basically cheating if she just repeated one of her classmate's answers and she didn't feel like being dishonest, especially in this class.

She pulled out a nice piece of parchment and rummaged about a bit for some quills and ink. Her wavy blonde hair kept flopping in her eyes and it was getting rather annoying so, before Professor Lafay could scold her on her hair, she quickly tossed it up into a bouncy ponytail. Weird, having her hair up. She shook her head a couple times and continued getting out her things.

Scribble, scribble, scribble Notes, notes, notes.

TeafortheSoul

10-10-2013, 12:12 PM

Hand up, West added, "Potassium nitrate, Mercury, and Iron." Sure. He looked back at Alice, managed a small smile, and then returned his attention to the professor at the front of the room.

Lissy Longbottom

10-10-2013, 12:14 PM

Caleb didn't know any REAL ingredients in the potion, but he DID remember that the polyjuice potion required DNA of the person you wanted to become, so he raised his hand. "Professor, the most ESSENTIAL ingredient is hair, toenails, basically something containing the 'essence' of the person you want to turn into. Without it, you're just drinking a nasty drink that won't do anything," he said. At least, he didn't THINK anything would happen. Or maybe you grew tentacles and five heads. Who knew? Caleb was not planning on trying THAT any time soon!

FearlessLeader19

10-10-2013, 12:24 PM

Adi practically bounced in i his seat when he heard they were indeed going to brew the Polyjuice Potion. How awesome this first class was going to be!

An ingredient? Sure! Adi knew them! Or most of them. He raised his hand, as he looked curiously at West. Those were not ingredients for the Potion he had listed. "Boomslang skin, Professor,'' the first year said.

starlight617

10-10-2013, 12:36 PM

Marissa raised her hand, "Boomslang skin is one of the ingredients needed Professor." the first year said with certainty, she had seen the potion brewed before and knew as a first year it was going to be difficult.

oh its Erik ok

10-10-2013, 12:56 PM

Sigh. So they were doing polyjuice potion. Nigel had hoped the magical fireworks won. Those sounded like a good time or the hair potion. Hair is important. Nigel raised his hand and offered

"You need lacewing flies that have been stewed for twenty-one days."

Polyjuice Potion was not an easy potion to make.

Sonea

10-10-2013, 01:27 PM

Again a question? Why were there so much questions in a lesson? Pffff... she just wanted to make a potion and to work, and not just sitting in a classroom only answering questions! Even reading and studying from her schoolbooks was better than answering questions the whole time!!! PFFFF, she really hated the cold and it was affecting her temper for today, so she just stared with her arms folded at the professor. She knew the potion, and she knew the answer but she still didn't wanted to answer! Only a stupid kid wouldn't know the answer for this question! AND SHE WAS NOT STUPID! She was a really smart girl but she just didn't wanted to speak out lout, she wasn't a nerd or something like that...

TakemetotheBurrow

10-10-2013, 01:56 PM

They were seriously making Polyjuice Potion? Like...this was happening? Ella had an uneasy feeling because first off, she didn't fancy anyone plucking anything out of her hair ever and secondly, she didn't know if she'd be comfortable taking anyone else's. Hm. This was definitely going to be interesting, that was for sure.

As for ingredients, Ella listened to those offered by her classmates and tried to offer something new to the list. "You need bicorn horn, Professor."

Princesspower

10-10-2013, 03:54 PM

All the ingreidients had been mentioned by the time Sarah come about. She knew all those ingreidients. At least the textual part of potions did not scare her off as it was not stressful. She raised her hand, "in the potion supplies, are all these ingreidients available ready to be used? Like the Lacewing flies" she asked.

She was not that happy about all the students of the classroom making that potion.. Could all of them be trusted?

Harron Peasley

10-10-2013, 03:58 PM

Polyjuice potion? Charlie hesitated, because she wasn't sure whether she wanted to turn into someone else. She supposed she could just brew the potion, and not take any? Yes, she could get someone else to test it for her.

Raising her hand, she tried to remember what she'd read, that hadn't been said already. "Fluxweed is needed, right, Professor?"

Anna Banana

10-10-2013, 04:02 PM

"So it sounds as if polyjuice is the potion to brew..." She told the class. "Does anyone remember what the ingredients were in it?"

POLYJUICE POTION?!

But whyyy? Sophie had wanted to brew liquid luck, because although she didn't know what she specifically wanted to be lucky with, she knew she could come up with something really, really good. Polyjuice Potion could be beneficial in its own way, though...

So, onto the ingredients. Sophie was a little late all thanks to her inner thinking, and within seconds most of the ingredients had been spewed out. MERLIN. She raised her hand anyway, though. "Well, before you start gathering hair and all that other DNA-type stuff, you should decide who you're going to transform into," she said. "I mean, this could all mean nothing if you don't think this through and come up with somebody really beneficial."

Like the Headmistress or something...

Kimothy

10-10-2013, 04:08 PM

Ingredients for Polyjuice Potion. Clearly they all just started enumerating the different ingredients they knew, but Kat somehow waited for the end because she wanted to make sure nothing got left out. Some of them didn't mention the other ingredients that Kat knew so that was when she raised her hand to answer.

"There's crude antimony in the Potion, professor," she said. Because she had read her Potions book and other references from the library... for about fifteen times and still counting.

hermionesclone

10-10-2013, 04:09 PM

Oh? So they were going to be making Polyjuice Potion? Did that mean... that they were going to... taste some of it? For some reason, Alec's eyes flew over towards Wade and, more specifically, Wade's hair. How AWESOME would it be to have that hair? But then again... he probably wouldn't be able to stop touching his hair if he had Wade's hair so maybe it wasn't a good idea.

Maybe.

Shaking his head, the boy turned his attention towards the front again. Ingredients, yeah? He thought for a moment, trying to remember what he had read in the book from the OWLs study. ... Erm...? Could he offer something new? Something people hadn't said before? Taking a deep breath, he raised a hand in the air and offered, "Erm... Sal Ammoniac, Professor?" That was what the book had said, right?

JennMarie

10-10-2013, 04:21 PM

Polyjuice potion...................

Didn't that take like forever to brew? like weeks? or something? surely they couldn't do it ll in class. alas the seventh year didn't know any of the ingredients needed for said potion mainly cause she was never one to look up ingredients for said potions she wasn't brewing or studying, so she just joted down things she heard, weather they were right or not the girl hadn't a clue.

aaetha

10-10-2013, 04:51 PM

They were actually making Polyjuice Potion? Adrienne scowled. Wasn't that supposed to be really hard to make? And wasn't it supposed to take like a month to brew? How exactly were they supposed to manage that within a single class period? She'd assumed Lafay would just disregard stupid ideas, but apparently not. Apparently, instead, they were going to make a stupid potion for making stupid people turn into other stupid people, and it was highly likely they wouldn't actually be able to use it because there was probably some stupid rule against it. Stupid.

And not nearly as awesome as something that makes explosions that she could probably sneak up to the dorm if she tried and cause explosions where they were usually prohibited. But no, her dreams were apparently crushed. Adrienne crossed her arms and sulked in her seat until a question was asked, at which point she chimed in with a raised hand and an answer that she was surprised few people had said so far. "Boomslang skin, too."

Team ronmione

10-10-2013, 06:01 PM

Polyjuice potion. Haha. Nope. Tag didn't know the ingredients to this potion so he was just going to sit back and listen to his classmates. Gosh. All those ingredients sounded so foreign to him. Was he still at Hogwarts?

Besides why would people want to turn into someone else? Lame. Tag was happy with who he was and didn't need to pretend to be anyone else.

So silence from Tag. He didn't care much either.

Daemon

10-10-2013, 08:55 PM

No more unknowledgeable Benzi. He had read up. Done his prehomework homework. Talked to his older cousins who'd taken potions. He KNEW this.

Hand up. Mouth open. Speech. "Potass-" Wait. Someone already said that.

Stuck with his hand up like an idiot, Benzi quickly scanned his mind for something that HASN'T been said. He came up with nothing but one little thing. "Professor, the Sal Ammoniac should not the the yellow kind." .. Eh, better than nothing.

StarShine

10-10-2013, 09:03 PM

Forrest knew this one, and only because it was interesting. Otherwise, he still disliked the class a lot. And feared the professor. But he raised his hand anyway, because he was thirteen now and that meant he was a man.

"We need leeches," he said proudly--someone had never mentioned that before. He was such a great student!

PuppySara

10-10-2013, 09:08 PM

Polyjuice potion? This took forever yes? So how on earth were they supposed to make it in one class... or would this go on even longer than one class. And wasn't it also supposed to be really really disgusting? And hard to make, like an advanced potion? Why were they doing this exactly? He fought a sigh and thought for a second about what would be needed to brew this awful potion, "Well, professor when the potion's done you're going to change into whoever you'll need something of themselves, normally their hair is the easiest to get... So it's kind of an ingredient... right?" Because you couldn't change without it... maybe he'd just sound stupid, hopefully not though.

Cassirin

10-10-2013, 10:05 PM

Hmm. So they WERE going to do Polyjuice? Mo immediately started scouting for someone he might be willing to change into. Or who he might be willing to let change into him. It was difficult, considering that he didn't want to embarrass or be embarrassed, and he didn't want to entrust his body to anyone who might abuse that privilege.

West. He wanted West. Obviously. Might be awesome to see what it was like being really tall too.

Oh, ingredients. Technically, not an ingredient, but Mo raised his hand anyway. "Time, I think, Professor. This is a potion that takes loads of time to prepare... the lacewing flies have to be stewed for twenty-one days, you know? So I guess time and preparation?"

Felixir

10-10-2013, 11:55 PM

Tobias just stayed quiet. Everyone else had covered all the ingredients he'd ever known was in the potion. Every now and then somebody mentioned something and Toby wanted to point out how long that ingredient would have to be stewed, or when it needed to be picked, or how crushed up it needed to be.

But everyone had it covered, so all Toby did was sit there and wait for all that talking to be finished while he sat there, swinging his legs lightly and entertaining himself by trying to balance a quill on his upper lip to make a quill-stache, by pouting his lips to keep it there.

It was difficult, but he was determined.

Ivana R

10-11-2013, 02:00 AM

Annabeth got upset. For her, Polyjuice Potion was useless. She didn't want to change her appearance; it dislikes her too much thinking about to assume the form of someone else. And if the potion went wrong? And if Professor Lafay would make them to sip it? It would be nice if she could change the teacher's mind...
She raised her hand.
"Professor Lafay, I read somewhere that bicorn horn is used to prepare the Polyjuice Potion." Somewhere means in your exemplar of the Moste Potente Potions, professor - she added in thought. "I also read that it's very hard to do and demands too much time... I was wondering if we have enough time during this class... and if we have all those weird ingredients..." Would it be enough for the teacher reversing her decision?

Lizasaurus

10-11-2013, 02:11 AM

Polyjuice potion? Her eyes were wide with surprise, she didn't know how she felt about the idea of changing into someone else. That just would be weird! They didn't have to test the potion. Right? She hoped not. Well, they couldn't finish it in one class anyway, right? Chewing her lip she listened as people started answering the question, she raised her hand and answered "Fluxweed. And it must be picked only at full moon."

Expecto-Penguin

10-11-2013, 02:27 AM

So they were making polyjuice potion? That was kind of cool. Kace was kind of excited to do it. He thought it was illegal to brew this potion but i guess if they were under professor supervision then it was alright.

She wondered what ingredients there would be. He knew all the students listed the ingredients off why repeat any of them. But he did remember that this potion took a lot of time to brew. Let's see what the professor could do with this potion.

pundantic

10-11-2013, 03:20 AM

The polyjuice potion. Heh. That would be a fun one to brew. True, it would take time and a lot of precise care, but when it was done it would turn the castle upside down. Everyone switching into other people.

.......which could be problematic.

Yeah, he needed to talk to some people about this, yeah? Didn't want anyone getting taken advantage of. Eyes for all of the people in yellow. They all seemed bright and cheery, but Ascanius knew better.

By the time he finished contemplating all of this, everyone had listed all of the ingredients that he knew. So he just sat back and watched and waited.

Droo

10-11-2013, 06:30 AM

TeafortheSoul

10-11-2013, 08:13 AM

Suddenly a note, shaped like a butterfly, flew straight to Hecate's desk. As the woman read the note her face darkened. "Students," She said, getting her things together. "I'm being called away with an emergency. This does not mean class is dismissed. I want you to pick a potion from the recipe book and make it. Then leave it on your table labeled with your name. Head Boy, Head Girl, you will take charge and make sure everyone follows the rules."

... Hopefully she'd be back before the class period would end. And she quickly escaped the classroom.

ooc: Hecate may be gone, but I'm not... *WINK WINK*

West noted Lafay's expression change and watched her get her things together. An emergency? He hoped everything was okay. He didn't mind being left to it though, since it meant he could brew the potion he wanted to do. Should he do Fameludos? Orrr somehting else? He opened his textbook and began flipping through it, only pausing to take Alice's hand for a moment and giving it a squeeze. Hi. He was for real glad that she was sitting with him, he was.

Anyways, textbook....

.... he looked up at Alice... and then down at the book.

Yeah. He knew what he was going to brew. The Dreamer's Elixer.

Dreamer's Elixer

Use/Effect:
A potion to make the drinker forget or remember their dreams

Ingredients:
water
1 cup of valerian root
half a cup of Kava Kava
1 deadly nightshade berry
8 leaves of devil's weed
1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds
1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent
10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi

Procedure
clean cauldron
fill with water to brim
light burner
wait for water to boil
add valerian root
add Kava Kava
clean 18 carat gold
prick deadly nightshade berry with needle to get one drop
burn berry
drop the one drop into cauldron
burn & clean needle
slice devil's weed along the vein with a silver knife
add leaves to cauldron
dip your pestle in the cauldron, shake it a bit, so it's just wet and not dripping
put Poison Hemlock seeds into your mortar, crush them into a mush
use wooden spoon to add to cauldron
put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy
drop poppy let the potion wilt it on it's own and it will sink to the bottom of the cauldron

Stopping here makes the drinker does not dream. To allow the drinker to remember their dreams vividly continue as follows:

add Calea Zacatechichi leaves and allow them to dissolve
potion should be purple
while thinking about a recent dream move wand over cauldron in a semi circle motion and say Sopororis

starlight617

10-11-2013, 12:19 PM

Marissa pulled out her textbook and flipped through it looking for a spell that was fairly easy since she had never brewed a potion she found one and placed her book on the table and went to gather the things she needed for it.

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Lizasaurus

10-11-2013, 12:33 PM

Watching as the professor got a note and suddenly said she had to leave she just stared after she left the room. That was odd... Opening her book she started flipping through the pages of the potions trying to decide which one to brew. She passed a number of them she'd done in class and a few her mum had shown her how to make. Pausing she read over the Dresden Draught, then left the book open to it. Reading through the potion she started heading for the cabinet and grabbing the ingredients she needed.

Dresden Draught

Use/Effect:
The potions helps you keep awake, content and better at concentrating.

Ingredients:

Water
Armadillo Bile
Bottle of a muggle soft drink called Pepsi
Cherry syrup
Powdered moonstone
A chocolate bar

Instructions:

Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Add the armadillo Bile
Add the bottle of the muggle soft drink called Pepsi
Add the cherry syrup
Stir until the potion goes from a pinky red colour to pale purple
Add the powdered moonstone
Add the entire bar and wait till it dissolves rapidly and faint wisps of white smoke erupts off the surface of the potion.
Let cool

aaetha

10-11-2013, 12:46 PM

Adrienne blinked. Oookay. Apparently they weren't making Polyjuice Potion after all. And Lafay was leaving because of something she'd read in a note. That was incredibly suspicious, and probably had something to do either with the suspicious Arithmancy door or the probably-spies she'd run into in Hogsmeade. Whatever it was, something was up. But, for now, it meant she didn't have to make Polyjuice Potion! Adrienne eagerly leafed through her book, looking for Erumpent Potion, but she ended up in the H's before she saw it. With a slight disappointed frown, she glanced through the pages and decided do go with Hair Removal paste, since it looked pretty simple and would probably be really useful in her endeavours to annoy people, namely her cousins.

Hair Removal Paste
Use/Effect:
Removes hair

Ingredients:
beeswax (2 tablespoons)
juice from 5 flobberworms, freshly squeezed
shrivelfig (1, peeled & crushed)
calendula oil (10 drops)

Instructions:
melt wax in cauldron
add flobberworm juice and stir over high heat for 5 minutes, alternate stirring clockwise and counterclockwise every minute
add shrivelfig and stew over a low flame for 30 minutes
remove from heat and allow to cool completely before applying
add calendula oil after cooled and before application

Notes:
Can add essential oils for fragrance. Apply to area requiring hair removal, allow to stand for 5 minutes, and remove with a warm, moist, cloth. Discard after 24 hours

oh its Erik ok

10-11-2013, 12:54 PM

So.....He did not have to do the polyjuice potion. Sounded alright to The Prefect since he did not really have any want to. And a potion of his choice did sound like an awesome idea.

Nigel remembered Wade talk about a hair potion and want to do that. But could not find it in a book. So.....Essence of Insanity it was.

Essence of Insanity

Use/Effect: causes irrational behavior & possibly inflicting the condition of insanity

Ingredients
Water
5 Ailhotsy leaves
5 Lovage leaves
5 Drops of reem's blood
5 Bursting mushrooms
5 Inches of asphodel root
5 Tbsp of chopped fwooper voice box
5 Flowers of brugmansia
5 Snake fangs
5 Oz of wormwood
5 Sneezewort petals

Procedure
clean all appliances
fill cauldron with water
light burner
crush Ailhotsy leaves & Lovage leaves with mortar and pestle
twist tops off exploding mushrooms AFTER administering Glacius and set aside
thinly slice the stalks in 5 vertical strips
in mixing bowl combine: root paste & powdered leaves
stuff brugmansia with 1 inch of the goop at the bottom of the flower and roll upwards.
use the mushroom stalks to tie shut
soak Sneezewort petals in reem's blood for 5 minutes
drop brugmansia rolls into the cauldron to simmer until fully dissolved
liquid should be purple
drop mushroom caps into cauldron to soften them up - boil for 3 minutes. Each cap that is added will cause a chemical reaction and a small explosion that will produce colored smoke
remove caps from water and dice them
crush this with Snake fangs in mortar and pestle
add to cauldron
grate wormwood over cauldron
add sneezewort petals & blood to cauldron
add 5 Tbsp of chopped fwooper voice box & cover ears
stir in a figure 8 pattern slowly for 30 seconds

Kimothy

10-11-2013, 01:06 PM

Suddenly a note, shaped like a butterfly, flew straight to Hecate's desk. As the woman read the note her face darkened. "Students," She said, getting her things together. "I'm being called away with an emergency. This does not mean class is dismissed. I want you to pick a potion from the recipe book and make it. Then leave it on your table labeled with your name. Head Boy, Head Girl, you will take charge and make sure everyone follows the rules."

... Hopefully she'd be back before the class period would end. And she quickly escaped the classroom.
... Well, someone could've thought of a better thing to shape that note into. A butterfly, really? Not that Kat didn't like them, it just made her think that, of all the creatures that roam and live on this planet, why a butterfly? A Quintaped was better, because yeah... why NOT a quintaped? It was dangerous, but just super cool. Now she was taking charge of everything with Wade. Not like it was bad but it was cool to actually do something like this. Watch over a class and all.

So Kat flipped the pages of her book in search for a potion to brew. Sometimes that was random, because she didn't have anything in mind. She'd brew a Magical fireworks potion soon once it actually was useful. So she chose Wit-Sharpening for no reason at all. Some challenge though, but Kat was up for it. Always.

Wit-Sharpening potion

Use/Effect:
Sharpens the intelligence and comprehension of the drinker.

Ingredients:
5 grams of ground scarab beetle
2.5 grams of cut up ginger root
500ml of Armadillo bile
8 grams of Fluxweed

Instructions:
Crush Fluxweed. Pour Armadillo Bile into cauldron.
Bring to a boil.
When potion has reached a roaring boil, add Fluxweed.
Stir potion 5 times clockwise. Let potion boil for 10 minutes stirring occasionally as needed. Do Not Allow The Potion to Boil Over.
Peel ginger root and chop fine. When time is up, add ginger to potion.
Reduce heat. The potion needs to come to a simmer for 30 minutes.
Stir potion counter-clockwise 3 times. The potion must be stirred counter-clockwise 3 times an additional 3 times while it simmers. Place the lid on the cauldron.
Grind Scarab Beetles to a find powder.
Sprinkle the powder over the potion. Replace lid.
Let potion brew for 45 minutes.
When time has elapsed, the potion will have reduced by half and now be a deep purple. If it is not, then you have done something wrong.
Remove cauldron from heat and let cool. The potion should now have a slightly thick consistency. Ladle potion into individual vials. Seal by using a sealing charm. Potion should remain potent for three month if sealed properly.

lazykitty

10-11-2013, 01:08 PM

Ooooookay. That seemed highly suspect...... But at least they weren't having to do the Polyjuice Potion. Because that had been an utterly insane idea. Sky flipped through her textbook, occasionally folding down the corners of pages that caught her interest.

Finally, she decided on a potion and prepared her cauldron. "Scourgify." She could perform the spell nonverbally now, but in this instance she decided to just say it aloud. Just in case Professor Lafay was somehow listening in. Then she gathered her ingredients quickly and took them back to her seat.

Magical Fireworks

Use/Effect:
Magical fireworks do not require flames to be ignited, and are really little explosions of magic. Once created, they are much safer to use than their muggle equivalents

Ingredients:
Water
Big handful of dried flakes of Salamander skin
One jalapeno pepper
a dash of sheep bile
three grains of salt
A tab or wick
Tissue paper (whatever colors you please)

Instructions:
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Add dried flakes of Salamander skin
Dice and add one jalapeno pepper to your potion
Stir 13 times anti clockwise
Add a dash of sheep bile. This will make your potion turn gray and become the consistency of liquid concrete, so it will be harder to stir.
add three grains of salt
stir 4 times clockwise until malleable
Mold into a form (any you'd like)
Put the tab or wick into the firework
Wrap it in the coloured paper

Bazinga

10-11-2013, 01:29 PM

Minerva sat listening to the ingredients the other students talked about. Seeing a butterfly shocked the seventh year for a second, but she grew concerned when she noticed Lafay's face change. Something had to have happened for the woman to show a change in emotion.

When the professor turned and said emergency Min wanted to ask more, but figured it was better if she kept her mouth shut. Looking down at her parchment her eyes widen when the woman said class would still go on without her and they could pick their potion. Glancing at Kitty she couldn't help but smile a little. His time to shine as a leader, which was awesome, not that she expected anyone to need leading in one of Lafay's class. The woman probably had the room charmed to punish any child out of line when she wasn't looking.

Flipping through the recipe book, Min came across a shrinking potions. Thoughts going to History of Magic and that maze task she decided maybe this would be a fun one to try. She had done a few in the book over the past seven terms, but this one she hadn't yet. So jotting down the recipe on her parchment she went to the cupboard for her ingredients.

Ingredients:
daisy roots (chopped)- 8 grams
shrivelfig (skinned)- one
caterpillar (sliced)- one
nettles (dried and crushed)- 8 grams
leech juice- a dash
ginger root (chopped)- 4 grams

Instructions:
Prepare and measure all ingredients ahead of time. Daisy roots and giner roots should be evenly chopped. Make sure all of the peel is removed from the shrivelfig. Caterpillar slices should be small and even. Dried nettles should be crushed, but not powdered, in a mortar and pestle. Leech juice will be provided by the professor (please walk carefully to the desk at the front of collect it before you begin brewing the potion).
Add daisy roots, shrivelfig, caterpillar slices, and nettle to 500 mL boiling water. Stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes.
Add a dash of leech juice. Allow the solution to stew, stirring occassionally, for half an hour.
Add the ginger root and stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes. Remove cauldron from the fire and allow potion to cool.
Write your name and house on two vials. Very carefully distribute your potion into the two vials (do not allow the potion to touch anything that is not the vial or the ladle- do not get on your hands!) Bring one to the front for grading and keep one vial at your desk for testing.
__________________

Sonea

10-11-2013, 02:07 PM

Okay, FINALLY it was time to do something! She had almost fallen asleep! She had really been bored during the first part from the lesson, but... what was happening? Why did the professor left the classroom? Had something happened and was there a emergency? Hmm, she was curious and wanted to find out what had happened when she was done with this lesson, but until than it was better to just concentrate on the lesson and to search for a potion she wanted to make and opened her textbook to search for a potion.

Hmm, there were a lot potions she liked, but also a lot were too difficult for her to do... And, she wanted to be the best in everything she did, but if she was honest she needed to confess that his lesson wasn't the easiest lesson from Hogwarts, she wasn't good at this at all! So she didn't wanted to do a really complicated lesson and found something she liked.

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Notes:
Potion can be stored for up to a month, though it is advisable to brew a fresh batch weekly.

When she had decided what she wanted to do she grabbed everything she needed and prepared her cauldron, she cleaned it and made everything ready so that she could start with her potion.

Somnium

10-11-2013, 02:54 PM

Taylor blinked at the professor. Is she really going to do that? Tay sighed and nodded, getting her book and opening it, flipping through her book with a grimace. Why cant she just dismiss the class and give us like an essay about a potion of our choice? She frowned a little and grumbled, trying to find a good potion to do... one not too hard and not too easy... draught of peace... it stops anxiety... that would be really good right now... Taylor looked at the page in the book to make sure that she could do it.
To brew the Draught of Peace, follow these steps:
1.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns green.
2.Stir until the potion turns blue.
3.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns purple.
4.Allow to simmer until the potion turns pink.
5.Add syrup of hellebore until the potion turns turquoise.
6.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
7.Shake powdered porcupine quills vigorously until they are ready and then add until the potion turns red.
8.Stir until the potion turns orange.
9.Add more porcupine quills until the potion turns turquoise.
10.Allow to simmer till the potion turns purple.
11.Add powdered unicorn horn until the potion turns pink.
12.Stir until the potion turns red.
13.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
14.Add more powdered moonstone until the potion turns grey.
15.Allow the potion to simmer until it turns orange.
16.Add more powdered porcupine quills until the potion turns white.
Taylor reread each part of the instruction then glanced at her cauldron then looked back at the page. Advance... eh... I can do this... cant I? Gosh, is the thought of making a potion to relieve anxiety making me anxious? How ironic...

DaniDiNardo

10-11-2013, 03:22 PM

How completely unfair was THAT? Just when they were about to make the Polyjuice Potion, something had to come up and completely ruin that. Boo. What was so important that they couldn't continue on with this--pick a potion?

...

......

They were being given permission to make ANY potion in their book? Like legit?? There were a few that she knew for sure she wanted but then...after skimming through the pages and potions she saw one no one had ever bothered to point out to her before. When...when did this become a potion? Why didn't she know this?? Alexa read through the instructions. Simple enough. Scintillation Solution it was.

She hopped off her stool but didn't have to go very far for the ingredients considering she was sitting RIGHT NEXT TO the supply cupboard thanks to a certain 'Claw.

Her hands brushed against the ingredients inside, occasionally grabbing at something she needed and plopping it on the desk. This. Would. Be. EPIC.

Scintillation Solution

Use/Effect: Cause the drinker to glow in their favorite colour and become animated and bright

Ingredients
Half a cauldron of Water
One cup of Orange Juice (Blood Oranges are best)
One Billywig Stinger
1 tsp of crushed dried Ginger Root
2 tbsp of Sugar
5 Peppermint leaves
20 Firefly Bulbs
9 Clabbert pustules
2 drops of Magnesium Gluconate Liquid
7 drops of Flobberworm mucus
3 frozen runespoor eggs
1 tsp of powdered purple moonstone

Instructions:
Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

Casey O

10-11-2013, 03:28 PM

Marigold raised her eyebrow as the professor left. That was... Strange. What was on the note? She looked down at the book and decided to do.... The Sleeping Draft. It seemed like the right amount of complexity for her.

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Notes:
Potion can be stored for up to a month, though it is advisable to brew a fresh batch weekly.

She but her lip, preparing to start brewing.

RachieRu

10-11-2013, 03:46 PM

Okaay. Lafay had gone. That was odd. and she was trusting them to brew potions on their own in the lab? Well that was interesting. Hopefully nobody would blow up the lab on anything. Clement began by looking through the book , picking his potion. He didn't want to do something too hard, because he would look like a bit of an idiot. Ahh. There. That one would do. He put the book back onto the bench, and began to write the ingredients that he needed onto a piece of parchment. He'd take this over to the cupboard, so that he didn't have to lug his whole book over there. Okay. There wasn't too many ingredients so that was good. Nodding to himself, he headed over to fetch the ingredients.

Hair Raising Potion

Use/Effect:
The Hair Raising Potion makes your hair stand on end

Ingredients:
Water, boiling (200 mL)
Rat tails, sliced (2)
Billy wig stings, crushed (2)
Spider legs (24)

Instructions:
Bring water to a boil & crush billy wig stings.
Add billy wig stings and spider legs and stew for 15 minutes.
Add rat tail slices and continue to stew for 30 minutes.
Remove from heat and cool before spritzing on hair.

PLacing the three ingredients onto his bench, he began to read over the instructions before he would begin.

TakemetotheBurrow

10-11-2013, 03:50 PM

Lafay was leaving?

Ella hoped nothing bad had happened. The blonde also wasn't completely comfortable because some of the first years should probably not be left alone brewing whatever they wanted from their text book. She'd seen what could happen when a potion went wrong and yeah, it was unsettling. At least Wade and Kat were around to take charge if needed. She'd help too, of course. She'd just need to keep an eye out for anyone having trouble is all. She also needed to figure out what potion she was going to make. Hm.

After scanning the textbook a bit, the blonde settled on the basic sleeping draft. She was no stranger to nightmares and it couldn't hurt to get some experience making this particular potion.

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Notes:
Potion can be stored for up to a month, though it is advisable to brew a fresh batch weekly.

PuppySara

10-11-2013, 03:52 PM

Brodie gave a small nod, make a potion and put his name on it? Simple enough, lets just hope this one didn't blow up on him... But anyways, He flipped through his book, finding a potion that he found kinda simple, so hopefully it would work well for him... He could always hope right? Well, best get to work.

Wideye or Awakening Potion
Brewing instructions
1 x Dried Billywig Stings
1 x Snake Fangs
1 x Wolfsbane
Standard Ingredient
Add 6 Snake Fangs to the mortar
Add 4 measures of Standard Ingredient to the mortar
Add 6 Dried Billywig Stings to your cauldron
Heat on a medium temperature for 30 seconds
Finely crush the ingredients in the mortar
Add 4 measures of the crushed ingredients to your cauldron
Stir 3 times, clockwise
Wave your wand
Leave to brew and return in 55 minutes
Add 2 sprigs of Wolfsbane to your cauldron
Stir 3 times, anti-clockwise
Wave your wand to complete the potion

amadshade

10-11-2013, 03:56 PM

Tora pick up her potions book and flipped open to a random page. She had really wanted to make an Invisibility potion, but couldn't as there wasn't a recipe for one in her textbook, hence the reason why she had wanted the class to make it. So she could get the recipe. Sigh. Oh well. She flipped blindly through a couple pages until she landed on the Scintillation Solution.

Scintillation Solution

Ingredients:
Water (200mL)- potion base
Salt (6 g)- emits light
Billywig stings, dried, powdered (2)- excitation
Essence of firefly (3 drops)- aids in the production of light

Instructions:
Set water to boil and add salt, stirring clockwise until dissolved
Powder billywig stings and add to boiling salt water, stir counter-clockwise 12 times, then clockwise twice and repeat six times
Carefully add essence of firefly, one drop at a time, stirring 6 times counter-clockwise then clockwise twice in between each addition
Reduce flame and simmer for 20 min before allowing potion to cool
Carefully ladle potion into appropriately sized vessels

It sounded like it might make interesting results, but then again it also looked incredibly simple. So she flipped a couple pages back to a Hair-changing potion. That might be fun!
Hair-changing Potion: mild formulation

Use/Effect:
The mild formulation of the Hair-Changing Potion is used to alter the coloration of a person’s hair.

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
belladonna (2 g; crushed)
nettles (5 g; dried, powdered)
moonstone

Instructions:
place moonstone in cauldron and add water
boil water for 5 minutes
add belladonna and nettles
boil for 5 minutes
reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes
stir, 20 full strokes clockwise followed by 20 full strokes counter-clockwise
place the clear potion in a goblet
dip the very tip of wand in potion and incant, "Coloro!" while concentrating on the color you want the hair
rinse hair in 200 mL of potion
wait 5 minutes for color change

Notes:
Belladonna (also known as deadly nightshade) is highly poisonous and this potion should not be ingested.
Remaining potion should be used within 24 hours.
Hair color will remain for 24-48 hours.
Moonstone may be reused.

She wanted to do both though, maybe she would have time to brew the two of them if she got on it? Both potions only took about 20 minutes to make, so she should have enough time...

But which to start with? She looked both over and eventually decided to get working on the one that looked more fun- the Hair-Changing Potion.

Charely Potter

10-11-2013, 04:29 PM

Wade merely watched as the rest of the class continued listing the ingredients before they were moving on. ..Hmm? Wade's brows furrowed as he then saw a butterfly shaped note fly towards Professor Lafay. Curiously, of course, he wanted to know what it was, but knew it was meant for her eyes only. Indeed, it seemed to change her tone of voice before she left.

Suddenly a note, shaped like a butterfly, flew straight to Hecate's desk. As the woman read the note her face darkened. "Students," She said, getting her things together. "I'm being called away with an emergency. This does not mean class is dismissed. I want you to pick a potion from the recipe book and make it. Then leave it on your table labeled with your name. Head Boy, Head Girl, you will take charge and make sure everyone follows the rules."

... Hopefully she'd be back before the class period would end. And she quickly escaped the classroom.

ooc: Hecate may be gone, but I'm not... *WINK WINK*

He blinked. Soo, now they were on their own while the Professor dealt with whatever she needed to take care of.. and Wade and Kat, were instructed to lead the class now until she got back. That didn't sound bad at all, working with Kat, since she was a cool Head Buddy to him. He nodded towards her, things were going to go as smoothly here as possible. Anyways, time to brew some potions.

Taking his potion book out, he opened it at a random page before flipping a few until he saw one. Hmm.. not a hair potion, but it'll do. Nothing like clean stuff, yes? It worked well on clothes and surfaces. Sounds like the perfect potion for a certain Professor.. Maybe he wouldn't mind having some.. as long as Wade knew he could make it right.

Ingredients
Water
1 clove Garlic
1 drop Bundimun Secretion
1 Crocodile Eye
50 g Powdered Cockroach
Peppermint, lemon or pine needles

Directions
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Crush and add a clove of garlic
Add one drop bundimun secretion - make sure you wear dragon hide gloves when handling it!
Slice the crocodile eye
Stir once clockwise
Stir 3 times counter-clockwise
Let simmer
Add 50 grams of powdered cockroach
Add the peppermint, lemon or pine needles to scent it (don't be surprised if it changes colour)

This should be fun stuff.. After writing it out on a separate parchment, for later reference, Wade got up to get the ingredients from the nearby cupboard.

Daemon

10-11-2013, 04:48 PM

Was it common that teachers just left lessons? .. Blinking, Benzi watched the scary looking potions teacher leave the classroom, scratching his head. So they were supposed to brew a random potion? He was going to brew his first potion by himself?!

This sounded like a recipe for disaster.

Flicking through his book, he allocated a potion that didn't seem particularly difficult. Actually, it seemed almost TOO simple. Simple enough so that Benzi actually felt like he might be cheating should he only do this particular potion. Skimming through the instructions, he figured it would take him about ten minutes to make. 15 if he was PUSHING it.

Singing Suspension

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
billywig wings (a pinch)
scurvy-grass (1 dram)

Instructions:
boil water
add ingredients & stir constantly for 5 minutes
remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestion
... He continued to flick through.

Lingualaxus Truth Serum

Use/Effect:
Loosens the tongue, has no taste, no smell, no color.

Ingredients
Water
8 drops of Essence of Wormwood
One cup of Jobberknoll blood
4 Billywig Wings
3 Belladonna leaves
2 tablespoons of poppy seeds
7 Sprigs of Valerian
5 leeches

Procedure
clean cauldron
fill it with water
light burner
add 8 drops of Essence of Wormwood one drop at a time
stirring your potion in a counter-clock motion.
add your Jobberknoll blood (low and slow stream)
crush 4 Billywig Wings and the 3 Belladonna leaves in your hands and let the pieces fall into the cauldron
clean the mortar and use it to crush the poppy seeds to dust
break the Valerian sprigs using your hands and add to the poppy seed dust
add the contents of the mortar to cauldron
add leeches to cauldron (wear gloves) → potion will turn a deep dark red
move wand in straight jabbing motion and say 'Verax' (potion will turn clear)
Now THIS looked more like it. Also slightly more useful, though he couldn't imagine it was allowed for use on students. Shame.

Perhaps he should make both the potions? The second one required more work, but he should be able to finish it within the time of the lesson. After all, they'd barely begun before the Lafay had left, so there was enough time until the next lesson. Yep, he'd do both.

About to grab his cauldron and go fill it up with water, Benzi suddenly noticed no one was really doing much. Just sort of staring at their books and cleaning their cauldrons. Actually, that was probably a good idea. Benzi made a mental note to scrub his clean before adding water. Also, they were all inexplicably silent. Why was no one talking?! The professor wasn't even here! ... Nerds.

"Uh.. Are we allowed to talk now?" the eleven year old asked nobody in particular, eyes flitting from student to student in search of the two Heads currently in charge.

Lissy Longbottom

10-11-2013, 04:59 PM

Wait, what? Were professors allowed to just LEAVE like that? Caleb bit his lip as Hecate ran out of the room, and then that was that. They were all alone in there, with just the Head Boy and Girl to supervise a bunch of kids with access to potion ingredients and their own wild imaginations. Lovely. Someone was going to be killed, Caleb was sure of it.

As everyone hurried around the room in a fuss, he took out his textbook and managed to find a potion that didn't look TOOOO hard.

Befuddlement Draught

Ingredients:
3 handfuls of scurvy grass
5 crushed lovage leaves
3 cups of boiling water
1 ounce crushed sneezewort
9 drops of armadillo bile

Reading just the list of ingredients, he copied it down on his parchment and then headed to the cabinet to grab his needed materials.

TakemetotheBurrow

10-11-2013, 05:28 PM

Now that Ella knew what potion she'd be brewing, she set to work gathering ingredients. Surely everything she'd need would be in the cupboard, yeah? Yeah. The blonde slid out of her seat and went to have a look.

Lavender, chamomile, purslane, and ginger. Water would be coming from her wand so with the rest now arranged neatly in front of her, she was ready to work.

First thing she did was clean the cauldron. "Scourgify." Then she pointed her wand inside and began to fill it with water. "Aguamenti." When it had enough water, she ended the spell and glanced down at her notes. She'd copied the instructions over so that she could cross steps off as she went. Easier to stay organized that way.

"Incendio." Now she'd need to wait for the water to come to a slow boil. She could surely start crushing the other ingredients while she waited.

Instructions:

Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Colley

10-11-2013, 05:45 PM

Suddenly a note, shaped like a butterfly, flew straight to Hecate's desk. As the woman read the note her face darkened. "Students," She said, getting her things together. "I'm being called away with an emergency. This does not mean class is dismissed. I want you to pick a potion from the recipe book and make it. Then leave it on your table labeled with your name. Head Boy, Head Girl, you will take charge and make sure everyone follows the rules."

... Hopefully she'd be back before the class period would end. And she quickly escaped the classroom.

ooc: Hecate may be gone, but I'm not... *WINK WINK*

Cat had barely any time to lament over the fact that they would not be making magical fireworks and were instead doing polyjuice, when Professor Lafay suddenly announced that she was leaving. Leaving? Whaaat. She watched as the woman swept from the room, all curious like, before dragging her glance back at her book. Time to select something to make.

Hmmmmmm... choices. Cat took peeks at Mo who had scooted closer to her, something that she greatly enjoyed. What was he going to pick, hmm? After a moment of thought, she decided to forgo the magical fireworks and go for the Scintillation Solution instead. She was all for colors and such, yes.

Scintillation Solution

Use/Effect: Cause the drinker to glow in their favorite colour and become animated and bright

Ingredients
Half a cauldron of Water
One cup of Orange Juice (Blood Oranges are best)
One Billywig Stinger
1 tsp of crushed dried Ginger Root
2 tbsp of Sugar
5 Peppermint leaves
20 Firefly Bulbs
9 Clabbert pustules
2 drops of Magnesium Gluconate Liquid
7 drops of Flobberworm mucus
3 frozen runespoor eggs
1 tsp of powdered purple moonstone

Instructions:
Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

She glanced at Mo again once she decided which direction she was going. She was interested. She was also getting her ingredients together as she snooped.

hermionesclone

10-11-2013, 05:46 PM

What?

WHAT?!

Lafay was leaving? BLINK. His mouth hung open a little as he watched the Potions mistress leave. ... Okay. It was probably a good thing Curly Wade and Kat were going to be here to make sure nothing went wrong. And he'd help! ... If he could. He doubted he'd be of much help, though.

Shrugging, the boy started flipping through the potions book, trying to find the right potion to make. She said that they could make anything, right? Yeah? He stopped at the page that showed how to make the Wiggenweld Potion and... BLINKED. This potion looked REALLY complicated! Or just long... but the longer the procedure, the more likely things were going to go wrong, right? And the last thing he wanted to do was get on the wrong side of Lafay so...

... he was going to pick something else.

Alec continued flicking through the book, back and forth, until his eyes landed on the page that had the Antillergen Potion on it. ... Could he? They did make this back in his first year so... Yeah! Plus, it didn't look too complicated. Unlike the Calming Draught with its two stages! Man oh man, it was a good thing he hadn't decided to make that all over again.

Antillergen Potion

Use/Effect:
To deaden allergic reactions for a year's time

Ingredients:
Water
10 drops Valerian root
10 drops Salamander Blood
2 dock leaves
1 Ashwinder Egg
4 sprigs Fluxweed
10 drops Murtlap Essence
2 sprigs Parsley
3 spoons Raw honey
5 Basil leaves
1 whole Papaya
1 Ginger Root
17 Reishi (mushroom of immortality)

Instructions:
Fill cauldron with water
Add valerian root and salamander blood, one drop at a time, alternating between the two
Add the dock leaves to mortar and crush
Break frozen ashwinder egg into mortar
Add fluxweed to mortar
Add mixture from mortar into cauldron
Add Murtlap Essence
Stir eight times counter clockwise
Add parsley sprigs loosely crushing them into cauldron
Add raw honey
Slice Basil leaves with a Silver Knife
Stab whole papaya with same silver knife stuff basil in papaya's wounds
Add Papaya to cauldron
Add grated ginger root
Add thinly sliced Reishi Mushroom to cauldron
Wave wand over Cauldron in fast strinking oblique motion and cast the "Sanum" spell

Expecto-Penguin

10-11-2013, 06:08 PM

So the Professor was leaving the classroom? That was odd. But he took it anyway. He looked in his textbook to see what he could find. He flipped through his pages and saw one that he thought he could really use even for testing. He copied down the ingredients.....

1.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns green.
2.Stir until the potion turns blue.
3.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns purple.
4.Allow to simmer until the potion turns pink.
5.Add syrup of hellebore until the potion turns turquoise.
6.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
7.Shake powdered porcupine quills vigorously until they are ready and then add until the potion turns red.
8.Stir until the potion turns orange.
9.Add more porcupine quills until the potion turns turquoise.
10.Allow to simmer till the potion turns purple.
11.Add powdered unicorn horn until the potion turns pink.
12.Stir until the potion turns red.
13.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
14.Add more powdered moonstone until the potion turns grey.
15.Allow the potion to simmer until it turns orange.
16.Add more powdered porcupine quills until the potion turns white.

Once he was done, he went to the cabinet to grab the materials he needed.

Somnium

10-11-2013, 06:16 PM

Now that Taylor knew what potion she was doing, she went about preparing her cauldron. Tay used scourify and cleaned it. She made sure that the cauldron was as clean as possible so that the potion will come out as it should. Taylor glanced at the page and looked at the ingredients that she needed, writing them down.
-powdered moonstone
-syrup of hellebore
-powdered porcupine quills
-powdered unicorn horn
Huh... only four ingredients and a lot of stirring... how hard can this be? I just need to make sure that I don't cause an overdose of the ingredients since it would put people in deep sleep if I do... Taylor read and reread everything on the page then check and doubled checked to make sure she wrote every ingredient down. Taylor made sure to bring the ingredient list that she had made as she went to get them. She glanced down at the list and got the moonstone and the syrup of hellebore. Tay looked around for the porcupine quills and then got the unicorn horn. Taylor made sure she had enough of each before skipping back to the table. She laid down the four ingredients and then laid her wand down next to them and got out something to stir with and something to crush the ingredients with then cleaned them using scourify. Tay filled the cauldron with water using aquamenti and double checked that she had enough of everything and that she even has everything all ready. Taylor reread the page of instructions.

Zellanna

10-11-2013, 07:07 PM

Emzily

10-11-2013, 07:17 PM

Weeeell... that was just brilliant. Theo was getting excited about brewing the Polyjuice Potion but there was no way he would achieve that on his own. He flicked lazily through his potion book and tried to find one that had a small amount of ingredients, but also was at least cool to make.

...

Hmm... Wit-Sharpening Potion.

Theo lingered on this page and checked the list of ingredients and instructions over. It didn't seem too difficult, and it would be kind of useful to be smarter than he already was, of course.

Okay, the first ingredient was... water.

Excellent. Theo cleaned his cauldron as usual, and used the water spell with much confidence. It was his best spell, after all. He looked over at the page again and tapped his finger on the next ingredient.

Wit-Sharpening Potion

Use/Effect:
The Wit-Sharpening Potion is used to aid in concentration. It is especially useful if taken before an important exam.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
scarab beetles (coarsely ground; 2)
ginger root (cut; 5g)
armadillo bile (9 drops)

Instructions:
Bring water to a delicate simmer
Add scarab beetles and stir 5 times, clockwise
Allow to simmer for 5 minutes
Add ginger without stirring and simmer for 20 minutes
Allow solution to cool, stirring 7 times every 3 minutes, alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise stirrings
When heat can no longer be felt when a hand is placed above the potion, add armadillo bile
Allow potion to sit for 8 minutes (potion will smell foul)

aaetha

10-11-2013, 08:36 PM

Maika looked up, surprised. She leaned over to the nearest student, whispering, "What was that all about?" She looked back to the doorway, and still opened her book, but she found herself horribly distracted all of a sudden.

"I, for one, have no idea," Adrienne said in response to the young girl who was talking to her for some reason (why was she being talked to again?) "but I'm pretty sure it has to do with foreign spies and a locked door and a weird bearded professor." At least, she was almost pretty sure. Maybe. Okay, so by now she'd just about figured out that the 'foreign spies' were actually here for the EBSQBSLKFJDKL whatever competition, and she hadn't seen anything of the bearded Professor French since their first Arithmancy lesson, but hey. Spies were still extremely likely.

She pulled out her wand and cast a quick "Scourgify!" on her cauldron, then cast a glance at the ingredients list in her book. Beeswax, flobberworm juice, shrivelfig, calendula oil. That should be pretty easy to get ahold of, no?

AlwaysSnapesGirl

10-11-2013, 08:47 PM

...Well that was odd. Lafay was leaving so now they were just supposed to brew whatever they wanted anyway? Weird, but okay. Penelope was fine with not having to brew the Polyjuice Potion. But now she had to decide what to make since she didn't have a favorite already.

Flipping through the textbook, she did notice the Magic Fireworks that had been mentioned before, but it seemed like it had quite a few steps and stuff, so she decided to skip it. Then the Basic Sleeping Draft caught her eye. She'd never really liked the idea of depending on potions to sleep peacefully though, so she skipped over it too. And that was when she noticed the Wit-Sharpening Potion. Useful if taken before an exam? That WOULD be useful this year considering OWLs. She wasn't sure if they were gonna be able to use this since they had to leave it on their tables, but it wouldn't hurt to practice it so she could try it later on.

Yep. It was settled.

Maika looked up, surprised. She leaned over to the nearest student, whispering, "What was that all about?" She looked back to the doorway, and still opened her book, but she found herself horribly distracted all of a sudden.

She was about to go get her ingredients but paused when she heard a younger girl whispering. Hm? Penelope shrugged a little. "Dunno. Was weird though," she replied in a half-whisper. She glanced briefly at the other girl who had responded as well but didn't pay much attention to the rest of what she said since she decided to go get her ingredients and stuff so she could start her potion.

Once she'd gathered the proper amount of each ingredient and a container to measure out the water, she set them on her table and then drew out her wand to cast Aguamenti before suddenly remembering there was something else to be done. Something with the 5 C's that she could only remember one of off the top of her head - cleanliness. "Scourgify," she said and then eyed her cauldron to make sure it really was clean. Hmm...yep. Looked clean to her. So with a quick "Aguamenti," she measured out 500mL of it before quickly casting "Finite" to stop the water and then poured it in.

And it said...to bring it to a delicate simmer? Alright. "Incendio," she said carefully, not wanting to light a flame that was too powerful or hot. Just needed a simmer. And...it looked to be doing that. So far so good.

Wit-Sharpening Potion

Use/Effect:
The Wit-Sharpening Potion is used to aid in concentration. It is especially useful if taken before an important exam.

Ingredients:
-water (500mL)
-scarab beetles (coarsely ground; 2)
-ginger root (cut; 5g)
-armadillo bile (9 drops)

Instructions:
1. Bring water to a delicate simmer
2. Add scarab beetles and stir 5 times, clockwise
3. Allow to simmer for 5 minutes
4. Add ginger without stirring and simmer for 20 minutes
5. Allow solution to cool, stirring 7 times every 3 minutes, alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise stirrings
6. When heat can no longer be felt when a hand is placed above the potion, add armadillo bile
7. Allow potion to sit for 8 minutes (potion will smell foul)

Notes:
-This potion is sensitive to temperature so be sure to pay particular attention to the fire while brewing.
-In order to make the potion taste more pleasant, put a peppermint leaf upon the tongue and then, sip the potion. However, do not put the peppermint in the potion itself as steeping peppermint in the potion could alter the properties of the potion.
-Depending upon the brewing, one should feel the effects of the potion within 10 minutes, though it can take up to one hour.

Zellanna

10-11-2013, 08:49 PM

Maika paused in surprise. "Foreign spies? A locked door? Bearded professor?" She looked back to her book and started flipping through it. "What it the world goes on in this school?" She'd heard rumors. From her parents and Uncle Alex, as well as a previous professor, but this seemed really strange. She started looking up Amortentia, hoping it was in the book, but it seemed unlikely. She didn't care about it being a love potion, but she really liked the smell it put off.

FearlessLeader19

10-11-2013, 09:02 PM

Adi's excited face fell when Professor Lafay said she had to leave. There was no way they would be brewing the Polyjuice Potion now because he knew some of the ingredients were not in the student cupboard. Puffing out his cheeks, he turned his attention to his text book which he began to scan through.

The firstie paused, his finger on Scintillation Solution. It seemed simple enough for a first year. Yep. Scintillation Solution it was!

Scintillation Solution

Ingredients:

Water (200mL)- potion base
Salt (6 g)- emits light
Billywig stings, dried, powdered (2)- excitation
Essence of firefly (3 drops)- aids in the production of light

Instructions:

Set water to boil and add salt, stirring clockwise until dissolved
Powder billywig stings and add to boiling salt water, stir counter-clockwise 12 times, then clockwise twice and repeat six times
Carefully add essence of firefly, one drop at a time, stirring 6 times counter-clockwise then clockwise twice in between each addition
Reduce flame and simmer for 20 min before allowing potion to cool
Carefully ladle potion into appropriately sized vessels

TakemetotheBurrow

10-11-2013, 09:28 PM

Ella was trying not to get caught up in the chatter around her as she worked with the lavender, making sure it was crushed. She did pause for a moment or two to glance at the boyfriend. Hi boyfriend. He looked nice today, Alec did. But she was meant to be concentrating. Yeah... So eyes went back to the lavender. Time to check the water too.

Peering into the cauldron, the blonde was pleased to see that the water was now boiling slowly. Time to add a pinch of the lavender. She cupped her hand and carefully handled the now very crushed lavender, adding it to the cauldron with a smile. The scent was lovely and the blonde was glad.

After cleaning a stirrer, the seventeen year old dipped it into the mixture and began the counter-clockwise movement. 21 times, it said? "1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10..11..12..13..14..15. .16..17..18..19..20..21."

Now for the chamomile...

Instructions:

Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

hermionesclone

10-11-2013, 09:33 PM

So... potion picked. It was time to get started, yeah?

And to get started... he actually needed to get the ingredients. Nodnod. The boy took a moment to memorise the ingredients he needed -- and how much was needed of each -- before heading off to collect them. He went back and forth twice, occasionally pausing to glance at the ingredients again. Why were there so many again? And why hadn't he picked a potion to make that was slightly easier?

Shrug.

Once the ingredients were gathered and sorted properly onto his desk, Alec took out his wand. First things first... the five C's. "Scourgify!" Was it clean? His cauldron? He eyed it, peeking around in both directions. Once he was satisfied, he cried a simple, "Aguamenti!" There. Water! Now he just needed... "Incendio!" Fire. Now he was properly ready to start with the rest of the potion.

Now... he just needed to concentrate. And focus. Pretend this was the OWLs practical all over again.

... Actually, that would be a bad idea. No OWLs. Never again.

Antillergen Potion

Ingredients:
- Water
- 10 drops Valerian root
- 10 drops Salamander Blood
- 2 dock leaves
- 1 Ashwinder Egg
- 4 sprigs Fluxweed
- 10 drops Murtlap Essence
- 2 sprigs Parsley
- 3 spoons Raw honey
- 5 Basil leaves
- 1 whole Papaya
- 1 Ginger Root
- 17 Reishi (mushroom of immortality)

Instructions:
1) Fill cauldron with water
2) Add valerian root and salamander blood, one drop at a time, alternating between the two
3) Add the dock leaves to mortar and crush
4) Break frozen ashwinder egg into mortar
5) Add fluxweed to mortar
6) Add mixture from mortar into cauldron
7) Add Murtlap Essence
8) Stir eight times counter clockwise
9) Add parsley sprigs loosely crushing them into cauldron
10) Add raw honey
11) Slice Basil leaves with a Silver Knife
12) Stab whole papaya with same silver knife stuff basil in papaya's wounds
13) Add Papaya to cauldron
14) Add grated ginger root
15) Add thinly sliced Reishi Mushroom to cauldron
16) Wave wand over Cauldron in fast strinking oblique motion and cast the "Sanum" spell

Charely Potter

10-11-2013, 09:34 PM

"Uh.. Are we allowed to talk now?" the eleven year old asked nobody in particular, eyes flitting from student to student in search of the two Heads currently in charge.

Where they allowed to talk? Shrugging at the first year claw, "Sure, if it's work related. Or at least not loud enough to disturb others." Since casting spells required words for most, right? Wade looked towards Kat for her thoughts on it. "Don't forget to clean your cauldron before starting." He said a little louder, mainly for the first years and in case others forgot beforehand. Though it looked like enough people remembered.

After looking through the ingredient list enough times, Wade was sure he got everything needed to make it right. Waving his wand at his cauldron, he thought clearly 'Scourgify', casting it non-verbally before watching the suds take over cleaning it. There, all clean.

Nooow he could really begin. Now aiming at the clean cauldron again, "Aguamenti", he watched the water pour right in before adding "Incendio" below the cauldron to get it boiling. There was not much else for him to do while he waited for the water to boil. So until then, he marked off the first steps he did off the list.

Ingredients
Water
1 clove Garlic
1 drop Bundimun Secretion
1 Crocodile Eye
50 g Powdered Cockroach
Peppermint, lemon or pine needles

Directions
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Crush and add a clove of garlic
Add one drop bundimun secretion - make sure you wear dragon hide gloves when handling it!
Slice the crocodile eye
Stir once clockwise
Stir 3 times counter-clockwise
Let simmer
Add 50 grams of powdered cockroach
Add the peppermint, lemon or pine needles to scent it (don't be surprised if it changes colour)

Daemon

10-11-2013, 10:10 PM

Where they allowed to talk? Shrugging at the first year claw, "Sure, if it's work related. Or at least not loud enough to disturb others." Since casting spells required words for most, right? Wade looked towards Kat for her thoughts on it. "Don't forget to clean your cauldron before starting." He said a little louder, mainly for the first years and in case others forgot beforehand. Though it looked like enough people remembered.

There he was! Mr. Head Boy Hufflepuff. Benzi took his words as permission to speak and nodded to him, before heaving his cauldron to the sinks. Speaking would have been nice, but he currently had no need for it so he kept his silence. He knew how to make water, but that cleaning spell some of them seemed to be doing had unfortunately not been taught to him yet. Cleaning his cauldron as thoroughly as he could - that thing was HEAVY - he set it back down on his table and murmured "Aguamenti" with his wand pointed into the empty pewter container.

Benzi grinned as water sprouted from his wand. He really liked this spell. Right, so that mark in the cauldron meant he'd reached 500mL.

What were the instructions again?

Singing Suspension

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
billywig wings (a pinch)
scurvy-grass (1 dram)

Instructions:
boil water
add ingredients & stir constantly for 5 minutes
remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestion

Right. He lit his burner with a match and went to get the necessary ingredients from the cupboard. Two acorns, a pinch of billywig wings and some scurvy-grass which he'd weigh back at the table. Placing his ingredients on the table, he took out his potions kit and started with the weighing, making sure there was exactly one dram of scurvy grass in his flask.

Next. Acorns. He'd never liked dealing with acorns. Mummy always did it. Sighing, he set to work.

Charely Potter

10-11-2013, 10:44 PM

There he was! Mr. Head Boy Hufflepuff. Benzi took his words as permission to speak and nodded to him, before heaving his cauldron to the sinks. Speaking would have been nice, but he currently had no need for it so he kept his silence. He knew how to make water, but that cleaning spell some of them seemed to be doing had unfortunately not been taught to him yet. Cleaning his cauldron as thoroughly as he could - that thing was HEAVY - he set it back down on his table and murmured "Aguamenti" with his wand pointed into the empty pewter container.

Benzi grinned as water sprouted from his wand. He really liked this spell. Right, so that mark in the cauldron meant he'd reached 500mL.

Guess he forgot to mention the spell on how to clean. "That was good manual cleaning.. But to save you more time, next time, the 'spell to clean it is 'Scourgify'" Wade merely smiled softly. "So what's your name?" Because it didn't feel right to him not knowing, especially after speaking.

Returning back to his current..concoction for the upcoming Magicleanse solution. Wade looked over the ingredients again. Next was adding 1 clove of garlic once the water was boiling. Checking over it, he could see it was indeed boiling. He used the mortar and pestle nearby to crush the garlic, before dropping a clove right in the cauldron. *drop*

Making sure nothing looked out of normal by double checking the book, Wade then searched his bag to get his dragonhide gloves for the next step.. After crossing out what he just did on the instructions of course.

Ingredients
Water
1 clove Garlic
1 drop Bundimun Secretion
1 Crocodile Eye
50 g Powdered Cockroach
Peppermint, lemon or pine needles

Directions
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Crush and add a clove of garlic
Add one drop bundimun secretion - make sure you wear dragon hide gloves when handling it!
Slice the crocodile eye
Stir once clockwise
Stir 3 times counter-clockwise
Let simmer
Add 50 grams of powdered cockroach
Add the peppermint, lemon or pine needles to scent it (don't be surprised if it changes colour)

hermionesclone

10-11-2013, 10:47 PM

The Hufflepuff glanced over at the next set of instructions. Valerian root and Salamander blood. And alternating. Man oh man, this was already starting to look difficult. He grabbed both of those bottles and held them in his hands, with the Valerian root in one hand and the Salamander blood in the other. Alternate. Right and then left.

"One Valerian..." he mumbled to himself, adding in a drop of the Valerian root, "... one Salamander." A drop of the Salamander blood was added in too. "Two Valerian... two Salamander. Three Valerian... three Salamander. Four Valerian... four Salamander. Five Valerian... five Salamander. Six Valerian... six Salamander. Seven Valerian... seven Salamander. Eight Valerian... eight Salamander. Nine Valerian... nine Salamander. Ten Valerian... ten Salamander."

Was he done with that? WAS HE REALLY? BREAAAAAATHE.

Okay, he needed to move on, yeah? Alec glanced at the next set of instructions, letting out a sigh of relief at the fact that it seemed to be easier than the last one. Good. He didn't want to do that again for a while. After cleaning his mortar and pestle, the two dock leaves were added to the mortar and, grabbing his pestle, he started crushing the leaves. Crush... crush... crush...

Antillergen Potion

Ingredients:
- Water
- 10 drops Valerian root
- 10 drops Salamander Blood
- 2 dock leaves
- 1 Ashwinder Egg
- 4 sprigs Fluxweed
- 10 drops Murtlap Essence
- 2 sprigs Parsley
- 3 spoons Raw honey
- 5 Basil leaves
- 1 whole Papaya
- 1 Ginger Root
- 17 Reishi (mushroom of immortality)

Instructions:
1) Fill cauldron with water
2) Add valerian root and salamander blood, one drop at a time, alternating between the two
3) Add the dock leaves to mortar and crush
4) Break frozen ashwinder egg into mortar
5) Add fluxweed to mortar
6) Add mixture from mortar into cauldron
7) Add Murtlap Essence
8) Stir eight times counter clockwise
9) Add parsley sprigs loosely crushing them into cauldron
10) Add raw honey
11) Slice Basil leaves with a Silver Knife
12) Stab whole papaya with same silver knife stuff basil in papaya's wounds
13) Add Papaya to cauldron
14) Add grated ginger root
15) Add thinly sliced Reishi Mushroom to cauldron
16) Wave wand over Cauldron in fast strinking oblique motion and cast the "Sanum" spell

DaniDiNardo

10-11-2013, 10:49 PM

Looking back at her portion of the table she realized it was now full to clustered with all the ingredients she would need. There was a lot that went into the potion apparently and she needed to get cracking.

Lex peered over into the book. Half a cauldron of water? "Aguamenti!" She kept her eyes on the water even as it poured steadily into the cauldron. Just a bit more...mm-hmm....and..."Finite!" By the looks of it she'd be using a high fire to get this thing boiling. "Incendio!" Was...was that high enough? Maybe she should make it higher just in case?...Nah...it was doing the job, or at least, it looked like it was.

While she waited for it to boil she got to cutting the oranges and squeezing them to make a cup of orange juice. She gave the water about a minute more to begin boiling then she added the cup of orange juice.

Next was the Billywig stinger--

Where in Merlin's beard did she put that thing??? Lex began shuffling around the things on the table, trying not to have anything tip over as she did. No need for disasters...althooooough...Professor Lafay would never KNOW. She was gone--oh here they were.

Lex threw on in then looked to the book again.

Scintillation Solution

Use/Effect: Cause the drinker to glow in their favorite colour and become animated and bright

Ingredients
Half a cauldron of Water
One cup of Orange Juice (Blood Oranges are best)
One Billywig Stinger
1 tsp of crushed dried Ginger Root
2 tbsp of Sugar
5 Peppermint leaves
20 Firefly Bulbs
9 Clabbert pustules
2 drops of Magnesium Gluconate Liquid
7 drops of Flobberworm mucus
3 frozen runespoor eggs
1 tsp of powdered purple moonstone

Instructions:
Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

Cassirin

10-11-2013, 10:58 PM

Mo scooted closer to Cat again and gave her a grin, even as he drew his textbook and cauldron out onto his workstation. Maybe he was being a little nosy, too, trying to read over her shoulder what spell Cat had decided on... fireworks? No, something with an S. Oh! She was gonna be all colorful!

"I can go get your ingredients for you, if you want," he offered with a casual half shrug, and then Mo turned his attention to the book. What looked interesting? Not too easy, or Lafay would think he wasn't trying, but not too hard or he'd never finish in time. They had less than a full period, after all. Maybe he should just make what Cat was making...

Oh, nope. Perfect. He found the perfect potion for him. It would take extra time once he was finished brewing in class, but this happened to be a potion he needed.

Devomotion Potion

Ingredients:

Water
2 cups elf-made wine vinegar
3 leaves from a Dransul plant
3 billywig stingers

Instructions:

Fill cauldron with water
Heat over a low flame
Add elf-made wine vinegar
Crush one Dransul leaf in mortar until acid forms
Add three drops Dransul acid to cauldron with a dropper
Stir potion 3 times counter-clockwise
Add billywig stingers while potion is still moving (Potion should appear a dark burgundy in color)
Point wand at potion, move in a spiraling motion upwards while casting "Agitatum"
Using "Glacius", quickly douse flame and cool cauldron down, potion will continue to move.
Let simmer a month.
Colour will have darkened to black, consistency will be thicker
Ladle the potion in a developing tray
With gloves on, pass the negative in the potion
One minute later, take it out and put it in a second tray, covering it with water
Allow to dry

Mo stood and gave Cat one last eyebrow. Did she want him to get her anything? "Your wish... blah blah blah command."

TakemetotheBurrow

10-11-2013, 11:04 PM

Crushed chamomile next. Ella cleaned her mortar and pestle and then crushed it up finely, concentrating as she worked. The blonde wanted to relax a little because Lafay wasn't around to yell at anyone right now but she still had this voice in the back of her head telling her not to let her guard down. The woman could have ways of knowing what they'd done in here, right? Creepy thought was creepy.

Anyway, chamomile was ready. Ella poured it into her hand as the potion required a handful and then added it carefully to the mixture already brewing inside the potion. She'd have some time to kill now too as the potion was meant to simmer for 20 minutes. What...should she do for 20 minutes? Hm.

Maybe she'd doodle for a bit.

Instructions:

Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Charely Potter

10-11-2013, 11:34 PM

After donning on his dragon hide gloves, Wade approached the large jar of bundimun secretion. Taking note on how concentrated it was he it over his cauldron, he slowly tipped it in to just add one *drop* in. Cool. No explosions happened, as he safely put it away. It was easier than he thought.

After crossing off what he did on his list, he looked at the next part. One crocodile eye.. sliced. Okay. So he went to take the large jar of crocodile eyes for the next part.

Ingredients
Water
1 clove Garlic
1 drop Bundimun Secretion
1 Crocodile Eye
50 g Powdered Cockroach
Peppermint, lemon or pine needles

Directions
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Crush and add a clove of garlic
Add one drop bundimun secretion - make sure you wear dragon hide gloves when handling it!
Slice the crocodile eye
Stir once clockwise
Stir 3 times counter-clockwise
Let simmer
Add 50 grams of powdered cockroach
Add the peppermint, lemon or pine needles to scent it (don't be surprised if it changes colour)

lazykitty

10-11-2013, 11:58 PM

After slipping on her gloves, Sky filled her cauldron with water and cast a nice gentle "Incendio." Leaving it to boil, she took that time to cast a quick Scourgify on her other equipment. Because, messing this potion up could be catastrophic, right? Since it did create something that was explosive and all that.

Checking on her cauldron, she saw that the water was now boiling. Great. Awesome. Next step......

Bazinga

10-12-2013, 12:20 AM

Listening as Wade did his Head Boy duties Minerva turned her focus back to her own workstations. Now that she had her ingredients laid out in front of her. Pulling her cauldron closer she pointed her wand and silently did Scourgify to clean it. Now that it was clean she looked at Wade, "So what are you making?" She glanced over his shoulder to see if she recognized the ingredients.

Glancing at her own stuff Minerva began measuring out all the ingredients and taking her knife she chopped the daisy root and ginger roots so they were in even pieces. Next she made sure that the shrivefig was fully peeled and set it aside, pulling out her mortar and pestle Min made sure it was clean and then placed the dried nettles in crushing them.

Once all that was done she looked at the steps to see how to start the actual potion.

Instructions:
Prepare and measure all ingredients ahead of time. Daisy roots and giner roots should be evenly chopped. Make sure all of the peel is removed from the shrivelfig. Caterpillar slices should be small and even. Dried nettles should be crushed, but not powdered, in a mortar and pestle. Leech juice will be provided by the professor (please walk carefully to the desk at the front of collect it before you begin brewing the potion).

Add daisy roots, shrivelfig, caterpillar slices, and nettle to 500 mL boiling water. Stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes.
Add a dash of leech juice. Allow the solution to stew, stirring occassionally, for half an hour.
Add the ginger root and stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes. Remove cauldron from the fire and allow potion to cool.
Write your name and house on two vials. Very carefully distribute your potion into the two vials (do not allow the potion to touch anything that is not the vial or the ladle- do not get on your hands!) Bring one to the front for grading and keep one vial at your desk for testing.

the fastest seeker

10-12-2013, 12:28 AM

Everything was happening fast, ok? She needed a second to pause and process what was going on. The professor was leaving and they got to brew ANY potion they wanted to. It gets better, head girl and head boy were in charge. That's when friendships come in handy. Hi, Kat. Could she just ask for a nap. Or go sit next to someone and talk. No? Well, she would have probably asked but luckily she was in the mood of brewing a potion. So she reached for her textbook and started flipping through the pages. Hmm.. What to choose.

It probably took her forever to choose and the only thing that got her motivated was that mostly everyone had already started and probably half way done. So she finally decided on one. The hair changing one. It was interesting and fun to try. And she wouldn't mind a makeover.

Cradling her book, she went to the ingredients cupboard and retrieved what she needed then walked back to her cauldron, set the textbook down and drew her wand. "Scourgify," She uttered pointing her wand and cauldron then, "Aguamenti," She watched the water's lever then tapped her wand again, "Finite," That was enough.

Turning back to her book she eyed the instructions. Hmm... what to do next.

Hair-changing Potion:
Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
belladonna (2 g; crushed)
nettles (5 g; dried, powdered)
moonstone

Instructions:
place moonstone in cauldron and add water
boil water for 5 minutes
add belladonna and nettles
boil for 5 minutes
reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes
stir, 20 full strokes clockwise followed by 20 full strokes counter-clockwise
place the clear potion in a goblet
dip the very tip of wand in potion and incant, "Coloro!" while concentrating on the color you want the hair
rinse hair in 200 mL of potion
wait 5 minutes for color change

Notes:
Belladonna (also known as deadly nightshade) is highly poisonous and this potion should not be ingested.
Remaining potion should be used within 24 hours.
Hair color will remain for 24-48 hours.
Moonstone may be reused.

TakemetotheBurrow

10-12-2013, 12:30 AM

When twenty minutes was up, Ella finished her doodling and peered into the cauldron. The blonde observed the very pale purple coloring of the potion and raised an eyebrow, attention moving to her book. She wanted confirmation that this was correct. And apparently it was, though sometimes you were able to see green and the seventeen year old saw none of that. At least it was only a sometimes thing. She could take comfort in that.

Next up was purslane...for the nightmares stuff. Ella wouldn't talk about them to anyone but she was tired of having them and really, she wished they'd just go away. They would eventually, yeah? Like...even without a potion?

Ella added a pinch of the purslane to the cauldron and then cleaned her stirrer again. Then it was time to stir counter-clockwise again. "1..2..3..4..5."

Nearly done.

Instructions:

Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

FearlessLeader19

10-12-2013, 12:59 AM

Being a first year, Adi was a bit unsure of how to get started. But luckily, other students were getting started too so he just followed them. He noticed they all cleaned their cauldrons using Scourgify first. So he did just that. If he recalled correctly, cleanliness was one of the five Cs.

First step, heat the water. "Aguamenti!'' When the cauldron was full, Adi stopped the charm and looked around again. Heat. Right. Um.. so just point at the burner and the incantation? No problem. "Incendio!'' Nothing happened. "Incendio!'' the eleven year old said while pointing his wand. Finally! A flame erupted from the burner.

When the water began to boil, Adi added the six grams of salt and with his cleaned ladle, began to stir clockwise. When he was certain all the salt had been dissolved he added the powdered billywig stings after which he stirred twelve times counter clockwise and then clockwise twice.

Paying no attention to the others around him (because he needed to concentrate fully), Adi repeated the stirring instructions six times. So far so good.

lazykitty

10-12-2013, 01:12 AM

.......big handful of dried flakes of salamander skin. Okay. Sky grabbed the vial of those and dumped a bunch into her hand, then from her hand into her cauldron. Alright, next step. Dicing a jalapeno. She wasn't going to take any chances with this step. She needed some safety goggles. But it didn't seem like Professor Lafay kept any of those in the classroom. Hmmm......

But then she had an idea. She always had a pair of sunglasses with her, and the ones she'd chose for today weren't very darkly tinted at all. So, she dug the eyewear out of her bag, blew the lint off and stuck 'em on her face. There. Now she wouldn't get jalapeno juice in her eyes. She set to work dicing the green pepper, trying to dice as evenly as possible.

starlight617

10-12-2013, 02:08 AM

Marissa gathered the items she needed and returned to her table. She pointed her wand at a beaker and said, "Aguamenti." She watched as water filled the beaker and stopped it at 500ml. She then poured the water in her cauldron and began the process of slow boiling it.

While the water boiled she pulled out the mortar and pestle she had picked up and began to crush the lavender.

Colley

10-12-2013, 03:17 AM

Cat glanced at Mo again. He was being nosy and nebby glancing at her textbook. She shifted it in his direction to make it easier on his neck. There. See? She was going with colors. If she had two favorite colors, did that mean she would be both orange and purple? Or would one win over the other? Hmm. Well, only one way to find out, right? "We can go together." She decided, gesturing that he should come with her. "I have lots of things to get. Maybe you can help me carry?" If he had some free space, that was.

She was rather proud that she had made it back to her space with everything in tact and nothing broken or dropped or maiming of the boyfriend in the progress. Surely that was a good sign, yes?

Alright now. Down to business.

"Scourgify." Cat cleaned her cauldron and found her gloves before filling the cauldron half full with water "Aguamenti." and setting it up to boil, "Incendio." While she waited, Cat gathered up her orange and started to slice it up. Maybe she'd have enough left afterwards to keep for herself, hmm? Would she get a whole cup of juice from one orange? She messed about with a knife, squeezing out and measuring up a cup of juice. She had to fish out a seed before she dumped it into her cauldron. Huzzah for oranges. Now, where had she put that billywig stinger?

Aha! There it was. She swooped it up and popped it into the cauldron as well. Good start, Moretti.

Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

Lissy Longbottom

10-12-2013, 03:17 AM

After retrieving his ingredients, Caleb looked into his potions book again to see what he had to do to get started. First things first - he knew he had to clean the cauldron. That was one benefit of having a mother who used to work with potions - she made sure they knew THAT important piece of advice before coming to school. Always clean the cauldron!

"Scourgify!" he muttered, even though he knew he really didn't NEED to clean it since he had just bought the cauldron and it had never been used. Well, whatever, it was done and ready to begin his potion!

"Ok, first things first...heat cauldron until water boils," he read aloud to himself. Ok, that was easy enough. He pointed at his cauldron and muttered "Incendio!" and watched as a small fire was lit underneath it. The fire wasn't super strong, since Caleb hadn't really had a chance to do that spell before, but he didn't want to try again out of fear that the fire would get out of hand, so he'd just have to wait a while for the water to boil.

Well, at least he had time to prepare the other ingredients...

AlwaysSnapesGirl

10-12-2013, 03:19 AM

The water was simmering nicely it looked like, so Penelope checked the book again for the next step. The beetles were next. And there didn't seem to be anything special or fancy to do to them since they were already coarsely ground, just...add them. Okay. Easy enough. She did that.

Stir five times...clockwise. Okay. She grabbed her stirrer and Scourgify'd it quickly and then took a brief moment to picture her cauldron as a clock for a moment so she could make sure she got the direction right. Right. Yes. That. She stirred one...two...three...four...five times. There. Now what was next?

Let it simmer for five minutes. She glanced at her watch to check the time and then observed everyone else, eyeing the watch every now and then to see how much longer she had to wait.

Wit-Sharpening Potion

Use/Effect:
The Wit-Sharpening Potion is used to aid in concentration. It is especially useful if taken before an important exam.

Ingredients:
-water (500mL)
-scarab beetles (coarsely ground; 2)
-ginger root (cut; 5g)
-armadillo bile (9 drops)

Instructions:
1. Bring water to a delicate simmer
2. Add scarab beetles and stir 5 times, clockwise
3. Allow to simmer for 5 minutes
4. Add ginger without stirring and simmer for 20 minutes
5. Allow solution to cool, stirring 7 times every 3 minutes, alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise stirrings
6. When heat can no longer be felt when a hand is placed above the potion, add armadillo bile
7. Allow potion to sit for 8 minutes (potion will smell foul)

Notes:
-This potion is sensitive to temperature so be sure to pay particular attention to the fire while brewing.
-In order to make the potion taste more pleasant, put a peppermint leaf upon the tongue and then, sip the potion. However, do not put the peppermint in the potion itself as steeping peppermint in the potion could alter the properties of the potion.
-Depending upon the brewing, one should feel the effects of the potion within 10 minutes, though it can take up to one hour.

lazykitty

10-12-2013, 03:29 AM

Well that diced nicely. And not a drop of jalapeno juice splashed up and hit her glasses. Sky slipped the sunglasses off and stuffed them back in her bag, Scourgify-ing her hands first and after. Then she dumped the jalapeno pieces into her cauldron and began stirring counterclockwise. One...two...three…four…five…six…seven…eight…nine.… ten…eleven…twelve…thirteen

And done, with that step anyway.

Lizasaurus

10-12-2013, 03:48 AM

Dresden Draught

Use/Effect:
The potions helps you keep awake, content and better at concentrating.

Ingredients:

Water
Armadillo Bile
Bottle of a muggle soft drink called Pepsi
Cherry syrup
Powdered moonstone
A chocolate bar

Instructions:

Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Add the armadillo Bile
Add the bottle of the muggle soft drink called Pepsi
Add the cherry syrup
Stir until the potion goes from a pinky red colour to pale purple
Add the powdered moonstone
Add the entire bar and wait till it dissolves rapidly and faint wisps of white smoke erupts off the surface of the potion.
Let cool

Taking her cauldron, Zoe cleaned it well making sure it was completely empty and thoroughly cleaned before starting on the potion. Lining up her ingredients in the order she'd need them she set to work. Setting her cauldron up she took her wand and used aguamenti to fill it with water and then set the flame to bring it to a boil. She was still wondering what was so important to bring the professor from her class, but it wasn't her business...

Somnium

10-12-2013, 03:57 AM

Taylor threw up her hair in a tight ponytail. She didn't want her hair to get in the way of her potion making. Tay took a deep breath, closed her eyes and focused on clearing her mind. After Taylor cleared her mind, she opened her eyes and smiled. Tay was almost ready to get started. She glanced around at her classmates and the classroom in general. Taylor wondered why Professor Lafay had to leave but she soon shrugged it off. She glanced at her cauldron for a few moments and then sighed. Tay shook her head a little, clearing her mind again. Taylor glanced at the potion page. 1.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns green... not too hard... She took some moonstone and made sure that it was finely grinded up and into a power then started to pour it in. Tay beamed in pride as the potion turned the right shade of green. She quickly glanced at the next step and sighed, looking at the cauldron. 2.Stir until the potion turns blue. .. great is my arm going to get tired? Taylor started to stir the potion. Tay started to stir like the page told her too and started to grow worry as the potion didn't turn blue. She kept stirring and then sighed in relief as it started to get bluer. When it was as blue as it should be, Taylor stopped stirring and glanced at the next step that she needed to do.

Lizasaurus

10-12-2013, 04:48 AM

Dresden Draught

Use/Effect:
The potions helps you keep awake, content and better at concentrating.

Ingredients:

Water
Armadillo Bile
Bottle of a muggle soft drink called Pepsi
Cherry syrup
Powdered moonstone
A chocolate bar

Instructions:

Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Add the armadillo Bile
Add the bottle of the muggle soft drink called Pepsi
Add the cherry syrup
Stir until the potion goes from a pinky red colour to pale purple
Add the powdered moonstone
Add the entire bar and wait till it dissolves rapidly and faint wisps of white smoke erupts off the surface of the potion.
Let cool

It really felt like it was taking forever for the water to just boil. Sitting there on her stool she tapped her foot as she watched the others working on their potions. Looking into her cauldron she saw one bubble. Sighing she waited and watched others more til the water finally started boiling. Taking the bottle of armadillo bile she added it, and set it aside before reaching for the bottle of pepsi.

lemon

10-12-2013, 05:14 AM

Cassirin

10-12-2013, 05:30 AM

Cat got a grin as Mo peered over her shoulder to fully read her potion title. It was what he'd thought, after all. She was going to be colorful at the end of class, and Mo wouldn't have anything immediately to show for himself. He didn't mind, though... he preferred it that way if he got something useful out of it. "I'll carry whatever you can't," Mo decided as he followed her towards the Potions cabinet.

Devomotion Potion

Ingredients:

Water
2 cups elf-made wine vinegar
3 leaves from a Dransul plant
3 billywig stingers

Instructions:

Fill cauldron with water
Heat over a low flame
Add elf-made wine vinegar
Crush one Dransul leaf in mortar until acid forms
Add three drops Dransul acid to cauldron with a dropper
Stir potion 3 times counter-clockwise
Add billywig stingers while potion is still moving (Potion should appear a dark burgundy in color)
Point wand at potion, move in a spiraling motion upwards while casting "Agitatum"
Using "Glacius", quickly douse flame and cool cauldron down, potion will continue to move.
Let simmer a month.
Colour will have darkened to black, consistency will be thicker
Ladle the potion in a developing tray
With gloves on, pass the negative in the potion
One minute later, take it out and put it in a second tray, covering it with water
Allow to dry

Funny that his potion actually had very few supplies. Mo easily managed his phials as he headed back to his seat, making sure that Cat didn't drop anything along the way. Once back at his seat, he waited until girlfriend was settled before turning his attention on his own cauldron. So gloves first. And then cleaning.

"Scourgify," Mo cleaned out his cauldron carefully before setting it back on the work station. He hated these general 'fill with water' type potions, especially since he knew the amount of water was important. Too much would dilute his potion and too little would make it super concentrated. Still, 'fill' was fairly indicative, so Mo stuck his wand in the cauldron, said "Aguamenti", and filled it nearly to the brim. That was full.

lemon

10-12-2013, 07:17 AM

Potion decided on, Alice immediately paraded into the storage room with her textbook and began gathering ingredients. A gallon of flobberworm mucus? She wasn't quite exactly sure why anything would require that much, but she fetched that along with the next couple of materials in one go. After a couple trips, she was able to move all of them to her lab table and ready to get to brewing.

It was unusual that the base of her work wasn't water, but she supposed that was because it was an unction rather than a potion. Still, even in the absence of the liquid, cauldron cleaning was necessary, so the sixth year started off with a simple scouring charm. She checked the book again to make sure she was on track before casting an "Incendio."

And then.. a gallon of flobberworm mucus. Yep. She dumped the whole thing in. Wheee fun.

What was next? Alice measured out a teaspoon of shredded beeswax and dropped it into her cauldron, waiting for it to melt. Reassuring herself that the wax was completely melted, she grabbed the nearest wooden spoon. It was probably a good idea to refer to the text again before stirring, so she peeked once more before turning the stirrer twice in a counterclockwise motion.

This unction had a lot of steps. Why had she chosen it again?

Shaharazalm Unction

Use/Effect:
Allows one to make another say whatever he or she wants; cannot make someone else cast a spell.

Ingredients:
- 1 gallon of flobberworm mucus
- 1 tsp shredded beeswax
- 20 drops of Coconut Oil
- 1 finger of Vaseline
- 7 drops of Lanolin
- 2 tbs yellow moonstone
- 1 Vitamin E Capsule
- 1 pinch of Chamomile
- 1 Jobberknoll feather
- 1 Jobberknoll tongue
- 10 blades of scurvy grass
- 3 tsp of fluxweed
- 2 leaves of lovage
- 1 cup of stewed mandrake roots

Instructions:
- Light cauldron and pour in the Flobberworm Mucus.
- Drop beeswax into mucus, watch it melt, then stir twice counter clockwise.
- Add the 20 drops of coconut oil five at a time. Stir once clockwise after each five drops.
- Don protective gear; gloves, aprons and goggles.
- Flick dollop of Vaseline into cauldron with finger.
- Add in 7 drops of Lanolin, and stir clockwise three times.
- Grind Moonstone in mortar and pestle. Add 2 tsp to cauldron in a circular motion.
- Add Vitamin E to the center of the moonstone circle.
- After 6 minutes potion should be bright yellow.
- Add a pinch of Chamomile.
- Using silver blade, slice the Jobberknoll feather and tongue finely, add to cauldron.
- Stir 5 times counter clockwise and once clockwise.
- Take the blades of scurvy grass and the fluxweed and put them in the lovage leaves. Roll them together tightly and press hard as you roll.
- Use Diffindo to cut them into 10 small pieces.
- Take the stewed mandrake roots and carve ten little holes in it with your silver knife, then stuff the leaf rolls into the mandrake root. Put the carved out pieces on top, drop the whole root into the cauldron, and wait 5 minutes.

Emzily

10-12-2013, 01:03 PM

With the water for his potion under control, Theo picked up his potions book and brought it with him to the potions storeroom. It didn't take him long to find Armadillo bile, so he grabbed a vial of that. What next? Scarab beetles. Ew... sounded disgusting.

Ew... ew... ew... he found them.

Actual beetles, ew. Theo made sure they were completely trapped in their box, then left it on the edge of the shelf so that he could pick that one up last, and keep his full attention on it. The last ingredient he needed was ginger root.

Ginger root, ginger root, ginger root... aha, ginger root. Theo closed his potions book after tucking down a corner of the page he needed, then grabbed hold of his ingredients. It wasn't much to carry really. The ginger root and Armadillo bile was under his arms, and the beetles were being FIRMLY held in his hands.

The Slytherin perched his stuff on his desk and opened up his textbook again.

MudInMyBlood

10-12-2013, 01:05 PM

Say what? The professor was leaving and they were left with instructions to just do whatever. Didn't Lafay know that there were puffers in here? She knew that she would do just fine, but she was worried about getting blown up by others that were quite as intelligent. Coughpufferscough. Ahem. She flipped through her textbook and tried to find something easy to make. She didn't want to spend all of her time on a potion. Maybe she could leave early or something.

Flip, FLIP, flip.

She vaguely wondered what others were going to make. Oh well, as long as she got a good mark that was all that truly mattered. She flipped through what seemed like a million different potions. She came across a sleeping potion and decided that it was the way to go. It didn’t seem like it would be that complicated and she was sure that she could breeze right through it.

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Notes:
Potion can be stored for up to a month, though it is advisable to brew a fresh batch weekly.

She gathered up all the needed supplies and got herself ready to make a potion.

Emzily

10-12-2013, 01:25 PM

"Incendio." Theo aimed for under the cauldron, but nothing happened so it tried it again. It worked the second time. He let the water heat up a bit, then turned it down when it started to simmer. At least, he thought he had done that anyway.

Time to ground those scarab beetles. The gross part.

He tipped one out of the container and into a mortar, and like lightning, he crushed that thing to mush. Okay, breathe, that wasn't too difficult. Theo checked the page again and sighed in relief when it said he only needed 2 of these beetles. Theo repeated the same technique for the next beetle, until he had 2 coarsely ground scarab beetles. (Or so he hoped he did)

After adding the beetles to his cauldron, Theo stirred the potion very slowly in a clockwise motion. It took him a moment to figure out which way clockwise was, but he managed to get it before making a mistake.

5 times stirred. WOOT.

Wit-Sharpening Potion

Use/Effect:
The Wit-Sharpening Potion is used to aid in concentration. It is especially useful if taken before an important exam.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
scarab beetles (coarsely ground; 2)
ginger root (cut; 5g)
armadillo bile (9 drops)

Instructions:
Bring water to a delicate simmer
Add scarab beetles and stir 5 times, clockwise
Allow to simmer for 5 minutes
Add ginger without stirring and simmer for 20 minutes
Allow solution to cool, stirring 7 times every 3 minutes, alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise stirrings
When heat can no longer be felt when a hand is placed above the potion, add armadillo bile
Allow potion to sit for 8 minutes (potion will smell foul)

Theo crossed off each step with a pencil once he had done it.

Govoni

10-12-2013, 01:52 PM

Vesper was a little slow on getting started, but the reality of it was that Professor Lafay was a severe looking woman....And the Claw was sorta terrified of messing up in front of her. It was just one of those things where she knew could do it if her nerves would cooperate. So, relief may have been present when the Professor left the room.

If she messed up, it wouldn't be that bad or embarrassing.

When selecting a potion, Ves tried to decide on one that would be fun and beneficial for her.....and it was with that specification in mind that she chose the Dreamer's Elixir. The homework always dealt in things from the lessons, right? Maybe she'd get to sample it and then write a story...or do something with the dreams. It was rare that she remembered them upon waking up...So, the potion could be a revelation...or something. It'd be interesting, anyway. Very, very interesting.

Copying the potion into her notebook, she went ahead and doodled a bit. Without doodles, her notes would look lifeless and boring...and Vesper just couldn't have that. She didn't like boring...

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Potions Lesson One
Vesper Bayliss
Ravenclaw Fifth Year

THE DREAMER'S ELIXIR

Ingredients
• water
• 1 cup of valerian root
• half a cup of Kava Kava
• 1 deadly nightshade berry
• 8 leaves of devil's weed
• 1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds
• 1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent
• 10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi

Procedure
• clean cauldron (Scourgify!)
• fill completely with water (Aguamenti!)
• turn on the burner and bring water to a boil.
• once the water boils, add the valerian and kava kava (mixes easier if in liquid form)
• clean 18 carat gold needle for next step (Scourgify!)
• pierce the nightshade berry, making sure to get a single drop of juice on the tip of the needle
• set the berry on fire, using the magical burner under cauldron, burning it up entirely along with any remaining juice not on the needle
• let the drop on the needle fall into the potion without touching anything other than the needle
• burn any remaining juice from needle, clean it, and return to supplies
• using silver knife, slice each leaf of devil’s weed carefully along the vein
• place sliced leaves carefully into cauldron/potion
• dip pestle into the liquid, shaking excess off so it’s just moist
• place hemlock seeds into mortar, then crush with moist pestle until mushy (paste-like consistency)
• spoon the hemlock seed paste into cauldron with a wooden spoon
• put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy
• place RED poppy flower on top of the liquid in cauldron, letting the heat from the potion wilt it and sink it to the bottom of the cauldron
• if using potion to forget/not experience dreams, stop here
• add Calea Zacatechichi leaves whole to potion, as they will disintegrate
• (potion should be purple-colored) wave wand in a semi-circle motion over potion, thinking about a recent dream, then cast Sopororis
• strain potion before using
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After that was all taken care of, she was off to get her ingredients...using her fantastic 'blending in' abilities along the way. Also, the ingredients had interesting names. Fun to say, fun to write, fun to use? Hopefully?

After collecting all the things, Ves moved it back to her station and eyed those around her. What potions had they decided on? Would there be any accidents? Would she need to be ready to duck down at any given moment? Hmm. Maybe...maybe not. They looked more capable than she did.

Either way, to begin, it was cleaning the cauldron first. LUCKILY, this required a CHARM...and Ves knew her way around with charms. So, a scourgify later, she was using another spell (aguamenti!) to fill the cauldron to the brim with water. This was performed with little problems because of the simplicity of the spell. Finite stopped the water stream and then she was turning the burner on; all basic things in setting up for potions brewing.

She could do this. All she had to do was remain focused and not think too much about others in the room. Easier said than done, of course. BUT SHE COULD DOODLE...to keep herself busy. Yep...While waiting for the water to boil, she went ahead and doodled another feather just below where she'd written out the instructions...

the fastest seeker

10-12-2013, 02:04 PM

She quickly familiarized herself with the steps quickly the focused on the first one. She reached for the moonstone and dropped it into the cauldron releasing it close to the surface in order not to cause a splash and wet her robes. Then she pointed her wand beneath the cauldron and cast, "Incendio," She pulled the textbook closer and checked the next step.

To add crushed belladonna. While the water warmed and started to boil, the fifth-year reached for a mortar, cleaned it then started crushing the belladonna making sure she didn't use too much or too little. Two grams. She crushed the plant with her eyes darting to the cauldron every now and then checking on the water. Once she was done crushing and when the water's been boiling for about five minutes, she leaned towards the cauldron and added the crushed belladonna and five grams of powdered nettles.

She sat back again and left it to boil as instructed glancing at her watch to track the time. She only needed five minutes. Meanwhile she randomly doodles on her notebook, keeping an eye out on the cauldron.

Hair-changing Potion:

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
belladonna (2 g; crushed)
nettles (5 g; dried, powdered)
moonstone

Instructions:
place moonstone in cauldron and add water ✔
boil water for 5 minutes ✔
add belladonna and nettles ✔
boil for 5 minutes ✔
reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes
stir, 20 full strokes clockwise followed by 20 full strokes counter-clockwise
place the clear potion in a goblet
dip the very tip of wand in potion and incant, "Coloro!" while concentrating on the color you want the hair
rinse hair in 200 mL of potion
wait 5 minutes for color change

Notes:
Belladonna (also known as deadly nightshade) is highly poisonous and this potion should not be ingested.
Remaining potion should be used within 24 hours.
Hair color will remain for 24-48 hours.
Moonstone may be reused.

Sonea

10-12-2013, 02:16 PM

Okay, now i need to actually make this potion… The third year old looked troubled, she really wasn’t good in making potions, she never had been good at it and she was afraid that she never would learn it, but she tried it, yes, she NEEDED to try it because the professor was the head of her house and… eh… she was a little scary. The third year didn’t wanted to let the professor think badly about her, so she NEEDED to try it, just to prove that she had tried it.

She looked in her book and saw what she first needed to do, and she filled her cauldron while using the Aguamenti spell, but she found it difficult to see how much water she already had added, 500 ML water... Using this spell wasn’t difficult now for her, but she remembered how difficult it had been when she had tried to learn it for the first time! When she had filled the cauldron she checked first if she indeed had used 500 ML water and nothing more because she didn’t wanted to ruin this potion!

While she waited for the water to boil she checked if she had all the right ingredients and when she saw that she had everything the water was already boiling. Okay… she had done it good until now, but the hardest part was not letting the water boil, but what she needed to nest! Biting her lip because she was very nervous to do this right she added the crushed lavender and she stirred 21 times, counter-clockwise, she did exactly what was written in the book so she NEEDED to do it good this time right? She had learned her lesson the previous year while she had made a potion with Daichi, she had REALLY messed up with the potion and it had been HER fault that the potion had exploded… So this time she would do it better, or… she tried to…

Looking in her textbook what she needed to now she tried to concentrate.

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Notes:
Potion can be stored for up to a month, though it is advisable to brew a fresh batch weekly.

starlight617

10-12-2013, 02:19 PM

Marissa set aside the lavender and began crushing the chamomile while the water continued to warm up. By the time she had finished crushing up the chamomile the water had begun to boil. She set aside the chamomile and picked up the lavender. She grabbed a pinch of lavender and added it to her cauldron and began to stir the cauldron counter-clockwise, "1,2,3,4,5..." she counted quietly aloud. Only 16 more to go she thought to herself and continued counting.

Sonea

10-12-2013, 02:40 PM

Oh, this was boring, she saw in her textbook that she needed to wait 20 minutes after she had added the chamomile! Pfff, she knew that she didn't had another option than to just wait and do what she needed to, even if she didn't liked it! So she crushed the chamomile after she had added it to her potion she let it simmer for 20 minutes... And while she waited she decided to prepare the other ingredients for her potion, but she was already done in 5 minutes, so she still needed to wait!

Luckily she had ALWAYS something with her in her schoolbag so she grabbed a fashion magazine she could read while she waited. Reading about the lest fashion int he Wizarding World was always interesting! And yes! Just when she was done with reading she saw that it was time to start working again and looked in her book to see what she needed to do again but... oh... the potion was really too green! Had she done something wrong? She quickly re-read the text in her book and saw that she had done nothing wrong, so hoping for the best she just started to work. She REALLY hoped that it was just a small mistake and that the potion would be alright....

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Notes:
Potion can be stored for up to a month, though it is advisable to brew a fresh batch weekly.

Charely Potter

10-12-2013, 03:01 PM

Listening as Wade did his Head Boy duties Minerva turned her focus back to her own workstations. Now that she had her ingredients laid out in front of her. Pulling her cauldron closer she pointed her wand and silently did Scourgify to clean it. Now that it was clean she looked at Wade, "So what are you making?" She glanced over his shoulder to see if she recognized the ingredients.

Wade smiled a little hearing his Mousie friend, "Magicleanse.. Suppose to help clean fabrics and objects.. I think Professor Flamsteed will like this." No more lint rollers if he had some, heh. "So what about you? What are you making?" He wouldn't mind sharing ingredients if she needed them too.

Wade merely blinked as he held the jar of crocodile eyes, opening the lid before taking one gently.. so it doesn't get all squished in his grip and all. He took the knife, making sure to 'Scourigify' it beforehand, in case it had been contaminated beforehand. Setting the crocodile eye on the table, he sliced it as instructed before adding it in. *drop*

Glancing at the cauldron, as he heard it sizzle.. and wow, it didn't smell very nice. Guess that's why they have those nice smelling items listed in ingredients? Hmm.. hopefully it didn't get too strong soon. Next right away was to stir it right in to get the color green. So Wade then took the clean ladle to stir it clockwise once..*1* and then three more times counter-clockwise *1...2...3* Perfect. Watching as the current concoction turned a nice green. Now to wait for it to simmer.

He bent back over his notes before crossing off what he just did while it did so.

Ingredients
Water
1 clove Garlic
1 drop Bundimun Secretion
1 Crocodile Eye
50 g Powdered Cockroach
Peppermint, lemon or pine needles

Directions
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Crush and add a clove of garlic
Add one drop bundimun secretion - make sure you wear dragon hide gloves when handling it!
Slice the crocodile eye
Stir once clockwise
Stir 3 times counter-clockwise
Let simmer
Add 50 grams of powdered cockroach
Add the peppermint, lemon or pine needles to scent it (don't be surprised if it changes colour)

TakemetotheBurrow

10-12-2013, 03:01 PM

Ginger.

That was if she wanted a powerful brew. Huh. Ella didn't know what the point of a potion was if it wasn't going to be a considerably powerful one. Especially if it involved getting a good night sleep. Of course she wanted to add some in.

The blonde reached for the ginger and got a pinch of it, wondering all the while about the measurements being used for this particular potion. It wasn't exactly precise, yeah? That was sort of strange to her.

Adding it into the mixture, the blonde cleaned her stirrer yet again and began to stir.

5 times, counter-clockwise.

"1..2..3..4..5"

Brilliant. Did that mean she was done?

Instructions:

Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

FearlessLeader19

10-12-2013, 03:20 PM

Now came the tricking part of brewing this Potion but Adi was confident he could manage it. All he needed to do was to keep up his level of concentration. He added one drop of the essence of firefly. With the ladle, he began stirring six times counter clockwise. One..two...three...four...five...six... Now for the clockwise stirs. One...two...

The boy repeated these steps after he added the remaining two drops of essence of firefly. "Reduce flame and simmer for twenty minutes before allowing potion to cool,'' he read from the text book. No problem! Adi fidgeted with the burner, reducing the flame.

Adi sat back down at his work station to make some notes and to keep an eye on the potion.

Sonea

10-12-2013, 03:20 PM

Looking in her textbook she saw that she was almost done with the potion, she only needed to do a few more things and she would be ready!! Pff, she REALLY hoped that the color from her potion would become a little more normal if she was trying to finish it, but... Besides the wrong color it seemed as if nothing was wrong with her potion and that was a good thing, or... she hoped that! And because she didn't knew what she needed to do to get the color from her potion better she just tried to finish it and to do it exactly as was written in her book!

She added a pinch from the purslane, she had already prepared everything so this was easy... She stirred the potion 5 times, counter-clockwise, and yes, she had re-read her textbook to make sure that she was doing it good and she saw already after a few seconds that the color from her potion became better! YES!!! This was really good to see! Relieved that she must have done something good she smiled a little while she looked back in her textbook to see what she needed to do next.

But... she was done, unless she wanted to make it more powerful but that didn't seemed a very good idea, she was already relieved that this potion didn't had exploded and that it's color was normal again, so she didn't wanted to do anything more and to risk the possibility that she would make a mess from her potion! So... She decided to NOT make it more powerful and that the potion was ready!

She cleaned everything she had used and... waited for the professor to return back to the classroom so that she knew what she needed to do next...
And while she waited she made a lebel for her potion:

Name: Sonea Duvessa
House: Slytherin
Potion: Basic Sleeping Draft

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Notes:
Potion can be stored for up to a month, though it is advisable to brew a fresh batch weekly.

Govoni

10-12-2013, 03:58 PM

It took several moments, but once water began boiling, Vesper dropped the shading pencil back down on the counter top and took a gander at her notes. According to the passage, it said that valerian root and Kava Kava would be added next. There wasn't any specific instructions about how they were meant to be added...So, after they were measured out, she casually dropped them in. There. Added.

Also, she needed to figure out a way to mark her progress without messing up her notes. Maybe a checkmark off to the side of each step would do? Ves tried this and nodded to herself in approval. It didn't disrupt her doodles or take away from the overall appearance of the notes. So, they could stay.

Looking to see what steps were next, she finally understood what the golden needle was for. Vesper had always wondered...but had never used it. Trying to carefully pull it out without poking herself, she put her focused face on, finally slipping it out of the holder. Heh, gotcha.

Laying it in the palm of her gloved hand, she pointed her wand at it. After several cleaning spells, she felt sorta confident that it was clean. Clean and ready for whatever came next.

Heh. What did come next....?

Nightshade berry, eh? Vesper eyed it, kinda fascinated by the blackness of it. Made sense that it was deadly or whatever. Evil berry was evil. Cue spooky sounds. OoooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOooooooh.

Anyway, just so she understood...She was meant to poke the needle into the berry, get one drop of the juice on its point, and then toss the rest of the berry under the cauldron so that the magical fire could incinerate it and it's evil juice. Right?....And then she was to add the drop and then burn the remaining residue off of the needle...and then clean it...

This...was obviously going to require finesse. Finesse she might not of had...

Eep.

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Potions Lesson One
Vesper Bayliss
Ravenclaw Fifth Year

THE DREAMER'S ELIXIR

Ingredients
• water ✔
• 1 cup of valerian root ✔
• half a cup of Kava Kava ✔
• 1 deadly nightshade berry
• 8 leaves of devil's weed
• 1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds
• 1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent
• 10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi

Procedure
• clean cauldron (Scourgify!) ✔
• fill completely with water (Aguamenti!) ✔
• turn on the burner and bring water to a boil. ✔
• once the water boils, add the valerian and kava kava (mixes easier if in liquid form) ✔
• clean 18 carat gold needle for next step (Scourgify!) ✔
• pierce the nightshade berry, making sure to get a single drop of juice on the tip of the needle
• set the berry on fire, using the magical burner under cauldron, burning it up entirely along with any remaining juice not on the needle
• let the drop on the needle fall into the potion without touching anything other than the needle
• burn any remaining juice from needle, clean it, and return to supplies
• using silver knife, slice each leaf of devil’s weed carefully along the vein
• place sliced leaves carefully into cauldron/potion
• dip pestle into the liquid, shaking excess off so it’s just moist
• place hemlock seeds into mortar, then crush with moist pestle until mushy (paste-like consistency)
• spoon the hemlock seed paste into cauldron with a wooden spoon
• put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy
• place RED poppy flower on top of the liquid in cauldron, letting the heat from the potion wilt it and sink it to the bottom of the cauldron
• if using potion to forget/not experience dreams, stop here
• add Calea Zacatechichi leaves whole to potion, as they will disintegrate
• (potion should be purple-colored) wave wand in a semi-circle motion over potion, thinking about a recent dream, then cast Sopororis
• strain potion before using
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Daemon

10-12-2013, 03:59 PM

Singing Suspension

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
billywig wings (a pinch)
scurvy-grass (1 dram)

Instructions:
boil water
add ingredients & stir constantly for 5 minutes
remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestionTHERE.

Phew.

Done.

Scowling at the now crushed acorns that made his life difficult, Benzi dropped them into the potion and also added the single dram of scurvy-grass and a pinch of billywig wings. Grabbing his stirrer, the eleven year old glanced at the clock and began counting down five minutes.

Potions was rather dull, if he were being perfectly honest. Not too much excitement, just people preparing ingredients and then putting it in water. Sure, it was really easy to get stuff wrong but all you need to do is just follow the instructions. As his five minutes timed up, Benzi carefully turned off his burner and continued stirring for another five minutes, this time watching his potion with interest. It should be done soon. Once it was, he'd pour it into a flask and start his other potion.

MudInMyBlood

10-12-2013, 04:00 PM

Ready to get the show on the road the sixth year cleaned her cauldron. Scourgify." She knew that Lafay would have her head if she performed with a dirty cauldron. "Aguamenti." She watched as the water filled the cauldron. Glancing back at her notes she saw that she needed to slowing bring the water to a boil

She lit the flame and stared at the cauldron almost as if willing it to go faster even though the instructions clearly stated that it had to be done slowly. How long would this take exactly? She wasn't very good at being patient. She hummed to herself and checked the rest of the instructions so she could make sure that there wouldn't be any mistakes happening. She watched as the water finally started to boil.

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Notes:
Potion can be stored for up to a month, though it is advisable to brew a fresh batch weekly.

hermionesclone

10-12-2013, 04:55 PM

Okay, so... the next part. Alec read through the instructions, his eyebrows furrowing lightly. He had to break an egg? BREAK?! He was useless at breaking eggs! Ells and Tag always had to break them for him because... he was that bad. Frowning slightly, the seventeen year old looked up and over towards his girlfriend. If he asked her to, would she come over and break the egg for him or...?

... No. He had to do this himself.

Panicking slightly, Alec headed over towards the refrigerated section and pulled out an Ashwinder egg before heading over towards his desk again. Okay. Break. Egg. Break. Not smash. He took a deep breath before tapping the egg against the side of the mortar. ... Nothing. He tapped it again, this time a little harder, until...

... IT CRACKED! GRIN. Had anyone seen that? Was anyone--

... Oh. Shrug. He was still going to tell someone about this, though. Maybe later. Right now... he had a potion to worry about. The inside of the egg was added into the potion before he swiftly moved on to the next part. Four sprigs of Fluxweed? That went into the mortar too. Then, the whole mixture was tipped over and added into his cauldron.

There. BREAAAATHE.

Antillergen Potion

Ingredients:
- Water
- 10 drops Valerian root
- 10 drops Salamander Blood
- 2 dock leaves
- 1 Ashwinder Egg
- 4 sprigs Fluxweed
- 10 drops Murtlap Essence
- 2 sprigs Parsley
- 3 spoons Raw honey
- 5 Basil leaves
- 1 whole Papaya
- 1 Ginger Root
- 17 Reishi (mushroom of immortality)

Instructions:
1) Fill cauldron with water
2) Add valerian root and salamander blood, one drop at a time, alternating between the two
3) Add the dock leaves to mortar and crush
4) Break frozen ashwinder egg into mortar
5) Add fluxweed to mortar
6) Add mixture from mortar into cauldron
7) Add Murtlap Essence
8) Stir eight times counter clockwise
9) Add parsley sprigs loosely crushing them into cauldron
10) Add raw honey
11) Slice Basil leaves with a Silver Knife
12) Stab whole papaya with same silver knife stuff basil in papaya's wounds
13) Add Papaya to cauldron
14) Add grated ginger root
15) Add thinly sliced Reishi Mushroom to cauldron
16) Wave wand over Cauldron in fast strinking oblique motion and cast the "Sanum" spell

pundantic

10-12-2013, 05:26 PM

Just as he started to gain his bearings on the potion that they would be making, yeah, Lafay got all weird. The potions Professor was suddenly all up in arms and leaving. Uh, sure.

And they had to make a potion on their own? Well, that was cool or whatever. He was just going to flip through his book and find the easiest one so he could bail. S'not like she said they had to go for something extremely complicated.

After a few minutes of contemplation, he decided to go for the girding potion. So Ascanius scribbled down the instructions and made work of what he needed to start.

Reaching for his cauldron, he scourgified it clean and then made work of filling it. "Aguamenti." Nice, nice.

As soon as he lit the fire underneath it, he went to work grabbing all of the ingredients that he needed and then prepared to start.

Add one set of fairy wings.
Heat until the potion turns turquoise.
Add one measure of doxy eggs.
Heat until the potion turns pink.
Add the toasted dragonfly thoraxes until the potion turns red.
Heat until the potion turns blue.
Add toasted dragonfly thoraxes until the potion turns silver.
Heat the potion until it turns red.
Add three measures of doxy eggs.
Add some dragonfly thoraxes.
Heat the potion until it turns blue.
Add three flying seahorses.
Heat until the potion turns green.

MudInMyBlood

10-12-2013, 05:47 PM

Lavender was the first ingredient that was needed after adding water. She looked at the supplies that she had collected at her desk and realized that she didn't grab any lavender. That was just perfect. She needed to slow down and take her time before she went and made a mess of things.

She walked over to the supply cabinet and grabbed what she needed. Deciding that it was best to consult her textbook once more she read that all she needed was a pinch of lavender and it had to be crushed. Easy enough. She crushed the lavender and added just a pinch to her cauldron. She had to stir the brew 21 times counter clockwise. That seemed like an awful lot and was sure that her arm would ache. Wasn't there an easier way to do this?

1, 2, 3, 4. She kept the count constantly going in her head and she stirred counter clockwise. Yup, she was starting to feel it in her upper arm, but a getting a good grade out of it would be worth it. She scratched off the first two steps and moved on to the third.

Basic Sleeping Draft

Use/Effect:
The basic sleeping draft is to be used before bedtime in order to aid in sleeping. However, it should not be used longer than a week or two or one may start falling asleep at odd times of the day.

Ingredients:
water (500mL)
lavender (a pinch; crushed)
chamomile (a handful; crushed)
for nightmares: purslane (a pinch)
for more powerful brew: ginger (a pinch)

Instructions:
Bring water to a slow boil.
Add lavender and stir 21 times, counter-clockwise.
Add chamomile and let simmer for 20 minutes (potion should be pale, clear, purple with a tint of green, though the green may not always be observable)
For nightmares: add a pinch of purslane and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise
For a more powerful brew: add a pinch of ginger and stir 5 times, counter-clockwise

Notes:
Potion can be stored for up to a month, though it is advisable to brew a fresh batch weekly.

Govoni

10-12-2013, 06:03 PM

Steady hands. Steady hands. Steady hands.

Vesper was chanting to herself, trying to get in the mindset for this step. She did not need a clumsy mishap...and knowing her fabulous luck, she'd slip after poking the berry and stab herself with the juice. She didn't know the effects that would have on her...but the Ravenclaw was almost positive it wouldn't be anything good. In fact, she rechecked her gloves...because she was a touch nervous.

Okay.

Heh, just to be sure...about safety...Vesper went ahead and put her goggles on, too. There. ALL SAFE.

Now to poke the berry...SQUINT!...

Settling it down into the center of her gloved palm, she shakily brought the needle up with the other hand, trying to focus. It made no sense to be nervous, but she was. Taking some breaths, Ves went ahead and did it; moving the needle in...and then right back out. There. Not overthinking it, she tossed the berry into the fire below her cauldron and then added the drop from the tip of the needle into her cauldron of things. Moving with momentum helped the nerves some, mostly because she wasn't thinking about it...and the juice drop hadn't touched anything other than the needle, which had been grasped between her fingertips. So, there was no worries of it being tainted? Was that a good word for it?

How to do this next part...Eyeing the needle tip...and then eyeing the fire beneath her cauldron, she moved her hand down, sticking the juicy end into the burning flame. What other way was there to do this? It was what was most logical. The juice had only gotten on the end part, anyway. After several moments, Vesper removed it and took a gander. Seeing that the juice was, indeed, gone, she did a cleaning spell and tucked it away once more...with the same difficulty as when she'd pulled it out. Really. The needle did NOT want her to succeed. Stupid TROLL needle.

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Potions Lesson One
Vesper Bayliss
Ravenclaw Fifth Year

THE DREAMER'S ELIXIR

Ingredients
• water ✔
• 1 cup of valerian root ✔
• half a cup of Kava Kava ✔
• 1 deadly nightshade berry ✔
• 8 leaves of devil's weed
• 1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds
• 1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent
• 10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi

Procedure
• clean cauldron (Scourgify!) ✔
• fill completely with water (Aguamenti!) ✔
• turn on the burner and bring water to a boil. ✔
• once the water boils, add the valerian and kava kava (mixes easier if in liquid form) ✔
• clean 18 carat gold needle for next step (Scourgify!) ✔
• pierce the nightshade berry, making sure to get a single drop of juice on the tip of the needle ✔
• set the berry on fire, using the magical burner under cauldron, burning it up entirely along with any remaining juice not on the needle ✔
• let the drop on the needle fall into the potion without touching anything other than the needle ✔
• burn any remaining juice from needle, clean it, and return to supplies ✔
• using silver knife, slice each leaf of devil’s weed carefully along the vein
• place sliced leaves carefully into cauldron/potion
• dip pestle into the liquid, shaking excess off so it’s just moist
• place hemlock seeds into mortar, then crush with moist pestle until mushy (paste-like consistency)
• spoon the hemlock seed paste into cauldron with a wooden spoon
• put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy
• place RED poppy flower on top of the liquid in cauldron, letting the heat from the potion wilt it and sink it to the bottom of the cauldron
• if using potion to forget/not experience dreams, stop here
• add Calea Zacatechichi leaves whole to potion, as they will disintegrate
• (potion should be purple-colored) wave wand in a semi-circle motion over potion, thinking about a recent dream, then cast Sopororis
• strain potion before using
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Colley

10-12-2013, 06:04 PM

Alright now. The flame was getting a bit too hot now and she was meant to tone it down a bit. With a bit of concentration, she lowered then flame just so until it was perfect. Now it was time to crush things. Yes. That was always a good time. Cat set to that, continuing with the ginger root until she had enough Cat-created powder to measure out into a teaspoon. Powdered ginger root went into the cauldron and she glanced at her book for the next step.

Two tablespoons of sugar. Ohh yummy. Sugar and orange juice, surely this potion wouldn't be an awful to taste, yes? Surely. She carefully poured two tablespoons, and no more, into her cauldron. She would have liked to add more but that was not the RIGHT way and she was meant to do things right. Besides, what would that do? Would it mess something up or just make it sweeter? She supposed now was not the time for her ponderings, though. She picked up the stirry-thingy-thing and stirred -wait- counter clockwise? Cat checked her book again. Ah, yes. Counter clockwise. She stirred once and added a peppermint leaf, then continued on. Stir, peppermint. Stir, peppermint. Stir, peppermint. Stir, peppermint. Then one more stir after her five peppermint leaves were all in the cauldron.

Then she peeked at Mo. Not breaking things or burning things, yes?

Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

Somnium

10-12-2013, 06:17 PM

3.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns purple... again with the moonstone... but purple... think purple... Tay sighed then looked at the blue potion that was in her cauldron. Taylor made sure that even more moonstone was powdered and started to pour it into her cauldron. She sighed and watched for the color change as she continued to pour the powdered moonstone. The potion slowly began to turn purple and once it turned purple, Taylor beamed a smile. Okay... it is purple... that step is complete! Yay! She felt like twirling in delight but resisted since she needed to focus on this potion since it is suppose to be really hard to do. Tay glanced at the book, looking onto the page for the next step. 4.Allow to simmer until the potion turns pink... simmer? that is going to take a bit... and it is sooooo boring... Taylor pouted but let her potion simmer. In the meantime, she glanced over the list of steps a few more times then looked at the potion. It was still not pink yet. Tay glanced around the room, watching the other students do their own potions

lemon

10-12-2013, 06:27 PM

Sneaking periodic little looks over at her boyfriend, Alice moved on to adding the coconut oil, stirring the mixture once in a clockwise direction after each set of five drops. She paused momentarily to cross another step off with her quill before reading the following one. Protective gear? Why was that necessary? Either way, she complied with the text's orders, donning gloves, an apron, and a pair of goggles before continuing.

A dollop of Vaseline. The sixth year wasn't quite sure what Vaseline was, but she'd grabbed the container labelled as it. A gloved finger stretched into the petroleum jelly, capturing a dollop that she successfully flicked into her cauldron. Next, Alice let exactly seven drops of Lanolin trickle into her cauldron, turning the wooden spoon thrice in a clockwise motion.

Mixing in the wood grease preceded grinding the yellow moonstone, so she was quick to grab a mortar and pestle. How much did the book say, two tablespoons? She dropped the ingredient into the apothecary grinder, then began crushing it. Once she had finished, Alice peeked at the procedure again, making sure to add the moonstone in a circular motion. The Vitamin E capsule? She dropped that in the center, just how she was meant to do.

And then she stole another glance at West. Hi West. She got to stare at him for six whole minutes now. Book said so.

Shaharazalm Unction

Use/Effect:
Allows one to make another say whatever he or she wants; cannot make someone else cast a spell.

Ingredients:
- 1 gallon of flobberworm mucus
- 1 tsp shredded beeswax
- 20 drops of Coconut Oil
- 1 finger of Vaseline
- 7 drops of Lanolin
- 2 tbs yellow moonstone
- 1 Vitamin E Capsule
- 1 pinch of Chamomile
- 1 Jobberknoll feather
- 1 Jobberknoll tongue
- 10 blades of scurvy grass
- 3 tsp of fluxweed
- 2 leaves of lovage
- 1 cup of stewed mandrake roots

Instructions:
- Light cauldron and pour in the Flobberworm Mucus.
- Drop beeswax into mucus, watch it melt, then stir twice counter clockwise.
- Add the 20 drops of coconut oil five at a time. Stir once clockwise after each five drops.
- Don protective gear; gloves, aprons and goggles.
- Flick dollop of Vaseline into cauldron with finger.
- Add in 7 drops of Lanolin, and stir clockwise three times.
- Grind Moonstone in mortar and pestle. Add 2 tsp to cauldron in a circular motion.
- Add Vitamin E to the center of the moonstone circle.
- After 6 minutes potion should be bright yellow.
- Add a pinch of Chamomile.
- Using silver blade, slice the Jobberknoll feather and tongue finely, add to cauldron.
- Stir 5 times counter clockwise and once clockwise.
- Take the blades of scurvy grass and the fluxweed and put them in the lovage leaves. Roll them together tightly and press hard as you roll.
- Use Diffindo to cut them into 10 small pieces.
- Take the stewed mandrake roots and carve ten little holes in it with your silver knife, then stuff the leaf rolls into the mandrake root. Put the carved out pieces on top, drop the whole root into the cauldron, and wait 5 minutes.

Cassirin

10-12-2013, 06:28 PM

Once full of water, the cauldron became sort of unwieldy and sloshed a bit over the sides as Mo shifted it across his work station and into place. He dried his gloved hand carefully on his robes, something he wouldn't have done if he wasn't absolutely sure it was just water all over his hands, and then Mo pulled out his wand again.

Now... he needed to let the cauldron heat over a low flame. "Incendio," he pointed his wand at the base of the cauldron and settled on a small flame giving off minimal heat. While the water heated, Mo shifted sideways, giving Cat a hip-bump as he prepared his first ingredient.

Elf-made wine vinegar? Mo sniffed it and pulled a face. "Do you ever cook with this stuff, or is it only suited for potions? And what's the difference between elf-made and human-made? Do you know?" He tipped the phial toward Cat and carefully measured out two cups so she could see before pouring it into the heated water.

Devomotion Potion

Ingredients:

Water
2 cups elf-made wine vinegar
3 leaves from a Dransul plant
3 billywig stingers

Instructions:

Fill cauldron with water
Heat over a low flame
Add elf-made wine vinegar
Crush one Dransul leaf in mortar until acid forms
Add three drops Dransul acid to cauldron with a dropper
Stir potion 3 times counter-clockwise
Add billywig stingers while potion is still moving (Potion should appear a dark burgundy in color)
Point wand at potion, move in a spiraling motion upwards while casting "Agitatum"
Using "Glacius", quickly douse flame and cool cauldron down, potion will continue to move.
Let simmer a month.
Colour will have darkened to black, consistency will be thicker
Ladle the potion in a developing tray
With gloves on, pass the negative in the potion
One minute later, take it out and put it in a second tray, covering it with water
Allow to dry

Daemon

10-12-2013, 06:45 PM

Benzi frowned. It had been TEN ENTIRE MINUTES since he'd finished stirring his potions. Last time he'd checked, it was still hot which meant he couldn't scoop it up into a vial. GAH.

Eyeing the seemingly cold potion, Benzi gingerly touched the sides of the cauldron. OH OH. It was COLDER. Cold enough. Grabbing the empty vial he'd just washed, the Ravenclaw filled it up with his potion and corked it up. BOOM. Singing Suspension done. Now for that other thing he was going to do.

Flicking his book to the appropriate page, Benzi read through the list of ingredients before setting to work. First off - washing his cauldron. He hauled the full cauldron to the sinks and tipped it over before rinsing it thoroughly, scrubbing it until his hand hurt but it looked ready for use. He made the trip twice more, washing all his utensils deeming everything usable.

Reading over the ingredient list, Benzi went to the cupboard and grabbed what he needed, wrinkling his nose at some of the things. Blood and leeches. Kind of disgusting. Cool, yes, but still disgusting.

Lingualaxus Truth Serum

Use/Effect:
Loosens the tongue, has no taste, no smell, no color.

Ingredients
Water
8 drops of Essence of Wormwood
One cup of Jobberknoll blood
4 Billywig Wings
3 Belladonna leaves
2 tablespoons of poppy seeds
7 Sprigs of Valerian
5 leeches

Procedure
clean cauldron
fill it with water
light burner
add 8 drops of Essence of Wormwood one drop at a time
stirring your potion in a counter-clock motion.
add your Jobberknoll blood (low and slow stream)
crush 4 Billywig Wings and the 3 Belladonna leaves in your hands and let the pieces fall into the cauldron
clean the mortar and use it to crush the poppy seeds to dust
break the Valerian sprigs using your hands and add to the poppy seed dust
add the contents of the mortar to cauldron
add leeches to cauldron (wear gloves) → potion will turn a deep dark red
move wand in straight jabbing motion and say 'Verax' (potion will turn clear)

Right. He needed water in the cauldron. "Aguamenti," he said clearly, yet again enjoying watching his cauldron fill up with water. Now his ingredients. He filled up his dropper with the wormwood stuff, measured out one single cup of jobberknoll blood, taking SPECIAL care not to spill any and crushed his poppy seeds. He'd do the rest during the actual potion making, since he didn't know if mixing stuff beforehand would ruin the potion.

Okay. So. Light burner. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. 8 drops of wormwood into the potion.

Colley

10-12-2013, 06:52 PM

Cat grinned at Mo and gave him another quick glance for the hip bumping. Was he trying to distract her, hmm? Right now, she didn't much mind because here was the part that made Cat a little sad. Firefly bulbs. She decided to not think about the poor dead fireflies, harvested for their bulbs. She also tried not thinking about how this was going in a potion that was meant to be consumed. Gross. Gross things went in potions. Well, at least she had orange juice and sugar. Cat picked up the first of the firefly bulbs and squeezed it over the cauldron, making sure to get all the fluid out before she discarded it for the next.

She glanced at Mo with his question and made sure to get all of the fluid out of the bulb she had over her cauldron before she continued on. "Wine vinegar? I use wine and vinegar, yeah, but I'm not sure about them both together." Surely it could be a thing, right? Maybe after class, she'd write to her grandmother and find out for sure. Cat squeezed the contents of two more bulbs into her cauldron. Four bulbs down, sixteen to go and it was still sad.

"Besides the obvious answer? One is made by humans and one is made by elves?" Cat grinned in a rather cheeky way though she knew that Mo's question was legitimate. She just didn't have the answer. She continued on, carefully squeezing the fluid out of her remaining sixteen firefly bulbs until all twenty of them had been added to her cauldron. Then she blew a kiss for all the fallen fireflies. Poor dears.

What was next? Clabbert pustules? Ewwwwww. Ugh. Gross. Just the word pustules made her cringe. Ick. Regardless, she had nine of them to add into her cauldron, so she did, dropping them in one by one.

Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

Somnium

10-12-2013, 06:55 PM

Taylor glanced and smiled as the potion turned pink. She glanced at the page of the book to remember the next step. 5.Add syrup of hellebore until the potion turns turquoise… okay… yay! Something different beside stirring, simmering and powdered moonstone! Tay reached for the syrup of hellebore and measured it out, slowly pouring it into the pink potion. Taylor watched the potion as the syrup was poured in and smiled when it turned a pretty turquoise. There that step is done! How many more steps are left? She eyed the page and counted. 1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10…11… 11 more steps to go… Taylor sighed and eyed the next step, thinking about it. 6.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple… okay it is simmer time again! This time it shall be purple… it was already purple before… it was purple on… step number… 3… hmmm… I am starting to see why it is a more complicated potion… Tay kept an eye on it as it simmered. She doodled on the parchment that she had written the list of ingredients on. She was a bit bored since she hated to wait but she needed to wait until the potion was purple.. Taylor sighed and grumbled, waiting for the sight of purple to come. Come on… come on… come on…

amadshade

10-12-2013, 07:00 PM

Hair-changing Potion: mild formulation

Use/Effect:
The mild formulation of the Hair-Changing Potion is used to alter the coloration of a person’s hair.

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
belladonna (2 g; crushed)
nettles (5 g; dried, powdered)
moonstone

Instructions:
place moonstone in cauldron and add water
boil water for 5 minutes
add belladonna and nettles
boil for 5 minutes
reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes
stir, 20 full strokes clockwise followed by 20 full strokes counter-clockwise
place the clear potion in a goblet
dip the very tip of wand in potion and incant, "Coloro!" while concentrating on the color you want the hair
rinse hair in 200 mL of potion
wait 5 minutes for color change

Notes:
Belladonna (also known as deadly nightshade) is highly poisonous and this potion should not be ingested.
Remaining potion should be used within 24 hours.
Hair color will remain for 24-48 hours.
Moonstone may be reused.
Tora went to the student cupboard and pulled out everything she would need. Nightshade, check. Dried nettles, check. Moonstone... where was that again? Her eyes roved the shelves until she found the box and tipped one into her hand, check. She walked purposefully back to her seat where, as per the instructions, she placed the moonstone in her cauldron and ("Aguamenti") filled the cauldron to roughly 500mL. "Finite." she flicked her wand before saying another spell, "Chaudensis."

As the water began to heat up and boil, she stepped to the side and pulled the herbs towards her to begin crushing them for the next part of the potion.

She double and triple checked to make sure she was crushing and powdering the correct plant. Belladonna, crushed. Nettles, powdered. Her morter ground away as she crushed the nightshade and measured out two grams of the stuff. Now that she had touched the poisonous plant, she had to be careful she didn't accidentally brush her fingers in her mouth. That could be bad. "Scorgify!" the mortar was clean now for the powdered nettles that had to go in. Before the five minutes were up she had a nice and fine pile of nettles. Measuring out five grams, she pushed the nettles pile next to the belladona one and cleaned up the mess. Always keep a clean workspace, that's what Gram taught her.

Daemon

10-12-2013, 07:09 PM

Lingualaxus Truth Serum

Use/Effect:
Loosens the tongue, has no taste, no smell, no color.

Ingredients
Water
8 drops of Essence of Wormwood
One cup of Jobberknoll blood
4 Billywig Wings
3 Belladonna leaves
2 tablespoons of poppy seeds
7 Sprigs of Valerian
5 leeches

Procedure
clean cauldron
fill it with water
light burner
add 8 drops of Essence of Wormwood one drop at a time
stirring your potion in a counter-clock motion.
add your Jobberknoll blood (low and slow stream)
crush 4 Billywig Wings and the 3 Belladonna leaves in your hands and let the pieces fall into the cauldron
clean the mortar and use it to crush the poppy seeds to dust
break the Valerian sprigs using your hands and add to the poppy seed dust
add the contents of the mortar to cauldron
add leeches to cauldron (wear gloves) → potion will turn a deep dark red
move wand in straight jabbing motion and say 'Verax' (potion will turn clear)

AH AH STIRRING. Almost forgetting that part, Benzi scrambled to grab his stirring spoon and hastily stuck it in his potion, stirring counterclockwise as he finished up the 8 drops of wormwood. PHEW. That had been close.

.. Right, next?

Eyeing his potion warily, he reached his right hand to the cup with the blood, gingerly wrapping his fingers around it and bring it atop of his cauldron. Slow and low. Sounded like a dance move. Carefully, he tipped his blood cup just above the surface of the potion, watching the oddly thick liquid pour into the potion and mix with the water.

Weird stuff, potions.

Once done, he hastily put down the cup as far away from his as was possible without leaving the potion's side and picked up the 4 billywig wings and 3 belladonna leaves. It felt weird in his hand, but he didn't think about it too much. Taking a breath, he put his palms together and crushed the mixture, allowing it to drop into the potion.

Stirring? Benzi glanced over at his book. Nope. Didn't say to stir.

the fastest seeker

10-12-2013, 07:18 PM

She doodled down on her notebook her eyes darting at the time and the cauldron regularly. Five minutes were up. She reached out and reduced the heat as instructed and started waiting for another five minutes leaving the potion to simmer. And back to doodling. And maybe she'd stroll around and see what others were doing. She, though, didn't want to risk getting caught up with a conversation and lose track of time. Her eyes wandered around but she couldn't possibly tell what potion was being made just by looking at ingredients. Hmm..

While she debated to get up or not the five minutes were up so she turned to her textbook again to see what was next. Her finger hovered over the page then landed on the line she needed.

Time to stir.

She looked around searching for a spoon then grabbed it and faced the cauldron again. So she had to do stir twenty times clockwise then same number counterclockwise. Wasn't complicated but probably needed her full attention since she had to keep count.

The fifth-year rolled up her sleeves and started stirring clockwise counting silently her lips slightly parted. IT somehow felt easier if she wasn't counting silently. It was easier to confuse herself that way. "Eighteen, nineteen, twenty," she whispered and stopped for a sec then started stirring counterclockwise and this time she counted under her breath. "seven.....eight...nine." She kept her eyes on the potion during the process because she knew that once she's taken her eyes off it she'd get distracted and lose count. "Nineteen, twenty," With that she put the spoon aside and wiggled her arm a bit then rested it by her side. Next step now

Hair-changing Potion:

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
belladonna (2 g; crushed)
nettles (5 g; dried, powdered)
moonstone

Instructions:
place moonstone in cauldron and add water ✔
boil water for 5 minutes ✔
add belladonna and nettles ✔
boil for 5 minutes ✔
reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes ✔
stir, 20 full strokes clockwise followed by 20 full strokes counter-clockwise ✔
place the clear potion in a goblet
dip the very tip of wand in potion and incant, "Coloro!" while concentrating on the color you want the hair
rinse hair in 200 mL of potion
wait 5 minutes for color change

Notes:
Belladonna (also known as deadly nightshade) is highly poisonous and this potion should not be ingested.
Remaining potion should be used within 24 hours.
Hair color will remain for 24-48 hours.
Moonstone may be reused.

Ivana R

10-12-2013, 07:19 PM

The teacher, the most brilliant and amazing and kind person she already knew had gone away and left them alone to brew a potion by their own. It was so sad... Who had called her and what could be more important than teach them to prepare potions? Annabeth thought, while thumbed through her Potions book. Why it doesn't have any interesting potion? Something really useful, as Veritasserum or its antidote... Hm, Antidote for common Poisons shall be interesting... Let me try.

She opened her book at the page, 347 and read:

Antidote for Common Poisons

Ingredients:
Bezoar
Standard Ingredient
Unicorn Horns
Milstletoe Berries

Procedure
Add 1 Bezoar to the mortar
Crush into a very fine powder using the pestle
Add 4 measures of the crushed Bezoar to your cauldron
Add 2 measures of Standard Ingredient to your cauldron
Heat to a medium temperature for 5 seconds
Wave your wand
Leave to brew and return in 40 minutes with Pewter Cauldron, 34 minutes with Brass cauldron and 30 minutes with copper cauldron.
Add 1 pinch of Unicorn Horns to your cauldron
Stir 2 times, clockwise
Add 2 Mistletoe Berries to your cauldron
Stir 2 times, anti-clockwise
Wave your wand to complete the potion

She thought it seemed to be easy and began to pick up the ingredients. She was happy that she would have to use her shiny new cauldrons. The girl pointed her wand to the three cauldrons and cast the cleaning spell three times. "Scourgify! Scourgify! Scourgify!"
Then she took a bezoar, put it into the mortar and crushed it with the pestle quickly.
Crush. Crush. Crush.
Done.

She was about to put the four measures into the cauldron when she realize it was dry. But the procedure or the ingredients didn't ask for water. Although, if it was a potion, it should need water. She pointed her wand to the cauldron. "Aguamenti!.... Finite!" Half-cauldron filled with water seemed to be enough. The smiled at her cauldron and added the four measures of the crushed bezoar.

lemon

10-12-2013, 07:28 PM

And so six minutes of staring commenced. Alice made sure to keep count, because she could have stared at West for a lot longer than her allowed time, but her potion was already bright yellow and ready for the next ingredient to be added.

Reluctantly moving her eyes from her lab partner to the chamomile, she took a pinch of it between her fingers and sprinkled it over the cauldron. The next step was slicing the jobberknoll feather and tongue, and the sixth year felt quite thankful for the gloves at this point. She got the tongue done first, shredding it as finely as possible with a silver blade before moving on to doing the feather. Once both were deemed acceptable, Alice added those to the mixture as well.

And then she stirred, five times counterclockwise followed by one clockwise rotation.

She was a pro at this.

Shaharazalm Unction

Use/Effect:
Allows one to make another say whatever he or she wants; cannot make someone else cast a spell.

Ingredients:
- 1 gallon of flobberworm mucus
- 1 tsp shredded beeswax
- 20 drops of Coconut Oil
- 1 finger of Vaseline
- 7 drops of Lanolin
- 2 tbs yellow moonstone
- 1 Vitamin E Capsule
- 1 pinch of Chamomile
- 1 Jobberknoll feather
- 1 Jobberknoll tongue
- 10 blades of scurvy grass
- 3 tsp of fluxweed
- 2 leaves of lovage
- 1 cup of stewed mandrake roots

Instructions:
- Light cauldron and pour in the Flobberworm Mucus.
- Drop beeswax into mucus, watch it melt, then stir twice counter clockwise.
- Add the 20 drops of coconut oil five at a time. Stir once clockwise after each five drops.
- Don protective gear; gloves, aprons and goggles.
- Flick dollop of Vaseline into cauldron with finger.
- Add in 7 drops of Lanolin, and stir clockwise three times.
- Grind Moonstone in mortar and pestle. Add 2 tsp to cauldron in a circular motion.
- Add Vitamin E to the center of the moonstone circle.
- After 6 minutes potion should be bright yellow.
- Add a pinch of Chamomile.
- Using silver blade, slice the Jobberknoll feather and tongue finely, add to cauldron.
- Stir 5 times counter clockwise and once clockwise.
- Take the blades of scurvy grass and the fluxweed and put them in the lovage leaves. Roll them together tightly and press hard as you roll.
- Use Diffindo to cut them into 10 small pieces.
- Take the stewed mandrake roots and carve ten little holes in it with your silver knife, then stuff the leaf rolls into the mandrake root. Put the carved out pieces on top, drop the whole root into the cauldron, and wait 5 minutes.

hermionesclone

10-12-2013, 07:51 PM

So... the next step. Ten drops of murtlap essence, yeah? And then stirring. See, this was much better than the cracking eggs part. Which... after a quick glance over his instructions told him that there wasn't any of that to come up again. Good. He... didn't think he could handle doing that again.

Alec grabbed the bottle of murtlap essence and added in ten drops to his cauldron as carefully as possible, making sure to count each drop as it fell. Once he had reached the number ten in his mind, the boy placed the bottle back down again and away from his main workspace area. Carefully. Because that was essential to potions.

Picking up his wooden stirrer, he gave it a quick "Scourgify!" before placing it into his cauldron. Stir eight times, right? Counter clockwise? One... two... three... Counter clockwise. ... four... five... six... Still counter clockwise. ... seven... eight! There! He picked up the stirrer again and placed it down on the side. ... He'd... just have to make sure to wash that again if it was needed. Which, according to the instructions, wasn't necessary. ... That was a little weird.

Shrug.

The Hufflepuff then picked up the two sprigs of Parsley and scanned over the instructions again. Loosely crush them into the cauldron? He held them over them over his cauldron and started crushing them, watching as the flakes fell into his potion. Loosely crush. How loosely was he meant to crush these sprigs of Parsely?

OH HEY LOOK! He was past halfway!

... Was he taking too long with this?

Antillergen Potion

Ingredients:
- Water
- 10 drops Valerian root
- 10 drops Salamander Blood
- 2 dock leaves
- 1 Ashwinder Egg
- 4 sprigs Fluxweed
- 10 drops Murtlap Essence
- 2 sprigs Parsley
- 3 spoons Raw honey
- 5 Basil leaves
- 1 whole Papaya
- 1 Ginger Root
- 17 Reishi (mushroom of immortality)

Instructions:
1) Fill cauldron with water
2) Add valerian root and salamander blood, one drop at a time, alternating between the two
3) Add the dock leaves to mortar and crush
4) Break frozen ashwinder egg into mortar
5) Add fluxweed to mortar
6) Add mixture from mortar into cauldron
7) Add Murtlap Essence
8) Stir eight times counter clockwise
9) Add parsley sprigs loosely crushing them into cauldron
10) Add raw honey
11) Slice Basil leaves with a Silver Knife
12) Stab whole papaya with same silver knife stuff basil in papaya's wounds
13) Add Papaya to cauldron
14) Add grated ginger root
15) Add thinly sliced Reishi Mushroom to cauldron
16) Wave wand over Cauldron in fast strinking oblique motion and cast the "Sanum" spell

Govoni

10-12-2013, 07:53 PM

Attempting to keep her pace, Ves didn't slow down as she went ahead and removed the silver knife from her kit. Luckily, she had less trouble than with the needle. Placing it off to the side for a moment, she went ahead and gathered up the devil's weed leaves. Eight of them...just like the ingredients list stated. It also stated things about the veins of the leaves. The knife was to be used to slice those open...

Seemed easy enough.

Cleaning the blade of the knife with scourgify, because that seemed like the right thing to do, Ves tried to breath out her nerves as she began cutting into the leaves......Into the veiny parts, anyway. One by one, she repeated the action, hands shaking somewhat. The nerves never went away in these instances. The Professor wasn't present...but she was still scared about messing up.

Merp.

More breathing. Vesper was trying to breath it out...This was a fairly simple step. It wasn't rocket science like her father did. Just easy cutting. That was all...

Blinking behind her goggles, she finished up the last one and set the knife down. There. Done. All that was left to do now was add them into the cauldron careful-like and that would be that. It had specified 'careful', too. So, Ves took that to mean SLOW. So, SLOWLY, she picked up each leaf and dropped them into the cauldron one by one...vein facing downward.

Gosh, what was next? Scanning her notes and fighting the urge to doodle more, Ves seen the words 'mortar' and 'pestle'. She went ahead and removed those things from her kit, cleaning them because other people were cleaning stuff a lot. So, it seemed right.

...and more checkmarks for her notes. Yes.

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Potions Lesson One
Vesper Bayliss
Ravenclaw Fifth Year

THE DREAMER'S ELIXIR

Ingredients
• water ✔
• 1 cup of valerian root ✔
• half a cup of Kava Kava ✔
• 1 deadly nightshade berry ✔
• 8 leaves of devil's weed ✔
• 1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds
• 1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent
• 10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi

Procedure
• clean cauldron (Scourgify!) ✔
• fill completely with water (Aguamenti!) ✔
• turn on the burner and bring water to a boil. ✔
• once the water boils, add the valerian and kava kava (mixes easier if in liquid form) ✔
• clean 18 carat gold needle for next step (Scourgify!) ✔
• pierce the nightshade berry, making sure to get a single drop of juice on the tip of the needle ✔
• set the berry on fire, using the magical burner under cauldron, burning it up entirely along with any remaining juice not on the needle ✔
• let the drop on the needle fall into the potion without touching anything other than the needle ✔
• burn any remaining juice from needle, clean it, and return to supplies ✔
• using silver knife, slice each leaf of devil’s weed carefully along the vein ✔
• place sliced leaves carefully into cauldron/potion ✔
• dip pestle into the liquid, shaking excess off so it’s just moist
• place hemlock seeds into mortar, then crush with moist pestle until mushy (paste-like consistency)
• spoon the hemlock seed paste into cauldron with a wooden spoon
• put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy
• place RED poppy flower on top of the liquid in cauldron, letting the heat from the potion wilt it and sink it to the bottom of the cauldron
• if using potion to forget/not experience dreams, stop here
• add Calea Zacatechichi leaves whole to potion, as they will disintegrate
• (potion should be purple-colored) wave wand in a semi-circle motion over potion, thinking about a recent dream, then cast Sopororis
• strain potion before using
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Somnium

10-12-2013, 08:00 PM

Taylor beamed as the potion turned purple finally then she checked the page for the next step. 7.Shake powdered porcupine quills vigorously until they are ready and then add until the potion turns red… great… how fun… Tay made sure that the quills were powdered and the grinding stuff was clean then she shook then vigorously until they were ready though some of her curls slipped out of her ponytail from shaking so much. She had to ignore it as she started to pour them into the potion until it started to turn red. Taylor wrinkled her nose as she fixed her curls back into a tight ponytail and even made sure that no loose hair got into her ingredients or even the potion to make sure that the potion doesn't get contaminated. Red is such a disgusting color… Tay grumbled and looked from the cauldron to the page in the book that had the potion on it. next step… next step… step 8… which is… 8.Stir until the potion turns orange… greeeeat more stirring… Taylor frowned as she picked up the thing to stir with and started to stir like it told herself. She watched as she stirred and stop stirring when the potion turned orange. Tay smiled at the potion. Orange is so much prettier than yucky red… next step? Which would be… She glanced at the steps to find step 9.

Cassirin

10-12-2013, 08:09 PM

Well, that was entirely unhelpful, Caterina. Not only did she not know the differences between elves and humans... but she didn't cook with wine vinegar. Mo stuck his tongue out at her before sniffing the cup again. He liked how it smelled... sort of like salads, if he had to put a name to it.

"You know these Dransuls are meat eaters? So it's sort of like my exact opposite, right? I'm an animal that only eats plants and its a plant that only eats animals. I should be a Dransul best friend or something," Mo chatted blithely with Cat, whether she listened or not... so more like AT Cat, as he carefully laid one of the leaves in the bottom of his mortar. He attacked it with the pestle, crushing any semblance of shape or form out of the leaf.

Was there supposed to be some sort of liquid produced, though? He lifted the pestle and frowned at the contents. Mucky yucky mess. Better keep crushing. It only took a few more rounds of the pestle before Mo spotted the Dransul acid on the dark stone surface.

Where was his dropper? Did he have one? Mo patted down his pockets, patted down Cat's pockets, and finally found it under his book. Oops. Using the dropper, he siphoned up the acid and carefully added three drops to his cauldron.

One... two... aaaaaaand three.

Devomotion Potion

Ingredients:

Water
2 cups elf-made wine vinegar
3 leaves from a Dransul plant
3 billywig stingers

Instructions:

Fill cauldron with water
Heat over a low flame
Add elf-made wine vinegar
Crush one Dransul leaf in mortar until acid forms
Add three drops Dransul acid to cauldron with a dropper
Stir potion 3 times counter-clockwise
Add billywig stingers while potion is still moving (Potion should appear a dark burgundy in color)
Point wand at potion, move in a spiraling motion upwards while casting "Agitatum"
Using "Glacius", quickly douse flame and cool cauldron down, potion will continue to move.
Let simmer a month.
Colour will have darkened to black, consistency will be thicker
Ladle the potion in a developing tray
With gloves on, pass the negative in the potion
One minute later, take it out and put it in a second tray, covering it with water
Allow to dry

hermionesclone

10-12-2013, 08:17 PM

HONEY!

... That was his next ingredient. Honey.

Alec took hold of his wooden spoon and cleaned it again. He then scooped up a spoonful of raw honey -- RAW! -- and added it into his cauldron. Another spoonful was measured out -- was this one nearly the same amount as the previous spoonful? -- and added into his cauldron. The same thing was done once more before... Alec stared at the honey. Honey reminded him a bit too much of pancakes which... only made him hungry. He then looked up and over at Ells, trying to mentally ask her whether she wanted to go and get pancakes later. Because pancakes!

... Moving on...

The seventeen year old shook his head and turned his attention back towards the potion he was making. Five basil leaves that needed to be thinly sliced. He grabbed his knife and magically cleaned that before starting on the slicing. Thinly. As thin as possible. A small frown formed on the boy's lips as he continued slicing the leaves thinly. This was nothing like slicing the tomatoes he needed to slice for his BLT sandwiches. ... BLT. Sandwiches. Could he have THAT too?

Once the leaves were thinly sliced, he looked back over at the instructions. Stab a papaya? BLINK. Were these legit instructions? He looked up and around to see what the others were doing before... realising... that everyone was making their own potions. Right. He looked back at the instructions and frowned. Okay. Papaya then. He grabbed the fruit and poked his knife into it here and there. This... was very random. Once that was done and he was sure that there were enough wounds in the papaya, he began stuffing the sliced basil leaves into the wounds in the papaya. There. All good, yeah?

Now... whole papaya with basil leaves? Meet potion. All of that was added into his cauldron. Whole. Yeah.

Antillergen Potion

Ingredients:
- Water
- 10 drops Valerian root
- 10 drops Salamander Blood
- 2 dock leaves
- 1 Ashwinder Egg
- 4 sprigs Fluxweed
- 10 drops Murtlap Essence
- 2 sprigs Parsley
- 3 spoons Raw honey
- 5 Basil leaves
- 1 whole Papaya
- 1 Ginger Root
- 17 Reishi (mushroom of immortality)

Instructions:
1) Fill cauldron with water
2) Add valerian root and salamander blood, one drop at a time, alternating between the two
3) Add the dock leaves to mortar and crush
4) Break frozen ashwinder egg into mortar
5) Add fluxweed to mortar
6) Add mixture from mortar into cauldron
7) Add Murtlap Essence
8) Stir eight times counter clockwise
9) Add parsley sprigs loosely crushing them into cauldron
10) Add raw honey
11) Slice Basil leaves with a Silver Knife
12) Stab whole papaya with same silver knife stuff basil in papaya's wounds
13) Add Papaya to cauldron
14) Add grated ginger root
15) Add thinly sliced Reishi Mushroom to cauldron
16) Wave wand over Cauldron in fast strinking oblique motion and cast the "Sanum" spell

Lissy Longbottom

10-12-2013, 08:23 PM

Ok, so this was taking FOREVER to heat up. Caleb felt like he was waiting for hours for this water to boil! Note to self - definitely practice the Incendio charm at some point. Finally after a good twenty minutes, his water began to boil and he could move on. He checked the next step in the potion and read it aloud to himself.

"Add armadillo bile one drop at a time. After each drop, stir potion 2 times clockwise. Potion should turn pink if done correctly," he read. Well that was good - if he messed up early in the game, he'd know and could start over without losing much time! Although, he hoped he wouldn't mess up at all. That'd be no good.

He took the armadillo bile and slowly added one tiny drop. Then, he stirred his potion twice, making sure to go in the clockwise direction. There. So far so good. Now another...and more stirring...then another drop...

This continued until he added all nine drops into his potion. Once he finished stirring it the final time, he was pleased to see that it turned pink, just as described. AWESOME!

Govoni

10-12-2013, 08:44 PM

Vesper stared at her notes.

Was she reading this right?

She was supposed to dip the pestle...into the cauldron...and shake it off some so it was just moist? And then she was supposed to use it in the mortar to crush up the Hemlock seeds to a paste? Ves reread the words several times, willing herself to grasp their meaning. It was just like that sometimes. She could read something and not fully comprehend what she was seeing or the words.

Breaths, though. She just needed to continue taking breaths and all would be okay....Because if she stopped taking breaths, she would pass out and the potion would be ruined because she wouldn't be able to turn the heat off or add the rest of the ingredients. Basically.

SLOWLY lifting the pestle up, she inched it towards the cauldron's surface, eyes STARING...................

Just a bit further...and further....AND FURTHER....

Once she'd dipped it into the mixture, Ves quickly pulled it back out and shook it...almost dropping it into the cauldron more than once. EEP. That would have been DISASTROUS! More breathing, though...With the cup of seeds already added to the mortar, she immediately set the pestle down into it, relieved she hadn't dropped the thing.....And then she set to work, taking some of the nerves out on the contents. They needed to be a pastey consistency, according to the notes. So, Vesper worked her arm until they were nearing that look. You know, the PASTE look.

Producing a wooden spoon from her kit...because they were apparently using all the things today....she cleaned it...because others were cleaning all the things...and started scooping the paste into the cauldron. Was this right? It didn't say anything about stirring or counter-stirring. Whatever it was called. Clockwise and counterwise. That was it. Yea, that wasn't being mentioned. So, you know, it wasn't happening.

Also, she'd been had her goggles on.

So...CHECK. CHECK. CHECK. CHECK.

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Potions Lesson One
Vesper Bayliss
Ravenclaw Fifth Year

THE DREAMER'S ELIXIR

Ingredients
• water ✔
• 1 cup of valerian root ✔
• half a cup of Kava Kava ✔
• 1 deadly nightshade berry ✔
• 8 leaves of devil's weed ✔
• 1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds ✔
• 1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent
• 10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi

Procedure
• clean cauldron (Scourgify!) ✔
• fill completely with water (Aguamenti!) ✔
• turn on the burner and bring water to a boil. ✔
• once the water boils, add the valerian and kava kava (mixes easier if in liquid form) ✔
• clean 18 carat gold needle for next step (Scourgify!) ✔
• pierce the nightshade berry, making sure to get a single drop of juice on the tip of the needle ✔
• set the berry on fire, using the magical burner under cauldron, burning it up entirely along with any remaining juice not on the needle ✔
• let the drop on the needle fall into the potion without touching anything other than the needle ✔
• burn any remaining juice from needle, clean it, and return to supplies ✔
• using silver knife, slice each leaf of devil’s weed carefully along the vein ✔
• place sliced leaves carefully into cauldron/potion ✔
• dip pestle into the liquid, shaking excess off so it’s just moist ✔
• place hemlock seeds into mortar, then crush with moist pestle until mushy (paste-like consistency) ✔
• spoon the hemlock seed paste into cauldron with a wooden spoon ✔
• put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy ✔
• place RED poppy flower on top of the liquid in cauldron, letting the heat from the potion wilt it and sink it to the bottom of the cauldron
• if using potion to forget/not experience dreams, stop here
• add Calea Zacatechichi leaves whole to potion, as they will disintegrate
• (potion should be purple-colored) wave wand in a semi-circle motion over potion, thinking about a recent dream, then cast Sopororis
• strain potion before using
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starlight617

10-12-2013, 08:50 PM

"19, 20, 21." Marissa said as she finished stirring the contents of her cauldron counter-clockwise. She leaned over and looked in her book for what to do next and picked up a handful of the crushed chamomile and dropped it in. She set the heat of the cauldron to simmer the potion for 20 minutes and waited.

TakemetotheBurrow

10-12-2013, 08:53 PM

Boyfriend. Hi. We see you. Ella raised her eyebrows questioningly because unfortunately, she couldn't read minds. If she could, pancakes would get a big thumbs up cause YUM. Instead Alec received a smile and a finger wiggle. Oh hai!

Since her potion was finished, Ella cleaned an empty vial and then carefully poured some inside. She'd need to leave this for Professor Lafay to have, yeah? She'd also need to label it too.

Ella Bishop
Basic Sleeping Draft

There.

Since they hadn't been dismissed and boyfriend was still working, Ella flipped through the book again and went over the other potions, trying to remember ingredients and such for each. Might as well study if she couldn't leave just yet.

Daemon

10-12-2013, 09:03 PM

Lingualaxus Truth Serum

Use/Effect:
Loosens the tongue, has no taste, no smell, no color.

Ingredients
Water
8 drops of Essence of Wormwood
One cup of Jobberknoll blood
4 Billywig Wings
3 Belladonna leaves
2 tablespoons of poppy seeds
7 Sprigs of Valerian
5 leeches

Procedure
clean cauldron
fill it with water
light burner
add 8 drops of Essence of Wormwood one drop at a time
stirring your potion in a counter-clock motion.
add your Jobberknoll blood (low and slow stream)
crush 4 Billywig Wings and the 3 Belladonna leaves in your hands and let the pieces fall into the cauldron
clean the mortar and use it to crush the poppy seeds to dust
break the Valerian sprigs using your hands and add to the poppy seed dust
add the contents of the mortar to cauldron
add leeches to cauldron (wear gloves) → potion will turn a deep dark red
move wand in straight jabbing motion and say 'Verax' (potion will turn clear)
Making sure his hands were clean of the belladonna and billywig wings, Benzi followed the next instruction and took the seven valerian sprigs in his hands. He broke them into the two tablespoons of poppy seeds he'd made into dust before, then cleaned his hands on his robes and dropped the mixture into his cauldron.

... Looking curiously to see if something dramatic had happened to the potion, he found that there was nothing particularly interesting going on in the murky mixture. The eleven year old scrunched up his nose as he remembered the blood, the wormwood drops and the belladonna leaves.

And one was supposed to be able to drink this later without dying? Hmm. Better test THAT on someone else.

Now the leeches. Grabbing the gloves Mummy had picked out for him in Diagon Alley (the expensive kind, she'd insisted even though the cheaper ones looked pretty much the same to him) he popped them on then reached for his jar with the leeches. Five leeches.

"One... two... three... fou- four... five," Benzi counted under his breath, the fourth one almost sliding out of his grip before going into the cauldron. Taking off the gloves, he tried to peer into the potion to spot the leeches dissolving or something but he couldn't really see much. Eh.

Oh, but WAIT. It was changing! Fascinated, Benzi halted momentarily to watch his potion change into a dark murky red colour, sort of like the blood. Was that supposed to happen?!! The eleven year old checked his book and grinned. It didn't say murky, but it was DEFINITELY supposed to be red. YES!

hermionesclone

10-12-2013, 09:14 PM

HE WAS NEARLY DONE!

Feeling slightly better about this, Alec took hold of the ginger root before glancing over at the instructions again. Grated ginger root, yeah? And over his cauldron? That meant... he needed his grater, which he needed to clean. A quick Scourgify later, and the boy had his ginger root in one hand and the grater in the other, both of which were held over his cauldron. He took a deep breath and started grating the ginger root, letting the parts of ginger fall into his cauldron.

Once that was done, he glanced at the watch on his wrist. Five minutes, he had to leave this for. And those five minutes started now! While the potion was left to simmer, he might as well start on the next part, yeah? Which included cutting up seventeen of that weird mushroom into thin slices. SEVENTEEN. And THIN slices! How was he going to achieve that in the space of five minutes?!

Panicking slightly, the boy looked back at his watch. Well, that was ten, nearly fifteen, precious seconds gone from his five minutes. Deciding not to waste any more time, Alec cleaned his knife once more before starting on the slicing process. He couldn't help but glance down at his watch every now and then, just to see how much time had passed. It looked like he was cutting it thin -- geddit? -- which only made the Hufflepuff feel even MORE nervous about this whole process. And to think he was nervous about cracking an egg open.

... Cracking that egg was HARD.

When he was done with the slicing, he glanced down at his watch again. Okay, he had gone a couple of seconds over, that was completely fine, right? Yeah? ... Lafay wasn't here to tell him. He shrugged before adding the cut up mushrooms into his cauldron.

Now. He just had ONE MORE STEP LEFT. That weird spell. Alec grabbed his wand and held it up over his cauldron. "Sanum!" he cried, moving his wand in a fast, strinking oblique motion. There. He was ALL DONE. He let out a sigh of relief before grinning down at his potion. He had no idea whether this was good enough or not but... he was going to go with it. He turned off the heat, letting the potion cool.

... And... what was it that Lafay had said they were meant to do? Vial and label? He grabbed a vial and, after giving it a quick clean with Scourgify, poured some of the potion into it. The stopped was put on the vial and he held onto it. He then scribbled down a quick label for his vial because... Lafay would need to know that it was his. Plus she had said this, hadn't she?

Antillergen Potion
Alec Summers
Sixth Year
Hufflepuff

There. He placed the label and vial down on his table before proceeding to clean up everything else.

Antillergen Potion

Ingredients:
- Water
- 10 drops Valerian root
- 10 drops Salamander Blood
- 2 dock leaves
- 1 Ashwinder Egg
- 4 sprigs Fluxweed
- 10 drops Murtlap Essence
- 2 sprigs Parsley
- 3 spoons Raw honey
- 5 Basil leaves
- 1 whole Papaya
- 1 Ginger Root
- 17 Reishi (mushroom of immortality)

Instructions:
1) Fill cauldron with water
2) Add valerian root and salamander blood, one drop at a time, alternating between the two
3) Add the dock leaves to mortar and crush
4) Break frozen ashwinder egg into mortar
5) Add fluxweed to mortar
6) Add mixture from mortar into cauldron
7) Add Murtlap Essence
8) Stir eight times counter clockwise
9) Add parsley sprigs loosely crushing them into cauldron
10) Add raw honey
11) Slice Basil leaves with a Silver Knife
12) Stab whole papaya with same silver knife stuff basil in papaya's wounds
13) Add Papaya to cauldron
14) Add grated ginger root
15) Add thinly sliced Reishi Mushroom to cauldron
16) Wave wand over Cauldron in fast strinking oblique motion and cast the "Sanum" spell

Bazinga

10-12-2013, 09:14 PM

Wade smiled a little hearing his Mousie friend, "Magicleanse.. Suppose to help clean fabrics and objects.. I think Professor Flamsteed will like this." No more lint rollers if he had some, heh. "So what about you? What are you making?" He wouldn't mind sharing ingredients if she needed them too.

Wade merely blinked as he held the jar of crocodile eyes, opening the lid before taking one gently.. so it doesn't get all squished in his grip and all. He took the knife, making sure to 'Scourigify' it beforehand, in case it had been contaminated beforehand. Setting the crocodile eye on the table, he sliced it as instructed before adding it in. *drop*

Glancing at the cauldron, as he heard it sizzle.. and wow, it didn't smell very nice. Guess that's why they have those nice smelling items listed in ingredients? Hmm.. hopefully it didn't get too strong soon. Next right away was to stir it right in to get the color green. So Wade then took the clean ladle to stir it clockwise once..*1* and then three more times counter-clockwise *1...2...3* Perfect. Watching as the current concoction turned a nice green. Now to wait for it to simmer.

He bent back over his notes before crossing off what he just did while it did so.

Ingredients
Water
1 clove Garlic
1 drop Bundimun Secretion
1 Crocodile Eye
50 g Powdered Cockroach
Peppermint, lemon or pine needles

Directions
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Crush and add a clove of garlic
Add one drop bundimun secretion - make sure you wear dragon hide gloves when handling it!
Slice the crocodile eye
Stir once clockwise
Stir 3 times counter-clockwise
Let simmer
Add 50 grams of powdered cockroach
Add the peppermint, lemon or pine needles to scent it (don't be surprised if it changes colour)

Oh a cleaning potion that was interesting. "Oh yeah I could see him liking that. After all the tricks he's pulled that last two terms I think I'd like to accidentally switching it with a fur growing potion." Was that mean? She wasn't sure, but really the man did still need a good trick pulled on him. Something to get him back for a few of the pranks sneezing toot, beard, ID that he had pulled. Smiling back at Wade not wanting to seem mean or anything, "Sounds like an interesting one though. I don't think I've made that one."

She looked back to her own potion, "Oh do you remember talking about the maze and the potion part of the triwizard in History of Magic. Well when I was looking through the book I found a shrinking solution which I'm assuming is the same one. I thought I'd give it a shot." She grinned at Wade, "Want to be short Kitty?" She chuckled to herself before looking at her notes once more.

to shrink Kitty
Instructions:
Prepare and measure all ingredients ahead of time. Daisy roots and giner roots should be evenly chopped. Make sure all of the peel is removed from the shrivelfig. Caterpillar slices should be small and even. Dried nettles should be crushed, but not powdered, in a mortar and pestle. Leech juice will be provided by the professor (please walk carefully to the desk at the front of collect it before you begin brewing the potion).

Add daisy roots, shrivelfig, caterpillar slices, and nettle to 500 mL boiling water. Stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes.
Add a dash of leech juice. Allow the solution to stew, stirring occassionally, for half an hour.[
Add the ginger root and stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes. Remove cauldron from the fire and allow potion to cool.
Write your name and house on two vials. Very carefully distribute your potion into the two vials (do not allow the potion to touch anything that is not the vial or the ladle- do not get on your hands!) Bring one to the front for grading and keep one vial at your desk for testing.

Pointing her wand to her cauldron Min silently Scourgify the cauldron and then used aguamenti to fill her her cauldron. Then she pointed "Incendio" to start the flame. Jumping only slightly when it started. She took a deep breath and let the water boil. Once the water was boiling, Minerva placed the daisy roots and Shrivelfig into the cauldron.

Cassirin

10-12-2013, 09:23 PM

Mo leaned waaaaay over his cauldron after the acid was added, trying to note any changes to the color and consistency of the potion. And it was... steaming his eyebrows into wild and unmanageable tufts. That's what it was doing. He jerked back down again and tried to smooth his eyebrows back into place.

"Do I look like I'm turning into a werewolf?" Mo decided he'd bugged Cat enough, so this question was directed at Vesper, who was working nearby. His hair was a little steamed-crazy too, and he made what he imagined was a werewolf-like face in her direction.

Mo waved his stirring stick at Ves, a dramatic flourish that ended with him plunking it into his cauldron. Now he just needed to stir it three times counter-clockwise, quickly enough that it got the liquid moving and kept it moving long enough to add the next ingredient. There wasn't room for screwing up, since he only got three full turns.

One... two... and three. The potion swirled, rising higher against the sides of the cauldron and creating a little depression in the center. That spot, there in the center, was where Mo dropped his three billywig stingers. One, two... and three.

Golly, there were loads of THREES in this potion. He leaned over it again to watch if it turned burgandy.

Devomotion Potion

Ingredients:

Water
2 cups elf-made wine vinegar
3 leaves from a Dransul plant
3 billywig stingers

Instructions:

Fill cauldron with water
Heat over a low flame
Add elf-made wine vinegar
Crush one Dransul leaf in mortar until acid forms
Add three drops Dransul acid to cauldron with a dropper
Stir potion 3 times counter-clockwise
Add billywig stingers while potion is still moving (Potion should appear a dark burgundy in color)
Point wand at potion, move in a spiraling motion upwards while casting "Agitatum"
Using "Glacius", quickly douse flame and cool cauldron down, potion will continue to move.
Let simmer a month.
Colour will have darkened to black, consistency will be thicker
Ladle the potion in a developing tray
With gloves on, pass the negative in the potion
One minute later, take it out and put it in a second tray, covering it with water
Allow to dry

Daemon

10-12-2013, 09:25 PM

Lingualaxus Truth Serum

Use/Effect:
Loosens the tongue, has no taste, no smell, no color.

Ingredients
Water
8 drops of Essence of Wormwood
One cup of Jobberknoll blood
4 Billywig Wings
3 Belladonna leaves
2 tablespoons of poppy seeds
7 Sprigs of Valerian
5 leeches

Procedure
clean cauldron
fill it with water
light burner
add 8 drops of Essence of Wormwood one drop at a time
stirring your potion in a counter-clock motion.
add your Jobberknoll blood (low and slow stream)
crush 4 Billywig Wings and the 3 Belladonna leaves in your hands and let the pieces fall into the cauldron[/s]
clean the mortar and use it to crush the poppy seeds to dust
break the Valerian sprigs using your hands and add to the poppy seed dust
add the contents of the mortar to cauldron
add leeches to cauldron (wear gloves) → potion will turn a deep dark red
move wand in straight jabbing motion and say 'Verax' (potion will turn clear)
He took it back. Potions WAS sort of fun. It was dull when making it 'cause Benzi had no idea WHY he needed these ingredients to make this specific potion but the end part seemed REALLY cool. Pulling out his wand from its holster, he jabbed it forwards at the cauldron and said, VERY clearly "Verax."

He was not breathing. NOPE. He was staring at his cauldron, which didn't seem to be changing colour. OH NOES. NOOOOO. Not after all that hard wo- OH HEY! "It worked!" he let out with a grin as the potion turned clear and looked a lot like the water he'd started out with.

SUCCESS.

Glancing about for students who'd also finished their potions, he saw they were marking their vials with their names, which really made sense. He poured his potion into a second clean flask with the utmost care, careful not to get any on his hands. He assumed nothing deadly would happen, but he quite enjoyed life without pain and unnecessary suffering.

Right. Labels. Making sure to get the order right since it wouldn't do to mark them wrong and then not get ANY credit, he dipped his quill in ink and copied down the names of the potions from the book. Then he filled out his details and stepped back to appreciate his handiwork.

Benzi Rider
Ravenclaw, First Year
Singing Suspension

Benzi Rider
Ravenclaw, First Year
Lingualaxus Truth Serum

Setting the vials aside so he wouldn't knock them over, Benzi began the long and boring process of cleaning up his workstation.

Govoni

10-12-2013, 09:30 PM

So, the good news was that nothing had exploded yet. SUCCESS. A small one, yes...but still a success on some level. Also, Vesper hadn't cut herself, burnt herself, or had something fly up and pop and/or splash her in the face and/or eye. This was a great potions lesson thus far.

The next step sounded simple enough. All Ves had to do was gently place the pretty red poppy flower on the potions surface and watch it sink. That was it. Because of her musings with Marcus, she knew that poppy flowers stood for beauty, magic, fertility, and eternal life. She wasn't at all sure who fertility might have fit into the mix...but all the other things held merit. Eternal life through ones dreams, where all things are possible...And beauty and magic mixing in with that because dreams can be very magical and beautiful.

Vesper found herself nodding in response to her own thoughts. Flowers. She enjoyed them.

Carefully scooping in the flower in her hand, she SLOWLY moved it towards the cauldron, almost holding her breath as she moved. WHAT IF SHE DROPPED IT ON THE GROUND AND RUINED IT? What if she was too rough? EEP. With those thoughts, Ves was moving somewhat slower, snailing her way towards the flower's destination. It might not have been the quickest transport, but she eventually made it over and SLOWLY added the flower to the top of the concoction. THERE.

She stared as the flower blossom floated for several moments....STARED as it started to lose its brilliance and shrivel up into itself...And then it was losing buoyancy, dipping down into the depths of the mixture. It was almost sad the way it had disappeared. Almost like it had drowned without knowing how to save itself.

How very sad, indeed.

Momentarily distracted, something caught her attention out of the corner of her eye...and Ves looked up towards a spoon-waving Marcus. She tried extremely hard not to smile at him, but it was kinda impossible. He was a goof like that. In response, she rolled her eyes and saluted him, still fighting the smile. SHE WAS FOCUSING HERE, MARCUS. GEEEEEZ.

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Potions Lesson One
Vesper Bayliss
Ravenclaw Fifth Year

THE DREAMER'S ELIXIR

Ingredients
• water ✔
• 1 cup of valerian root ✔
• half a cup of Kava Kava ✔
• 1 deadly nightshade berry ✔
• 8 leaves of devil's weed ✔
• 1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds ✔
• 1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent ✔
• 10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi

Procedure
• clean cauldron (Scourgify!) ✔
• fill completely with water (Aguamenti!) ✔
• turn on the burner and bring water to a boil. ✔
• once the water boils, add the valerian and kava kava (mixes easier if in liquid form) ✔
• clean 18 carat gold needle for next step (Scourgify!) ✔
• pierce the nightshade berry, making sure to get a single drop of juice on the tip of the needle ✔
• set the berry on fire, using the magical burner under cauldron, burning it up entirely along with any remaining juice not on the needle ✔
• let the drop on the needle fall into the potion without touching anything other than the needle ✔
• burn any remaining juice from needle, clean it, and return to supplies ✔
• using silver knife, slice each leaf of devil’s weed carefully along the vein ✔
• place sliced leaves carefully into cauldron/potion ✔
• dip pestle into the liquid, shaking excess off so it’s just moist ✔
• place hemlock seeds into mortar, then crush with moist pestle until mushy (paste-like consistency) ✔
• spoon the hemlock seed paste into cauldron with a wooden spoon ✔
• put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy ✔
• place RED poppy flower on top of the liquid in cauldron, letting the heat from the potion wilt it and sink it to the bottom of the cauldron ✔
• if using potion to forget/not experience dreams, stop here
• add Calea Zacatechichi leaves whole to potion, as they will disintegrate
• (potion should be purple-colored) wave wand in a semi-circle motion over potion, thinking about a recent dream, then cast Sopororis
• strain potion before using
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Cassirin

10-12-2013, 09:54 PM

It was official. Vesper was ignoring him. He'd even seen that she heard him, smiled, and yet barely acknowledged him. Didn't answer his questions, even. Was she mad at him? Did he smell? Mo glanced at Cat, hoping she'd give him the 'you stink, boyfriend' gesture, but girlfriend was busy.

Merlin, he SHOWERED. "Well. I think I am turning into one. So there."

So there.

Mo set his stirrer to the side, pulled off his gloves, and grabbed up his wand. The book said to make a spiraling motion, although it didn't say which WAY to spiral. Which was easier? Mo tried it one way and then the other before deciding that spiraling toward his wand-side was much better. He tried the motion a few more times before casting over the potion. He said the incantation clearly as he'd practiced it. "Agitatum."

Coming out of the spiral, Mo pointed his wand at the base of his cauldron. At the flames. The potion called for him to quickly douse the flames, although he must need to put it back over heat soon, since it had to simmer. For a month. Merlin. He put out the spell with a "Glacius." Mo preferred creating hallway skating rinks with that spell, but putting out a fire was good too.

Devomotion Potion

Ingredients:

Water
2 cups elf-made wine vinegar
3 leaves from a Dransul plant
3 billywig stingers

Instructions:

Fill cauldron with water
Heat over a low flame
Add elf-made wine vinegar
Crush one Dransul leaf in mortar until acid forms
Add three drops Dransul acid to cauldron with a dropper
Stir potion 3 times counter-clockwise
Add billywig stingers while potion is still moving (Potion should appear a dark burgundy in color)
Point wand at potion, move in a spiraling motion upwards while casting "Agitatum"
Using "Glacius", quickly douse flame and cool cauldron down, potion will continue to move.
Let simmer a month.
Colour will have darkened to black, consistency will be thicker
Ladle the potion in a developing tray
With gloves on, pass the negative in the potion
One minute later, take it out and put it in a second tray, covering it with water
Allow to dry

Expecto-Penguin

10-12-2013, 09:59 PM

So now he had to check what ingredients he needed. Never hurt to double check right? He looked down at his potion steps. He needed powdered moonstone, syrup of hellebore, porcupine quills and powdered unicorn horn. Huh? That wasn't so bad to get. Once he collected his things, he put the water into the cauldron. "Aquamenti!" he said and the cauldron filled with just enough water. Then he lit the fire under the cauldron and said "Incendio!" then he felt a huge wave of heat. It felt good for his cold hands.

1.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns green.
2.Stir until the potion turns blue.
3.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns purple.
4.Allow to simmer until the potion turns pink.
5.Add syrup of hellebore until the potion turns turquoise.
6.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
7.Shake powdered porcupine quills vigorously until they are ready and then add until the potion turns red.
8.Stir until the potion turns orange.
9.Add more porcupine quills until the potion turns turquoise.
10.Allow to simmer till the potion turns purple.
11.Add powdered unicorn horn until the potion turns pink.
12.Stir until the potion turns red.
13.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
14.Add more powdered moonstone until the potion turns grey.
15.Allow the potion to simmer until it turns orange.
16.Add more powdered porcupine quills until the potion turns white.

He checked the first step on his potion and it said to add the powdered moonstone. He added the right amount to the potion and then he waited till it turned green. He only waited a few seconds and then it turned green. Huh? That was fast! He stirred till it turned blue. After a few stirs later it turned blue. He was glad he was doing well so far!

Govoni

10-12-2013, 10:02 PM

Vesper was terribly proud of herself. Everything was going so well thus far....AND if she weren't wanting to use this potion for potential dream studies, she'd be FINISHED without any accidents having occurred. How AMAZING was that? Victory fistpump!

Anyway, she was moving forward...and the great thing about this step was that it had the simplicity of the previous one. All Ves was doing was adding the leaves in without having to prepare them in any way. Basically, she had no chances of ruining them. Just like the flower.

Recounting the leaves to double check that she had ten...The potion only needed ten...she casually started dropping them into the mixture. One after the next, they fell. As each newly added leaf dissolved into the potion, the color of the mixture began to shift...There wasn't words for the color it had been before...but it was gravitating towards a purplish hue now.

Eight leaves............nine leaves............TEN leaves.....

After adding in the last few, the color-transformation was complete. Purple was her favorite...So, woot. Checking her notes, all that was left to do was the spell. UGH. A spell. It was always a stupid spell. Her displeasure was painted across her face...and when she heard Marcus speaking to her again, she fought more smiling. SIGH. SIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH.

"Marcus, can't you see I'm trying to not blow up my cauldron here?" Speaking wasn't too bad now. The worst parts of the potion were finished with. A spell was a spell. "...and you look fine." BLUSH!

To not mess up the pending spell, Vesper tried to take a moment to get familiar with it. Sopororis....How did one pronounce this? So-po-ro-ris? SO....PO....RO....RIS....Sopororis....

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Potions Lesson One
Vesper Bayliss
Ravenclaw Fifth Year

THE DREAMER'S ELIXIR

Ingredients
• water ✔
• 1 cup of valerian root ✔
• half a cup of Kava Kava ✔
• 1 deadly nightshade berry ✔
• 8 leaves of devil's weed ✔
• 1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds ✔
• 1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent ✔
• 10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi ✔

Procedure
• clean cauldron (Scourgify!) ✔
• fill completely with water (Aguamenti!) ✔
• turn on the burner and bring water to a boil. ✔
• once the water boils, add the valerian and kava kava (mixes easier if in liquid form) ✔
• clean 18 carat gold needle for next step (Scourgify!) ✔
• pierce the nightshade berry, making sure to get a single drop of juice on the tip of the needle ✔
• set the berry on fire, using the magical burner under cauldron, burning it up entirely along with any remaining juice not on the needle ✔
• let the drop on the needle fall into the potion without touching anything other than the needle ✔
• burn any remaining juice from needle, clean it, and return to supplies ✔
• using silver knife, slice each leaf of devil’s weed carefully along the vein ✔
• place sliced leaves carefully into cauldron/potion ✔
• dip pestle into the liquid, shaking excess off so it’s just moist ✔
• place hemlock seeds into mortar, then crush with moist pestle until mushy (paste-like consistency) ✔
• spoon the hemlock seed paste into cauldron with a wooden spoon ✔
• put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy ✔
• place RED poppy flower on top of the liquid in cauldron, letting the heat from the potion wilt it and sink it to the bottom of the cauldron ✔
• if using potion to forget/not experience dreams, stop here
• add Calea Zacatechichi leaves whole to potion, as they will disintegrate ✔
• (potion should be purple-colored) wave wand in a semi-circle motion over potion, thinking about a recent dream, then cast Sopororis
• strain potion before using
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lemon

10-12-2013, 10:15 PM

Scanning the page as quickly as she could, her eyes finally landed on the step following the last crossed off one. Lovage leaves rolled around fluxweed and scurvy grass. Alice wasn't too sure why they had to be put in like that, seeing as they'd all end up in the potion anyway, but she grudgingly complied with the instructions. Placing the grass and the weed inside the leaves, she began to roll them together, pressing tightly.

Next... where was her wand?

"Diffindo." Two pieces. "Diffindo. Diffindo. Diffindo." The roll was in five pieces now, and she kept severing it until it was cut into ten. Satisfied with her work, she referred to the directions on how to use the stewed mandrake bits. Alice located her silver blade again and cast a "Scourgify" on it before continuing, wanting to make sure that there wasn't any trace of a Jobberknoll feather or tail contaminating her roots.

And then she poked holes. Ten of them. Itty bitty ones in the stewed mandrake, which she then unceremoniously stuffed with the leaf rolls. Being sure to let the carved holes remain on top, she dropped the whole root into the cauldron and began waiting again. Five minutes to let it take on a balm-like consistency, yes?

And while she waited, Alice would just observe Mo and Ves for a bit. 'Cause she was done.

Shaharazalm Unction

Use/Effect:
Allows one to make another say whatever he or she wants; cannot make someone else cast a spell.

Ingredients:
- 1 gallon of flobberworm mucus
- 1 tsp shredded beeswax
- 20 drops of Coconut Oil
- 1 finger of Vaseline
- 7 drops of Lanolin
- 2 tbs yellow moonstone
- 1 Vitamin E Capsule
- 1 pinch of Chamomile
- 1 Jobberknoll feather
- 1 Jobberknoll tongue
- 10 blades of scurvy grass
- 3 tsp of fluxweed
- 2 leaves of lovage
- 1 cup of stewed mandrake roots

Instructions:
- Light cauldron and pour in the Flobberworm Mucus.
- Drop beeswax into mucus, watch it melt, then stir twice counter clockwise.
- Add the 20 drops of coconut oil five at a time. Stir once clockwise after each five drops.
- Don protective gear; gloves, aprons and goggles.
- Flick dollop of Vaseline into cauldron with finger.
- Add in 7 drops of Lanolin, and stir clockwise three times.
- Grind Moonstone in mortar and pestle. Add 2 tsp to cauldron in a circular motion.
- Add Vitamin E to the center of the moonstone circle.
- After 6 minutes potion should be bright yellow.
- Add a pinch of Chamomile.
- Using silver blade, slice the Jobberknoll feather and tongue finely, add to cauldron.
- Stir 5 times counter clockwise and once clockwise.
- Take the blades of scurvy grass and the fluxweed and put them in the lovage leaves. Roll them together tightly and press hard as you roll.
- Use Diffindo to cut them into 10 small pieces.
- Take the stewed mandrake roots and carve ten little holes in it with your silver knife, then stuff the leaf rolls into the mandrake root. Put the carved out pieces on top, drop the whole root into the cauldron, and wait 5 minutes.

Kitten

10-12-2013, 10:35 PM

The second year quickly flicked her book open to a random page, figuring she'd just attempt the potion that was on that page...

And she saw a calming drought.

She already regretted that idea, but still with a sigh she glanced over the page in her textbook.

Calming Draught

Use/Effect:
To calm and soothe the drinker

Ingredients:
1 pint water
6 drops fluxweed oil
Inner membrane and fluid from 3 bloodroot stems
1 Valerian root, minced
1 drachm calendula pollen
3 skullcap leaves
1/2 drachm powdered root of asphodel (scant)
1 Hyacinth flower, whole
1 ounce slime from the belly of a sprightly frog
1 sprig of peppermint
4 drop glumbumble fluid (take care not to overuse!)

Instructions:

**STAGE 1**
Add 6 drops fluxweed oil to warm water.
Split the bloodroot stems lengthwise with your knives and scrape out all fluid and fibrous material from inside the stems. Crush with mortar and pestle into a fine paste and add to the cauldron.
Stir slowly until a light steam rises from the cauldron, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirring.

**STAGE 2**
Mince the Valerian root and add it to the potion.
Add calendula pollen, stirring three times clockwise.
Shred the skullcap lengthwise, and slowly add it to the potion
Bring the temperature back up until the steam is rising again, stirring clockwise slowly. It should be a light blue-green at this stage.
Professor's note: Remember your intent-- concentrate on being calm and infusing your work with a calm, deliberate result.
Add asphodel -- you should see a bright blue flash of light in your cauldron
Add the Hyacinth flower; the potion should stop glowing
Allow the potion to steep while you collect the frog slime. For best results, do not harvest the frog slime until this time!
Add the slime and a sprig of peppermint and bring to boiling, stirring in alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirs once again.
When the potion thickens and turns deep indigo, add the glumbumble fluid.
Continue stirring in a clockwise motion until the solid ingredients have all disintegrated and the potion is a thick, syrupy indigo fluid that smells of lavender, warm sugar and sweet mint. There should be a light purple-pink sheen in the steam that rises from the potion.
Take a sample of your potion and bottle it into a phial.

Trying to focus on what she was doing, considering she anyway loved potions, she figured she was going to prove that she knew what she was doing as she used a flame to heat the water in the cauldron for the first step of this thing. Looking over the instructions she waited, quickly pulling her hair into a messy bun to stop it from accidently falling into the potion at any point in time.

Because unfortunately in this class that could cause it to explode, and she didn't want to have to go to the hospital wing, she was proud of never having been there yet!

Holding her hand a few centimetres above the water, she cast a spell to put out the flame as she realized it was already warm... and the instructions never said how warm.

So carefully she started adding the fluxweed oil to the mix, trying to remember what she was up to. At least so far, even though that was only one step, she'd been successful!

Colley

10-12-2013, 10:42 PM

Distracting boyfriend was apparently still being distracting. Cat thought she was doing a very good job at focusing on his distractions just enough, but devoting most of her attention to her potion. She didn't want to do this wrong and receive the wrath of Lafay. She had a very healthy dose of fear in her admiration for the woman.

As she listened to him chat on, Cat stirred her potion again, once counter clockwise and then three times clockwise, just as she was meant to. "For now, anyway." She supplied an answer to his question. "Hopefully you'll be back to eating both soon." Because, if she were asked, she certainly thought it was all getting a little old, but she had not been, so she was not going to say anything. She grabbed at her own dropper because Mo was messing around and trying to steal things from her pockets, also because she needed to use it for the next stop. Carefully, she emptied two drops - only two? A quick check and she nodded. Just the two drops of magnesium gluconate into her cauldron.

She glanced at Mo again, noting from the corner of her eye that he had been looking at her, and she offered a smile. He didn't stink, no. Maybe that wine vinegar he'd had earlier was a little smelly, but she wasn't bothered. She was also distracted because the book had said to quickly follow the magnesium gluconate with the drops of flobberworm mucus.

....Flobberworm mucus. Ew.

With a nose wrinkle, Cat opened the phial containing the mucus and drew some out, hopefully enough for what she needed. She double checked the book. Seven drops. At this point, with being half distracted and quickly adding things, Cat decided to make double sure she put the right amount of drops in and counted them aloud, under her breath. "One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven." Whew. Quick and right. That was good.

Hah. Mucus. Marcus. Hahaha.

Now she needed the runespoor eggs. She glanced through her inventory of ingredients but looked away at the exchange between Mo and Vesper. She was RIGHT though, the boy was being very distracting. Cat smiled at Vesper before glancing back at her phials and things. Runespoor eggs....

Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

DaniDiNardo

10-12-2013, 10:44 PM

According to the book, her next course of action would be lowering the temperature on this thing. It didn't say by how much...she would estimate, yup and hope it was low enough while still having use to the solution in the cauldron.

She squinted at the fire that she'd lowered. It wasn't gonna flicker into nothingness was it? Sure she could always cast a new fire but that'd have made the first one a complete waste. Just to be on the safe side, she turned it up just a biiiiiit, not nearly as high as before but good enough now.

Lex reached for the ginger root next and began crushing it repeatedly. Had to make this powdery and that would require a bit of effort. She got it done though, making it as powdery as it would ever get then added it to the mixture--

Op! Hold on there, sugar, she would be using sugar. Sure she saw this while getting the other ingredients but it never really clicked to her until just now that she would be adding SUGAR!! Despite already having enough, she took a bit more from the cupboard and helped herself to it while she continued brewing. MMmmmmm. SUUUUGAAR. Lex added the 2 tablespoons as was instructed but the rest...she spooned into her mouth while she worked. Again, the Professor would neeeeever know.

Time to stir and add the peppermints. She gave it one stir then dropped a leaf...another stir and another leaf...and again until all five leaves had been dropped at which point she gave a final stir.

Tiring this was tiring but it would be SO worth it.

Scintillation Solution

Use/Effect: Cause the drinker to glow in their favorite colour and become animated and bright

Ingredients
Half a cauldron of Water
One cup of Orange Juice (Blood Oranges are best)
One Billywig Stinger
1 tsp of crushed dried Ginger Root
2 tbsp of Sugar
5 Peppermint leaves
20 Firefly Bulbs
9 Clabbert pustules
2 drops of Magnesium Gluconate Liquid
7 drops of Flobberworm mucus
3 frozen runespoor eggs
1 tsp of powdered purple moonstone

Instructions:
Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

Kitten

10-12-2013, 11:02 PM

Kahlan's eyes shifted over to the next line, wrinkling her nose as she shifted her gaze to the bloodroot. For some reason she'd never liked using bloodroot, she couldn't stand the smell, but still she grabbed the three bloodroot stems, started to cut along them, fighting the urge to gag.

The blonde really thought she should have thought a bit further than just the first potion she saw when she flicked her book open...

Scraping the inside of the first one into the mortar next to her she sighed, trying to avoid the habit of running a hand through her hair, considering she had a bit of the fluid on her hands. From previous experience she knew that once in her hair she wouldn't be able to get rid of the smell, or at least imagining the smell for the next couple of days.

"One down, two to go" she murmured to herself as she kept going, her body continuing to fight against doing this as she kept gagging, forcing herself to breathe through her mouth. Finally, she'd managed to get all the insides into that stupid mortar, quickly standing to dispose of what was left over from the bloodroots.

Running a hand through her hair with a sigh, she froze for a moment, letting out a small squeal of frustration as she realized what she'd just done. Hissing, she walked over to quickly wash her hands, before sitting down and from there pulling a small hand sanitizer bottle she'd bought in the muggle world and using that as well. Picking up the pestle she started crushing the insides of bloodroots, hissing insults at the stupid plant.

Which for some reason didn't want to turn into the paste as she glared at it.

Oh this snake definitely wasn't happy!

Cassirin

10-12-2013, 11:19 PM

He didn't look fine. His eyebrows were nuts, and he apparently smelled. Mo made faces... at Vesper, at Alice (for staring), and at Cat-girlfriend, because he was done and she wasn't.

Well, strictly speaking, he was a month from being done. Mo shifted his cauldron to the middle of the work station and away from the edge, but he'd have to move it again soon to the lab. Once there, he'd put it on simmer for the next month, and then he'd be able to develop photos from his very OWN potion. That was like... fully organic photography or something.

"I might just stay a vegetarian, y'know? I haven't figured out if my carnivorous nature is overpowered by how much of a hypocrite I feel like," Mo spoke quietly to Cat. Just... fair warning. It might not be a phase or a dare. It might be for keeps.

He set about cleaning his work station, using a "Scourgify" on his mortar and pestle each, another "Scourgify" on his stirrer and dropper, and then a scrubbing down the whole workstation with a "Skurge."

Devomotion Potion

Ingredients:

Water
2 cups elf-made wine vinegar
3 leaves from a Dransul plant
3 billywig stingers

Instructions:

Fill cauldron with water
Heat over a low flame
Add elf-made wine vinegar
Crush one Dransul leaf in mortar until acid forms
Add three drops Dransul acid to cauldron with a dropper
Stir potion 3 times counter-clockwise
Add billywig stingers while potion is still moving (Potion should appear a dark burgundy in color)
Point wand at potion, move in a spiraling motion upwards while casting "Agitatum"
Using "Glacius", quickly douse flame and cool cauldron down, potion will continue to move.
Let simmer a month.
Colour will have darkened to black, consistency will be thicker
Ladle the potion in a developing tray
With gloves on, pass the negative in the potion
One minute later, take it out and put it in a second tray, covering it with water
Allow to dry

Somnium

10-12-2013, 11:28 PM

9.Add more porcupine quills until the potion turns turquoise… ok… more quills and more turquoise… I can do this… Taylor sighed and grimaced, rubbing her head. Tay took some more quills and repeated the process of preparing them. She poured the quills into the potion and waited for it to turn. The potion turned a pretty turquoise. Taylor smiled at it and then glanced at the book. Tay searched for the next step and put her finger on it. She read it and thought about it. 10.Allow to simmer till the potion turns purple… time to simmer… hmmm purple… there is a lot of changing to purple for this potion… there is a lot of changing colors to… hmmm… interesting… I think it should cause rainbows and not relaxation because of it… but then again rainbows are nice and makes people happy… Taylor watched and waited for the potion to simmer and change colors. Tay tapped her fingers against the table, waiting. She eyed the cauldron then looked around at the others. It seems like some are already almost done but she was only almost two-thirds of the way done… not even close to being finished. Taylor grimaced and sighed then eyed her potion some more until finally… after what seemed to be forever, the potion turned a nice purple color. Yay! Now onto step 11! I only have 1…2…3…4…5…6… 6 more steps! She beamed. I can do this… 6 more steps… 6! At that, she looked onto the page for step 11.

Kitten

10-13-2013, 12:03 AM

Managing to crush it into a paste had taken way to long in the young snakes opinion, but finally, it was done! Somewhere though she knew that she was a very, very, very long way away from actually finishing this potion, especially when she looked back at the steps again.

Carefully she added all of the paste, a few drops accidentally being spilled onto her uniform and table instead of into the cauldron.

And again there was that stupid stench that would cling to her and stop her from being able to eat or breathe actually for the next couple of days. Already she knew that this uniform was going to be thrown out, simply due to the fact that she had no way of getting the stink out of anything...

Maybe cutting her hair off would also work...

She'd have to think about that later though!

Now to stir what she had of a potion, and so she started, clockwise, anticlockwise, clockwise, anticlockwise, clockwise... she yawned, resting her head on her hand as she continued watching for any smoke to come from the potion.

These things always seemed to take a while...

And about five minutes as she was close to falling asleep she noticed the steam rising from the potion! Looking to her text book she smiled, the first part of this potion was complete!!!

Instructions:

**STAGE 1**
• Add 6 drops fluxweed oil to warm water.
• Split the bloodroot stems lengthwise with your knives and scrape out all fluid and fibrous material from inside the stems. Crush with mortar and pestle into a fine paste and add to the cauldron.
• Stir slowly until a light steam rises from the cauldron, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirring.

**STAGE 2**
• Mince the Valerian root and add it to the potion.
• Add calendula pollen, stirring three times clockwise.
• Shred the skullcap lengthwise, and slowly add it to the potion
• Bring the temperature back up until the steam is rising again, stirring clockwise slowly. It should be a light blue-green at this stage.
• Professor's note: Remember your intent-- concentrate on being calm and infusing your work with a calm, deliberate result.
• Add asphodel -- you should see a bright blue flash of light in your cauldron
• Add the Hyacinth flower; the potion should stop glowing
• Allow the potion to steep while you collect the frog slime. For best results, do not harvest the frog slime until this time!
• Add the slime and a sprig of peppermint and bring to boiling, stirring in alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirs once again.
• When the potion thickens and turns deep indigo, add the glumbumble fluid.
• Continue stirring in a clockwise motion until the solid ingredients have all disintegrated and the potion is a thick, syrupy indigo fluid that smells of lavender, warm sugar and sweet mint. There should be a light purple-pink sheen in the steam that rises from the potion.
• Take a sample of your potion and bottle it into a phial.

Somnium

10-13-2013, 12:09 AM

Step 11… hmmm… here it is… She looked at it and read it. 11.Add powdered unicorn horn until the potion turns pink…. Unicorn horn… and pink… pink and unicorn horn… got it… Taylor reached for the horn and prepared it with clean tools. She made sure that it was powdered and then slowly started to pour it in to the cauldron. Lets go Pink! Pink… pink… pinkpinkpink… come on PINK! Finally the potion started to turn a shade of pink and she stopped adding in the powdered unicorn horn. Okay… next step… Taylor glanced at the 12th step and tapped it gently. 12.Stir until the potion turns red… time to stir it again… hmmm… but I don’t want to change the pretty pink to retched red… Taylor sighed but picked up what she was using to stir with and started to stir. Tay kept an eye on the potion and hoped that it would turn to red soon so she could do the next step. She glanced around at the other students and then sighed, looking back at her potion again. Taylor hummed quietly, not realizing that she was doing it. After a bit of stirring, it turned red to her delight. Okay… 13th step now… 13th… 1…3… Tay looked from the potion in the cauldron to the instructions in the book.

Expecto-Penguin

10-13-2013, 12:11 AM

Kace was busy brewing the Draught of Peace, he was excited to see how this potion was gonna come out. He was already three steps in. He thought why not keep on going.

1.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns green.
2.Stir until the potion turns blue.
3.Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns purple.
4.Allow to simmer until the potion turns pink.
5.Add syrup of hellebore until the potion turns turquoise.
6.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
7.Shake powdered porcupine quills vigorously until they are ready and then add until the potion turns red.
8.Stir until the potion turns orange.
9.Add more porcupine quills until the potion turns turquoise.
10.Allow to simmer till the potion turns purple.
11.Add powdered unicorn horn until the potion turns pink.
12.Stir until the potion turns red.
13.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
14.Add more powdered moonstone until the potion turns grey.
15.Allow the potion to simmer until it turns orange.
16.Add more powdered porcupine quills until the potion turns white.

He saw he had more steps to go but that didn't make him nervous. He did this at his own pace. He checked the third step and saw he needed to add more moonstone. He got it and added more to the potion and then it was turning purple in a minute or so. Then he let it simmer for a bit till it turned pink. He was waiting for a couple of minutes. He was sitting there trying to keep warm. Then he noticed it was done and then he looked for his syrup for hellebore. He measured it and then it turned turquoise. Then he allowed to simmer once more....

Kitten

10-13-2013, 12:21 AM

Valerian root was next... well Kahlan didn't have too many problems with that kind of root, so she grabbed the root and started cutting it to a point where she considered it was minced, and when she figured it was as good as she was ever going to get it she carefully added it into the potion.

No explosions so far was always a good sign!

Instructions:

**STAGE 1**
• Add 6 drops fluxweed oil to warm water.
• Split the bloodroot stems lengthwise with your knives and scrape out all fluid and fibrous material from inside the stems. Crush with mortar and pestle into a fine paste and add to the cauldron.
• Stir slowly until a light steam rises from the cauldron, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirring.

**STAGE 2**
• Mince the Valerian root and add it to the potion.
• Add calendula pollen, stirring three times clockwise.
• Shred the skullcap lengthwise, and slowly add it to the potion
• Bring the temperature back up until the steam is rising again, stirring clockwise slowly. It should be a light blue-green at this stage.
• Professor's note: Remember your intent-- concentrate on being calm and infusing your work with a calm, deliberate result.
• Add asphodel -- you should see a bright blue flash of light in your cauldron
• Add the Hyacinth flower; the potion should stop glowing
• Allow the potion to steep while you collect the frog slime. For best results, do not harvest the frog slime until this time!
• Add the slime and a sprig of peppermint and bring to boiling, stirring in alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirs once again.
• When the potion thickens and turns deep indigo, add the glumbumble fluid.
• Continue stirring in a clockwise motion until the solid ingredients have all disintegrated and the potion is a thick, syrupy indigo fluid that smells of lavender, warm sugar and sweet mint. There should be a light purple-pink sheen in the steam that rises from the potion.
• Take a sample of your potion and bottle it into a phial.

Figuring she'd quickly do the next step, considering there were so many of them still to go, she grabbed the pollen of the thing that she always had issues pronouncing and added that to the mixture.

Pausing for a second she made sure she knew what clockwise was, before she followed the instruction and stirred in that direction three times....

She never really could get over how exact some potions were in what direction you had to stir, but maybe that was why she liked, and in her opinion was good, at potions.

Kahlan Moriarty definitely liked structure!

lazykitty

10-13-2013, 12:28 AM

So, next was the dash of sheep bile. Sky added it to her potion and watched as it began to resemble liquid gold concrete. Bland, grey concrete. And then it was time to add the three grains of salt. Which was a hard thing to measure out. Or not. She poured some salt out into a spoon (spilling some on the floor and table while she was at it) and, after tossing some of the spilt salt over her left shoulder, used her finger to pick up individual grains. It took her a bit to get three grains exactly, but once she did, she sprinkled them carefully into her potion.

Okay, next step.

Felixir

10-13-2013, 12:31 AM

Tobias was far too pre-occupied with his quill-stache endeavours, and trying to keep the writing implement balanced on his face. It was rather difficult to do with a feather, and once Tobias had the thing balanced, it ticked his nose and he suddenly and without warning SNEEZED and flailed backwards. The Hufflepuff's chair swung back and wobbled dangerously on two legs before tilting forward again and landing him in the proper stable position.

...

...

Um... where was Lafay going?

... She was just going to leave... okay. OKAY. COOL. VERY GOOD.

Toby felt an odd sort of relief in the pit of his stomach, and he smiled at the instruction to choose and brew a potion. The tiny teenager rifled through his textbook for a few moments, liking this whole 'you choose what you want to do' thing, before settling on a potion.

He hovered briefly over the 'hate potion' page, smile faltering slightly, and bit his lip. Hate potion... WHY? What even... Tobias couldn't comprehend the good in creating such negative vibes, and hurriedly continued turning the pages.

Aha! A Wit-Sharpening potion definitely seemed like it would be useful if he ever needed it, and it was a potion that Tobias had never brewed before. Also it didn't use up a whole lot of ingredients, so Toby wouldn't be wasting too much if the potion went wrong at any point. He held the book open at that page and opened it back as far as it would go so that the covers touched each other, and then set it down on the table to begin prepping his cauldron.

Wasn't there something about Five Cs? What were they again? Something to do with cleanliness and... hm. Maybe he'd still have last year's notes in his bag. It was worth a shot.

Wit-Sharpening potion

Use/Effect:
Sharpens the intelligence and comprehension of the drinker.

Ingredients:
5 grams of ground scarab beetle
2.5 grams of cut up ginger root
500ml of Armadillo bile
8 grams of Fluxweed

Instructions:
Crush Fluxweed. Pour Armadillo Bile into cauldron.
Bring to a boil.
When potion has reached a roaring boil, add Fluxweed.
Stir potion 5 times clockwise. Let potion boil for 10 minutes stirring occasionally as needed. Do Not Allow The Potion to Boil Over.
Peel ginger root and chop fine. When time is up, add ginger to potion.
Reduce heat. The potion needs to come to a simmer for 30 minutes.
Stir potion counter-clockwise 3 times. The potion must be stirred counter-clockwise 3 times an additional 3 times while it simmers. Place the lid on the cauldron.
Grind Scarab Beetles to a find powder.
Sprinkle the powder over the potion. Replace lid.
Let potion brew for 45 minutes.
When time has elapsed, the potion will have reduced by half and now be a deep purple. If it is not, then you have done something wrong.
Remove cauldron from heat and let cool. The potion should now have a slightly thick consistency. Ladle potion into individual vials. Seal by using a sealing charm. Potion should remain potent for three month if sealed properly.

Bazinga

10-13-2013, 01:20 AM

Now that she had put the daisy root and the Shrivelfig into the cauldron, Min looked back at her notes. It was time to place the Caterpillar slices into the cauldron. Carefully she placed them one by one. Making sure each went in to the cauldron before dropping in the next one. Turning to her ingredients she crossed them off as she went.

Now it was time to put the nettle in. Taking the crusted dried nettle she sprinkled it into the cauldron. Looking around the room it seemed so weird not having Lafay in the room, but the girl did feel more relaxed and confident in her potion because of this fact. Alright back to the potion. What was next..

Add daisy roots, shrivelfig, caterpillar slices, and nettle to 500 mL boiling water. Stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes.
Add a dash of leech juice. Allow the solution to stew, stirring occassionally, for half an hour.[
Add the ginger root and stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes. Remove cauldron from the fire and allow potion to cool.
Write your name and house on two vials. Very carefully distribute your potion into the two vials (do not allow the potion to touch anything that is not the vial or the ladle- do not get on your hands!) Bring one to the front for grading and keep one vial at your desk for testing.

lazykitty

10-13-2013, 01:37 AM

Next step was to 'stir four times clockwise until malleable'. Okay, here goes. One.... Not only did the potion look like concrete, it stirred like it, too. As in, it was hard to stir. Two..... Though, it did seem to get easier as she stirred. Three.... Yep, definitely getting easier. Four..... And done with that step. Now she had to.....

.....form it into a mold. Alright. Sky decided to keep it simple and form it into several smaller shapes, all of which resembled muggle firecrackers. Nnneeexxxttt.

AlwaysSnapesGirl

10-13-2013, 01:38 AM

Five minutes didn't seem that long once it was over, and Penelope quickly looked at the next step...which looked really easy since she simply had to add the cut up ginger roots...but she also had to let it simmer for 20 minutes. Ugh. That made it easy since she didn't have to do much, but it was still kinda boring. Why twenty whole minutes? Meh.

She dropped in the ginger roots and checked the time. Right. Twenty minutes from now. What was she supposed to do in that time?

The first five - though it FELT like twenty - or so minutes of it consisted mainly of just staring blankly at the opposite wall before she checked the time. Fifteen more minutes. Ugh, what...

The fire under her cauldron caught her attention. Hm... She looked at the potion and then at the fire again. It seemed like it was simmering for the most part, but it seemed a little bit...off? Or something? She wasn't sure. But she drew her wand again anyway and muttered "Incendio," carefully to give it just a little bit more. She checked the potion again and it seemed to her to be simmering a little better. Good. And another few minutes had passed so just about ten minutes left...

Penelope flipped through the textbook idly while she waited, wondering what other potions might be useful to make sometime - and which might be on the OWLs? Hmm... - and finally, after keeping an eye on the fire and her watch, twenty minutes was up.

Next step was to get it to cool. So...she should turn off the fire? Otherwise it would just continue to be heated. And once the fire was turned off...

Stir 7 times every three minutes and alternate clockwise and counterclockwise. Did that mean she had to stir clockwise seven times and then the other way seven times? Or did she have to do it clockwise, counterclockwise, and so on for seven times? Hmm.....well...the first one made more sense to her, so she was gonna hope that was right.

So once the fire was off, she started stirring clockwise seven times, keeping an eye on her watch to see when three minutes were up so she could alternate.

Wit-Sharpening Potion

Use/Effect:
The Wit-Sharpening Potion is used to aid in concentration. It is especially useful if taken before an important exam.

Ingredients:
-water (500mL)
-scarab beetles (coarsely ground; 2)
-ginger root (cut; 5g)
-armadillo bile (9 drops)

Instructions:
1. Bring water to a delicate simmer
2. Add scarab beetles and stir 5 times, clockwise
3. Allow to simmer for 5 minutes
4. Add ginger without stirring and simmer for 20 minutes
5. Allow solution to cool, stirring 7 times every 3 minutes, alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise stirrings
6. When heat can no longer be felt when a hand is placed above the potion, add armadillo bile
7. Allow potion to sit for 8 minutes (potion will smell foul)

Notes:
-This potion is sensitive to temperature so be sure to pay particular attention to the fire while brewing.
-In order to make the potion taste more pleasant, put a peppermint leaf upon the tongue and then, sip the potion. However, do not put the peppermint in the potion itself as steeping peppermint in the potion could alter the properties of the potion.
-Depending upon the brewing, one should feel the effects of the potion within 10 minutes, though it can take up to one hour.

starlight617

10-13-2013, 02:03 AM

Marissa had waited the 20 minutes while her potion simmered and extinguished the fire under her cauldron and looked into it. The potion was a clear purple-ish color with a green tint which meant she had done it right. With a sigh, if relief she labeled her cauldron and waited to to see if Professor Lafay would return.

JennMarie

10-13-2013, 02:05 AM

Ariana flipped through her potions book for a bit before deciding on a potion, she was looking for one she actually WANTED to do, but she had spent so long decided and some people we're finishing up so she just went with the first simplest one she found.
As much as she wasn't to do like a healing potion or an elixir of Euphoria she would just go with this
Singing Suspension, which would make the singer sing uncontrollably for a period of time Ariana was unaware of.
She wrote the ingredients and instructions on her parchment before going up to the cabinet and grabbing her desired ingredients.
Water that came from her wand so she didn't need to grab that.
acorns-Check
Billywig wings-Check
Scurvy-Grass-Check
Now back to her seat she went.

Singing Suspension

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
billywig wings (a pinch)
scurvy-grass (1 dram)

Instructions:
boil water
add ingredients & stir constantly for 5 minutes
remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestion

Bazinga

10-13-2013, 02:19 AM

Check.. check.. check.. now she had the nettles into the cauldron she picked up her wooden spoon. Making sure it was clean first she put it into the cauldron. Now it says that it doesn't matter which way to stir and that was just odd to Minerva, because Lafay always said which way to stir. Picking clock wise Minerva started to stir. Looking at her watch first so that she could see when two minutes was up.

Stir.. stir.. stir..

More stirring, wow her arm was getting tired stirring this much, really why two minutes didn't that seem like over kill or something? Once two minutes was up Minerva set the spoon aside and looked at her notes. Leech juice, she scrunched her nose that just sounded awful. Grabbing the ingredient she carefully put it in and let it stew in the mixture. She had to wait thirty minutes. THIRTY MINUTES.. That seemed like forever without someone to distract her.

Glancing at Wade she wondered how much she could annoy him while she waited.

Add daisy roots, shrivelfig, caterpillar slices, and nettle to 500 mL boiling water. Stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes.
Add a dash of leech juice. Allow the solution to stew, stirring occassionally, for half an hour.[
Add the ginger root and stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes. Remove cauldron from the fire and allow potion to cool.
Write your name and house on two vials. Very carefully distribute your potion into the two vials (do not allow the potion to touch anything that is not the vial or the ladle- do not get on your hands!) Bring one to the front for grading and keep one vial at your desk for testing.

JennMarie

10-13-2013, 02:21 AM

Right, So she placed her ingredients on her work station and pulled out her wand from it's holster before cleaning her cauldron which
she knew to do every time cause you didn't need dust or hairs or anything in the potion other then what was instructed
in case the potion could go horribly horribly wrong.
"Scourgify" she said pointing to her cauldron firmly and she watched as it became clean and clear and pretty.
Nice. Now she had to add the water adn boil it.
"Aqumenti"
she casted this into a measuring beaker and waited for 500mL of water exactly, no more and no less.. "finite."
Good! She poured the water into the cauldron and casted a fire under it
"Incindio".. and there was FIRE!
good Job Logan. Now we watched and waited for it to boil.

Singing Suspension

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
billywig wings (a pinch)
scurvy-grass (1 dram)

Instructions:
boil water
add ingredients & stir constantly for 5 minutes
remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestion

lemon

10-13-2013, 02:29 AM

She tried to make faces back at Mo, ones with sticking nose wrinkles that Dora would lecture her about, but they soon morphed into fish faces. What? Lafay wasn't here, so Alice couldn't get reprimanded for them, and Cactus was one of the only people she knew who could appreciate a good fish face.

And then she peeked back at West. Just to make sure he wasn't scowling or anything.

Wasn't she meant to vial this? Right. Alice grabbed and cleaned an empty one, then spooned some of the now balmy unction inside of it. This was for the professor to grade and whatnot, yes? So she'd have to label it too.

Alice Fischer
Sixth Year Gryffindor
Shaharazalm Unction

Ta-da! And now she was done for real.

JennMarie

10-13-2013, 02:30 AM

Water was BOILING! How long had it been doing that? Ariana might of zoned out just a bit and by the time she came to the water was boiling
rapidly which was what it should of been doing but regardless she too her meat from the acorns and crushed them firmly.
Crush Crush Crush yes yes crushing happened and she threw it into her cauldron along with a pinch of
Billywig wings. poor billywigs, ad a single dram of Scurvy-grass. yup, into the boiling fire you all go.
[I]toss[/s]

Singing Suspension

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
billywig wings (a pinch)
scurvy-grass (1 dram)

Instructions:
boil water
[s]add ingredients[s] & stir constantly for 5 minutes
remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestion

Somnium

10-13-2013, 02:32 AM

Taylor read the step. 13.Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple… okay simmering again and purple… yay! Purple and not a yucky red! Tay waited for it to simmer and started to sing in her head. Simmer simmer simmer and turn purple… come on lets simmer simmer simmer , I want to see purple…. I want purple purple purple and I want you to simmer simmer simmer so pretty please simmer and turn purple for me… She glanced around at the others, feeling self-conscious. After a while of singing that, she looked down and beamed. The potion was turning a pretty purple color again. It was now time for step fourteen. Taylor eyed the instruction and looked for step 14 and laughed as she found it. 14.Add more powdered moonstone until the potion turns grey… more moonstone but now a new color! Grey! Grey! Grey! Grey! Taylor made sure to prepare the moonstone right and started to pour it in. Come on little potion… be good… turn to grey for me please… I want you grey… grey… grey… grey like the dull rain clouds that cover the pretty blue… I want you grey please so that all is right… Tay started to feel stupid for think!talking to her potion in her cauldron but… what else was there to do? She watched and poured the moonstone into the cauldron. Tay smiled as the potion turned from purple to grey. Step 15 is next! I just have two more steps! Yay! Taylor was almost done and that made her happy. So far her potion was doing great… thank goodness… and she didn’t want to restart ALL over again so Tay was going to make sure the next two steps will go off smoothly.

JennMarie

10-13-2013, 02:34 AM

Five whole minutes on stirring, F-I-V-E? Ari didn't want to wait five minutes or be stirring for five minutes either
but she supposed someone had to do it and since this was a work-on-your-own type thing she had to do it.
Siiiigh
she picked up her ladle and began to stir the potion, the potion of forever stirring. forever stirring potion. it should self stir, no ladle just stir its self.
was there a charm for that? she wondered as she continued stirring for what seemed like EVER, when in fact it was only five minutes and three seconds exactly.

Singing Suspension

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
billywig wings (a pinch)
scurvy-grass (1 dram)

Instructions:
boil water
add ingredients & stir constantly for 5 minutes
remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestion

Charely Potter

10-13-2013, 02:34 AM

Oh a cleaning potion that was interesting. "Oh yeah I could see him liking that. After all the tricks he's pulled that last two terms I think I'd like to accidentally switching it with a fur growing potion." Was that mean? She wasn't sure, but really the man did still need a good trick pulled on him. Something to get him back for a few of the pranks sneezing toot, beard, ID that he had pulled. Smiling back at Wade not wanting to seem mean or anything, "Sounds like an interesting one though. I don't think I've made that one."

She looked back to her own potion, "Oh do you remember talking about the maze and the potion part of the triwizard in History of Magic. Well when I was looking through the book I found a shrinking solution which I'm assuming is the same one. I thought I'd give it a shot." She grinned at Wade, "Want to be short Kitty?" She chuckled to herself before looking at her notes once more.

Wade softly smiled towards Min, "Maybe.." He wasn't too sure, but he guessed she still wasn't too happy about having a beard from Flamsteed's class earlier. "Yeah, I've seen my dad use it before.. hopefully it'll be as good." He merely blinked on the next mentioning, did he remember what happened during History of Magic class.. Not really. He kept smiling instead, since she already went on ahead and explained. Oh, did he want to be short? "Long as you can bring me back regular again." Laughing with her before going back to his potion making. It had been given enough time to simmer.

Leeeet's seee... 50 grams of powdered cockroaches.. Eh.. Could they get to the nicer ingredients now? He was sure this next one would only make the concoction smell worse. Shrugging, he took the smaller jar of powered cockroaches. He measured about 50 grams of it before adding it into the cauldron *drop*. The potion then started smelling strongly of garlic mixed with the others.

Sweet.. only one more step to go, now what was it again. Wade bent over the instructions again, he noticed something in the book through that he overlooked before... Hm. He squinted trying to decipher what it was after crossing off what he just did.

Ingredients
Water
1 clove Garlic
1 drop Bundimun Secretion
1 Crocodile Eye
50 g Powdered Cockroach
Peppermint, lemon or pine needles

Directions
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Crush and add a clove of garlic
Add one drop bundimun secretion - make sure you wear dragon hide gloves when handling it!
Slice the crocodile eye
Stir once clockwise
Stir 3 times counter-clockwise
Let simmer
Add 50 grams of powdered cockroach
Add the peppermint, lemon or pine needles to scent it (don't be surprised if it changes colour) or any other scented item

JennMarie

10-13-2013, 02:36 AM

o_o would it make a difference if she went three seconds over the five minutes!? she really hoped not.. she wasn't paying attention of course and stopped stirring three seconds to late. she looked at it for a moment hoping it wouldn't blow up on her before glancing back to her book
at the next instructions, remove from flame and stir once a minute for five minutes, that was easier. putting her fire out she let out a sigh before waiting a few more moments before stirring again

Stir

She wondered what Oakey was doing right now. hopefully he wasnt dead or anything, she's cry lots and lots.

Stir

she'd have to go see salazar after class, poor owl, she hadn't gone to see him in weeks. cue bad mommy feels

Stir

she should also plan a study day with Hudson, that needed to happen up in the room.. maybe Sky could join them.. maybe..

Stir

And do her homework.. that should happen too yes. homework and stuff

Stir

ALSO, she should write her mum. her poor mum, she never did write her much anymore. She made a mental note to do that tonight and see salazar in the morning before sending him off with said letter for her mother.

Singing Suspension

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
billywig wings (a pinch)
scurvy-grass (1 dram)

Instructions:
boil water
add ingredients & stir constantly for 5 minutes
remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestion

Somnium

10-13-2013, 02:39 AM

15.Allow the potion to simmer until it turns orange… simmering and orange! Okay… that can be done… Taylor nodded and started to sing in her head again. Orangey orange and simmer simmering orange… this potion is gonna simmer and turn orange. You just wait and see… I am doing this as right as right can be and it is going to change orange when it simmers… I only have a step after this then I am done and can pack up and leave… orange and simmering, come on potion… simmer and turn orange… Tay bopped her head to her song and watched her potion. Taylor glanced around the room at the others and then looked down at her simmering potion. After a few more strands of the song, the potion turned to a dull grey to pretty orange. Last step… last step… last step… LAST STEP! Taylor held back from dancing as she glanced at the step. 16.Add more powdered porcupine quills until the potion turns white… okay the last of the powdered porcupine quills until it turns from orange to white… got it… Taylor made sure that she had them prepared in a clean environment as she started to pour them into the potion. After pouring some in, the potion turned from an orange color to white to her delight. The potion emitted a silvery vapour and she squealed in delight. I got it right! I got the Draught of Peace right! I got an advance potion right! Tay held back her dancing as she beamed in delight. Taylor made sure to bottle it up for the professor and placed it carefully on the table. She used scourify and cleaned her cauldron then packed up. Once her things were packed and all was cleaned up, she placed her name on the potion bottle like the teacher instructed.

Colley

10-13-2013, 02:40 AM

Almost done, almost done. She just had a few things left to do. Cat located the runespoor eggs and selected three of them. They were frozen still, but she obviously couldn't feel that through the gloves on her hands and that was kind of cool, but her mind had decided to run in THAT direction. Cool frozen egg things that were really frozen but didn't seem to be frozen. She sort of wanted to throw one at Mo.

But no. No, she needed to concentrate.

Carefully, she removed the shells from the eggs and discarded them then she set them aside in favor of seeking out and measuring up the powdered purple moonstone. Purple was a good color, yes. Not quite as good as orange, but still a good one. This time she didn't have to crush anything to dust, which she was almost regretful about. She was about to carry on when Mo spoke again. Oh? She glanced at him, abandoning her eggs for a moment, then she shrugged and carried on, sprinkling the teaspoon of powder evenly on all three of the eggs.

"As long as you do it for you because it's what you think and for no other reasons, I'll support you." Just so he knew, yes? She wasn't saying it was her choice or anything, but she'd help him out and stuff. If that was what he wanted.

Cat reached over her cauldron and placed all three eggs in, one at a time, careful not to let them splash or make a mess. Now she was really almost done. No more stirring, that was almost sad. Now. What was that spell? Vividus Excandesco.

"Vividus Excandesco." Yes. That was it. She wiggled her fingers and picked up her wand then, waving it in a circular motion over her cauldron just once like the book said. "Vividus Excandesco!" Hmm.... it should be a rule that all potions, when finished, sparkled or shot glitter into the air or something. But, well, this one did neither, that was disappointing and Cat let herself frown about it as she put out the fire. At least she was done now. Before she started to gather up her bits and pieces and cleaning, Cat offered her hand to Mo. High five? They hadn't blown anything up. That was cause for celebrating.

Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco

JennMarie

10-13-2013, 02:41 AM

FIVE STIRS IN FIVE MINUTES! she did it. she sat back on her stool and took some breaths before writing out her label for her vial

Singing Suspension
Ariana Logan
Slytherin-Yr 7
Now she simply waited for it to Cooooool down.

waited
waited
waited

after a solid fifteen minutes passed ariana put her hand over the top of the couldron.. no heat felt, that was good. she took her ladle and gave it a slight spin.. no heat still.. IT WAS COOL

time to bottle it.. and so she did pouring every ounce she could into the vial.

Singing Suspension

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to sing uncontrollably

Ingredients:
water (500 mL)
2 acorns (meat only, crushed)
billywig wings (a pinch)
scurvy-grass (1 dram)

Instructions:
boil water
add ingredients & stir constantly for 5 minutes
remove from flame & stir once a minute for 5 minutes
allow to cool before pouring into vials or ingestion

FearlessLeader19

10-13-2013, 02:46 AM

Adi checked his watch regularly to make sure the potion simmered for exactly twenty minutes. When the time was up he extinguished the heat. Now all he had to do was to wait for it to cool. To pass the time, Adi hummed softly so as not to disturb anyone and watched the others as they worked. Never know what tips about potion brewing he might pick up from them.

A half an hour or so later, Adi checked his potion. It was indeed cool now, so with care he ladled some into a vial which he then sealed and labeled:

Aditya Rehman's Scintillation Solution

Bazinga

10-13-2013, 02:50 AM

PuppySara

10-13-2013, 02:58 AM

Brodie sighed as he started. Lets see... six snake fangs then standard ingredient by means of four... Was he supposed to crush them yet? No? Okay... so push that to the side for a moment. and then 6 dried billywig stings to the cauldron. and stir and wait... no no no... he stopped before he messed up again and kept the potion heated well... And now to crush the the ingredients and then pour four scoops of. Now he stirred it... He made sure to make it precise before casting a quick spell over it. Now then... Wait... Leave sitting for fifty-five minutes? Brodie let out a small groan, well, this was clearly the wrong potion to choose but he was stuck now... He wasn't going to waste the ingredients he'd already used. So the poor seventh year would just have to wait the near hour out, at least he had songs to write to pass the time, yes? Yeah, hopefully... He sighed and got out his paper and quill writing random words every now and again that would work.

Felixir

10-13-2013, 03:13 AM

Cleanliness, care, concentration, content and color.

Those were the 5 Cs. Tobias had no idea why he'd blanked on them, but he knew them now. And of course, there was that important one, cleanliness. Before he started anything, even the cleaning, Tobias figured it would be a good idea to copy the recipe into his own notes, so he could have the visual aid of crossing things off when they were done, but not obscuring the directions for the next time he used the book. That done, he moved on to the practical bit, not all that bothered that many people around him were already well into the brewing process. Some were even finished already.

Peering inside his cauldron to make sure nothing was in there, Tobias cast 'evanesco' and 'tergeo' inside of it, for good measure, before finishing up the cleaning with a regular ol' 'scourgify'.

The ingredients that the potion called for were all collected from Toby's potions kit and laid out on the table. He tried his best to tune out any chatter in the room, for it was bound to be distracting, and this was the one lesson Tobias knew he could not afford to get distracted in.

Okay so, fluxweed first. 8 grams was easy enough to measure out, being just a case of adding to or subtracting from the ingredient when it was on the scale. BAM, 8 grams. After moving the fluxweed from the scales, Tobias reached for the knife he used to chop and dice his ingredients usually and used the blunt handle to crush the fluxweed. He knew how to do this in a way that he rarely ended up accidentally hurting himself, but it was a very good idea to keep his attention on the task at hand anyway.

Once that was all crushed and off to one side, Tobias grabbed the armadillo and a measuring flask. He poured the bile into the flask, deciding that he would prefer not to think about how the bile was extracted, and then poured the bile from the measuring flask into the cauldron, when it hit the 500ml mark.

Next up was to bring the potion to a boil. Or, as the step after put it, a ROARING boil. The best kind of boil. Tobias smiled to himself as he lit the fire beneath the cauldron with a muttered 'incendio'.

Toby was good with fire spells.

And now to wait for the bile to start boiling.

Wit-Sharpening potion

Use/Effect:
Sharpens the intelligence and comprehension of the drinker.

Ingredients:
5 grams of ground scarab beetle
2.5 grams of cut up ginger root
500ml of Armadillo bile
8 grams of Fluxweed

Instructions:
Crush Fluxweed. Pour Armadillo Bile into cauldron.
Bring to a boil.
When potion has reached a roaring boil, add Fluxweed.
Stir potion 5 times clockwise. Let potion boil for 10 minutes stirring occasionally as needed. Do Not Allow The Potion to Boil Over.
Peel ginger root and chop fine. When time is up, add ginger to potion.
Reduce heat. The potion needs to come to a simmer for 30 minutes.
Stir potion counter-clockwise 3 times. The potion must be stirred counter-clockwise 3 times an additional 3 times while it simmers. Place the lid on the cauldron.
Grind Scarab Beetles to a find powder.
Sprinkle the powder over the potion. Replace lid.
Let potion brew for 45 minutes.
When time has elapsed, the potion will have reduced by half and now be a deep purple. If it is not, then you have done something wrong.
Remove cauldron from heat and let cool. The potion should now have a slightly thick consistency. Ladle potion into individual vials. Seal by using a sealing charm. Potion should remain potent for three month if sealed properly.

Charely Potter

10-13-2013, 03:23 AM

"Oh your dad cleans?" This made her chuckled at a memory that popped into her head, "My dad never cleaned. Mom did everything." but then she frowned remembering Wade's dad probably did all the cleaning if he didn't date or anything. Was it even appropriate to ask? "So has it just always been just you and your dad? I mean.. " She wasn't sure what words to even use, "Sorry that's probably too personal. I'll just shut up." She turned back to her own potion.

Smiling at him she shrugged, "Lets see how nice I'm feeling." Of course she would make the potion to bring him back to size. Glancing at her watch it had only been fifteen minutes. She stirred the potion again and waited.. She hated waiting. Not the most patient person in the world Minerva turned back to Wade. "So are you almost done?" Yep she was bored, but Kitty wouldn't mind being annoyed. "Did you have a good break?" Conversation was the key to make thirty minutes go by faster.

Stir.. stir..

Looking at her watch again.. REALLY? Only three minutes had past.. Grumbling she waited more.

Wade smiled back at Min when she asked about his dad, "Preeetty much, if I don't get to it fast enough around the house," His brows rose a little when she said only her mother did the cleaning, "Interesting.." He could not really remember how his own parents dealt with the household since he was only five when he could last remember his mum. "Did she mind that?" He merely blinked asking about whether it was always just him and his dad since he lost his mum. Widening his eyes as she seemed embarrassed for asking, he shook his head, "Oh no, it's perfectly fine to ask," Min had pretty much shared all her past with him, and he felt okay now to finally share the rest of his, "Well, until last year it pretty much was just me and him." He smiled wider before saying, "I'm going to be a big brother soon.. Him and his girlfriend from work Vic, said they were having twins." What can he say, he was quite excited for that.
He chuckled a little about her little tease. She was his mouse, of course she would be nice enough to bring him back. "Takes a lot of time, doesn't it?" He saw her glancing at her watch and trying not to look impatient. He took that little time after reading that final instruction. Add the scented item. There was a lemon there, though it was dried up from the time sitting.. Hmm.. He furrowed his brows, yes, he could add that but would it be strong enough?

Taking the lemon, he safely dropped it in the cauldron *drop* watching the green mixture gain a yellow tint. *SNIFF**SNIFF* ...Lemony garlic. Not so nice smelling. Still brow furrowing, he grabbed his bag searching for something just as nice smelling too when he found.. Yes... that's perfect. To Wade this would not only give the potion a great scent, but it would keep the colour green. Just about when he heard if he was almost done, did he safely drop a pickle into the concoction. *drop*

Immediately, the color changed back to a fine though slightly darker green, and.. *SNNNIIFFFF* The potion smelled of Pickles with a hint of lemon. Quite delicious if you asked Wade. Heh. "Finished.. how about you?" Taking a clean vial now, he poured enough of his potion in, closing it before labeling it to hand in.

Magicleanse
Wade Lars Elisabeth-Potter
Hufflepuff
Seventh Year

Ingredients
Water
1 clove Garlic
1 drop Bundimun Secretion
1 Crocodile Eye
50 g Powdered Cockroach
Peppermint, lemon or pine needles

Directions
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Crush and add a clove of garlic
Add one drop bundimun secretion - make sure you wear dragon hide gloves when handling it!
Slice the crocodile eye
Stir once clockwise
Stir 3 times counter-clockwise
Let simmer
Add 50 grams of powdered cockroach
Add the peppermint, lemon or pine needles to scent it (don't be surprised if it changes colour) or any other scented item

DaniDiNardo

10-13-2013, 03:30 AM

She....was gonna have to squeeze firefly fluid into her mixture. That was one of the oddest ingredients she'd ever added but she supposed she could see where this was going considering those things glowed and she was looking to glow in her favourite colour. For the sake of this epic potion she wouldn't question it. Instead, she got the fireflies out.

20 bulbs to be squeezed? She was on it.

One...Two...Three... Squishy little things these were. She counted them out while humming a little to herself until she got to twenty. In fact it'd gotten into such a rhythm that she almost added a twenty-first one.

Next next next. Clabbert Pustules. Whole. Lex reached across and pulled them closer to the cauldron then added the required 9. Apart of her wanted to know what part of the clabbert you got the pustules from but something was telling her she was better off not knowing and for now she would listen to that something.

Lex glanced over at the book again. It was backing to stirring. She gave one stir in a counter-clockwise direction. Yes. Mhm. Good. Then another...three...clockwise. Done.

Scintillation Solution

Use/Effect: Cause the drinker to glow in their favorite colour and become animated and bright

Ingredients
Half a cauldron of Water
One cup of Orange Juice (Blood Oranges are best)
One Billywig Stinger
1 tsp of crushed dried Ginger Root
2 tbsp of Sugar
5 Peppermint leaves
20 Firefly Bulbs
9 Clabbert pustules
2 drops of Magnesium Gluconate Liquid
7 drops of Flobberworm mucus
3 frozen runespoor eggs
1 tsp of powdered purple moonstone

Instructions:
Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

Bazinga

10-13-2013, 04:02 AM

Wade smiled back at Min when she asked about his dad, "Preeetty much, if I don't get to it fast enough around the house," His brows rose a little when she said only her mother did the cleaning, "Interesting.." He could not really remember how his own parents dealt with the household since he was only five when he could last remember his mum. "Did she mind that?" He merely blinked asking about whether it was always just him and his dad since he lost his mum. Widening his eyes as she seemed embarrassed for asking, he shook his head, "Oh no, it's perfectly fine to ask," Min had pretty much shared all her past with him, and he felt okay now to finally share the rest of his, "Well, until last year it pretty much was just me and him." He smiled wider before saying, "I'm going to be a big brother soon.. Him and his girlfriend from work Vic, said they were having twins." What can he say, he was quite excited for that.
He chuckled a little about her little tease. She was his mouse, of course she would be nice enough to bring him back. "Takes a lot of time, doesn't it?" He saw her glancing at her watch and trying not to look impatient. He took that little time after reading that final instruction. Add the scented item. There was a lemon there, though it was dried up from the time sitting.. Hmm.. He furrowed his brows, yes, he could add that but would it be strong enough?

Taking the lemon, he safely dropped it in the cauldron *drop* watching the green mixture gain a yellow tint. *SNIFF**SNIFF* ...Lemony garlic. Not so nice smelling. Still brow furrowing, he grabbed his bag searching for something just as nice smelling too when he found.. Yes... that's perfect. To Wade this would not only give the potion a great scent, but it would keep the colour green. Just about when he heard if he was almost done, did he safely drop a pickle into the concoction. *drop*

Immediately, the color changed back to a fine though slightly darker green, and.. *SNNNIIFFFF* The potion smelled of Pickles with a hint of lemon. Quite delicious if you asked Wade. Heh. "Finished.. how about you?" Taking a clean vial now, he poured enough of his potion in, closing it before labeling it to hand in.

Ingredients
Water
1 clove Garlic
1 drop Bundimun Secretion
1 Crocodile Eye
50 g Powdered Cockroach
Peppermint, lemon or pine needles

Directions
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Crush and add a clove of garlic
Add one drop bundimun secretion - make sure you wear dragon hide gloves when handling it!
Slice the crocodile eye
Stir once clockwise
Stir 3 times counter-clockwise
Let simmer
Add 50 grams of powdered cockroach
Add the peppermint, lemon or pine needles to scent it (don't be surprised if it changes colour) or any other scented item

Minerva listened to Wade talk and she chuckled and thought a bit, "No I don't think she minded at all. She actually seemed to love doing all the house stuff. Cooking, cleaning, just being with us." She couldn't help but smile thinking about how much she had been remembering her parents lately. It was a nice change. Her head snapped up as he said he was going to be a big brother. Oh his dad was dating, did she even know that? Maybe she did, but she couldn't remember. "Wade that's fantastic. Twins? Wow your house is going to get super busy with two babies. That will be an adjustment for you and your dad I bet."

Turning back to her own potions she looked at the time. YES thirty minutes was finally up. As she made sure to stir again. Looking back at her notes, Min grabbed the ginger root and added it to her cauldron. Right as she was about to pick up her spoon a smell, a very bad smell jumped out at her. Looking over to Wade she wondered if he did something, not that she would out him for making the smell, but really he could have said excuse me. Then she realized it was a pickle smell and looked to his cauldron. "Tell me you didn't just put a pickle in there. Wade the directions say lemon, peppermint, or pine needles. Using a pickle could ruin the entire potion and I don't think Flamsteed will want a pickle fresh room." She couldn't help but move away a bit from the pickle smell.

Trying to focus she stirred her potion counter clockwise this time for two minutes before taking it off the flame. Now it just needed to cool, this wasn't so bad now was it. Getting a vial out she put her name and year on it so that she could put the potion in when it was fully cooled down.

Add daisy roots, shrivelfig, caterpillar slices, and nettle to 500 mL boiling water. Stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes.
Add a dash of leech juice. Allow the solution to stew, stirring occassionally, for half an hour.[
Add the ginger root and stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes. Remove cauldron from the fire and allow potion to cool.
Write your name and house on two vials. Very carefully distribute your potion into the two vials (do not allow the potion to touch anything that is not the vial or the ladle- do not get on your hands!) Bring one to the front for grading and keep one vial at your desk for testing.
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lazykitty

10-13-2013, 04:08 AM

And now it was time to add the wicks and wrap her magical firecrackers. Though, she decided to add a twist. She tied the firecrackers together so they really resembled the muggle firework, then added a sort of pull string so they would all go off one right after the other. Then, she wrapped the entire string of fireworks in pretty Slytherin green paper, making sure the pull string stuck out at one end and slapped a silver tag on with a sticking charm. Done!

Name: Sky Carter-Hope
Year: Seventh
House: Slytherin

Magical Fireworks ;)

Charely Potter

10-13-2013, 04:21 AM

Minerva listened to Wade talk and she chuckled and thought a bit, "No I don't think she minded at all. She actually seemed to love doing all the house stuff. Cooking, cleaning, just being with us." She couldn't help but smile thinking about how much she had been remembering her parents lately. It was a nice change. Her head snapped up as he said he was going to be a big brother. Oh his dad was dating, did she even know that? Maybe she did, but she couldn't remember. "Wade that's fantastic. Twins? Wow your house is going to get super busy with two babies. That will be an adjustment for you and your dad I bet."

Turning back to her own potions she looked at the time. YES thirty minutes was finally up. As she made sure to stir again. Looking back at her notes, Min grabbed the ginger root and added it to her cauldron. Right as she was about to pick up her spoon a smell, a very bad smell jumped out at her. Looking over to Wade she wondered if he did something, not that she would out him for making the smell, but really he could have said excuse me. Then she realized it was a pickle smell and looked to his cauldron. "Tell me you didn't just put a pickle in there. Wade the directions say lemon, peppermint, or pine needles. Using a pickle could ruin the entire potion and I don't think Flamsteed will want a pickle fresh room." She couldn't help but move away a bit from the pickle smell.

Trying to focus she stirred her potion counter clockwise this time for two minutes before taking it off the flame. Now it just needed to cool, this wasn't so bad now was it. Getting a vial out she put her name and year on it so that she could put the potion in when it was fully cooled down.

Add daisy roots, shrivelfig, caterpillar slices, and nettle to 500 mL boiling water. Stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes.
Add a dash of leech juice. Allow the solution to stew, stirring occassionally, for half an hour.[
Add the ginger root and stir (direction is unimportant) for 2 minutes. Remove cauldron from the fire and allow potion to cool.
Write your name and house on two vials. Very carefully distribute your potion into the two vials (do not allow the potion to touch anything that is not the vial or the ladle- do not get on your hands!) Bring one to the front for grading and keep one vial at your desk for testing.
____________

Wade was still beaming as he turned to Min and.. hm? One of his brows rose as he saw her move away. Did something not smell right to her, or did she do something that made her have to step away? He went to smell his concoction again, *SNIIIFFF*.. Nope, it still smelled great. Maybe she didn't like pickles either...Ah. Hearing her speak, just about confirmed that she had been looking over his work. She was such a nice friend.

He shook his head at her laughing, "What do you mean? Did you not see the little extra tip here?" He took the book to show her closer to show an aged writing to the side, "See, it even says adding anything else won't affect how it works." Oh yeah, just to add on why, "I did put a lemon in there beforehand, but it didn't help the garlic smell much by itself." Hmm.. well, he was sure Professor Lafay would be okay with it once she saw it work. So he took his vial right to her desk before coming back to wait and see how Min's fared.

Maybe he could read a little while waiting..

Kitten

10-13-2013, 05:12 AM

With a deep breath she looked back at the instructions on how to make the potion.

Instructions:

**STAGE 1**
• Add 6 drops fluxweed oil to warm water.
• Split the bloodroot stems lengthwise with your knives and scrape out all fluid and fibrous material from inside the stems. Crush with mortar and pestle into a fine paste and add to the cauldron.
• Stir slowly until a light steam rises from the cauldron, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirring.

**STAGE 2**
• Mince the Valerian root and add it to the potion.
• Add calendula pollen, stirring three times clockwise.
• Shred the skullcap lengthwise, and slowly add it to the potion
• Bring the temperature back up until the steam is rising again, stirring clockwise slowly. It should be a light blue-green at this stage.
• Professor's note: Remember your intent-- concentrate on being calm and infusing your work with a calm, deliberate result.
• Add asphodel -- you should see a bright blue flash of light in your cauldron
• Add the Hyacinth flower; the potion should stop glowing
• Allow the potion to steep while you collect the frog slime. For best results, do not harvest the frog slime until this time!
• Add the slime and a sprig of peppermint and bring to boiling, stirring in alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirs once again.
• When the potion thickens and turns deep indigo, add the glumbumble fluid.
• Continue stirring in a clockwise motion until the solid ingredients have all disintegrated and the potion is a thick, syrupy indigo fluid that smells of lavender, warm sugar and sweet mint. There should be a light purple-pink sheen in the steam that rises from the potion.
• Take a sample of your potion and bottle it into a phial.

Well... she was almost halfway there. Close enough really, figuring she really should keep her mind on what she was meant to be doing, rather than how long it would still take until she finally finished it, she reached over for the 3 skullcap leaves, quickly shredding them the way that she was told to.

With that done, Kahlan cocked her head to the side, unsure how to proceed with adding them slowly, so cautiously she picked up one of the shredded skullcap pieces by the very end of it and over a time period of 10 seconds, waiting another 10 seconds before she decided to try the next one under the same time frame since that seemed to be working.

With the time frame that she'd set, it seemed to take forever for all of the shredded pieces to be put into the potion, however it finally seemed to be over. Looking back she figured it couldn't hurt to move on quickly, considering the last step had taken her so long so she cast a spell, starting another fire to heat up the mixture again.

Looking at her instructions again she started stirring clockwise again, groaning when she realized she'd have to wait for it to change colour again... and judging by how slow this entire process had been this could take a while...

DaniDiNardo

10-13-2013, 05:16 AM

Once again a stop was put to the stirring. Looking around, she was beginning to think she'd picked one of the longest potions. Glancing back at the book was all the confirmation she needed. It had so many steps just to accomplish a simple thing. Glowing. Nothing significantly hard in that but whatever, yet another thing she simply wouldn't question.

On the plus side her desk was getting clearer. A sure sign that she was getting somewhere with this thing. Just had to add the Magnesium Gluconate which she did--the thing said to quickly add the flobberworm mucus!! Eeep! She didn't know where that was!!! Lex began scattering the things all over the table in her mad rush to find it in a 'quick' manner. WHERE was iiiittttt???

OH! AHA!! Lex did a kind of dive to get to the other side of the table, quickly grabbing the flobberworm mucus and adding 7 drops. Adding 7 drops quickly. Ahem. Had to emphasize that part.

Runespoor eggs were next on the agenda. She got the three infront of her and carefully began picking at the shells. After the last of them was completely stripped she reached for the powdered moonstone and sprinkled it onto the now bare eggs.

Kinda like sprinkling salt on regular eggs, only she wasn't gonna eat these and these probably weren't all that edible in the first place so....yeah.

Scintillation Solution

Use/Effect: Cause the drinker to glow in their favorite colour and become animated and bright

Ingredients
Half a cauldron of Water
One cup of Orange Juice (Blood Oranges are best)
One Billywig Stinger
1 tsp of crushed dried Ginger Root
2 tbsp of Sugar
5 Peppermint leaves
20 Firefly Bulbs
9 Clabbert pustules
2 drops of Magnesium Gluconate Liquid
7 drops of Flobberworm mucus
3 frozen runespoor eggs
1 tsp of powdered purple moonstone

Instructions:
Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.

Kitten

10-13-2013, 05:40 AM

10 minutes!!!!!

Kahlan had been stirring the stupid potion for 10 minutes! And it still wasn't a blue green colour. Grumbling curses and insults under her breath at the potion. She was at the point at just knocking the stupid potion off of her desk and just storming out, after all her head of house anyway hadn't come back, though she was still sure that she'd just find her and put her in detention.

And that would be annoying!

With more grumbling she kept stirring, and stirring, and stirring, and even this gently it felt as though her arm was about to fall off!

How long was this supposed to take?

The snake yawned, trying to keep herself focussed and not falling asleep because that would just cause it to boil and bubble over... and something told her Professor Lafay would somehow find out about that as well...

And then it finally started to slowly change colour, which somewhat got the girls hopes up, as she glanced back at the book which told her to remember her intent. How were you supposed to remember your intent when a potion was this infuriating!!!???

Taking a deep breath she tried to cheer herself up, and tried to also calm herself down enough to think about calm things and calming down...

She was definitely going to need this potion after she finished making it.

At least it was now the right colour...

TeafortheSoul

10-13-2013, 07:24 AM

An emergency? Idly wondering what it could have been, Alice made note of the professor's change in facial expressions and watched her gather up her things. She didn't particularly mind Lafay leaving; it meant she got to brew her own potion and work at her own pace instead of going at the slow speed they had as a class. And working alone was always a nice change.

Grabbing her Potions book, the sixth year began flipping through it, scanning the text for something she'd like to make, momentarily ceasing her searching to give West's hand a squeeze back. What was he brewing? Alice leaned over to peek at the page he had open. Dreamer's Elixer?

Well. She wanted something usable for her. Something difficult. Something like..

Shaharazalm Unction

Use/Effect:
Allows one to make another say whatever he or she wants; cannot make someone else cast a spell.

Ingredients:
- 1 gallon of flobberworm mucus
- 1 tsp shredded beeswax
- 20 drops of Coconut Oil
- 1 finger of Vaseline
- 7 drops of Lanolin
- 2 tbs yellow moonstone
- 1 Vitamin E Capsule
- 1 pinch of Chamomile
- 1 Jobberknoll feather
- 1 Jobberknoll tongue
- 10 blades of scurvy grass
- 3 tsp of fluxweed
- 2 leaves of lovage
- 1 cup of stewed mandrake roots

Instructions:
- Light cauldron and pour in the Flobberworm Mucus.
- Drop beeswax into mucus, watch it melt, then stir twice counter clockwise.
- Add the 20 drops of coconut oil five at a time. Stir once clockwise after each five drops.
- Don protective gear; gloves, aprons and goggles.
- Flick dollop of Vaseline into cauldron with finger.
- Add in 7 drops of Lanolin, and stir clockwise three times.
- Grind Moonstone in mortar and pestle. Add 2 tsp to cauldron in a circular motion.
- Add Vitamin E to the center of the moonstone circle.
- After 6 minutes potion should be bright yellow.
- Add a pinch of Chamomile.
- Using silver blade, slice the Jobberknoll feather and tongue finely, add to cauldron.
- Stir 5 times counter clockwise and once clockwise.
- Take the blades of scurvy grass and the fluxweed and put them in the lovage leaves. Roll them together tightly and press hard as you roll.
- Use Diffindo to cut them into 10 small pieces.
- Take the stewed mandrake roots and carve ten little holes in it with your silver knife, then stuff the leaf rolls into the mandrake root. Put the carved out pieces on top, drop the whole root into the cauldron, and wait 5 minutes.
.. like that. Perfect.

West was of course curious to know what Alice planned to brew. He took a look at her book. ....

....

And what was she planning on using THAT for?

West gave her curious looks and then headed to the store cupboard to collect the ingredients that he needed. Since plenty of them were poisonous, West put his gloves on first.

On account of he didn't want to die.

Valerian root... Kava Kava... 1 deadly nightshade berry... devils weed.... Poison Hemlock seeds... a red poppy... Calea Zacatechichi.... Once he had everything, he returned to his work station and put goggles on. For safety.

He scourgified his cauldron next, and then filled the cauldron with water to the brim. West lit the burner and set the cauldron to boiling, in the meantime he worked on measuring out some of the ingredients.

Dreamer's Elixer

Use/Effect:
A potion to make the drinker forget or remember their dreams

Ingredients:
water
1 cup of valerian root
half a cup of Kava Kava
1 deadly nightshade berry
8 leaves of devil's weed
1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds
1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent
10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi

Procedure
clean cauldron
fill with water to brim
light burner
wait for water to boil
add valerian root
add Kava Kava
clean 18 carat gold needle
prick deadly nightshade berry with needle to get one drop
burn berry
drop the one drop into cauldron
burn & clean needle
slice devil's weed along the vein with a silver knife
add leaves to cauldron
dip your pestle in the cauldron, shake it a bit, so it's just wet and not dripping
put Poison Hemlock seeds into your mortar, crush them into a mush
use wooden spoon to add to cauldron
put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy
drop poppy let the potion wilt it on it's own and it will sink to the bottom of the cauldron

Stopping here makes the drinker does not dream. To allow the drinker to remember their dreams vividly continue as follows:

add Calea Zacatechichi leaves and allow them to dissolve
potion should be purple
while thinking about a recent dream move wand over cauldron in a semi circle motion and say Sopororis