Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

Miranda had taken to forgetting about the hat and just hidden her whole head under the cover of her crossed arms. And when she now spoke, her voice was muffled by the wood. "Miss," raise of hand, "How about some Chamomile? It has some...wonderful healing properties aswell as calming skin inflammation...not that we have that....I hope." Scratch of bald head.


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OOC: Chamomile info found in my brain and here

Keeley blinked her brown eyes and continued to jot down notes and ingrediants and things of the sort. And of course, there had to be an inward happy dance for getting a question right.

Hmm.... Re'em blood? She had only read a little about that. But she knew some basics, and it was worth a shot. "Uhm... I think Re'em blood would be used because it can gives you strenght, possibly for growing the hair back quicker, while salamander blood is mainly used for healing." Blink. Blink. Hopefully she hadn't mixed those up, even though lizards and oxes were pretty hard to confuse.

Simon looked at the Professor. "I've never tried it personally." He said truthfully, "Though I have heard of people eating it, though I don't know what's in it, so until I know what is it in, I can't say if I would eat it or not." Simon smiled at the Professor.

Oh! Really? He'd gotten them correct?

That was...brilliant!

But..then this question...salamander had regenerative properties, it was the most obvious choice...yet...it wasn't. Interesting.

Asuming that if he was wrong, the Professor would let them know the right answer, Treyen raised his hand, "All I know from Re'em, is that it's blood gives us plenty of strength if we drink it.." and he made a face, eww, drink blood, he was no vampire, you know, "...but, perhaps, being the salamander a reptile and the re'em closer to what we are, then...that's why it works? Or perhaps because the re'em shares some healing powers as the ones from unicorns, without its blood making the drinker cursed? he sort of answered, and he sort of asked, because he had no idea.

Alex looked around cluelessly, she really had no idea she wrote down what the teacher said was correct and waited to actually get started on the potion, because she really hated being bald.

"I'm guessing it has something to do with the salamanders blood which is used in stregnthening solution so I'm guessing it you tried to use it in hair regrowth potion hair may grow back way too thick", Herminny aswered after raising her hand in the air.

Hearing everyone answer the Professor question about salamander blood vs. re'em blood, Evelyn frowned and stared at the table she sat at. Before...a small smile made it's way onto her lips though. "Or it could just be the fact that a re'em actually has hair..." she mumbled, before starting to write everything she had heard in the class so far down in her notebook. At least, all the important stuff.

Shucks.

Gold couldn't answer. Other people were too fast. But she thought the answer was pretty obvious, so that was alright. It wouldn't have taken a genius, to answer that correctly.

... Unless Professor Lafay was totally evil, which she wasn't, and they weren't going to brew something to get their hair back.

Eep!

Gold raised a somewhat hesitant hand. "Re'em blood is known to give the drinker strength," she said, a little uncertainly. "Which figures, in this case." Hair-strength, right? "I know Salamander parts are used in the standard Strengthening Solution, but the Strengthening Solution works for the overall body, and perhaps it's possible to concentrate the use of Re'em blood, on a particular area? Intent is important in most magic, so maybe Re'em blood can strengthen hair, when added to the right ingredients and infused with the right intent, but the same can't be said for Salamander parts? Alternatively, we know Salamander blood possesses excellent regenerative qualities, so maybe the hair will grow too quickly, if that is used in a potion?"

"... not to mention, Salamanders only survive out of the fire for about six hours, I think." Or was it seven? Eep. "Maybe we need to work with something that has been left untouched longer?"

It was conjecture, all of it. But a guess is better than saying nothing, which was why Gold thought it worth a try.

Still staring at the collection of brown luxurious locks in his hands, that had once been the hair on his head, Patroclus' focus drifted in and out of the class.
"As many have said does it come down to the fact that a Re'em has hair, where as Salamanders do not" having offered an answer to that question Patroclus raised his hand again, to add to the list of possible ingreidents, "Professor, the ingestion of protein rich foods promote natural hair growth, so perhaps adding such incredients to the potions could help, for example eggs, also Lavendar is good for stimulating the scalp, opening the folicles."

Dianna raised her hand
"Because Re'em blood gives immense strength to anyone who drinks it..." she remembered reading it in a book or something...

Sidney raises her hand. "Professor, is the hair you use unicorn hair or ther person who will ingest the potions hair? Would you also use knotgrass?" Sidney hopes at least one of her suggestions is correct.

Hermione had never really heard of this potion before, and she thought it would be best to write down the name of it and some of the ingredients. It seemed whenever someone spoke the professor would give them a look as if they were stupid. Hermione really wasn't looking for that at the moment so she stayed quiet, and waited for the professor to explain more about the potion as she copied the notes on the board.

Tori remained carefully quiet as she just wrote notes and listened to her potions professor. The last class which was the first class wasn't her best. She wanted to get it right so she took the 'shut up, listen and do as you're told' approach.

Rightttt. He was useless at this subject. Mostly. Xylon raised a hand, "Could unicorn tail-hair, pomegranate juice or flobberworm mucus be possible ingredients, professor?"

What? Don't give him that look!! He didn't know anything about potions, it was a wonder he even passed this subject each year. Though unicorn tail hair is said to have regenerative and strengthening properties, as is pomegranate juice and ----- and flobberworm mucus thickens a potion. THERE! Perfectly reasonable explanation.

Noir raised her hand "If I'm not mistaken Professor, Re'em blood gives immense strength to the drinker." she remembered that "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" have mentioned it

Not sure of what you would use in a potion such as this. Kay wrote down all the things the other were saying. She was the professor and wonder how long before she would get her hair back. Hoping that it would be like it was. Maybe the potion would be easy and not take to long. Her journal would be very full if this keep going. Re'em blood? knotgrass? Unicorn hair? Gee, and so many more. What was it they were making anyway?

Hmm Jackie didn't know. She was glad she was wearing her hat though and her friends weren't there. She was starting to hate potions. The teacher set people on fire and made there hair fall out.

Oliver wasn't the type to worry about what his hair looked like. It was just there on top his head and it curled annoyingly so that girls like Lori Bristol could take the mick... but when it was gone, the Snake realised just how much he liked his barnet. His baaaaald head felt so cold and he shivered like Diggy and... William(?).

Eh? What was Digz DOING? Hiding? Behind HIM? 'Good luck there. mate'; there wasn't much to hide behind width ways. Still, he looked well 'ard with no hair. Hehe! But it meant if Lafay wanted to set the boy alight that HE would probably get hit instead! So uncool, man. Oliver felt his lips form a small pout. Why had curiosity made him come here today? Pffft.. one day it was going to be the death of him, just like that poor Kneazle, as the saying went.

He wrote down notes on the potion, pausing when he remembered he had that hat Miranda had given him in his bag to cover the patch of missing hair he had last year. Pffft. He dug in his bag and pulled on the yellow woolen hat. There, now he was warmer, but... Merlin, it itched. Scratch scratch scratch. You just couldn't win, could you?

aM I TO LATE PROFESSOR

"It's Professor, not Miss..." she said to the child coldly. "And no. You have have not been harmed, you do not need healing. You merely need hair." She said.

"Right... that's one reason, but there is a more important one." she said.

"You shouldn't" she said plainly. "Think of an adhesive that. Isn't. Glue."

"Right... but what else?" She said starting to get annoyed.

"No." she said plainly.

"Good Miss Laksh... but what else?" Really? The girl names GOLD, wouldn't know this?

"Knotgrass, yes..." She said. "We don't use unicorn follicles here." She added.

"And there is the adhesive... flobberworm mucus." She said to the gryffindor.

"Yes, Miss Flores you are right." Finally... "Why add an ingredient to a hair raising potion from a creature who is bald! Add the ingredient from the creature with the golden hair."

"Yes, Master Hudson are right." She said "And Lavender is indeed an ingredient. And a hair follicle is a part of the skin that grows hair by packing old cells together... do it's your OWN hair follicles we are using... but it's not an ingredient in the potion."

She sighed and then tapped the black board "Get the items in the Potions Closet," she said.



"Two points from Slytherin." She said, "Now get your ingredients."

Teegan sat in her seat paying very close attention to everything that the Professor was saying, trying not to miss anything too important...she did after all want her HAIR back! She raised slowly to go to the potions closet to get everything she would need off of the board. She gathered her things quickly and returned to her seat and placed them in front of her as they had appeared on the board, one by one.

Keeley was, of course, slightly dissapointed that she had gotten the question wrong, but whatever. It wasn't like the Professor Lady was handing out points, so an incorrect answer didn't really matter.

She fingered her cross necklace idly, and skipped to the ingrediants cabinet. Hmm..... there were alot of ingrediants up there. Hopefully there would be no spilling.

Dianna stood up and got her ingredients from the potions cabinet. She was upset hearing that Slytherin just lost 2 points for tardiness but she didn't let that show and just sat back down and waited for the next instructions.

Well, what do you know! She was right, even though she had been joking. Slightly raising her eyebrows in surprise as she finished up writing down the things in her notebook, she almost had to force herself not to roll her eyes once she heard the point loss. Of course...

Placing down her quill after reading through the list of ingredients, Evelyn stood up, not daring to look at anyone since it would remind of her the fact that she was bald, and walking over to the potion closet. Really, one gallon of pumpkin juice? How much of this potion were they going to be making?

After taking back the one gallon of pumpkin juice to her station, she grabbed her vials, measuring things, and her cauldron before going back to get the rest of the things she needed, using the cauldron as a carrier so she didn't have to make three other trips back and forth. Walking back to her station with everything needed, she lined everything up in the order of the list before sitting quietly and staring at her notebook, waiting for the instructions.

Well, it seemed like this potion wasn't going to taste all that bad if they were going to drink it. Bleh.

After Noir finished coping the ingredients to her parchment..She stand up and walked to the potions closet to get the Capillatum Potion..she carefully took the ingredients and made sure that she didn't take wrong ingredients..after all she did want her hair back..