Jobs in the Potions Field

Presented by: Anna Greingoth-Newell & Nico Toussaint of GothSaint Enterprises, LTD.

The lovely Touz was nice enough to make this for us:

Text Cut: Nico and Anna

Anna: Anna Banana
Nico: Con_Stripes

Interested in a career in the Potions industry? Ever wonder how to apply all the material you've learned in class to your everyday life? You've come to the right booth!

Somewhere towards the back of the room, Nico Toussaint and Anna Greingoth-Newell await you at the Potions booth. Before you get to exploring the brews and bottles on the table, check out one of the pamphlets (outside, inside) fanned out across the front of the table.

When you're done looking through the pamphlet, you can view and test a sample of potions lined up across the back of the table. Nico and Anna are both available if you have any questions or comments or if you need any help testing out the potions.

Potions available to test:

OOC: Please be aware that the effects caused by any of the potions above are meant to be temporary and will be gone by the time your character leaves the booth. Thanks!

She had not seen this booth, when she had arrived to take a peek at the Job Fair. Had she missed it? Gold was immediately attracted to it, not half as much by the fact that it ran an association with Potions, as by the fact that it reminded her, as did all other things Potions, of Professor Kazimeriz.

She frowned slightly, and decided there was no need to go over. She was not going to run into Professor Kazimeriz, there. But then she could not exactly pull away, and she lingered nearby, and in the end she had walked over to the booth. No idea why. She gave the people in-charge, over there, a little smile, and then wondered if she should pick a sample potion, and help herself to it.

Why was she here?

Selena picked up a pamphlet and leafed through it. It was certainly beautiful and potions was quite a fun subject. continued to scan it. She glanced up at the vials of potions. Should she try one? Selena decided not to and continued to read the pamphlet.

Anna wasn't quite sure what to expect as she stood at the Potions booth waiting for the students to arrive. The last time she'd been at Hogwarts, she'd been a student, and she'd known exactly what to expect then. Now, she'd been away from the castle long enough to become a wife and a mother---and a Potions Mistress, of course, which was the very reason she was even here today.

At least Cale was here....and Nico, Evee, and maybe even a few others. She'd heard Clifford Carden and Copernicus Kettleburn were around here somewhere, too. She was lost in thought and thinking about the good old days when the first two students arrived. Of course she knew neither. They'd probably come to the castle after she'd graduated. "Hey! I'm Anna," she greeted. "Why don't you try out some of the potions samples we have? Or...you can have a pamphlet if you'd like." She waved a manicured hand toward the pamphlets fanned out across the table.

Lalalala. Professor Kazimeriz's spirit was probably here. Not, spirit-spirit. Enthusiasm-spirit. If that makes sense. Because it did not, not even to her own self. "Hey, I'm Gold," Gold said cheerfully, tucking a bright, blue bang of hair, behind her left ear as she spoke. "I think a pamphlet would be nice, thank you." She picked one up, and slowwwly opened it.


"Self-supported potioneers have to get their concoctions registered at the Ministry, don't they?" She glanced up, thoughtfully.

William didn't know why he was even bothering with the job fair. It wasn't like he was interested in anything, well he was but since that new professor had come around he'd been thinking of changing his mind. He needed something to wow him again, to make him love the subject he just recently fell in love with. Without all the bangs and whistles. Walking around with a rather bored expression on his face he stopped, staring off into the back of the room. He could detect the faint aroma of potions and he began to smile a bit as he shoved his hands into the pockets of his jeans, a blank expression of his face as he approached it.

Glancing up at the two wizards - they were obviously legal age he knew - he nodded to each one, not saying a word. Right now he wanted to browse, see what was actually happening. The potions he was looking at were somewhat simple; he'd made the shrinking one last term with an added ingredient. Looking at the one potion though he frowned; love potion? "Excuse me, I thought Love Potions were illegal?" he inquired, turning his gaze away from the potion to look at the woman.

Oh, Gold---Anna liked that name! It was unique and not very many people were called that. "It's good to meet you, Gold," she said. She took a moment to eye the clothes the girl was wearing. "Gryffindor, that was the house I was in. How are you guys coming along now-a-days?" (OOC: Maxie, IM/PM me if she isn't wearing Gryffie clothes, and I'll edit).

"They do," she said, answering the girl's question about self-supported potioneers. "The thing is, lots of them don't. That just opens up another job in the Potions industry, though---people who check that kind of thing regularly and fine or penalize if any regulations aren't being followed through with."

Anna hadn't even noticed another student approach---that is, until he questioned their sample of love potion. She turned toward him, and---wait a second. "W---William? It is you!" she said. "I don't know if you remember me or not---the Head Girl...from Gryffindor. We fought the merpeople and grindylows together in the Great Hall. How've you been?" She turned toward sample of love potion and picked it up, studying it for a moment before addressing William again.

"It's just a weak sample for demonstration. It'll barely even have an effect on a person," she said. She paused for a few seconds and placed the phial back where she'd found it. "The thing is, though, it's important to be educated on all potions---illegal or not. Especially if you're working in the Potions industry. You need to be able to recognize any potion and know exactly what it does. Looks like you've already got that down pat, though."

Selena smiled. "It's nice to meet you Anna, I'm Selena," she said. She looked a bit nervous, maybe it was her first time at Hogwarts? "So, what exactly do you do?" Selena asked. She was quite curious. Did they make up new potions? Or did they just brew potions day after day?

William hadn't realized that it had been Anna. The Anna. His eyes grew large as the smile on his face expanded to one of utter hilarity as he nodded eagerly. "Of course I remember you! How could I not, that memory is fixed in my head." he replied, his hands automatically moving to his neck where the empty vial still was. "I've been great, well not really but I tell everyone I am." he said feeling the need to be truthful. If anyone knew how William had felt during that time it was her. "How are you?" he asked excitedly, glancing at her new name with a quirked up eyebrow.

He nodded, listening to her explanation. It made sense, if she had brought a powerful love potion to Hogwarts there'd be all these boys and girls going gaga over each other. Mayhem would ensue yada yada yada. "I understand, I find it very difficult to be educated on Potions right now." he said softly, no need to mention the fire loving potions professor at that moment. "I've had to teach myself over the summer, borrowing a book from my cousin, you remember her probably Ariana? She's a dragon trainer now and has a few potion book full of interesting potions which include all sorts of different love ones." he explained, his eyes moving to the potion in question knowing he'd never try it. His eyes flickered to the potion on the end his eyes curious. "Is that an actual aging potion? I've never seen one up close before." he asked, already enjoying himself immensely, glad he had decided to venture out after all.

Grayson hadn't thought much about checking out this job fair thing that people kept talking about, especially since she wasn't sure what she wanted to do after graduation. It was difficult, since she wanted to be part of the Wizarding world and most of her family was outside it. But, not having a lot to do at the moment, she wandered inside the room, Draco peering out of her school bag as usual. The ferret had been acting weird since she'd gotten to Hogwarts, so she was trying to let him go wherever she went when she could. Obviously there were some classes that she wasn't about to subject him to. Like Potions.

As she had that thought, she looked at the booths and saw there was one for the very subject. Making a beeline for it, since it was a possibility for her as long as they didn't mind pranks, she came up to the table with a grin. "Hi William," she said as she saw her partner from DADA at the table as well, and heard his comment about getting educated in Potions. Sending the boy a curious look, she then looked at the people behind the table. "Hi. Did you know that our professor is kinda crazy? And really scary," she said, as if she was trying to explain. "Is it possible to go into potions as a career even if you're just working from your own aptitude? Like, could you do stuff even if you avoid the class?" She knew Potions was one of her best subjects, but she wasn't sure she could handle many more classes with Professor Lafay.

After finishing about half of two homework assignments each, Katie had decided it would be alright to take a break when she began losing focus of whatever it was she was writing about anyway. A little walk, and she'd return to her dorm with her books and parchment. Or a little walk is what she had thought to do, until an envelope had fallen out of one of the books; an envelope holding a letter she had forgotten all about. So off she went, spending the break she had given herself trying to find James Maguire. He'd promised to help her send that letter, which she wasn't even sure he remembered. But it didn't matter if she couldn't find him. Katie was not going to the owlery on her own, and she was not asking Matias to help her - Legend being the furthest thing from an option, considering it was ABOUT him.

Honestly, Katie wasn't even sure why she was going to send it. She thought about just forgetting it - and had unintentionally done just that, for about a week, - the possible receiver of the letter probably wouldn't have a clue as to who wrote it or why, after all it had started with a promise made what.. three years ago? About then. But still, the nagging feeling refused to leave; did she really want to send it? Katie didn't think so. Maybe her insides thought otherwise, though. Maybe they knew better then her? They must, the fourteen-year-old decided on her little journey around the castle.

Instead of finding Jae, the Gryffindor she had gone about searching for, the rather small Hufflepuff stumped on to the ground floor and blinked several times as she neared, a moment passed before the booths, clutter of students and other people clicked. In truth, she had forgotten about the Job Fair and signs, her mind set on homework and other things. But now that she was there, welll... might as well browse, right? Even though she had a good idea of what she wanted from her future, looking around and considering the possibilities couldn't do any harm. She was only a Fourth year, anything could happen by the time she graduated.

Glancing at few other displays on the way, Katie headed toward the Potion's booth. She wasn't very interested in the other subjects so far, besides maybe Culinary but that was more linked to her family rather then her future; Potions on the other hand, Katie found to be somewhat interesting. Atleast for today, when she didn't actually have to sit in Potion's class. Ooooh, and lookie there! "Hiya Willie," Katie greeted, a sweet smile playing on her lips as stopped at the Ravenclaw's side, turning her attention to the pamphlets set out when she noticed the Potion people behind the table and paused mid-reach, not expecting to see anyone she would recognize and especially not the Head Girl from her First year. "Hi."

It wasn't like he was looking for anyone. No. Because no one was important enough to waste his time on. Except for Mat....and Cy but...Mat didn't look like he was here and he hadn't seen Cy in a while. Hands pushed in his pocket Legend made his way through the job fair without much thought. Why was he here again? Oh yeah he was bored. He probably should have been doing the homework he had stacked up in his dorm. He was more than capable of doing it. He just didn't want to.

Bumping into someone accidentally Legend was about to apologize but stopped. His lips came together tightly. It was only Katie. Great. Giving a small wave to the Ravenclaw that stood with her the Gryffindor gazed around the booth. Potions? What a WONDERFUL JOB.

Not.

And then he noticed! William was talking to HER. HERHERHEHRHER.SHHHE WAS BACK. Anna freaking Greingoth. The evil one herself. He could go and spray her with water. Or set her robes on fire. But there was already enough fire in the school because of the crazy Pyromaniac Professor. What could he dooo!?!?? Oh well. Whatever he did. It had to be big. You know to welcome her back.

And idea flew into Legends head. Grabbing his wand from his pocket he pointed it in Anna's direction and quickly whispered. "Avis". A flock of small birds appeared and began to follow the old Head Girl. Legend was being NICE. He could of made the birds attack her, but nope, he was being so nice he just made them follow her until they drove her insane.

Or....until she got rid of them. Whichever came first.

More and more...and more and more...people were pouring into the booth area. Where was Nico? Anna turned to see if he was maybe chatting up a few of the other students, but there was a crowd gathering now. She really couldn't make out who was who anyway...much less find Nico amongst them all.

"Selena, that's a cool name," she said. "I'm a potions researcher, which means I do a lot of research to try and make current potions better or to event new brews. Are you interested in a Potions-related job?"



Anna's face lit up just a little more when she saw that William remembered her after all. When he changed his tone of voice, though, and said that he wasn't really doing all that great, Anna's face fell. "I'm...just fine, William, but what do you mean you're not doing great? Is something wrong?" she asked. "...and what do you mean you've had to educate yourself in potions? What have you been studying here at school?" She wasn't sure what could be going on with William, but whatever it was didn't sound good at all.

It was sort of difficult to carry on conversation when she knew he wasn't doing well, but Anna managed a reply anyway. "Of course I remember Ari. I haven't seen her in years, but...a dragon trainer sounds really interesting," she remarked. "Tell her I said hey when you see her, mmkay?" She turned to the Aging Potion and nodded. "Yeah, it's an Aging Potion. Do you want to try it?"



Before her conversation about Aging Potion could go much further, another student, a Ravenclaw girl, walked up and greeted William. Anna couldn't help but laugh when the girl mentioned a crazy Potions professor. "Ha! I don't doubt it. There were a few crazy professors here when I attended, too," she said. Like...the time the Ministry took over and all those ridiculous Ministry employees taught them. Anna wondered if something like that had happened again. "So what makes her---or him---so crazy...and scary?"

Anna shifted her weight from one side to the other while she thought about the answer to the girl's question. "Well..., the thing is, you need a pretty good NEWT score for lots of Potions job. So I guess as long as you're doing some kind of work on your own and just not neglecting it altogether, you'll be alright. I don't know if it's my place to advise whether or not it's alright to skip a class, though," she said. "Is the professor...that bad?" Maybe this was the reason William was studying on his own, too...



"Merlin, that William is certainly popular," Anna thought to herself, as the second girl approached him. The more she looked at this girl, though, the more she realized that she knew her. It was possible that Anna was going to meet several people she'd known back when she was a student, but she didn't exactly realize how hard it would be to remember them all by name. She kind of eyed the girl for a moment until it finally all came back to her. "Katie Mae!" she exclaimed, a smile widening across her face. She left William's side and made her way closer to the little Hufflepuff girl. "How've you been? It's been...years! What are you now? A...fourth year?"



Anna wanted to say more to Katie. She wanted to, and she would have, had someone not conjured a blasted flock of birds to follow her every move. Narrowing her eyes, she turned around to see---oh, but of course. She hadn't seen Legend Chosen do this, but it had been him. She just knew it!

As she turned her head and walked closer to the little Gryffindor boy, a line of birds followed closely behind her. "Legend Chosen," she sort of halfway greeted. "Is there something I can help you with? Like...show you the way to the door, perhaps?" She literally wanted to strangle the kid, but yeah---he was what? Fourteen? ...and she was twenty-one now.

So she did remember her! Hopefully that was a good sign. Dropping her arm back to her side, Katie smiled brightly at the young woman, genuinely pleased to see her - even though she hadn't really gotten to know Anna that well, the time(s?) they had talked were nice ones. "Hi, miss Anna! Uhm, okay. I think. It has been," a bunch of CRAZY years, .. but that went without saying. When Anna tried to guess the year of which she was now in, Katie stood a little straighter and nodded, her dark curls pinned back by a clip or two bounced with the motion. "Fourth year. How have you-" the Hufflepuff was cut off as something or someone bumped into her, dark eyes immediately traveled to the taller figure on her other side and she let out a sigh. Legend had perfect timing, didn't he? If she didn't know any better, she would think he had come up with a way to track her and just know when his presence would make her uneasy. Luckily, that was on the inside and not visible to him or anyone else.

"Legend Chosen!" Katie exclaimed as he sent a flock of little birds to follow Anna's every move, nudging him in the side with her elbow because he was that close. "Professor Pilliwickle taught us to conjure flowers and butterflies just last term, and you send birds to Anna as a way of greeting? Nice. Real nice." She chided, rolling her eyes toward the great hall ceiling far, faaaaar above her head. BOYS! She was sure, ANY minute, Matias Sulo and Cyrus Andrus were going to pop out of nowhere to contribute to Legend's chaos.

A small giggle escaped from the girl when Anna spoke to Legend, offering to show him the way out of the great hall. That was right, the former Head Girl had known her personal pain(s; Legend, Mat and Cy) well. It made her miss talking to Anna and Jack the terms they were around. "How have you been, Miss Anna? Are you really a Potions Mistress now?"

Gold grinned. "Thank you," she said, politely. She had yet to meet someone who had not complimented her on her name, and she sort of enjoyed that. She had a pretty name, see? She liked the fact that she had a pretty name. OH! Gryffindor!person! That was nice.

"Not too shabbily," Gold admitted. "But we could do better. I sometimes think we need the old Lion!spirit back." There. She was going to be honest, and not mince words. They did need their spirit back.

She tilted her head to the left a tiiiiny bit, as she listened to Anna. "So there are people who hunt out potioneers who don't register their potions?" She asked, thoughtfully. "How do they get to know that there is an unregistered potion out there? I guess it would be obvious if an unidentified potion started to cause major havoc but, other than that, what puts the concerned authorities on the right track?"

Curious!Gold.

A teeny part of Grayson felt bad for interrupting William's conversation with the Potions lady, but it was done and she couldn't go back. And it was interesting that the lady didn't seem too surprised, or worried, about the idea that a professor was crazy and scary. Swiping a pamphlet from the table as the lady laughed, she shrugged. "I'd almost be willing to bet that they weren't this crazy," she said, slipping the pamphlet into her bag and petting Draco a little. As she was then asked to explain more, her green eyes went to the lady. Should I really say?, she wondered. Figuring it couldn't get her in any more trouble than anything else she could do, she shrugged again. "Well, in our first lesson, she snapped at everyone if they didn't answer her questions, then kicked Celandine out of class for mentioning she had an allergy to calendula pollen. Which was actually kind of funny, cause a Howler was sent to her for that And then she lit students on fire. I mean, we'd been brewing a burn-healing unction, but she didn't even warn the students. And then she gave Celandine and a Slytherin prefect detention for defending the students, and the other Ravenclaw prefect detention cause he said his name wasn't prefect." And that was kind of only a summary, but she was still wondering if it was worth it to keep going to class.

She kept watching the lady as it seemed a lot of thought was going into the answer to her earlier question, and she gave her an innocent look as she got her answer. "If you go into research, or creating potions?," she asked. "I was planning on trying to figure out how to keep working on the subject, outside of class. It's all just kind of . . ." She shrugged yet again. At least she knew her ferret didn't have any problems with her making potions, since she had a feeling she was going to be hiding in corners with him a lot trying to study. If Professor Lafay didn't get less scary, so she felt more comfortable in class.

There wasn't enough money in the world to bribe Nico into doing something like this. No, not at all. In fact the main reason he'd agreed to do it at all was because old habits died hard and sitting with his good friend and workmate, Anna GREINGOTH (he liked to intentionally drop the Newell part), in clear view of Cale Newell who'd be able to see any incidental winks quite clearly, was always amusing.

Some things never changed.

He had a good view of where Evee was too and he shot her a quick smirk.

Okay, so a lot of things hadn't changed.

Already, he could see the booth was incredibly busy, Anna had a crowd around her in the short time that Nico had slipped away to get some food for his son. Overhearing a redheaded Gryffindor-by-the-robes girl say something about registering potions, he clarified in a slightly amused sort of voice, "Only potions which are intended for sale or distribution need be registered with the British Ministry, particularly if you have residency in another country, or several other countries... loopholes you understand."

Yes. Loopholes. They were in everything and benefitted Nicholai perfectly. He sat down and gave Anna an apologetic look over the head of the two and a bit year old wriggling around under his arm.

"Babysitter cancelled." He murmured, leaning over to Anna a bit, "Sorry Kitten." And obviously since Kayla was here too, there wasn't much choice short notice.

"Loopholes!" The little blond boy agreed. Almost the spitting image of Celandine, the school's head girl, his big dark eyes were taking everything in eagerly even as he went back to nomming on a cauldron cake. He waved over at his mummy and then started waving at everyone while wriggling and eating and dropping crumbs on his father.

Multitasker, this one.

Nico's head turned slightly and he raised one eyebrow. What was this? Celandine... in detention? He didn't quite catch the rest of whatever that little Ravenclaw was chattering on about, and decided it was probably best not to know.

Gold frowned. "So, if you intend to use a potion only once, for some sinister purpose, it's pretty safe not to register it?" She asked, absent-mindedly twirling a dark blue bang around a finger. "You can't get into trouble for that, can you? I mean, you didn't intend to sell or distribute it." Though you would get into trouble with the law anyway, Gold supposed. For reasons that had little to do with not having registered a potion. Then she added, more thoughtfully,

"So if a potion is registered in, say, France, and not with the British Ministry, would it, technically-speaking, be illegal to use it here?"

STILL curious!kitty.

"If you intend to use a potion for a... sinister purpose," And here Nico smirked, amused at the question though not at all bothered by it, "it'd be fairly stupid to register it. Especially if it was registered to you and you alone, since it would make it all the more simple for it to be traced back to you." He shifted slightly, adjusting his grip on the wriggling child in his lap.

"Generally speaking, sinister individuals prefer to avoid being caught or convicted for their... sinister antics." Hehe.

"But in all seriousness, if something is illegal, like murder for example," Lets gloss over this briefly shall we? Nico glanced at Anna, "It won't be any less illegal, and if you get caught you'll most certainly find yourself in trouble. As for where its registered, it depends on what it is if one is to speculate over the legality of a thing. And where it is administered of course... and where the... drinker is when the effects begin to manifest." He shrugged. There were ways around such things and... probably it would be best that he did not educate Hogwarts kids on such things. But then, he was sure she wasn't quite asking if the law ceased to apply.

"Wizarding law is a useful subject for a potioneer. Particularly international Wizarding law and not just those that apply specifically to the country you live in." He offered a casual grin and brushed as many of the crumbs off his pant leg as he could.

Despite how happy she was to see Katie Mae, Anna did give the girl a slight look. Miss Anna? Now that just wouldn't do! Katie was a friend and perfectly welcome to use just Anna. "Oh, Katie...call me Anna. You don't have to use Miss," she assured. Now Legend was a different story. Anna just might have to request Legend stick to the Miss title. Not that he would listen, but Anna wouldn't voluntarily let him off the hook the way she did with Katie.

Anna just laughed as Katie fussed at Legend for the whole birds episode. "It's alright, Katie. Finite," she said, pointing her wand towards the line of birds on that last note. A slight poof was heard and then a mere feather, all that was left, fluttered to the ground. She gave Katie another look, but this one was one that accompanied a little nod between she and Legend. It was as if Anna was asking, "Hmm? Is there something going on between you two?"

"Anyway, I've been doing alright, Katie," she said, finally answering the question the girl tried to ask before Legend approached. "...and yes, I'm a Potions Mistress now. Nico and I have a business called GothSaint Enterprises. I'm loving my work. Oh, and I'm a wife and mother of two, as well." She smiled even brighter on that last note.



Somewhere in between all her meetings and greetings, Anna heard her friend and co-worker, baby in hand, mention something about a babysitter canceling. She just smiled at him in reply---could she ever really be upset with him? Of course not. She turned her attention to the little baby, waved a little baby-type wave, then turned back to Nico. "Mmm, it's alright," she said. She smiled again at the Kitten nickname---some things never changed.



Anna just gave Gold a sympathetic look when the girl mentioned needing a little more Lion spirit. "If it makes you feel any better, it seems that you've got enough spirit for nearly an entire house. You keep that spirit, Gold, ...and don't lose it," Anna remarked.

"Well, I don't think there's any easy way to discover and crack down on unregistered potions, but I think it's a matter of following a lead or just happening to catch something during a routine inspection," she answered. She started to say something else to Gold...to answer the question a little more in depth, but Nico approached and provided some input even Anna didn't think she completely had a grasp on. She smiled at her co-worker before turning back to one of the other students.



Anna's face went through a mixture of expressions as the girl---had Anna even caught her name yet?---told the story of some Potions professor who'd set children on fire and thrown the prefects into detention. She eyed Nico when Celandine was mentioned. She knew Cela's big brother would have a fit if he thought she'd been mistreated at all. "Wow," was all she could say at first. "That sounds pretty intense..."

"Ahh, I see," she said, as the girl explained how she was trying to come up with a way to learn on her own outside of class. "Before you go experimenting on your own, be sure you know what you're dealing with. A lot of research will help you understand which ingredients do and don't mix together. You don't want to go around causing explosions or...anything worse."

"Once you know your ingredients, practice all the basic potions that you've been taught in class...or already learned on your own. When you know those brews forwards and backwards, then you can experiment. Think to yourself, 'I wonder what would happen if I...' ...then just go with it. See what happens," she said with a smile. There was just something about potions experimenting that always put a smile on Anna's face.

William kept his eyes trained on Anna, his face in complete awe. She had done something with her life she realized with a quirked up eyebrow as he grinned some more shrugging, "Just some home stuff. Ariana got married, had a child and now I feel like I'm alone since everyone is surrounding her and not paying attention to me." his voice drifted off and a hurt look appeared on his face before he smiled once more. "But I don't like to think about it. Mind you I am happy but... I feel alone you know?" he replied finally before getting back to the topic at hand, "Oh well it's the new Potion Mistress, I call her fire-lady. She has me so terrified I can't do anything but pay attention. I had to watch her light three people on fire - they weren't hurt or anything - and I feel bad because I couldn't do anything about it. I wish I was strong like Milo, Raiden and Celadine are, I guess I'm just not like them." he rambled on, not really knowing why. But she had asked so he was telling. "I miss professor Kazimeriz. At least he only took off points, not hurt students mentally and physically." he whispered, his face sad now.

He was about to go on and give her permission to give him the Aging Potion when he saw Grayson walk up. giving her a smile he waved sadly, "Hey Grayson, you into potions too?" he asked, quirking up an eyebrow curiously. He didn't know her well enough, just that one time in DADA but she was cool, really cheered him up a bit. Another voice taunted him to turn in the other direction and this time he grinned full out. "Hey Katie, how are you?" he asked, his eyes brighter now as he saw his cousin.And there was Legend; he wasn't sure how he felt about him yet; it was obvious he didn't like Anna though, if the Avis spell was any indication. "Legend." he said nodding curtly.

Deciding it was time to test out the poison he nodded eagerly at Anna. "I'd love to try it out. I'll only grow a few years older, so like 17 right?" wonder if he'd grow facial hair he mused as he waited, practically bouncing now as the thought of taking the potion hit him. This would have to be one he'd have to try making himself; once he got permission to use the labaratory of course. Which meant a meeting with Lafay. He would do it though; after all it wasn't like he liked her or anything, just pretended too.

Legend had to admit Anna had been a good start to bring out his talents. She got so annoyed so easily it was AWESOME! Not like Jack. Nah he was all GOTTA STAY CALM. But Anna. She was just so awesome...you know in the easy to annoy way. Not the AWESOME (like what Legend was) way. Resting his arm on Willy's should (the dude was cool). Legend just grinned. He hadn't felt this good in a while! Opening his mouth he realized that Katie was there and closed it right away. But then....he couldn't resist NOT talking to Anna!

"No thank you. I'm not blind. Do you want help on finding it? I'm pretty sure you're too old to still be at Hogwarts." His voice cracked at some places but he ignored it. Was he being rude? Naaah. "Is it hard to be a Potions.....whatchamacallit?"

Legend looked at Katie and then glared. If he were talking to her he WOULD have told her that he found flowers ugly and butterflies to be disgusting creatures. But he WASN'T talking to the midget so he wasn't gonna say anything. Of COURSE Anna would like Katie. They were both stupid...GIRLS. Who were stupid. AND controlling. AND....stupid.....AND perfectionist. Yeah. It made sense.

Stupid Katie.

Will had always been the odd one out. He actually liked hanging out with Katie. Which was fine..they were sorta related right? Or whatever. But he wasn't really part of the boy group? Maybe... he wanted to be? He wasn't that bad. He didn't get mad at his nickname. And he was pretty relaxed. Sure he didn't really play pranks but Legend could change that. "Hey Will." Legend started. "You're pretty cool."

"Oh, thanks," Selena blushed. "Well... I'm not really sure yet... but I thought I could keep my options open and know what there is," Selena explained. Merlin, she was just a first year! She shouldn't know now what she wanted to do. "But I really do like potions..." Selena said sheepishly. Especially the time when her parents made one explode! Haha. She didn't think she'd tell Anna that though...

"You don't have to register it under your name," Gold said, with a shake of her head. "You could register it under someone else's. Then they will be suspect number one, and not you." Cue pretty smile.

Did she mention?

She was useless at this cunning!stuff. Obviously.

She listened to him, then, pretty sure this wasn't the answer to her question. You know? "But if it's a perfectly okay potion, would it still be illegal if you have someone consume it, in a place where it isn't registered?" There. Now her question was better-worded.

Gold had to laugh, at that. "Thank you," she said, cheerfully. "That's a very pretty compliment, to receive. I'll pocket it, I think." She pretended to be pocketing something. Rawwr.

"I'll try my best not to." She didn't think she was going to lose her Gryffindor spirit. Not now, and definitely not later.

She listened to Anna and, when the Potions Mistress fell silent, asked her a question that had nothing to do with potions at all, but everything to do with general curiosity and what she had overheard other people say. Without intending to, really! "Sooo, were you a Gryffindor, too?"

Hehe.

William's grin was encouragement enough for her to lean over and give him a quick hug, just because she could, and smiled in return. She never tired of seeing Will. Probably because he never gave her problems, and probably because he was just.. Willie. "Right now, I'm just great. What about you?" A slight look of amusement crossed her face when he nodded back to Legend, which vanished almost as soon as it came. "Looking into a possible career in potions?"

The young Hufflepuff smiled a little brighter, nodding her curly-haired head when Anna assured her she didn't need to call her miss. "Okay." She could happily do that. Anna had just returned and still, she felt as comfortable and at ease talking to her as she did during her first year. It was too bad she wouldn't be back very long, though.. but Katie wouldn't think about that now.

Once the birds were vanished, Katie stuck her tongue out at Legend for his failed attempt at whatever it was he was trying to do to Anna - she was not naive enough to believe he was really trying to greet her with birds, - and ignored his glare, turning her attention back to the older, former Gryffindor. If Katie was one to blush easily, her cheeks would be turning red just then, but thankfully they didn't and she wasn't. Anna hadn't forgotten! Katie answered her little nod with a shake of her own head, because whatever she was trying to ask was definitely not so. "It's complicated." Katie finally said, knowing Legend wouldn't have a clue what she was talking about and that it was safe to say. "You remembered the promise. I wasn't sure you would," she admitted, reaching back into the side pocket of her bag to retrieve an envelope, on the front addressed to Anna Greingoth in a rosy-red ink, Katie's favorite color. She offered it to Anna, "but I wrote this just in case."

GothSaint Enterprises? That was an interesting name, and somehow she thought it sort of fit in with their line of work and stuff, in an odd way. "That's good, it's important to pick a job you'll love, right?" So Katie had been told before. It made sense, of course, so no arguement there. "You're a mum too? Are they twins?" Hopefully she wasn't prying. Katie couldn't have stopped the question from coming even if she had wanted to, it just slipped.

Potions whatchamacallit? Legend was a strange boy, yes indeed. "Potions Mistress, Legend." The Hufflepuff replied, giving him a sideways glance. "Or Potions Master. But Mistress in Anna's case," her dark eyes turned back to meet Anna's gaze, adding with interest now that Legend had started the questions - sort of, "If you had to pick, what would you say is you're favorite part about the job?"