Emily looked at the small vial Professor Lafay held in her hand. Fascinating.... Emily couldn't help but wonder who tried to poinson Lafay, she knew that Lafay wasn't a particularly easy person to get along with at times but still... that was harsh.

"I've accidently ingested a Horse Chestnut when I was younger", said Emily as she raised her hand. "I don't remember much, but my father was there at the time."

Luin jotted down all of the poisons that were mentioned and watched as the professor brought out the Daphyr Poison. Hm, it was definitely interesting, and something she would have to take more notes down,especially a warning about that one. She was then surprised by the next question. She shook her head, she had never been poisoned, at least as far as her knowledge went.

OH SWEET MERLIN!

Lafay was going to take care of the cookie. And the only way Destiny knew how to take care of a cookie was to shove it your mouth and eat it. Or worse! Shove it in someone else's mouth and have them eat it.

Someone was gunna die and it wasn't going to be Destiny. Lafay wouldn't kill her favorite student.

Watching in HORROR as the cookie was brought back out, she glanced around the room for what felt like the millionth time trying to find who was going to be the cookie's victim. But, apparently the cookie was the real victim, being lit on fire and then turning into nothing.

Turning to Patroclus, she gave him a grin letting him know she was not worried at all. She was pretending the whole time. Ahem.

Cookie gone and nothing to worry about, Destiny turned her attention back to Lafay as she spoke about being poisoned. She must have ate the cake, too. Mentally snickering, she waited for any of the other students to admit their poisoning and how BORING! A chestnut horse and sushi? "I have been poisoned!" she said, raising her hand. She decided not to mention what she was poisoned from and how many times.

Although, that would explain soooo much, wouldn't it?

Dianna raised her hand. "Does food poisoning count?" she asked. "I believe it was because my food contained some kind of mushroom..." she said trailing of as she lowered her hand. It was the closest thing Dianna had of getting poisoned.

She was gonna poison them, wasn't she? Emily woudn't put it past her.
She watched very carefully as Lafey put it back in her desk. Just to be sure.

Emily was surprised so many people had been poisoned! Was she, like, the only one who had never been poisoned? Mabye she was doing something wrong? She stayed scilent, still twisting her quill, and making a mental note to never eat something Lafey gave her...

Cass had been a little shocked at this lesson and stayed quite till now,

"Black Lotus is a poison, it is distilled from Lotus blossoms. And Yes I have been poisoned, by accident I ingested a very small amount of Black Lotus."

Cass seemed to shudder when he mentioned this.

"Well you asked where you can find it," Jake pointed out calmly, quite annoyed that she was doing that eye-rolling thing. He didn't understand it, which made him more irked. And jeez, had he NOT said it was a plant, he probably would have been somehow in the wrong as well.

Guh.

The young man raised his hand again. "When I was real little I drank something that had been left within my reach and I got kinda sick from it. I was three and it was one huge disaster," Jake explained, but then went on. "How did it make you sick? Like... what are the symptoms... how do you know you've had it if you're working it out?"

Poisoned? The food where she grew up was pretty foul, but Rowan didn't think it could exactly be considered poison. Who would have guessed that so many young people had been poisoned. Rowan shook her head in disbelief and continued taking notes.

Sitting quietly by Lexi's side, Salander was studiously taking notes-- or at least what it appears to be anyway. As he heard Josh's version of poisons, he raised a loose fist to his lips in th attempt to hide a guffaw just bursting to come out. He had to admit, the Gryffindor had his lame brain moments, but when he manages to think clearly enough-- it was sheer brilliance. Salander just had to wonder if Josh was aware just how many nails he's hit on the head with that statement.

Oh and with the Professor's latest question, she had to ask innit? He smirked then raised a lazy hand and replied "Every weekend m'am "Need he have to expound on his choice of poison?

Arya just STARED at Sabel.

STAAAARE.

He SWALLOWED lamp oil?! Actually consumed the liquid?? She couldn't believe it. Or rather, she couldn't see how it was possible for him to mix the fluid up with something such as soda or juice. She just couldn't. Really....he was always getting hurt one way or another at some point in time or another, she didn't know what she was going to do with him.

Equally confused by his smiling at the memory, she let out a silent sigh as she slowly shook her head. And then she choked back a quick laugh. "You are... unbelievably full of surprises, Sabel." And she wouldn't have it any other way.

Having NOT been poisoned at anytime in her life, she didn't raise her hand, just continued listened to the others stories.

Emma grinned triumphantly to herself. YES! LAFAY HAD JUST SAID VERY GOOD!!! Yay, so reading those Muggle newspapers did pay off after all. She took out her notebook as Lafay started talking about the poison she had dipped the cookie into it.

Putting down her quill, the blonde looked up too see who would be answering Lafay's next question. Emma had never been poisoned. Never ever.

"Have you heard of basilisks before? I know they were mentioned in Defence when we talked about Salazar Slytherin," she whispered.

Charley cringed, remembering an incident that had happened a few years back. She saw Nathaniel at the back of the room, his face growing paler. She knew that he was not going to mention it, so she decided to and raised her own hand.
"My mum, brothers and I have," she stated, then looked back at Nathaniel.

Jaina looked down at her shoes. "Sorry, Professor Lafay. It won't happen again."

Jaina began writing down information that was given on the Daphyr Poison. She then listed the other poisons that had been mentioned in case more information was given on them as well. She had never been poisoned, so she couldn't answer the question posed by Professor Lafay. She knew how poisons worked, but that was not what was asked and she wasn't about to offer that up unless it was asked AND no one else had mentioned it. Yeah, she was gonna be very quiet during this class.

Kita nodded and smiled at the Professor. So it was poisonous. Interesting...

She sat up a little straighter to see the poison the Professor was showing the class. She gazed curiously at the pinky poison in wonder. For some reason, she couldn't take her eyes off of the poison. It seemed to be luring her with that chocolatey smell. It was only when the Professor put the poison in her drawer that she shook her head and tried to stop herself from daydreaming about chocolate.

Having never been poisoned before, she sat back and listened to the stories of people being poisoned.

Riley looked at Professor Lafay and turned his head curiously when she spoke of this particular poison. 'Ummm why did she eat it then?' he thought to himself. She was definately a peculiar woman. Then rather not knowing why a 'sane' woman would eat a poison he tried to think if he had ever been poisoned. Kind of an either have you or haven't you type question.

"I haven't Professor." he said raising his hand, getting the slight sick feeling that she would take that as a bet and poision all of those who hadn't been just to give us the expereince. *shrug* Sounded alot like her.

Lexi had had her MIND poisoned by things in the past. Her family for instance, but she was certain that was not what Lafay was referring to. She couldn't think of an instance when she had been... to her knowledge... So she simply shook her head and waited for the lesson to progress.

She did, however, find it slightly worrisome that so many people in her class HAD been poisoned. Silly.

Elektra nodded and wrote down on her parchment some notes on the various poisons that were mentioned. She froze in her writing when she looked up seeing a poison that Professor Lafay had pulled out and Elektra just stared at the poison as she listened to Lafay. Elektra couldn't recall ever being posioned, but she raised her hand. "Professor? Haven't we all poisoned ourselves? I mean in some things that we eat and digest, there is a very slight percentage of a kind of poison but it doesn't affect us...right?"

Benjamin really didn't want to answer this question in particular because he did have a gruesome past with his father and grandfather. Still leaning back in his chair, perched at the darkness, he said aloud, "I have, Professor. But I'd really not rather talk about it, if you don't mind."

Poisoned? Nah, K-Lee hadn't that she remembered. She was surprised that so many others had though.

Writing down notes on the information given so far, K-Lee looked around, listening to the others. She'd thought it before but seriously, how had so many of them been poisoned? She must have led a sheltered life or something!

It was worrisome that so many people in the class had been poisoned.

"Many. Part of my job as potioneer is testing my own potions... How can I sell a potion, if I haven't tested it..." She said and shrugged.

"Because fish contains mercury..." She said. "And yes, it counts."

"There is no way..." She said smiling.

"Yes... that a good one."

"... well good." she said

"Mushrooms can be quite deadly." she said.

"Right..." she said and nodded.

"You won't and I kept throwing up and had to breath through my nose." She said.

She stared at the boy, unimpressed. "I don't want to know." She said.

"Good it wasn't instant..."

"Yeah? Good." She said.

"See that it doesn't." She said coldly.

"That's excellent." She said smirking.

"Very well." She told the boy.

"So... a lot of you have been poisoned... most of you by accident. Can anyone tell me ways to combat the potion effects?" She said.

"By drinking the proper antidote," Kurumi said unblinking for a few moments. Well, at least now she knew that Dragon Lady had technically poisoned herself...

Elle remembered vividly how she got sick one time. It was just seven months ago.

She raised her hand, "My evil menacing cousins poisoned me once. My aunt and uncle had to attend an auction somewhere far, so they were left at my house. Without knowing they put Venomous Tentacula drops into my hot vanilla drink, I gulped it down in one seating. A few minutes later, I started having difficulty breathing, my line of vision was disrupted and blurred, my throat constricted and burned and my head was spinning. I dropped onto the kitchen floor and the next thing I knew, I was on my bed, having slept for five days straight. My Mum got out the truth from the mischievous boys and as a punishment, turned them into Possums for a day. It was a good thing they only added a tinge of venom, or else, I would never have survived it."

The First Year shrugged and smirked at the thought of her cousins. She nearly... died.

She raised her hand again, after thinking of possible ways of treating poisons from the body, "We could use Draught of Peace Potion to help sooth the people's agitation during their unstable states. And it also depends on the dosage, Professor. It is no use if you do not take the proper amount of antidote. You have to take in the antidote periodically, when the instructions tell you to do so otherwise, they are useless for your body,"

Charley raised her hand, a bit reluctant after Lafay's response to her last answer.
"Injected poisons, like from animal stings or bites, can be treated with a pressure bandage and very hot water. The bandage keeps the poison from being pumped through the bloodstream and the hot water breaks the poison down. Many poisons also have specific antidotes; a common one-in the non-magical world, at least-is calcium gluconate, a form of calcium."

She wondered if that might be a bit too thorough. She paid far too much attention, it seemed, to specific details like those.

source: my Chemistry Professor aka favourite IRL Potions Mistress aka Dr. Anna Wilder aka one of the most awesome people in the world aka I'll stop now.

"The poison leaving your system naturally is one for some poisons like vomiting, also taking the antidote. It mostly depends on the kind of poison and how much is in the system." K-Lee said, happy to know the answer.

Making sure that her notes were up to date of information already given, K-Lee listened to the other students answers.

"Take a bezoar or vomit to eject those poisonous materials out of the body." she said lowering her hand. That's what she did with the food poison drama.

Emily raised her hand, " Professor blood letting was used in during the medival period... though its not as effective now."

Cass raises his hand and says, "It depends on the type and amount of the poison, or toxin in some cases, but for many a bezoar works just fine if there is one handy. Other than that the antidote or counter potion is needed and must be done in time and in the proper amount or method." Cass shutters again.

"In my case we had to use a counter potion as the amount I had ingested was unknown, it took 2 weeks for me to recover my strength and coherent thought. I'm just glad my great aunt was there, she is the potioneer of my mother's family."

She... she... smiled.

...

Helena didn't expect that. Not. At. All. As for the answer... Riiight. So every sweet she is going to eat could be poisoned. It was a good thing she wasn't a sweet-freak.

When professor Lafay finished her question, Helena's hand shot in the air. "If the poison didn't cause too much... " What? Too much what? "... bad things," she quickly added, her cheeks slightly turning red, "the appropiate antidote would work."

Chloe was not liking this topic at all. Poisons, just ick. but that was the class discussion for today. she raised her hand and responded, "Yeah, something to induce vomiting would be good if the poison is not as potent. However usually the appropriate antidote in the right dose is best. A bezour can work for a lot of poisons but often one won't be able to find one on hand cause they are quite rare. They also don't work on everything so having a good knowledge of potions to brew a proper antidote as the best way to go.".

The first answer that came to Sierra's mind was a bezoar, but just as quickly as she raised her hand to suggest that, some other kid beat her to the answer. She frowned as she lowered her hand.

A few moments passed, and then when something else finally came to mind, Sierra raised her hand again. "Well, there's Golpalott's Third Law," she suggested. "It says that the antidote for a blended poison has to be stronger than the antidotes for each part that makes up the poison."

"Right, Miss Hollingberry." She said and went to the next person.

...

"Well, the draught of peace should not be used as an antidote... it would calm someone down, but it may give adverse reactions to the antidote you were going to use for the poison." She said to the girl.

"Yes, vomiting may help with some poisons, but others will be absorbed faster, and that will not help." She said.

"Good, yes. But that as well may not work for all injected poisons." She said and moved to the next person.

"Right, on the Kind of poison and how much." She said nodding.

"Yes. A Bezoar. Good." She said with a nod.

...

"Blood letting wasn't affective then either." She said shrugging. "But you are correct, they tried that... with leeches and lancing... all they caused were infections."

ick..

"Good." She said with a nod.

"Right..." she said.

"Indeed." She said and moved on.

"Right, unctions and lotions antidotes are best for surface poisonings..." She said.

"Very good Miss Greingoth," she said looking at the girl, "It pays to have a sister who is a potioneer." Hecate didn't know Anna, but she had heard of her.

"As Miss Greingoth said, Golpalott's Third Law states that the antidote for a blended poison will be equal to more than the sum of the antidotes for each of the separate components. Can someone please explain this in easier terms?" She asked.

Now, hearing the professor's reply to her, Sierra was really glad she'd waited and hadn't suggested bezoar right away. Bezoar was a correct answer, too, but she felt more confident about suggesting Golpalott's Third Law.

...and because she'd recently put a lot of thought into the law when suggesting her last answer, she already had an answer for this question, too. She raised her hand again.

"Each separate ingredient in a poison has its own antidote, but you can't simply combine all those antidotes together to fight the effects of the blended poison," she explained. She paused as she thought about the rest of the answer. This law wasn't something she knew a whole lot about, after all. "So what you've got to do is find another ingredient to add to the blended antidotes to change them into...well, one whole antidote...and then you have the antidote to the poison."

Jake... blinked.

That law was SO WORDY. He'd always hated and even though Kazi had drilled it into his head, it was still lost on him.

Probably bad, since it was NEWT level and all.

"What Sierra said," Jake mumbled, nodding his head towards the girl.

Smaht Slytherin. See... there was hope for them yet. You know... if she was right.

Luin was quite surprised at the number of people who had mentioned that they had been poisoned at one point in time. She then considered the next question Professor Lafay and posed. She raised her hand, "A blended poison cannot simply be combated by finding the antidotes to each part in the blended whole and mixing them together. Instead, you must find that single ingredient which transforms the ingredients into a combination which will counteract the poison."

Hmm, yes, she had been poisoned before and yes, it was during a potions lesson, but the Slytherin thought it’d be wise if she didn’t speak at the moment. Well, speak that answer. The professor could get ideas that it was okay to poison them during the lesson without their knowledge. Oh who was she kidding, of course that thought probably has already been through the professor’s mind.

Sitting quietly, she was going to raise her hand and say a few antidotes or something of the sort for how to battle poison but…well she got lost somewhere in Sierra’s answer. Huh?

Her answer after the answer made it even worse. Riigghht. That sounded right. Right?

Mmhmm. *nod* Yush, her answer was to agree with Sierra.

Get back to your other seat? Why was he supposed to get back to his own seat while all those supposed sweethearts sat together in this class? Could not Mistress Lafay see that? Ha? Did you see that Lafay? Did you? Josh doubted she did ooor she was jealous so she did not want him to sit with Evelyn. Whatever. With an expressionless face, the Gryffindor stood up and walked slowly to...not his original seat but another closer to the Slytherin girl's. The professor had probably forgotten where he was sitting before that. Her job was not to watch where he was sitting after all. Hehehehe.

Then in silence, the boy just followed what was going on in the class. Poisoned? It was surprising to see how many people got poisoned in this class. Josh could remember that once a snake bit him, literally this time not a Slytherin student, but nothing had happened. Nah. He was too STRONG to be poisoned. No one could poison him! Since he did not have an answer, Josh kept watching the professor still in silence until she asked the last question. That question, only Sierra seemed to be able to answer. Hmmm.

''I think that is pretty simple, Professor'' Josh opened his mouth again standing up and looking oh-so-sure-of-himself as usual. ''And i can explain it in a simpler way. There's a poison. A complicated one. It is again to fool you and make you a victim to it, you'd think of the fallacy that you can create the antidote by blending the respective antidote of each ingredient of the so-called-poison.'' he grinned at the professor and went on ''But as i said that'd only make one a new victim of the poison. To avoid this, one should be clever enough to add an extra, effective antidote thing to combine all into a fine and true antidote to it.''

It was true, right? RIGHT! ''I can demonstrate an example of that,too but unfortunately...'' yet the boy halted in a sudden, just looking at Evelyn. What was he doing? He had no idea....perhaps. He was not sure. The only thing he knew that he HAD to do it. Totally forgetting about his previous words, the Gryffindor took a huge breath and his eyes were only but only fixed on his she-snake. ''I just have to do it. It is like a poison. One can understand. And this poison has no antidote to add and combine. Yes. No antidote.''

''ROSE!'' then he yelled the girl's middle name as he always called her. ''This is only for you :

My shoulder wants you to rest on it again, my robe misses your smell
My skin misses yours, come and touch once again save me from this hell
I am unable to sleep again, unable to smile truly
My hand wants yours, eyes might be hidden but teary

Please come back to me, do not make those enemies happy
Let me fight your boundaries and the darkness inside immediately
There’s no life without you, being without you is a torture of Fiendfyre
Such things i am trying to say aren’t enough even to describe the desire
The love i hold for you, with all my mind and heart
Please come back to me, don’t let this Gryffie die broken and hurt''

Once the poem was over, Josh smiled at the girl no matter how much she hated him, and sat back not even bothering to look at the professor.

What? What are you looking at?

He did not do anything wrong! Did he?

...

"Very good, Miss Greingoth," she said summoning some parchment and quill and writing a quick note. "Anyone else?"

...

She sighed. "Really Morgan?" She said looking up at him through her lashes.

"Good Miss Celebridal, very good." She said writing more on a separate sheet of parchment.

Hecate eyed the Slytherin. Another one that just nodded and agreed with the first year? What if she'd been wrong? She sighed. She wasn't surprised when Morgan did it... but Shepard? That hurt.

"Prefect Carmichael, shut your mouth before flies lay maggots in there. The potion to get rid of those tastes like muggle gasoline..." She said seeing the boy's oh shaped mouth.

Hecate simply went to the cupboard, took out a bezoar and then approached Carter with it. "Put. This. In Your. Mouth." She hissed.

She then turned to Evelyn... "Who is Rose?"

Oh, thank Merlin. Forget the fact that he didn't go back to his original seat. He was giving a decent and unrelated-to-her answer.

Smiling just the slightest, the Slytherin opened up her notebook and wrote 'Poisons' at the top before creating a smallish heart next to it. Wha? She enjoyed topics about poisons. There was nothing wrong about that.

...

What was wrong however, was Josh's head. Was he...what was he doing? Or saying for that matt- He was speaking poetry. It...would be a lie if she had said she didn't enjoy that though. Erm...there was nothing wrong with enjoying poetry either. It was actually kinda nice to hear. But in Lafay's class? Right in front of he-

OMG Lafay was looking at her.

Feeling as if she were a tiny ant caught underneath a giant foot, and she was going to die at any moment, the Slytherin stayed completely silent and unmoving for a moment with wide eyes before clearing her throat and answering. "I...I'm Rose?" Erm, yes, that did just come out as a question. Merlin she sooooo wished Raiden was here right now.

There was no need to elaborate on all of this right? Josh called her Rose...so what?

She knew it. She knew it was Evelyn since the day Carter asked her to 'protect' the girl.

Hecate's first instinct was to send her straight to detention. Torture Chamber. Shackle her in the werewolf restraints left by the previous Head of House and leave her there until the end of term.

Calm down... This could be useful...

"Evelyn Shepard." she hissed angrily. "No Slytherin should ever use a love potion on another person. Do I make myself clear? Which potion did you use?"

... It didn't seem to be amortentia... Probably something she bought from a store in Diagon Alley... something expired...

She glared at Josh... He was at fault too for letting himself be poisoned.

Holy mother of Merlin, she was going to be eaten!

…

Wait, what?

"Love potion?" she repeated, sitting up from her slumped posture, as if she was trying to get under the table and hide, but this new accusation made her confused. Why the heck would she use a love potion on Josh? "You make yourself clear, but…I never used any love potion on him."

Was Josh under a love potion? Did someone put him under one!? Or did someone tell Lafay that Evelyn had? Whoever did it, they better pray to the heavens that the Slytherin girl never found out who did! If she did, whoever it was better be a fast runner.

"Yes, really," Jake nodded, scribbling down some notes and continuing to dooooooooooodle a Lafay super cool basilisk. "It's something I can't get to grips with, so sue me," he shrugged, and SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHED loudly.

Really?

They were getting into that stupid Josh kid's problems now? Why the heck was he staying here if that was the topic? He didn't care for Josh, and although Evelyn was the She-Snake he tolerated most at the moment, this all was boring him... so he continued with his elaborate doodle.

Hecate stared at the girl in her seat, her lips getting thinner and whiter as she pressed them together in anger.

... lie to me, will you?

Students were watching...

Hecate had to compose herself...

"Morgan. If we are boring you, you may leave." She said with a hiss to her voice.

She summoned a vial from a cupboard. She took it to Evelyn Shepard and placed it on her desk. Cork still sealed inside it.

She then turned to the whole class and said "Anyone know what that vial could be? It's colourless and clear... if you could smell it, it would be odourless and if you were to taste it," She glared at Evelyn... "it would be tasteless."

"No, it's fine," Jake replied, still doooooooodling. "My apologies."

And then he looked at the vial. Then smiled and half raised his hand. "It could be Veritaserum."

THEN he looked back at his parchment. "But seeing as that's illegal to use on students... it could just as well..."

He made another note.

"... be water."

Riley was scared what was she going to do to Evelyn! He wanted to get up and protect his friend from the Dragon-lady but he was far too afraid she would poison him or curse him into next week. Instead of doing anything the Gryffindor just stared, wide-eyed at the Slytherin girl and the Professor.

He slowly raised his hand and said what he had HOPED the potion was, at least not a dangerous one. "Is it Verictiserum?" If he was wrong wasshe going to poison him!

WHY SO MUCH POISONING?!

Eyes wide, hands slightly shaking, Helena was simply watching the... scene. She studied the vial professor Lafay was holding, then raised her hand. "Veritaserum?" She suggested, but it came out almost as a whisper.

Yes, she was scared.

The Slytherin girl didn't know what was worse: Being accused of using a love potion or this complete silence at the moment. She would have almost preferred Lafay to yell then to be silent. There were all these thoughts that formed in her mind when it was quiet. She didn't like it.

Gripping her seat as Lafay came nearer, Evelyn stared at the vial on her desk for a moment, still confused as all get out, before looking up to the Professor as she started speaking. Colorless, odorless, and...tasteless...

Her face was starting to become colorless as well after each word was spoken before it burned red in embarrassment; and tad bit of anger. She knew what potion it was, but it only made it worse once a MILLION PEOPLE told what it was. Lafay hadn't believed her. For once, she sooooo wished with all her heart that Jake was right, and that it was water. "Professor." she said wide eyed, gaze flickering back to the vial. "You...you can't be serious. I'm telling the truth!"

Didn't someone say it was illegal to use on students?!

Riley's leg began to shake quickly on the gorund as he sat in his seat amongst the tension that was the Potion Classroom at the moment. Lafay was about to use a potion on Evelyn for...yes possibly using a love potion...but so what?! She was her friend and that was not fair to do this in front of the whole class.

He raised his hand after the Slytherin asked if the Professor was serious and he spoke scared out of his mind.

"Professor isn't this a theoretical lesson?"

and he sunk in his chair as soon as the words left his mouth. He closed his eyes waiting for the cruciatus or the bottle on the desk for that matter to hit him square in the face.

....

Lexi smirked and sat back in her seat beside her boyfriend watching the scene unfold. How else would someone love that freak girl? Love Potion. HA. How pathetic of Evelyn. Hahah.

Lexi mentally chanted DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT!! Give her the serum and ask her THINGS. DO IT!! Oh Lafay was quickly becoming her FAVE professor.

"Now why in the world would Professor Lafay carry water in her potions cabinet? Don't you people ever bloody think? She gave the potion to the girl not just to scare her, which has effectivly been done, but also to prove a point. Just take a sip and see if it's water or the truth telling serum. I'll bet you 5 galleons it's the latter of the two." Benjamin was still in the dark corner relaxed. He looked from the girl to the professor, an smirked. Lafays teaching methods may be a little eccentric, but her effectiveness worked perfectly.

Lol
 

Since he was still watching the Slytherin girl and her reaction to his little piece of art, Josh did not pay any attention to what Lafay was doing until he felt the woman's presence close to him. Lafay that close! It meant danger! A fatal one. Perhaps, she had come to strangle him to death or poison him with another cookie or something much more evil and painful that the boy could not even imagine.

Meh...

She could do whatever she wanted, he was done after all. He had done what he wanted to do and the rest did not bother him. If Lafay wanted to use him as a guinea pig for the poisons class, so be it. If he somehow managed to prove Evelyn that he really loved her, everything did worth it. He could even spend rest of his school years in the detention place after being used as a Potions Class Material for a year or more.

Huh? There it was happening. She was giving him something to eat. Staring first at the stone in her hand then at the professor suspiciously, the boy picked up the bezoar and examined it some. ''Why?'' Yes, he asked the question though the Potions Mistress' tone sounded like 'don't do it and you cannot even imagine the result' to him ''It does not look delicious''. Hah. He was not going to bring it near his mouth until she explained what it was.

However when he had seen the look or, to be more exact, glare that the woman shot at Evelyn and heard with what she accused the Slytherin girl, Josh's eyed widened, a deeply worried expression appearing on his face. ''Professor!'' so he exclaimed quickly putting the stone in his mouth and swallowing it down. ''I did what you wanted me to do. I did it. I ate the stone.'' but nothing seemed to happen anyway ''There's no love potion professor. She doesn't need magic to make me love her. She does not need anything for that at all. She did nothing!''

Stopping again the Gryffindor thought Lafay might pay attention to his words yet when she seemed to pick up a potion thing (or was it POISON?!) and placed it on the girl's desk, Josh quickly figured that no good thing was going to happen to her. And it was because of him! Because of HIM! No way! There was no way he could let this happen. Lafay or whomever else. No one could hurt his love while he was alive.

''NO!'' so he rushed towards Evelyn and Lafay but tripped on the way and fell down. ''Ow!'' his nose did hurt A LOT. Holding the nose and ignoring the pain, the lion boy quickly jumped on his feet again and placed himself as a shield between Evelyn and the evil Mistress. ''Don't do it. I did what you want me to do. She has not done anything. She is innocent. Do not do it. Punish me instead! PUNISH ME!''

Pffft sometimes he hated that robes. It was making him sweat under it.

Oh shut up, kid.

That was what Jake thought as he heard that bloody first year pipe up. Fancy talking to a group of people like that.

No.

Nuhnuhnuhnuhnoooooo.

"When I was younger, third year or so," Jake said, keeping his temper as he set his quill down, and looking up at Evelyn. "Professor Kazimeriz thought I was lying about something. He let me think I was slipped a truth serum, as a kind of placebo. I was already telling the truth, but his method, I'm familiar with. It works."

And then he went back to his drawing after a glance at Lafay... but then... REALLY JOSH?!

STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE.

Kurumi knew she didn't like Cookie!Hater and the fact that she had given Josh a love potion made that point even clearer. Flicking her gaze on the girl for a moment, Kurumi wondered if the Potion Mistress was really going to use Veritaserum on her. Hoped the girl was skilled in Occlumency.

But, they were talking about poisons, right? Was Veritaserum a poison? Kurumi supposed if it wasn't brewed properly it could be.

Raising her hand, Kurumi decided to offer another answer that her classmates hadn't already suggested. "Professor, botulin is also orderless and tasteless."

There was...entirely too much going on at once. As a matter of fact, Sierra wasn't even sure why she was even bothering to answer. Could the professor even hear her at this point? With her hand halfheartedly raised into the air, she said, "Veritaserum." Then with a quick glance toward Jake Morgan, she added, "...or water." He was right--the two were almost indistinguishable.

Oh for the love of Merlin!

Sierra glanced at the Gryffindor boy out of the corner of her eyes and then promptly rolled her eyes at him. "I agree," she mumbled, "I have absolutely no problem with him getting punished..." After all, it'd do wonders for the points board. Knowing this, Sierra lounged back in her seat and watched with a smirk as the nonsense continued. Maybe if she somehow provoked him, he'd keep up the show and dig the Lions' grave deeper and deeper.

Heh.

...and somehow, throughout all this, Hollingberry of course managed to provide one of her textbook-perfect answers, earning her a narrowing of the eyes from Sierra.

Gryffindors...

Septimus crossed his arms on his desk and put his chin on them. He daren’t say a word. He often didn’t do anything in any of his classes until someone gave him a physical display of the new spell or whatever. Yes, he was definitely a visual learner. But the wheels in his mind were turning. What was this love potion nonsense? Love was supposed to be earned by showing your true feelings for the one you fancy. Not by some dumb potion. “Professor, what is the point of using a love potion? If there is a point?” He couldn’t help it. It really was an honest question.

Scribble...scribble...scribble....

Salander was studiously staring at his parchment, pretending that all the drama hilarity discussion on THAT SIDE of the room was normal for Potions class. Which given that its Hogwarts, is perfectly true.

He could feel Lexi rest against him and quickly swung his arm and rested them on her shoulders. Yes drama, drama, drama... oh a question! He looked at the vial the Professor showed the class then replied "Uhm... if we're still in the discussion of poisons-- Arsenic is also known to be colorless and odorless... tasteless too I think? Anyway there were plenty of cases that was said to be done by Arsenic poisoning because of how readily available it is. "

Seriously this had gone way to far, and Lafay was letting it happen! Josh was out of control, and because of it, Evelyn was about to be drugged because of it.

"Professor, pardon my interruption, if the vial in your hand is Veritaserum, the use of it on a student requires Ministry Approval first!" he would know his brother was MLE, "And besides, I can personally vouch for Evelyn, she didn't drug Mr Carter, this is very much his own personal will talking."

The boy was prepared for the blast that he would recieve from Lafay, however noone else seemd to be standing in Evelyn defense, and in a round about way Josh was his reponsiblity, as the Gryffindor Prefect. The Prefect that would be having a chat with the certain lion later on!

Emily was surprised with the turn the lesson was taking.
Had the Slytherin girl used a love potion?... it was possible. No doubt Lafay wanted to get to the bottom of the issue.
Emily raised her hand. "Is it Veritaserum?"

Oh, how Dianna loved this quick detour on their lesson. She had her eyes and ears open for anything funny that might happen. When the Professor opened the cupboard and brought out a vial filled with some clear liquid and she said it was tasteless and had no smell what immediately popped in her head was...water. Of course some students thought outside of the box...

Might as well say Draught of the Living Death but she'll just cause to much trouble.

Elle looked back to see some Slytherin girls and students with anxious faces. They were almost as white as paper, their lips so pale like they were zombies.

She breathed in and out, pitying them. What poor luck..., she thought.

The redhead thought about the vial Professor Lafay was holding, but could not discern what it was, so she just kept quiet and waited for the other students to answer.

If this was answering session for her class and not for her, then it would be Jotting Down Notes Session.

Witsy went quiet from doodling on her parchment to slightly gasping at the change in atmosphere. What exactly is going on, she thought to herself, is she really gonna do something with this potion? She could feel the tension around the class.

After hearing another student question if it was illegal she looked back at the professor and nodded as if insinuating a point.

"Professor, just what are you planning on doing with this potion? ...Unless it is, in fact, water..." she said mumbling. She choked on the last word slightly frightened gripping her quill.

Before she even got a chance to answer, many students has already given the answer she'd come up with.
"I agree; the most likely substance would be Veritaserum."

She nudged Jaina. "Are you all right? This is pretty heavy stuff."

Jaina looked at Charley, "Yeah, I'm good. This is just....wow. You know....wow." It's all Jaina could muster. She had no clue of any of the stuff they were now talking about, yet everyone else seemed to know what everything is, but her.

Charley giggled. "Well, if you're able to articulate any of those wows, I'll be more than happy to help explain."

Jaina felt like she was going to explode with tons of questions. She knew that if she started spouting off, it would definitely mean trouble for her and Charley because something was telling her that Professor Lafay was so not in a good mood. "The wows will difinitely be articulated after class," Jaina whispered back, afraid to take her eyes off of the scene at hand.

She smiled. "I'll be ready. Just pay as close attention as you can to what happens now. That will help you immensely."

"Gotcha!" Jaina whispered. She did, too. She paid close attention. She even jotted down Vertiserum and that it was colorless, odorless, and .... what was the other thing??

Nika looked at the vial that Lafay had placed on that mortified girl's desk. Nika looked at in confusion. What could be odorless and tasteless? Nika was going to guess water, but she doubted Professor Lafay would really be showing them water."Well... It's got to be some sort of potion or another right?" Stupid stupid stupid

Charley leaned over to Jaina. "Tasteless," she whispered, pointing at the parchment, as she'd noticed Jaina was having trouble remembering all the details.

Kyle wrote down notes of all the different posions, potions, everything they were speaking off so far. And finally the truth serium she hated - Vertiserum, not a fun one colorless, odorless, and tasteless there were limited ways to find out anything about it being in your food or drink. And she didn't like undetectable potions.

K-Lee didn't bother repeating the answer that many others had already said. Writing a few notes down on her parchment, she looked briefly around the room, waiting for another question she could answer.

Tasteless, ... Jaina wrote down....

Makes you tell the truth...Jaina continued writting... WHAT?!?! "Wait, did you just say makes you tell the truth???" she whispered looking at Charley and Belle. "Professor Lafay thinks she's not telling the truth? But she's really shocked he did that in the first place. I don't think she did it." Jaina shook her red curls. This was just all too much.

Re-arranginv a lot
 

She glared at the girl... just glared. "Yes..."



"It certainly could be..." She said with a mischievous smile.

"To have that person love you... for the small amount of time the potions lasts." She said.

She turned on the prefect. "I am certainly aware of the laws, Prefect Hudson."

"Oh, it depends on what it is..." She said.




ooc: Please familiarize yourself with Lafay's class rules. You shouldn't be chatting.

"Five points from Ravenclaw and Five from Hufflepuff." She said turning towards them and before they could turn around she added, "Say one more word and I'll make it ten."

"It is, and I thought Gryffindors were supposed to be brave." She said to the boy.

"Yes Miss Hollingberry. It certainly could be botulin." She said

"It is indeed Master Salander, it could be Arsenic." She said to the boy.

"It could water..." She said keeping her eyes on Evelyn.

"Master Trevors has a point there..." She said, still looking at Evelyn.

"Shut up, Carter." She said not removing her gaze.

"I don't use that old coot's methods, Morgan." She said with bitterness in her voice.

She didn't answer... she simply said. "What's in the vial, Miss Shepard?"

That smile on the Potions Mistress' face was not a pleasant one...in fact it was downright frightening and made Kurumi slouch in her seat a bit in a feeble attempt to hide herself as much as she could under her table without looking too obvious.

Gaze having been moving between the vial, to whoever was answering the question or talking at the moment, and to Lafay, she was starting to not particularly enjoy potions class anymore. And now...now Josh...

Oh dear Merlin. Not NOW! Don't do that NOW! That just made all this look worse!

However, she could not help but notice Lafay would not look away from. Pleeaaase look away? Well apparently it was too late now to simply crawl under the desk and escape through the door. And WHY must she have been given such a difficult question? The question, and the gaze on her, and the coldness she was feeling through her body, and the clamminess, and...and she wasn't feeling good now. "I...I don't..." What was in the vial? Shaking her head slightly, her gaze once more flickered between the vial and the Professor, mouth opening and closing as if she were a fish.

..."Water?"

Septimus was thoroughly confused. What was this about the Evelyn girl using a love potion? Who'd she use it on? What was really in the vial? Skarlo would love to hear about this, thought Sep. He'd know what's going on. He always does. But the wheels in his mind were spinning faster and faster. Mystery, hmm? He'd never really been one to go nosing in on other people's matters, but his curiosity got the better of him.

GAAH! Back to the lesson! Pay attention, you idiot! he scolded himself. A poison that had no smell and no taste... He could only think of one and it was the same as Kurumi's suggestion. Ugh, why did Potions have to be so hard?!

Nika shivered at the sight of Lafay's glare. Nika was only trying to give an answer.

Emily was impressed with how firghtening Lafay could be, she commanded attention and had the ability to make first-years wet their pants. It was diffinately fun to watch, as long as she wasn't on the receiving end.

Hhhmmm Ravenclaw lost 5 points... drats! that was bad!... Ravenclaw needed all the points they could get at this point in the term.

Emily made a mental note: Put more effort into hoemwork= more extra credit.

She smirked and went to uncork the vial... "Care to test that answer?" She asked with a smile. But before the girl could answer, Hecate led the vial up and said "Yes and no... This isn't just veritaserum... It's expired veritaserum..." She dumped it in a plant that was beside her desk... the plant shriveled up and died quickly. "And a poison..."

"Well... I think this is a good a place as any to end this class..." She looked at Carter. He'd taken the Bezoar... She looked at Evelyn and smirked. Maybe she was telling the truth.

"Alright... Homework." She waved her wand and a sheet appeared before each student. "Something fun... Due a week from today and worth 10 points. Class Dismissed!"

ooc: I found this online so I tweaked it and am using it. You can either print it out do the word search and scan it... or, you can use paint to edit the file to do the word search... or you can use the red and green letters and numbers... like Bubotuber is C3 - K3

Emily looked down at the sheet... this was brilliant, too easy.
Packing her things into her bag Emily decided that though practical potions lessons were the best she did rather enjoy the theoretical.
"Thanks for the lesson Professer Lafay", she said as she got up and left.

"No. But I'm sure i'll get to know him soon enough take him where we hide out down here. Then I'll tell him.

Nika looked at the sheet of paper in front of her. She gave a sigh of relief when she saw it was only a word search puzzle. Good. None of that confusing opinion stuff we normally get. She put her notes into her bag and got up out of her chair. She walked up to her professor and smiled the best she could. "Thank you Professor for this... interesting lesson."

Jaina crossed her arms and scrunched her nose. Boys! she thought.

She went back up front to Sabel and put out her hand. "Hi, do you remember me? I'm the girl you saved in the greenhouse. I was wondering since class was over, could you meet me in the dungeon corridor for a sec?" She hoped she wouldn't get into more trouble.

Charley nodded to Jaina's question, worried about whatever was coming.

Charley mustered an unhappy, apologetic smile towards Belle and Jaina, then turned to face the front directly, instead of slightly sideways. She pursed her lips and slid down further into her seat.
Charley relaxed and gathered her things.
"Thank you for the lesson, Professor Lafay," she said, grabbing the homework sheet then going over to Jaina and Ben.

Charley tapped Jaina gently on the shoulder.
"Hey, do you know what you're doing between now and the next lesson?"

Sierra had long since quietened down. Even she knew when to realize it was time to shut up, and this was one of those times. As she lounged back in her seat, her eyes jumped back and forth from Lafay to Evelyn to Josh. The Gryffindor boy was getting on her nerves, and each time her eyes traveled his way, she sort of glared just a bit.

Her eyes paused on Lafay when the professor asked Evelyn if she cared to test the potion. Sierra sat up in her chair and craned her neck to see what would happen. ...but then the mixture was revealed to be expired Veritaserum and then poured into a plant that would never see the light of day again. Sierra smirked as she watched the effects of the poison set in on the plant.

...then, homework! Not that Sierra was excited over the opportunity for extra work, no. She was just getting irritable and cranky and kind of wanted a nap now. She grabbed a hold of the homework, scooped her bag off the floor, and then began to make her way out. Passing by Lafay, she said, "Great lesson, Professor." ...and it had been. "Have a good day." With a small smile, she turned on her heels and made her way out the room.