Ella smiled as Sophie sat down next to her but didn't dare speak as she wasn't sure when the lesson was going to begin. Instead, she wiggled her finger at her friend in greeting. Yup, finger wiggling was the new "Hi"...

And then they were getting started. Woah. No wasting time in this lesson...Ella looked down at the plimpy in front of her, then at Soph, then back at the plimpy. This was going to be gross. She just knew it. Picking up her wand, she cleaned the knife, knowing how Professor Lafay felt about clean instruments. She set the wand down once again when she was finished, picking up the knife now. *GULP*

Pressing down as hard as she dared, the second year began cutting up the plimpy, starting at the base of the tail and moving up the stomach. She did her best to pretend she was a doctor...that this was like a life or death emergency and she was doing this to save a patient. It was actually kind of helping...kind of.

When she got up towards the top, Ella cut all around as Lafay had showed them to, letting out a small gasp as the plimpy flopped open in front of her. YUCK. But at least she'd cut it correctly...bright side? Placing the knife back down, she looked anywhere but at the plimpy that was lying open in front of her. She was so ready to get the next step over with...

Nigel was happy to finally get back to a normal potions clas like it was last time before everybody started freezing.

Nigel wanted to follow Professor Lafay's example perfectly. He picked up his clean knife and started. He cut from the bottom of the tail, down the stomach, all around the top, slicing it in half. He even butterflied it open like she did.

Once Nigel finished he waited to hear the next set of instructions.

Whoa, professor Lafay seriously didn't want to waste any time! Sophie looked at Ella and raised her eyebrows as the odelr witch demonstrated what they were supposed to do.

Eek. That was gross. But in a very interesting way. When they were allowed to, Sophie picked up the scalpel and started doing the incision. She pressed the object against the plimpy and started cutting it all the way from its tail to the upper part, cutting though its stomach. Bleeeeeerghghghghh! Sophie wrinkled her nose as the plimpy lay open in front of her.

Sooooo nasty but sooooo cool at the same time!

It felt strange being back as if nothing ever happened. Kennedy suited up with dragonhide gloves and a scalpel on his right hand, and briefly allowed his eyes to take a look around. Everything seemed fine, but just in case, he had chosen a seat close to Sierra. Which he had to admit was distracting, but if that Puffer kid tried any gooey intentions with her, then he'd be there.

He returned his attention back to Lafay, whom was already directing them what to do. With his scalpel, Kennedy cut from the bottom of the tail, down the stomach and around the top as instructed. He felt like a surgeon, except his patient was dead...and a Plimpy.

Hearing her name, Sierra glanced up and nodded. It was always good to come back to Potions class, even though she wasn't sure she was as good at the subject as her mother and sister were. She put away the textbook she'd been flipping through and focused instead on the plimpy in front of her.

Retrieving her scalpel and her wand, Sierra first cast "Scourgio" on the scalpel. Knowing it was clean of anything that might alter the plimpy in a way she didn't, she began to cut from the bottom of the tail, down the stomach, and all around the top. There now. It was sliced in half.

She amused herself by looking around for those grossed out by the task at hand. Wimps, that's what they were.

Alyssa watched as the Professor demonstrated the next steps for dissecting the poor Plimpy and then picked up her quill to quickly add them down in her journal.



Alyssa grimaced even more when she read what they had to do. Seeing it was one thing, doing it was another.

Picking up her scalpel, she cleaned it by picking up her wand and saying "Scourgify" and then gently picked up the dead carcass and slowly made the incision first starting from the bottom of the tail, down the stomach, all around the top until she had sliced the Plimpy's body in half.

The body flayed open in half in front of her. Alyssa took a big gulp and turned away for a second just to calm her queasy stomach.

Jory watched what Professor Lafay did and hoped he'd have no problem doing just that.

He grabbed his scalpel and cleaned it, "Scourgify!" he said. Reaching for the plimpy's tail, Jory began to cut its tail from the bottom. It reminded him a lot of autopsies from those shows he watched. He reached the stomach and continued cutting all the way to the top so that the plimpy was now cut in half.

The Badger was beginning to feel sick. Is this what his dad had to deal with everyday, being a detective and all being around dead humans?

Once Kurumi had shown up to the lesson as well, Stella's idea that maybe the weirdness that had been happening at Hogwarts was abating took on more certainty. If two of the frozen students were back to normal, odds were that meant everyone else would be too. Or at least they'd be back to normal soon enough, since maybe the longer one was frozen, the longer it would take to unfreeze. Either way, she needed to focus on Professor Lafay, as the woman started the lesson. Although she felt a bit proud that she'd managed to help prove that Ravenclaws could be polite, as she'd heard a younger Eagle get reprimanded for not greeting the professor. To the point where it almost sounded like the Slytherin head of house was about to insult Professor Vindictus, which only made Stella happier that it seemed like all the other Ravenclaws who had ventured down for this lesson had in fact been polite, including herself.

Back to the poor unfortunate dead plimpies, though, who looked even more pathetic now that they were missing their fins and legs,and she managed to not flinch as they'd been told the next step was to split the creature open. Now it seems even more like we're performing a plimpy dissection, she thought, making note of every movement the professor had made during the demonstration and then adding it to the notes she'd started in the previous portion of the lesson.

Text Cut: Stella's Potions journal

Plimpy harvesting

Step 1: Untangle the plimpy's legs. (They commonly get tied together by merpeople to keep them from being able to damage their property.)

Step 2: Remember to put gloves on.

Step 3: Clean scalpel.

Step 4: Make an incision under the scales near the plimpy's fins, then carefully remove the fins and place them in the collection tray.

Step 5: Rotate legs widely one at a time until the joint pops out, audibly.

Step 6: Carefully cut at the loose skin around the dislocated joint, removing the leg and placing it into the collection tray as well.

Step 7: Cut the plimpy open/in half, starting at the tail and running scalpel straight up around the stomach to the head

Once that was finished, however, the only thing left she had was to actually butterfly her own plimpy, and she found herself taking a deep breath before picking the scalpel up again. "Scourgify," she cast, flicking her wand out of its holster long enough to cast the spell to clean the tool, then making sur eit was safely back home as she slipped her gloves on. She didn't want to deal with plimpy juice on her hands, not after the panic from before. Once her gloves wer securely on her hands, she took the scalpel and carefully inserted it at the base of the plimpy's tail and moved upward to loop over the stomach and toward the head. Trying not to think of the plimpy as a real creature, if only to keep herself from the litany of apologies in her head that had started the process last time, and she only gave it the briefest of glances as it splayed open like the demonstration plimpy. The less she had to stare at it, the better.

And now they were back to... harvesting.

Sad eyes finally look down at the dissecting tray. Poor plimpy looked a little dried out but it was just as he left it. Giving a little silent thought for the repose of the noble creature he pressed his gloves tightly around his fingers, pulling them snugly up his arms and making sure he was nice and covered by his robes. He then took to the scalpel and started slicing the creature with great care, from the tail, then up the stomach until he had a clean cut all the way to the top of the creature. Using the edge of the scalpel he lifted the skins and folded them to each side. He found himself staring at the internal organs of the creature. Sad it was, but he cant deny appreciating about how these things connected so neatly together.

BNLEEEEEH.

Theodore was trying to keep an open mind about this lesson, because potions was cool and he couldn't wait to get brewing, but SLICING open a lil animal was soo gross. He pulled his gloves on tightly and hesitated, before beginning with his scalpel at the tail.

Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, slimy, ewww, gross.

Slicing his way up the plimpy's body, he dropped the scalpel immediately when it sliced in half.

This was gory stuff.

Chelle turned a bright pink as Professor Lafay scolded her. "Um, sorry, Professor. G-good morning?" she attempted, meekly. What was with her these days? She hadn't greeted the Professor! Stupid, silly Ravenclaw. This might cost her a few housepoints. And it was Lafay. She had to be extra careful. She's got a horrible glare.

Muttering under her breath, Chelle turned to look at her plimpy. There it was, sitting right in front of her, without its fins and legs. Now they had to... slice it in half? Chelle gulped. Right. This'll be fun. Glancing around the room, she saw others doing exactly what they were supposed to. And most of them didn't seem to have any problem with it! She grabbed her scalpel and held the creature in position. Then she sliced it all the way from the bottom, cutting it in half along its length.

It was slimy stuff. Chelle felt sick.

This is so gross," she commented, and sincerely hoped that Professor didn't hear her.

Now it is time to dissect the thing in half. Jonathan is looking at the dead plimpy as it was no longer breathing. He's been wanting to do this since the first lesson but sadly some students just randomly froze and Lafay just had to cut the class and let them all out. Well except for the frozen students. Jonathan hasn't heard much after that but he did hear about an orb broken or whatever it is that happened a couple of days. However, he did know that students were now unfrozen and possibly 'safe'?

So now that everything is back to normal and Potions is back in business, Jonathan is now more and more excited. He did get his gloves and wore them before starting with this next procedure that Lafay is now asking them to do. Jonathan felt awkward, however, he's not in his usual seating place but nonetheless he's still going to perform this slicing.

Getting the knife, Jonathan positioned his free hand onto the head. Not really hard, just softly so that the plimpy wouldn't move when he is starting to cut. Okay, with Lafay's word, Jonathan slowly pressed the scalpel from the bottom of the tail, down the stomach, and all around the top. He is making good progress than expected actually.

After doing the procedure, his back straightened while smiling to the professor. Done. What's next?

More dissecting. Indy actually found this pretty interesting. She liked potions. Even though she still felt scared of Lafay still. But Indy wanted to do well in potions, so she would do anything really. She looked down at her little plimpy. Well. It was half dissected now. So it didn't really matter much. Okay. So now she needed to cut the thing in half. That didn't sound difficult. Not really. But then one wrong move and you could like cut it the wrong way. Indy better not do that.

Okay. First things first she wanted to clean her scapel. Mostly because she'd seen the others done it, and because well. She wanted to make sure that it was clean. "Scourgify" She spoke pointing her wand at the scapel. Perfect. It would be nice and clean now. Now she just needed to like. Cut the thing up. She started at the tail, cutting it gently, before moving up to the stomach, and around the top of the plimpy. She was careful as she was cutting, not wanting to cut off something important. Ahh. After a few moments. She was done. Perfect. And she hadn't cut the head off by accident or something. Very good. She was happy with that.

Kurumi bowed her head again shyly when Professor Lafay returned her greeting. It was awkward seeing people sort of stare at her like they were now, almost like she had come back from the dead or something.

Sinking into her seat a little, Kurumi tucked a strand of hair behind her ear just in time to catch Jonathan entering the classroom and find a different seat. She had sort of expected this, after what had happened last lesson. Who would want to sit next to the girl who froze randomly, right? Keeping her eyes ahead on the plimpy in front of her - the one that was looking less and less like a plimpy with each cut - Kurumi slipped on her gloves and listened to the next set of instructions.

Oh, erm...this was going to be...not so good.

Kurumi could already feel her stomach churning at the mere thought of what they were about to do, so she attempted to focus her thoughts on something else. Only it was proving to be rather difficult. After Scourgify-ing her scalpel, the Gryffindor timidly inserted the blade at the base of the creature's tail and slowly made her way up it's front until she had made a clean cut all the way around. Rather reluctantly, Kurumi removed the blade and shut her eyes tight. She really didn't want to see the creature actually sliced in half.

Louisa watched Lafay get down to work, and she simply just listened to her as her eyes skimmed the students... trying to spot out all the previously frozen ones. But when the cutting seemed to get more detailed, the Ravenclaw turned her attention back to the professor.



The Ravenclaw waved her wand at the scalpel before she started the procedure. There was no question about the grossiness of this job, she was aware to lift her hair into a nice pony tail and not keep it awesome loose like last time. She still had some auburn strands to it too, from that.. err... incident with Joao and the Odessa girl. But whatever.. she could always say she did this on purpose. Heh.

Piercing the skin at a spot at the bottom of the tail, the scalpel started making its way down the stomach.. all the way arooooound... till it reached the top. Louisa stopped then and folded the skin outward.

Tucking away his notes, he got hold of his scalpel and cleaned it with the cleaning spell and looked at his Plimpy. The last time their Potion’s class was cut short, Mordred’s mood got really gloomy. He was truly excited about opening up the creature...any creature actually and harvest the parts that can be useful in making a potion and it had to be suspended because of the freezing drama.

Psh.

Mordred’s eyebrows furrowed in concentration and pressed the plimpy gently and started to slice it off starting from the tail, down the stomach and around the sides and gently opened the plimpy. He stared at it for a moment and looked up at the professor awaiting her next instruction.

Ah, another Potions. Another gross activity. She listened intently to her Professor's instructions. They needed to cut the thing in half. Eeew, eeew, eeew!

Though, she had learned to like Lafay throughout her years in Hogwarts, she still couldn't get used to this kind of stuffs. Saying 'hi' at her Plimpy again and with a nod, Erin pulled out her wand and Scourgified everything she would use, even the slightest dirt wouldn't passed to Lafay. She put on her gloves after returning back her wand to its holster. Using the scalpel, Erin cut the Plimpy from the middle of its tail up to its stomach and finally, the head. Eeeeek! With the Plimpy cut in half, Erin held the sides and opened it up. There were its internals.

Sarah looked at her plimpy, so innocent... She took out her scalpel and set to work, cutting from the bottom of the tail and headed down the stomach and around the top. There - it was in two halves.

Annabelle heard the next set of directions after she removed her final leg. She next got her knift ready to cut from the bottom of the tail up. "Alright Belle, it is okay, you can do this, it won't be that bad." she told herself. She made the incision to cut the tail and went down all the way to the stomach and around the top. She saw the she sliced the plimpy in half! At least she did it right. She felt a little squeamish but it subsided after she took deep breaths.

Oh, no. OH, NO!

As professor Lafay finished giving them the instructions, Nora felt sick. Actually, she didn't even need to listen to feel that way, only looking at the poor plimpies. Poor, poor things.

With the gloves on, and one hand covering her mouth, to prevent her from mumbling something she might regret later, and also to... you know, try and NOT feel sick. She barely even looked as she cut from the bottom of the tail, down the stomach and so on, just as they were told.

SHIVERS ran down her spine and on the back of her neck.

Messer watched as Professor Lafay demonstrated the next steps to the class. Then he went to work after the Potion Mistress said so. After he made sure that his scalpel was clean enough, he sliced the plimpy from the bottom of the tail then down to the stomach till reached the top.

That's gross!

She watched everyone as they opened their plimpies.

"As a reminder, please note the buckets in the back of the classroom. Please don't get it on the plimpies, they won't keep with throw up on them." She said.

"Alright let's take a look at what's inside a plimpy." She engorgioed the creature floating in front of her so everyone could see. She charmed the board to write what everything was in the areas it was on the plimpy.



"Notice the eye, it rotated inwardly as we opened the plimpy. Just take your thumbs and poke them out... they will pop right out of the socket." And as she did a disgusting, wet popping noise came from the area. "Then place them in your harvesting tray." She did so and moved a hair from her forehead with the back of her wrist. "We have yet to wash and clean the items we placed in there. Because the fins, the legs and the eyes come out fairly. These other organs will need some cleaning." She went to the box of tools, and pulled out a dish and filled it with a aguamenti charm. "Take a dish and fill it with water and now we'll go for the heart. Use your hands, not a scalpel. Easier to feel, to get it all out. Well..." She looked at the kids, "go on."

Al

As Oichi watched the professor cut her plimpie clear in half she felt her stomach turn. Soon the professor gave the instruction to results peat what she did and Oichi slowly picked up her scapal. She dug into the rear of her plimpie just above the tail. She cringed but then kept going shaking as she slowly cut through the body and within 5 minutes she finally finished. The insides looked aweful. She turned away in efforts not to up chuck before the next instructions.

Daichi looked at his plimpy on the desk and thought it was a poor little fella before he looked back up to see the Professor levitating her own plimpy. That was a poor little thing as well...

But back to business. The Slytherin grabbed his knife and scourgified it with his wand. He then pressed it on the top of the creature and sliced it down towards the tail.


He looked at the eye of his own plimpy when Lafay told them that it rotated inwardly. The disgusting popping sound reached the Slytherin's ears and looked in between fascination and repulsion.

He used his own thumbs to pop the eye out, his stomach turned at the action before he placed it in the harvesting tray.

The Aguamenti charm.... Daichi's eyes went to Kurumi for a second. The last time he had used this spell was to wake her up during class and it hadn't went so well either..hehe. "Aguamenti!" he said as he pointed his wand at the dish. Luckily no STREAM OF DOOM came out like what had happened during care of magical creatures.

Use hands, no scalpel. Daichi's mouth dropped slightly. As much as he was fascinated by this...this next step grossed him out. He digged his fingers in to the cut open plimpy and made a face. With the squelching sound and the slimy stuff around his fingers, Daichi couldn't help it anymore. He gagged and made a cough/puke noise and in a second he had ran to the other end of the classroom. Where the buckets were and hunched over. His face red with his coughing though he did not puke or anything.

It was merely the thought that his fingers were in that creature, searching for the heart that made him gag. And it was better to run for the buckets and have a false alarm than not going and puke all over the plimpy.

Watching the enlarged Plimpy, the Ravenclaw couldn't help but make a face at what Lafay was doing. She didn't mind that she was going to do those exact steps in a few but.. watching them enlarged like this.. ekh.



Louisa looked down at the Plimpy in front of her, she put her quill away and flexed her hands getting ready to harvest... stuff from it. First she started working on the first eyes, grabbing it with her fingers until it made that sickly gross popping slimey sound and came out in her hand. Louisa discarded it into the tray and did the same for the other eye.

She then used her wand to fill a bowl with water by casting Aguamenti. Then she took a grab of the Plimpy's little heart... it was still warm somehow. Louisa swallowed and looked up at Lafay waiting for more instructions. Quickly before she actually felt something as her hand was still touching the heart.