Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife

No changed in color yet. Kat took a peek inside her cauldron. Hmmm... well, nothing changed. Not the color. Then Kat took the leaves she cut in the vein and placed them inside the cauldron... slowly... gently... surely.

There. It's set, the leaves at least. Well, next.

What is it with this potions and the word 'Devil' for their ingredients? Surely, this potions won't burst them out like devils. Taking her pestle, Kat dipped it in her cauldron and shook it a bit so that drops fell down from it. Once it wasn't that dripping wet, Kat placed the seeds inside her mortar and crushed them.

Crush. Crush. Crush. Crush.

Finally, the seeds looked like mush/paste/ whatever. Kat took the wooden spoon and took a scoop. Ok.

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Jory was concerned about Nessie but he saw Kurumi looking after her. "She'll be okay,'' he thought and turned his attention back to the potion.

He carefully added the leaves he had just cut. Eying the seeds with the weird name, the boy got out his pestle and dipped it into the cauldron. He shook it a few times to get excess off. Now, he dropped the seeds into the moist pestle and began to crush them. Crush, crush crush.

And now it was in the form of a paste. Jory grabbed a wooden spoon and scooped the paste into the cauldron.

Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight

Nerida looked over as Nessie collapsed...Whoops...Wonder what happened...Wasn't she and that other kid...Elijah throwing the potion earlier? After she saw Kurumi get up and go attend to her, Nerida knew Nessie would be fine.

No change in color. Good cause there wasn't in hers. She had finished slicing the other leaves before the Professor had went on with the new instructions. Now they were to gently place them into the cauldron. Okay! She picked up the leaves and gently put them into the cauldron. Time for the Poison Hemlock seeds....Devil's porridge! After writing down the new set of directions into her notebook she dipped her pestle into her cauldron. Shaking a bit afterwards so it was wet but not dripping. She placed her seeds into the mortar and begin to crush them. Once they had reached the paste-like consistency the Professor had spoke about she picked up her wooden spoon and spooned it into the cauldron.

Originally Posted by SilverTiger

Originally Posted by Princesspower

Upon hearing that she could no longer help Nessie, Sarah returned to her seat and split the last remaining leaf. She then added the next instructions to her notes

Sarah then carefully placed her EIGHT leaves into the brew. Then she wetted her pestle (she had hastily scorufied it after realising other students were doing the same) and placing the seeds into the mortor she crushed them ferociousy until it was mushy.... well at least in her opinion. She was scared making potions was like making her mom's recipe for brownies. Her mom's brownie recipe would not work if over mixed or over baked. Then she took out the wooden spoon and after casting scourify on it she spooned out the paste into the brew. So far so good. It was also good by Nessie as Kurumi (was she not TOOO awesome) had helped her.

Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Louisa dragged the small plate with the devil's weeds closer and took out her penknife and scourgified it. One by one, the Ravenclaw set the weed on the table, made sure to hold it flat so that the vein was completely visible and put the penknife's edge on the top of the vein and sliiiiced it open, very careful not to go astray from it. All eight weeds were done, missing just a couple of weeds and redoing them, and then all were sliced and ready to use! Woo!



... Louisa took a look at her cauldron making sure the color didn't change. Nope, it didn't. Awesome. She grabbed the sliced leaves and gently tossed them in the cauldron, one by one.

Then came the next mission. Louisa grabbed her pestle, cleaned it with her wand and very gingerly dipped it into her cauldron's contents before taking it out a bit and shaking it to prevent any dripping and left it hovering over the liquid while she scourgified the mortar. Then she grabbed the cup of seeds, poured it inside and started crushing them with the dipped pestle. She made sure not to make it a sudden too strong bangs so that the seeds wouldn't fly out, that did happen few terms ago ahem ahem.

Crush crush crush crush... mush mush mush...

Louisa stopped crushing for a bit and shifted the pestle inside, feeling whether the consistency was creamy yet or not. Yes, it was. She put the pestle down, stretched her arm and flexed her hand for a bit and cleaned up the wooden spoon. And scoooooooooop, she scooped some creamy seeds and froze, waiting for the next instruction.

Originally Posted by nups21

What was with Elijah? He seemed to love creating trouble in every class. Which was sort of cool, agreed! But not so much in Potions. In Lafay's class, that wasn't gonna happen. Ignoring whatever commotion was happening, Ira continued with her own work. She had a lot on her hands.

First the devil weed. Turning her attention back to Professor Lafay, Ira watched attentively as she carefully sliced the devil's weed. Feeling confident of herself, the fourth year took one of her devil's weed leaves and set it in front of her. Then, she grabbed his silver knife and carefully cleaned it. Now the vein. She just had to cut through the vein only. Yep, she could do this. if others could, she could too.

She placed placed the knife tip on the top of the leaf's vein. Carefully, she sliced down the vein very slowly making sure to not mess up and be precise with her slicing. And directly on the vein! Yes! It was as perfect as she hoped it could be!

And another Devil's ingredient! She had barely finished with the Devil's weed, as another ingredient was explained. Ira followed the instructions and dipped her pestle into the cauldron, into the mixture that was boiling, and had not yet changed colors, which was a good sign. Shaking of the runny drops, she put the seeds into the mortar.

Crush.. crush.. crush.. why couldn't they just use a spell to turn it all into a mushy paste? Crush.. crush..

There, a nice thick paste in her mortar. Then she picked up her wooden spoon and spooned it into the cauldron. Her work done for now, Ira waited for the next part.

Originally Posted by hpluvr037

Good. So she'll be okay. He had been starting to get seriously worried about his Captain. But the angel Kurumi had taken care of her. He sighed internally. Kurumi was so wonderful. Aaaaand I'm losing focus here.

After dumping the leaves in, he checked his potion. Sure enough, it was still the same color as it had always been. That's a good sign! he thought, heartened. What was DISheartening was the amount of poisonous materials they seemed to be working with. Was it always this way? Because that could get really bad really fast. Nevertheless, he dutifully copied this into his notebook. POISON HEMLOCK = DEVIL'S PORRIDGE.

Pao took the proper amount of seeds and placed them into his pestle. Then, taking his mortar, he stood on tiptoe and dipped it into the liquid. He carefully shook the excess off before beginning to grind away at the seeds. Man, this is a workout! Crush, crush, crush. Grind, grind, grind. Slowly but surely, the consistency became more and more like mush. When his arm was almost jello, he gave up and decided it was pasty enough. The first year began to dig out the seed-paste with his wooden spoon and, bit by bit, emptied it all into his cauldron.

Originally Posted by FireboltSword

After listening to Professor's instruction, she grabbed her quill and parchment and wrote down the next steps:



After writing the steps, she put the Devil's weeds into the cauldron gently. Then, afterwards she took the pestle and dipped it into the cauldron, shook it a bit. Then she grabbed the cup of the Poison Hemlock seeds and put them into the mortar and crushed them until it was paste-like texture. Then she grabbed the wooden spoon and spooned the mushed paste of the Hemlock seeds. She then waited for the next instruction.

Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

More poison and devil related things! It just wouldn't be potions class if there wasn't a possibility that a puffer wouldn't make it out alive. She eyed the puffer that had already made a fool of themselves. Hmph! She paid attention to Lafay's next set of instructions. No change of color? She peered in her cauldron and it was still the same. So far so good.

She took her leaves that were cut so lovely and very gently put them into the cauldron as well. Devil's porridge time...right. She took her pestel and dipped it in the cauldron. She shook it a tiny bit to get the excess water off but not enough to make a mess. There her pestel was still wet enough to complete the next step. She grabbed the devil's seeds and put them in the mortar. Crush, crush, crush. When she finally got it in a paste like consistency she spooned it in with her handy dandy wooden spoon.

Originally Posted by Meizzner

Well, This class was getting more interesting with each passing instruction. It seemed that Lafay hated Milton for some reason. Nigel wondered why. He followed Lafay's instructions thinking for a reason. Well Lafay was the head of Slytherin house and Milton was the captain of his house's quidditch team. That was the best Nigel could think of. When it became a paste-like gue, Nigel spooned it in with a wooden spoon. So now what's next.

Originally Posted by DecemberMoon

Eliza checked her cauldron to be sure the color hadn't changed. Nope, nothing yet... That was a good sign. At least she wasn't about to start hallucinating (like the other girl) from a plume of poisonous smoke or anything. Not yet anyway. She did hope those eyedrops would help the student come back to her senses. Since she wasn't a prefect, she knew she should just let the older students help the girl. She wouldn't want to make it any worse somehow.

Doing as she was told, she lowered her leaves into the cauldron carefully. She dropped them from a close enough distance that they wouldn't ripple the potion too much, but not so close that her fingertips were in danger of contact. She then grabbed her pestle and dipped it into the liquid in her cauldron. She let it drip off some excess and shook it gently to remove the rest. With her free hand, she sprinkled the seeds into her mortar to begin the mushing process. Yes, mushing.

She crushed and ground the seeds until they broke down into a thick paste. This seems about right, she thought. She picked up her wooden spoon and scooped the paste into her cauldron, again careful to avoid any messy plopping.

Originally Posted by hpfan18

Originally Posted by emjay

Once the water in his cauldron began to boil, Ethan carefully poured in the liquid valerian root and Kava Kava. He looked up as Lafay demonstrated the next step. Highly, highly toxic? He gave the room a cursory glance... Ethan was fairly certain there were first years in this lesson. Either Lafay had a tremendous amount of faith in the most beginner of students or she wasn't too concerned about thinning out the student population... or she was just mental. Whatever... it wasn't really his concern at the moment. He was just intent on brewing the potion correctly.

Aftre the berry demonstration, Ethan repeated the steps. He took the gold needle from his supply, cleaned it and picked up the berry. He carefully pricked it and slowly pulled the needle out, allowing the one drop of juice to fall into his cauldron. The 15 year old quickly tossed the berry onto the fire before any more of the juice could come out. He did not want any of that on his skin.

Next was the devil's weed. Eight of them to be exact. He first watched as Lafay demonstrated the proper way to prepare the leaf, then pulled out his silver knife. Blocking out all the noise around him, the fifth year bent over each leaf as he slowly sliced open the vein, making sure the knife did not pierce the other side. Each opened leaf was carefully placed into the potion.

Ethan then took the poison hemlock seeds and placed them into the mortar. He then dipped the pestle into his potion, gently shaking off the excess liquid and began crushing the seeds. Once they seemed the proper consistency, he spooned them into the caldron. He was a little surprised they hadn't stirred it yet... but he was following the directions precisely as Lafay was instructing them. This one was too dangerous to mess up.

Originally Posted by RandomRaven

Originally Posted by SilverDragon

After taking down a few notes, Silvia searched her potions kit for the gold needle. She cleaned it with a quick Scourgify and then reached for the berry. Knowing that the utmost care was needed when working with such a dangerous ingredient, Silvia had paid close attention to the professor's demonstration. Nevertheless, she was a bit nervous, afraid of doing something wrong. Carefully, she punctured the berry with the needle, and quickly placed the berry into the fire. Soon the berry was no more as Silvia held the needle above her cauldron and waited. DRIP. With that part finished, she held the needle to the fire to get rid of any other juice. Then with another Scourgify she cleaned off the needle once again. And for good measure, she gave her work area a quick cleaning as well.


Taking her silver knife, the third year gave it a Scourgify before picking up the first leaf. Looking at it closely, she made sure she could see the vein clearly. This was another high precision required step. Slowly, she touched the tip of the knife to the vein in the leaf and sliced it open. She continued to do the same with the next leaf until all of them were neatly sliced. The knife received another cleaning.


Gently Silvia added the leaves into the cauldron. The next step was to add the seeds. This potion seemed to require a lot of dangerous ingredients. After making sure her pestle and mortar were clean, Silvia put the seeds into the mortar and dipped the end of the pestle into the cauldron. Lifting it back out, she held it above the potion and shook off the excess liquid. Then the pestle found its way to the mortar and she crushed the seeds. Silvia continued to grind them up until they became a paste. Using her wooden spoon (after cleaning it of course), she spooned the seed paste into the potion.

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Ella was a bit worried about Nessie, her eyes falling on the Captain and growing a bit wider. Meep. She was acting kind of strange, yeah? At least Professor Lafay didn't seem too concerned about it, that meant it was not too serious right? Right. No need to worry...

Turning her attention back to the Professor, Ella listened as she gave them the next set of instructions, scribbling down notes as she went along. No color change yet? Ella raised an eyebrow and checked her own brewing potion, nodding with approval. Yup, hers was still looking the same so that was good. She added the leaves gently as instructed and then looked up from her work, eyeing the next ingredient with curiosity.

Seeds, huh? Alright. Ella could deal with seeds. She reached for her mortar, pestle, and wooden spoon, setting them down in front of her. She then cleaned them to ensure that there would be no contamination during use. Next she picked up the pestle and dipped it into her cauldron, shaking it until there were no more drops coming off from it. Right, time to do some crushing.

Placing the seeds in the mortar, Ella used the pestle to crush them down. She worked hard, putting effort into creating the paste-like substance that was meant to go into the cauldron. When it looked to be the right consistency, the third year picked up the wooden spoon and added it to her potion.

There. Not so bad. And now that she'd finished that step, she cleaned off her tools and placed them neatly back on the table.

Originally Posted by kayquilz

Elliot nodded, drinking in Lafay's words..she didn't want to mess up! Nooo!

Put them into the cauldron...gently. Okay? What would happen if you didn't this...'gently?' anyways? Did it make a diff--FOCUS! She took a deep breath and dumped the leaf stuff into the potion...okay? Now what? Don't say this aloud in this class, Elliot..Lafay doesn't like it... she eyed Milton.

Seriously?! Poison hemlock...another creepy ingredient! So weird. Elliot wondered if this one was poisonous...wait..poison hemlock..err...so it was poison, too! Great.

She picked up the pestle and gently dipped it to where the top was damp...she let it drip a few seconds before putting the seeds onto the mortar. She began the crushing...part. Crushcrushcrush.

Crushcrushcrush....

Crush.

CRUSH.

Merlin...WAS IT PASTE-LIKE YET?! She crushed for just a bit more and when she was satisfied with it...she stopped...waiting for the next instructions...Lafay hadn't said to put it IN the potion yet....

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Carefully looking for the vein on one of the leaves (which was easier than one might think), Emmanuelle eventually found it and sliced right down it. Doing it for the other seven leaves, she then gently dumped them all into her potion. Once that was done, she picked up her pestle, gave it a quick Scourgify, then dipped it carefully into her cauldron. Hmmm, a bit warm..... She pulled it back out of the potion quickly, giving a few good shakes to get the excess potion off. Placing the seeds into her mortar, she began to crush. Quickly, they took on a consistency that really reminded her of vomit. Ugh, gross. Trying not to think of this, she crushed a little more, until they looked like a brown paste, then spooned them into her potion, using the wooden spoon, of course.

Originally Posted by Cassirin

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Looking around, Sierra suddenly realized she had fallen behind. Her first thought, though, wasn't that she needed to get started right away. It was that her mother would let her have it if the woman realized she'd lagged behind the others. Sierra wondered what she'd been doing to get so far behind, but in the end, she just blamed it on the little first year she'd been helping.

Reaching for her silver knife, she placed its sharp tip over the vein of the leaf. She sliced the leaf open, making sure to be precise. She dropped the leaves into the cauldron then reached for her pestle. She dipped it into the cauldron and shook it a bit. Afterwards, she tossed the seeds into the mortar and began to crush. *crush crush crush crush* When she had a substance that was about as pasty as it could get, she spooned it into the cauldron.

There now. All caught up.

Originally Posted by Droo

"Very good." She said watching them before she went back to her cauldron. "Now... we've added the Deadly Nightshade, for it's magical properties. The Devil's Weed, which is also part of the Nightshade family, has anesthetic properties and the Poison Hemlock was added because in ancient times the Anglo-Saxons discovered it to be a good sedative and antispasmodic, and in sufficient doses as a paralyser. Your dreams will be harder to remember if you are tossing and turning."

She pulled out the poppy flower, showing it to the students. "Goggles please." She said not putting them on herself. "I'm use to this... you aren't. Put on your goggles as when this is heated the fumes will make you sleepy."

She tried to answer the unanswered question. "Red poppies are the most potent. So we use red. Just drop it on the top, let the potion wilt it on it's own and it will sink to the bottom of the cauldron."

Originally Posted by Droo

"Very good." She said watching them before she went back to her cauldron. "Now... we've added the Deadly Nightshade, for it's magical properties. The Devil's Weed, which is also part of the Nightshade family, has anesthetic properties and the Poison Hemlock was added because in ancient times the Anglo-Saxons discovered it to be a good sedative and antispasmodic, and in sufficient doses as a paralyser. Your dreams will be harder to remember if you are tossing and turning."

She pulled out the poppy flower, showing it to the students. "Goggles please." She said not putting them on herself. "I'm use to this... you aren't. Put on your goggles as when this is heated the fumes will make you sleepy."

She tried to answer the unanswered question. "Red poppies are the most potent. So we use red. Just drop it on the top, let the potion wilt it on it's own and it will sink to the bottom of the cauldron."

Originally Posted by Droo

Hecate nodded at the kids. "There should be no change in color yet. Let's continue..." She said. "Put them into the cauldron gently." She took another ingredient out and showed it to the students in the palm of her hand. "These seeds are from a plant called Poison Hemlock or Devil's porridge. I want you to dip your pestle in the cauldron, shake it a bit, so it's just wet and not dripping, then putting the seeds into your mortar, crush them into a mush. Then when it's a paste-like consistency, spoon it in with a wooden spoon."

Originally Posted by Droo

"Very good." She said watching them before she went back to her cauldron. "Now... we've added the Deadly Nightshade, for it's magical properties. The Devil's Weed, which is also part of the Nightshade family, has anesthetic properties and the Poison Hemlock was added because in ancient times the Anglo-Saxons discovered it to be a good sedative and antispasmodic, and in sufficient doses as a paralyser. Your dreams will be harder to remember if you are tossing and turning."

She pulled out the poppy flower, showing it to the students. "Goggles please." She said not putting them on herself. "I'm use to this... you aren't. Put on your goggles as when this is heated the fumes will make you sleepy."

She tried to answer the unanswered question. "Red poppies are the most potent. So we use red. Just drop it on the top, let the potion wilt it on it's own and it will sink to the bottom of the cauldron."

Originally Posted by Droo

"Very good." She said watching them before she went back to her cauldron. "Now... we've added the Deadly Nightshade, for it's magical properties. The Devil's Weed, which is also part of the Nightshade family, has anesthetic properties and the Poison Hemlock was added because in ancient times the Anglo-Saxons discovered it to be a good sedative and antispasmodic, and in sufficient doses as a paralyser. Your dreams will be harder to remember if you are tossing and turning."

She pulled out the poppy flower, showing it to the students. "Goggles please." She said not putting them on herself. "I'm use to this... you aren't. Put on your goggles as when this is heated the fumes will make you sleepy."

She tried to answer the unanswered question. "Red poppies are the most potent. So we use red. Just drop it on the top, let the potion wilt it on it's own and it will sink to the bottom of the cauldron."

Originally Posted by Droo

"Very good." She said watching them before she went back to her cauldron. "Now... we've added the Deadly Nightshade, for it's magical properties. The Devil's Weed, which is also part of the Nightshade family, has anesthetic properties and the Poison Hemlock was added because in ancient times the Anglo-Saxons discovered it to be a good sedative and antispasmodic, and in sufficient doses as a paralyser. Your dreams will be harder to remember if you are tossing and turning."

She pulled out the poppy flower, showing it to the students. "Goggles please." She said not putting them on herself. "I'm use to this... you aren't. Put on your goggles as when this is heated the fumes will make you sleepy."

She tried to answer the unanswered question. "Red poppies are the most potent. So we use red. Just drop it on the top, let the potion wilt it on it's own and it will sink to the bottom of the cauldron."

Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife

Wow.

That is a loooooooooooooooot of sedatives in that potion. Seriously, that was a lot. What are they gonna use them for? Making an elephant and a giraffe sleep for a week?

The blonde took out her goggles and wore them when Lafay had told them to wear them because the potion's fumes cause people to fall asleep. Now, who would want to sleep in the middle of Potions Class? Wake up in the hospital wing with lost house points. Yeah, not a good idea.

Kat got the red poppies she collected earlier and dropped them on top of the potion's surface. Well... now she had nothing to do but wait until it has sunken to the bottom of her cauldron.

Tick tock. Tick tock.

Originally Posted by DecemberMoon

Eliza was really starting to wonder if she'd ever trust herself to take her own potions. Maybe not just yet, she thought. She seemed to be doing all right so far, but there were a lot of scary ingredients in this thing and it didn't seem to be getting any peachier.

She reached to put on her goggles and whilst doing so almost draped her robe sleeve into her cauldron. Woops! That wouldn'tve been good... She looked around to see if anyone, namely the professor, had seen her near miss. She rubbed the goggles on her robe since they seemed a little foggy, then she remembered Oh, duh. We can use magic without asking. You're a witch remember? She really was in a whole other place sometimes. "Scourgify." There, that was better. She slid them on, making sure the headband was snug. She wasn't quite sure how goggles would prevent the fumes from going to her head, but Eliza did as she was instructed and dropped her single red poppy flower into the potion. It withered, curled, and slowly sunk deeper down into the cauldron. She was a little sad to watch the pretty flower go, but that was potions for you. It served a purpose so she supposed it wasn't such a bad thing.

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

As Professor Lafay was calling out what the previous ingredients they added to the cauldron does, Jory scribbled them down quickly.

He now got out his goggles. He made sure it was on properly. There was no need to fall asleep in class.

The boy took the poppies and dropped it on top of the potion and watched as it began to wilt then slowly sink to the bottom of the cauldron.

Originally Posted by SilverTiger

Somehow, the explanation for the ingredients that they'd already put into the cauldron really didn't make Kendall feel any better about brewing it. Probably because she still couldn't see how it would actually have any influence on if a person remembered their dreams or not, since she didn't think that thing about tossing and turning was true. It just seemed like they were brewing something that, if it didn't kill them, it was going to practically put them into a coma. She wasn't about to question it, though, not after witnessing what had happened when her house's captain had protested her mispronouncing his name. She didn't want that happening to her, because that would no doubt make her hair change and then need explanations she didn't want to give. She'd just continue hoping they didn't have to test it later. She had a feeling stopping halfway wouldn't be any better than finishing, anyway.

She practically had her goggles out as soon as they'd been mentioned, however, slipping them over her eyes even as she contin ued listening to the instructions. Shouldn't we be putting gas masks or something on to avoid fumes, not just goggles?, she wondered. Another question she wasn't going to ask, although the part about red poppies was interesting. It was faerie story-like, really, which she liked. Even if she didn't want to go to sleep in class. Therefore, as soon as they were released to follow the instructions, she picked her poppy up and reached over to drop it into her cauldron. Keeping her head clear of any fumes that might be released, and going back to her notes to occupy her time while she waited for the next step.

SPOILER!!: Potions journal

Dreamer's Elixir-something? (either lets a person remember or forget their dreams)

Ingredients:
Water
1 cup valerian root
half a cup of Kava Kava (?)
1 berry of deadly nightshade
8 leaves of devil's weed
1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds (devil’s porridge)
1 poppy flower
10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi (?)

Steps:
1. clean cauldron (important)
2. fill cauldron to the neck with water (basically full)
3. light the fire underneath cauldron to boil the water
4. once the water boils, add the valerian and kava kava (mixes easier if in liquid form)
5.using a clean, 18 carat gold needle, pierce the nightshade berry, making sure to get a single drop of juice on the tip of the needle
6.set the berry on fire, using the magical burner under cauldron, burning it up entirely along with any remaining juice not on the needle
7. let the drop on the needle fall into the potion without touching anything other than the needle
8.burn any remaining juice from needle, clean it, and return to supplies
9.using silver knife, slice each leaf of devil’s weed carefully along the vein
10.place sliced leaves carefully into cauldron/potion
11.dip pestle into the liquid, shaking excess off so it’s just moist
12.place hemlock seeds into mortar, then crush with moist pestle until mushy (“paste-like consistency”)
13.spoon the hemlock seed paste into cauldron with a wooden spoon
14.put goggles on so fumes don’t make you sleepy
15.place RED poppy flower on top of the liquid in cauldron, letting the heat from the potion wilt it and sink it to the bottom of the cauldron

Originally Posted by Macavity

Originally Posted by iceblossom22

Elise pulled the small container full of Devil's Weed and scourgified her working station. Pulling out her silver knife ans scourgifying that too, Elise pressed the tip of the knife to the top of the vein. Moving her hand veeery slowly, she sliced the weeds carefully through the vein cleanly.

So cleanly that she didn't have to redo any. So yay!

Checking her cauldron to make sure that the potion was still clear, Elise heaved a sigh of relief. So far, so good. Scourgifying her mortar and pestle, quickly, Elise picked her pestle up. Gingerly dipping it into the liquid and shaking it so that the excess came off.

Then, she poured the cup full of the seeds inside the mortar and took her still wet pestle and began to crush. Crushing took a while, since Elise was way more worried about the amount of poison in the potion, but eventually it did reach a paste-like consistency.

"Scourgify," she muttered, wand pointed at her wooden spoon. Scooping all the paste, she gently shook it into the cauldron. And made sure that it didn't splash anywhere. Good.

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Helping Nessie sit up, Kurumi bit her lip and leaned in a bit. "There aren't any dragons," unfortunately, "I think you were just experiencing the effects of the deadly nightshade berry juice...it can cause hallucinations." But Nessie was alright now, right? No weird visions or anything, yes?

Glancing over her shoulder when Professor Lafay addressed Nessie - and insulted Milton again with some rather amusing nicknames - Kurumi helped the Hufflepuff back up on her feet and back to her seat before returning to her own so she could continue brewing her potion. Elijah better not flings more of this potion at Nessie...or anyone for that matter.

Listening to Professor Lafay, Kurumi checked on her cauldron to make sure that things were looking how they should - as least she assumed that it was looking how things should be before slipping her goggles on. She did have to wonder if the fumes being inhaled would cause any...issues...seeing as fumes typically had an impact when breathed in - just like the poppies in The Wizard of Oz. Just to be safe, Kurumi used her free hand to cover her mouth and nose while she reached for her poppy with the other. Kurumi dropped it into her cauldron and watched as it shriveled up in the boiling liquid and eventually vanished beneath the surface.

Done with the next step, Kurumi looked up and caught Logan looking at her, so she offered him an encouraging smile as she returned to her parchment and added to her notes.

Originally Posted by FireboltSword

Befelda's getting excited as she knew they are getting near to finishing the Elixir Potion. After taking heed of the Professor's instruction, she grabbed her quill and parchment and wrote down the next steps:



After writing down the steps, she then put on her goggles, wore it properly then took the red poppies, placed on top of the cauldron and dropped them.

Befelda then waited to wilt on the potion.

Originally Posted by the fastest seeker

Cassia searched for the seeds the Professor showed them. Seeds.....hmmmm...where were they. She squinted her eyes at all the ingredients.Not here. She skipped to the storage and grabbed some seeds. Returning to her desk she reached for the pestle and dipped it into the cauldron. Then putting the seeds into the mortar she started crushing.

And what's with the names!! Poison and Devil...

After crushing for quite a while. Cassia thought that they did turn into a mush. Taking the spoon she started spooning them.

What's next..





Interesting. Something about sedating. Were they going to use the potion? On themselves or other people. Cassia was so eager to find out about that.

And things required goggles now. Mhhmm.The second-year reached for the goggles and put them on. She dropped the red poppy and watched it sink into the cauldron. Her goggles on. Interesting

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.

Ella added the new information to her notes, knowing it might come in handy at another time. It was always good to hear why you were adding what you were adding to a potion, made it a lot easier to digest how the potion worked the way it did. When she was finished writing she set her quill and parchment aside, looking up at Professor Lafay again.

Red poppies. Right. Ella reached for the pair of goggles, pointing her wand at them to ensure that they were clean. She certainly didn't want dirty googles anywhere near her eyes. "Scourgify." When she was done she placed them securely on her head, adjusting them so they fit snugly.

With a deep breath, the third year picked up the poppy flower and dropped it into her cauldron, watching as it hit the potion. She watched with great interest as it slowly began to wilt, emitting fumes that seemed to surround her head. Even with the goggles, she did feel slightly drowsy. The badger couldn't imagine doing it without them. She'd have fallen asleep right there on the table. Meep. Looking down again, she noted that the flower had sunk all the way to the bottom of the potion. Right. All set. Blink.Blink.Blink. The fumes would die down soon, right? ...

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Minerva was busy watching to make sure Nessie was alright. She didn't want anything to happen to her fellow puff mate. When she knew she would be okay Minerva turned back to realize she had fallen behind. OH..no that's not good. She looked at the steps and took the weed putting it into the cauldron gently as the professor had said. Then she picked up the pestle dipping it in the cauldron then shaking it a bit. Taking hold of her mortar she made sure it was clean first then placed the seeds in. **Crush...Crush..crush..crush..crush..** Once the seeds were all nicely crushed into mush Minerva took out her wooden spoon and again made sure it was clean. Spooning the mush with the wooden spoon just as the professor had done.

Minerva then pulled out her goggles and made sure they were clean and ready to go. Placing them on her head she wondered how sleepy the potion would make them. She didn't want to take a chance falling asleep in this class.. no way.. maybe she would try not to breath in the potion either. Minerva then took the poppy and dropped it carefully in. Watching it wilt she felt the fumes coming around her. Holding her breath not to breath them in she turned her head to take a breath before looking back at the cauldron. Once the poppy was at the bottom she stepped back a bit and waited for the next direction.

Originally Posted by DeathEater1

Cardigan kinda rushed through this next part. She had fallen behind!!! What was she gonna do?? Well, there was no choice just to continue on. She dipped her pestle in the cauldron and took it out, shaking it off a bit, so it wouldn't be too wet or anything, like the professor said. She put the Hemlock seeds in the mortar, and proceeded to turn them into mush.

Crush, crush, crush.

Great! Now that she was done with that, she spooned the mush into the cauldron. All caught up!! Cardigan put her goggles on, which would supposedly protect them from the sleepy fumes. It wouldn't be too fun to land face first in a cauldron right about now... She picked up the red poppy and dropped it in, watching it wilt and float to the bottom.

Was it supposed to take this long??

Originally Posted by Meizzner

Nigel put on his goggle not even risking what would happen if he didn't. He picked a red poppy and got ready to drop it into his cauldron. He listened to Lafay describe what Devil's Weed is. Nigel would have taken notes if not for the cauldron and poppy seed in his hand.

Nigel dropped the red poppy on the top and let the potion do what Lafay said. He was happy it sank to the bottom because that meant his potion was correct. Now what is next?

Originally Posted by hpfan18

Belle heard the professor's directions and was prepared to listen. She got out her red poppy out first. Then she put on her goggles and did not want get sleepy and be sent to the hospital wing.

Then she dropped it on the top, she saw it floating there at first, then after a few minutes she saw it sink to the bottom of the cauldron. Belle let out a sigh of relief. She was glad everything was going right.

Belle took some notes of Devils Weed.She did not want to miss that. Then she added the poppy seed step to her potions notebook.

Originally Posted by Princesspower

After writing down some notes on the Deadly nightshade, devil's weed and hemlock on the side of her notebook. It was nice all the extra information Lafay provided.
Then she added more to her notes:

Sarah was glad Nessie was okay, meanwhile she afixed the goggles to her eyes. She had homework to do so sleep will not be so conducive. Then she selected a red poppy and just hep it over the brew and then just let it drop. She saw it wilt and then sink to the bottom like the Titanic.

Originally Posted by Cassirin

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Slipping on her goggles, Emmanuelle was reminded of a muggle chemistry class. Which she knew Potions was nothing like (as they spent their class time making s'mores and stuff), but still...

Making sure her nose was out of the range of the potions fumes, she carefully added the poppy. She watched as it slowly wilted and sunk out of sight. Okay, next?