eeeeeeEEHEHEHEHE

Tobias hadn't been expecting THAT reaction. He quickly went from flame-blowing to trying very very VERY HARD not to laugh, which effectively cut off the flames anyway. And stood there. Guilty but not really.

"Did it work, Professor?" the Hufflepuff enquired innocently, looking as though butter wouldn't melt.

Caelen needed a partner for the activity. The potion looked correct and she was looking for someone to breathe fire on. Not like harmfully or anything, but in a hey-we-have-to-do-this-for-class way. She had an older brother. She knew that tickling did not always mean tickling.

Looking around, she found that most everybody had a partner, besides this one girl. The girl was cleaning up her work station twice over. Was she just really clean, or was she just stalling? Important questions.

But still, Caelen needed a partner for the task and this girl looked like she was a fit. She wasn't being too aggressive, was she? Cause she felt incredibly aggressive now.

"Hey." She was whispering and she wasn't sure why. Or even really why she walked over here. Maybe she wanted to make the girl feel not scared and actually partner? Or maybe she was trying to take the attention away from both girls so the Professor wouldn't freak out. Annnywaaay...

"I'm Caelen. Since we have to get this thing down, do you wanna be my partner?" The little redhead tried to thnk of a way to sweeten the deal. Not that she wasn't sweet herself.

"I can go first. That way you get to feel the tickling and I get the taste?" Would that be a good plan?

Oh man.

Oh man!

Cosgrach was tired, EXHAUSTED, DONE FOR. He panted heavily as he turned to a jello in his seat for a few seconds. That was--too--"Perfectly." His potion worked perfectly, and Cosgrach grinned at the staring-boy. His hand tiredly reached into his pocket. He wasn't trying to be inconspicuous, but he didn't announce it to the world either. He brought out the vial that carried this potion he'd brewed before the class just to brush up on it, and got some into his mouth. The taste made him wince a little, but he got over it by drawing a deeeeeeep breath and opened his mouth as far as it would go to breathe father of fires onto the boy.

Could he get half of his body covered with fire? Because that boy was going DOWN.

So.. he knew his ears were turning red, and just by her asking him that question, had them turning even more.

Rhodes kind of just.. stared over at Romulus, hands still clasped over her mouth to stop any stray giggles that threatened to escape, and before she could even question him even further about it, since it wasn't like he was the ONLY one in the class who had been gross like that, he was running off to grab his stuff and then went right out the door.

Well. Okay then.

She uncovered her mouth, since nothing more seemed to be happening anymore, and moving to her own things, she quickly cleaned everything up. There. Done. She could leave! And so she did. Professor man looked too busy to say goodbye to.

Robin was looking for someone to try her fire on- and when she saw a girl who was looking for a target, she decided to pounce. Who would expect to be the target while looking for targets? It was game time. Keeping the potion in her mouth she pretended to be shrinking away from other people and being scared she'd be breathed on.
Oh ho ho, if only they knew.
Once she got just past the girl she let the fire rip, getting right in the middle of the girls robes. She laughed out loud, stunned she could do that and ran away, it was like a 10x more thrilling game of tag!

Lana grimaced as she felt the potion in her mouth. Perhaps it wasn't completely wise to just go for it after all. Slight tearing of her eye became to cloud her vision and a strange warm sensation was building across her face. In all honesty, it wasn't completely awful but it was far from pleasant.

Taking a moment to collect herself, she analysed what it felt like and stored it away to write it down after. There wasn't much time left and she wanted to at least get to blow fire once. As the feeling built more, she could see the stream coming from her nostrils.

It seriously now or never and she was already in this far. Pulling her hand up into the path of sight, she let out the building breath and exhaled. The. Sensation as the fire left her mouth was one that she really couldn't explain. It tingled but it wasn't the cold kind if tingle that she usually accost aged with the feeling. It was warm and it tingled from far back in her throat to the very tips of her lips. "That's so strange," she laughed. It really wasn't like she had feared and her mind thought back to her first attempt at the potion previously. If she had tried that one, who knew what could have happened.

Perfectly?

SCORE.

Tobias sat there grinning, and he noticed the ProfessorMan bring a vial out of his pocket, but assumed it was some kind of potion that would make him less tired. 'Cause he looked tired. The Hufflepuff just took a moment to revel in his success before-

"Oh no."

Professor Culloden wasn't drinking the potion. He was holding it in his mouth.

Which could only mean one thing.

Toby's blue eyes, which in this light mirrored the colours of the walls the dungeon, widened almost comically and he turned to make a break for it. He'd even made it a couple of steps (fast kid was fast) when the flames HIT.

He couldn't help it. It was too much to bear.

"AAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHhahahhahAHAHAAaaaAAAAAohhMYGOSH! " the boy giggled, unable to control his laughter to make it some more mature. Just pure, unadulterated GIGGLING. His back and his neck tickled furiously, and Toby tried to turn so they wouldn't bear the brunt of it, but this only meant his ribs and side got hit by the flames as well. Tobias clenched his arm closer, as though that would somehow protect him, and found himself doubling over and gasping for breath between laughter. "EheheHEHEHESSSSiiIRRRR... hAHAhAHAAHAstAHHPP..."

Tears welled up in Toby's eyes due to laughing so hard, and he instantly decided that this was the most fun potions class he'd ever had, and was likely to ever have. Or he might have done if he weren't so busy being TORTURED by the POTIONS MASTER.

Sarah gave him a grin... her throat still tickled.. Suddenly she felt ticking out of her body for a change... on the outside of her neck! Was the fire pentrating her throat? "oops sorry" she heard a voice say behind her, it was another student, who had blown at her neck. It really did tickle... Sarah would have preferred to have fire on the outside... that way she could share the warmth, now it was all to herself.

She could still fill herself on fire... she was on fire! She wished she could check the reflection of her face though, that way she could see what she looked like. But her throat kept tickling, Sarah wanted to to scratch it.

So HOW WAS IT TICKLING PEOPLE, HMMMmmmmMMM? Did he like THAT? Cosgrach breathed until he ran out of breath, which was only a few seconds later really, because he was old now breathing with his mouth fully open was hard. He let the kid catch his breath for the next few seconds as he watched him curiously, then gave him a BIG BIG GRIN.

Yes, he enjoyed the class too.

"What's your name?" he asked, because the kid was confidently walking the road of 'favourite PEOPLE'.

... Was... Asher okay? Once he had finished laughing at the tickling sensation from the fire breathing, Alec tilted his head and watched the boy curiously. There was steam coming out of the Slytherin's ears which... was very similar to the way steam had poured out of the volunteers' ea--

... Wait... no... Asher couldn't have...

...

THERE IT WAS. Alec burst out laughing again, this time at the particularly loud burp rather than the tickling from before. Asher was cool and the Hufflepuff was quite certain that he wouldn't mind the laughter. "I... mate!" he said, after regaining his composure, "Did you swallow the potion?" And... did he know that he resembled a kettle for a minute there? ... A bit. Yeah.

"Anytime, mate!" Fistbumps were happening. Yeah. Fistbumps for you too, Romalotti.

Still grinning, Alec turned his head to look around at the classroom. He had to find someone to try the potion on as well. Romalotti had suffered enough with the potion and... someone else was breathing on him so he was out. He scanned the room some more, even sitting up a little on his seat to get a better view, before his grey-blue eyes landed on...

... a target. The Beater from the Slytherin Quidditch Team last year who had fiery hair. Alec grinned.

Silently hoping she wasn't the type of girl to shout at him -- Beaters were scary, you know -- the boy poured some of the potion in his mouth and kept it there. He made a face at the new taste and tried his hardest not to swallow it. It was especially hard since his stomach was grumbling and asking for food -- when was dinner time? -- but his brain was saying no to the potion. He didn't want to be BURPING on the girl, after all. That... wouldn't be very gentlemanly of him, right?

After a couple of seconds of getting used to the potion, Alec got up from his seat and tried to sneak up on the girl. Stealthy and casual: those were two things this Hufflepuff wasn't good at being but he tried. It was better to be breathed on in surprise, yeah? Plus, she was talking to someone. How hard could sneaking up on her be? He edged closer... and closer... until...

BREAAAAAAAATHE! Flames. In her general direction. He was an Alec!dinosaur.

... Maybe he should have greeted her too?

Bri was finished up with her own project with Fern. So she decided to relax for a bit before cleaning up to leave, and watch the rest of the students perform. Bri grinned when she noticed Tobias eying Professor Culloden. 'This should be interesting' Bri thought amusingly. She tried not to giggle when Tobias blow fire on to the professor, but she lost it at Professor Culloden's reaction. That WAS great! It got even better when Professor Culloden turned around and hit Tobias with the fire. Bri was laughing so hard at the the two, that she fell off her sit. Blushing, and hoping no one saw her, the young girl stood up and brushed herself off.

Adelaide was so focused on the person sitting next to her that she didn't notice that there was a Hufflepuff boy standing behind her. She was preparing herself for her partner's flames to hit her. No need to burst out in a fit of giggles that she couldn't control right.

...and then there was something tickling her from behind. She started laughing instantly before she turned around and spotted a Hufflepuff boy that she recognized from the pitch. She continued laughing until the flames died down a bit. She looked at him. "Don't you know it's not nice to sneak up on people like that?" Joking of course because that was definitely interesting.

Addi smirked at took a bit more of the potion in her mouth. She got used to the sensation before blowing out her coughy, chunky flames at the boy. She fought every urge to have a complete coughing fit again.

Oh.

Oh man.

Oh man.

That had been a total riot. Tobias reached out to grab the side of a desk and steady himself just as the flames and the tickling stopped. He finally stopped laughing but carried on grinning as he caught his breath. Wow. WOW.

Soon enough, he was able to stand up straight again, and the Hufflepuff used the sleeve of his robes to wide at his laughter!tears as he looked at the professor again.

Naaaaame? "I'm Toby, sir," he said, electing to go with the shortened version. "Toby Tempus." HE was grinning TOO (obviously). "That potion was so fun." And HILARIOUS. Okay? Okay.

Cosgrach felt the EYES, and turned to her to wink.

Professors needed fun too, y'know? He didn't get the class difference between professors and students anyway. As long as students knew they should respect them, it was fine.



And Toby here knew that. Respect. Cosgrach, still grinning, held out his hand to shake like the sportsmen after a fair match.

"You students made it fun, son," he said as composedly as he could, because he could still feel the tickling sensation. "I'm glad you liked it."

Was there anyone else trying to catch him off-guard HMM?

Pheeew! Kace wasn't mad at her. Not that she expected him to be, it was, after all, an accident that she'd breathed fire on him. And he seemed like a nice guy, sooo...nice. Yeah.

When he called her name she gazed at him expectantly, but he was interrupted by coughing. Then fire. Bev flinched when the fire touched her arms, but nothing happened. Instead there was a tickling sensation. And Bev was a very ticklish person.

She covered her mouth to hide a small giggle. Not bad.

"Um, you're smoking." As in smoke, y'know. Heh.

The reaction coming from the girl? It was AWESOME. Once Alec finished breathing out the flames on her, he stood back and watched her laugh, a grin spreading across his face. The fact that this potion only resulted in tickling and curing the flu was GREAT. Head Boy was happy, yeah.

It wasn't nice to sneak up on people? She was joking, right? Yeah? Because otherwise... he would feel really bad and try to go and make pancakes for her after the lesson as a way of apologising. Did she like pancakes? Waffles? ... Moving on... "I... you're an easy target! Not on the Quidditch pitch but... yeah, here you ar--"

... Wait. What was she doing? There was potion in her mouth which could only mean one thing and one thing only: Fiery-haired Beater Girl was getting her revenge. Before he could do any more than widen his eyes and open his mouth in shock, she had managed to breathe out on him and, for the second time, he felt the familiar flames licking the surface of his skin.

And Alec? Alec burst out laughing again. He bent over, hands on his knees and continued laughing. "I..." Laugh. "... that's really..." More laughing. "... that..." ... He... wasn't going to be able to talk much at this rate. "... that tickles!" And now she knew his weakness; Alec Blake Summers was a ticklish boy.

Once the flames had died down, so did his laughter. Eventually. He straightened up and looked at her again, a grin spreading across his face. "That was... sneaky of you, you know."

Adelaide raised an eyebrow at the easy target comment. But she smirked a bit at the quidditch part. Yep. Definitely not an easy target there.

Addi smiled as she continued breathing at the boy's reaction. It was priceless. She felt another fit of coughs coming on and let them out, the flame becoming more staggered before finally stopping. "Sorry about that. Messed up brewing a bit." Of course she was only apologizing for how the flame had come out.

"Ticklish huh?" She smiled a bit. Not that that mattered much. Not like she could just stop in the middle of a game or something and tickle him. That might get her in trouble.

She just shrugged off his last comment. "Well I am a Slytherin..." What did the Puffer have to say for his own sneakiness?

Awwwwwww he was cute! Sophie giggled and coughed hard through her laughter at him once she was done. And he seemed HAPPIER about it! He said it WAS cool! Coooooool! "Great. Glad I could help." She grinned at him, a little more steam still escaping from her mouth, before leaning toward him to extend a hand. "M'Sophie, by the way."

And she already knew who he was, but she was going to go ahead and let him introduce himself, if he wanted, so he wouldn't be all weirded out that she knew who he was. Though... obviously she knew who he was. Prefect and Quidditch superstar and all that. "Thanks for being cool." About the whole breathing fire thing at him.

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Caelen needed a partner for the activity. The potion looked correct and she was looking for someone to breathe fire on. Not like harmfully or anything, but in a hey-we-have-to-do-this-for-class way. She had an older brother. She knew that tickling did not always mean tickling.

Looking around, she found that most everybody had a partner, besides this one girl. The girl was cleaning up her work station twice over. Was she just really clean, or was she just stalling? Important questions.

But still, Caelen needed a partner for the task and this girl looked like she was a fit. She wasn't being too aggressive, was she? Cause she felt incredibly aggressive now.

"Hey." She was whispering and she wasn't sure why. Or even really why she walked over here. Maybe she wanted to make the girl feel not scared and actually partner? Or maybe she was trying to take the attention away from both girls so the Professor wouldn't freak out. Annnywaaay...

"I'm Caelen. Since we have to get this thing down, do you wanna be my partner?" The little redhead tried to thnk of a way to sweeten the deal. Not that she wasn't sweet herself.

"I can go first. That way you get to feel the tickling and I get the taste?" Would that be a good plan?

Oh, one of the new first year Ravenclaws! Sophie wiped a fallen tear from her face - she had just become aware of how badly her eyes stung - and put on a brave face for the kid. "Hi Caelen. Sophie." Paaaaaaause. Did she really want to put the potion back in her mouth and breathe more flames and increase the burning sensation in her throat? Not particularly. But if it was for the learning experience of a new Ravenclaw...

She was game. Allllways and absolutely for the knowledge and fun.

"If you do want to go first, lemme give you a tip - blow pretty much as soon as the potion enters your mouth so you don't have much time to focus on the taste and will be distracted by the flames shooting from your mouth instead." Sophie grinned at her own advice and... braced herself, if the girl was going to do it.

And the professor and Tobes over there? She looked on with the utmost amusement. Culloden was her new favorite professor. Sorry, Elwood and Bentley and Fuller and Botros and Flamsteed. CULLODEN.

Still beaming away, Toby took that man's hand and shook it. Well, Potions just suddenly got a lot more interesting. Not that it wasn't interesting before, of course, but now.

You know.

Culloden.

"Awesome," he added, just 'cause he was still on a high from the whole flame thing. Then, after shaking the potions dude's hand, he gave the man a SALUTE for good measure. THEN he turned to the giggling girl, the one he'd been introduced to by Tyner on the Quidditch pitch, and gave her a grin too. 'Cause he had, by then, also realised they had an audience. It was good to make people laugh, right?

Aaaaaaand back to Culldoen. "I'd best be packing up my things."

And so he did.

Caleb grinned. He'd successfully snuck up on his sister - mission accomplished! He could totally be an Auror, he was a master of stealth. Just like a snake. Man he was just so awesome.

He figured she'd retaliate, so like a good brother, he turned his back to her and stood nearby so she could "sneak" up on him. Sure enough, a moment or two later he felt a tickling sensation on his back and he laughed. "AHHHHH! That's so cool!!" he chuckled, a few puffs of smoke coming out of his mouth as he did so. It was warm, but not hot enough that it hurt or anything. It felt like he was standing in front of a fireplace or something.

BURRRRRRPPPPPPP again. Whoops.

Hawthorne set to work cleaning everything. Her cauldron was potion free, her mortar and pestle had no trace of grime. She scrubbed her desk by hand. She packe dup all of her ingredients and put the remaining potion that was in it's container into the cauldron for safe-keeping. She left the shell on the desk as instructed, but not directly on the bare wood.

She thought she would have a few moments to take her supplies back to her dorm before going to the professors office. So that meant up the stairs, down the stairs twice over. again.

"I will see you momentarily, professor." she said with a smile and she left the room.

Robin looked around- sure she had gotten an unsuspecting target, she giggled at the memory, blowing fire made her feel like a completley different person! What shy girl shot fire? She did apparently, and that girls face...
Her smile wavered a bit, sure she could go up to anyone and breath fire but what about the opposite? Looking around, everyone seemed to have partners and she couldn't just ask someone 'hey can you blow fire on me?' Well she couldn't. Maybe she could ask the teacher. Going up to the professor she asked.
"Um...professor sir, can you demonstrate the fire on me? I think everyone has a partner already..."

The Hufflepuff had been so busy focusing on the taste in her mouth and why her flame wasn't coming out smoothly that she hadn't really paid attention to Bri's reaction. But when the girl described how Fern's potion had elicited an even stronger reaction than even her own brother's tickling, and how it had been warm and relaxing and interesting, well. Fern forgot about the metallic aftertaste and gloated.

Puffing her chest with pride, the 12-year-old smiled smugly and answered the younger student's thank you with a patronizing, "You're welcome."

"If you ever need help or advice or anything, you can totally come to me," she added in farewell, "I am kind-of a big deal at Hogwarts. I even had this whole gossip column written about me."

Back at her station, Fern quickly cleaning her now empty vial and making sure everything else was in order, removed her goggles and gloves and packed up her cauldron. Then she hightailed it out of the classroom, not saying goodbye to Professor Culloden, who she was hoping was too busy with Toby to notice the lack of farewell.

'Awesome'!

Who wouldda thought Cosgrach would actually care about student opinions? And feel HAPPY? Accomplished? Well, he did. Maybe teaching wasn't terrible after all, if he got to have students like Toby.

"See ya around," he said to him and kept watching the remaining students with the ghost of his smile on his face.

Blimey! That was some sensation! He'd forgotten how it felt!



His eyes turned to the motion, and he held up a hand to show her he saw her.

She might have to wait a bit, seeing there were still some people inside the classroom, but she wouldn't mind..?



There came...another person asking him to partner up!

"Sure thing, love," he said to the girl, and grabbed his vial that he'd put on the desk after using on Toby. He opened the lid and got some on his mouth.

He'd forgotten to ask the girl if she was read--

HOPING to catch her OFF-GUARD, Cosgrach blew as hardly as his lungs allowed him to that only meant one thing: the flames would be even MORE tickling than ever.

Perks of teaming up with the Professor. ENJOY, Gryffindor girl!

So everything was good. Astrid checked her watch and saw that there was only a few last minutes to spare for this Potions class. She was going to clean up and fix her work station until...

OHMYGAWSH FIRE FIRE SHE WAS ON FIRE.

Astrid turned around and SEARCHED for the person who was responsible for it. Okay, maybe it didn't really hurt but c'moooon! She was victimized and she didn't even get a chance to breathe fire at the culprit! No faaaair. After a while searching for the culprit, she spotted her over there. That GIRL who was laughing out loud. Hmph. Rude? But anyway, it was just a joke and it did seem funny. In return, Astrid stuck her tongue out at the girl and grinned at her.

She'll get her one day. Just wait!

Ravenclaw girl... looked weird now. Merlin, did something go wrong? She really hoped not! After all, it was just the potion doing its magic anyway. That wasn't a bad thing. The volunteers were able to survive it so it shouldn't be different for the others.

Euuuugh. It did look awful. Steam coming out of people's nostrils wasn't a good sight. It would've been some funny sight to Astrid but, well, there was no point finding something awful really entertaining. She was so thankful that her potion wore off already.

AND THERE WAS FIRE. Astrid felt the tingly feeling that came with it. It wasn't actually that bad as she expected. In fact, it made her laugh a little bit because it seemed like the fire was tickling her even if it wasn't that strong. HEHEHEHEHE. Warm and tingly. Hmmm. At least she wouldn't be burned alive. Strange? Astrid didn't really think it was strange, but it was something new. So probably it was just different. "Sort of, but at least you can be a dragon for a few minutes!" That was a bright side, right?