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The class hasn't changed this year too: the proper chairs with soft cushions are still there to sit and lean back on, and they are still charmed to take the most comfortable shape and height once a student is seated. The walls are still a soft, calming blue. There are still one big, grey rubbish bin by the door and a white, porcelain washbasin with a tap for those who wants to wash their hands before/after the class and who can't perform 'Aguamenti' charm (a short hose to direct the water to the cauldron is on the white, porcelain shelf hung on the wall, in case it doesn't fit the washbasin).
Professor Cosgrach is sitting at his desk, looking a little tired but well otherwise.
OOC: If you are going to RP your characer use the washbasin or the bin, you don't have to take Cosgrach's permission. Just assume he has granted it.
The class HAS begun, so please don't post yourself late but pretend as if you've been here all the time.
Potion Progress
1 jobberknoll feather
half a unicorn tail hair
three leech head
half a ginger root
ten carrots
a bunch of knotgrass
one wormwood
ten crow feathers
one common spider
two crocodile teeth
Add the jobberknoll feather without any water or fire
Lay half the unicorn hair onto the feather vertically.
Add a litre of water
Add the leech heads one by one
With a metal stick, stir it clockwise for ten times (Clean the metal stick before and after using)
Add half the ginger root
Wait for two minutes
Add ten cubes of ice all at once
Wait until they melt and grate five of the carrots in the meantime. Add the ungrated ones at once, and sprinkle the grated ones
Tie the wormwood around knotgrass and add them (If everything has been right, the steam will make you nauseous)
Stir eleven times clockwise with wooden stick. Do clean it before using.
Add two crow feathers. Stir once clockwise with metal stick. Add another two feathers and stir clockwise with metal stick again. Go on like this until all feathers are added. Do not stir after the last couple of feathers. (You don't have to remove metal every time to clean it - just keep it inside the cauldron until last feather is added.)
Add the spider
Add one crocodile tooth, wait until the potion grumbles, then add the second
Wait until the potion turns your favourite colour (takes about 3 days)
Colour: is the favourite colour of the person who's looking at it
Effect: It makes you hate the first person you see, sharpens your tongue: you are very ready to point out the faults of that person
The taste is bitter and will remain for a day
Duration: Depends on the drinker - if they are prone to hatred, it'll be longer (roungly 3-5 hours)
Effect on drinker: He/she will experience fatigue once the effect wears off
Silas listened to the professor closely and nodded to himself as he assembled his ingredients as listed. Yep. He was going to do things EXACTLY like Prof Culloden said. Biting his tongue in between his front teeth ever so gently he worked quietly.
Bam! Ingredients in order. NOW it was time to do the cleaning! " Scourgify. " Cleaning his cauldron carefully he set it aside and began cleaning and lining up his other utensils. BAM! He could really dig Potions!
BUT before he started said potion he quickly scribbled his name on a slip of parchment.
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Silas McLaggen
Now that was settled. Picking up one jobberknoll feather he dropped it into the bottom of his clean cauldron.
A hate potion? Why would you want to make yourself hate the first person you saw? The Professor got a little frown at that, though it was soon replaced by an excited bounce as Archie realised that he'd be doing actual potion-brewing. How cool was that? He didn't realise they'd be let loose with ingredients so soon - the first chapters of his book were on the ideals and blah blah blah of potions. Yawn.
First things first...he needed a name tag. Archie wrote his name in large, clear letters on a piece of parchment, and folded it in half to make a sort of standing sign:
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ARCHIE OGDEN
There, Professor Culloden should be able to see that from the front.
Now to clean his cauldron. His brand new, nothing been made in it cauldron. Was he supposed to haul it to the tap to clean it by hand? Archie stood and watched the others in the classroom doubtfully. "Scer-gee-fai?" he copied some of the others with a shrug. Might have worked. How was he supposed to tell with an already shiny new cauldron?
She was jotting down the ingredient list and first instruction in her notes when something occurred to her.
A hate potion? Halcyon's mind rattled around in her brain as she began thoroughly cleaning her already clean supplies. Were they going to be trying these potions? Hallie wasn't sure she'd ever really felt hate before. She wondered how much of the feelings she hid, for CB's sake, would come to the surface...
She considered this, while also considering those around her. Beside her was Casper, who definitely deserved a down right scolding most of the time, but he was sort of her only real friend; hating him - even temporarily - wasn't advantageous. At her 11 O'clock position, in front of Casper, was Cutty. Now, he too was sort of a friend, but she wouldn't mind the experience of hating him for a bit. It'd probably be funny. Then, of course, there was Sophie, who, aside from being the most naturally likable person Hallie had ever met, was her twin's best friend. Absolutely could not hate her. Not ever, not allowed. It would cause too much trouble.
Hallie listened to the other students questions and protests to the lesson, but remained silent. Potions that change a person's state of mind can easily be used for wrong-doing, which Hallie heavily opposed to. But in a learning environment, it might be sort of interesting. Philosophical, even. Hate is probably felt and expressed differently by everyone.
Hallie leaned over to Casper and whispered, "What do you suppose our Mr. Mordaunt would be like? Under a hate potion?" She tilted her head and eyed Cutty's back. She felt a chill go down her spine, and to cover it up she started aligning all her equipment in perfect rows on her desk.
After all her preparation and cleaning and wondering was done, she took her jobberknoll feather and added it to her cauldron, absent of water or fire. Then she straightened her posture and smiled in an almost smug way, awaiting further instruction.
A hate potion. Charlie rolled her eyes a little behind her hair, reminding herself that there was only one more year before she didn't have to deal with pointless things like this. A hate potion - it honestly sounded like something they should be avoiding. Did the prepubescent teenagers at this school need any more angst?
She was just going to make the potion, hate someone for a bit, and then leave, yeah? Rolling her shoulders a little bit, she was glad that the potion didn't act on the people you thought of first. She could never imagine hating Tristan, or Pietra, or Elodie or Cat. She didn't even think it was possible.
Were there a few people in this school worthy of hate? Maybe. She clearly didn't know any of them well enough.
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Potions 1 - Mild Hate Potion.
Ingredients:
* 1 Jobberknoll Feather;
* Half a Unicorn Tail Hair;
* Three Leech Heads;
* Half a Ginger Root;
* Ten Carrots;
* 1 Bunch of Knotgrass;
* 1 Wormwood;
* Ten Crow Feathers;
* One Common Spider; and,
* Two Crocodile Teeth.
Steps:
1. Add the Joberknoll Feather without fire or water.
After copying down her notes to keep track of, Charlie stretched her fingers a little, before taking her wand to her cauldron and beginning to make sure that it was clean. It was cracked a little around the rim, but she hadn't bothered to replace it - 'reparo' would do for the next few months, right? Definitely no point in replacing it.
After making sure everything she would, could or might need to use was perfectly, flawlessly clean, she put her hair into a pony tail and added the first ingredient, trying to keep her mind of the purpose of the potion.
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Something about this seemed like a horrible idea, Casper noted as he went through the arduous effort of extracting only what was required from his bag. If the entire class managed to perfect their potions, how many hate potions would that be..?
A quick glance around the room said too many, but the Professor had to have some sort of contingency plan. Right? Surely he wouldn't instruct so many children to create such influential potions without an antidote at hand. If he was even slightly competent he'd be prepared to combat any negative outcome.
And if not? It would at least be amusing, so long as no one glanced his way. Then it would just be an inconvenience.
SPOILER!!: Hallie
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Originally Posted by swaEEtt
Hallie leaned over to Casper and whispered, "What do you suppose our Mr. Mordaunt would be like? Under a hate potion?" She tilted her head and eyed Cutty's back. She felt a chill go down her spine, and to cover it up she started aligning all her equipment in perfect rows on her desk.
Casper's fingers swept across the ingredients, aligning bottles and cases of those necessary alphabetically, testing stoppers and hinges, polishing spoons and stirrers and measuring cups. He stretched down to steady his feet on the wrung the enchanted chair had made for him, standing and easily staring down into the cauldron he had washed just before packing it, and again after unpacking it, and then once more during breakfast this morning--and then he heard Halcyon's voice closer than he'd forseen. Really, he hadn't expected Hallie to speak in class at all. Not without raising her hand, at the very least, and certainly not to him.
"The very image of an evil mastermind," he countered with a conspiratorial smirk. "And yet not at all changed. He'd still steal everything I own."
His attention now on Halcyon beside him, he noticed the spacing of his ingredients did not match hers. He'd have to fix that. First, though: the jobberknoll feather. Without igniting the fire beneath his clean cauldron or adding water, he lowered it in gently and immediately began rearranging his infantry of ingredients over again. If he missed any notes, he'd just read off of Hallie's. This was her fault, anyway.
Culloden. Right. She was pretty sure she wasn't going to remember all those names but they had name tags right? Ah, okay, no apparently they didn't. Hmm. She could always ASK others in case it came up. For now she wrote HER OWN NAME on a piece of paper. Because it was important yes.
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Magdalena Natalie Traulton
A HATE potion?????
Huh.
Maggie stared down into her cauldron. Which was very much clean, thank you. It wasn't like she'd TOUCHED it since buying it. What would she have done with it? She wasn't a witch now was sh- Oh, hang on, yes, she was actually. Err. But still, she wasn't a REAL witch. Not a snow white kind of witch that brew poisonous potions and stuff. Nope. Not gonna-
...were they going to be taught to do that here? Hmm.
People around her were using spells on their cauldrons. A spell that she didn't know. So she turned around in her seat and looked around at some of the others. "Help?" Firstie here, she didn't know anything. And while they were at it, could they also add that strange sounding ingredient for her? Yes, thank. Much appreciated.
Text Cut: A few of the people who wrote their names
Cosgrach was a man to sometimesalways keep his word, so he carefully read every name that the students wrote. And then there were some that caught his attention, so while everyone was cleaning their materials, he went to them all.
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Originally Posted by affy7ann
Knowing her name wasn't a simple one, Sapphire decided to write it down for Professor Culloden. She used her favourite dark blue ink and at that moment was thankful for her neat handwriting.
...was that even an OFFICIAL surname?
......"Are you British?" How did you read that? Did you read that?
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Originally Posted by Hera
In big BOLD letters he scrawled his name on another sheet of parchment.[/COLOR]
This one was eager, eh? Cosgrach chuckled and almost asked him to make it bigger, but then he remembered he was a first year and if he lost his concentration, it could be deadly.
Maybe he should joke later. Yeah.
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Originally Posted by Tegz
She did write her name on a bit of paper though, she had no trouble with her name and had a pretty epic stylin' signature even, easy since it was just one big shape really.
...
.......please tell him she used 'Ruby'.
Cosgrach didn't even HIDE that he couldn't read her second name and he approached the girl almost in fear.
"Which name do you prefer?" he asked as politely as he could.
Surely... Ruby?
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Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy
Hady straightened up in her chair as the Professor began the class. She took out a piece of parchment and her quill clearly writing out her name upon it and placing it on the corner of her desk to be seen.
Starting from this girl.
Her name looked pretty Scottish, but who knew? She knew, and he intended to ask it.
"Where are you from?" he directly asked, though in a friendly tone. He was Scottish too, see!? And they were in Scotland, too.
Yo, mate!
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Originally Posted by Awarlesta Black
He scribbled it down, putting extra emphasis on his ACTUAL name, which wasn't Duncan, and slid it to the top corner of his desk. SIGH!
So he wasn't a Duncan, but Declan?
Tehee. Hehehe.
"At least I got the general idea of it right," he said cheekily at the boy. At least he tried to remember... no?
Text Cut: Help needed!
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Originally Posted by hermygirl
Now to clean his cauldron. His brand new, nothing been made in it cauldron. Was he supposed to haul it to the tap to clean it by hand? Archie stood and watched the others in the classroom doubtfully. "Scer-gee-fai?" he copied some of the others with a shrug. Might have worked. How was he supposed to tell with an already shiny new cauldron?
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Originally Posted by Lislchen
People around her were using spells on their cauldrons. A spell that she didn't know. So she turned around in her seat and looked around at some of the others. "Help?" Firstie here, she didn't know anything. And while they were at it, could they also add that strange sounding ingredient for her? Yes, thank. Much appreciated.
While he was visiting some students, he heard this and that one's struggle and had a mind to do the spell for them, but he was a teacher and that didn't exactly teach... besides, he couldn't clean their stuff every time before using, could he? He also couldn't stop the class to teach them himself, so...
"Can someone help these lil students with cleaning spell?"
There. He was such a great professor!
Text Cut: Some people
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Originally Posted by kayquilz
She blushed--luckily the dungeons were dark enough to mask this unwanted facial embellishment--and she just...guuuulped. "H-Hello, professor--Cul--Culloden." She said softly. WHY WAS SHE SO SHY RIGHT NOW.
GOOD that she looked so EMBARRASS -
Oh, but Cosgrach's face betrayed him, and soon he was grinning.
"Don't worry, I won't kill ya," he said, "Jus' a simple greeting would suffice if you'll come to my lessons." For future reference, in case she didn't know.
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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar
AJ let her hand fall to her lap, and gave the professor a angelic smile. "Of course sir. I'll keep my hands to myself." For now.
Good. She understood. Cosgrach nodded in approval and moved on.
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Originally Posted by Meizzner
Well he had everything clean. He thinks. Just one more problem. What in merlin's pants was a jobberknoll feather. "Hey. Professor, What is a jobberknoll feather?"
Dante asked with his hand raised. It was a legit question
The boy's question illuminated Cosgrach suddenly.
What if - what if some of the students had failed in the past because they didn't know the exact ingredient? Now, they should observe the others and add whatever everyone was adding, or ask, but anyway - it was a possibility, no? Yes. Thanks to this kid, Cosgrach could see it clearly, and was going to start doing that. Starting right now.
"Jobberknoll feather is this!" He pulled one from the kid's kit and twirled around for everyone to see.
Clear? GOOD.
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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny
She pointed her wand at one of her stirring sticks and casted, "Scourgify. Just inside your cauldron instead. And a jobberknoll's a little blue bird - the feathers look like this." She stood up a little to point to the one she'd already dropped into her own cauldron.[/color]
Cosgrach didn't hear the words or anything, but he saw her do the spell (probably teaching it too) and lift the feather to show what it was.
Tiny to the rescue!
Smiling pleasantly at both of them, he announced "Three points to Ravenclaw for helping a student." She must have got very used to those, huh, since she got such points in every lesson?
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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz
Meanwhile, Zahra tipped her cauldron over and waved her wand around inside of it. Clean clean clean la la la weeeeeee.
...no...
She could cast an unknown spell or whatever didn't she KNOW wands were to be DISTRUSTED NO NO NO -
"Miss Kettleburn," he said in a strained tone, "please don't wave your wand like that. The spell is simple. Scourgify." He even DID it to show her HOW.
Pleasepleaseplease.
Text Cut: Cleanliness people - Please read it
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Originally Posted by Govoni
After cleaning them (because the professor had been adamant about cleaning everything before usage...and his hands were about to see some usage; shaking or not), he carefully picked up the jobberknoll feather and placed it into the cauldron.
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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny
Soph went ahead and levitated a single jobberknoll feather into her cauldron.
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Originally Posted by AmbiguouslyMe
"Instruments clean, notes begun, gloves... he slipped his gloves onto his hands "...on. Ingredients assembled..." Thornton muttered to himself, double-checking that he was ready to begin before doing a single thing.
"Everyone, look at Gabriel, Sophie and, uh, Thornton?" He paused for everyone to focus. "They all deserve two points each, because they have understood what clean means. Gabriel cleaned his hands before holding the feather; Sophie directly levitated it and Thornton used gloves." He paused to let that sink in. "It doesn't matter with the feather much, but please do any of these three methods in the future."
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Originally Posted by natethegreat
It made him happy though when he remembered he didn't need to clean his cauldron, since he just bought it. Phew!
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Originally Posted by HogwartsStudent11
Mari dropped a single feather in.
Once the presentation of the 'perfect' was over, his attention was on the 'careless'.
He vanished their feathers. "I don't think you've cleaned your cauldron."
Start over.
Text Cut: Discussion people - please read
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Originally Posted by JustAlice
HATE POTION? "Wait, sir! Why?!" Phoenix sat up straight in his chair, his brow furrowed in confusion. "I don't wanna hate anyone, it's way better liking people." He stared at the ingredients, and half shook his head. "What's the point of MAKING people hate someone? Like... hate is how war starts and everything. It's never helpful..."
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Originally Posted by Squishy
Confused, she raised her hand. "Professor, I don't understand the purpose of this potion. I get what it does, but what purpose does it serve? Why would anyone want to create hatred instead of love and happiness?"
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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny
[color=palevioletred]She thought about it for a little while as people voiced their dismay, and eventually she raised a hand and offered her own thoughts on the subject, "What if there's someone who, like, has really wronged you and hurt you time and time again, but maybe you love 'em and you can't quite bring yourself to remove the toxic person from your life because of those feelings - so, because y'know they're no good for you despite what you feel, you take the potion right before you're gonna see this person, and then maybe you'll finally be able to summon up the proper emotions to stand up for yourself and say whatcha need to say?" So the heart would feel the emotions that aligned with what the head already knew needed to be done? That seemed logical and all.
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Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles
SO if people were speaking up- Kyroh's hand shot up into the air. "Sir can we make a hug potion instead 'cause I figure that's right between a love and a hate potion and then Sophie and Mister-big hair guy will be all right and then no one will hate me." SOUNDED LIKE A GOOD PLAN ALRIGHT!?
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Originally Posted by Ivana R
"Professor Culloden, you are such a great teacher and I love your classes, so don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I'm not going to brew this potion - I'm already doing it -" she added the Jobberknoll feather theatrically, "Though it seems, at first glance, kind of useless thing" she covered her mouth and then rushed to explain "I mean, world is so full of hate. Should we not think on spreading love instead of hate?" Anna froze a grin on her face and waited for him to shout at her. She knew her grin wasn't enough to fix what she had just said. Who she thought she was to questioning Mr Culloden's lesson?
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Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline
Now the Gryffindor looked confused. "But why a hate potion? " he questioned as he switched quill for wand. "That isn't very happy." Nope...not at all. Hate was baaaaaad, he thought to himself as he nodded matter-of-factly.
Cosgrach opened his mouth to answer the boy, but then Lux questioned him too, and soon Benny and Anabeth had joined them. Sophie defended him, as usual, and he nodded at her silently - he was waiting to hear them all, see. He was very grateful for her support and was going to agree.
Right after he dealt with Kyroh.
Cosgrach laughed. He didn't want to offend the little guy, but seriously - his suggestion was epic!
"I don't think such a potion exists, Kyroh," he said in a somewhat sorry voice, "but if you want to discuss it, you can visit me later."
Now, onto the... real discussion.
"What Sophie said," he began, "it can help you to see the real bad side of a crooked relationship and clear your mind. It also has another effect that I'd say in the end," but it didn't matter that he mentioned it now, "and it was that it makes you speak... let's say, harshly, to that person. So you hate them, and they might hate you." It was a terribly evil potion and Sophie did her best to make it meaningful.
"And sometimes people create potions just for the fun of it. An evil prank, or an experiment to see just how potent emotional potions are. Or to see how a human mind works. Or, going with evil minds, it can end a healthy relationship too. Slipped in your cup by a jealous lover you've been ignoring, and..."
Shrug. Was it enough of reasons?
Text Cut: Questions
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Originally Posted by littledhampir
Hayden raised her hand. "Professor, why is the jabberknoll feather important? And why can't we add it with water or fire?" She hoped Culloden was prepared to answer her many questions, about pretty much every ingredient. Maybe, considering her visit to his office last year. She felt kind of bad that she had so many questions because she didn't want to bug him,but she was really curious.
Of course it was Hayden asking such a great question!
Cosgrach smiled at her.
"The jobberknoll feather is primarily used in memory potions," he started - could she tell he really enjoyed this? - "and in this potion, to create hate, we need bad memories. But we can't just tell which one to wake up, so we wake up all the memories and eliminate the good ones if there are any with leech head." Was it clear? "And for this one, water has the effect of diluting, but we want the jobberknoll feather and unicorn tail hair to react fully, so we'll add water later."
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Originally Posted by WeasleyGirl
Hugo raised his hand, "Professor, are we going to drink this potion?" and yes, he had hesitated to ask, but who cares?
So it was Hugo. Got it.
As for his question, Cosgrach shrugged. "Up to you. You'll have two options for the homework, so really..." He wasn't FORCING anyone, see? He was a great professor.
Heh.
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Originally Posted by Harry174
"Eh Professor.." Angel hoped he didn't mind this question. "This hate potion, if you hate them already does it still work?"
Cosgrach nodded. "It works, because it has another effect that I'll mention soon. And if the drinker has that too, why, the hatred can intensify even more."
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Originally Posted by Mordred
“Sir? This Hate Potion is not going to be permanent, right? I mean…the effect would be temporary?” Because what if he ended up hating him for the rest of his life?
Cosgrach nodded, understanding his concern very well.
"It's temporary, of course." No matter how they messed it up, this potion was safe in that.
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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack
Raising his hand in the air eagerly— wait, eagerly? He didn’t actually care about this stuff did he? No. Lowering his hand again, he sat and waited for the next set of— No. He wanted to know the answer. Raising it again he— But… Would Culloden be mad at him for bringing them off making the potion? After much debate, the Gryffindor finally set his hand up in the air for good. He had decided. He was going to ask, then possibly regret it depending on how this went over. “Professor, if this potion makes you hate the person you see first… Is it with the anger you already have built up? Or is it newly mustered hatred?” He raised an inquisitive brow, SEEEE he could be inquisitive too. “I guess I mean, can it be used to take all your anger-that you already have-out at someone or does it just make you angry out of no where?” You know.. just asking for a friend....
...
......what even was he trying to -
About time. About time he decided! Cosgrach wondered just WHAT he would ask after all the indecision and...
oooooooh nooooooo -
"It is newly mustered hatred," he said suavely, "because the first person you see can be a total stranger." And he couldn't even think of that? HAH. No wonder he was a Gryffindork.
"But you'll learn this question's real answer after class, while cleaning this lab for me." Did he think it was funny to squeeze that stupid remark about Professor CULLODEN in? Score himself a girl or two? Well, not in this class.
"They call it 'detention', I prefer 'discussion'." Discussing whether he was an angry person and IF yes, going deeeeeep into his chiiiildhood to find the reason.
Who knew what the professor became during a discussion?
Cosgrach paused briefly, returned to his seat and tapped the blackboard for the second step.
"Lay half the unicorn hair," he grabbed a unicorn hair while he said that, "onto the feather. Don't just drop it, but lay it vertically over the feather." So that it touches everywhere, yeah? He grabbed a feather, and demonstrated.
Originally Posted by keepmeclose22 View Post
Austin walked into his favorite class, a smile on his face. He placed his bag on the ground next to his desk, and nodded at the professor.
...and someone else sat in Soph's seat.
Cosgrach wanted to think he was DREAMING, but he was not. The intruder was a male, and nothing like Sophie. He - didn't even know that seat was special? Reserved only for Sophie? First, his eyes were narrowed, then he looked at the poor boy as if he wanted to kill him, and then he felt this terrible urge to move the kid to somewhere else, but there were people coming and he couldn't just do THAT.
But he could make the kid's life TERRIBLE there.
"You've got to greet me. I'm a professor, not your house elf to ignore."
Glaring. Waiting.
"Right, sorry professor, Hello." Austin glared back at the man at the front of the room. Well that was rude. All last term, he didn't say much to this professor. Sure he said hello from time to time, but during the days when he didn't say anything at all, the professor paid him no mind. Now that it was a new term though, Austin was supposed to greet him? Merlin's Beard.
A hate potion you say? Well, this second year sure didn't need one to know he disliked the professor. Deep breath Austin, you need him to like you. Although he wasn't entirely sure how true this statement was. Yes, the professor should like Austin, for it would be helpful for his future. But so long as Professor Culloden passed him on his N.E.W.T.S and O.W.L.S, it didn't really matter what he thought.
SPOILER!!: Notes
Ingredients:
1 jobberknoll feather
half a unicorn tail hair
three leech head
half a ginger root
ten carrots
a bunch of knotgrass
one wormwood
ten crow feathers
one common spider
two crocodile teeth
Steps:
1.Add the jobberknoll feather without any water or fire.
2. Lay the half of unicorn hair onto the feather, vertically.
After copying what was on the board, Austin got to work. He knew from his mom that 'a clean cauldron is a happy one'. He was very unsure how a cauldron can be happy, but he just went along with it. "Auguamenti." He waved his wand, and a small stream of water jet out of his wand. After a few seconds, he waved his wand again, and the water stopped. He took a small sponge from his bag o' supplies, rolled up his sleeves, and started scrubbing the inside of his cauldron. Once finished, he dried it up completely, making sure there was no water left inside. He then placed the feather inside.
Upon hearing the next set of instructions, he placed the unicorn hair along the feather, vertically, just like he said. He was really unsure about why this placement was needed, and immediately wondered what would happen if you were to change the position. So he raised his hand. "Professor, what would happen if you were to, say, put the unicorn hair horizontally? Or next to the feather? Why does it need to be vertically?"
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Reason: adding step two.
feel need to clarify that the Seren is not Bentley :)
Granddaddy Ravenclaw | | Jermione Granger
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Originally Posted by StarShine
Cosgrach paused briefly, returned to his seat and tapped the blackboard for the second step.
"Lay half the unicorn hair," he grabbed a unicorn hair while he said that, "onto the feather. Don't just drop it, but lay it vertically over the feather." So that it touches everywhere, yeah? He grabbed a feather, and demonstrated.
Clear?
Thornton positively BEAMED when his attention to cleanliness was recognized by the professor. Seren had insisted and it seemed like that had paid off for him. Thornton was beginning to understand that he was much better prepared for particular classes that emphasized thought, observation, study and creation. Wandwork was another story.
Carefully picking up the unicorn hair pinched between two gloved fingers, he gingerly lowered it on top of the feather. He nudged it every so slightly to make sure the contact was good and, satisfied, sat back and removed the glove from his writing hand. No sense getting ink on it!
He added the second step to his notes, and recorded a diagram of how to place the unicorn tail hair on the feather, for good measure. Satisfied, he laid down his quill, put his glove back on, and sat back to await the next instruction.
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It was possible that Dot Wojack was going to chuck her cauldron across the dungeon out of frustration. Possible, and growing ever more likely, until she was rescued by the Older Girl sitting next to her. Instructions, whispered so that no one else would know Dot was bad at this, and nice words that were basically a promise that she didn't think poorly of Dot.
Yet. It was still early days.
Dot climbed up to kneel on her chair so she could point her wand directly into her cauldron, and then she gave the Girl a very serious are-you-sure-about-this look. What... if... what if? "Scourgify." Good news was that nothing blew up. Bad news was... it was hard to tell if anything had happened at all. But no explosions, so... good start.
Now she could start looking for a blue feather. Dot sorted through her potions kit until she found it stuck to the bottom of a phial, and when she mangled it out, the poor bent thing looked pretty sad. And... into the cauldron it went. "I'm Dot." Give something else, Wojack. "I'm delightful." That's what her gran said.
Sophie smiled encouragingly at the younger Slytherin, assuming her to be a first year since she was so tiny and unfamiliar, and was proud when her spellwork seemed to go fine. "Good." The girl didn't seem too convinced anything had happened, but Soph wasn't going to press the matter much further. At least she tried to clean it and Culloden wouldn't rip the girl's head off.
At the Slytherin's next choice of words - after watching her find the right feather and drop it into the cauldron - Soph smiled at first, but snorted as the girl went on. "Delightful?" Full of herself, was she? "That's nice. I'm Sophie Brown." Then, as if she was sharing the most seeecret of secrets, Soph leaned in and whispered, subtly gesturing to Culloden, "I'm kind of his favorite." As... if she couldn't tell by how she'd just gotten FIVE points from the man: three for helping Dot and two for cleanliness. Golly. "Thanks, sir," Soph saluted him. She couldn't even blame it exclusively on favoritism, though. She HAD just been a model student, hadn't she?
And she knew it. Super smug.
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Cosgrach didn't hear the words or anything, but he saw her do the spell (probably teaching it too) and lift the feather to show what it was.
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Smiling pleasantly at both of them, he announced "Three points to Ravenclaw for helping a student." She must have got very used to those, huh, since she got such points in every lesson?
"Everyone, look at Gabriel, Sophie and, uh, Thornton?" He paused for everyone to focus. "They all deserve two points each, because they have understood what clean means. Gabriel cleaned his hands before holding the feather; Sophie directly levitated it and Thornton used gloves." He paused to let that sink in. "It doesn't matter with the feather much, but please do any of these three methods in the future."
Cosgrach opened his mouth to answer the boy, but then Lux questioned him too, and soon Benny and Anabeth had joined them. Sophie defended him, as usual, and he nodded at her silently - he was waiting to hear them all, see. He was very grateful for her support and was going to agree.
Right after he dealt with Kyroh.
Cosgrach laughed. He didn't want to offend the little guy, but seriously - his suggestion was epic!
"I don't think such a potion exists, Kyroh," he said in a somewhat sorry voice, "but if you want to discuss it, you can visit me later."
Now, onto the... real discussion.
"What Sophie said," he began, "it can help you to see the real bad side of a crooked relationship and clear your mind. It also has another effect that I'd say in the end," but it didn't matter that he mentioned it now, "and it was that it makes you speak... let's say, harshly, to that person. So you hate them, and they might hate you." It was a terribly evil potion and Sophie did her best to make it meaningful.
"And sometimes people create potions just for the fun of it. An evil prank, or an experiment to see just how potent emotional potions are. Or to see how a human mind works. Or, going with evil minds, it can end a healthy relationship too. Slipped in your cup by a jealous lover you've been ignoring, and..."
Shrug. Was it enough of reasons?
Cosgrach paused briefly, returned to his seat and tapped the blackboard for the second step.
"Lay half the unicorn hair," he grabbed a unicorn hair while he said that, "onto the feather. Don't just drop it, but lay it vertically over the feather." So that it touches everywhere, yeah? He grabbed a feather, and demonstrated.
Clear?
As they moved on, Soph kept an eye on Dot, giving her a look to try to communicate that the girl could watch her and mimick her all she wanted. She'd probably picked the best person in the class to sit by if she was confused about anything, really. Sliding an already-scourgified glove onto her hand, she plucked a single half of unicorn tail hair from her potions kit and veryyyyyy carefully rested it atop the jobberknoll feather in her cauldron vertically, just as Culloden had demonstrated.
All things considered, she thought a unicorn hair as an ingredient in a potion - especially this potion - was a complete waste. It would be much more comfortable and put to better use as a wand core, wouldn't it? Such a shame.
After finishing up the first step, Adi was back to eyeing his best friend. Seeing Benny's unusual behaviour bothered him. Not that it was bad behaviour. It was just that Adi was used to a reserved Benny. And he was even talking more than usual... The Hufflepuff leaned towards the Gryffindor, squinting at him. Was he high on sugar? That could be possible though he knew the other boy preferred sour stuff. In a whisper he said, "If I can't figure out what's wrong with you, I'll drag you to see Healer Tillstorm.'' He was dead serious. No one wanted their best friend to be sick. Or unusual.
The Puffer drew his attention to the Professor and watched him demonstrate the next step. This was a very weird and particular step. Oh well. What else could he expect for a potion like this? Hate Potion...seriously. Who invented that? Anyway...half unicorn hair was carefully laid vertically on the feather in the cauldron.
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Hearing the professor and Sophie explain how the potion could be used, it made sense though Lux still didn't think she would ever drink the stuff herself. Hatred was a bad thing, and she didn't hate anyone though there was one person she didn't like.
Nodding her head in understanding, she didn't question why it would be necessary to hate the first person you saw when they could be either a stranger, friend, or the person you are in a happy relationship with. She just didn't want to come across as difficult when Professor Culloden was one of her favourite staff members and she wanted him to help her get better at brewing potions.
Placing her clean gloves on her hands at the mention of the few students who had done an exemplary job with the first step, Lux's eyes widened when Zander got detention. That was totally unexpected and she couldn't help but wonder what this apparent issue between the two of them was. Knowing Zander, his beloved Bentley was involved somehow.
Shrugging it off for the moment, she recorded the next step before carefully placing the unicorn hair vertically over the jobberknoll feather the way Professor Culloden had demonstrated.
SPOILER!!: Lux's Notes
HATE POTION
Ingredients 1 jobberknoll feather
half a unicorn tail hair
three leech head
half a ginger root
ten carrots
a bunch of knotgrass
one wormwood
ten crow feathers
one common spider
two crocodile teeth
Process 1. Add the jobberknoll feather without any water or fire.
2. Lay the unicorn hair onto the feather vertically.
Nope. Nope nope nope. Nobody look at him nobody so much as glance at his face right now because Toby... was having feelings, and not the type he liked.
Because he just couldn't see why anyone would want a hate potion, even Soph's explanation made absolutely zero sense to him. Being hated for no reason was awful, and Tobias didn't want to brew a potion that would make him hate someone else. It was... such an ugly thing to feel for someone else, and churned up all kinds of guilt for Toby whenever he even had a moment of dislike. He was already dreading the testing of this potion and whatever the homework might be and ugh. Man. UGH.
The Hufflepuff got up from his stool and went to wash his hands at the washbasin, keeping his expression as neutral as he could as he did. Once he got back to his workstation, Toby focused on his potion and nowhere else, except from glancing at Kyroh occasionally to see if he was doing okay. With newly cleaned hands, he picked up the unicorn hair right at the end, and laaaaaaay it over the feather, as had just been demonstrated.
With that done, he now looked up to see those two first years (Archie and Magdalena) apparently still in need of help. Seeing as he was done, he wandered across to them bringing one of the beakers from his potions kit; couldn't ignore anyone in need, after all.
"Here, I'll show you," the Hufflepuff said, having to force a smile but managing a friendly one all the same. "You point your wand at what you're cleaning, like this and say-" Toby pointed it at the beaker he'd brought along and made an S shape with his and cast the spell. "Scourgify."
There. Pow. Clean. "You'll need it for all your equipment, anything that touches the potion. Maybe try your cauldrons now to see if you can do it?" More smiling for the firsties. Was that okay? "I can do it for you, if not. It might take a couple of tries." He'd not done it FOR them, 'cause a lot of first years liked to do things themselves, right? Didn't want to barge over and just assume.
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"Sure..." he said smiling at Angel. "It'll be fun." Working together to help each other out would allow for two eyes to keep track of what was going on in each of their cauldrons. Better for a smooth brew which meant better chances of good results.
Gloves...of course.
The Gryffindor caught the message about extra cleanliness. Digging through his supplies he found his gloves within the other items. "Scourgify," he cast on them before slipping them on, whistling every so softly as he did so. As for listening to the explaination he found some possible truth to all that was being said. "So a bad thing such as hate can be turned good..." he mused with an agreeable nod.
Now that that was taken care of he could do the next step. The boy carefully lifting the unicorn hair and laying it down in the cauldron over the feather. Vertically as instructed. Benny then looked up from the second task missing the part of the whisper that mentioned something being wrong with him. "Does she need cheering up?" he questioned curiously about the part concerning Tillstorm. Or was Adi suggesting her as a target for the hate potion?
Both might work. Ben supposed she was as good an idea as anyone since they didn't see the healer often so they would be able to escape her until the potion wore off after the initial reaction. But she was also not the nicest person and could get them in trouble. Unless she liked others to be hateful.
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SPOILER!!: Culloden
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Of course it was Hayden asking such a great question!
Cosgrach smiled at her.
"The jobberknoll feather is primarily used in memory potions," he started - could she tell he really enjoyed this? - "and in this potion, to create hate, we need bad memories. But we can't just tell which one to wake up, so we wake up all the memories and eliminate the good ones if there are any with leech head." Was it clear? "And for this one, water has the effect of diluting, but we want the jobberknoll feather and unicorn tail hair to react fully, so we'll add water later."
Memories? That made sense. She still didn't know what a jobberknoll was, but she could figure that out later. Now she knew that jaberknoll feathers were used in memory potions. Great. "Does that mean this potion erases all good memories you had of the person you now hate?" Or had she misunderstood him? The rest of it made sense, though. She smiled at Culloden thankfully, to let him know she was really interested. But she did have more questions.
"How do the feather and the unicorn hair react?" She reached to grab the feather but stopped before she touched it because she remembered what Culloden said earlier. So Hayden put on the gloves first and grabbed the unicorn tail hair. She leaned over her cauldron and watched carefully as she placed the hair so it was directly on top of the feather. The she withdrew her hand carefully so as not to disturb the contents of the cauldron.
SPOILER!!: directions
1. Add the jobberknoll feather without any water or fire
2. Lay the unicorn hair onto the feather vertically.
Now it was crystal clear. He now for certain knew what a joberknoll feather was. Looking at other people making potion was not nearly as fun as making your own. Unless they were being idiots and make things explode. Then Dante would watch all day. Explosions were awesome and entertaining.
Dante made sure his hands were clean and double checked his cauldron. Yep, clean. He added the feather Culloden grabbed and put it in the cauldron. Simple enough once he knew what it was.
Now if there were pictures in his textbook or on the board. He would never have asked. Anyway, onto step 2. Unicorn Hair. Well at least he knew what that was. Grab it and lay half of it vertically over the feather.
Merlin, this was getting complicated.
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With that done, he now looked up to see those two first years (Archie and Magdalena) apparently still in need of help. Seeing as he was done, he wandered across to them bringing one of the beakers from his potions kit; couldn't ignore anyone in need, after all.
"Here, I'll show you," the Hufflepuff said, having to force a smile but managing a friendly one all the same. "You point your wand at what you're cleaning, like this and say-" Toby pointed it at the beaker he'd brought along and made an S shape with his and cast the spell. "Scourgify."
There. Pow. Clean. "You'll need it for all your equipment, anything that touches the potion. Maybe try your cauldrons now to see if you can do it?" More smiling for the firsties. Was that okay? "I can do it for you, if not. It might take a couple of tries." He'd not done it FOR them, 'cause a lot of first years liked to do things themselves, right? Didn't want to barge over and just assume.
Yes, excuse me, help her! Why wasn't the professor helping her?
...them...wait, THEM? Maggie glanced around at who else was needing help. Great. Archie. How had she not been aware of the fact that she was sitting near the Ravenclaw? Ew. She shifted in her seat a bit to indicate that she hadn't chosen to sit next to him on purpose. Nope. The opposite really. Not that she cared. Not one bit. As long as they knew she was here by herself.
Oh hello. A nice older student was coming over to help. "Hiiiii." Hello. She didn't get around to introducing herself because he just started talking right away. So she sent him a grin. And continued to watch him talk. Mhm. She briefly glanced down at the wand in his hand and how he was moving it. Okay. Yes. Say the spell. Okay. Mhm.
"Can you do it for me?" She finally said once he was done, nodding towards her cauldron.
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Grayson had been too absorbed with his potion to notice much around him, which, sadly, included a certain second year sitting right next to him. It wasn't until the kid managed to cast a good Scouring Charm that Whitty looked over in his direction and smiled. That's right. SMILED. Smiled WIDE at that, too. And his chest was filling up with pride for Dima Toussaint's successful spell.
Nothing was said for now. Nah! Besides, he wasn't the sentimental sort. Saying mushy gushy nonsense just wasn't Grayson. Instead, he reached for his gloves and gave them a quick "Scourgify!" before slipping them on his hands. Cleanliness and whatnot. When that was done and he was done wiggling his fingers in his gloves, the fifth year reached for the half a tail of unicorn hair and carefully lay it vertically over the Jobberknoll feather.
There. Done.
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Hate Potion:
Grayson Whitlock
Ingredients:
- 1 jobberknoll feather
- half a unicorn tail hair
- three leech head
- half a ginger root
- ten carrots
- a bunch of knotgrass
- one wormwood
- ten crow feathers
- one common spider
- two crocodile teeth
Steps:
1) Add 1 Jobberknoll feather without adding water or lighting the flame
2) Lay half a unicorn hair vertically over the feather
Question for the professor. I apologize for the unicorn rant. >_<
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Hate potion and unicorn hair? How could this be true? It must be wrong. It had to be wrong. AJ waved her hand it the air. She had questions, okay? "Professor, how can such a beautiful piece of unicorn hair be used in such an awful potion?" Oh no, that wasn't the end of the question. She only stopped to suck in more air. "You see, unicorn hair is so majestic and heavenly that I don't understand how it can be beneficial to helping you hate someone." Was she making her concerns clear? Unicorns = love, not hate. "And, and... how did you get your hands on these luscious locks? Were they-" Gulp. "harmed?" Her bottom lip started to wibble. Not her beloved unicorns. She would flip this table if they were harmed.
AJ stared at the unicorn hair and laid it vertically on the feather making sure that everything was touching just right. If one of her precious unicorns were hurt, she wouldn't be able to stand it. Her eyes went back to the professor and waited for his explanation. "If you do have unicorns locked up somewhere... can I come see them?" And rescue them?
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Snorts, did Dima really say she looked scarier in her new badge? What did one even reply to something like that. "Thanks, but trust me, I'm a lot scarier without any badges on." Fact. With a badge there was some level of obligation to not hurt others. Catch her without the badge and let her forget she was Head Girl then you could consider scary.
She watched him using the washbasin even after she'd taught him the spell last year. Would she question it? No, not really, little people did strange things and those strange things didn't always have an explanation.
Lex searched her side of the desk for her unicorn hair but she might have misplaced it....weirdly enough so she plucked a strand from Dima's lock of the stuff and placed it carefully over her feather. He wouldn't mind right? Of course not, kid was a giver, a Hufflepuff when it counted.
Thanks bud.
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Dec half-heartily laughed at the professor's response. Now, he knew meant well, but SERIOUSLY, sir. "Water under the bridge, Professor...um, Professor...uhh..." He snapped his fingers in an a pseudo attempt to "remember" his name, "Ah! Professor McCulley." GRIIIN.
Vertically? He blankly stared at his desk trying to remember which way was vertical and which way was horizontal. SIKE! He knew which way was which, obviously. Dec slid on his CLEAN gloves and picked up the CLEAN unicorn hair onto the CLEAN feather, vertically, in the CLEAN cauldron.
Yes, excuse me, help her! Why wasn't the professor helping her?
...them...wait, THEM? Maggie glanced around at who else was needing help. Great. Archie. How had she not been aware of the fact that she was sitting near the Ravenclaw? Ew. She shifted in her seat a bit to indicate that she hadn't chosen to sit next to him on purpose. Nope. The opposite really. Not that she cared. Not one bit. As long as they knew she was here by herself.
Oh hello. A nice older student was coming over to help. "Hiiiii." Hello. She didn't get around to introducing herself because he just started talking right away. So she sent him a grin. And continued to watch him talk. Mhm. She briefly glanced down at the wand in his hand and how he was moving it. Okay. Yes. Say the spell. Okay. Mhm.
"Can you do it for me?" She finally said once he was done, nodding towards her cauldron.
Toby couldn't help but smile a bit wider; it was easy to forget what potion they were brewing when some of these first years were so... well... adorable. "Sure I can," he told the girl, giving her a nod. He pointed his wand at the inside of the cauldron and did the S shape again. "Scourgify." Aaaaand clean. "There y'go..." Name. He didn't know either of these kids names, whoops.
The Hufflepuff glanced around and looked at the list of ingredients on the board. They'd almost certainly be using other equipment, so Toby turned back and looked at them. "You'll probably need to use the spell again later. If you need more help with it, you can just call my name - I'm Toby - and I'll come help you, yeah?" Friendly smile for them both.
Toby waited to see if that was cool, and to see if the boy wanted his cauldron cleaned too, not overly fussed about falling behind with this potion.
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...no...
She could cast an unknown spell or whatever didn't she KNOW wands were to be DISTRUSTED NO NO NO -
"Miss Kettleburn," he said in a strained tone, "please don't wave your wand like that. The spell is simple. Scourgify." He even DID it to show her HOW.
Pleasepleaseplease.
WELL since he said please. Though a little extra FLOURISH to her wand waving wasn't really hurting anything. "Sure thing, Professor. I got you." Since they were apparently BFF now.
Right right. Scourgify. Cool beans, got it. NOW HER CAULDRON WAS OH SO FRESH AND SO CLEAN CLEAN.
That feather thing went in next, following directions and all like a boss. Then she picked up a UNICORN HAIR COOL, tore it in half, and handed the OTHER half to PHOENIX.
"Then LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY the hair on the feather, GENTLY, tuck it in and read it a bedtime story." Zahra LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAID the hair ON the feather, though for the life of her it she couldn't figure out why that mattered.
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[/COLOR][/Textcut] Cosgrach paused briefly, returned to his seat and tapped the blackboard for the second step.
"Lay half the unicorn hair," he grabbed a unicorn hair while he said that, "onto the feather. Don't just drop it, but lay it vertically over the feather." So that it touches everywhere, yeah? He grabbed a feather, and demonstrated.
Clear?
Kace heard the next set of directions and understood. He got out his unicorn hairs and knew to lay it on the feather. He needed to lay it vertically over the feather? Weird task but he did it anyways. He carefully placed it vertically over the feather and it seemed to touch everywhere. Once he did the instructions he waited for more.
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Culloden was in the point giving mood, it seemed. This was something to keep in mind even though Maddie was always super cleanly and didn't think it was something points-worthy. Whatever. Points didn't do anything for you anyway, not really. She didn't care about those. What SHE cared about was brewing a successful potion. That was what counted in the long run. Older Claw!guy DID get a smile, though. Good going, dude. Way to get on Culloden's good side. That was something you wanted to do, obviously.
Oh and LOOK, she was cleaning her hands RIGHT before she dealt with the unicorn tail hair. She also couldn't help but think of the going rate of unicorn hair. Pity she'd be using it for hate purposes because it'd be more useful in other ways, both to her pocket and to budding witches and wizards.
Eyes on the Jobberknoll feather and ears ignoring the little unicorn rant going on, the second year carefully placed the half unicorn hair vertically on top of it. She then slowly inched her arm away from the cauldron and cleaned that hand AGAIN.
Clean. clean. clean.
P.S. If Culloden WAS harboring unicorns somewhere, she HIGHLY doubted it'd be on the grounds and she also doubted he would be wasting away here teaching them. He'd probably be making loads of money elsewhere doing whatever you did with unicorn hairs and other parts.
SPOILER!!: Notes
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Hate Potion Ingredients: -1 jobberknoll feather -half a unicorn tail hair
-three leech head
-half a ginger root
-ten carrots
-a bunch of knotgrass
-one wormwood
-ten crow feathers
-one common spider
-two crocodile teeth
Steps: 1. Clean cauldron 2. Add one Jobberknoll feather to empty, unheated cauldron.
3. Place half the unicorn hair vertically on top of the feather (do not just drop it on).
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The Hufflepuff leaned towards the Gryffindor, squinting at him. Was he high on sugar? That could be possible though he knew the other boy preferred sour stuff. In a whisper he said, "If I can't figure out what's wrong with you, I'll drag you to see Healer Tillstorm.'' He was dead serious. No one wanted their best friend to be sick. Or unusual.
