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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
Angel was happy when Ben said that he would help her, awesome... this was heaven the most handsome guy on the planet was going to work with her. Play it cool.. she said to herself. She didn't want to get into any trouble. "That looks good." Angel said to him as she watched him do his stuff now she had to do hers.
Angel was trying to figure out what was wrong with Adi, maybe he should go see someone because he was so obsessed with Ben at the minute... was Ben allowed to be Happy?
Angel listened to the Professor and then she made sure... half unicorn hair was carefully laid vertically on the feather in the cauldron. She looked at the notes and updated them... this was going to be amazing she wanted to see this potion but she had no idea who'd she test it on.
Norah raised an eyebrow at the professor's praise of those extra clean students. She could do that too, right? Pulling her gloves from her bag, she set them on the table before recording the next step in her notes. She slipped her gloves over her hands and picked up half the unicorn tail hair, laying it carefully over the feather so it touched everywhere, just like Professor Cosgrach had demonstrated. Look at that, two for two! She gave the professor a satisfied smile and waited for the next step.
Smiling at Archie he scooted his seat a little closer and said, [/b] Here, I'll help you. It's Scourgify. [/b]" Silas then demonstrated the spell for him. " If you need any other help just let me know, " he said with a wink.
Now.. the professor said HALF of the unicorn hair didn't he? Pulling on gloves, since he had so clearly forgotten, he laid the proper amount of unicorn hair over the feather as directed. Now... what next?
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Glad that she had not received any feedback from the Professor meaning she had not done anything drastically wrong, the Ravenclaw glanced around to watch everyone else finish off the last step. He had made some seemingly important comments about cleanliness although Layla felt that they were a little too pedantic and over-the-top to be worthy of noting. She did however write a brief comment about how everything should be cleaned before use in her notes. Perhaps professor had an issue with uncleanliness.
She proceeded to explain what the next task was and the fifteen-year-old listened carefully and double checked with the notes on the board to make sure what she was about to do was correct. If there was anything that could cause her utter embarrassment it was a potion blowing up in her face.
She picked up the unicorn hair in a gloved hand and slowly lowered it over the feather. She made sure it was vertical like the instructions had ordered and laid completely flat touching the jobberknoll feather in every single place possible. She was going to be careful with this even if she didn't feel the need to use this potion. She didn't even need it so why it would be taught in a school was far beyond her reasoning.
After finishing the second task Layla looked up but noticed that they hadn't moved on yet. So she glanced back at her notes and neatly inscribed the second task into her notebook. Writing with a quill was bloomin' weird.
Text Cut: Layla's Notes
The Hate Potion
Usage
To highlight the negative side of a crooked relationship. To help the drinker to see the implications that the person the potion induces to hate is treating the drinker disrespectfully or harshly. As a harsh practical joke to deduce how emotional potions can help affect the human mind.
Ingredients
- One 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
Method
1. Make sure to ALWAYS clean hands and equipment before usage (gloves if required)
2. Add the jobberknoll feather without any water or fire
3. Lay the unicorn hair onto the feather vertically and make sure it touches the feather completely.
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SPOILER!!: Kevin
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Ah right, he had forgotten how disastrous Zander was when it came to potions. Kevin even had thoughts of picking up his cauldron and leaving to sit somewhere else but that was also too much effort so he simply nodded with a deep sigh as a promise that he would help him out. He turned to look at the front of the class when the door slammed shut and he knew class begun. Great.
A hate potion to make you hate the first person you saw? Interesting. He thought and while the instructions were appearing on the blackboard, Kevin leaned over to Zander to whisper something. "I wonder if i can possibly hate that guy more" before leaning back and grabbing his wand. He pointed it at his cauldron and with a scourgify he cleaned it. He looked at Zander for a second and was glad that his cauldron didn't explode ...yet.
He got ready to water up the cauldron but was surprised that they didn't have to do that. So he lowered his wand and grabbed the jobberknoll feather before adding it to the cauldron.
Seriously, how does the Professor expect him to CHANGE when he gives out these kind of assignments?!
The older boy smiled to himself contently, knowing that he couldn't screw this up too bad. Now that he had Kevin's help at least there was now a possibility that things could go right. Then, turning his attention back to the board, he began scribbling some of the instructions 'cause that's what everyone else did in this class. So he could do it too. Then, hearing Kevin's next comment, Zander tried his best to stifle a small chuckle. The fourth year just nodded because he didn't actually hate Culloden per-say...Of course he wasn't fond of the guy, that was certain because the bed thing ya'know? But he also was thankful for the luck potion... And.... He felt the nagging need to please the guy. So not exactly hate, but he could see why Kevin had other thoughts. He had given the younger Gryffindor a detention after all. So obviously there would be hard feelings.
SPOILER!!: Culloden-- *GASPS* de-detention?
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......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?
[/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?
Oh. Well, but what if-- What if you could take out your anger on the stranger? Couldn't that count as-- After class while cleaning the lab? HUH? Was that apart of the lesson today because normally they just finished with the potion and that was it. But uh okay maybe the hate potion stuff was particularly messy or something? Zander didn't have any big complaints or anything. He'd just go with it. And why was Culloden looking at him all funny??
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DE-DE-DETENTION?!?!!?!???????
The Gryffindor turned and looked at Kevin instinctively, then back at Culloden and nope. The guy was most definitely talking to him. GULP. "But I--" It was only a genuine question. He was only trying to be good and ask questions. "I was just--" DETENTION?! ZANDER? DETENTION? WHAT? The fourth year just stared for a few seconds. Completely and utterly shocked. BUT WHAT DID HE DO? Okay so last time he gave out a detention to Kevin, it kind of made sense. The boy had sassed him and everything, but this was just a question.
WHAT.
WAIT A SECOND WHAT JUST HAPPENED?! This whole year was starting to look like a really, really bad nightmare. First the Beautiful Bentley thing (which ok she wasn't really leaving for good ok it was temporary, it had to be) and now a detention? There was something going wrong here. Maybe Romanos really WAS a Cold One and she had succeeded in taking over the school already and that's why she got rid of Beautiful Bentley, but she had gotten Culloden on her side and-- No. he was overcomplicating things again.
But a detention? HIM? REALLY???? The Gryffindor looked over at Kevin, surely the younger lion was confused too. He hadn't said anything wrong this entire class? How come-- detention-- what?!
However, it looked like the class was picking back up again and there were a new set of instructions. Still completely shocked, the Gryffindor slowly looked back at his cauldron. This time LEVITATING the half unicorn hair thing, he laid it upon the feather vertically, yeah yeah yeah. But there was an important issue-- DETENTION? WHAT? Only people like Kevin and Zahra get detentions. Not him!! W.H.A.T.
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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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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?
Right so he wouldn't kill her. But maybe that was only because it was illegal. He certainly SEEMED keen on wanting her to address him--Eden guessed that she could have been more polite, but then again, when was she KEEN on manners, eh? So she just flushed more, wanted to hide, and NODDED.
Right.
Potions was really slow, wasn't it? Granted, they were only doing the easy stuff right now...but Eden was glad. She would rather it be slow and easy than FAST AND HARD AND UGH. She squiiiiinted up at the professor as he lay the unicorn hair down on the feather all vertical like. It felt so nice and smooth. she then...OMG. EDEN HAD A QUESTION. She smoooothly raised her hand, tried not to look terrified, and then....SPOKE.
"Professor, it's very interesting that the unicorn hair would be used in a hate potion, isn't it?" she asked softly. "Don't unicorns usually harbor positive things?" Or...was she very wrong about this. She knew what the blood did--but that cursed the drinker--OOOOH maybe this was similar? She wasn't sure, but she was glad that she was participating. And paying attention. And doing this all right.
So far.
Aaaaand to add the new instructions into her notes. Though she didn't want to ever make another hate potion in her life. NOPE.
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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.
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.
That didn't seem very fair, though, did it? Dot just watched her helper girl person, choosing not to comment and cause offense. Yet. It didn't make sense to offend people who were willing to do things for you, even if it seemed hugely unfair that the girl got points just because Dot was stupid. And because she was a favorite. It sort of made everyone else's chance at points look pretty small.
Plus, the girl didn't enjoy Dot's answer about being delightful. This was not her audience, clearly.
Unicorn hair, though. Dot could do that. It was the shiny hair that she'd looked through earlier. She tugged on her fancy-pants new gloves before rescuing a single hair, and then it was laid on the feather. Oh, okay, no. That was wrong. Dot watched the girl again out of the corner of her eye before rearranging the feather.
"I'm Dima's favorite." No points there, but it was the best thing in the world to be.
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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.
The boy one was talking. And helping people without being anyone's favorite. Dot leaned waaaaaaay around the girl one to look at him. Down there. She was allowed to look on account of he was saying words. He looked kind of sad too, and she wasn't sure she'd been paying enough attention to know why he, and Kyroh, looked so disturbed by Potions class.
"It's okay," Dot held out her hank of unicorn hair to Kyroh, just in case he needed some. Freckled friends for life. "You have to know the disease to find the medicine." And you had to know about hate to get rid of it.
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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.
...was that even an OFFICIAL surname?
......"Are you British?" How did you read that? Did you read that?
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.
...
.......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?
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!
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!
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!
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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.
Good. She understood. Cosgrach nodded in approval and moved on.
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.
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?
...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
"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."
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.
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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?
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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."
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.
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."
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.
...
......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.
Clear?
Sigh.
Gregoire had to clean his cauldron anyways. Well then...this should be interesting. Maybe he should've explained to the Professor he was from Paris, and didn't really speak that much English- scratch that. He knew more than just some English, but it didn't feel comfortable for him to speak English. The pronunciations just didn't roll off of his tongue like they were supposed to. Even when he did speak English, you'd be lucky if even a French person could make out what he was saying. His accent was just that heavy. Most likely, he'd need help from someone in Slytherin.
Raising his hand he said. "Excusez-moi, Professeur. (Excuse me Professor). I'm from Paris, and parler very little anglais. (speak, English) So, I'm afraid I might garcher le charme." (mess up the spell) Once again, his French accent was extremely expressed when he spoke English.
On a piece of clean piece of parchment paper, and he made sure that it was clean, he gently set down the feather. After that he laid the hair on top of it vertically so when he could get some assistance with cleaning his cauldron he could just gently set them in. Hopefully he wouldn't mess that part up. Also hopefully the professor would understand this little mishap.
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...wow. There was lots of drama. Was Culloden always this... testy? Marigold wasn't going to ask, Merlin no. She was just going to watch with an unbiased expression on her face as detentions were being handed out and things like that. But did Zander really need a detention? She kinda liked that kid. She was worried about laying the hair on correctly, so she took out her gloves. "Scourgify," she said softly, cleaning the gloves before putting them on. She picked the unicorn hair up carefully, then slowly placed it on top of the feather, rearranging it so that it was exactly lined up. She kept the gloves on, just in case, then observed Toby and Sophie being all helpful. Go power couple, yeah, but she was supposed to be helping out, too... yeah? Whoops. Next little needing assistance, Marigold could help. Hopefully.
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There was no hug potion? But why not?? Culloden seemed to think the whole thing was funny too. Kyroh blinked slightly confused. Couldn't they create one? Was that what the Professor meant by discussing it later? The second year was sure of it and simply nodded his head.
THAT sounded good and onto the NEXT task.
Which he would have conducted super quickly but then Toby got up and went to help some other kids? Craning his head to see, Kyroh watched as the older boy proceeded to help Magdalena and another boy.
And not him.
Not that he needed any help or anything but....Toby was suppose to say here beside him, okay?
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The boy one was talking. And helping people without being anyone's favorite. Dot leaned waaaaaaay around the girl one to look at him. Down there. She was allowed to look on account of he was saying words. He looked kind of sad too, and she wasn't sure she'd been paying enough attention to know why he, and Kyroh, looked so disturbed by Potions class.
"It's okay," Dot held out her hank of unicorn hair to Kyroh, just in case he needed some. Freckled friends for life. "You have to know the disease to find the medicine." And you had to know about hate to get rid of it.
Hands folded in his lap he didn't look away until a stray hand appeared out of no where. A Dot hand. Hesitating, Kyroh slipped on a glove before taking the half of hair. He examined it for a while before looking at Dot, her words not making much sense to him but he nodded anyways. "Thank you."Leaning over the cauldron the unicorn tail hair went RIGHT on the feather. Perfect fit.
He quickly scribbled down the steps before returning to stare at Tobias. Guess it wasn't his fault that he was cool and all.
SPOILER!!: Kyrohs Notes
Kyroh Scabior's Notes Second Year Potion: Hate Potion
Ingredients:
1 jobber knoll 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:
Add the jobberknoll feather without any water or fire
Lay the unicorn hair onto the feather vertically.
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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 the unicorn hair onto the feather vertically.
Puck rolled her eyes as much as she could ROLL them because really. Vertical unicorn hairs? Was this man serious? That would take forever and be tedious! She didn't want to spend all morning figuring out the perfect angle to lay the darn hair in her cauldron.
She was so not a potions fan. Glancing around she spotted Kace doing things properly and figured it was time to do it yeah? Carefully with her hands newly cleaned once more and the gloves upon her hand she carefully placed the feather into cauldron laying it vertically across the feather.
Perfeeeeect.
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Simon had been sitting in the classroom for the whole time scribbling notes. Yep. The whole time. He continued scribbling down some notes neatly in his notebook and then he began working on his potion. However, before he even started, he made sure that his cauldron was sparkly clean. With a flick of his wand, he quickly used Scourgify to clean it. Then he checked his neat notebook.
SPOILER!!: steps
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 unicorn hair onto the feather vertically.
Simon added his jobberknoll feather and then placed the unicorn hair very carefully onto the feather, making sure that it was laying vertically. He double checked to make sure what he was doing was correct and then moved on to waiting for the next step.
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?
Gwen wanted to roll her eyes when he pointed out the people who had done all the proper cleaning. She figured that wouldn't be a good way to start off the year with a new professor. She decided she'd just do the cleaning before this time around. She pulled out her gloves and did a little Scourgify on both of them. There. Now they were clean too.
Next was the unicorn hair. She raised an eyebrow. That was a very specific way to add an ingredient to the potion. Gwen picked up the unicorn hair and laid it over the feather as Culloden demonstrated. Next step please.
SPOILER!!: gwen's notes
Hate Potion
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
Put the jobberknoll feather in with no water or fire on the cauldron.
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That was...very specific placement for the unicorn hair. Hmmm. Caleb took the hair he'd collected and leaned over his cauldron, holding it carefully between his forefingers. He placed it lovingly over the feather. He made sure it was lying vertically over the feather...and bam. Step two DONE! That was super easy...but what would happen when they put water into the cauldron?
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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?
"Oh my stars!" Samantha thought to herself as she wrote down more potions notes. This potion was something that she needed 110% concentration on because she hadn't experienced such a complicated one. She carefully picked up the half a unicorn tail hair and gently placed it on the feather as per the teacher's instructions.
SPOILER!!: Potions Notes
Hate Potion
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
Clean every utensil prior to use. Firstly clean cauldron then add jobberknoll feather without water or fire. Secondly, vertically lay half a unicorn tail hair onto the jobberknoll feather, making sure it touches everywhere.
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Jasmine updated her notes as the new instructions were given. Adding the next step, she was now ready to proceed.
SPOILER!!: Jasmine'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
1. Add the Jobberknoll feather without any water or fire.
2. Lay half a unicorn tail hair vertically onto the feather.
Given the not so subtle cleanliness hints, Jasmine decided to use gloves this time.....even though she had washed her hands before starting the process. Taking out her gloves, Jasmine raised her wand and said, "Scourgify". Once the gloves were nice and clean, she put them on. Then she gently lifted her half unicorn hair and turned toward her cauldron. With great care, Jasmine placed it vertically atop her Joberknoll feather. Taking a moment to ensure that it was properly placed, she stepped back to await step three.
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[COLOR="RoyalBlue"] "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?
Oh, really? Annabeth stared at Sophie and then at Cosgrach. How could they say such nonsense and pretend it was perfectly normal to induce hate on someone - even when for a couple minutes? Anna shook her head. What they really needed was electroconvulsive therapy or, perhaps, to spend one or two weeks with her mother to understand that no hate potion was needed to hate a person from the bottom of your heart. Anna narrowed her eyes, this was indeed an evil thought... which made her feel better. She smiled.
The girl tried to pay attention on that was demonstrating Cosgrach, but the image of him having his body shaking convulsively by an electric shock popped in her mind and she couldn't help laughing inwardly. "Lay half the unicorn hair, yada, yada, yada..." she muttered to herself while taking notes.
Text Cut: Anna's Notes
Annabeth Glasswall
Hufflepuff Fifth Year
September 10th, 2084
Potions Classroom
Potions One: The Hate Potion
This potion makes you hate the first person you see upon consuming it.
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
Procedure 1. Clean the cauldron (scourgify)
2. Add the jobberknoll feather (without and water of fire.)3. Lay half a unicorn tail hair vertically over the feather.
Annabeth laid down the unicorn hair as Cosgrach had shown. She chewed the hate issue over in her mind for a minute and then raised her hand again, "Professor, there are studies which prove that hate can be harmful to health. Even so, do you think this potion is useful?" She stared at him, concerned.
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SPOILER!!: Step 2 + Gregoire!
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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.
...was that even an OFFICIAL surname?
......"Are you British?" How did you read that? Did you read that?
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.
...
.......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?
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!
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!
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
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.
Good. She understood. Cosgrach nodded in approval and moved on.
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.
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?
...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
"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."
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
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
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."
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.
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."
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.
...
......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.
Clear?
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Sigh.
Gregoire had to clean his cauldron anyways. Well then...this should be interesting. Maybe he should've explained to the Professor he was from Paris, and didn't really speak that much English- scratch that. He knew more than just some English, but it didn't feel comfortable for him to speak English. The pronunciations just didn't roll off of his tongue like they were supposed to. Even when he did speak English, you'd be lucky if even a French person could make out what he was saying. His accent was just that heavy. Most likely, he'd need help from someone in Slytherin.
Raising his hand he said. "Excusez-moi, Professeur. (Excuse me Professor). I'm from Paris, and parler very little anglais. (speak, English) So, I'm afraid I might garcher le charme." (mess up the spell) Once again, his French accent was extremely expressed when he spoke English.
On a piece of clean piece of parchment paper, and he made sure that it was clean, he gently set down the feather. After that he laid the hair on top of it vertically so when he could get some assistance with cleaning his cauldron he could just gently set them in. Hopefully he wouldn't mess that part up. Also hopefully the professor would understand this little mishap.
Ethan nodded, scribbled down some notes, and proceeded with laying down the Unicorn Hair vertically on top of the Jobberknoll Feather. Step Two done. The prefect kept his head down and scribbled down some more notes, underlining countless times the word cleanliness. He paused though when he heard someone talk from behind their group. He took a glance at Grayson first. Surely, his half-Frenchie friend wasn’t the one who spoke. So who was it?
Turning, he saw a Slytherin, around his age struggle with something. “Bonjour!” That’s…hello for French right? “Je suis, Ethan!” Oh Merlin help him. He sounds funny, and he was sure that he looked ridiculous. “That’s all the French I know, my friend.” He said as he looked at the boy’s Jobberknoll feather on top of a clean parchment. “What seems to be the problem?” Yep. Your prefect’s here to help you, French dude!
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Interesting things were being brought up and explained and they were ALL going down on her parchment. Yes. ALL of the information come to Beverly Wayne. She was sure it'd come in handy pretty soon.
Setting her quill down after jotting down the next step, she levitated the half unicorn hair and examined it critically. It reminded her of last term when she'd met a unicorn and her foal in Hogsmeade. BEST experience EVER. She got to feed them. ^____^
She snapped out of it quickly. Lesson. Yes. She was doing that. Beverly carefully navigated the unicorn hair and did as Professor Culloden instructed by placing it over the feather. There.
"Er...yes, Professor. I am," Sapphire replied. Then she decided to speak out her last name for the benefit of the professor (and perhaps some of her classmates). "Wulfweardsweorth is an English name - an old one and well...I guess you can say, unique."
"It means guardian of the world," Sapphire wanted to add. But hesitated.
Sapphire updated her notes as the professor continued with his instructions.
SPOILER!!: Sapphire's Potions Notebook
Potions Class 1
Professor Cosgrach Culloden
Hate Potion
- there are several types
- for this class: one that makes you hate the first person you see
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
ALWAYS KEEP CAULDRONS AND ALL POTIONS SUPPLIES CLEAN
Step 1. Add jobberknoll feather without any water or fire.
Step 2. Lay half the unicorn hair vertically onto the feather.
Sapphire carefully picked up the unicorn hair and lay half of it vertically onto the feather in her cauldron, just as instructed.
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Lay half the unicorn hair vertically on the feather. She was going to use her gloves for this. Everything needed to be clean, so before putting on the gloves, she cleaned them. "Scourgify!" Penelope checked to make sure she didn't have any lose hair that might get in the cauldron and put on her gloves. Picking up half a unicorn hair, Penelope carefully placed the unicorn hair vertically across the feather, not even breathing while she did it. Breathing on it could mess it up. After she finished positioning the unicorn hair, Penelope backed away from the cauldron a little bit. Why did the unicorn hair have to be laid vertically on the feather? Raising her hand, she asked "Professor, what is the effect of laying the unicorn hair vertically on the feather?"
SPOILER!!: notes
Hate Potion
Effects: makes you hate the first person you see
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
1. Clean cauldron
2. Add jobberknoll feather to cauldron without adding water or heating the cauldron
3. Lay half the unicorn hair vertically over the feather
Hugo nodded at the professor. It's up to you. He still wondered why would he need to hate someone, BUT he was also interested in testing it. Hmm. He knew what he was going to end up doing.
He paid attention when the professor answered to Dante 'cause he could't go on without knowing which was the jobberknoll feather. Oh it was the blue one. Got it. Hugo took it carefully and placed it inside his cauldron. First step: checked. He noticed everyone was taking notes, should he do the same? He was feeling too lazy to grab his quill and write, but on the other hand he knew it was better to do it. And so he did.
After that, the first year observed while the professor demonstrated the second step. Hugo grabbed the unicorn hair and placed on top of the feather. Good. What else, Cosgroach?
Lay unicorn hair on feather vertically? Wow potions was a lot more complex than simple cooking and baking.
"Professor, does it really matter how you do it?" really? Because that was weird! Or maybe it was just the fact that he was a muggleborn and had no clue what he was doing. That was probably it actually.
Even before the Professor replied he decided to add it to his notes anyway. Because he was a good student.
SPOILER!!: Leo's Notebook
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Hate Potion
1 jobberknoll feather
Half a unicorn tail hair
3 leech heads
Half a ginger root
10 carrots
A bunch of knotgrass
1 wormwood
10 crow feathers
1 common spider
2 crocodile teeth
1. Add jobberknoll feather without any water or fire.
2. Lay unicorn hair on jobberknoll feather VERTICALLY
So he grabbed the one hair, which he almost didn't see and placed it on the feather vertically. Would the professor be happy?
He still didn't see why this was entirely necessary though.
He decided he didn't like this whole potions thing.
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Originally Posted by StarShine
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.
...was that even an OFFICIAL surname?
......"Are you British?" How did you read that? Did you read that?
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.
...
.......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?
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!
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!
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
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.
Good. She understood. Cosgrach nodded in approval and moved on.
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.
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?
...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
"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."
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
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
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."
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.
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."
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.
...
......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.
Clear?
So far, so good.. this was going to be ACE!
Paying close attention and copying down the next method instruction, Zeke nodded his understanding. Easy peasssyyyy.. right? RIGHT?
SPOILER!!: Notesss
Potions Lesson One
with Professor Cosgrach Culloden
Hate Potion
- there are lots of types
- this one makes you hate the person you see first
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
Pre-Method
CLEAN YO CAULDRONS AND STUFF
Method
1. Add jobberknoll feather without water or fire or anything.
2. Lay the unicorn tail hair veritcally across the feather.
Vertically? ... was it not, horizontally? Because... horizons were FLAT and so if your thing such as your feather was laying FLATish, then was it not laying it on there horizontally instead? .... ....
Zeke was confused, but brushed it off. He had eyes, and his looked like exactly like the Professors, so consider him to have successfully LAY the hair on it... vertically. Yep.
It was then that he heard a question from a peer. One he was super curious about.
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Originally Posted by griffin
Lay half the unicorn hair vertically on the feather. She was going to use her gloves for this. Everything needed to be clean, so before putting on the gloves, she cleaned them. "Scourgify!" Penelope checked to make sure she didn't have any lose hair that might get in the cauldron and put on her gloves. Picking up half a unicorn hair, Penelope carefully placed the unicorn hair vertically across the feather, not even breathing while she did it. Breathing on it could mess it up. After she finished positioning the unicorn hair, Penelope backed away from the cauldron a little bit. Why did the unicorn hair have to be laid vertically on the feather? Raising her hand, she asked "Professor, what is the effect of laying the unicorn hair vertically on the feather?"
SPOILER!!: notes
Hate Potion
Effects: makes you hate the first person you see
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
1. Clean cauldron
2. Add jobberknoll feather to cauldron without adding water or heating the cauldron
3. Lay half the unicorn hair vertically over the feather
He could hazard a guess as to why it might be the case, so with EXPECTANT looks, he turned from the girl to the Professor, his hand SHOOTING into the air. "Professor, Sir... is it because it helps the ingredients bind?" Or something. Y'know, with them touching like that and all.
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.
Maggie BEEEAAAAAAMED at him.
She watched HIM instead of the cauldron when he cleaned it. He was a lot more interesting than the now - and previously - clean cauldron. Yep. A whole lot. "Thank youuuu. You're the best." Now she did glance down. For a brief second. "....Magdalena." He was looking for her name, yes? Yes of course he was. It was very important after all. "Magdalena Natalie Traulton."Nice to meet you. Cue more grinning.
Wait...he was leaving again? What about the ingredients? They were supposed to clean them too, no? They were supposed to clean EVERYTHING after all. She put up her hair to make sure it didn't get in the way. Or in the potion. She didn't want to ruin it. Or make her hate herself. HA! As if. That wasn't possible. Not even with a potion. "Can't you stay here?" She patted her own seat. There was still some room. A little.
Or he could just take his own chair and put it next to hers.
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