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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
Lil? He was not little (with ALL the letters) thank you very much! Sure, with an August birthday he was probably one of the youngest in the year, as well of one of the shortest, but he was still a big eleven years old. Hmph. And whilst he did need help, the Professor didn't need to be so obvious about it. It wasn't Archie's fault the Professor had neglected to tell him how to do it! He'd at least given it a try and copied the other students.
And that was when he looked to see exactly who the Professor had meant by them. That meant he wasn't the only one, right? Cool! Maybe they could help- oh. Her. Really? REALLY? He was sat next to HER? How had that even happened? He scooted over a bit towards Silas on his other side. He didn't need her negativity ruining his potion.
And then a person came to help...and did something quite close to what he'd done previously. "Scer-gi-fai. I did that. I didn't see any difference though." He peered in his cauldron again. "S'brand new y'see. Beautifully shiny already." But trying it again wouldn't hurt, would it? "Scergifai!" ..and an S shape with his wand. Did it do anything?
Nope. No difference.
Oh well. Least he'd made more of an attempt than Rude Girl over there, who was totally trying to get Toby there to wait on her hand and foot. The irony of her not knowing what a House Elf was. "Hey, Toby...since you're busy with-" Rude Girl "-well, you're busy with her, do you mind if I work with Silas?"
No? Good. He was quite happy not being associated with her, so more wiggling over to Silas happened now. "Scourgify?" he repeated again, now to the Gryffindor. "Thanks. And it was this blue feather first, right?" He pulled on his gloves and picked it up, letting the feather shimmer in the light. "And then half the unicorn hair?"
Were there any scissors around? How was he meant to get half of it. Why was the Professor only giving them half of the instructions?!
A path is not simply for walking, its purpose lies in moving forward and improving oneself.
"WHAT?!"
Being seated next to Zander, Kevin could follow everything that was being said between his friend and the Professor and what he heard was so unfair that he looked at Zander in mild shock and then turned his gaze to the Potions Professor and narrowed his eyes.
"He only asked a question! Why does he get a detention?!" he tried not to shout but his voice was rising with each word. And yes, Kevin Hirase was defending another classmate. Mainly because he was his only friend but he wanted to keep him as one. And defending a friend could be a good way to start in changing right? ...Maybe not what the adults were hoping for but he didn't care.
Well then his semi-good mood had vanished completely now as he lay the unicorn hair vertically on the feather. He did this with controlled patience because just because Zander got a detention HE didn't feel like messing up his potion.
Hogwarts RPG Name: Gabriella Rose Rustokova (#CCOOCC)
Ravenclaw
Fourth Year
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Otter This World ♡ Catpurrccino ♡ Slotherin ♡ Pandamonium
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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!
A direct question just to her? About where she's from? Well Hady didn't quite see the significance in this question but it was the Professor asking her and he had asked her kindly. With a soft smile and quiet voice she answered his question the best that she could. "I was born in Scotland like my birth parents but shortly after I moved to America with my adoptive parents." She hoped that was what he was asking about and wanted to know.
Shifting in her seat a little she went back to listening to the Professor explain why cleanliness was so important. Seeing some of the other students slip on their gloves she removed hers from her ingredients box and cast a quiet "Scourgify" over them and her hands before she slipped the gloves on.
Some of the older students were helping the younger ones out and she thought that was really nice of them. She didn't think she needed any help, at least not yet. Did she? Chewing on her lip she looked back at the Professor and watched as he picked up the unicorn hair and placed it into the cauldron carefully.
She could do that. Very carefully picking up the unicorn hair between two fingers and making sure it was clean using the same spell as earlier she stood up at her seat. Slowly she lowered her hand into the cauldron and settled half the unicorn hair vertically over the jobberknoll feather. There she'd done it!
Sitting back down in her seat her attention went to everyone else to see how they were all doing as she waited for the next instruction.
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Okaaay so far it was good the professor was saying things out loud and all was well. Ruby stuck the unicorn hair on the feather in her cauldron. That was pretty much that y'know? Like the whole hair was touching feather. Lengthwise, which was what she assumed he meant with that whole vertical thing.
...
okaaay so that was done. Ruby spent the next few minutes looking around the class. Scoping.
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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.
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?
The praise had been completely unexpected...and because he was standing in a room full of people, Gabriel flushed noticeably. He glanced around nervously, hoping no one took any special interest in him. Nope. Just a normal dude, doing normal things. No need to give him any special attention or....anything...
The trembling increased...but he tried to breathe through it. Cleaning one of his tempered steel knives, he cut the unicorn hair in half; the line not as perfect as it usually was (due to his nerves). Slipping his gloves on (after another cleaning charm), he attempted to repeat the teacher's precise motion.
The hair shook with his shaking hands...but Gabe got it in there...and after documenting the step, he buried his face in the crook of his arm.
The Ravenclaw remained utterly embarrassed.
SPOILER!!: Potion's Notes
Gabriel P. Banner
Ravenclaw 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 Clean the cauldron (scourgify)
Add the jobberknoll feather (without and water of fire)
Lay half the unicorn hair vertically over the feather.
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So very pretty, and we sure know how to run things..._______________________________ Livin' in ruins of a palace, within our dreams...____________
We're on each other's team._____
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Reason: What are WORDZ?!
This was actually one of the Potions Agatha thought might be good and useful at some point. Not that it was that difficult to hate people because people easily did stupid things and it was the easiest thing on earth to hate someone, but this Potion sounded fun.
And complicated.
But nothing was too complicated for Agatha Hapgood, so she was determined to get that right. Hate Potion. Awesome.
After cleaning her cauldron and making all her equipment look neat and organised around it, she started to follow the instructions.
Step 1. Jobberknol feather. Check.
Step 2. Half a unicorn hair. Vertically. On the feather.
Wait, what?? Agatha had to look up this time to see exactly what the professor was doing because that sounded odd. Oh. It wasn't that bad. But half the hair? Why not the whole hair? Would that make the person hate more? That was cool, Agatha wanted more anger and hate. Did it make sense? To double up all the ingredients to have a stronger version of the Potion? Was that how Potions worked?
But she didn't want to make a fool of herself, and knowing what professor Culloden might do when in a bad mood, she decided to stay quiet and maybe ask him all this later. Lessons were no time for asking, only following instructions. She guessed.
So there went the half of the unicorn hair on the feather, in the cauldron. It was weird looking at it since there was literally nothing else in the cauldron. It didn't really feel like a Potion. Hm.
But... unicorn hair. It had to be collected by a really hateful person, right? Who else would be brave enough to pluck out some hair from a unicorn? Weren't they precious and holy creatures or something? Maybe that's why they used their hair in this Hate Potion. And MAYBE if they used MORE unicorn hair... the Potion would be more powerful.
......Would professor Culloden notice if she slipped the other half of the unicorn hair into her Potion? The Slytherin decided to watch him closely to try and see just how attentive he was.
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You're happy to go with the flow and see where the Yule Ball takes you!
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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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?
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.
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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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Lil? He was not little (with ALL the letters) thank you very much! Sure, with an August birthday he was probably one of the youngest in the year, as well of one of the shortest, but he was still a big eleven years old. Hmph. And whilst he did need help, the Professor didn't need to be so obvious about it. It wasn't Archie's fault the Professor had neglected to tell him how to do it! He'd at least given it a try and copied the other students.
And that was when he looked to see exactly who the Professor had meant by them. That meant he wasn't the only one, right? Cool! Maybe they could help- oh. Her. Really? REALLY? He was sat next to HER? How had that even happened? He scooted over a bit towards Silas on his other side. He didn't need her negativity ruining his potion.
And then a person came to help...and did something quite close to what he'd done previously. "Scer-gi-fai. I did that. I didn't see any difference though." He peered in his cauldron again. "S'brand new y'see. Beautifully shiny already." But trying it again wouldn't hurt, would it? "Scergifai!" ..and an S shape with his wand. Did it do anything?
Nope. No difference.
Oh well. Least he'd made more of an attempt than Rude Girl over there, who was totally trying to get Toby there to wait on her hand and foot. The irony of her not knowing what a House Elf was. "Hey, Toby...since you're busy with-" Rude Girl "-well, you're busy with her, do you mind if I work with Silas?"
No? Good. He was quite happy not being associated with her, so more wiggling over to Silas happened now. "Scourgify?" he repeated again, now to the Gryffindor. "Thanks. And it was this blue feather first, right?" He pulled on his gloves and picked it up, letting the feather shimmer in the light. "And then half the unicorn hair?"
Were there any scissors around? How was he meant to get half of it. Why was the Professor only giving them half of the instructions?!
From the general area, over where he'd just come from, Toby heard the girl who was sitting next to Soph speak. From what he caught, it was some pretty deep stuff that was relevant to the whole hate potion thing, at least as far as he could tell. The Hufflepuff automatically looked back to the group he'd stepped away from, and immediately caught sigh of Kyroh looking up from his notes to stare at him. Toby gave him a little smile, and the Slytherin girl too if she was looking, but couldn't help feeling like he was doing something WRONG... though he didn't have a clue what it could be. Putting it all down to his uneasiness about brewing this potion, Toby looked back to the first year kids he now stood near.
The boy was cool to work with Silas, who Toby guessed was the boy sitting on his other side, so Toby nodded at him.
"Sure thing, man," he responded, feeling that that made things all the easier anyway, before looking back at the first year girl.
"You're very welcome," he grinned at her, AND her little compliment, before adding the name too. "Magdalena." Toby was ALSO really grateful for the positive sort of interaction here, because it had him smiling a little again and distracted from the potion, for now. If he was helping kids out then it served as a great distraction from what the end result of this potion was.
Sit over here? Heh. "I would, but I sit beside Kyroh in potions." So now he felt GUILTY for saying no. Man. "Why don't you come sit on my other side? I'm only a few seats away." Toby gestured towards his place beside Kyroh, unsure of whether he was still looking over or not. "Then I can help you out easier if you need it."
That was okay, right? She'd not started yet, after all, and Toby wasn't about to leave his little Ravenclaw buddy for another workstation when they'd saved him a seat there and everything.
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.
Anna again!
Cosgrach smiled at the girl, mainly because she was a bright one, and also because she loved him. (Eheheh)
Hmm. "Yes, because like I said before, maybe they found hate is unhealthy through this potion." Y'know? An overload of this and BAM! A scientific discovery! "And anyway, it only causes hate for a few hours, so it's not deadly."
Yeah?
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Raising her hand, she asked "Professor, what is the effect of laying the unicorn hair vertically on the feather?"
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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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"Professor, does it really matter how you do it?"
So he grabbed the one hair, which he almost didn't see and placed it on the feather vertically. Would the professor be happy?
"For it them to touch as much as possible, because they ought to react."
Hmm? Logical?
After letting that sink in, he turned to the Gryffindor boy (Leo).
"Please clean your gloves and wear them."
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"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?"
Cosgrach nodded again.
"It is trying to do that, though it's such a hard thing to erase all memories just like that, so it's less potent with people you really love."
As for her second question... "Magic." Truly. That was all the explanation he had. "They react to each other by touching." At least, that was the most logical explanation.
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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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"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?"
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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.
...
......what even -
Cosgrach loved AJ, but she apparently loved unicorns much more. He was not dumbstruck by the question, but rather by the way she asked it. So much... compassion there. Too much. While he was still in a haze, ZEKE ROGERS was not, and answered her and that Ravenclaw girl.
"Two points to Gryffindor for out of the box thinking," he said, "while it also definitely serves for that, that's not the primary function. Like you've said, a unicorn means positive feelings, the opposite of hate, so we want to kill them. To kill them, we have to first wake them up." Yeah? Yeah. "It is used for that and Merlin, AJ! I'm no murderer!" Every time they had to use an animal part in a potion (a.k.a. in EVERY SINGLE LESSON) at least ONE student accused him of harming the animals. Did he look like he enjoyed that just for potions?
"They drop their hair just like you do, and either me, groundskeeper or Javier pick 'em up."
Simple as that!
Text Cut: Dirty people
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ORuby stuck the unicorn hair on the feather in her cauldron.
Although Ruby had completely ignored his previous question, Cosgrach couldn't ignore her back. He walked to her to warn her as well: "Please clean your gloves and wear them."
Hopefully, she wouldn't ignore this.
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He carefully placed it vertically over the feather and it seemed to touch everywhere.
"Kace, please clean your gloves and wear them." COsgrach was friendly... now. If he didn't, Cosgrach would get mean and vanish her potion.
Way of the world.
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Caleb took the hair he'd collected and leaned over his cauldron, holding it carefully between his forefingers.
But - without any gloves or anything?
Tut tut. A mistake he wouldn't expect from Caleb Newell.
"Caleb," he addressed the boy in a friendly tone, "please clean your gloves and wear them throughout the whole lesson."
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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.
...
......y'know, Cosgrach WAITED for her to do SOMETHING but she didN'T and -
"B.H.G?" The capitals of 'Best Head Girl'. She HAD TO guess it. Anyways. "You forgot to clean your gloves and wear them."
Just saying. No judging or vanishing... yet.
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Hugo grabbed the unicorn hair and placed on top of the feather.
"Hugo," he called out, proud that he remembered his name, "please clean your gloves and wear them. I wasn't joking about cleanliness." Not that he sounded hostile, no. He was still very polite.
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She carefully picked up the half a unicorn tail hair and gently placed it on the feather as per the teacher's instructions.
And another one here.
Cosgrach walked to her too.
"Samantha, I believe," he said pleasantly, "please clean your gloves and wear them for the rest of the class." He wasn't joking when he said it was a delicate potion.
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"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."
...Cosgrach wasn't even trying to pronounce it.
"Does it... have a meaning?" It ought to, no?
...but he apparently was distracting her, because she'd forgotten to put on her gloves.
"So, Miss, uh, Wolfblaerghp," he'd already forgotten how to say the rest, and he wasn't going to try reading it, "please clean your gloves too and wear them."
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With a soft smile and quiet voice she answered his question the best that she could. "I was born in Scotland like my birth parents but shortly after I moved to America with my adoptive parents." She hoped that was what he was asking about and wanted to know.
Ah.
He grinned vastly then.
"Y'see, because I'm a Scottish too!" He was ignoring the "USA" part and the fact that she might feel more American than Scottish. "'S nice to see a Scottish, that's all. If you need anythin', y'can come to me."
Scot-support!
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"Right, sorry professor, Hello." Austin glared back at the man at the front of the room.
...huhhhh?
Was a simple greeting TOO MUCH to ask?
But, oh - it didn't even matter, because Sophie picked TOBY over him. So he'd let this poor boy be... for now.
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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.
Completely oblivious to Toby's discomfort, Cosgrach was very pleased to see him helping the first years. He nodded at the boy and said "6 points to Hufflepuff."
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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.
...
"Hahaha." Grin.
"So we're equal, now?" Yes. Hehe.
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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.
She... she got him?
And stopped?
Cosgrach couldn't understand HOW he managed that. Maybe it was her happy day or something? Like she'd promised someone to say "Yes" to everything - it didn't even make sense, but that was the only explanation Cosgrach could come up with. So he allowed himself to smile somewhat nervously and even laughed at her joke, because it was funny.
And look, she was going really well!
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No? Good. He was quite happy not being associated with her, so more wiggling over to Silas happened now. "Scourgify?" he repeated again, now to the Gryffindor. "Thanks. And it was this blue feather first, right?" He pulled on his gloves and picked it up, letting the feather shimmer in the light. "And then half the unicorn hair?"
Oh look, someone else was helping the lil mate now. A Gryffindor, it seemed, so...
"Three points to Gryffindor." There.
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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--"
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"WHAT?!"
... "He only asked a question! Why does he get a detention?!" he tried not to shout but his voice was rising with each word.
But he - he was just -
"Trying to be funny through me," Cosgrach concluded his sentence, which should also answer Kevin, "and anyway, maybe the outcome of our discussion will be useful." Like maybe Zander WOULD prove to have more wits than he showed.
He turned his back to them. This discussion was over.
Text Cut: Ethan and Gregoire
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Originally Posted by natethegreat
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.
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Originally Posted by Mordred
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!
Ah, look, Ethan to the rescue!
Cosgrach smiled at them, said "I believe Ethan won't let you gagh - shae - leeshar." Whatever that meant. Cosgrach's French didn't go beyond "Non". "Three points to Slytherin," he also said, and moved to the next person.
Moving on.
Cosgrach walked to the front and tapped his wand on the blackboard for the next steps to show.
"Add a litre of water, and then three leech heads one by one. With a metal stick, stir it clockwise for ten times. Clean the metal stick before and after using. Then add half the ginger root, and wait for two minutes."
It sounded as much, but they had been too slow in the beginning, and these were steps they ought to do quickly.
OOC: I know those are too many instructions, but RL is hectic, which means I can post only once, which means we are moving a bit slowly. I hope it is not too much.
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Was the older Claw okay? Maddie watched him curiously as he hid in the crook of his arm, wondering if he was planning on coming out for the next step in the potion. She wasn't going to do it for him, JUST saying. He could get his OWN minions for THAT. *POKE* *POKE* *POKE* "Pssst. If you hide, you'll miss out on the next steps and you seem to be doing okay so far. Don't want to mess it up now."
But SHE didn't have time to babysit shy boys who were blushy and hiding. SHE had important things to do. Potions things. Things that also didn't involve watching Dot help Kyroh because yeah. ...Yeah.
After cleaning her hands AGAIN because it was becoming a thing in this class and she'd rather be safe than sorry, Maddie picked up her wand. She then proceeded to fill up her cauldron. She did her BEST to get the measurement exact, even though she'd be a bit of wiggle room considering she wasn't using a ruler. "Aguamenti." Somewhere in the back of her mind she also wondered if Ascan had figured this spell out yet. Hm.
Once the water was added, the twelve year old focused on the leech heads. Weird things, leeches. She knew about their medicinal uses but she wondered if they were working metaphorically here. Like someone you hate sucks the kindness out of you like leeches suck blood. It was an interesting theory if nothing else. The second year cleaned a knife and then carefully severed the heads from three leeches, more fascinated by the process than disgusted. Then Maddie cleaned her hands between EACH leech head that she added. Counted them too. "One." PAUSE to clean. "Two." PAUSE to clean. "Three." Finish and clean both the knife and her hands.
Next came the metal stirrer. "Scourgify." Once it was cleaned to her liking, the brunette stuck it into the cauldron and began to stir clockwise. "One...two...three...four...five...six...seven...e ight...nine...ten." She cleaned the metal stirrer again after taking it out, setting it aside for later use. Maybe.
Taking the knife again, Maddie cleaned it and once done, she reached for the ginger root with her free hand. She then carefully cut it in half. Once done, she cleaned the knife and set it safely aside. Only after did she add the half ginger root to her potion.
Now she had to wait two minutes. Might as well count down the time while she was cleaning her hands. ...AGAIN.
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).
4. Add a litre of water to the cauldron.
5. Clean knife. Add three leech heads, one at a time.
6. Using a clean metal stirrer, stir clockwise ten times.
7. Clean stirrer again.
8. Clean knife. Add half the ginger root.
9. Wait for two minutes.
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It took Adi a moment to realise his gloves were not on. Heh. Had the Professor noticed? Seemed like he had not. "You made me forget my gloves,'' he grumbled to Benny. You know, because he was all concerned for you. He was mid way of pulling on the cleaned glove for his right hand when... Was Benny cracking a joke? Does she need cheering up? LOL. Adi couldn't help himself. He grinned. "Maybe she does. But that's not why I'm going to make you go see her. In the meanwhile, I'm going to keep an eye on you.''
The Puffer's hands were now fully gloved. He measured out the liter of water before pouring it into the cauldron. He had made sure his measuring equipment was all cleaned first. Next, the leech heads went in one by one. Three in total. After Scourgifying the metal stick, he began to stir. One...two...three...four...five...six...seven...ei ght...nine...ten! Ten clockwise stirs. The stick received another round of magical cleaning before being put away. Finally, half a ginger root was added. Steps complete!
All the while, Adi was keeping one eye on the Dragon.
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SPOILER!!: Culloden
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Originally Posted by StarShine
Cosgrach nodded again.
"It is trying to do that, though it's such a hard thing to erase all memories just like that, so it's less potent with people you really love."
As for her second question... "Magic." Truly. That was all the explanation he had. "They react to each other by touching." At least, that was the most logical explanation.
***
Cosgrach walked to the front and tapped his wand on the blackboard for the next steps to show.
"Add a litre of water, and then three leech heads one by one. With a metal stick, stir it clockwise for ten times. Clean the metal stick before and after using. Then add half the ginger root, and wait for two minutes."
It sounded as much, but they had been too slow in the beginning, and these were steps they ought to do quickly.
OOC: I know those are too many instructions, but RL is hectic, which means I can post only once, which means we are moving a bit slowly. I hope it is not too much.
I'll post about 17 hours later.
That sounded so sweet. Like even the strongest of hate potions couldn't overcome the strongest of loves. Awww. It was with a small smile on her face that Hayden turned to add the next ingredients - with her gloves on, of course.
Hayden readied her wand again and stared at her beaker. "Scourgify." She grinned in satisfaction when it was clean and kept her wand pointed over the top of the beaker. "Aguamenti." At first nothing happened. Hayden frowned but didn't let it discourage her. She said it again. "Aguamenti." This time, water poured from her wand and into the beaker. Hayden watched carefully and measured out a liter of water. Hayden poured the water into her cauldron. She was very careful not to splash any at all. Then she picked up a leech head and added it to the cauldron. She repeated that until three leech heads had been added to her cauldron. Then she raised her hand. "What do the leech heads do?"
Hayden pointed her wand at the metal stick and said, "Scourgify." She placed it in the cauldron and stirred clockwise ten times. She made sure to count accurately, slow but not too slow. When she reached ten, Hayden placed the stick back on the table and pointed her wand at it. "Scourgify," she said again. She looked for the next ingredient, half a ginger root, and added that to the cauldron as well. Were all ginger roots the same size? Otherwise, the amount that equaled half a ginger root would be different every time. Therefore, the potion would turn out differently every time, would it not? So they were probably all the same size. Hayden raised her hand again. "What's the importance of the ginger root?" There was time for him to answer, considering they had to wait two minutes before the next step.
SPOILER!!: directions
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
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WOAH, okay. HOLD UP.
Just HOLD THE FREAKING PHONE.
Did Zandar just get detention? Zandar Adair? And DETENTION?!
Something did NOT add up in that equation, as shown in the boy's wide eyed and open-mouthed look and the way his eyes were switching from one to the other. Jeez, what did Zandar DO to get that? It must have been something big, like insulting the most precious thing in Culloden's life: his potions.
Oh look who was distracted. He was.
Shaking his head and making a mental note to find out as much info as he could about the situation later, Grayson turned his attention towards the board. The number of instructions that came up caused the fifth year to raise his eyebrows. WHY? What was the need? Was this a challenge? If so, BRING IT.
Grabbing a beaker and giving it a quick magical clean, Grayson cast the Water Charm to get a goooooooooood amount of water flowing into the beaker. Once enough was measured out, he added the water into his cauldron. Potions needed this stuff and trying to think of a potion that didn't need water was likely to give him a headache. Soooo, he wasn't going to think about it. Instead, he cleaned his gloves before adding in three leech heads, one by one. Right into the potion.
More cleaning commenced, which wasn't surprising to the Slytherin. He wasn't one to willingly clean his room but potions? He could clean instruments and equipment for Potions without hesitation. The metal stick was cleaned. Uh huh. Cleaned nice and proper. Dipping it into his potion, Whitty set about stirring it in the clockwise direction. "One........ two..... three...... four........ five....... six...... seven...... eight......... nine....... ten!"
One more cleaning spell for YOU, metal stick.
Ginger root. Half a ginger root, at that. His wand was grabbed again and he magically cut the root in half, taking extra care and whatnot. Wand still in hand, Whitty levitated one half of the ginger root into his potion. With that done, it was time to play the waiting game. Two minutes. Just two minutes of waiting and seeing what the others were up to.
Tick tock tick tock
Text Cut: Journal
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
3) Add one litre of water
4) Add three leech heads
5) Use clean metal stick to stir the potion ten times clockwise (clean metal stick after using too)
6) Add half a ginger root
7) Wait two minutes
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Marigold casually ignored the whole detention debacle once more as she continued her potion-making. She carefully measured out the right amount of water, then poured it into her cauldron. Why did the unicorn hair and the feather have to be so lined up, then, if water was just going to separate them anyway? Peering into her cauldron to make sure she didn't splash anything, she put the three leech heads - ew - in one at a time.
"Scourgify," she said to clean the metal stick, then she put it into the cauldron. If she could whistle she would as she stirred the water mixture. Clockwise. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten times. After she finished, she pulled the stick out and cleaned it with another "Scourgify." She cut the ginger root in half, them added that as well.
And then she waited and waited and waited and waited.
.... Zahra cackled when OLD MAN POTIONS laughed at HER. LIKE WHAT WAS GOING ON? Old Mean Britches MUSTA been in a good mood OR he'd been dabbling in the cheering potions this morning. Worked for her, cuz know what? Z hadn't had lost a SINGLE POINT YET.
And call her crazy, but he was like handing out house left and right, too.
Next time he came by, Zahra was gonna give him a SCOURIGIFED HIGH FIVE WOO!
OKAY SO LET'S BREW SOME STUFF. His instructions suddenly got long and complicated so Zahra looked around for some nerd to watch. Or maybe Phoenix could do this part. At the very least, Zahra knew to add WATER.
"FLOOD. WATCH OUT BELOW," Zahra called to her half-a-hair and feather. WEEEEEE.
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After copying down the next steps for the potion, Lux measured out a litre of water and poured it into her cauldron. Now it was time for the leech heads, which were disgusting. Making a face while adding them one by one, she wondered if their purpose was to suck out all happiness. Seemed fitting for a hate potion.
After cleaning her gloves again from the gross leeches, she picked up her metal stick. It wasn't dirty, but got another cleaning because why not. She stirred the potion 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 times in a clockwise direction before cleaning the stick again.
Taking her ginger root, Lux carefully cut it in half before adding one of the pieces to the cauldron. There, she was almost caught up again; just needed to wait the two minutes.
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.
3. Add a litre of water.
4. Add the leech heads one by one.
5. With a metal stick, stir it clockwise ten times (Clean the metal stick before and after using).
6. Add half the ginger root.
7. Wait for two minutes.
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!
Gregoire looked up when he saw the male prefect of his house start talking to him. He will be needing some French lessons. Gregoire thought to himself. "Bonjour! Je suis Gregoire." He replied to his fellow snake. "The problem is je can't pro- pronounc- pronownce? The charme en anglais." That was his problem. Which was a very big one if you asked him. Because he wouldn't be able to get anywhere now without being able to clean his cauldron. Heck! He was half tempted to just manually clean it! That didn't sound like that bad of an idea right about now!
To make matters even more extreme the professor started to speak again...
SPOILER!!: Le Professeur
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Originally Posted by StarShine
Text Cut: Questions
Anna again!
Cosgrach smiled at the girl, mainly because she was a bright one, and also because she loved him. (Eheheh)
Hmm. "Yes, because like I said before, maybe they found hate is unhealthy through this potion." Y'know? An overload of this and BAM! A scientific discovery! "And anyway, it only causes hate for a few hours, so it's not deadly."
Yeah?
"For it them to touch as much as possible, because they ought to react."
Hmm? Logical?
After letting that sink in, he turned to the Gryffindor boy (Leo).
"Please clean your gloves and wear them."
Cosgrach nodded again.
"It is trying to do that, though it's such a hard thing to erase all memories just like that, so it's less potent with people you really love."
As for her second question... "Magic." Truly. That was all the explanation he had. "They react to each other by touching." At least, that was the most logical explanation.
...
......what even -
Cosgrach loved AJ, but she apparently loved unicorns much more. He was not dumbstruck by the question, but rather by the way she asked it. So much... compassion there. Too much. While he was still in a haze, ZEKE ROGERS was not, and answered her and that Ravenclaw girl.
"Two points to Gryffindor for out of the box thinking," he said, "while it also definitely serves for that, that's not the primary function. Like you've said, a unicorn means positive feelings, the opposite of hate, so we want to kill them. To kill them, we have to first wake them up." Yeah? Yeah. "It is used for that and Merlin, AJ! I'm no murderer!" Every time they had to use an animal part in a potion (a.k.a. in EVERY SINGLE LESSON) at least ONE student accused him of harming the animals. Did he look like he enjoyed that just for potions?
"They drop their hair just like you do, and either me, groundskeeper or Javier pick 'em up."
Simple as that!
Text Cut: Dirty people
Although Ruby had completely ignored his previous question, Cosgrach couldn't ignore her back. He walked to her to warn her as well: "Please clean your gloves and wear them."
Hopefully, she wouldn't ignore this.
"Kace, please clean your gloves and wear them." COsgrach was friendly... now. If he didn't, Cosgrach would get mean and vanish her potion.
Way of the world.
But - without any gloves or anything?
Tut tut. A mistake he wouldn't expect from Caleb Newell.
"Caleb," he addressed the boy in a friendly tone, "please clean your gloves and wear them throughout the whole lesson."
...
......y'know, Cosgrach WAITED for her to do SOMETHING but she didN'T and -
"B.H.G?" The capitals of 'Best Head Girl'. She HAD TO guess it. Anyways. "You forgot to clean your gloves and wear them."
Just saying. No judging or vanishing... yet.
"Hugo," he called out, proud that he remembered his name, "please clean your gloves and wear them. I wasn't joking about cleanliness." Not that he sounded hostile, no. He was still very polite.
And another one here.
Cosgrach walked to her too.
"Samantha, I believe," he said pleasantly, "please clean your gloves and wear them for the rest of the class." He wasn't joking when he said it was a delicate potion.
Text Cut: A few people :3
...Cosgrach wasn't even trying to pronounce it.
"Does it... have a meaning?" It ought to, no?
...but he apparently was distracting her, because she'd forgotten to put on her gloves.
"So, Miss, uh, Wolfblaerghp," he'd already forgotten how to say the rest, and he wasn't going to try reading it, "please clean your gloves too and wear them."
Ah.
He grinned vastly then.
"Y'see, because I'm a Scottish too!" He was ignoring the "USA" part and the fact that she might feel more American than Scottish. "'S nice to see a Scottish, that's all. If you need anythin', y'can come to me."
Scot-support!
...huhhhh?
Was a simple greeting TOO MUCH to ask?
But, oh - it didn't even matter, because Sophie picked TOBY over him. So he'd let this poor boy be... for now.
Completely oblivious to Toby's discomfort, Cosgrach was very pleased to see him helping the first years. He nodded at the boy and said "6 points to Hufflepuff."
...
"Hahaha." Grin.
"So we're equal, now?" Yes. Hehe.
She... she got him?
And stopped?
Cosgrach couldn't understand HOW he managed that. Maybe it was her happy day or something? Like she'd promised someone to say "Yes" to everything - it didn't even make sense, but that was the only explanation Cosgrach could come up with. So he allowed himself to smile somewhat nervously and even laughed at her joke, because it was funny.
And look, she was going really well!
Oh look, someone else was helping the lil mate now. A Gryffindor, it seemed, so...
"Three points to Gryffindor." There.
But he - he was just -
"Trying to be funny through me," Cosgrach concluded his sentence, which should also answer Kevin, "and anyway, maybe the outcome of our discussion will be useful." Like maybe Zander WOULD prove to have more wits than he showed.
He turned his back to them. This discussion was over.
Text Cut: Ethan and Gregoire
Ah, look, Ethan to the rescue!
Cosgrach smiled at them, said "I believe Ethan won't let you gagh - shae - leeshar." Whatever that meant. Cosgrach's French didn't go beyond "Non". "Three points to Slytherin," he also said, and moved to the next person.
Moving on.
Cosgrach walked to the front and tapped his wand on the blackboard for the next steps to show.
"Add a litre of water, and then three leech heads one by one. With a metal stick, stir it clockwise for ten times. Clean the metal stick before and after using. Then add half the ginger root, and wait for two minutes."
It sounded as much, but they had been too slow in the beginning, and these were steps they ought to do quickly.
OOC: I know those are too many instructions, but RL is hectic, which means I can post only once, which means we are moving a bit slowly. I hope it is not too much.
I'll post about 17 hours later.
...and what he said was not at all helping the current situation.
Now he had to do all of that, after he somehow got his cauldron clean! Grrrrr. Well...there was no chance that Gregoire would be able to remember all of that, so instead of writing notes, he placed them in order on the piece of parchment after the feather. In between the metal stick and the ginger root he wrote the number 10, clockwise to remember how many times he had to stir the cauldron and which direction to go in. Then after the ginger root the confused French boy wrote wait two minutes.
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The first portion of the lesson seemed to be going slow and steady but as soon as they had finished placing the Unicorn hair down and written their notes, the Professor had a sudden spurt on and was going through the next steps at lightning speed. She was grateful for the instructions on the board for she had stopped paying attention after step number 5, not on purpose but because she was too busy thinking about how disgusting the sound of leech heads were.
Seriously? Were there no health and safety issues with this school or something? These ingredients sounded too far-fetched to be true.
Once the Professor had stopped sprouting on about how to make the potion, the Ravenclaw looked down at her workbench and organised the remaining ingredients in the order in which she was about to use them. Water went on the left extending to ginger root on the right. Once she was satisfied with the brief moment of procrastination to help her newly wizardised mind, she decided it would probably be best to get on with it. Professor seemed like he was in a rush.
There was a tap over in the corner, Layla used it to wash her hands at the start of the class and she could see it as she glanced quickly around the classroom to see what others were doing. She needed water but everyone else seemed to be doing it the magical way rather than getting up to use the tap. At fifteen-years-old, Layla felt particularly embarrassed to be doing that as by that age she should of been able to perform basic magic easily, at least that was what she had read. What those stuck up people in charge didn’t know was that she had been brought up as a muggle for all her life and this magic business was new to her. She wanted to prove herself as a decent witch but it would take time.
Choosing not to completely make a fool out of herself in front of all her classmates she attempted to copy the spell that the other students were chanting around the classroom for herself. She told herself that she could do it but she wasn’t confident. “Aguamenti” she spoke timidly but nothing happened. She sighed inwardly and pointed her wand again, this time dictating the spell more accurately. ”Aguamenti!” And to her relief out came a stream of water that filled up her beaker to the litre mark. She poured the water into her cauldron with a slightly smug smile.
With her fully gloved hand, the Ravenclaw added the leech heads one by one into the potion. Pretty gross but apparently it had to be done. She picked up the metal rod still in the gloved hand and muttered the incantation she had achieved earlier in the lesson. “Scourgify.” This time the rod looked good as new the first time she had spoken the spell. She placed the rod in the cauldron and stirred it clockwise ten times counting as she went along so as to not get distracted from the task. She had to do this perfectly right to save herself the embarrassment if it suddenly exploded.
“Scourgify” she muttered once again after she had finished with the stirring before placing it back down on her workbench. She cut the ginger root in half and added it to the potion so she could wait the required two minutes.
In the mean time she proceeded to continue with her notes adding a few details to a notebook she had brought about general ideas and rules within the potions classroom as well as adding more at the top of the page. Layla had to write everything down after all.
Text Cut: Layla's Notes
10th September
The Hate Potion
Potion Description
Induces a feeling of hatred by the drinker to the first person that they see after consuming the liquid.
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.
4. Use Aguamenti to add a litre of water to the potion
5. Add the three leech heads one at a time.
6. Use a cleaned (scourgify) metal stick to stir potion ten times clockwise
7. Add half a ginger root and wait two minutes
Lil? He was not little (with ALL the letters) thank you very much! Sure, with an August birthday he was probably one of the youngest in the year, as well of one of the shortest, but he was still a big eleven years old. Hmph. And whilst he did need help, the Professor didn't need to be so obvious about it. It wasn't Archie's fault the Professor had neglected to tell him how to do it! He'd at least given it a try and copied the other students.
And that was when he looked to see exactly who the Professor had meant by them. That meant he wasn't the only one, right? Cool! Maybe they could help- oh. Her. Really? REALLY? He was sat next to HER? How had that even happened? He scooted over a bit towards Silas on his other side. He didn't need her negativity ruining his potion.
And then a person came to help...and did something quite close to what he'd done previously. "Scer-gi-fai. I did that. I didn't see any difference though." He peered in his cauldron again. "S'brand new y'see. Beautifully shiny already." But trying it again wouldn't hurt, would it? "Scergifai!" ..and an S shape with his wand. Did it do anything?
Nope. No difference.
Oh well. Least he'd made more of an attempt than Rude Girl over there, who was totally trying to get Toby there to wait on her hand and foot. The irony of her not knowing what a House Elf was. "Hey, Toby...since you're busy with-" Rude Girl "-well, you're busy with her, do you mind if I work with Silas?"
No? Good. He was quite happy not being associated with her, so more wiggling over to Silas happened now. "Scourgify?" he repeated again, now to the Gryffindor. "Thanks. And it was this blue feather first, right?" He pulled on his gloves and picked it up, letting the feather shimmer in the light. "And then half the unicorn hair?"
Were there any scissors around? How was he meant to get half of it. Why was the Professor only giving them half of the instructions?!
Silas had barely noticed the other boy... who was apparently a Hufflepuff. Oh well. It was nice of him to help others and all. Cheers.
Watching Archie he smiled softly. "Yes, that's right. And even if the cauldron looks clean it likely is not. Always clean before you brew. Now yes, the jobberknoll feather first. Then half the unicorn hair." Leaning over he helped Archie sort the hair so that it was the right amount. "Now lay it over the feather like the prof said. You can look at mine and see if you'd like."
Seee. He was helpful when it came to his friends anyway. Heh.
Text Cut: Prof Culloden
Quote:
Originally Posted by StarShine
Text Cut: Questions
Anna again!
Cosgrach smiled at the girl, mainly because she was a bright one, and also because she loved him. (Eheheh)
Hmm. "Yes, because like I said before, maybe they found hate is unhealthy through this potion." Y'know? An overload of this and BAM! A scientific discovery! "And anyway, it only causes hate for a few hours, so it's not deadly."
Yeah?
"For it them to touch as much as possible, because they ought to react."
Hmm? Logical?
After letting that sink in, he turned to the Gryffindor boy (Leo).
"Please clean your gloves and wear them."
Cosgrach nodded again.
"It is trying to do that, though it's such a hard thing to erase all memories just like that, so it's less potent with people you really love."
As for her second question... "Magic." Truly. That was all the explanation he had. "They react to each other by touching." At least, that was the most logical explanation.
...
......what even -
Cosgrach loved AJ, but she apparently loved unicorns much more. He was not dumbstruck by the question, but rather by the way she asked it. So much... compassion there. Too much. While he was still in a haze, ZEKE ROGERS was not, and answered her and that Ravenclaw girl.
"Two points to Gryffindor for out of the box thinking," he said, "while it also definitely serves for that, that's not the primary function. Like you've said, a unicorn means positive feelings, the opposite of hate, so we want to kill them. To kill them, we have to first wake them up." Yeah? Yeah. "It is used for that and Merlin, AJ! I'm no murderer!" Every time they had to use an animal part in a potion (a.k.a. in EVERY SINGLE LESSON) at least ONE student accused him of harming the animals. Did he look like he enjoyed that just for potions?
"They drop their hair just like you do, and either me, groundskeeper or Javier pick 'em up."
Simple as that!
Text Cut: Dirty people
Although Ruby had completely ignored his previous question, Cosgrach couldn't ignore her back. He walked to her to warn her as well: "Please clean your gloves and wear them."
Hopefully, she wouldn't ignore this.
"Kace, please clean your gloves and wear them." COsgrach was friendly... now. If he didn't, Cosgrach would get mean and vanish her potion.
Way of the world.
But - without any gloves or anything?
Tut tut. A mistake he wouldn't expect from Caleb Newell.
"Caleb," he addressed the boy in a friendly tone, "please clean your gloves and wear them throughout the whole lesson."
...
......y'know, Cosgrach WAITED for her to do SOMETHING but she didN'T and -
"B.H.G?" The capitals of 'Best Head Girl'. She HAD TO guess it. Anyways. "You forgot to clean your gloves and wear them."
Just saying. No judging or vanishing... yet.
"Hugo," he called out, proud that he remembered his name, "please clean your gloves and wear them. I wasn't joking about cleanliness." Not that he sounded hostile, no. He was still very polite.
And another one here.
Cosgrach walked to her too.
"Samantha, I believe," he said pleasantly, "please clean your gloves and wear them for the rest of the class." He wasn't joking when he said it was a delicate potion.
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...Cosgrach wasn't even trying to pronounce it.
"Does it... have a meaning?" It ought to, no?
...but he apparently was distracting her, because she'd forgotten to put on her gloves.
"So, Miss, uh, Wolfblaerghp," he'd already forgotten how to say the rest, and he wasn't going to try reading it, "please clean your gloves too and wear them."
Ah.
He grinned vastly then.
"Y'see, because I'm a Scottish too!" He was ignoring the "USA" part and the fact that she might feel more American than Scottish. "'S nice to see a Scottish, that's all. If you need anythin', y'can come to me."
Scot-support!
...huhhhh?
Was a simple greeting TOO MUCH to ask?
But, oh - it didn't even matter, because Sophie picked TOBY over him. So he'd let this poor boy be... for now.
Completely oblivious to Toby's discomfort, Cosgrach was very pleased to see him helping the first years. He nodded at the boy and said "6 points to Hufflepuff."
...
"Hahaha." Grin.
"So we're equal, now?" Yes. Hehe.
She... she got him?
And stopped?
Cosgrach couldn't understand HOW he managed that. Maybe it was her happy day or something? Like she'd promised someone to say "Yes" to everything - it didn't even make sense, but that was the only explanation Cosgrach could come up with. So he allowed himself to smile somewhat nervously and even laughed at her joke, because it was funny.
And look, she was going really well!
Oh look, someone else was helping the lil mate now. A Gryffindor, it seemed, so...
"Three points to Gryffindor." There.
But he - he was just -
"Trying to be funny through me," Cosgrach concluded his sentence, which should also answer Kevin, "and anyway, maybe the outcome of our discussion will be useful." Like maybe Zander WOULD prove to have more wits than he showed.
He turned his back to them. This discussion was over.
Text Cut: Ethan and Gregoire
Ah, look, Ethan to the rescue!
Cosgrach smiled at them, said "I believe Ethan won't let you gagh - shae - leeshar." Whatever that meant. Cosgrach's French didn't go beyond "Non". "Three points to Slytherin," he also said, and moved to the next person.
Moving on.
Cosgrach walked to the front and tapped his wand on the blackboard for the next steps to show.
"Add a litre of water, and then three leech heads one by one. With a metal stick, stir it clockwise for ten times. Clean the metal stick before and after using. Then add half the ginger root, and wait for two minutes."
It sounded as much, but they had been too slow in the beginning, and these were steps they ought to do quickly.
OOC: I know those are too many instructions, but RL is hectic, which means I can post only once, which means we are moving a bit slowly. I hope it is not too much.
I'll post about 17 hours later.
Now more stuff. Pay attention, Silas. Hehe.
Measuring out a litre of water he slowly poured it into the cauldron. Now... ew... leech heads. Gross. But, he picked them up one by one and and added them to the cauldron. ICK ICK ICK. Nowwwww the metal rod and the cleaning, yes.
Casting a glance at Archie he smiled before picking up his rod and cleaning it thoroughly. Cleanliness and all that jazz. Now stirring could commence! Carefully lowering the rod into the cauldron he began the clockwise motion. One... two... three...four...five...six....seven...eight...nine. .. TEN! Bam! Done. How was his buddy getting along over there?
Cleaning the utensil and putting it back where it belonged Silas peered over into his cauldron to see if anything had changed... Hmm... Anyway. GINGER ROOT! Taking half of it he plopped it into the cauldron and began the countdown. POTIONS WAS AWESOME!
Norah shed her gloves, picked up her wand, and pointed it at the beaker, muttering "Scourgify" under her breath before filling it with a liter of water and promptly pouring that over her feather-and-hair. Step one, easy peasy. Pulling her gloves back on, she reached into her supplies and pulled out three leech heads which she added one by one into the cauldron, taking care not to splash anything. She leaned over her notes to see what was next, took off her gloves again so she could pick up her wand, and said "Scourgify!" once more, this time pointing her wand at the metal stick AND her gloves because LEECH HEADS, GROSS. Picking up her FABULOUSLY hygienic metal stick in a gloved hand and stuck it into her cauldron, stirring one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten in the clockwise direction. Almost there! She took off her gloves for the bazillionth times and picked up her wand, Scourgify-ing the metal stick once more, and the knife she was about to use. Sure, she was hitting this whole cleanliness thing over the head, but this potion was going to be PERFECT. Uh-huh, that's right. Norah put on her gloves AGAIN, placed a ginger root in front of her, and sawed in half with her knife before placing half of it in the cauldron. All she had to do now was wait those two minutes, and though that was far less interesting than potion making at least it didn't involve her putting on and taking off her gloves anymore. Who knew if that was even necessary.
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"Yes, sir." He said, smiling up briefly at the professor, and then looking back down at his cauldron.
Now he needed to bathe the feather and the hair in a litre of water. Can do. Dec cleaned off his beaker, probably again, and filled it up to measure a litre with the Aguamenti spell. Pouring it into his cauldron, he glanced down at his notes to see what was next. The leech heads, okay. The Hufflepuff cleaned off his gloves again to hand the leech heads. Three of them were to go in and join the others. Dec went ahead and tossed them one by one, (almost accidentally dropping in two at a time).
Next, he had to stir it with a metal stick. So, picking out the metal stick from amongst the other sticks in his kit, he cleaned it and then began to stir it clockwise. Was it clockwise?...Yes. He counted up to ten stirs underneath his breath and then finished that step off by cleaning the metal stick again.
Okay the last step for now was to add the half of the ginger root and wait for two minutes. That's what he did and went ahead and waited for two minutes.
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
What the flying hockey Puck? Did Professor Culloden think getting was at? Was he in his right mind? Did someone leave a bat in his belfry? Because that was the ONLY reason she could think of giving so many instructions at one time.
With a sigh she wielded her wand once more and carefully scourgified her knife. Taking her liter of lithe water she carefully added it into her cauldron and then it was off to the leeches. Knife in hand she carefully cut the heads off of three of the leeches that had been stored safely in potions kit. Carefully taking her wand she cleaned the knife off again and then moved on and cleaned the cloves as well. Best be safe.
Carefully she added the leaches one at a time. Puck glanced over and spotted Zahra having fun while adding in her water and couldn't help but grin at the girl. She was cool no doubt...and funny. Funny people were the best.
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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 ginger root
Wait for two minutes
Jeremiah was sure to clean out his cauldron and alll his utensils before doing ANYTHING with any ingredients. It was Potions 101 and common sense really to do so. He put on his gloves, because germaphobe over here, and took it upon himself to go over the instructions again. Jobbernoll feather, right. He picked it up and placed it into the empty cauldron and looked down into it expecting something to happen. Nothing did though. Sad, he really thought something would. Picking up the Unicorn hair he squinted and examined it before carefully placed it vertically over the feather, still nothing happened. hmph. Picking his wand back up he used the Aqumenti spell to cast a litre of water into his cauldron and each leech head one by one. one..... two all good still, yeah?
The metal stick was picked up and cleaned once again before it was sit into the potion and stirred clockwise ten times. 'eight, nine, ten!' He looked over his instructions another time before cleaning his metal stick and setting it back down on his work station and picking up the ginger root and dropping it in easily. Now all he had to do was wiat for two whole minutes... two.. Gah!.
Cosgrach smiled at the girl, mainly because she was a bright one, and also because she loved him. (Eheheh)
Hmm. "Yes, because like I said before, maybe they found hate is unhealthy through this potion." Y'know? An overload of this and BAM! A scientific discovery! "And anyway, it only causes hate for a few hours, so it's not deadly."
Yeah?
"For it them to touch as much as possible, because they ought to react."
Hmm? Logical?
After letting that sink in, he turned to the Gryffindor boy (Leo).
"Please clean your gloves and wear them."
Cosgrach nodded again.
"It is trying to do that, though it's such a hard thing to erase all memories just like that, so it's less potent with people you really love."
As for her second question... "Magic." Truly. That was all the explanation he had. "They react to each other by touching." At least, that was the most logical explanation.
...
......what even -
Cosgrach loved AJ, but she apparently loved unicorns much more. He was not dumbstruck by the question, but rather by the way she asked it. So much... compassion there. Too much. While he was still in a haze, ZEKE ROGERS was not, and answered her and that Ravenclaw girl.
"Two points to Gryffindor for out of the box thinking," he said, "while it also definitely serves for that, that's not the primary function. Like you've said, a unicorn means positive feelings, the opposite of hate, so we want to kill them. To kill them, we have to first wake them up." Yeah? Yeah. "It is used for that and Merlin, AJ! I'm no murderer!" Every time they had to use an animal part in a potion (a.k.a. in EVERY SINGLE LESSON) at least ONE student accused him of harming the animals. Did he look like he enjoyed that just for potions?
"They drop their hair just like you do, and either me, groundskeeper or Javier pick 'em up."
Simple as that!
Text Cut: Dirty people
Although Ruby had completely ignored his previous question, Cosgrach couldn't ignore her back. He walked to her to warn her as well: "Please clean your gloves and wear them."
Hopefully, she wouldn't ignore this.
"Kace, please clean your gloves and wear them." COsgrach was friendly... now. If he didn't, Cosgrach would get mean and vanish her potion.
Way of the world.
But - without any gloves or anything?
Tut tut. A mistake he wouldn't expect from Caleb Newell.
"Caleb," he addressed the boy in a friendly tone, "please clean your gloves and wear them throughout the whole lesson."
...
......y'know, Cosgrach WAITED for her to do SOMETHING but she didN'T and -
"B.H.G?" The capitals of 'Best Head Girl'. She HAD TO guess it. Anyways. "You forgot to clean your gloves and wear them."
Just saying. No judging or vanishing... yet.
"Hugo," he called out, proud that he remembered his name, "please clean your gloves and wear them. I wasn't joking about cleanliness." Not that he sounded hostile, no. He was still very polite.
And another one here.
Cosgrach walked to her too.
"Samantha, I believe," he said pleasantly, "please clean your gloves and wear them for the rest of the class." He wasn't joking when he said it was a delicate potion.
Text Cut: A few people :3
...Cosgrach wasn't even trying to pronounce it.
"Does it... have a meaning?" It ought to, no?
...but he apparently was distracting her, because she'd forgotten to put on her gloves.
"So, Miss, uh, Wolfblaerghp," he'd already forgotten how to say the rest, and he wasn't going to try reading it, "please clean your gloves too and wear them."
Ah.
He grinned vastly then.
"Y'see, because I'm a Scottish too!" He was ignoring the "USA" part and the fact that she might feel more American than Scottish. "'S nice to see a Scottish, that's all. If you need anythin', y'can come to me."
Scot-support!
...huhhhh?
Was a simple greeting TOO MUCH to ask?
But, oh - it didn't even matter, because Sophie picked TOBY over him. So he'd let this poor boy be... for now.
Completely oblivious to Toby's discomfort, Cosgrach was very pleased to see him helping the first years. He nodded at the boy and said "6 points to Hufflepuff."
...
"Hahaha." Grin.
"So we're equal, now?" Yes. Hehe.
She... she got him?
And stopped?
Cosgrach couldn't understand HOW he managed that. Maybe it was her happy day or something? Like she'd promised someone to say "Yes" to everything - it didn't even make sense, but that was the only explanation Cosgrach could come up with. So he allowed himself to smile somewhat nervously and even laughed at her joke, because it was funny.
And look, she was going really well!
Oh look, someone else was helping the lil mate now. A Gryffindor, it seemed, so...
"Three points to Gryffindor." There.
But he - he was just -
"Trying to be funny through me," Cosgrach concluded his sentence, which should also answer Kevin, "and anyway, maybe the outcome of our discussion will be useful." Like maybe Zander WOULD prove to have more wits than he showed.
He turned his back to them. This discussion was over.
Text Cut: Ethan and Gregoire
Ah, look, Ethan to the rescue!
Cosgrach smiled at them, said "I believe Ethan won't let you gagh - shae - leeshar." Whatever that meant. Cosgrach's French didn't go beyond "Non". "Three points to Slytherin," he also said, and moved to the next person.
Moving on.
Cosgrach walked to the front and tapped his wand on the blackboard for the next steps to show.
"Add a litre of water, and then three leech heads one by one. With a metal stick, stir it clockwise for ten times. Clean the metal stick before and after using. Then add half the ginger root, and wait for two minutes."
It sounded as much, but they had been too slow in the beginning, and these were steps they ought to do quickly.
OOC: I know those are too many instructions, but RL is hectic, which means I can post only once, which means we are moving a bit slowly. I hope it is not too much.
I'll post about 17 hours later.
Good. He thought as the teacher turned away from him. It was about time he was left alone. That's when he did his best potion making anyways. He quickly jotted down the rest of the notes and got to work. Even though he definitely was not fond of the professor, he did agree that gloves was a very smart idea. He made a small note in his journal to wear gloves at all times. So he slipped them on, organized his ingredients, and grabbed his wand again. He pulled out a measuring cup and, after cleaning it, used the 'Aguamenti' spell to add 1 litre of water. He poured that into the cauldron, and checked his notes for the next step.
Next was the leech heads. Thankfully, he didn't actually have to cut the heads off, that had been done for him. Leeches were not his thing. Ew. Anyway, he counted three out of the container, held them out in his cleaned glove, and gently place them in, one by one. One... Two... Three. There. Satisfied, he grabbed his metal rod, and cleaned it off. He put the stick in the cauldron, and stirred clockwise ten times. One.. Two.. Three.. Four... Five... Six... Seven... Eight... Nine... Ten. Done. After that, he took out his stick, and cleaned it off.
Right after, he put in the ginger root, and began to wait the two minutes.
See Cosgrach Culloden was totally taking it easy on them and luring them into a false sense of security then BAM. Laying out a bunch of complicated instructions and making sure Dante was totally confused. Perfect Plan. He was an evil genius, he was.
So maybe Dante was a bit slow and did not know a bunch of important things. Like what a litre is. He never needed to before. OR he probably did learn just forgot. Well it is not like he can take his phone out and search for the answer. Stupid Hogwarts.
So he winged it and probably put more than a litre in it. Not like he would know or anything. Plus he was not asking questions. Nope, too stubborn for that. But watching that one groupie with the afro guy and loud girl was hilarious. Flood, indeed. Then he just dumped three leech heads in. Not like he would be getting first prize in this class. Now where is his metal stick. Ah, there is it. Dante started stirring it clockwise ten times. Totally forgetting to clean. Then e added the ginger root.
Now the boring wait. Might as well look around at other people.
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As the Professor revealed the next several steps, Jasmine updated her notes. It seemed that they had quite a bit to do this time so she double checked to make sure everything was correct.
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.
3. Add a litre of water
4. Add the leech heads one by one
5. With a metal stick, stir it clockwise for ten times (Clean the metal stick before and after using)
6. Add half the ginger root
7. Wait for two minutes
Grabbing her necessary utensils, Jasmine cleaned them one by one. "Scourgify", she said repeatedly as she cleaned the measuring cup, metal stick and knife. Just to be safe, Jasmine cleaned her gloves one more time.
When everything was spic and span, she was ready to continue with her potion. Pointing her wand at her measuring cup, Jasmine said, "Aguamenti". She let the water flow from her wand until it reached the one liter mark on the cup. Then she picked up the cup and carefully poured the water into the cauldron.
Oh fun, now she had to add the leeches. Thank goodness for gloves. Picking up one leech, Jasmine placed it into the cauldron water. Then she repeated the task two more times. There was no question that she was going to reclean her gloves now and so she did.
Jasmine took a peek at her notes to verify the next step in the process. Picking up the metal stick that had already been cleaned, she placed it in the potion. Stirring in a clockwise direction,cohen counted 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Jasmine removed the stick and said, "Scourgify" once more. Next Jasmine picked up her knife and cut her ginger root in half. Then she added it to the cauldron. All that was left was to wait two minutes. Jasmine checked the time on her watch and began the countdown.
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