"Kill them?" Total shock was apparent on the second year's face. Her eyes were wide, and her mouth was slack. Why did the unicorns have to die just so he could make a hate potion? What purpose did that serve? Her hands were underneath the table, fully prepared to flip it when realization dawned on her. He meant kill the positive feelings... that's what they were supposed to kill. Not the majestic beasts that AJ loved so dearly. "The feelings, not the unicorns. Right." Her voice had calmed down and her hands were back on top of the table. AJ was back to her normal gryffindory self. Phew. Crisis averted. He was not a murderer and he only picked up the hair when it fell out due to natural causes. That made sense. AJ could totally get down with that explanation. "Thanks for clearing that up, professor. I knew you couldn't be a murderer." A smile was back on her face and she went right on back to brewing her potion as if this was a normal outburst. Because when it came to AJ, it really was. Oh, and Zeke got a thumbs up.

Focusing on her ingredients before her it was then that she realized she didn't have her gloves on. Whoops. Good thing AJ had the professor nice and distracted with her unicorn rant. It seemed as if he didn't even notice. She cleaned her gloves, and put them on.

Water. She needed water. AJ added the correct amount of water and put in the three leech heads one by one. Why they couldn't be put in all together was beyond her, but she didn't care about leeches so whatevs! "Scourgify." With her clean metal stick, she stirred her contents clockwise ten times. She ticked off the counts in her head, making sure not to mess anything up. All done with that. "Scourgify." Her metal stick was clean once more. Next she added half of the ginger root. All that was left to do was wait. Do, da, dee.

There were still things going on with Benny and Adi so instead of just passing away the time keeping to herself, she stared at the boys with no shame. What's up, guys? Why so cheerful, Benny? AJ had questions.

Oh. That Gryffie had said the same thing. Oops. Eden berated herself(mentally) for not paying attention and could feel her mind....drifting already. The lighting dark, the kind of...warmish temperature right now...she was getting quite sleepy.

But she just yawned and tried her best to KEEP UP. Like. SHE HAD TO. She just sighed and glanced around at everyone else--either scribbling away or putting ingredients in the cauldrons. Hmph. That was a LOT to take in at once, Mister Professor Culloden, did he not know Eden? Clearly, not, duh, but still! She got it all down....and hoped she did it all right...

She added a liter of water...using her wand...well, she HOPED it was a liter. She may have been a little off. Oops? Ewwww leech heads--she added three--almost all at the same time before she REALIZED and had to do a nice little maneuver--AND THEN one at a time. WHEW. That was close. VERY close. Right. Now the metal rod. She cleaned with the bottom of her robes--yeah, was that good enough? And then she stirred it...she lost count after five...and then...well...she blinked a lot. WHAT TO DO FUUUUDGE. So she just...stopped. And hoped that less was more, eh?

Her potion was going to be a COMPLETE disaster O____O

She scooped up some of the ginger root and dropped it in---and waited. Would she burn down the potions classroom? SHE HOPED NOT. Merlin--she really hoped her potion didn't turn out TOO horrible.

While waiting for the two minutes to pass, Jasmine glanced at her notes and tried to guess what the next step would be. O_______O Jasmine let out a huge gasp when she realized what she had done. She had made a careless mistake and probably ruined her potion. How could she have missed that? Jasmine had never in her life done something so stupid. She had put the leeches in her potion rather than just the leech heads. Was it too late to start over? Probably.

Raising her hand, she tried to get Professor Culloden's attention. She was totally embarrassed, but she had to fess up to her mistake. Some Prefect she was.......setting a really great example.

As Professor Culloden had started lecturing people about how they should have put gloves on and more stuff about cleanliness, Brooklyn looked at him curiously. If it was such a big deal, why wasn’t it part of the instructions? She hadn’theard him say to put them on before now, but she quickly cleaned a pair of gloves and slipped them on before deliberately making sure to write the new steps down in her journal, including the part about gloves. She wasn’t going to let him yell at her like he had everyone else. After she finished writing, she cleaned her gloves again just to make sure before she picked up the half piece of unicorn hair and laid it vertically on the feather, following the spine of the feather itself. That was easy enough, but now things were going to get messy.

She could have tried Aguamenti, but it was easier to just carry a container over to the sink and get a liter of water from there. That way she wouldn’t have risked doing the spell wrong and looking stupid. Once she was back at her seat, she carefully added it to her cauldron, wondering if the hair was supposed to stay on top of the feather. That seemed almost impossible, but once the water was added, she switched her attention to the leeches. “ew,” she whispered, cleaning a knife and then trying to carefully behead each one, adding the heads to her cauldron and trying not to focus on how icky this was. That and trying to make sure she was actually beheading them, because it wasn’t easy to tell where their heads were. Eventually there were three leech bodies on her station, which she quickly disposed of before she could think about them any longer, along with cleaning the knife.

Next was stirring, according to her notes, so she looked for her metal stick and cleaned it, sliding it into the water and starting to stir. Making sure it was clockwise, and counting ten circles silently. She wondered if there was some sort of specific way they were supposed to stir, too. People could stir at different speeds, or in bigger or smaller circles. She just did it how she wanted to, then pulled the stick out and cleaned it again, along with her knife a third time. Now she needed to cut the ginger root, and she gingerly did so, trying to make sure her fingers weren’t near the knife before half of theroot was added to her cauldron. Knives weren’t exactly something eleven-year-olds used often, but she trusted her wand even less. Not when she’d barely started to use it. Cleaning was different than cutting. She could clean without worrying about direction, and the knife got cleaned yet again as she sat back to wait.

SPOILER!!: 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

1. Put the jobberknoll feather into the cauldron after cleaning it. NO water or heat.
2. Lay the unicorn hair on top of the feather vertically (apparently after putting clean gloves on).
3. Add a liter of water.
4. Add the leech heads one by one.
5. Using a clean metal stick, stir clockwise ten times. Then clean the stick again.
6. Add half of the ginger root.
7. Wait two minutes.

As Kace already but his feather in, he forgot he didn't clean his gloves. Ahhh bloody merlin he forgot! He nodded and used his wand and said, "Aquamenti!" and then he gloves were pristine clear. He forgot about that little detail. He hoped his potion wasn't ruined! No time to panic now! He should have remembered that it was like cooking. You always need to clean everything.

He needed to add a litre of water. He found his water cup and cleaned it out first then he poured water into his cauldron. Then since his gloves were already cleaned, he put one....two....three....leech heads one by one. Now he needed to find a metal stick. He remembered to clean it this time. He said the charm, "Aquamenti!" and then he put it into the potion and stirred it clockwise

One....two...three...four...five....six...seven... .eight....nine...ten....

Once done with that, he got the metal stick out of the potion and got his gloves off. He got his wand and cleaned the stick first and then his gloves. Man they were really dirty. He was glad he cleaned them. Now onto adding half the ginger root. He put his gloves on and put the ginger root in and waited two minutes.

Professor Culloden was smiling at her, though that wasn't the answer she was expecting to. Annabeth smiled back sadly. It was clearly out of the question for Cosgrach change his lesson only because she wasn't happy brewing that potion. She lowered her head and waited for more instructions.



When she had her notes copied from the blackboard, Anna put on her gloves, picked her wand and pointed it into a graduated bottle. "Aguamenti!" When the level reached the 1 liter mark, she stopped the incantation.

Almost vomiting as she really hated to hold leeches in her hands, even when she was wearing her gloves, she picked three of them and put them on the chopping board. Anna cut their heads and set apart. then put off her gloves, took her wand and pointed towards her gloves, the chopping board and the metal stick. After checking twice if it was okay, she moved on, wore her gloves again, then added a liter of water, the three leech heads one by one into the cauldron. She grabbed the metal stick and stirred the potion clockwise for ten times. Quickly she laid down the metal stick on the table and cleaned it again.

Then Anna took the ginger root, cut it into two pieces, picked one of then and added, and then added to the potion. As she had to wait for two minutes, she grabbed her wand again and "scourgify!" Her workstation was clean and ready for the next step.

Kyroh took her unicorn hair, but the Boy One pretty much blew her off. Not nice. Still very pretty, though. Dot put her unicorn hair away so she could move on to the next direction. Directionsssss, since Mr. Professor Cauldron was giving them out like candy on Halloween.

She'd really like a chocolate from right now, by the by.

Litre of water, though... focus, Wojack. She knew this spell, and Dot climbed back up on her stool and put her wand into her cauldron, eyebrows up to let the Older Girl know that she was about to do something amazing. "Aguamenti." The water spell actually worked, and she was hoping that Older Girl would notice.

Notice. Notice. Notice.

Oh, um. "How much of a leech is head?" Help, Older Girl person? With her gloves still on, Dot removed one of the little leeches and held it up for inspection.

You know what would be great? If Gryffindor lost a hundred points. That would be the highlight of the day. Beverly made sure to picture that as clear in her mind as she could. It'd be ever-so lovely if the Universe helped out.

See, she was being a good sport and going along with her partner's advice instead of blowing up at people. Ethan should be happy.

Switching her attention back on Professor Culloden, she quickly picked up her quill to write down the following steps. Merlin. Someone hit the fast forward button. Good thing she was more than ready. It was potions. Duh.

"Aguamenti." Measuring a liter of water, she added it into the cauldron, followed by three leech heads; one by one. Next, she cast Scourgify on the metal stick and stirred the solution ten times, clockwise. With that done, Scourgify was once again cast on the metal stick. No need for unwanted sticky or lethal situations.

Nooow....it should be time for the half ginger root? Checking her notes Beverly verified she was correct, and after doing so she set her timer to two minutes.

While she waited she took a peek at Jeremiah. Yeah. You enjoy your buddy there, BUDDY. Pffft.

At the teacher's instructions Samantha immediately pointed her wand at her gloves and said, "Scourgify!" She then put on the gloves quickly with a, "Sorry, Professor."

Samantha looked at the blackboard and wrote down her notes.



She had done the first two steps so it was now time for Sam to add the water. She grabbed her water cup and cleaned it by aiming her wand at it and saying, "Scourgify." Sam then pointed her wand inside the cup and said, "Aguamenti" until there was a litre of water inside the cup which she then carefully poured into the cauldron.

Sam's nose twitched slightly when she saw the leeches. After using the cleaning spell to clean her knife, Sam cut the heads of three leeches and added each head one by one into the cauldron. Sam then cleaned the knife along with her gloves and the metal stick that was to be used next.

Using the metal stick, Sam stirred the potion clockwise ten times. When that was done, she pointed her wand at the metal stick and said, "Scourgify."

Making extra sure that her knife was clean, Sam then cut half a ginger root which she added to the potion and waited for two minutes. After cleaning her knife and gloves, Samantha looked over at her notes and crossed off what she had done.

“Pleased to meet you, Gregoire.”

And Merlin’s croissants.

What did Culloden said? Ethan gawked at the potions master as he tried to speak French, but then immediately grinned as he received three points for helping out a fellow Snake. That was enough to completely ignore the drama that was brewing between the man, Zander, and Kevin. Well, he was sort of expecting that actually, so he wasn’t as shocked as last term. Also, Ethan briefly thought of Alexa, seeing that her lions are making a fuss. Oh well, not his problem. His Snakes are behaving so well, and that’s all that mattered to him.

Lalala. Oh, and next steps! Ethan put up a finger in front of Gregoire. “Hold on, I’ll just go add my leech heads. I'll be right back.” The other boy can understand simple English, yes? Merlin, he might need Grayson’s help. “Dude, Gregoire over there’s having trouble with his English. He’s actually French, and I don’t…sort of can’t understand some of his words.” And GrayGray was the perfect guy to show off his Frenchie skillz. Y’know, while Sophie…or Ruby was within earshot. Hehehehe.

Anyway, back to his potion. Ethan cleaned his huge beaker, added a litre of water in it, and added it to his cauldron. The prefect then added three leech heads into his solution one by one, cleaned his metal stick, and stirred the contents with it clockwise ten times. He cleaned his stirrer after use, and added half the ginger root. He needs to wait for two minutes, so instead of taking down notes, he sauntered back to Gregoire.

“Okay, Greg. Uh…is it okay I call you Greg? Greggy? Greg.” Ethan smiled at the boy and looked at what he did. Clever, that boy was lining up his ingredients so he won’t get lost. “Right. First step is to clean, EVERYTHING. I suppose you know the incantation for the cleaning spell, yeah?” Of course Greg knows, it’s the pronunciation that was bothering him. “It’s pronounced like this: skur-ji-fy.” Repeat after him, hmmkay? “Skur-ji-fy. Scourgify.” Ethan beamed at the boy, and looked back at his potion. Was his two minutes, up? “Listen, I’ll clean your cauldron and your utensils for you this one time so you can start with the potion,” Time was running, and Gregoire would lose his head if Culloden gives the next steps. “You can practice the spell after when your cauldron’s been used, so you’d see if your spell works or not.” Another beam from the prefect, and he got his wand out and pointed it at Gregoire’s cauldron. “Scourgify!” he also did the same for his metal stirrer. “Now, first things first. Jobberknoll feather into your cauldron, then lay half of the unicorn hair vertically on top of the first ingredient.” He said as Ethan eyed Greg’s ingredients laid out, then back to his potion behind him.

"I think you're scary no matter WHAT," Dima told the Head Girl earnestly. What? Wouldn't that be a compliment to her? Even if it wasn't, Lex couldn't become cross at him anyway; she WAS nicking materials from his potions kit, after all. But he didn't mind. In fact, the second year even MOVED his things so that they were easier for her to reach. She was welcome. Mhm.

After shooting a grin back at Grayson, he picked up the half of the unicorn hair that remained from the one Alexa had used. The blackboard said to lay it down vertically upon the feather, so Dima did exactly that, making sure that each and every part of it was touching the feather. Easy, yeah?

Next, he lifted up his cauldron again (with much difficulty- kid was still puny, ok?) and carried it to the washbasin again. Yes, he DID know how to perform the Aguamenti charm, but he still wasn't the best at measuring the amount that trickled from his wand, and the potion required precisely one liter. Not wanting to upset Cupboardbin, he decided against attempting to do the step with magic and simply measured it out in the sink.

The water was added to his potion while he was still at the basin, and then Dima lugged the considerably heavier cauldron back to his seat. It was SO hard not to spill it, did everyone know? But he tried his best, and in the end, it ended up safely secured on his worktable.

He counted out the leeches from his potions kit next... one, two, and three. A quick "Scourgify" was cast on his knife before he sliced each head off, trying not to cringe too much. It... it was okay, right? They were already DEAD. He wasn't hurting them, just.. dismembering their lil' dead bodies. Which should have been buried somewhere safe and pretty, unless they had chosen to donate their bodies for experimentation.

Maybe they had. Maybe they were scientist leeches.

Dima cleaned off his knife again, then carefully dropped each leech head into his potion, one after another. Then he reached for the metal stick at his workstation, performing a "Scourgify" on it before lowering it into the mixture. When utensils were shiny, it made his potion fine-y. Teehee.

It was quite a while before the stirrer had turned ten times clockwise in his potion, and he neatly extracted it from his cauldron and cleaned it off with yet another Scouring Charm. Then he went digging through his potions kit again, determined to find the next required ingredient... aha. Ginger root. Dima used his clean knife to slice off half of it and add it to his mixture, placing the other half back into his kit.

Now... waiting? Two minutes. 120 seconds. 119 seconds. 118. 117 se-

Was that a bug?

Unbothered that Dot didn't respond to her lighthearted comment about being Culloden's favorite, Soph watched the girl curiously, smiling as she seemed to change her mind about the right way to go about their next instructions, and offered her a nod when she was finished. "Right on."

Dima's favorite? Awwww. "That's cute," Soph grinned big, even giggling a little at the thought. "Does that make you best friends?" Or was Dot just kidding about being Dima's favorite?

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Originally Posted by StarShine

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.

As Culloden moved about the room, Soph kept an eye on the various things that were happening - from Zahra and Culloden actually seeming to sort of get along to Tobes moving about the classroom and becoming everyone's friend... AND getting six points for it. She eyed Culloden - did he realize that was ONE point more than he'd just given her? Hmmm? Was that some sort of payback for not getting to class early enough to sit at her usual spot near his desk? Probably.

She felt a tinge of jealousy toward Tobes at that moment, though, and couldn't help but briefly reflect on how well-liked he was and how purely good he was. Always helpful, way smarter than he gave himself credit for, and... all kinds of perfect in her eyes.

And for the first time, instead of feeling equal to him in their relationship, Sophie felt less than him.

Though her mood had dropped like a rock in that instant, she didn't get to dwell on those thoughts too long for she heard the name "Javier" and her gaze immediately shot to Culloden - haha! Did Culloden call Thompson "Javier" in front of students? HEHEHEEHEHE. She giggled at that and thought of Toby calling him Javy and... thought about a bunch of other related things following that.

Merlin.

Her mood was plummeting dangerously once more in the span of seconds, but it was saved by Culloden giving them more instructions - it was easy to shove away thoughts and emotions when there was a task at hand. Pulling a large, clean measuring cup toward her, Sophie removed her glove to pick up her wand and cast, "Aguamenti," into the measuring cup to measure out and add the one liter of water to her cauldron.

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

Litre of water, though... focus, Wojack. She knew this spell, and Dot climbed back up on her stool and put her wand into her cauldron, eyebrows up to let the Older Girl know that she was about to do something amazing. "Aguamenti." The water spell actually worked, and she was hoping that Older Girl would notice.

Notice. Notice. Notice.

Oh, um. "How much of a leech is head?" Help, Older Girl person? With her gloves still on, Dot removed one of the little leeches and held it up for inspection.

Soph smiled, catching Dot's actions out of the corner of her eye. She hadn't even needed any help and was keeping up with her just fine! "Good job, Dot," she nodded her chipper approval despite her struggle to keep bad feelings from surfacing. And at her question... well. Soph scourgified their tabletop, set her wand down, put her clean glove back on her bare hand, and picked up one of her own leeches to show Dot the underside of it. "Y'see, here's the mouth... so this side is the head, and if you squeeze it a little along the body y'can kind of feel its insides, but roughly right 'round here's the brain, and just a little ways down right here is where the hearts should be," she thought, "so y'wanna make your cut in this area here."

She'd show her, even. Soph plucked a squeaky-clean cutting knife from her potions kit, set the leech on the table between her and Dot, and only took a moment to judge roughly where the halfway point between the brain and hearts would be. "It's more of a careful approximation than an exact way to go about it, but as long as y'don't get much more than this much of the tip, you're probably okay." Not all leeches were the same, after all, so all one could really do was take an educated guess at the best place to cut.

Was that enough help? Soph offered Dot another smile, hoping it was good enough for her, then went ahead and repeated the step two more times so she had three leech heads in all. Then she methodically added one leech head to the cauldron at a time, curiously peeking down at the water below to see how all the ingredients were reacting to each other as each individual leech head joined the contents. When all three were added, she scooped the bodies of the leeches and wrapped them up into one of her napkins and set it aside. She'd... put that in the trash later. And she needed to learn how to vanish things. Sigh.

She removed a glove to pick up her wand again and quickly cleaned everything she'd just made messy - the tabletop, her gloves, the cutting knife, then the metal stirrer she'd use next, too, even though she'd already cleaned it once. Didn't hurt to make sure it was super clean of germs, though, yeah? She slid the newly-cleaned glove back onto her hand, picked up the metal stirrer, and stirred exactly ten times clockwise. No more, no less. Perfect.

For now, Soph set the metal stirrer aside on a napkin - she'd clean it next time she was set to do more necessary wandwork - and picked up her clean cutting knife to slice a ginger root in half. Glancing at her watch to see where the time would start, Soph added the half of the ginger root to the cauldron and made a mental note of when the two minutes would be up.

While she had the spare time - there was really no such thing as spare time in potions, she knew, for she could always be doing something to prepare for later - she took her gloves off, scooped her wand back up, and busied herself with cleaning everything that needed to be cleaned at her workstation. Super ON THE BALL.

The fourth year looked over at Kevin and gave him one of those 'thanks-for-defending-me, mate' looks, but then turned right back to Culloden. SEE even Kevin was defending him and Kevin didn't really speak out for other people that often. So that HAD to mean at least something in the old guy's book. Anything? Please?

........ But of course, nope. Trying to be funny through him!?! But he WASN'T trying to be funny at all!! Only asking a question which apparently isn't allowed in Potions class. HMPH.

And hold up, what was all this talk about a discussion? Because last time he checked detention was a PUNISHMENT- albeit, this time an UNDESERVED ONE. Hmph. But still he hardly considered cleaning the entire classroom a discussion. Unless Professor Culloden was going to make him apologize for asking a simple question, which in that case he'd rather just write lines. Repetitive. Boring. Lines. Honestly did he even have to do the detention part because just getting a detention in front of an ENTIRE room of his peers was embarrassment enough.

Finally working up the courage to standup for himself against the scary professor, Zander opened his mouth to speak and then-- -______________- Culloden walked away. The Gryffindor closed his eyes for a few seconds in an attempt to hold back any possible tears-there weren't any-but in case. Then turning towards his GREAT FRIEND Kevin again, he raised his eyebrows in confusion, "I can't believe this... What did I do wrong?" he whispered quietly hoping not to attract anymore unwanted attention. Didn't need two underserved detentions now did he?

Well that most certainly spoiled his mood. Not that he was happy to come to this class anyway. But now, let's just say he didn't even need to take the hate potion to show it's effects. And then there were a whole lotta steps to go through. Raising his wand he did the whole "Aguamenti" thing into his CLEANED OUT measuring cup. Hmph. All the while he was still thinking about the stupid detention he got. Almost missing the liter mark, he remembered to cut it off before the cup overflowed. Pouring the liter of water into his cauldron with a sad frown, he turned to the rest of the ingredients. Lifting the leech heads out and into the cauldron one by one, boy almost started grumbling out loud. Almost. But he didn't.

He lazily whispered a "scourgify" to clean the metal stick and then did the stirring thing ten times. Or hopefully ten times. Honestly he couldn't pay the best attention when his thoughts were elsewhere. Like detention elsewhere. Another cleaning spell later and his metal stick was clean again. Hmph. Detention? HIM? WHAT? He'd get eaten alive in detention. It wasn't fair!!! Next, he slowly lifted the ginger root into the cauldron. And began waiting. How long had it been?

Who even knew? Not him. He was still thinking about the stupid detention.

"They are clean, sir." Ruby said, holding one of her gloved hands up. Obvy not to protect ingredients, rather to protect her latest manicure. She couldn't care less about clean ingredients but didn't want anything chipping the paint or getting under the nails, basically.

She listened to the suddenly overwhelming instructions and tried to get through them all methodically. Litre (pretty much) of water (from the sink), three leech heads (gross, she definitely wasn't touching those with bare skin), clean metal stick thing with scourgify, stir it a bunch of times the same way clocks went (ten? that was ten. Okay. Or possibly a half there or there but it wasn't like his eyes were on her, right?), more scourgifying, and then... ginger root? How much was half? Like didn't it depend how much there was to start? She'd not heard that part. Oh well. Half of... whatever it was that she had to start, went in there. And now some waiting... or rather.... looking around.

.... the Slytherin prefect was kind of a cutie huh?

ZOMG!!!!!!! HE EARNED MORE POINTS!..... He figured he was on the right track, not at all that it was OUT OF THE BOX thinking, but he wasn't going to complain. "Thanks Professor!" he beamed, THRILLED that he'd made some sort of contribution to discussion in the subject. Wait until he wrote home to tell everyone!!!!! Of course, he listened to the OTHER reason for laying the hair on the feather like that. He nodded, showing that he was listening and stuff. This was, awesome.

It was a good thing they were moving on too, cause this just got SUPER exciting since he earned points and stuff. Zeke started by first jotting down the notes quickly but legibly, and then he moved to clean his stirring utensil. He did this in the basin, not knowing cleaning spells yet - of course. Once he was sure everything was clean and tidy, Zeke followed the instructions to the letter.

"Aguamenti." Zeke measured out the litre of water first before adding it to the cauldron - he was all for specificity with these things. Following that he added the three leech heads, one by one easing them into the cauldron because he didn't think it was necessary for them to make a splash going in... and he started stirring clockwise.

1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9... 10

Halting after the tenth stir, Zeke then retracted the stirring implement before adding half of the ginger root. While he was waiting for the two minutes to be up, he went and cleaned off his rod again.

It was a bird heavy recipe it seemed to Cutty. Strange that it would be used to conjure hate. Or not. But in either case, Cutty remembered this fact, as he found it interesting for future use in his own potion brewing ideas. He'd started to keep a little journal into which he'd filed away brewing ideas. He was going to try to solve world hunger with one of them. It unfortunately compounded the feeling of hunger once it wore off and certainly didn't address nutrition so a fat lot it of good it would do in times of famine. None of this worried Cutty, however as he progressed to drawing out his instruments of inspiration and began running a cleansing charm over each one by one, whilst he considered the ingredients.

Cutty layed out the ingredients, including a measuring cup into which he starred almost balefully as he pointed his wand and quietly conjured water to the 1L line.

But back to his cauldron, which might beyond his wand be considered his most cherished of objects. He gently laid the jobberknoll feather without adding the water or sparking up the flames with incendio. That was followed by the half cut of unicorn hair. Like a spaghetti noodle. Pulled down by gravity and controlled by Cutty's hand so that it landed only onto the jobberknoll feather in slow-mo.

The freshly cleansed metal stirring stick made a slight clang as Cutty placed it closer to the cauldron. He figured the leeches might be his favourite part as he took the small packet, whipped it back and forth to gather the leech heads to one corner of the packet and sliced it open. Whilst holding them in one hand, he poured the water into the cauldron with the other. The flutey, flushing sound as the water filled the cauldron was followed by the hollow noise of the empty measuring cup hitting the surface of Cutty's desk, which in turn was followed by the three small plops as the tiny leech heads hit the water.

Plup-Ploop-Plop!

Cutty took up his stiring tool and began to stir in a clockwise motion ten times. His eyes periodically locked on the clock, but elsewise wandered through the classroom watching other students.

He had no idea Ethan spoke French.

He wondered where he learned.

It seemed like half the boys, no, all of them except for Caleb knew how to speak French.

Actually, Cutty had never gotten around to asking Caleb if he spoke French...Or any other language for that matter. Maybe he was the king of mastering multiple tongues or something.

Cutty pictured living in that world for a moment and then he withdrew the stiring tool and picked up the ginger to give it a sniff before adding it to the potion in progress. Whilst the two minutes passed he cleansed the metal stirrer and played with the crows pitchy black feather.

Kevin turned his glare away from the Professor when he was gone and looked at Zander. He hadn't even noticed that he was gripping the phoenix feather wand so tightly that he nearly broke it in half but he soon realised it and let go, taking a deep caaaaaalming breath. "You did nothing!" he said back to him OUT LOUD. Seriously, if Zander wanted to whisper so be it but Kevin wasn't. Poor guy wasn't going to survive that detention. Even Kevin had hated it and he had more backbone than his friend if he had to say so himself.

"You're on you're own now though..."he said , speaking more softly now so that only Zander could hear. "I can't get detention as well..not now..not with him" Not now that the Professor had finally agreed to help him out and give him some extra advices on how to become a potioneer. So sorry friend. Kevin had to think about his future and a stupid detention could ruin everything. He punched the older boy's arm slightly and shook his head.

He measured out a litre of water and added it to the cauldron. Then with his gloved hands he proceeded to add three leech heads in to it one by one, not being careful at all but just dropping them in the water. Maybe because he still wasn't thinking straight because of the TOTALLY UNFAIR detention his ONLY friend gotten. Well, at least they could complain about the man later on. What? Even Kevin liked to do that kind of things... Aaaanyways, the third year grabbed the metal stick and after a quick "scourgify" he used it to stir it clockwise for 1 2 3 ....7 8 9 10 times before cleaning it again. Last step was the ginger root...ginger root...where was..ah! there! Kevin reached forward and grabbed it before adding half of it in the cauldron.

Now waiting. The Gryffindor set his watch on 2 minutes and sat back down. WAIT...he still had that exploding potion in his trunk at the dormitory. Maybe he could he could make a diversion and get Zander out of detention?

Gabriel heard the little girl...but he didn't need to be prompted to continue on with the potion, thank you very much. He'd be okay. He had Jeremiah standing right there with him....He would....be okay....hopefully.....

...though, the trembling hadn't stopped or eased in the few moments he'd taken. Gabe also heard the Professor chastising people about gloves and the like. He flushed crimson again...How embarrassing.

Attempting to work through the mounting anxiety and stress, he cleaned a measuring cup, spelled the desired amount of water into it, and then added it in. They'd been given the next steps quickly and he'd actually preferred it...moving right into adding the leech heads one by one, as instructed. Of course, Gabe cleaned his hands (again) before starting that process; feeling the pressure from the earlier compliment weighing on his head.

The shaking was getting worse...as he the same thing with a metal stirring rod. Cleaned it, put it into the cauldron...did the stirring...clockwise (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine...AND TEN)...Not knowing if they'd be using it again, Gabe cleaned it and tucked it away.

Cleaning and reusing the tempered steel blade from earlier, he handled the ginger root...and carefully added that...

...and face back into the crook of his arm.

Hiding, yep. That was what it was.

Layla was sitting tapping her fingers on the desk as she waited for everyone else to finish their potions. It had given her the opportunity to check out the classroom, glancing around at all the ingredients on the shelves and potions lining the walls. The blue walls? To Layla the blue appeared tacky and unprofessional for a learning environment but she guessed it was the professors own taste and she had to put up with it. They were kinda distracting too.

To her left was Eden whom she glanced at just in time to see her only stir five times. A slightly amused smirk fell on her face as she checked out her mess of a potion. Seriously, what had gone wrong there? "What have you done?!" she resisted the urge to giggle as she glanced in her cauldron. "I don't think you stirred it enough." she whispered. Perhaps if she stirred it a few more times it might have fixed itself before the Professor noticed the mistake.

See? Layla could be NICE and HELPFUL when she wanted to. "Do a few more and hope for the best, I don't think he takes nicely to mistakes." Her voice was lowered enough for only Eden to hear her words.

Angel looked at the Professor as he spoke about what they needed to do next... she was a bit stuck now this was getting confusing.. What did she have to do first?

"Aguamenti." Angel measured out a litre of water first before she added it too the cauldron. "Professor what would happen if you went say just over or just under?" Angel wonder why everything had to be so precise what happened if you put 1.000001 litres in would you have to do it again?

Angel then added the three leeches heads one by one. See Professor was a murder he had to chop of the heads of the leeches and well they wouldn't be going around now would they. Though in some ways she wonder why leeches existed they didn't do any good right.

Angel got hold off the wooden stick. "scourgify" she used it to stir it clockwise for 1... 2... 3... 4....... 8... 9... 10.... times, she also wonder why they had to stir stuff so many times but well she would find out later now that she had stirred the stuff 10 times she looked at the wooden stick and then used her wand to clean it again.

Angel then added half the ginger root and then started to count in her head.. 120 seconds... she had been taunt that you should say 1 elephant... 2 elephants but since she hadn't tested that she just did the normal way for now.

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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!

Oh. My. Gosh! The Professor was Scottish as well?! So that was the reasoning for his question about her name, he must have recognized it. Hadleigh smiled warmly giving him a firm nod of her head. "Thank you Professor I will." She wondered how long he had lived there in Scotland. Hady had only been there once after moving to America and that was back when she'd been much younger. Someday she was going to go back there again! Maybe the Professor could tell her a bit about it sometime. She would have to remember to ask him when he wasn't busy and they weren't in class.

When the Professor began giving out the next instructions the first year removed one of her gloves and picked up a quill. She copied down everything that was listed on the board in a clear even print remembering to add in the parts about wearing gloves and making sure EVERYTHING was always clean. Now that was important! Pushing the parchment and quill aside when she had finished she slipped her glove back on and quickly cast a "Scourgify" over her gloved hands.

First she needed to add a litre of water. Alright she could do that. She knew how to do the water spell. Okay maybe not exactly but she had seen her father do it a million times. Hady used the same cleaning spell to make sure her measuring cup was clean then pointed her wand into the cup and stated clearly. "Aguamenti." It worked! Water came pouring from the tip of her wand making her grin. When a litre was in the cup she stopped the spell and carefully poured the water into the cauldon. She cleaned the measuring cup and set it aside.

Now the leech heads. Laying them out on the table she cast the cleaning spell over them and the knife she was going to use. Cut the head off one leech, clean the knife and her gloves. Repeat the process again. Now once more. With the third leech head cut and the knife clean she put it away. Since she just cleaned her gloves she cast the cleaning spell over the leech heads. Picking one up she dropped it into the cauldron. Cleaning her gloves she picked up another leech head and dropped it in with the first. Now to clean her gloves again...Gosh this was getting tiring but she continued on. Grabbing up the last she set it in the cauldron and then cleaned her gloves and work area.

Glancing over at her notes she needed to use the metal stick now and stir the potion ten times clockwise. Searching through her things quickly she picked out the metal stick and cast the cleaning spell over it. Putting the stick into the cauldron she began to stir it clockwise counting under her breath each time she got back to the top. "One..two..three..four..five..six..seven..eight..n ine..ten." Done. Removing the stick she cleaned it and put it away.

Half a Ginger Root. Where they all the same size? The ones she had in her kit seemed to be. Picking one up with clean gloves she cleaned off her table and knife before very carefully cutting the ginger root in half. Cleaning everything once more and putting the knife away (her hands and root included in the cleaning) Hady picked up the half a ginger root and lightly dropped it into the cauldron with the rest of the ingredients.

There! She had done it and everything was spotless! Cleaning everything over and over was a bit frustrating really but she knew it should be done she she did it. Smiling happily she sat back in her seat and waited for the next two minutes...

He was still staring at Toby when the other boy looked in his direction and smiled. Kyroh blinked and quickly looked away, turning his direction to Sophie and Dot. He may have been listening to their conversation. Maybe. A little bit. Okay he was.

....Dot was Dima's favourite? He had kinda known that before. Kinda. But hearing it out loud made it more official. His eyes stung. Or something. And his chest hurt.

It must be nice to be a favourite.

Kyroh's eyes flickered back over to Toby for a second before his attention landed back on his cauldron. Getting his measuring cup he pointed his wand right at it. "Scourgify." The second year said clearly, making sure to clean the cup. Pausing he swiped at his eyes which were a little wet for some reason, he didn't know why. He pointed his wand inside the cup. "Aguamenti." Once he was sure he had enough Kyroh lifted the cup and poured it into his cauldron.

Once that was in, the boy grabbed his knife. Cleaning it off as well, he took out three leaches. Leaning down closer to them, Kyroh gave each one a little pat. "Sorry about this guys." It didn't matter if they were dead. It was still sorta sad. The second year hesitated, before closing his eyes as he brought down the knife to slice the first year off.

It probably wasn't the safest idea buuuuuut he DIDN'T cut his finger off. Moving to the second and third leech he did the same thing. Once all the dirty work was done he picked up each head and added them in one by one. Removing his gloves Kyroh pointed his wand and scourgify'ed his cutting board, his life and the gloves. Pausing he looked up at the board for the next set of instructions.

Culloden was going around helping people he GUESSED. And giving out points. But Kyroh didn't really need help. Not that he wanted help anyways because Mo wasn't here and Mo was his HELPER even though he had made him think twice about Yeti's. Also, he wouldn't really ask Culloden for help because he figured the man would either be super happy about it or....kick him out. But he did want points though. "Professor can I have some points just cause uh.......I'm me?" Please? Yeah??

Anyways, his attention turned back to the POTION. Locating his metal stick he pointed his wand at it too. "Scourgify." Shifting in his seat Kyroh positioned himself so he was on his knees and so that he could actually look INTO the potion before placing the stick inside. Clockwise right? Yeah. GOT IT.

One. Two. Three --- Eight. Nine. Ten.

Lifting the stick from the cauldron he cleaned it off again. Grabbing the clean gloves he put them back on before plucking a ginger root from his kit. With his already clean knife he cut the ginger in half and plopped it down into the potion that he would NOT be drinking.

Almost as SOON as the ginger root hat hit the water Kyroh began scribbling down in his notes. He ONLY had two minutes after all. And plus....he had to look to see if Toby was coming back again.

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:

1. Add the jobberknoll feather without any water or fire
2. Lay the unicorn hair onto the feather vertically.
3. Wait for Toby
4. Measure a litre of water
5. Add a litre of water
6. Cut off 3 leech heads
7. Add the leech heads one by one
8. Clean metal stick
9. With a metal stick, stir it clockwise for ten times
10. Clean metal stick again
11. Wait for Toby
12. Cut half the ginger root
13. Add in half the ginger root
14. Wait for two minutes and wait for Toby

EXCUSE ME WHO WAS HE LOOKING A-

Oh. Kyroh. Okay that was alright then.

Magdalena. Yes. That was her name. PRETTY HUH? She grinned. Which faltered slightly when he said that he wasn't going to sit with her. SADNESS. But...she was so cute. How could he not want to sit with her? She shifted back into the center of her chair again, pouting slightly. Okay, a lot.

Lots of pouting was happening. Even if his reason was Kyroh.

AH YES OKAY AWESOME! Maggie's face lit up again when Toby suggested she sit with him. "Okaaaaaay." And with that she grabbed her cauldron, potion ingredients and rest of her things. Not her chair. Toby could carry her chair for her yes? It was heavy and she was already carrying other things. She smiled at him and made her way over to where he'd been sitting next to Kyroh. He got a grin. Hello.

After setting the cauldron down on the desk, she quickly put on her gloves. She was NOT going to touch the gross ingredients. Nope. So she put the jobberknoll feather into the cauldron and then eyed the unicorn tail hair. How was she supposed to cut it in half? Hello? Anyone? Toby? Where was Toby?

Moving on.

"Once two minutes are up, please come here and get ten cubes of ice," he said as he put a big bucket of ice on his desk from under it, "and add them all at once. Wait until they completely melt and grate five of the carrots in the meantime. Add the ungrated ones at once, and sprinkle the grated ones over. If you have been correct all this time, it shouldn't take all the ice longer than five minutes. Then, tie the wormwood around knotgrass and add them as well."

He waved his wand and these steps appeared on the blackboard.

As the next steps appeared on the board, Thornton dutifully removed his gloves and took notes, making sure that each step was carefully recorded. Then, taking note of what was needed, he hopped off his chair and headed over to the basin. Carefully measuring out 1 litre of water, he put it to the side while he washed the metal stick he would need to stir.

Returning to his work station, he slipped his gloves back on and set himself to the task.

Carefully adding the water to his cauldron, lest he spill any of it, Thornton leaned over and watched the liquid cover the feather and hair. Once the last drop was in, Thornton turned to his assembled ingredients. Three leech heads, already prepared. Check.

He dropped them in one at a time, quite carefully, so as not to splash himself in the face. He then picked up his clean metal stick and twirled it around the cauldron, counting under his breath each time it made one clockwise trip around. Smiling, Thornton pulled out the stick and set it aside to be cleaned after.

Scooping the ginger root up carefully he placed the required half in the potion. Now, there was a two minute wait. Thornton debated whether to add observational notes or to clean the stick. Unsure if it would be needed promptly, Thornton again hopped off his chair, leaving his gloves ON this time, since the stick was covered in potion, and scurried to the basin. Washing rapidly, he hurried back, sliding a bit on the floor, but settling in to his seat just as his two minute wait time was expiring.