....and that's what further alerted him to something being amiss. They'd done all the previous steps right...yet, it was mishap after mishap. The fault wasn't with their individual work, but with the potion, itselt. That was the only logical explanation.

Gabriel JERKED his hand away quickly when it began overflowing, prepared to fix his mistake...but the cauldron zipped away; careening towards another member of their group. A Gryffindor this time. AJ...Gabe held his breath as she acted quickly against the disaster, blinking and giving the Gryffindor girl an appreciative nod.

Quick thinking, that was.

With the crisis averted, Toby proceeded with the mistletoe berries; added him just like the recipe stated...but if all the other accidents were anything to go by...this was going to go sour again in....3......2......

THE CAULDRON HAD STARTED TO VIBRATE!...but Dot was there to save the day this time. His teammates were....exceeding his expectations. So, all he needed to do was add one root of aconite.

Easy...and done.

Cosgrach watched them fail try to brew the faulty recipe, but it didn't work of course. However... they all also seemed to be doing fine with the charms. Everyone got them right (even though some of their preferences could be questioned) and Cosgrach didn't even have to intervene! That pleased him, and he checked his watch... their time was up. He quickly looked at the cauldrons and vanished them. None could complete the recipe, so he made a mental note to allocate more time next time he did this.

"Okay, everyone," he said as he was smiling - definitely no traces of annoyance because of the spiders now. Who could be annoyed when they had such brilliant students? "As you must have guessed by now, this wasn't a real recipe - I wanted to see whether you forgot to clean materials, to read intructions or completely panicked and endangered your and others' lives. As far as I can tell, most of you did everything right." Except, some of them didn't use bubble head charm and he'd noted that.

"You'd make good researchers." He grinned proudly. He'd been teaching for 5 terms now, so he believed he could take most of the credit. He'd taught them well.

"Class dismissed. I won't assign any homework." So enjoy life? Hehehe.

"Oh, everyone can take a chocolate frog on their way out," he said as he brought out a big box and set it on his desk, "since no one could complete the recipe. See ya later."

SEEE? It wasn't a real recipe. She knew something was off when the smart house was having problems. It just didn't make sense. Although AJ thought it was bloody brilliant. Good times. Good times. Nothing got her adrenaline pumping more. Okay. That was a bit extreme. She could think of other things that were better.

"Bloody brilliant, professor." And did he say chocolate frog? Because she was all over that! AJ grabbed one and started to stuff her face before she was even out the door. "Thanks for the lesson." AJ out!

Yep, Adi had figured out that this potion was totally a dud. They certainly hadn't been making mistakes while brewing it soooo it must have been the ingredients or steps or amounts or whatever else factors. He grinned at Benny, Marsha and other team members. "You guys did great!'' Him too, in his opinion. Hehe.

Stuff back in his bag? Check!

No homework? Check!

Chocolate Froggy? Check!

"Professor, do you need help getting all this cleaned up? Thanks for the awesome lesson and Froggy, by the way. You rock!'' Cue the sign of the horns symbol from him.

Normally, Cosgrach would say that he didn't, but his logic beat him: he could head out faster if someone helped, and Adi was already offering it. So, he smiled at nodded. "That'd be lovely, thank you," he said as people headed out, "we just need to move the working stations back in their order and clean the floor in case something spilled." He got out his wand to start with the floor, since it would be easy to clean it while the desks were still by the walls.

Adi was only too happy to oblige. He set his bag and Froggy down on Culloden's desk, his wand in hand. "You're welcome.'' Cheerful smile for you, Professor! Maybe his helping would put Culloden back in his regular spirits. Alrightey! So the floors first, yeah? Culloden was already working on that so Adi hurried to the opposite side of the class to do the same.

Eeeep! It seemed a ton of over flowing had been going on. The floor was soiled with potions. "Scourgify!'' Presto! A clean bit of floor! Adi moved along the room, repeating the spell and also getting a few webs out of the way. He made sure to keep a safe distance so that they wouldn't come in contact with any part of him.

"Scourgify!'' The last bit of spilt potion vanished so the Hufflepuff surveyed the room as best as he could. Everything seemed to be in order. "All done with the floor, Professor.''

Adi was a fast badger, wasn't he? Eager too. Cosgrach nodded in approval and examined the floor briefly but carefully. All looked well...

"Now, if you could just help with organising the desks..." He walked to the front of the room and pointed his wand at the desks and began muttering "Locomotor," to carry them in their right place.

Awesomeee!

Culloden seemed to be satisfied with his work. Adi was pleased with himself, too. Helping out always felt great. But onto the desk rearrangement! ''Locomotor!'' With his wand raised, the desk that had been targeted also raised so that he was able to move it to set it neatly in place, just as how Culloden always had them set up.

"Locomotor! Locomotor! Locomotor!'' More desks were returned to their positions until at last, the Professor-student team had the class back to normal.

"All done!'' Adi grinned at Culloden. "Don't let those webs get you down, Professor. I'm sure the issue would be sorted out soon.'' However that will be resolved. "I'll see you around.'' With a wave, he grabbed his bag and Froggy before heading out of the class.

Dot... had a good point, yes. Oops. BUT... well, it was done now. Slam dunking the berries and that, and they'd moved on. So Toby only gave the fourth year a sheepish smile once neither of them had a time-sensitive cauldron in front of them.

Then, all too soon, they were DONE. Toby blinked as the cauldron vanished, wondering if this was some new unique way that a potion could go wrong, but actually it was just Culloden bringing the lesson to a close. Final was over? NICE. No homework? NIIIIIIICE.

Well, since they could go, Toby went ahead and gathered up all his things.

"Fun lesson, Professor Culloden!" he called to the professor, bouncing on his toes. Yep. And he meant it. "People don't poison people on purpose, though," Toby added, referring to the discussion at the start of class. Then the Hufflepuff grinned, waved, and made a quick exit. JUST B.T. DUBS AND GOODBYE.

He. Had. So. Much. Studying. To. Do.

How nice of Adi helping him. They were done in no time. Sweet. "Thank you, Adi," he said as he smiled, "that's five points to Hufflepuff." He was about to leave when Toby said something... that he would never be able to say it anymore. Suddenly, the man was sad. "I'm glad you liked it," he said in a slightly thicker tone, "people really don't poison others on purpose." Nope, theu didn't. Not when it was Toby's last lesson. He'd still see the boy around, though, so this wasn't a goodbye... yet.

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