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It’s a bright but chilly autumnal morning outside - not that you would know that in the Potions classroom, given the lack of windows. Professor Noble had done a decent job of lightening things up though; the classroom is certainly brighter than the corridor outside, due to a number of glowing orbs suspended from the ceiling. Dark rooms were not conducive to accurate brewing, and he’d responded accordingly. Of course, it didn’t hurt that it might help the nightowls stay awake at this hour too.

On entering the classroom, you’ll see the desks in rows facing forwards, a pretty typical layout. At each workstation a small burner, currently off, and tripod awaits your cauldron. Your copper one, if you’d bothered to read your schedule. The far side bench gives a hint at the topic of the lesson, piled high with pumpkins, so generously grown by Professor Myers at Noble’s request.

The Potions professor himself cuts a stern figure at the front of class, leant back commandingly against the front desk, robes flowing and arms folded across his chest. His gaze rests on the door, a dissatisfied air about his lips.

“Chop chop! Stop lingering in the doorway like a lost flobberworm and pick up a pumpkin on the way to your seat.”

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Greetings and first steps
Preparing the flitterby moths and bouncing bulb
Adding the ground moths and chopped bulb
Some questions to ponder whilst carving
Question responses and adding the foxglove flowers
Adding the seeds and finishing up
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“I couldn’t have put it better myself,” Noble answered as Bel responded to Maxton’s question. “Transfiguration is bloody hard. Especially when brains are involved.” Lots of important synapse connections that it’s really not a good idea to mess up. “And yes, it requires you’re there in the room. A potion, however…well, you can put that in someone’s drink anytime you like...” As long as it was within the period of the potion’s stability, but that wasn’t a particular worry here. The pompion potion had a decent shelf life.

...oh, had he forgot to mention that if he deemed that they'd brewed the potion properly, they'd be able to take some away?

A question about the water. The water which he hadn't told anyone to add, but apparently at least half the class had because they were following the recipe, and not him. He didn’t know to be reassured that they’d read the recipe carefully, or peeved that they’d decided to skip ahead.

Apparently they hadn't noticed the contents of Jessa’s cauldron by vanished. Alas.

He supposed he could vanish everyone's that had decided to not listen carefully, but unfortunately that would mean over-running into morning break. HIS morning break. So, instead, with a grumble and a grunt, he raised his voice.

“If you haven’t already added the water, you should do that now.”



If the boy didn’t want to get up and put any protective equipment on, then…well, it wasn’t exactly his fault as Professor, was it? Especially with the amount of pumpkin goop that was getting flicked around.

“I accept English and Latin responses in my class only,”
Noble replied. This was Hogwarts, not Beauxbatons…no need to be sarcastic in French at him. “And 5 points from Gryffindor for your cheek.”

Now hopefully he’d get on with the lesson and maybe, just maybe, shut up.


Noble’s eyes narrowed at the Tenacius, a snarl on his lips. The Head Boy. The one who was meant to set a good example. No, the best of examples. “If your lip as much as twitches upwards again this lesson, Mister Head Boy, I will see to it that you’ll share the joke with me in detention. Understood?”

SPOILER!!: ”Derf and Amanda”




That dealt with, for now at least, Noble turned his attention to the rest of the classroom. Only to hear about another student, Amanda, with an possible allergy. Seriously? Since when had pumpkin, pumpkin, been so prevalent as an allergen? Gah. Noble rubbed his temples, and in the meantime Derfael went to help. Noble nodded to the Hufflepuff Prefect.

SPOILER!!: Mara


Was she...? Noble watched the Hufflepuff for a few moments longer. Yes…she was. She was putting the seeds in the cauldron, and the pumpkin innards that were meant to be in there were still decidedly in the pumpkin. Apparently she’d decided things elsewhere in the classroom were more important than his demonstration.

“Start again, Mara,” he said, vanishing the seeds from her cauldron. Hopefully she’d have enough left in the pumpkin for the final step of the recipe. “Pumpkin pulp and water only in the cauldron so far.”

SPOILER!!: ”All those keeping on keeping on”




















Lots of students seemed to be progressing…he wasn’t sure he’d say well, persay, but at least not terribly. So that was…something. Yes. Nods and appreciative grunts happened.

Yes, grunts could be appreciative.

And the older students had really picked up the gauntlet when it came to helping. Let’s see…there was Daisy helping Emmalyn light her burner…Finn working with HannaMiranda had stepped in to help JosephineSkylar was demonstrating to JessiJunia was getting Abraham back on track…and Harriet was fixing Dorian’s cauldron.

Hang on, what? No. That wasn’t right! Grumble grumble. “Thank you for helping, Harriet,” Noble said, from the front of the class. “But I’d suggest you use one from the cupboard for today, Dorian.” Cracks were weaknesses, and he had enough to get through without an exploding cauldron in the mix. “See me after class, and I’ll have a look at fixing it.”

He wasn’t unreasonable, okay?




And since they all seemed to be done with the pumpkin pulp, Ignatius clapped his hands together. “Okay then...whilst we’re waiting for the cauldron to get up to a simmer, we need to prepare our dried moths.” He held up a beaker of them so they could see what they looked like. “Put three in your mortar, and grind them to a fine powder.” He counted three out, before giving them a good (and loud) pounding with the pestle. “If you think you’re done, I recommend you go back and pound some more.” He meant a super fine powder.

“You can also start chopping your bouncing bulb. These are fresh and not part of your standard kit, so please fetch one from the front.”
He gestured to the lidded crate on the desk. “A bouncing bulb does just as its name suggests...bounces. Please do not start to prepare it until you have stunned it!” He did NOT want to have to be sending people to the Healer. “So first, a Stupefy,” which he demonstrated, “and then we’re going to peel off that outer purple layer and chop it finely with a silver knife.” Again, he did this using a peeler from his potions kit, before placing the bulb on his chopping board. “Good chopping is all about technique. Curl your fingers under and into a claw like this, and use your knuckles as a guide for the side of the knife. Push down smoothly with the blade for a safe clean cut.”

He really hoped they were paying attention. Some of their cutting skills had been woefully poor in previous lessons. His cat could probably do it better, honestly.

"You need 100g of bouncing bulb. Weigh it out ready, but don't add it or the moths just yet."



ooc note: I'm loving all of your responses so far! <3 This is just a preparation step, no need to add anything to the cauldron. If you missed the last step, you're welcome to either a) proceed as if you were here and had completed it, or b) catch up. Please keep any catching up to a single post if possible so as not to confuse the general order of things.


Wait, was the professor implying they should put potions like this one into someone's drink? Like as a prank?

Was the professor condoning pranks? Professor Noble just got more and more interesting in every class, didn't he? Bel was pleased and relieved that he hadn't got mad at her for instinctively responding to Maxton. She was a bit behind though, and quickly returned her attention to the work,scooping the pumpkin guts out of the pumpkin (who knew it could be so messy?) and then de-seeding said guts. The metal spoon went to one side in favour of the measuring cup, which she packed with the guts once, and then twice, going into the cauldron, followed by a cup full of water. Round abouts anyways.

Unbeknownst to Bell, there was still pumpkin innards on her cheek too.

The hardest bit about all this was trying to juggle doing the potion with writing down instructions. All Bel had written was the name of the potion. But then the professor was giving all the instructions anyway so that was okay, she was sure.

Grinding moths didn't sound too nice, alive or dead the idea of ingesting powdered moth was kind of gross. All the same, she put some elbow grease into it, getting her grind on with the three dead dried moths and pummeling them into a powder that was cornflour-fine.

Wait wait. Bouncing bulbs? Bel looked up. Okay. Fetch. Stun. Peel. Chop. Sounded doable? Should she get a couple for her table mates also? She wasn't sure she could manage to carry three of them back if they were going to be bouncing all that much. She went to get her own one from the crate, careful not to release any of the others by accident, and almost having to juggle it to keep hold of it on the return to her table. Jessa and Cam got slightly apologetic looks about not getting them one but honestly, one at a time was plenty to deal with!

Keeping hold of the top of the bulb, Bel wrestled her wand out.

"Stupefy!" She was careful not to aim for her fingers that was for sure. The bulb stopped its bouncing and Bel sat down again with some relief. Where was her silver kni--oh there. Good. And her peeler? Yes. She started peeling off the outer layer, leaving an intact purple spiral of skin on her desk. Now for chopping! She didn't mind chopping. It was a bit like helping her dad in the kitchen, really, chopping spuds and carrots.

CHOP.

CHOP.


Her tongue poked out a little bit in concentration.

CHOP.
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Miranda looked back to the front of the classroom as the professor explained and showed the next steps in this potion preparation.. So, she lit the younger girls burner for her with a flick and and incantation spoken and went to retrieve their moths to grind up into what sounded like the finest of powders.. M'kay.. Josephine could handle to next bits herself.

She brought back the moths and dropped the required amount into her mortar bowl and began to mash and bang it all to itty bitty bits.. she was rather enjoying the smashing up of dried out insects.. Bye bye, frustrations... Hello relaxation and ease.
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Dried moths. Rylee vaguely wondered what had happened to the moths as she picked up her quill, dipped it into her purple in and jotted down the next two steps. Had they died of natural causes and were now being used for their potion making? If not that just wasn't far to the moths. She lifted her head just in time to see/hear the professor slam his pestle down into the mortar in order to grind up the dried moths. He was making a LOT of noise in doing so. Did that mean she would get to make noise too?!

Setting her quill down after taking down all her notes she picked up her container of dried moths. Counting out three as she dropped them into her mortar. Using the pestle she began grinding the dried moths up. Pounding and crushing them into a powder.

More crushing and pounding. Rylee laughed softly to herself finding this oddly fun. She was allowed to make noise. That was fun. When she thought she was finished she reminded herself of the professors words 'If you think you’re done, I recommend you go back and pound some more'. Soooo of course, the child went right back to pounding those dried moths up even MORE! Finally content with herself and her finely powdered dried moths she set it aside.

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That was a spell she didn't quite know yet. She was going to have to ask for help...

Slipping from her seat she hurried her way to the front and got herself a bouncing bulb.. a restless one it seemed. The crazy thing wiggled and squirmed trying hard to break free of her grasp on it. "On no you don't..." she giggled tightening her arms around it, bouncing her way back to her workstation. If the bulb wanted to bounce then SHE would do the bouncing for them both!

Plunking the bulb down onto her workstation she used her arms and well some of her upper body to hold it down. Silly thing was trying to get away and doing tiny bounces on her desk that had her leaning on it more. "Can someone help me stun this thing, please?" She raised one hand just enough to hopefully be seen and gave her fingers a little wiggle to catch someone's attention.
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Of course, Vivian came prepared to Potions class. And of course, she'd have her ingredients and cauldron with her, sir. The copper one, to be exact. They were essentials, after all, and how was she supposed to brew a potion without them? Forgetting to bring them to class was like coming to battle without a single weapon. Sure, a very intense comparison, but it really felt that way for the Slytherin.

With her equipment all set, Vivian out her notebook and scribbled some as the professor discussed the potion they were to brew today. A small smile grew on her lips when she gave more thought of what someone would look like with a pumpkin for a head. It was even funnier to think of her co-prefect Coleslaw with one. Seemed fun, but would have been easier and faster to transfigure someone's head instead. Fifty minutes of brewing was quite a long time.

Honestly, it made the prefect think of carving pumpkins for Halloween. It was an activity she enjoyed as a young kid, but clearly it wasn't the right time for it, considering Noble's mood. When was he ever in what seemed like a good mood, anyway? Vivian did the same as the professor did. "Diffindo," she said, making a circle around the stalk and setting it aside. The prefect then took a metal spoon and began scooping out the pumpkin meat, separating the seeds and filling a Scourgified cup with pulp. As for the cauldron, she didn't forget. "Scourgify!" And it was clean, and so was the cup. It was an important step, of course.

"Incendio," Vivian lit up the burner and set the heat to medium before she dumped the first cup of pumpkin pulp into her cauldron and another one shortly after. Another scouring charm was sent to the cup to remove all pumpkin-y substances and filled it with "Aguamenti!" There, one cup of water... which was added to her cauldron too. Not bad.

Moving on, she took three of the dried flitterby moths and placed it in the mortar where she began pounding on it to a fine powder. Just how fine the professor wanted, Vivian was unsure but she continued to grind the substance as much as she could. With that done, the Slytherin moved on with the bouncing bulb, which she retrieved from the front. The bouncy plant reminded her of hyper firstie Vivian. She was just like this ball of life. "Stupefy!" And it stopped bouncing. There, she began to peel off the outer layer and proceeded to chop it as fine as possible with her knife. Sure, she knew how to chop these. Being her mum's second hand in cooking had done its job. After weighing 100 grams of the bouncing bulb, she set it aside with the powdered moths and waited.

As for the firstie, the blond had just finished setting the remaining ingredients aside before she went towards her. "Let me help. I'm Vivian, by the way," the prefect smiled. Helping younger students out was her responsibility, after all. "The incantation is Stupefy. Here, watch...." She took the girl's bouncing bulb and sent the stunning spell at it. "Stupefy!" With that, it stopped bouncing too.
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Pompion Potion
Turns a person's head into a pumpkin
Fifty minutes brewing time


Ingredients:
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3 dried flitterby moths
100g fresh bouncing bulb, stunned if necessary
4g fresh foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) flowers, petals only
10 fresh pumpkin seeds

Procedure:
1. Use diffindo to cut open the pumpkin.
2. Using a metal spoon, scoop out the innards, pulling out the seeds and putting to one side.
3. Put two densely packed cups of pumpkin innards in the bottom your cauldron with a cup of water. Set over medium heat.
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It did not take long for one of the older students to help him out with his cauldron and Dorian smiled when he saw that it was Harriet, the girl he had met inside of the art room while he had been...painting...ok throwing paint heh.

Watching her doing the wand movement carefully, the second year mimicked it without a wand. "Thanks" he said. "I knew the incantation but I couldn't remember the wand movement" He then watched as she turned back to her own working space and the Ravenclaw himself turned to his own work. But stopped when he noticed that the Professor had said his name.

For a full five seconds, the Ravenclaw's brain seemed to spin as he registered the words and he was half panicking. He had never been asked to stay after class before and he wondered what he had done to deserve this when he got it. Just fixing his cauldron. Phew. "Okay, Professor" he answered and was glad that he hadn't stuttered.

Pushing his previous cauldron aside, Dorian walked to the cupboard and grabbed another one and placed it on his desk. How far behind was he even?! He checked the blackboard and gasped when they were a couple of steps ahead.

Grabbing the metal spoon, Dorian cleaned it with the scourgify spell and used the tool to scoop out the pumpkin. With his fingers he pulled and sorted out the left over seeds and after he was done he placed it in a cup. Letting two cups of innards fall in to the cauldron, he then pointed his wand at the burner and used Incendio six times before he managed to set a fire to medium heat.

Finally! He was up to date...no wait, never mind, he was still steps behind. While the Professor was demonstrating how to use the Stupefying spell, Dorian was paying more attention to his own task of putting three dried moths into the mortar and crushing it vigorously in an attempt to keep up. When it became a fine powder, he quickly walked to the bulbs at the front of the class and caught a feisty one but he paid no attention to the struggling in his hand, he had a toad that did the same thing so he was used to it.

As he returned to his station, he made a mistake in his haste to catch up by placing the bulb down on the desk first without stupefying it.

There was a loud -SMACK- as the bouncing bulb bounced up and hit him under his nose. The second year gasped from the sudden attack and his eyes began to water with tears. "OOOOOWWWWW!" he yelled as he grabbed his nose and at that time the bulb bounced back and hit his shoulder. His hand automatically went to his shoulder to sooth it and although he had no bloody nose, the pain was there. "I'm sorry! I forgot to..." he quickly pointed his wand at the bulb and shouted "STUPEFYING!"

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"I meant Stupefy!" oh Merlin's Beard perhaps potions wasn't his best class after all....."stupefy, stupefy, stupefy!" after several attempts, the bulb got hit and the Ravenclaw calmed down with a loud sigh, wiping the sweat aka tears from his eyes.

Using the peeler next, he peeled off the purple skin while occasionally rubbing his eyes on his sleeve and when he was done he began to cut it. He was at the stage today that he did not care anymore about proper cutting techniques and simply chop chop chopped it in to bits.

Placing the small scale in front of him, Dorian placed some of the chopped bulb inside it and stooped down to check the number. It was a bit over the 100g so he took some out and then grumbled when it began too less. Adding just a tiny bit and he was finally done.

How much longer???
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After making the finest powder out of her three dried moths she looked to her notes.. Ah, yes... Time to go and get her bouncing bulb.

" I'll be right back, Josephine.. I've just got to get my bulb.. When you're ready go ahead and go get yours and I'll help you stun it if you need more help.. Alright?", Randa said with a kind smile before going to the front of the room and collecting her bouncing bulb and bringing it back to her work station next to the second year.

She picked up her wand and pointed it at the bulb in her grasp, holding it very firmly as she could feeling it trying to wriggle free of her fingers grasp.
" Stupefy!" And with that the stunned bulb went lifeless and she began to peel off it's akin to reveal the fleshy meat that need to be chopped up.

Fingers curled under as they'd been shown she picked up her silver knife and began to chop away. Mmmm.. This was also oddly cathartic.. Chop..Chop..
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'Greeting me does not count an emergency, Matt.' The Gryffindor gave the professor a funny look. Wha? He chuckled softly because the professor was obviously strange - no, he hadn't read the rules and had no clue what the man was on about - and that was highly amusing. Matt approved!

The seventh year let out a quick laugh when the man addressed them all as 'miserable lot' because MAN, was he an undercover clown or something?? The guy was HILARIOUS!

But enough of that! They were supposed to use the Severing Charm, which never failed to entertain Matt, so he got his wand at the ready. "Diffindo!" Et voila! Hah!

The boy pulled out the 'lid' from his pumpkin and put it aside. Next, he grabbed his clean spoon and scooped up the middle bits of the pumpkin where most if not all of the seeds would be. He looked around, shrugged and splatted the content on his workstation for now. He quickly lit up the burner beneath his cauldron and continued to pick out the seeds. It didn't take him terribly long, and he was soon plopping the seed-free pumpkin content into his cauldron.

Matt kept his ears clear and he was paying attention to every single interacting their new professor was having with his classmates and, truth be told, more than half of them made the Gryffindor snort as he worked on his potion. Was it bad that this professor was turning out to be one of his favourites for the complete opposite reasons one would choose for favourite teachers? HAHA! Matt didn't even care Gryffindor was losing points. That man was hysterical!

Into his cauldron the water went when the man gave them the okay. Still chuckling at the overreaction of literally everysinglebody in the classroom,
Matt kept his eyes peeled on his cauldron and its content, but he kept listening to his surrounding.

The seventh year put the months into his mortar and using the excuse that the professor was being loud at crushing his own, Matt could be loud TOO. It was nearly theatrical, because he felt like it. Loudness for the sake of loudness was Matt's THING.

Pound pound pound. Crunch crunch crunch.

Some more pound pound pound. Crunch crunch crunch, as the professor had told them to pound some more if they thought they were done. This Gryffindor would follow EVERY instruction to the best of his ability! BECAUSE. That was a prank potion. Simple. Mwahaha!

WAIT, THEY GOT TO USE MATT'S MOST FAVOURITE SPELL EVER IN A POTION'S LESSON!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!

The boy jumped up of his seat and rushed to retrieve a bouncing bulb.
His WAS grinning WIDELY by the time he returned to his workstation holding the bouncing thing tightly. MWAHAHAHA!!! "Stupefy!" He exclaimed,
poiting his wand at it. YAS! VICTORY!

After peeling it, Matt grabbed his silver knife. Aaaaaand chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop. He did use the technique professor Noble had mentioned halfway through, but as he added the content to his scales his fingers went back to not being curled and he carried on chopping like he usually did. Whatever, he wasn't going to be a cook or a potioneer anyway. He finally stopped chopping when the scales showed 100g.

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Of course, Vivian came prepared to Potions class. And of course, she'd have her ingredients and cauldron with her, sir. The copper one, to be exact. They were essentials, after all, and how was she supposed to brew a potion without them? Forgetting to bring them to class was like coming to battle without a single weapon. Sure, a very intense comparison, but it really felt that way for the Slytherin.

With her equipment all set, Vivian out her notebook and scribbled some as the professor discussed the potion they were to brew today. A small smile grew on her lips when she gave more thought of what someone would look like with a pumpkin for a head. It was even funnier to think of her co-prefect Coleslaw with one. Seemed fun, but would have been easier and faster to transfigure someone's head instead. Fifty minutes of brewing was quite a long time.

Honestly, it made the prefect think of carving pumpkins for Halloween. It was an activity she enjoyed as a young kid, but clearly it wasn't the right time for it, considering Noble's mood. When was he ever in what seemed like a good mood, anyway? Vivian did the same as the professor did. "Diffindo," she said, making a circle around the stalk and setting it aside. The prefect then took a metal spoon and began scooping out the pumpkin meat, separating the seeds and filling a Scourgified cup with pulp. As for the cauldron, she didn't forget. "Scourgify!" And it was clean, and so was the cup. It was an important step, of course.

"Incendio," Vivian lit up the burner and set the heat to medium before she dumped the first cup of pumpkin pulp into her cauldron and another one shortly after. Another scouring charm was sent to the cup to remove all pumpkin-y substances and filled it with "Aguamenti!" There, one cup of water... which was added to her cauldron too. Not bad.

Moving on, she took three of the dried flitterby moths and placed it in the mortar where she began pounding on it to a fine powder. Just how fine the professor wanted, Vivian was unsure but she continued to grind the substance as much as she could. With that done, the Slytherin moved on with the bouncing bulb, which she retrieved from the front. The bouncy plant reminded her of hyper firstie Vivian. She was just like this ball of life. "Stupefy!" And it stopped bouncing. There, she began to peel off the outer layer and proceeded to chop it as fine as possible with her knife. Sure, she knew how to chop these. Being her mum's second hand in cooking had done its job. After weighing 100 grams of the bouncing bulb, she set it aside with the powdered moths and waited.

As for the firstie, the blond had just finished setting the remaining ingredients aside before she went towards her. "Let me help. I'm Vivian, by the way," the prefect smiled. Helping younger students out was her responsibility, after all. "The incantation is Stupefy. Here, watch...." She took the girl's bouncing bulb and sent the stunning spell at it. "Stupefy!" With that, it stopped bouncing too.
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Pompion Potion
Turns a person's head into a pumpkin
Fifty minutes brewing time


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2 cups pumpkin innards, densely packed (sorted so no seeds)
3 dried flitterby moths
100g fresh bouncing bulb, stunned if necessary
4g fresh foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) flowers, petals only
10 fresh pumpkin seeds

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1. Use diffindo to cut open the pumpkin.
2. Using a metal spoon, scoop out the innards, pulling out the seeds and putting to one side.
3. Put two densely packed cups of pumpkin innards in the bottom your cauldron with a cup of water. Set over medium heat.


Help was coming. In the form of a much older student wearing a prefect badge. Rylee turned her head at the older girls voice and smiled softly, her hand that was waving around dropping to hold down the bouncing bulb. "Hi, Miss Vivian. I'm Rylee." And boy was she happy for her help right now. Only moving her little arms away when Vivian took the bulb from her she stepped back to watch closer. "Stupefy," she whispered softly to herself nodding her head. "Whoa.. you did that so fast! Thank you!" she gave the prefect a bright smile of thanks.

Now that the bouncing bulb was no longer... bouncing she could continue on with the next step and not fall behind. Time to peel off the outer layer. For that she needed her peeler. After a quick glance around at her things she found her peeler and began to peel off the purple outer layer. Once she had finished with that she laid the bulb down on her clean cutting board and made a claw like hand with her fingers gripping the bulb just like she had watched Professor Noble do... or as closely as she could copy what he had done.

With her silver knife she began to chop the bulb up. Her chops might not have been the most straight at times but she was only eleven and trying her best.

Chop. Chop. Chop went her silver knife against the cutting board. When she was finished she measured out exactly 100g of the bulb using her measuring scale than set it aside.

She was done. For now. Well almost. Looking around she didn't like much what she saw. Rian-Kate had always told her when potion brewing it was best to keep everything else. Just like when cooking. Cross contamination could be a very very bad thing. Rylee glanced up at the professor to see if he was moving on yet... he wasn't. Now was the perfect time to tidy up her work space and clean her things off before they had to move on again and she wouldn't have the time to.
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It wasn't too long before they got the next set of instructions. She was careful again to watch the professor, so she would know what to do. Sometimes instructions could be ambiguous, and she didn't want to get or do anything wrong. She'd worked hard with her pumpkin, and didn't want to make a mistake that would put all her efforts to waste. So she was careful as she watched, and made a few careful notes. At least she'd have a good set of instructions to follow if she ever had to do it in the future. She probably wouldn't though. It didn't seem like a potion she'd ever need to be using.

Firstly she needed to prepare her dried moths. That was totally gross, but she could do it. She'd used worse ingredients in the past. The blonde carefully added three moths into her mortar, counting them out one by one. She then spent a good few moments grinding them. She wanted to make sure they were ground up, and there was no big bits in. That would be no good. When she thought she was done, she took the Professor's advice, and ground for another minute or so. She wanted to be super careful that the powder was really fine.

She ticked that off on her set of instructions, before moving onto the next step. Smiling, the blonde moved towards the front of the classroom to collect her bouncing bulb. So far she was having fun, and that was good!
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“I couldn’t have put it better myself,” Noble answered as Bel responded to Maxton’s question. “Transfiguration is bloody hard. Especially when brains are involved.” Lots of important synapse connections that it’s really not a good idea to mess up. “And yes, it requires you’re there in the room. A potion, however…well, you can put that in someone’s drink anytime you like...” As long as it was within the period of the potion’s stability, but that wasn’t a particular worry here. The pompion potion had a decent shelf life.

...oh, had he forgot to mention that if he deemed that they'd brewed the potion properly, they'd be able to take some away?

Huh. That made sense. Maxton nodded when the Professor - well actually Bel - answered his question. He scribbled down some more notes before carrying on with his potion.

The pumpkin pulp was already in his cauldron and simmering so it was time for the dried moths. Three went into his mortar and then he pounded at them until they were into an extremely fine powder and his arm ached.

He fetched a bouncing bulb from the front of the classroom and quickly moved back to his workstation. A stunning spell. Right, he could do that. "Stupefy," the Slytherin said firmly, wand pointing at the bulb which quivered and then rolled stunned onto it's side.

Now to chop you up!

Max did exactly as the Professor had demonstrated and proceeded to first peel and then chop the non-bouncing bulb. So far so good. His chopping skills weren't brilliant, but he'd managed to keep all his fingers which was a bonus.

He weighed the bulb and put aside the 100 grams required for the potion. chopped up bulb and powered moths were ready for the Professor's next instruction. He used his sleeve to wipe away a bead of sweat from his forehead. Potions was hard work.
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And since they all seemed to be done with the pumpkin pulp, Ignatius clapped his hands together. “Okay then...whilst we’re waiting for the cauldron to get up to a simmer, we need to prepare our dried moths.” He held up a beaker of them so they could see what they looked like. “Put three in your mortar, and grind them to a fine powder.” He counted three out, before giving them a good (and loud) pounding with the pestle. “If you think you’re done, I recommend you go back and pound some more.” He meant a super fine powder.

“You can also start chopping your bouncing bulb. These are fresh and not part of your standard kit, so please fetch one from the front.” He gestured to the lidded crate on the desk. “A bouncing bulb does just as its name suggests...bounces. Please do not start to prepare it until you have stunned it!” He did NOT want to have to be sending people to the Healer. “So first, a Stupefy,” which he demonstrated, “and then we’re going to peel off that outer purple layer and chop it finely with a silver knife.” Again, he did this using a peeler from his potions kit, before placing the bulb on his chopping board. “Good chopping is all about technique. Curl your fingers under and into a claw like this, and use your knuckles as a guide for the side of the knife. Push down smoothly with the blade for a safe clean cut.”

He really hoped they were paying attention. Some of their cutting skills had been woefully poor in previous lessons. His cat could probably do it better, honestly.

"You need 100g of bouncing bulb. Weigh it out ready, but don't add it or the moths just yet."


Her eyebrows were in tact. Thank Merlin's beard.
Farah was in the middle and pulling some gunk from her face when the professor started speaking again. Her attention was diverted as she tried to remove the gunk without messing up her brows, and pay attention to him. She even tried scribbling some notes down just to help.

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Get moths and grind up 3. super fine powder SUPA fine.
Get bouncing bulb
Peel back outer layer
Chop it with silver knife


Farah managed to get all the slime off her face when the professor had started to demonstrated chopping the outer layer so she definitely was paying attention to that. Technique and all. Knives weren't scary and chopping didn't seem that hard. She'd done it with plenty of things before. Potions and cooking wise.

Heading to the front she grabbed her moths. How many did she need to get?? She looked around and saw most had 3. Okay! Three it was. She grabbed them... her nose wrinkling at touching them and put them in the mortar to crush. The crushing part was fun. She whistled while she worked. This would be so much more fun with a partner. Someone she could actually talk to. Farah was never usually this quiet but she was concentrating. So there was that.

Once she crushed her moths into a supaaa fine powder, she looked at her notes again. Okay! Bouncing bulbs. Got it. She headed to the front. "Ahhh how cute! Purple! My favorite color!" Besides yellow... because HUFFLEPUFF PRIDE. Farah went to grab one, having missed when the professor said to stun them first cause they could be dangerous. Her fingers curled around a plump one when....

IT SMACKED HER IN THE FACE
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Farah was stunned for a moment because... how ruuude. She touched the little sting on her cheek and then looked down to the floor where her bouncing bulb had landed and ... had started bouncing away. "Oh noooo you don't!" She said, pulling her wand out and then ... caught someone saying stupefy. Okay, that would have been helpful to know. "Stupefy!" She yelled pointing her wand at the bouncing bulb that left a mark on her pretty face. To her satisfaction, it stopped bouncing and laid limp. Heh. Got you.

Farah picked it up, rubbing her face, and headed back to her station. She'd have to speak with Blaze to see how he handled that thing. Probably showed it whose boss. She glanced up around at Jessa, Cam, Jun-bug, and Zita to see how they were doing. Those rockstars.
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Carefully, considering that the bulb was bouncing, Harriet returned to her work station. Oh wow. This bulb was really bouncy. But then she would have guessed that would happen. It was in the name of it. It wouldn't have been called a bouncing bulb if it wasn't going to bounce. So the sixth year was careful, not wanting anyone to get hurt, and she also didn't want to ruin any of the potions by knocking them. That would be tragic! She finally did get back to her work station, and she carefully got her wand out. Time to get this thing to not bounce any more. That would make it so much easier to manage. She got her wand out, and pointed her wand at the bouncing bulb. It was hard, since it was bouncing around so much, but she would try her best. "Stupefy!"" The blonde murmured, before shaking her head. Nope. Didn't work. She repeated the spell, and felt a little better when it worked the second time. She just decided to go with that it hadn't worked the first time because of the fact that the bulb was moving around.

She placed the stunned bulb onto the work station, and then began to chop it. She carefully made sure she followed how the professor had chopped, having her fingers curled up, so that they wouldn't get cut. That would be tragic. She then began chopping, using her knuckles as a guide. She spent a few moments chopping before she put her knife down. She weighed the bits of bulb she had. 80 grams. So not quite enough. Putting what she did have carefully into another container, she quickly, but carefully, chopped another 20 grams, and added that to the container, after weighing it to make sure it was okay. She did re-check that she did have 100 grams after she'd finished. With a smile, she then awaited the next set of instructions.
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Having finished grinding the moths at least, she was pretty sure that she had finished grinding them. It felt like she had been doing it for aaaaaaagggggeeeesssss and she was getting bored now, Shera jumped up out of her seat and basically bounced to the front to get a bouncing ball. She was trying to contain her energy, really, especially because of Professor Noble and his... tendency to disapprove.

But sometimes it could be really hard to do that. Like now, when she'd been sitting for a while.

The second she grabbed one it felt like an escape, wriggling around in her hands as she carried it back to her desk. She still didn't know the how to perform the stunning spell, and thought about trying it until realising that if she tried anything could happen. Anything. From nothing, to her literally freezing or setting the bouncing bulb on fire.

Raising her hand to try to grab another students or the professor's attention she called out, "Can anyone help me stun this?"

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Placing the one cup of water into her cauldron she looked up as the professor started talking again. Things were going on around her and shew as very aware of those things. She was a little annoyed by some of those things because she could have helped a certain person, but that was not her problem at the moment, her focus was to work on her own potion.
Though this professor better not have wanted them to try it out on themselves because no way was this face becoming a pumpkin. It would certainly screw up her makeup.

She knew she should help the younger students, but really wasn't that what seventh years were for? So she decided to allow them just to do it and concentrate on being her best at this. The moths though she could have done without, but she placed the three in her clean mortar and she held back a giggle with his words, teenager brain always working.

Anway... she started to pound her moths and they broke apart pretty easy though she was rather torn on feeling good about this and awful that she was destroying moths. Once they were in a fine powder she decided it was over and she didn't have to think about them anymore, but then she decided to do it again just in case.


Now that was over she had to head to the front so she, of course, strutted that way smiling at her friends, especially at Derf before grabbing the bulb she needed and heading back. Pulling her wand she pointed at the bulb, though she had thoughts about letting it bounce over to another table. Hmmmm she could use that as an excuse. Pointing her wand she poked the bulb instead of stunning it she nudged it to start bouncing and so it did right off her table and onto the floor and right towards her target. "Whoopsie" she quickly chased after it and ran into Cameron a bit in the process.

"Oh sorry" she said in her fakest tone she could muster then went back to fetching the bulb.
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Jessa side eyed the Professor something fierce at his request everyone, who hadn't already, go ahead and add the water for the sole fact that she HAD and had it all vanished yet so had others and nothing. Nada. It was like he just wanted her to do the extra work. Was it the badge? Circe it made her a target, didn't it? Why was she the only one who needed to start from scratch?

Quite affronted by the idea, Jessa nicked the badge from her chest and put it into her pocket, unwilling to be targeted for the remainder of the lesson if she could help it.

The man already had what appeared to be a vendetta against her and she wouldn't be giving him more reason. With only a little bit of a grumble, Jessa once again added a cup of water to the cauldron, and waited for him to move on.

Three dried moths? The Ravenclaw cleaned her mortar then dropped them in, animating the pestle to begin a rather deliberate bout of pounding while she walked up to get herself a bouncing bulb. The act was so common to her, because of how ingrained magic had become in her own brews upstairs that she didn't even notice she'd done it. Second nature or something like that.

Back at her table, Jessa regarded the dried moth powder, deciding to let it get crushed a little longer just in case. In the meantime, she cast a silent stupefy on the plant before charming the knife to peel at it's purple outer layer and begin chopping it. With each set of chops, the 5th Year added them to the scale until it finally hit 100g. That done, she ended that incantation, as well as the one that crushed the dried moths to fine powder. Jessa picked up the mortar, holding it close to assess how finely they'd been grounded and found she'd been pleased with the results.

Now she would wait, doing nothing the Professor hadn't prescribed because starting over again was not an option.


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The second she grabbed one it felt like an escape, wriggling around in her hands as she carried it back to her desk. She still didn't know the how to perform the stunning spell, and thought about trying it until realising that if she tried anything could happen. Anything. From nothing, to her literally freezing or setting the bouncing bulb on fire.

Raising her hand to try to grab another students or the professor's attention she called out, "Can anyone help me stun this?"

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Just as she eased back in her stool, she heard a familiar voice asking for help. Jessa twisted around to get a look at what the needed help was. Ah. The bulb. Despite removing her badge, Jessa rose from her seat and moved over to her housemate--apparently just in time to miss that chaos with Zita.

As she'd been doing all morning, the Ravenclaw cast a non-verbal stupefy that saw the bouncing bulb going immobile with immediate effect. "It'll take some time but you'll be doing this all on your own before you know it." She assured.

She remembered when she couldn't do many spells right and how frustrated she'd been before making the decision to change that. It helped that most of her experiments required magic. it was a helpful little nudge for her. "Lemme know if you ned anything else." She offered before heading back toward her seat. Standing there would only draw the kind of attention she was trying to avoid from the Professor. It was best she got back to her own seat.
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Counting out three moths, Cameron placed them in his mortar and...started grinding them. Yes. Today was full of tedious tasks it seemed. While he continued his hand (and arm and shoulder and okay this did really require a lot of strength) movements, he looked around at the people around him. Which included Bel, naturally, seeing as she was next to him and all.

Oh. “Hey, Bel-“ He leaned over to poke her arm with his free hand to get her attention. „You got something on your face there.“ Cam then touched his own face to show her where. Seriously though, this pumpkin pulp was just everywhere wasn‘t it? And he could still smell it too. Where they allowed to get rid of the leftover pumpkin? Would they be needing it later? Hopefully not.

Once he was satisfied with the way the moths looked (basically like DUST), Cameron set the mortar to the side. Now, the bulb. That seemed to require at least SOME sort of magic and finesse. After swiftly walking up to the front to get one of those bulbs he then turned right around, eyes on the bulb firmly held in his hands. It looked very interesting, that‘s-

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If it had been anyone else who‘d bump into him, Cameron would‘ve just shrugged it off. As it were though he didn‘t. „Hey!“ Not only had she bumped into him, Zita had ALSO made him drop the bulb. Ugh. Was she on a mission to annoy him death this term? Drawing his wand (at the bulb, not at her, OF COURSE), Cam went off to retrieve his bulb. Not before he sent a glare Zita‘s way though.
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A question about the water. The water which he hadn't told anyone to add, but apparently at least half the class had because they were following the recipe, and not him. He didn’t know to be reassured that they’d read the recipe carefully, or peeved that they’d decided to skip ahead.

Apparently they hadn't noticed the contents of Jessa’s cauldron by vanished. Alas.

He supposed he could vanish everyone's that had decided to not listen carefully, but unfortunately that would mean over-running into morning break. HIS morning break. So, instead, with a grumble and a grunt, he raised his voice.

“If you haven’t already added the water, you should do that now.”
There it was.

The displeased look on the man's face - although it seemed permanently printed on his face - was then directed at Daehyun, and it was the last thing he'd wanted. Even though he'd then addressed everyone, Daehyun turned into a deep shade of crimson at his grunts, like the professor had said them to him only.

He scared the living daylights out of Daehyun, to put it lightly.

Nodding at the indication, he'd finally added the two carefully measured cups of the icky pumpkin insides that he'd previously separated from all seeds, followed by a cup of water. The heat was just right, so he could finally breathe.


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And since they all seemed to be done with the pumpkin pulp, Ignatius clapped his hands together. “Okay then...whilst we’re waiting for the cauldron to get up to a simmer, we need to prepare our dried moths.” He held up a beaker of them so they could see what they looked like. “Put three in your mortar, and grind them to a fine powder.” He counted three out, before giving them a good (and loud) pounding with the pestle. “If you think you’re done, I recommend you go back and pound some more.” He meant a super fine powder.

“You can also start chopping your bouncing bulb. These are fresh and not part of your standard kit, so please fetch one from the front.”
He gestured to the lidded crate on the desk. “A bouncing bulb does just as its name suggests...bounces. Please do not start to prepare it until you have stunned it!” He did NOT want to have to be sending people to the Healer. “So first, a Stupefy,” which he demonstrated, “and then we’re going to peel off that outer purple layer and chop it finely with a silver knife.” Again, he did this using a peeler from his potions kit, before placing the bulb on his chopping board. “Good chopping is all about technique. Curl your fingers under and into a claw like this, and use your knuckles as a guide for the side of the knife. Push down smoothly with the blade for a safe clean cut.”

He really hoped they were paying attention. Some of their cutting skills had been woefully poor in previous lessons. His cat could probably do it better, honestly.

"You need 100g of bouncing bulb. Weigh it out ready, but don't add it or the moths just yet."


Did he have to be so-brutal?

Daehyun flinched when professor Noble crushed the poor moths as if they were some pests that annoyed him. Uttering a soft sorry buddies to the three moths he'd dropped into his mortar - yes, he knew they were dead, but did they have to be so barbaric? No! - he proceeded to crush them well, checking every once in a while until he was satisfied with the fine powder that he'd turned them into.

He couldn't hold back the grimace that spread across his face as he watched everything professor Noble did, something about the detailed technique of peeling and cutting a bouncing bulb unsettling him. Once given the instructions, Daehyun walked up to grab a bulb, and stared at it as it bounced on the workbench in front of him. He'd watched the professor closely enough to be able to repeat his movement and incantation, but he feared that he would accidentally stun someone else, with the way the bulb bounced.

... but then he remembered he sat at the very front, so the only possible victim would be the professor, and not even Merlin would be able to help him if that ever happened.

Pushing those thoughts to the very back of his head, he focused solely on the bouncing bulb, repeating a mantra of You can do it, you can do it, you can do it in mind. Pointing his wand and aiming for the bulb, he said, "Stupefy!" and thankfully, the bulb was no longer bouncing, but laid lifelessly in front of him. Good.

Let the gruesome peeling begin. Pursing his lips and his eyebrows nearly meeting in concentration, Daehyun followed professor Noble's movements. He carefully peeled off the purple layer in small and hesitant movements, and then mirrored the man's chopping technique, a lot clumsier though, because he found it more difficult than it had first seemed. He was nearly done chopping using the odd technique, when-

... it was going to happen. He knew it would. He should've known better.

Muttering a soft "Aish," he stuck his freshly cut pinkie finger in his mouth, silently praying that the professor hadn't noticed him. He wasn't going to bleed to death, so no need to make a fuss over it.
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Moths, right.

Counting out three moths, Cameron placed them in his mortar and...started grinding them. Yes. Today was full of tedious tasks it seemed. While he continued his hand (and arm and shoulder and okay this did really require a lot of strength) movements, he looked around at the people around him. Which included Bel, naturally, seeing as she was next to him and all.

Oh. “Hey, Bel-“ He leaned over to poke her arm with his free hand to get her attention. „You got something on your face there.“ Cam then touched his own face to show her where. Seriously though, this pumpkin pulp was just everywhere wasn‘t it? And he could still smell it too. Where they allowed to get rid of the leftover pumpkin? Would they be needing it later? Hopefully not.

Once he was satisfied with the way the moths looked (basically like DUST), Cameron set the mortar to the side. Now, the bulb. That seemed to require at least SOME sort of magic and finesse. After swiftly walking up to the front to get one of those bulbs he then turned right around, eyes on the bulb firmly held in his hands. It looked very interesting, that‘s-

Ouch!

If it had been anyone else who‘d bump into him, Cameron would‘ve just shrugged it off. As it were though he didn‘t. „Hey!“ Not only had she bumped into him, Zita had ALSO made him drop the bulb. Ugh. Was she on a mission to annoy him death this term? Drawing his wand (at the bulb, not at her, OF COURSE), Cam went off to retrieve his bulb. Not before he sent a glare Zita‘s way though.
WAS HE PULLING HIS WAND AT HER????

She glared at him and pointed her wand at him, "What I said I was sorry." Her own bulb bouncing away, but then he went after his own bulb and she watched for a moment to make sure he wasn't going to try anything funny, honestly she wouldn't put it past him.

Once she realized he wouldn't she turned and pointed her wand towards her bulb, "Stupefy" hitting the bulb on the first try she marched over with some attitude and picked it up before moving back to her table. Eyes back on Cameron she kept her smirk on her face.

Now that she had the bulb stunned she peeled off the layer and started to chop it just as the professor had said.
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She glared at him and pointed her wand at him, "What I said I was sorry." Her own bulb bouncing away, but then he went after his own bulb and she watched for a moment to make sure he wasn't going to try anything funny, honestly she wouldn't put it past him.

Once she realized he wouldn't she turned and pointed her wand towards her bulb, "Stupefy" hitting the bulb on the first try she marched over with some attitude and picked it up before moving back to her table. Eyes back on Cameron she kept her smirk on her face.

Now that she had the bulb stunned she peeled off the layer and started to chop it just as the professor had said.
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Was SHE pointing his wand on him?! This had escalated quickly. “I don‘t need your apology.“ Now, could she get that wand out of his face? He doubted that she would win if it came to a duel but Cameron also didn‘t want to find out. Especially not in the middle of a lesson.

It seemed like she‘d come to the same conclusion however so Cameron, too, focused on retrieving his bulb with a simple, “Accio!“ There. He followed it up with a quick “Stupefy!“ so that he could actually work with the bulb. Okay. Now. Decidedly in a VERY could mood now he returned to his workstation and started peeling away at his bulb. Stupid Zita. Why was she everywhere he went? Also why couldn‘t she just let.it.go. This was just so pathetic.

Once the outside layer was gone, he picked up his silver knife and carefully started cutting the bulb, weighing the pieces occasionally until he had 100 grams.
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Uh….. Juni blinked at the professor. It wasn’t like she was trying to be a smarty pants about the pumpkin pie. She bit of her tongue because the last thing she needed was to get detention this early in the term. Imagine how her father would take it. Or her ever getting detention at all. she held onto her pumpkin as she headed to her seat. And what was up with the growling?

Anyway it was great that class had started. Good the sooner it started the faster it would be over. Juni blinked when Zita gave her a eyebrow wiggle. What in the name of Merlin was that for. It was just Slate. And why did she give him one of those little finger wiggle wave? She rolled her eyes. Going back to writing down her notes so that she could get started.

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Pompion Potion

Ingredients:
2 cups pumpkin innards, densely packed (sorted so no seeds)
3 flitterby moths
100g fresh bouncing bulb, stunned if necessary
4g fresh foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) flowers, petals only
10 fresh pumpkin seeds
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1.Use diffindo to cut open the pumpkin.
2. Using a metal spoon, scoop out the innards, pulling out the seeds and putting to one side.
3. Put two densely packed cups of pumpkin innards in the bottom your cauldron with a cup of water. Set over medium heat.


So the first thing she was going to need to get the pumpkin and cut it open. Sliding her pumpkin in front of her, she grabbed the metal spoon and sit it next to the pumpkin. ”Diffindo.” Cutting around the top of the pumpkin and popped out the top. Scooping out the innards of the pumpkin. Carefully picking out the seeds, making certain that every seed was gone. She sat the seeds aside. She looked over a Zita, who was busy working. With this pulpy mess she was surprised that her friend wasn’t trying to get a boy do this messy stuff for her.

”Good luck with that. Maybe you could ask. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.” Though Juni doubted it. Not with Professor Noble. He was consistently one of those professors who were uptight and had a wand stuck where the sun didn’t shine. Maybe that was the reason for all the growling. She herself could admit that her own dad as a professor was a bit more on the cheerier side. Strict but not completely unreasonable to deal with.
Doing a quick scourgify on her cauldron and the measuring cup one last time ensuring that both was clean. She measured out two cups of the pumpkin pulp packed it in really good. Adding it to the bottom of her cauldron. She cleaned the measuring cup out again before she added a cup of water, poured it into her cauldron. ”Incendio.” Pointing her wand at the burner and put it on medium heat.

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Pompion Potion

Ingredients:
2 cups pumpkin innards, densely packed (sorted so no seeds)
3 flitterby moths
100g fresh bouncing bulb, stunned if necessary
4g fresh foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) flowers, petals only
10 fresh pumpkin seeds

Instructions:
1.Use diffindo to cut open the pumpkin.
2. Using a metal spoon, scoop out the innards, pulling out the seeds and putting to one side.
3. Put two densely packed cups of pumpkin innards in the bottom your cauldron with a cup of water. Set over medium heat.
4. Place three dried flitterby moths in a mortar and with a pestle grind into a very fine powder. Do not add to cauldron
5. Peel the outer layer of a stunned bouncing bulb via a peeler then chop 100g worth of bulb (use scales to measure) using a silver knife. Proper knife technique is key. Do not add to cauldron.


Juni added the next instructions to her notes, then cleaned her mortar and Pestle cleaned it. Placing three of the dried flitterby moths into the mortar and started crushing them. At least with this potion you had something to do while you had to wait for things to simmer.

Crush… crush..crush. CRUSH you know since the professor had said that even if you thought that it was done them you should do it again. That was what she did.

Once the moths had been crushed into the fine powder she set those aside since those didn’t get added to the cauldron yet. With the moths set aside she slowly got up, because she did not want have to get up, and go stun a bulb at the moment.

Clearly she was just going to take her time here. She got up to the front and stood back watching things unfold in front of her. Though she did see Farah and walk up next to her. ”Hi Farah. You like purple too.” She beamed at the Hufflepuff girl. See there was a reason why she liked this girl. Now to get her own bouncing bulb. ”Stupefy!” She grabbed up the stunned bulb and headed up to her seat. Yep she wasn’t sticking about up here longer than she had too.

She sat back down and peeled the outer layer off. Then she put it on the table and started chopping. Carefully, the way that they had been instructed. Once that chopped up she set that to the side with the crushed moths. Okay she was done, let move on.
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Well, if it looked about right to Finn, who was now in his fifth year of Potions, Hanna decided it was right. She kept the heat at the level it was, and waited until it was time to move on. Which, it was now, apparently.

Hanna simultaneously watched Professor Noble up the front, and copied Finn, starting to write more on her parchment. She tried to pick up on everything he was saying, so as not to miss anything. She envisioned a folder with all of these notes in order of when they were brewed. Or perhaps alphabetically, she hadn't decided.

Hanna peeked over the top of her cauldron, and saw that nothing had happened yet. Not a bubble in sight. But Professor Noble did mention waiting for it to simmer, and of course things heated over a flame weren't instantly simmering. She sat back down just as Finn asked about moths. "Uh..." she looked through her potions ingredients and found them. "Yes, here." She REALLY appreciated him helping her. She pulled close her own mortar, BRAND NEW, never used before! And put three of the moths in it. She jumped a little as the Professor's pestle made the first bang in the mortar. By his words, this step wasn't going to be as easy as scooping out pumpkin guts. She added her pestle to the mortar, with more care than Professor Noble, and started to grind away at the moths. At first they seemed to SQUISH pretty quickly, but then the texture remained that way. Right, so she WAS going to have to put some muscle into it. Finn didn't seem to be having the best of times either. Standing up to put more weight onto the pestle, in hopes it would grind it into a nice fine powder, she said "D-does it usually... require this... much... work?" Getting a little breathless, because she didn't do muscle workouts, she stopped. But wasn't entirely happy with her powder. PLUS Professor Noble had said to pound it some more. Copying Finn, necessarily, she shook her own hand out. "Are you ambidexterous?" she asked. She wasn't, unfortunately. She went back using her sore hand.

After what felt like YEARS of grinding these moths, Hanna compared her powder to that which the Professor showed them, and Finn (such copying) and decided it was good.

Hanna had seen bouncing bulbs before, in her Gruncle's lab, but had never used one. They were all in jars and things, so she'd never SEEN one bounce. And, to prevent being in trouble, she wouldn't be tempting it today. Unless it just happened to occur. Hanna went off to the front to get TWO bouncing bulbs. "Here you go," she said, putting one in front of Finn, because he'd helped her SO much already. That was just a little thanks. But she wasn't about to attempt a stunning charm until she'd watched the fifth-year.

He would have laughed at her question, but he was feeling it, too. "Well.. yes. It really does." He grimaced apologetically. "Standing up should help, though." If only a little. "Nope, not ambidextrous. That would be nice for this, though." But finally her powder looked super fine and she was able to rest.

He hadn't noticed her slip away to the front; maybe he was too busy grinding or checking his flame. But next thing he knew, she was back: with two BOUNCING BULBS. And she hadn't Stunned them yet. "Merlin!" he yelped as one finally lurched. How she'd made it this far he couldn't guess, and he didn't have time for it. Grabbing his wand, he said, "Back up!" in a firm voice. He wanted to hit the bulbs, but not her if he could help it. "Stupefy," followed by a jet of red light. His first Stunner miraculously hit a bulb. But the other one took several shots - and misses - to settle down.

All calm once more at their station, he turned to her. "Right. Thanks for the bouncing bulb, but next time, try to make sure it's immobilized first, okay?" Finn tried to be gentle, but he was a flustered. Hopefully she wouldn't start crying.

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“You can also start chopping your bouncing bulb. These are fresh and not part of your standard kit, so please fetch one from the front.” He gestured to the lidded crate on the desk. “A bouncing bulb does just as its name suggests...bounces. Please do not start to prepare it until you have stunned it!” He did NOT want to have to be sending people to the Healer. “So first, a Stupefy,” which he demonstrated, “and then we’re going to peel off that outer purple layer and chop it finely with a silver knife.” Again, he did this using a peeler from his potions kit, before placing the bulb on his chopping board. “Good chopping is all about technique. Curl your fingers under and into a claw like this, and use your knuckles as a guide for the side of the knife. Push down smoothly with the blade for a safe clean cut.”

He really hoped they were paying attention. Some of their cutting skills had been woefully poor in previous lessons. His cat could probably do it better, honestly.

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ooc note: I'm loving all of your responses so far! <3 This is just a preparation step, no need to add anything to the cauldron. If you missed the last step, you're welcome to either a) proceed as if you were here and had completed it, or b) catch up. Please keep any catching up to a single post if possible so as not to confuse the general order of things.

Right. His flame looked good and the pumpkin-water mixture was definitely warming up, so he moved onto the bouncing bulb, courtesy of Hanna. Finnlay had to rummage a bit to find his peeler, but once he located it, he began to methodically remove the purple outer layer. Finished, he brushed the peels aside and grabbed his knife. What had Noble said? "Curl the fingers, rest the knife against your knuckles.." he said, half to himself and half to Hanna. His mother had taught him how to chop onions in the kitchen, and how different could this really be?

"The motion of the ocean," he whispered, performing a circular motion with his forearm and wrist to get his first slice. Several repetitions had the bulb in slices. "Turn them sideways.." Back to rocking with the waves. Soon enough he had nice, even cuts. He scraped enough from his board onto the scales until he reached the desired 100 grams. "Do NOT add the ingredients yet, Finn," he reminded himself.
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Was she thankful that Noble was talking them through the steps so it was easier for Abey to follow? Yes. Was she still taking thorough notes? Yes. Would she continue working through the steps slowly in case her cousin needed help? Yes. She had a plan and she was sticking to it. She did chance a glance over at Sam to see how he was doing as a reward for all her hard work. He was very handsome, her boyfriend was. She allowed herself a moment of appreciating his face before she finished adding the newest steps to her notes and turning her attention to her instruments. Those would need cleaning before anything else.

Dried moths made Junia a bit sad. Something about a flying creature ending up so still and lifeless didn't sit well with her and she hastily added three to her mortar and began grinding them down so that before she knew it, they no longer looked like moths at all. It was easier to handle the task that way. She kept at it until her hand hurt, making sure the powder was up to par, and then set the pestle down and clenched and unclenched her hand, trying to get it to feel less cramped.

After cleaning off her hands and making some space for her cutting board, knife, peeler, and scales, the sixth year got up to grab herself a bouncing bulb. Had Professor Myers provided these, she wondered? The bouncing bulb moved in her grasp and she decided that yes, he must have, as she returned to her seat. Offering Abey a smile, she set it down and trained her wand on it. "Stupefy!" She quite liked that spell and it had done the trick, the bouncing bulb having gone motionless, seemingly surrendering to its fate.

The peeling and cutting took more time than expected, but Junia was a perfectionist and she followed the professor's instructors carefully, using the tips he'd given them for chopping. There was also the fact that she was taking time to check on her cousin every now and then to see how he was progressing. Finally she finished and went about weighing the bulb, and then her job was done for the moment. If anyone needed her assistance, now was the time to ask.
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While he had been, you know, lowkey panicking about literally everything in the world, Abra maaaaaaaaay have let his gaze wander across the room towards a certain someone and maaaaaaaaaaaaay have caught Derf's eye and maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay have mentally flailed a little more and then quickly looked away again so that he didn't get ~emotional~, only to see Zoryn giving him the classic double-thumbs-up which... actually, no, that did sort of make him smile for a moment. He'd also caught Bel's look too, and met it with a nod and slightly more of a strained smile, which was as good as he could manage given his head was already in a bit of a spin and had sort of been since the moment he'd entered the room, pewter cauldron notwithstanding.

As for the actual potion brewing, luckily Junia was there to save the day ONCE AGAIN. Honestly, not all heroes wore capes. Some wore Slytherin robes and had grown up wanting to be princesses.

Right. Metal spoon. Yes. Spoon, then cups. That was the order. Abra took the metal spoon out of his own potion kit, but, unlike Junia, he didn't stop to clean it first. Initially it was just an oversight, but as soon as he stuck the spoon into the pumpkin innards, he realised what he'd done. Anyone would be forgiven for thinking that this would make him redouble his panicking efforts but, even though he knew it was sort of a mistake, Abra reasoned to himself that... well... it did speed up the process a little bit. For someone who struggled with timings and was already starting to lag behind, in a way that actually worked in his favour actually. Just, maybe not in the potion's favour, but he didn't exactly have high hopes for it succeeding in the first place.

Trying to work as quickly as he could, but also sort of already dithering between the 'try as hard as possible so I maybe won't screw up and get yelled at' and the 'don't try very hard so that way when I inevitably do mess it up it doesn't matter quite so much because it's not like actual failing' options, Abra scooped out the innards of the pumpkin. It was actually a lot trickier than he expected it to be, especially as the lid he'd cut off was a little too small to really get some good spoon manoeuvring in there, but he did it, and listened to Junia as he did so.

Okay, now, SEE? Already Abra could see another point where he'd have gone wrong if left to his own devices.

"I didn't even remember we were meant to take the seeds out," he muttered to Junia, keeping his eye on Noble and his voice low and also switching to Arabic for added security. Last thing he wanted was for the professor to overhear him admitting to that. Or... actually, that went for everyone else, too. But Abra knew about the seeds now, so he knew to make sure he kept them separate. Still glancing at Junia pretty frequently to keep up with what she was going, he, too, found a cup in his potions kit and - this time consciously skipping the cleaning part - used it to add two measures (uhhh... more or less... he was in a hurry) of hopefully seedless pumpkin guts to his cauldron.

"Incendio." Pointing his wand at the fire pit beneath his cauldron, Abra lit the flame there and set it tooooooo...... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........... tooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

He snuck a peak at Junia's set-up again.

And squinted.

And squinted more.

... low? Medium? It was... hard to tell, so he settled for somewhere between the two.

At one point, Abra had definitely caught something Noble had said about adding the water to the potion now. As for how much or any specifics, he didn't have the remotest idea. Because of this, for the first time that lesson, Abra leaned across to try and get a look at Junia's notes. He had to squint quite a lot and also lean in towards the parchment to even get a good look at the words, and that was not to mention having to deal with deciphering the mixed up letters when he could actually see them. Eventually he made out the words 'cup of water', and quickly set about filling up the same cup he'd been using, this time with water using 'Aguamenti', before he added that to the cauldron as well.

Then... Merlin, what? What now? Where was he? Moths? Moths.

Uh... Moths? Abra rifled through his potions kit, trying to find the right vial but also trying not to look too much like he was struggling because he already felt pretty useless in this class as it was. The more he struggled and relied on Junia's help (which, okay, maybe he did need to do that) the more he started to convince himself that Noble was watching him and judging him and thinking (knowing) he was as useless as he looked. Abra did look up at one point, catching Junia's smile and returning it with one of his own...

... before noticing she already had a Bouncing Bulb in her hand, like so many other students around them. That was enough to kick him into a higher gear, and Abra tried to hurry his search for the moths, though then the more he rushed, the harder it was to take the time to decipher the labels. They were in here, he just needed to find them.
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It was nice to work with a fresh bouncing bulb, in spite of the fact that it... well... bounced. Katy let her bulb escape a few times, mentally measuring its height and vigor as a means to gauge just how fresh it was. Picked today, perhaps. Very fresh.

"Stupefy," she stopped the bulb on a downward track, right near the desktop. Best if it didn't just fall and potentially get bruised. Little things like that made a difference. Katy squared the bulb on the desk in front of her and took her knife to it. A nick to begin peeling back the papery thin skin, which she creased carefully before tucking into her bag. Dried and crumbled bouncing bulb skin was a good ingredient.

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"Accio," she muttered at one of the bulbs, but she must have said the spell wrong, because the bulb came zooming at her and exploded in her face.

Were people staring? "I'm fine," she called, hoping someone would notice and come help her, or at least show her the right way to do the spell.
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