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Having lost his morning break to disciplinary matters, Professor Noble had brought a large cup of coffee with him into the classroom. He needed caffeine most mornings, but something told him that he’d require it even more today. Hopefully he wouldn’t regret opting for a more, er, relaxed style of class. He sipped the black nectar as he waited for the students, occasionally glancing over at the large cauldron steaming on the burner at the front of class - the burner where he'd usually be demonstrating alongside them. Those close enough to peep inside would see the potion was a bright shimmering red; those further back might have instead noticed that the side benches were unusually full today. Where they usually hosted extra equipment or ingredients, today they were laden with several large catering-style trays covered in a cloth.

Picking up a piece of chalk, Noble headed to the blackboard and started to write the overarching theme for their next few lessons, Bewitching the senses, underlining it with a flourish.

Do come in students, and get settled quickly. Who knows what temperament the less-than-ideally caffeinated Potions Professor might have?

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Greetings and first question
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Experiment time! - Try a miracle berry and taste what happens...
Now on to the magical version - the taste-perception altering potion
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Why... on earth... would Ronan throw food at THE MOST STRICT professor at Hogwarts? Merlin, that boy was proving more and more that he was an idiot. Did he want the whole world to know?

Natalie sighed and then focused on her own task at hand. She got up and went up to the front to grab a miracle berry. Then she went over to the food table and surveyed her options. Honestly? She was skeptical. She didn't want to eat horseradish in case the berry DIDN'T work and then she just ate horseradish for no reason. So she was going to play it safe and stick with a lemon and dark chocolate.

Returning to her seat, Natalie popped the berry into her mouth. Lemons and dark chocolate were something she had obviously eaten before, so she didn't feel the need to try them before eating the berry. Once the berry was eaten, Natalie picked up the slice of lemon. Still skeptical, she lifted the wedge and licked it tentatively.

Oooooh...

Natalie licked the lemon again, and to her surprise... it tasted like CANDY. It was sweet and not sour at all and before anyone knew it, she was eating the citrus right off of the peel. YUM-OH.
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She might have sensed the surprise by her knowledge but really he shouldn't have been all too surprised considering she did take the Latin extracurricular. With him, too. So no, no avid herbologist for this one, just knowledge of Latin.

Wait. For the rest of class. So they weren't brewing today, but just eating?? Somehow Skylar was skeptical, because the last time there was eating in potions class, wasn't a batch poisoned or something of the sort? It was a few years ago and details were hazy and ...... uh, did Ronan Carter just .....?? Sure he was stressed and salty, but did he not realize there were better ways to channel aggression than targeting a Professor? Did he learn nothing from dodgeball with Stewart last year?? Although instead of feeling sorry for her fellow sixth year, she actually felt GUILTY that she thought to set Kye up with him. Kye was much better than him; way too good for him. And there were better guys in their year, as if evidenced right here by this display.

Nice little spread he had there for them and yes she knew lunch was soon, but she wouldn't get filled up. Selecting a few grapes, two pickles, she sprinkled some hot sauce on her two pickles, some dark chocolate. And back to her workstation to try it out.

So pickle with hot sauce first, just to get an idea of the flavor, she took a bite. Hot, yes.. Some dark chocolate, which was bitter. Grapes, were .... sweet already?

Now was it time to try the miracle berry and then the food again? Or ... ?
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Daisy glared at Ronan as Professor Noble kicked him out of the classroom. As she headed back to her desk with her miracle berry and some lemons, pickles, applesauce and grapes she caught Emmalyn's eye and whispered, "You okay?"

Daisy decided to try the foods without the berry first in order to work out their different flavours. First, she tried a tiny nibble of the lemon and pickles and she coughed due to their sourness. Next were the grapes which to her had a taste that wasn't sweet but wasn't sour either. Finally, she had some applesauce which was the sweetest of her foods.

Now onto the berry which she popped into her mouth and bit into the pickle. This time Daisy didn't cough and there was an amazing sweetness to the food, almost like candy. She next tried a slice of lemon which had the taste of lemonade. The final two foods had increased sweetness as well.
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No, he wasn't an idiot. That would mean that he had no clue what he was doing and he knew exactly he was doing. It was just that his temper tended to rise faster than his brain could catch up. And honestly, if the professor wanted to dole out punishment for something that he himself doled out on the daily, Ronan wasn't sure he wanted to continue on in his class anyway. Yes, he did need Potions if he wanted to be an Auror, but it wasn't like self-teaching and tutors weren't a thing.

"Gladly!" He wordlessly made his books pack themselves with a flourish of his wand, picked his bag up and walked out the door, closing it with a slam behind him. Gah, other people suck!
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The nod from Professor Noble as little as it was, did not go unnoticed. Rylee gave the man a warm smile, happy to see that he wasn't going to tell them that they couldn't work together on this.

"That's what friends do," she replied softly giving Emmalyn a gentle nudge with her shoulder. Friends were always supposed to be there for one another. "There's nothing wrong with that. Everyone has feelings and it's best to let them show rather than hold it all in. Me... I like to smile. My mummy said I was born smiling." So you better believe that the very next thing she did was give Emma a bright smile.

"Yeah, that's going to be. I wonder if we'll react the same way to the same foods." Like the lemons. Those were going to be sour. Rylee saw what Ronan had done too and sighed softly shaking her head whispering in reply, "He's sure to be in even bigger trouble now..." Losing points was one thing but actually throwing something in the professors direction was just silly. She was surprised the older lion on got thrown out of class.

"Good idea." They could work their way through the flavors. Rylee picked up a bit of lemon, chocolate and a few other options as well as the miracle berry. Waiting for Emmalyn to gather up her foods she made her way back to Emmalyn's desk she paused at her own and grabbed her things. She might want to take notes. Sitting down at her new seat she laid the foods on the desk. "Ready?" She smiled picking up the slice of lemon and taking a good bite, her face scrunching up at the sour taste of it. Rylee giggled. "Definitely really sour but I like sour foods. Now with the berry, right?"

She popped one of the little red berries into her mouth. Once she had eaten it she took another bite of the lemon. "Mmm..Emmalyn, you've got to try it like this. It tastes so yummy!" The sweetness that the berry changes the flavor of the lemon to was amazing!
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Kye watched the slight madness unfurl, and wondered if she should perhaps forget about the parchment that was currently in her bag... Maybe she would be rethinking that after all. Kye had to wonder if any of this had to do with Valentine's Day... It didn't have to be as awkward as it had been made out to be honestly. And why didn't he just ask someone he liked instead of the open invitation?! Of course, that was 'old news' now, but it was still bothersome. Kye watched as Ronan left the room, and decided she needs to get back to her experiment.

Okay she had tried the chocolate alone, and wondered if she was supposed to try all of the food before using the berry or if she should do one at a time. It seemed more reasonable to try the food as it first, she was afraid that the berry would last longer than just a bite. She decided to eat the things she recognized... a grape, the very slightly sour taste gushed after the first bite... a pickle, the sour making her mouth water immediately... Next a small bite of lemon which would probably have tasted even more sour if she hadn't just had a bunch of other things. Nevertheless, her nose had that tingling feeling, and she was ready for a bit of sweet now.

"Sir? Is it alright to drink water between tastings?" Kye inquired, as her nose finally stopped hurting. She would really like to swish some around to cleanse her palate. She dared not without his permission today, in case it messed up the experiment somehow.
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Eager to start taste testing, she watched Rylee fill her plate, and she filled her plate with the same items. It would be easier to compare reactions if they sampled the exact same foods. As she turned to walk back to her table, she heard the door slam shut, once again causing her to jump. She had been quite on edge all morning. “I’m going to need a long nap after this class” She said with a giggle.

After putting her plate on the table, she took a big bite of lemon. Her mouth puckered and she could feel the sour pull at her jaw. “Those are sour lemons.” She agreed with Rylee. Both of their faces scrunched and puckered. “I’m ready for the berry too.” After tasting the lemon again with the berry, it was much more pleasant. “Reminds me of lemon pie!” She loved lemon pie. It still seemed strange that a berry could change the flavour of the lemon so much.

Next was the chocolate and took a bite. The sweet coco goodness spread throughout her mouth and she almost didn’t want to swallow. Chocolate was her favourite. “I wonder what the berry will do to this?” She asked as she tried it again. “Hmm, I can’t really taste a big difference. Not like the lemon. That was night and day different.” She jotted down some notes. “What do you think?”
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Noble strolled around the room as they worked, pointedly starting with those trying to hide in the back row. Max’s exclamation got a smirk, as did Natalie’s enthusiasm for the lemon on the second try. He couldn’t remember either of them being quite so…involved before. Skylar got a puzzled look though, since despite the amount of food she’d collected, she seemed to hesitate before trying the berry. “The point of the exercise is to actually eat the berry, Skylar,” he barked. “Then try the foods again.” Everyone else had seemed to get it, including Daisy who had opted for a decent variety of foods too. He gave her a nod as he went past. “Make sure to write down your observations.”

Noble barely flinched at the slamming of the door, choosing not to acknowledge the Gryffindor’s overly dramatic exit. Instead, he crossed the room to Valkyrie. “Yes, you can have water if you’d like. I’ve also got some cucumber water to cleanse the palate for the next experiment if you’d prefer.” And it looked like Emmalyn had settled back into things with the help of Rylee. Good good.

He gave them a few more minutes, before clapping his hands together to get their attention and move onto the actual potions part of class. So far they’d only got a simple culinary lesson. Interesting, but hardly his purpose as a potions professor. “You should all have a feel for the miracle berry, and how it can fool the brain.” Bewitching the senses didn’t need to be dark or difficult. He stirred the cauldron at the front of the class a few times, before holding up some of the bright red liquid in a ladle so even those at the back could see it. “This is a taste-perception altering potion. The recipe is on page 63 of your textbook.” They wouldn’t be brewing it today, although if they wanted to try there was always the potions lab. “You’ll note it’s a similar colour to the miracle berry, but rather than just making sour foods taste sweet, it can be used to manipulate any of your taste sensors.”

Putting the ladle down, he picked up the chalk and made his way to the blackboard. “It requires an incantation to work. Gustum,” which he wrote on the board, “and then two tastes – what you want to change, followed by what you want it to change into. The tastes are given in Latin, except for umami, for which no translation exists.” A historical quirk, rather than anything else. He wrote the words and definitions as he spoke them aloud:Dulcis – sweet; Acerbus – bitter; Acidulus – sour; Salsus – salty; and of course, umami. The wand movement is a simple clockwise circle over the top of the container of potion.” He ladled a sample of the potion into a beaker. "Gustum acidulus dulcis. " he said clearly, circling his wand over the top to demonstrate to the class. “This sample should now function just like the miracle berry, and once consumed the effects will last about half an hour unless cleansed away.”

So, onto their task. “Over the next…” he glanced up at the clock, “25 or so minutes, I want you to experiment with the effects of the taste-perception potion. Come and get some potion from the front, and then use the incantation to specify how it should effect your tastebuds. You can try multiple combinations, but you will need to use fresh potion each time; once you’ve set the taste-altering profile, it is changed for good. Use the beakers in the cupboard to make your samples.” Was there anything else they needed to know? “You can use any of the foods on the side to taste, and there’s cucumber water to cleanse and reset the palate so you can try the different options without needing to wait for the effects to wear off.”

"Chop chop!"



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Daisy fetched some parchment and her quill so she could write down her findings as well as some water to cleanse her palate. After having a goblet of water, Daisy wrote down her notes.

SPOILER!!: Potions: Miracle Berry Findings


Before trying the berry.

Lemon = Sour
Pickle = Sour
Grape = Bitter/Sweet
Applesauce = Sweet

After trying the berry

Lemon = Sweet like lemonade
Pickle = Candy-like sweetness
Grapes = Increased sweetness
Applesauce = Increased sweetness


Daisy watched as Professor Noble wrote on the blackboard. She grabbed two beakers from the cupboard and some potion from the front. She then prepared her ladle and beakers via a non-verbal cleaning charm. Daisy ladled some potion in a beaker and moved her wand in a clockwise circle as she said, "Gustum dulcis acidulus." This girl was going to be daring. She drank from the beaker and had a spoonful of applesauce. It was incredibly sour and Daisy quickly drank some cucumber water. She ladled some potion in a new beaker and repeated the wand movement but this time the incantation was "Gustum acidulus salsus." After drinking that beaker of altered potion, Daisy tried a tiny bit of lemon and noticed that it tasted like that flavoured salt that her mother and father liked on their grilled fish which she had tried herself last year. Daisy had a small mouthful of water.

SPOILER!!: Potions Notes


Sweet to Sour = Horrible idea.
Sour to Salty = Not bad. Reminds me of home


Daisy wrote down her findings, not wanting to have any more food. She was getting full. She then cleaned her ladle. Since there was no potion left in the beakers, Daisy cleaned the beakers as well along with her goblet.
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Rylee giggled when Emmalyn said she was going to need a nap after all this. "I think I'm going to take Neptune outside for some fresh air. You can come along with us, if you want." The more the merrier.

Seeing her friends lips pucker and the face that she made while eating the lemon made her giggle. "Uh-huh!" It was funny to see that they both had the same reaction to it. Now for the chocolate. Rylee took a bite and chewed just a little allowing the rest to melt on her tongue. It was a little bitter, not as nice as regular milk chocolate but it was good anyhow. After eating another one of the berries she took another bite of her chocolate. "I'm not sure really... it tastes kind of the same? Maybe a bit more sweeter but not to much."

Between taking turns tasting their food items, Ry took down notes on what had occurred. Especially their reactions that were the most funny.

Time was up however and the lesson moved on. A potion that could make food taste however they wanted? That was super cool! The ginger cast a quick look at her friend. "This sounds like fun... should we get five little beakers full each? So we can really try each one?" While she was speaking she was making sure to take down notes on each incantation and what effect it would have on the potion.

Getting to her feet she made her way to the cupboards to get the beakers and then to the front of the room. Carefully she ladled the potion into the beakers and brought them back to her desk. "Which should we start with?" Would they both have the same reactions again?
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So this was a potions lesson where there wouldn't actually be a potion to concoct? Hallelujah! And they got to eat!? He'd slept in late and had to skip breakfast so this actually worked out kind of great. What could possibly go wrong!?

When he was finished scribbling down all the Latin for the different tastes, Max approached the front of the classroom, an uncommon bounce in his step.

He helped himself to a beaker of potion and then moved to check out all foods Professor Noble had provided. Oh, the decisions.

He chose the honey because that was super sweet and if the potion managed to deceive his taste buds... Well, then he'd be impressed.

Back at his desk, Max drew his wand and motioned it in the clockwise manner the Professor had demonstrated. He wanted sweet to salty, so...

"Gustum Dulcis Salsus!"


Was the potion supposed to change? How did you know if it had worked?

He figured there was only one way to find out.

He took a sip of the potion and then dipped his pinky finger into the beaker of honey and brought it to his mouth. Salty honey whuuuut!!
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Beaming, after doing her notes, the blonde got up and went to collect her potion. She took a few beakers with her, so that she could set up a few different taste-altering potion samples. She levitated two of them beakers, and carried the other two over to her bench. She placed them down, and then began working on the first one. She was going to do this one sweet to sour. "Gustum Dulcius Acidulus" she said, whilst completing the wand movement over the beaker of potion.

When she had done that, she took a sip of the potion, making sure that she had had enough to make the potion work. Perfect. Now to see what happened. She ate a spoonful of honey, and pulled a face. Ooh. That was very sour, and very strange. She never though honey would taste like that. It was super weird. Deciding she wanted to try this a bit more, she picked up some dark chocolate, to see how that would work. It wasn't as sour, but she wondered if that was because it was more of a bitter taste. Hmm. Interesting.
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Giggling right along with her friend, Emmalyn took notes in her notebook so she would remember what happened with each food and the miracle berry. "I'd love to join you and Neptune outside." When Professor Noble announced the next step, she jotted down the instructions.

After listening to Rylee, she nodded in agreement. "Yes, five beakers full so we can sample each one. I'll help you get them" she said as she followed her to the front and help to carefully carry the potion back to their table.

"I think we should start with the sour first. That was the biggest difference with the miracle berry, so we could more easily compare the difference between potion and berry." She pulled out her wand and paused. "I think you are better at spells than I am, so why don't you do the spells on three of the beakers, and I'll try two. I can do sour, since we'll have a better idea if I did it correctly, and sweet."

Aiming her wand at the first beaker, she moved her wand in a clockwise motion and said "Gustum acidulus dulcis" She then moved to the next beaker and said "Gustum acidulus dulcis." There, that would take care of sour to sweet and sweet to sour. "I'll grab a couple of glasses of cucumber water too." She scampered over to collect the palate cleansing drink and took it back to the table.

She started sampling the foods with the different potions and writing down her findings on her notes. It was very strange to be eating something sour that should taste sweet. Much more confusing in her mind that sour made sweet.
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Well, it seemed like things were going surprisingly swimmingly. No one had yet too many grotesque noises of disgust, or worse, vomited, nor had anyone kicked up a fuss about trying the different foods. It was a change of pace indeed, and not quite as terrible as he’d feared.

From the look on Daisy’s face and quick glug of cucumber water, she’d just concocted some particularly sour…was that applesauce? Interesting decision. Meanwhile, Rylee and Emmalyn seemed to be going for a whole bunch of flavour changes. Although, if they were seriously about trying all the options, they’d seriously underestimated the number of beakers. “You’ll need 20, if you want to do them all,” he commented brusquely as he went past. “Order matters in these pairs.” Since they needed to consider acid to sweet AND sweet to acid.

Moving on, and Maxton’s face of confusion was fantastic. “Salty honey, was that?” Not something Noble fancied, that was for sure. But if it convinced the boy a little more of the power of potions, and why he should pay more attention and not just skulk at the back, that would be a result indeed. And Hattie had gone for the opposite of the miracle berry. “How’s the chocolate?” he asked curiously. Since it wasn’t particularly sweet to begin with, he half wondered if it make the bitter notes just that little more pronounced, or whether it’d become overpowered.

Returning to the front of the class, Noble clapped his hands together and raised his voice over the general hubbub of the classroom. “Okay, everyone, there’s five minutes left. Please leave your notes on your observations with me for marking and leave your workbench clean. If you would like to take some potion, you may come collect up to three vials." He was about to dismiss them, but the leftover food on the side caught his eye. "Feel free to take any of the food if you can't wait for lunch.” Less waste for him to dispose of if they took it…not that there seemed to be much other than the hot sauce and horseradish.

"Once you're all packed up, you're dismissed."




ooc: That's a wrap on Potions Lesson 2! Thank you all for coming. I'll leave this thread open for another 24 hours or so for anyone who wants to finish up.
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They were running out of time. Emmalyn stared at the beakers when Professor Noble said they had the wrong amount to try them all. It took her a moment to realize how he got to 20. “Oh, we just got enough to change one of each. I get it now. Thank you, sir.” She said with a smile. Maybe he wasn’t so bad. She still work herself up into a nervous mess before their next class, but she’d at least not leave the class with knots in her stomach.

She finished up her samples, jotting down all of her findings as she went, before starting to clean up her area. She turned to Rylee “Thanks for working with me. It was a lot of fun.” She finished cleaning up the last bits from the table and took her notes to the proper place. Just before leaving, she decided to fill up one vial to experiment with during lunch time. “Have a great day, Professor Noble.” She gave the man a grin and headed out the door.
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"Thank you, Sir." Kye had to admit... she was quite grateful for the cucumber water. Obviously he would think of that, but their observations would be skewed depending on what they ate in what order. Although that could be a different experiment altogether. After writing her initial observations, Kye went and got herself a full cup of the cucumber water. She sipped a little of it, to get the sour taste out of her mouth before beginning the actual lesson. Swish swish here, swish swish there. Now it was time to try with the berry! She felt a little apprehensive, but hey, maybe this would help her eat healthy food more? Was there a side effect to eating too many of these berries? Hmmm… she would try to remember to ask the professor once she had finished her observations.

SPOILER!!: Kye’s Notes

Chocolate: Sweet of course, slight bitterness. After-> Definitely much sweeter. Almost too sweet?
Grape: Slightly sour.After-> Neutral, hint of sweet. Almost too weird to eat anymore in this fashion.
Pickle: Sour. After->Very sweet? Again, too weird when you have an expected taste.
Lemon: Really sour. After-> About as sweet as the pickle. Perhaps there is a limit to how sweet these can get?

Gustum Dulcis/Acerbus/Acidulus/Salsus Sweet/Bitter/Sour/Salty

Okay, she had done her experimenting. Perhaps next time they could use a blindfold? That way she didn’t have set expectations. With her notes so far complete, she helped herself to the beakers and red liquid. “Gustum Dulcis” she said over one, changing the taste of the horse radish… hopefully. Oh man this was a tricky class! It could come in handy sometime though... Would they learn to brew this potion sometime soon? As the class ended, Kye helped herself to more cucumber water before packing up.
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