Wait, wasn't this a POTIONS lesson? And a FLYING lesson? So why were they learning about all this healing stuff?

Granted, it made sense with the flying stuff - you could get hurt flying - and she supposed you could get burned if you weren't careful in potions. Still, when were they going to get to the FUN stuff? Learning how to wrap her wrist in a very unfashionable brown bandage wasn't FUN at all.

Still, she took the roll of ACE bandage and decided to go with her ankle instead of her original thought of the wrist. She sat down and propped up her ankle, taking the bandage and starting to wrap it. One of the benefits of having a brother who was in Healing school was that a LOT of this stuff was sort of familiar to her already. She used her finger to help make sure she didn't make the bandage too tight, using it as a buffer of sorts as she wrapped the bandage around her ankle and finger. Once she'd secured it, she took her finger out, smiling as she saw she was successful. It wasn't too tight, but enough that she could feel it compressing the joint.

Now on to the spell. She took her wand and pointed it at her ankle. "Glacius!" she exclaimed. And...nothing. OR...maybe that was a little breeze of cold air? Ugh. "Glacius!" she exclaimed again. Still nothing. What the HECK?

Chloe's brow dipped a little at the Professor's words. He was saying that her mother's willow bark tea wasn't as potent and all powerful as Chloe knew it to be? How could he know that without trying it? Didn't he know about the powerful ingredient called 'my mother made this'? And surely he knew that willow bark was a natural source of acetylsalicylic acid? Also known as... aspirin.

She sighed as her distraction caused her to miss the first part of the instructions and any chance to find a partner. Not that she could, since she felt a bit like a leper lately. Better just to practice on herself and nurse the pouty feelings away so she could jump into the next part of the lesson with a better attitude.

Chloe seated herself carefully, legs curled beneath her and bandage roll in hand. It was probably super hard to wrap an injured arm herself with only one hand, so she focused on her knee, tucked politely beneath her uniform skirt. "There's a spell for this," she whispered, a bit emphatic but only taking it out on herself as she pulled the bandage too tight and immediately had to go back and loosen it.

Get a grip, sulky sixth year, and stop messing around.

With a smile, the sixth year sat down on the ground with the other girl. ”The bandages aren’t bad and either is the spell.” It was actually pretty easy. Once you got the hang of it. ”I’m thinking about studying to be a healer. Maybe this will be good practice for that.” She was still considering the whole healer thing. Maybe this would give her a idea of what to expect.

”It’s nice to meet you. Sure. I’ll go first that way you can get an idea of things and I can show you the glacius spell.” Did she need to learn it? She would show her either way. Taking the bandage she rolled it back up and started from the beginning. She rolled the bandage around the younger girls knee.

Checking to make sure the bandage was on tight but not too tight. After securing the bandage she took her wand, and pointed it at the bandage. ”All you have to do is point your wand at the aera you want to freeze then say, glacius.” She Paused before pointing her wand at the bandage again. ”Now this will probably be pretty cold. Glacius.” How was that?

Oh would you look at that, the quiet prefect got it right.

"Awesome," Zac commented as he approached his housemate. "Looks like we got the first part right," he said, before holding out the bandages.

Onto the next part of R.I.C.E.

"Lets pretend you fell off your broom and hurt your leg, yeah?" he added before unceremoniously going down on one knee.

Looking up at the boy, he grinned, "may I?"

Ooh, they had to choose partners. Benji decided it wasn't worth the risk to ask. He would just assume he and Penny were partners. If he did it fast enough, nobody else would try to claim her. They were sitting next to each other anyway. It was only logical, right? BAM. Problem solver!

(An imagined problem, but still. Anyone with half a brain knew that Penny probably wanted to be his partner anyway, but our sweet boy just doesn't get it yet. He'll have a lightbulb moment eventually... We hope.)

Turning to her, he smiled his most winning smile and said, "Do you want to go first, or do you want me to?" ...Theeeeen he lost his nerve: "If you want to be my partner, that is. You're not, like... obligated to or anything." He fell into the old habit of rubbing the back of his neck when he got nervous. What if she told him to get lost?! He really hoped she wouldn't. WHY HADN'T HE JUST GONE WITH HIS ORIGINAL PLAN OF ASSUMING?! Now he had to wait for an answer, and he was going to FREAK OUT if she didn't say they could be partners soon. He really didn't want to have to look for a different partner if she said no... But more than that, he really didn't want to be partners with anybody but her.

Then he had the sudden realization that this activity would likely involve touching, and he remembered that the few times he and Penny had touched (like when she'd nudged him with her shoulder on the first day they'd met), he felt all tingly and couldn't concentrate. Upon remembering that, his cheeks began to color slightly, and he maaaaay have secretly chanted Please don't be able to read minds in his head a few times. How embarrassing.

"Oh yes! For sure!" Hanna thought that was perfect. They could get food and practice their experiment.

"Ouch," Hanna said as she continued her healing duties. "Good thing you weren't too far from the ground. The head isn't really a limb so... that would be tricky to RICE up." Although she knew there were things to do for concussions, she wasn't entirely sure what. "It wouldn't be so good if you'd broken your hand and I was handling it." How would they know? Surely if there was a shard of bone splitting through the skin, or a lump, but... just a little break.

"Good!" She hadn't cut all the circulation off in Maddie's hand. She nodded, "Hmm well we could elevate once you treat my injury!" Hanna suggested. And speaking of... "Um... my right wrist too." Yup. Her writing hand. She was going to say her ankle but didn't really want to take off her shoe and sock for Maddie to touch. She held it out for Maddie to do her own healing work.

Oh hiiiiiii, Bel. Max was quick to return her wave with a little finger wiggle of his own. He watched for a moment as she bandaged up her wrist like a pro but his attention was soon back on Zac who was..... getting down on one knee?

"It would be an honour," he replied somewhat dryly, shifting a little so that Zac could get full leg access. He was positive there was an easier and less awkward way to do this, but okay.

"I didn't fall off my broom though. I was taking on a bunch of evil villains and got caught in the crossfire." This story was way better. "Obviously I still managed to take them all out though." Obviously.

As the older girl joined her on the ground she smiled. "I haven't given any thought to what I want to do after school," she said as the older girl started to wrap her knee. She watched and noted that she had been more off than she thought on how tight she was supposed to wrap the bandage. "I hope you get to do it though. Being a healer would be pretty cool."

She nodded her head in understanding, point her wand at the area and say glacius, it seemed simple but she was just a little shotty on her wand work. Sometimes even the simplest of spells she struggled with. All wrapped up Kaitlynn beamed and after the older girl cast the spell she could feel the cool air, but it wasn't too much of an uncomfortable cold. "Pretty good. I'd be in good standing, I think, if I got hurt and you helped me."

It was her turn now wasn't it...to wrap up a body part and use the spell. "Why don't I wrap your knee as well?" She grabbed the extra bandage that wasn't being used. "I think I know what to do now." She obviously hadn't accounted for the fact that it was stretchy. First though...the spell.

She pulled out her wand and pointed it at a grassy area away from the two of them. "Glacius." Nothing. Taking a deeeeeeep breath she tried again a little less uncertainty in her voice. "Glacius." And there it was the blue light at the tip of her wand and an icy patch on the ground. "Cool."

Oh hello Bel, he offered her a grin before turning back to Max.

He bowed his head at the older boy's response. It was only appropriate after all.

However, he couldn't help but snort at the description the boy painted. So he was kind of a nerd? It made sense. "So you are the hero in your story?" he asked, as he first applied some compression on his calf area before tightly wrapping the bandage around it. "How does that feel?"

The hero in his story? Well, he wasn’t much of a hero in real life, so.......

“I suppose so,” Max shrugged, not really paying much attention to what was going on with the leg bandaging. “But not your average run of the mill kind of hero.” He was scrawny and lacking in the muscles department so definitely not your stereotypical hero. In his story, he was the hero no-one suspected…. The quiet, unassuming sort.

He wasn’t gonna nerd out right now though. Back to the lesson.

“It feels --- ” Kind of tight actually. He gave his ‘injured’ leg a wiggle. Was it supposed to feel like the circulation had been cut off?? “ --- fine. It feels fine. Good job. Okay, my go. Roll up your sleeve and I’ll do your arm.”

No way was he getting down on one knee.

Wooooww, look at Tayoooo, getting the right answer. For wanting to be a nurse at Mungo's some day... Natalie didn't know very much. And suddenly she was swept with a great deal of worry that she had a LOT more to learn than she thought she did. Merlin, university was going to suck for her.

R.I.C.E. Right. This was important, so Natalie pulled out her notebook and began writing it down, followed by almost everything that the groundskeeper was saying (or as much as she could follow because he was talking a LOT.

Rest. Ice. Compression. Elevation. Got it. That made sense.

After listening and taking notes to complete the activity -- ugh, the activity. Group work would have PROBABLY worked best, but more and more Natalie was really beginning to dislike working with a partner, so she opted to work by herself. Besides, who knew? She may hurt herself in the future and may need to know how to repair herself.

Unfortunately, she didn't get to practice the rest part (but it would be amusing if her narcolepsy decided to take a turn at that precise moment, but it didn't), so Natalie focused on the I. Ice. But they didn't have ice, so they had to use a spell. A spell that they should NOT direct to the skin because they'd probs get frostbite.

Pretending her wrist was injured, Natalie brandished her wand to practice the icy charm. She cleared her throat. "Glacius," she said somewhat confidently, and a tiny blue buff came out from the tip of her wand.

... Not quite what she was looking for.

"Glacius!" she demanded with a much needier tone and, thankfully, a larger stream of light blue, and very cold air came out from her wand. Even with it inches away from her wrist, she could still feel how icy cold it was. Well, for a minute. A moment later, it was sputtering out little ice crystals as her concentration failed and then just... stopped. Well. She had it for a minute, so she would call it good.

Next was compression. Natalie went up to retrieve a bandage from up front and then returned to her little area, catching a glimpse of Zac and Max working together. What did Max just say about chasing villains..?? Being a hero? Natalie snorted out a laugh and quickly looked away, pretending that it wasn't her. Maybe they didn't hear her anyway. Regardless, she was amused.

With the bandage in her "good" hand, Natalie unrolled it and started wrapping it around her "bad" wrist, which was proving difficult to do since she could only use one hand. Bringing her wrist up to her mouth, Natalie held one end of the bandage in place with her teeth so she could wrap her wrist. That worked better. Then she tried to secure it the best she could.

There. She was bandaged. One step closer to Mungo's.

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"Oh yes! For sure!" Hanna thought that was perfect. They could get food and practice their experiment.

"Ouch," Hanna said as she continued her healing duties. "Good thing you weren't too far from the ground. The head isn't really a limb so... that would be tricky to RICE up." Although she knew there were things to do for concussions, she wasn't entirely sure what. "It wouldn't be so good if you'd broken your hand and I was handling it." How would they know? Surely if there was a shard of bone splitting through the skin, or a lump, but... just a little break.

"Good!" She hadn't cut all the circulation off in Maddie's hand. She nodded, "Hmm well we could elevate once you treat my injury!" Hanna suggested. And speaking of... "Um... my right wrist too." Yup. Her writing hand. She was going to say her ankle but didn't really want to take off her shoe and sock for Maddie to touch. She held it out for Maddie to do her own healing work.

So it was sorted then! Madison was so ready. "Great, because talking about food is making me hungry." Hopefully the lesson wouldn't be TOO much longer, even if learning about healing stuff was pretty interesting. Just because she didn't really know much about this kind of thing.

"Indeed. I'm not sure how to RICE up a head, though I suppose it would be possible." The professor surely would know what to do if there was ever a problem with that. "I don't even want to imagine breaking my hand." Shudder. "How did you manage to get your wrist injury?" Was Hanna as clumsy on a broom? Had something else happened?

Madison needed to get the bandage so she could get started. Not only would it make things easier when it came to the compression part, but the wrapper would encase the ice so that it wouldn't touch the skin directly. So once she made quick work of retrieving one, she set about getting it out of the packaging. It seemed simple enough to use, and she was sure that she would be able to get it on her friend's wrist okay. If not, it wasn't as if one of the professors couldn't tell her and inform as to how to do this properly.

"Right."' Madison cast Glacius to the ground in a new spot, figuring that this way at least the ice was sure to be at its coldest. Scooping some of the frozen grass and dirt in her hands, she set about shaping the ice so that it would fit into the wrapper perfectly. "You really had a genius idea with this." It made life a lot easier too. The improvised ice pack was held so that it would ice the injured wrist. "How is this? Is it too cold?" Hopefully not!

When it seemed that enough time had passed, Madison set about doing the next part of RICE: compression. The ice was removed, and she set about wrapping the bandage around the injury, trying her best not to make it too tight, but also not too loose. It was a little awkward to work with her own hand being wrapped up, but all in all she was sure that things were looking pretty good. She had managed to get a fair bit of the arm covered before finally clipping the bandage in place. "How is that? It's not too tight, is it?"

Okay maybe first years weren’t that snot-nosed after all. Zoryn quite liked this one. She was going to keep him. It has been decided.

Lil’Lukey was SO cute with that big smile on his face. She wasn’t even gonna tell him that she gave everyone a nickname ‘cause his smile was just WAY too big to wanna deflate. Plus, he was kind of making this whole dumb RICE thing kind of entertaining. As far as partners went, he wasn’t the worst one she had ever worked with. So there was that.

“You’re a nice nickname,” she countered, it didn’t make any sense but it was the sentiment that counted ok?

AND he was reacting to her story THE EXACT way he was supposed to. Though it was probably ‘cause she was SUCH a good actress. Duh. “Mhm, I’m kinda a big deal around here,” she nodded. “Everyone’s probably real jealous of you for getting to work with me.” That part was most likely true. She was basically the modern-day Madonna of Hogwarts so.

“Pretty much,” omg. What if Alice Odessa really DID owe her big time??? Maybe she could help her meet THE JUSTINE JANVIER. Could someone please find a way to put Alice Odessa in a life-threatening situation so that Zoryn could save her?? THIS WAS SO IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!! “I really am,” she played along.

Other things that were important? All the compliments she was receiving from Lukey. Even if it was all for her make believe story. She still liked them.

“Looks as good as new, Doctor Lucas!” she sent a smile his way before taking out her wand. “Glacius,” she pointed over top the bandage for a split second just to produce some icy-ness. Didn’t want to freeze herself before they actually got to the flying part of the lesson. THEY WERE STILL GONNA FLY, RIGHT????????

“You should give it a try! This patch of grass is callin’ your name, Lukey!” she pointed at a spot directly in front of them.

It was amusing to hear him, but Zac kept his expression neutral - and simply nodded along. "then what kind?" he asked, standing up and being quiet satisfied with his work.

He also didn't miss the look Natalie gave them, he simply poked his tongue out at her before turning back to Max. Rolling up his sleeve, he offered his arm - a few scars from his previous falls quiet visible, "I suppose you can use them as injury marks"

Max hadn’t missed the laugh from Natalie either. Was that laugh directed at him? His cheeks instantly flushed pink and he felt the back of his neck burn with embarrassment. “Whatever. Doesn’t matter,” he mumbled in response to Zac’s question. He’d said too much already.

“Let’s just this over and done with.” He didn’t pay much mind to the battle scars on Zac’s arm and got to work with the bandaging. He’d never bandaged anything before so he had no clue if he was doing it right but round and round and round and round he went. He'd probably used too much bandage.... and it probably wasn't tight enough. Zac's forearm kinda resembled that of an Egyptian mummy. But oh well.

He was a nice nickname?

...... Uh........

Lucas....... didn't understand what that meant. Was it some kind of older kid talk? Was he missing something? He didn't know. It was almost starting to look like the bandage part was the easiest part in all of this. But even so, he smiled because it didn't sound like she was saying anything BAD. "Thanks, I'll remember that." He was a NICE NICKNAME.

........

Nope. Still didn't understand what it meant. Maybe Emma would know.

Something he DID understand was the part about her being a big deal. Older student who was too-cool-for-school and all that. When she mentioned that everyone was jealous of him, he made a show of looking around, just to..... uh, add to the scene? Yeah. It was called acting and he was probably bad at it but he was going to try. "You know, you're probably right. We should make them even MORE jealous by giving me your autograph." Which is what people did around celebrities and stars and popular people.

And he was going to seal it off with a smile.

And who WAS this Alice Odessa? Was she important? Lucas really didn't know.

Hear that? DOCTOR Lucas! He was Doctor Lucas! The smile stayed on his face as he watched her cast the ice spell - Glacius..... GLAY-see-us..... he was going to have to remember that one. But maybe later because the last part included...... elevating? The E in RICE. And THAT was a spell he could do with no difficulty because it was a first year spell. "Wingardium Leviosa" he said, directing his wand at the bandage and the arm. You know, maybe they could be a team. They were both Gryffindors, right? Maybe a lion-based team. A ROAR-

Oh, it was his turn? Were they switching roles?

Lucas shuffled to the spot on the grass and cleared his throat. He had no idea how to come up with a story or if what he'll come up with was GOOD or not but he was going to do with whatever he had. You know, impulse. It might be because of this that he gave a great cry and dropped onto the ground, clutching his knee as if he'd just had the worst injury of his life.

"OWWWWWW! MY KNEEEEEE! NOT MY KNEEEEEE!"

........

..............

He peeked an eye open. Was he doing it right?

Josie glanced around at her other classmates as they went into pairs, figuring it was probably best for her to work by herself, considering she didn't really know anyone, and she didn't want to accidentally make a fake injury into a real one for any of her fellow classmates.

So with that thought she sat down again and gently rubbed her ankle... Not one of the steps, but typically it worked better from her knowledge to know if a injury had occurred to put just a small bit of pressure on the afflicted area to see how bad the pain was. This was probably stupid, and she was putting far too much thought into this process but still... better to act like the injury was actually there right.

And now the question was how exactly did she practice resting it? Or was she supposed to just skip to icing?... And I'm probably over thinking again...

Hanna nodded, in thought. That was true. Perhaps she'd read up about how to treat concussions in her free time. "I..." she said as she shot thoughts through her head, trying to improvise. "I fell whilst I was dancing and landed on it weirdly." She even gave out a fake wince to show her pain.

Hanna grinned as she watched Maddie freeze the earth and put it in the bag. "One must learn to improvise," she said. Plus, Hanna hadn't been sure about using it, especially not anywhere near Maddie's actual skin. So adapting it so that the spell wasn't being cast towards Maddie seemed like the right thing. And the ice was cold! Not horribly so, though. "It's perfectly cold," Hanna said. Just right. It wasn't quite at the point where it might start hurting, but it certainly wasn't feeling ineffective.

Hanna wriggled her fingers to see how they felt in the bandage, and nodded. "It feels good," she said. Look at them! Both RICE'd. "I would trust you with any injury I might sustain." She could say that with full confidence, of course, because she was confident.

Haraldur moved around the group, making sure people that had partnered up weren’t just chatting but actually following instructions. For some he stepped in to instruct the freezing spell again, for others he loosened the bandages that were too tight but for the most part; he let the kids figure it out themselves. Zoryn and young Lucas were quite the dramatic team. ”A little less acting, a little more healing.” He noted when he passed them just in time to spot Anna casting a levitation charm on Patrick. His brow furrowed. ”Anna Meriwether.” Yup. He was using her full name to reeeally show how much he disliked what he just saw. ”You only needed to practice the ice and the compression. Not the elevation part. Two points from Gryffindor for not following instructions and for disregarding Professor Noble’s instruction to inform and warn before you’re casting a levitation charm.” Now, he didn’t WANT to deduct points but he was sure she could earn them back. Eventually. Still carefree and blissfully ignorant of his colleague still wrapped up in the sling, he continued to walk around among the students, careful not to accidently knock one of the cauldrons over. It seemed like most of them were getting the hang of it already. ”Very good everyone, make sure it’s not too tight.” He glanced over at Max’s leg as he passed by. Maybe it was looking a little too snug for comfort there, Zachary. It was definitely time to move on.

”Time to remove the bandages.” Haraldur announced as he made it in front of the class again. ”Please roll up the used bandages as neatly as possible and put them aside.” Now would be your time to do so. ”Once you’ve rested and reduced swelling with ice, compression and elevation, you remove your bandages and start to work towards regaining full mobility and strength. Many of you mentioned stretching as a way to speed up recovery after an injury, which is very important indeed.” Haraldur clasped his hands over his stomach as he continued. ”Normally when we’re talking about rehabilitating exercises, it consists of; range-of-motion exercises, stretching, strengthening exercises and balance and control exercises. Of course, every situation is different and some of these rehabilitation exercises can actually delay recovery rather than speed it up so you should always consult with a Healer if you're unsure.” He nodded towards the mason jars and the cauldrons, which as of yet hadn’t been used. ”However, there are also magical ways to deal with minor injuries. Something Professor Noble will walk you through.”

Professor Noble who was still tied up that was.

Beth was quiet, too quiet as she stood there watching everyone practice the spells. Still, she didn’t have a partner…yet, and that, that was when noticed the lone Hufflepuff girl. ”excuse me…uh you need a partner?” she asked the older girl as she cocked her head at her in.

”you can RICE me if you want? Or if not I can probably RICE myself…” merlin she sounded insane didn’t she? Turning her head toward the Professors she simply raised her hand. ”excuse me Professors, but I was wondering if we could in times of need use the Ferula charm in lieu of bandages? Or does that only really splint injuries?” she asked fully intent on learning all she could.

With a tap of her wand to her elbow she cast a quick glacius and couldn’t help but shiver. Cold, so cold. So very VERY impossibly cold.

Natasha unwrapped the bandage and rolled it up nearly. After returning it to spot they were laid out, she awaited further instruction.

Bettie who wrapped her own ankle and could not quite get the freezing spell to work right, was quite happy it was time to move on. She unwrapped her ankle, rolled up the bandage and set it aside.

If Noble looked a little awkward as he wandered around, it was because he felt awkward with his arm floating in the air like this. Normally he’d have his hands together casually behind his back as he meandered and check up on his students, but with one hand still tied up, the other was left hanging somewhat. It was a good job there were plenty of distractions as the students started their task.

Actually, scratch the good on that.

He first came the Gryffindor prefect…whose fingers were looking a little on the pale side. “I suggest you loosen it off and try again, Abraham,” Noble said over the boy’s shoulder. “Losing a few fingers due to lack of circulation won’t do much for your quidditch career.” Although he wouldn’t complain if he wanted to give the Hufflepuffs a helping hand to the Cup. Talking of the Hufflepuff quidditch team, Captain Bel got a nod as he meandered past, as did the Head Girl. Both seemed to be doing capably enough.

Unfortunately the next duo his gaze fell on were doing less well. The mess on Zoryn’s arm couldn’t be doing much in the way of compression at all, and Noble eyed the Gryffindor at her false praise. It wasn’t looking good, not in the slightest. “Zoryn isn’t a gift, Lucas. You can just tuck the ends in, rather than that big lumpy bow.” But then things took another step backwards, and Noble grumbled under his breath. “Five points from Gryffindor for elevating the arm when Professor Baldvinsson explicitly said not to, Lucas.” He looked to the boy’s partner now, before simply shaking head and tutting under his breath. It was enormously tempting to take another five from Zoryn for telling an innocent first year such outrageously tall tales, but he refrained. For now.

That done, he pursed his lip as he watched some of the other pairings: Derf and Rylee, Maxton and Zachary, Penny and Benjamin. What Hanna was doing with a pile of dirt for Madison, he couldn’t quite fathom…and he’d been about to investigate when he heard mention of broken bones from Anna and Lucas Choi. “RICE is for soft tissue injuries,” Noble clarified. “That is, damage to your muscles, ligaments and tendons. Think sprains and strains.” Not broken bones. “And if Stella had broken her wrist, Lucas, wobbling it around like a blancmange would be the last thing you should do.” He grumbled under his breath. He had told them to bring their common sense, had he not?

Moving swiftly on, and he’d found Kaitlyn…who apparently had taken his words about it not being too tight to heart. He’d been about to say something, but Juniper had intervened. Well, that was fine by him. He simply nodded at the Ravenclaw and moved on past Natalie, Daisy and Archer to Josephine…who hadn’t even started. “Chop chop, Josephine!” he barked. “We haven’t got all day.” He’d already lost some of his lunch to Zoryn. He’d be a grumpy potions professor indeed if his lunch was delayed any further.

“Focus, Trinetta,” Noble said as he next came to the young Ravenclaw struggling with the glacius charm. “Think about an icy breath extending through your arm and out the tip of your wand.” And for this usage, it was actually a good thing if it wasn’t a completely freezing cast. As Haraldur had said, you didn’t want to give yourself frostbite. Although, it seemed like Beth hadn’t been listening to that bit of class. Unfortunately for the Slytherin, her question had caught Noble’s attention from across the semicircle, and wasn’t best impressed with that cast…or the shivering that followed. “Five points from Slytherin for trying to give yourself frostbite, Anabeth,” he replied sternly. “But yes, ferula provides a splint too. Ideal to support broken bones, but often a bit too much for a soft tissue injury where a little movement is usually a good thing.”

As Haraldur brought the class back together, talking a bit about rehabilitation, Noble too meandered his way back to the front. He watched quietly as the flying instructor wrapped up this section of the class, before stepping forward to take over for their next practical. “There are many useful healing potions, many of which you’ll get to attempt brewing over your Hogwarts career.” He surveyed the class a moment, making sure he had their attention, before continuing. “Today we’ll be making a simple bruise paste. You’ll find this particular variant is less potent than other recipes, especially those commercially available. However, it’s relatively quick and made with easy to find ingredients, so it’s a worthy addition to your repertoire.”

He moved towards his cauldron at the front of the class. “Your cauldron should already be warm from the bluebell flame. To it, add a cup of water and a well-packed half cup of arnica root. Let that seep for three minutes, before adding the loose petals of three dandelions.” All of which he would usually demonstrate…but that was a little easier said than done, with no workbench and his dominant arm still tied up. So hopefully they were all paying attention and could figure it out themselves. If not, they'd likely find themselves starting over before too long. “Off you go!”

He turned to Haraldur now, looking down at his arm expectantly. “If you wouldn’t mind…”

Jessa was about two seconds away from groaning at the flying Professor's next words. He was talking about exercises and stretching and all she could think was the man really would have them suffer further torture after those morning S.O.R.E exercises. This really wasn't her term, was it? Of all the bad things that could happen, there had to be a focus on physical activity.

She began unwrapping her bandage, not at all daunted by the way Professor Noble was walking around taking points. The thing about this term was, with all the other extreme punishments now available, point loss seemed the least significant. The Ravenclaw, for one, was now more concerned about push ups and laps and detentions that would eat away at her time.

Thankfully, at the end of Baldvinsson's speech, there were no instructions to line up or begin touching their toes.

Good.

She could live with that.

Jessa relaxed, rolling up the bandage and putting it where it needed to go before turning her attention back to Professor Noble. A bruise paste, huh? The Head Girl had a few of those upstairs, for the obvious reason of necessity. She was trying not to need them as much but sometimes things just happened.

More importantly, it sounded like she'd made it through this mixed lesson without having to over extend herself. Now it was time for the potion and while this place hadn't suddenly turned into a lab in the time it took her to get herself bandaged, it was yet another relief. As instructed , she added a cup of water to her now warm cauldron and a half cup of arnica root (well packed like he'd said. The 7th Year was in her element here. Perhaps not as much as in a charms lesson but quite so. She lifted her wrist to watch the three minutes pass on her watch then added the petals from the three dandelions.

Good. He better. Zoryn didn’t hand out compliments to just anyone. He probably didn’t know that about her, but hopefully he’d pick up on it quickly. She had pretty polarized opinions on people. But he was fortunately on the good side of the list. For now, anyway.

“Of course, Lukey,” she smiled, playing along. “Anything for you. I’ll sign something for you after this appointment.” She’d actually do it too. It’d be good practice for when she actually has to sign them ALL the time. Being a famous Quidditch STAR and ACTRESS would mean having to sign autographs for plebeians ALL the time. If she didn’t get enough practice, her hands would cramp!! Y’know?

Anyways, that’d have to wait for after class because unfortunately they had to swap roles now.

When she said patch of grass, she really meant for him to try the spell… Buuuuuuut, this worked too. “Oh no! Not YOUR KNEE,” she gasped, dropping down to the ground, putting a hand on his shoulder and assessing the situation. “Lukey, it’s gonna be alright! I know how to fix this!!”

RICE.

“It’s all a part of the process, Professor!” Zoryn called back to Coach B, who clearly didn’t appreciate their dramatics as much as he should have. Not everyone appreciated talent it seemed.

Was Professor Noble SEEING this? They were FANTASTIC! “Okay, this might hurt just a bit, but you’ve gotta stay strong, okay?” Technically icing came first, but she had already done the spell once so was there really a need to do it again? Probably not. So instead, she began wrapping up his knee, pretty nicely if she did say so herself.

Before she could say anything about it, however, Professor Nobel happened. Zoryn gave Lucas an apologetic look because really, he did do a nice job. The bow added PIZZAZ.

…. FIVE POINTS???

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“He’s such a jerk,” she rolled her eyes as he walked away and whispered when she thought he was out of earshot. “Congratulations, though Lukey! Losing points is the official Gryffindor initiation. You’re officially part of the COOL kids club!!!” SHE BEAMED AT HIM. It wasn’t entirely accurate, but she didn’t want him to feel all bad about it. He seemed like the type. And Zoryn quite liked him. Plus, Professor Noble was stupid. Lucas was just trying to get ahead of the curve here, practicing what he’d have to do in real life. As far as Zoryn was concerned, he ought to receive 5 points.

Once they were told to remove the bandages, Zoryn helped Lucas with his before working at her own.