Lesson #4: Medicamentum Contraho
 

Jaren entered the classroom briskly and sat down, ready as always, though looking if possible more serious and stressed than usual. His hair is particularly unkempt, as if he'd been running around a lot.

Kirstie Entered the classroom and took a seat next to Jenn, smiling at the Ravenclaw girl, who looked like she was trying to burn a hole in Jaren's head. She got out her quills and parchment.

Nadia entered the classroom and sat down, mildly wondering if she had got the date and hour alright seeing there was no Professor Airlia to be seen. Taking her supplies out, she noticed a couple of people in there, her eyes darkened while she took some of her mail and read though the corner of her eyes while the professor arrived.

Sangeetha enters the dungeon nervously. This was her first Potions lesson and she might mess up things. She then spotted Nadia and sighed in relief at the sight of her friend. She walks over to her and takes a seat next to her.

'Hey Nadia!' Sangeetha said, slapping her lightly on the back. 'What's up? First lesson and I'm totally a wreck. Wish I came here before, then at least I would know the basics.'

She sets down her bag and pulls out her cauldron and waits for the Professor.

Greek_snitch tries hard to recall the answer. "Has anything to do with the way they are used?"

"Ah, Kali beat me right there. I believe this is the one which is refered to as a potion which shrink things in size, to a "miniature version of itself" and should literally "shrink" somebody. Therefore it might also be used in items, by bathing the object, or just be used in living being, again, but with the same methodology. I doubt you need drinking to make it work... unless you want to shrink something inside your body, which is not such a good idea."

"There's a second possibility and that is: it only work on non-living beings, in which case, if splashed by this you would get your clothes shrink in size but you stay the same, though somewhat suffocatted^^"

*raise hand*

"Professor, what does 'Medicamentum Contraho' means? I'm pretty sure the first it 'Medication' so that makes me wonder it this isn't an antidote for another potion and/or spell. The second seem to say 'Contraction', which in a way is 'shrink in size'. I am curious to what it could be."

Serena listened carefully and took notes.

Sangeetha raised her hand and said:

'Professor, maybe the Shrinking Solution is used externally, like Kali said, but since she didnt say which potions are used where, I thought I might answer. So if the Shrinking Solution is used externally then the Shrinking Potion must be used internally. I hope what I said is right...' Sangeetha adds, though acually to herself.

Raven entered the classroom for once on time. She sat in the front row and opened her book looking at the Professor for certain directions. Shye was hearing people talk about the Shrinking Solution and Shrink Contraction. She wasn't to sure about the difference but sat and listened whil trying to learn. She wrote down peoples comments and looked at the Professor to tell which one is correct.

Nadia listened Sangeetha and added, "I think I know what you meant but you switched the potions. We are now doing the Shinking Potion, and as we already know the Shrinking Solution acts only internally, by drinking, we might think this new one is the one used externally and only pouring it over the, err, victim would be enough.

"For this matter it could be used internally too... but not with pretty results. Just imagine ingesting some of the potion and get your thoat shirking until you can no longer breath? 0.0 *shudders* I would be careful how you use this potion if this theory is correct *looks sideways, smirks* Yet, if my other theory, the one about not affecting the living, is true then we shouldn't be worried, because it could only act in, say, what you ate, but not a a part of yourself as a living being.

"Interesting," she added, to no one in particular, and turning to where Terry was, catching her eye, Nadia smiled a big, wide smile
^____^

Raven was so confused she had words to say it simplier. She raised her hand and smiled. " Shrinking Contraction you are making one and causing them to shrink and Shriking Solution you are giving them a potion to stop the shrinking," she said dropping her hand looking at The Professor.

Serena continued thinking to herself then raised her hand, "Medicamentum Contraho" might be either a remedy or cure to shrinking, in other words to reverse it, or it could be a remedy or cure that causes shrinking. My only other guess would be that this potion is used on objects instead of something that is living."

"Five points to Ravenclaw, that is absolutely correct. The Shrinking Potion is used externally in order to reduce the target in size. This is not to be confused with the Shrinking Solution we brewed last class which is ingested and reduces the target in development."

"Five points to Slytherin, Nadia. The Shrinking Potion, unlike the Shrinking Solution, can be used on non-living objects," Professor Airlia sighed as she spoke. "Though, I'm afraid it will not work on ghosts who are relatively unaffected by the physical world. However, it may have a temporary effect on poltergeists who are more affected by the physical world than ghosts."

Moving on from that painful subject and chastizing herself for going off-topic, Professor Airlia continued her comments on Nadia's proposal for the class. "You are also absolutely correct that this potion should never be used internally for the effects could be disasterous, depending on the strength of the brew."

"Excellent question Nadia. It is latin and roughly translates to 'medicine to gather together.'

And thank you Nadia for clearing up Sangethlee's slight mix up. I know it can be very confusing with two potions with very similar names. Does this make sense now, Raven?

"Now that we've got a good handle on what the potion does and how to use it, can anyone suggest possible ingredients that would be including (only one ingredient suggestion per student, please and include your reasoning for suggesting it)?"

Serena raised her hand, "I found out that horse chestnut can be used to control inflammation and swelling. I was wondering if it could also be used in a shrinking potion?"

(ooc- only one? *sniff* but... I have so many ideas!)

Nadia raised her hand, thinking hard which would be the most necessary ingredients, "Seeing it is making a change in size we might think of a visual thing more than psychical so I'm thinking of one of those ocular-glasses, Magnifying Glass. Yeah, well a whole glass cannot be used as ingredient... wel, maybe smashed but still... I was thinking of sand, which is the main ingredient of all glasses, and/or something oval to make reference to this glasses intention."

Nadia made a mental note, one for elastising and another counter-shrinking. "For some reason I can only think of muggle already-manufactured things," she pondered out loud, to no one in particular.

Kyra chewed on her lip as she took notes, her black quill flying across the page. She looked up occasionally at the teacher and her classmates, wondering who all was here.

:Kelli raises her hand:

Could you use skinned shrivelfig in the potion professor?

Jaren thought hard. "Maybe some ingredients from the last potion we made would be used. The shrivelfig maybe, or the daisy roots. After all, the two potions are fairly similar in that they both cause some sort of reversal in growth, be it in age or in physical stature."

"Hn." Jaren dug furiously into the abyss of his mind for what he'd learned in the last Potions class. "Daisy roots stunt growth..."

"Guess is for the same reason as the Shrinking Solution: it does make things shrink. Shrivelfig because of the Key ingredient, again, in both potion works to make the structure smaller, and the daisy roots who we know to stop grownth.... oh, that reminds me:
"Caterpillars, for it intention to change might be used as well, seeing this potion also works with transforming the structure, transfigurating into something different, and such, though not by "growing" exactly, like in the other potion...."

Terry is surprised that so many of the ingredients found in the Shrinking Solution would also be used in the Shrinking Potion as well. "Since most of the ingredients mentioned already were also used in the Shrinking Solution, you must also use leech juice because it will help to draw the size out of the item being shrunk. I guess you don't need to use a rat's spleen since it is used to filter out the poisonous parts of the daisy root. Do you prehaps use the rat's heart instead so you continue to have an organ associated with blood? I ask this because most ancient potions used blood as their base ingredient."

Serena raised her hand, "The skinned shrivelfig is the key ingredient in the shrinking solution that causes the shrinking to occur."

Jan raises her hand and asks, "How about nettle, Professor? Nettle is important in potions that shrink and cure boils; could it be an ingredient in a shrinking potion as well?"

"Professor, you didn't tell if the catepillar was indeed part of the Shrinking Potion as well," Nadia told raising her hand. "Should we think it doesn't?

"Up to now we have shrivelfig, daisy roots and, ah, leech juice, all used in both shrinking potions and solution. If the caterpillar was used then that would make the 4th ingredient in common..."

*ponders* "I know this might not act like ingredient exactly... but Water in this potion could be particularly useful because of its particularity to make things shrink in size: with clothes, it turns them smaller; with hard material like stones, it shrinks them because of erocionates(sp?) it and wears it off; with living things, it makes them shrink in cold. Guess we could think of cold-water especially, or ice, which does respond this description as well (erocionating + shrink clothes)."

"If that doesn't count as ingredient, my last guess is something of an elastic nature, to allow, without breaking the structure, the expansion of the material."

::Ganymede.tries.to.think.of.something.."Professor ,What.about.something.
rubbery?.Or.a.gum.of.some.sort?".:jump: I.ask.trying.very.hard.to.figure.it.out.::

(Jessie whispers to Nadia)
I wonder if we'll have to shrink rats with this potion, too. It would be much more satisfying to shrink Gryffindors...

(Jessie smiles, copies down the notes, then raises her hand.)

Professor, I understand the the shrivelfig must be skinned (we learned this in the last lesson) but I'm curious as to why. How does the skin of a shrivelfig tamper with the potion?

Nadia chuckled. Ah, if she knew how many people just agreed with that idea.... Mind, Nadia particularly would like to shrink some big heads into normal size, personal taste. Though the Hufflepuff weren't exactly the last option. ("I always thought badgers were another kind of rats if you ask me," Nadia whispering back and winked at Jessie, coughing to desguise the comment.) True, Nadia wouldn't, it would be too much work to design a plan which would only get her in troubles. Plus, knowing theses people, she wouldn't need to move a finger; they would do it perfectly alone on their own, but she was always up for a bit of teasing. Jess was one straightforward Slytherin while Nadia liked the more, err, indirect approach when she could manage.

Waking herself back to topic, Nadia jolted some notes and tried remembreing everything being said. She figured she had alrady spoken too much so she would do good to allow other people to collaborate... though she still had ideas to express.

Lyra over hears Jessies comment to Nadia and looks at Jessie and quietly says "Go ahead and try it if you dare." then returns to taking notes.

"Professor, what about eucalyptus leaves or another plant from the Gum tree family for elasticity?"

Jessie smiles at Nadia knowingly, and sticks her green-coloured quill behind her ear.

This is an interesting lesson indeed... I love Potions Class. :)

:kelli raises her hand:

Professor, doesn't the skin react unpredictably to other ingredients? So you cannot be sure what will happen if the skin comes into contact with other ingredients of the potion.

Sangeetha, was writing notes furiously. She was writing so fast, that her wrist ached. She had also blushed, embarrassed that the Professor had called her "Sangeethlee". But after giving it an afterthought, she chuckled. It was rather funny, and her name was rather long. She didnt blame her. A question pooped up into her mind and she raised her hand:

'Professor, why arent we using rat spleen in our potion?'

Terry overhears Nadia and JessieHearts comments. Nadia is one smart cookie. She knows better than to mess with the Hufflepuffs. Mind you I'd enjoy seeing some Gryffindors reduced to their proper size. I've aready had a run in with one of them, and they are entirely too hot headed for their own good.


"Professor, there are generally two reasons why you peel something. One, you cannot eat the peeling; and two, leaving the peeling on will interfere with the effectiveness of the ingredient you are using in the potion. I believe we peel the shrivelfig because the potion need the ingredients contained in the interior of the fig. By the way you haven't told us the second ingredient. Could it be ginger root or aloe?" Terry asks.

"You are both absolutely correct. 2 points each to Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. Many potions were devised many many years ago and we aren't exactly certain why they did things they way they did them but, we still brew the potions the same today. However, in this particular case, Mrs. Weasley is right to assume that the reason we skin the shrivelfig is because we are using the inside of the shrivelfig for this potion and the skin is completely unnecessary and, even harmful. So, be sure to skin your fig completely."

"Ah... Excelllent question which I believe Mrs Weasley commented on before which I didn't acknowledge. We used the spleen in our last potion because of its filtering properties. Since this potion is not ingested, we do not need to bother with this ingredient."

"Ah yes," Professor Airlia shook her head; she really needed to focus on teaching her classes instead of allowing her mind to wander to other matters... "I'm terribly sorry about that. Yes, Mrs. Weasley, I did forget to mention that we would be using ginger root. Because this potion is not ingested, it does need a bit of a power boost."

Professor Airlia floated back behind her desk and wished she were alive so she could have the excuse of needing to run to the washroom in order to gather herself together. She flickered slightly and shook her head again before turning back to the class, attempting to mask her sudden bout of weakness. "Alright, now I believe we've discussed all the ingredients. Now for a question I had thought you would ask of me but, since no one has brought it up, I'll ask it of you: Since this potion works by contact only and will effect non-living objects, why doesn't the cauldron or ladle or vial shrink when you are brewing and storing the potion?"

Serena raised her hand, "Well, since the cauldrons are made for preparing potions, and the vials are for containing or storing potions, they would need to have 'anti-magic' spells or potions used to keep them from being affected."

(Jessie nods in agreement with Serenasnape)

Yes, I always thought that cauldrons were magically fortified. Unless you buy a rather cheap one, your cauldron should stand up to the task of regular poions. Of course, if you start brewing up a potion of your own concotion, or completely mess up a contemporary one, your cauldron will probably melt.

Serena began to get her cauldron and her ingredients ready and then waited for Hubert to finish with the instructions.

Lyra began preparing her daisy roots, catepillar, and shrivel fig. With the way people have been acting lately, she decides it's best if she keeps an eye on Jessie and Nadia, just in case. Lyra thinks 'I hope they don't try anything but if they do, I have to protect my housemates'

"That mean," Nadia pondered outloud, "if this potion was to be boosted-up the cauldron might not to able to repell its magic and would finally shrink, probably."

She chuckled, thinking this could probably waste some people's efforts.

Nadia finished taking notes, sounding like this:

Ingredients:
[*] chopped daisy roots --> stunt growth
[*] skinned shrivelfig --> key ingredient, using the inner part
[*] sliced caterpillar --> tranform/transmogrification
[*] nettle (how?) --> to shrink and cure boils
[*] ginger root --> power boost
[*] leech juice --> extract volume

NOTE: Powered Cauldron

Nadia started chopping the daisy roots, in even, square-like pieces, which took her a minute, and then set it aside. Prepparing the cauldron, Nadia set it over her magically appeared cauldron, but put the fire down almost immediately put it off. She still didn't know how much water would she need, she needed asking the professor but... by the look of it, Proefssor Airlia wasn't looking too cheerful. Nadia decided to leave her to her thoughts while she started with the caterpillar instead, to her horror. It took a couple of minutes. Once done she started with the shivelfig, again with her potatoe skinner.

Upon seeing a nervous and suspricious look on Lyra's face, Jessie grins in her direction, amused that her joke to Nadia was taken so serious. Surely everyone knows that Jessie would never try to do anything right under a teacher's nose- Such an act would lose House Points, and her fellow Slytherins would be angry with her.

'News sure travels fast in the class, even when I whisper something to a Housemate!' Jessie thinks.


She grasps a knife and begins to chop her daisy roots alongside Nadia.

Edit:Made a grammar error.

Jan finished taking notes on everything that was discussed and started chopping her daisy roots carefully.

Alicia finished taking notes and started preparing her ingrediants,

Lyra sees Jessie's little smile and shakes her head and chuckles lightly. 'Why am I wasting my energy on her? If and when she has the nerve to try anything, I'm ready for it anyway.' She gives Jessie the same little grin that Jessie just gave her. Lyra returned her full attention to preparing her ingredients completely dismissing any concerns she may have had.

Jaren finished off the rest of his notes, rolled up the parchment and set it aside so he would have room to prepare the ingredients. As before, he meticulously skinned the shrivelfig and chopped the daisy roots into evenly-sized pieces, finally working on the caterpillar.

Serena finished preparing her daisy roots, caterpillar, and shrivelfig. She set them aside so she could get ready to do what was next.

Professor Airlia ducked behind the board where Hubert was putting the final touches on the notes while the students began preparing their ingredients. She came back around just as Hubert was finishing to address her students once more.

"Now everyone, I am not sure what kinds of ladles you have come to the school with so we have provided you with a special metal ladle which will resist the shrinking. The stand pewter cauldrons you all have will contain the necessary precautions for this particular potion so there is no need to worry about that. Also, this potion will not work on stone or glass so, glass vials with glass stoppers are acceptable. However, be sure you use a glass stopper, otherwise, the stopper will shrink, your potion will spill out, and whatever it spills on will shrink, unless it is stone or glass, of course. The instructions are now visible on the board, so you may continue."

Upon hearing Ganymede's question, Professor Airlia smiles. "No, eating food that has been shrunken will not have an effect on the person eating the food. So, dont' get any ideas," she replies, giving her a stern look.

'Dunno really... is it because using the nettles dried, you can crush them and so they mix in better? so they are more preserved....' Ally shrugged, not knowing the answer.

Jaren went to collect the leech juice required before returning to his table and crushing the dried nettles. He then put the water in his cauldron on boil, and chopped the ginger root while he waited.

"Perhaps dried nettles are more concentrated than fresh nettles...since they would have water when fresh, that might interfere with the ingredients."

Shannon decides to give it a shot. "A dried ingredient is stronger than a fresh one. For instance, prunes have a much stronger flavor than plums, their fresh counterpart. Being stronger, you would need to use less of it for the same effect. Or maybe it's because a dry ingredient dissolves more completely?"

Serena raised her hand, "Would it be like drying flowers to preserve them?You can keep dried flowers for a long time, years in fact, and they won't wilt or rot anymore because you have removed the moisture."

She crushed her nettles and started to chop her ginger root evenly before geting her leech juice.

"You all have some valid points, although not all types of ingredients are stronger when dried, in fact most of them are weaker. But, that still is not quite the answer I was looking for. Perhaps..." Professor Airlia beckoned to Hubert and floated through the door in the back of the classroom into her study.

Hubert opened the door to follow her and the two emerged just moments later. Professor Airlia smiled at the class while Hubert made some gestured at the blackboard next to where the potion instructions were written. When he was finished a picture appeared and Professor Airlia addressed the class once more, "Here is a hint."

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Jan raises her hand. "So we don't get stung by the thorns? W can still be pricked, but if it's dried, the fluid inside can't sting us, right?"

Ally listened to what was being said.
i should have said that..

Jan finished preparing the caterpillar, nettle and shrivelfig, then went to the front desk to collect the leech juice. Returning to her desk, she brought 500mL of water to a boil in her cauldron. She added the daisy roots, shrivelfig, caterpillar slices, and nettle and began stirring with the provided ladle. While she stirred, she pulled out vials and searched in for glass stoppers in her ptions kit. Just when she bagan to worry she didn't have them, they surfaced from a padded pouch on the side, hidden beneath her spare, collapsible cauldron.

Jaren added the ingredients to the now boiling water in the cauldron, except for the ginger and leech juice, and stirred with the provided ladel for two minutes before adding the leech juice. He stirred it a bit, then timed the process, continuing to stir occasionally.

Having finished with most of the manual part, Nadia measure what she needed for the potion, weighting 8 grams of daisy roots and another 4 grams of ginger root, then making sure shrivelfig was missing all the skin (maybe taking a little more than the skin for being so meticulous) and caterpillar slices were the smallest, having one of each. Standing and walking over to the professor's desk, she reached for one of the flask containing blood from the leeches. Back to her seat, placing it in her desk, she took her wand and started the fire again - reminding herself of why she hadn't done it before. The used glass stoppers and filled the cauldron with 500 mL of water to boil exactly, and the process began. She brushed her hands in a spare cloth and took her mortar and pestle to crush down the dried nettles, and meassured the result as well to make 8 grams while the water reached the boiling point. At once she added the daisy roots, closely followed by shrivelfig; the caterpillar slices and the nettle was dropped at the same time. Taking her spoon, she was about to being the stirring when a thought came to her mind, about this postion already working *its* magic. A figure of speech. She didn't fancy her wodden spoon shrinked. She didn't particularly fancied facing the many outcomes a faulty instrument might have at the brewing. Nadia tapped the stick with this wand once, putting to practice the new spell worked with in Transfiguration, Transmogrity, turning it to crystal glass. Believing to have achieved a good result, she stirred quite randomly for 2 minutes. Half her mind was on another things, somewhat a little worried. Within her thoughts she almost forgot to add the dash of leech juice, to now continue to stir occassionally while allowing the solution to stew. She spent his half an hour thinking and re-thinking things, as if sleepy.

Serena looked at the stinging nettle plants. "I've run into sandspurs before, but never one of those, and I definitely don't want to go looking for one either!" she said to herself.

After finishing her work on her ingredients she walked carefully to the desk to collect her leech juice.Then she got her 500 ml of water and placed it in her cauldron and started the fire. When it started to boil she began to add her daisy roots, shrivelfig, caterpillar slices, and crushed nettles and then stirred the ingredients for 2 minutes. Next, she added the dash of leech juice. She stirred it occassionally and when the half hour was up she added her ginger root and stirred for another 2 minutes. She moved her cauldron from the fire and let her potion cool. After writing her name and house on two vials she filled them with potion into the two vials and then carried one to the front.

Jan added the leech juice to her cauldron and timed the next half hour, occasionally stirring. She added the ginger root and stirred for two more minutes before extinguishing the magical fire beneath her cauldron. While it cooled, she labeled two vials. She ladled her potion into each and brought one to the Professor's desk before returning to clean up her work area.

Jaren added the ginger root to the cauldron and stirred for two minutes, then extinguished the flames under it to let it cool. He scribbled his name on two vials and scrounged around for some glass stoppers.

Sangeetha who was doing two things at a time, that is to listen with rapt attention with all the doubts and the answers and another way chopping up her ingredients. Finally after finishing looking at the board an her manual work, she quickly pulled out her green ink, parchment and Phoenix Feathered quill. She then wrote in her best handwriting:

She then set down her quill. She took out a penci which she always kept for rough work and drew a rough diagram of Stinging Nettles.

Sangeetha then added the ingrdients, and slowly stirred it clockwise. Of course, either she had to do it one way or the other. She then added a dash of leech juice, stirring it regurlarly. After half an hour of stirring, she then added the chopped up daisy roots. Stirring it for two minutes, she then stopped the fire by lighting it out with her wand. Taking a pair of rubber gloves, she held the hot cauldron and set it down, waiting for it cool, which took half an hour. Careful not to spill a drop of her potion, she filled her vial, labelling her name and house. She then stood up and placed her vial on Professor Airlia's desk and sat back doe. She the waited for the cass to proceed.

Nadia added the right amount of the ginger root to the mix, approaching dangeroulsy to the end of it. Never before she had been dealing with a potion which would be this dangerous at touch. She carefully stirred clockwise for two minutes before removing the cauldron from the fire and into glass supporters, allowing the potion to cool. Nadia looked around to see many people strugling with the last step, the one she stopped upon too. Coming out with a plan, she took three vials and used her wand to transmogrify out of thin air three corks. She settled the vials just next to the cauldron and used "transmogrify" to create three funnels but made of glass as well. Using Wingardium Leviosa with the liquid to avoid direct touching of any type, Nadia got three glass vials half-filled only and corked for further precaution. True, if it was to fall, the cork would only shrink and the potion would come out all the same, but that way there was at least an obstacle to work before reaching skin or other, and giving time for doing something else. Also there was the risk of her concentration failing and a drop reaching her table - or! Her puñse to betray her and result in something worst. Actually there was so many ways something could come wrong. But she knew no other thing to do. Missing the idea of asking the profesor for instructions instead of struggling this badly, she finally had three vials ready and labelled one with her name, house and year, sighing of relief once it was over. Now there was the last step: sending the labelled one to the professor's desk - and being in her not-manual mood, Nadia again levitated the corked vial and the glass support to Professor Airlia's desk, figuring her magic was better than her hand pulse... the vial reached the front desk.

Sangeetha dug intside her bag in which if she coukd find anything that wasnt in any use for her. She then searched its pockets and found something. Pulling it out, it was a spoon. A spoon? Where did that come from? Sangeetha pondered. Forget it. she thought shaking her head. She held the spoon at good distance. She didnt want to spill anything on herself. She carefully scooped some of the Potion in her cauldron with her stirrir and dropped a few drops onthe spoon. She then slowly saw that it shrunk to the size of her index finger. Beaming, she waited for the Professor to comment.

We're not going to shrink mice? That's a nice change of pace...

Hey, Nadia, I have an idea. If you want to see if your potion works on humans, I'd be glad to drink yours. I trust your brewing capabilities... Your brilliant, not to mention last year you were a Slytherin Champion! But if you'd rather I didn't, I'll understand.

Jaren handed in one vial of his potion to the Professor, kept one for experimentation, and, since there was still some left over in his cauldron, filled a third vial and kept it. He decided to test the potion on something that wasn't exactly valuable to him, and dug in his pockets for a suitable object. Ah, a broken quill. He pulled it out and dripped a few drops of the potion on it, and watched as it shrunk until it was the size of a pine needle.

"Very nice," Professor Airlia commented as she floated by, observing the students.

Jaren regarded his shrinking hand with the same detached interest he displayed with everything else. The potion dripped down his arm, so that was shrinking as well. He then looked at Jenn emotionlessly, as he always did, but his deep green eyes seemed to flash dangerously, like a predator which has been annoyed by a buzzard and is about to swat it dead with its tail.

Nadia's teeths grinted furiously. She had been in conversation with Jess, refusing her offer seeing it was rather dangerous to have the potion ingested, when the scenario happened. She cursed under her breath. She should have been there, she knew how to handle with this person. If only she had been quicker she could have prevented it. Glaring at Jenn's retreating figure, Nadia 'hmp'-ed, deciding that was definitely not god enough for a punishment for the ever so-disrespectful Ravenclaw.. She and a certain Hufflepuff would pay... in their time. For now, Nadia had more pressing matters at hand to be dealt with.

Nadia decided to use three different items to work with:
One- A Knut (from pocket)
Two- A piece of old parchment writen all over
Three- One of the feathers in her hat (ooc- yes, there are feathers in her hat)

Nadia raised her hand, a new infuriating thought in her head, "Professor, I am guessing we don't use the potion in living beings because - dealing with so complex objects of which consist a living organism, you tamper with it puting in risk their lives.

"For example, in Jaren's case -" Nadia looked at his hand, heating up from rage -"all of the hand and arm has shrinked, internally as well as externally, and then blood cannot reach the limb with the veins being shrinked up, making the hand useless... and it being, I am guessing, painful."

Nadia finished while clunching her quill hard. Honestly, that girl didn't know what she was dealing with, so irresposible of her! Even if Jaren was expressionless, Nadia could tell he could be dealing with intense pain yet not show it. It only made her angrier. Trying to conceal that rage she added, taking a deep breath, "I hope I am wrong."

Nadia nodded, her expression blank. She still could see the flow of blood pressing into the little veins not being too nice for the health of the people under the potion effect. Shaking her head prompt to believe Professor Airlia's explanation better than her imagination, Nadia turned to her list and added a fourth item.

Four- muggle watch.

She knew she had one in her trunk somewhere. She will have to Accio it, she pondered windrawing her wand. If it worked, her assumptions, then the glass would remain the same while the rest would shrink and even be detroyed by the preassure the glass would make. She would use Reparo on it afterwards.

Setting the fourth objects in the table, Nadia uncorked the experimention vial and used Wingardium Leviosa to drop one small amount of levitating potion in each object, dropping her wand as immediately and incribbing down the notes -

Once- Knut shrinked to the size to a grain of sand. The amount seems to have been too much. I can not longer read what it said. However, (here she touched it before continueing) I administrated the dosis so that the coin seemed to retain its size and shape as well as consistence. Maybe even more - the atoms of the particulas of the coin seemed to have condenced into a stronger material, the same water gets smaller+harder when turned into ice. The atoms approaches tighter into the object. Either that or some of the atoms might disappear if we consider muggle-science theories...

Two- Commit a mistake. The parchment wasn't enough to absorb the whole of the potion. Some of it fell into the table (*here Nadia used her want to perform a vanishing spell on the remaining of the potion*) - managed to make little harm but the wood table, the same as the piece of parchment, got scrumbled by the centre. The words in the parchment had turn illegible: the ones in the centre so little it looks like not words any more - some of the lines have disappeared or got so thin it looks like it (ooc- have you tried shrinking an image with microsoft paint? Then you know what I am talking about). The ones at the side turned smaller and smaller as they approched the centre. The pressure from that spot created several wrinkles which practically shred the paper apart. On the other hand, the table has too big to make a real change but there was some wrinkling as well, to my view. Maybe even the whole wood desk had turned somewhat smaller. (Pity we don't have stone desks)
NOTE: Also, the paper has done wet and to stop it from dripping I had to stand it form one side, and the travelling drop of potion finished abstracting the paper into a snakelike figure in paper.

Three- Absorbtion of the potion in the feathers barbs and shaft was complete (used less potion too). However, I would dare said some of the parts got more "shrinked" than the others, deforming its shape a little. One side of the barbs barely changed, the others convered into the smallers from the centre and bigger from then on. Acually the feather as a whole turned into a snail shelf-like shape. It twist awkwardly, as if in pain if I am allowed the comparison...

*shakes head, continues* In all trueness it dried rather quickly, maybe because the shrinking potion acted upon itself in such small ammounts.

Fourth- Prediction fulfilled. The clock was blasted apart into pieces of metal, only the glass remaining untouched.

FINAL OBSERVATIONS: Whenereas the potion is balancedly aministrated the oobjects remains the most as if it was originally but in a "smaller-version of itself".
Different from other potions the ammount of it poured over the object does makes changes in the effects, probably making its size tampered more obviously (To Be Confirmed).
It distorts the shape of the object as a whole if administrated in one sector in particular.
Seeing not glass nor stone is used, we must consider the potion is not resistent to itself and it can be act reducing itself more and more until evaporating until its final stage...


Nadia paused here. Taking her sheet of parchment off, she raised one hand to call for the professor's attention and showed her Nadia's work, "I was wondeirng if you could take a look at my work, especially my last observation, I would like your clarification of that last point if possible."

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Jaren flexed the fingers of his restored hand, testing that he still had complete function of it, before turning back to his potion, behaving as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. He watched the professors from the corner of his eye.

Nadia nodded and stood, taking all of her things with her and exiting the class quite fastly. Once outside she had planed to use a more trustable seal for the potion, internally covered with glass (stone was too heavy) and keep what was left of it. She had not intentions to hide her curiosity and, bidding the retreatening ghost good day, Nadia walked out finally having a couple of things to finish.