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BanaBatGirl 
Fletcher continued silently mocking Lafay in his head. Blah blah blah blah blah. He did NOT appreciate the two-year-old tone. He was a grown man - a CHAMPION, for the love of Merlin.
WhatEVER.
"We are using the asphodel leaf because it's an ingredient," Fletcher answered, unable to keep the DUHHHHHHH out of his tone this time. "And maybe it has something to do with everlasting life.... er... since it was considered sacred to the goddess of the underworld....??" That last bit wasn't so duh sounding.
"Yeeeeees," She said turning away from the boy... "It's because it's an ingredient." She then added, "No, nothing to do with everlasting life, but thanks for trying..." She said sarcastically.
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Kaos.Doodles Legend was paying attention, he really was. Who wouldn't want to know how to make a potion that grew bones back? He just had no clue what the answers were for the questions that Lafay was giving them.
Oh- WAIT he knew this one. "Because the milk, salt, and bran will already taste bad together so why not add a leaf?" Snicker. Alright time to be serious. "Or, maybe because it has like healing...powers. And if you put the leaf in then it would contribute to re-building the tissue around the bone?" Or something like that. He had no clue. Maybe his first answer was better.
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Ivy Nienna Ivory bit her lip as she hurried to jott down all the different meanings for the usage of the particular ingredients in front of her.
Asphodel leaf? Nodding almost unconsciously to Fletcher's answer about the underworld, she lifted her hand hesitantly to add the one tiny almost insignificant tidbit of information she could ween out of her memory. That it was a antispasmodic.
"I think...that is would it be because of the properties it has to suppress muscle spasms? I can imagine that a trait like that could possibly be useful when a person is growing back bones." Smiling nervously, at the end she thought about how uncomfortable it would be for your bones to be growing back while your arm twitched and jerked with the hardening of bone.
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Dianna Malfoy Dianna felt like she was in a cooking class rather than potions. But never mind that. Asphodel Leaf? Let's see what she know about this.
"Erm..Because before people used this as a healing remedy..So I guess this can help in rebuilding the bone..?" Dianna said as she lowered her hand.
"Yes, Asphodel has healing qualities..." She said nodding and ignoring the previous comment about the bad taste.
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sweetpinkpixie She was right? Kurumi could have jumped out of her seat for making the Dragon Lady smile. She looked into her cauldron of goopy cottage cheese. She hoped it wouldn't spoil before they got down to making the potion. Then again, it was freezing in the potions classroom.
Kurumi returned to her notes before thinking about the professor's most recent question and added the details about salt.
Truth be told...she had no idea. "Professor, the leaves are sometimes used to to wrap around cheese..." Yeah...that was exactly what the dragon lady wanted to hear. "Also, it is said that the plant has a connection with the underworld. In Greek legend the asphodel is the one of the most famous of the plants connected with the dead and the underworld...and remedy for poisonous snake-bites...so maybe it helps protect our bones from damage or...dying?"
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city_girl_95 Amy put up her hand, because it's a medicinal product, it.....can help speed up growth or numb any pain?, or...it sounded familiar, um, does it like keep the cheese fresher for longer? she was sure she'd read that somewhere. Or she could just be being an idiot
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"I think you two mean that it helps with the healing..." She said.
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Destiny Ugh!
Destiny did not like these questions. She never knew the right answer and she didn't know why the Professor even bothered asking her. Well, it wasn't like she only asked her, she did ask the whole class. But, the Slytherin was SURE, as the woman glanced around the room, her eyes lingered on her for a little longer.
Meaning, the question was directed right at her!
Raising her hand ever so slowly, she looked at the leaf in question. "The asphodel leaf is narrow..and bones are narrow..so it makes sense to use them."
Sense. Destiny was full of it.
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What was WRONG with these kids! After looking at Destiny silently, she didn't bother answering.
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lilithpotter "Asphodel leaves makes bones brittle. The bones would probably need to be soft or birttle to start a growing process." she said but that would mean that there had to be bones to make them brittle oh well she had already anwsered
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Mrs. Weasley Sidney looks through her Potion textbook. She finds the Asphodel roots mentioned, but nothing on the leaves. Apparently the root is an ingredient in the Draught of Living Death. There is a mention of the ancient Greeks also using the root's pulp was used in the treatment of joint and nerve diseases. The roots also contain a certain amount of alkaloids:
The plant also has an association with the dead. In Hades the Asphodel Meadows were the places where the dead who possessed both evil and good characteristics lived. Asphodel is also the food the dead eat. I never knew the dead needed to eat. I wonder if that is why we add the leaves to this potion. Let's face it when the body decomposes, all that's left is the bones. I think the alkaliods are more like muggle drugs. Doubt they would have anything to do with growing bones. All this imformation and I still can't come up with a logical reason why we put the leaves in this potion.
Sidney raises her hand. Professor Lafay hasn't had an opportunity to yell at her in a while. I'm sure yelling at me will make her day. "Professor in ancient Greek Mythology, Hades has a meadow called Asphodel Meadow. The dead also ate this plant. Muggles also associate the Asphodel plant with death. They often plant this plant in cemetaries. When we die and the body decomposes, all that is left is our bones. Could that be the reason why these leaves are included in the potion?" I know it's the craziest answer ever given, but I can't come up with anything else that makes sense.
... She looked at the girls and said, "Uhmmm no."
She sighed. "It aids in the healing process, and has some of the minerals required for bone growth." She said and raised the marrow. "This bone marrow is an important ingredient in a bone regrowth potion. It's a magical creature's and not a human's though. The reason for that, is that a human bone's marrow won't magically adapt itself to the DNA of the patient, while this creature can. Which creature's bone marrow do you think this is?"