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Originally Posted by keepmeclose22  Austin thought back for a moment. "Um, a few months. It took long enough to figure out what ingredients to use." He mainly stuck with things that related to the moon, such as moonstone powder. His favorite part, though, was the fact that the potion glowed in the dark. Just getting that was an accomplishment in his book. Speaking of accomplishments, his face reddened when he was complimented. No one had said that about his potion before. "Thank you so much professor."
The Ravenclaw listened to the new professor talk about notebooks. "I find that it's better than parchment. Everything is in one place." His father had given him the notebook in his first year, thinking it would help. He had tried parchment for the first month or so, but eventually switched to notebooks. The boy kept losing all of the pages, and it was a hassle to study from. Now he only used them for letters and homework.
"I have found that to be true a lot of times in Potions." He also made a mental note to write down what the professor said in his notebook. That was a good thing to keep in mind. Especially during class. Austin had a tendency to get frustrated when things didn't go his way.
"It's quite an interesting potion. It gives the drinker the appearance of an animal. Although they still feel like a human. A very interesting feeling indeed." But once he got the feeling of it, he quite enjoyed being a wolf. "Mmm, mmm, right," Art said, nodding his head in agreement. The researching of ingredients was quite time-consuming, Art would definitely agree. Art nodded again, "Well... that's... that's okay," he said. Of course the young man had done a good job. And a good job deserved praise.
"Mmm I agree completely, Austin. I uhh... sometimes find a pen works bet-better than a quill." He found the ink too messy and smudgy. Picking up a pen was sometimes quicker than picking up a quill, opening the bottle, and dipping it in.
Art let out a chuckle, happy to hear Austin had found that to be true too. "Most of my uhh my creations have been found by mistake. Mmm... It's often where the difference between the uhhh the uhhh... the curious and experimental creators, and the careful once. Both are... both are right in their methods, though," he added quickly, not wanting to make Austin feel like he needed to change his approach to potion making. "One potion can be brewed differently and... sometimes... not always, sometimes it has the same results."
"The appearance of an animal," Art exclaimed, hands going to his chin to stroke it. "I'll-I'll have to brew that one for myself." He rummaged in a desk for a pen and paper and wrote the potion down for future reference, as well as what Austin had said about the potion. He laughed, "I bet it was an interesting feeling! What did you turn into?" he asked, curious. Quote:
Originally Posted by DuckyLinJi "There small packages that you throw in a fire and the fire changes colors. Its really cool and i would show you but Professor Dakest, he was the previous defence teacher, left so now i cant" seeing as they had been his.
Taking the cup of tea, Yoongi did not drink from it immediately but held it in his hands. Scientists? He frowned and took a sip. "Yeah them, didn't i say that?" he thought he had.... Anyways, he listened and did not have a clue what the professor was talking about. Neuro what and a phys something? It sounded like they were muggle professions.
But when he mentioned that he was muggleborn , Yoongi smiled again. He understood that at least. "I'm muggle born as well" he said. " Well, both my parents are purebloods, im adopted you see" he explained. "at an early age so i know more about the magical world than the muggle but it still interests me, you know?" eh, he probably didnt but that did not matter.
At the topic of the feast, Yoongi sighed and then nodded his head. Yes, Professor Flamsteed had taken care of it. Had been pretty mellow about it after a nights sleep. "It did, the thing about Gryffindors is that we make a mess but always clean it up afterwards" he grinned as this time he meant it in the literal sense.
Alright, the question he had came here for apart from welcoming the man to Hogwarts. Yoongi looked around for a moment, trying to think of a way to asking. "i... Have a confession to make..." he said and ran a hand through his silver dyed hair. "Im a Troll at Potions, no really, i got a T for my OWL and most of the classes i just end up exploding the cauldron..." he laughed nervously. "But, the previous Professor, Professor Culloden had written something on my last homework paper but i was too proud to ask for help..." but now with a new Professor it would be different... "Anyway, he wrote that perhaps some kind of confident potion might help me focus more during Potions?" because apparently he could make potions but freaked out and messed up whenever he made a mistake. So my question is, can i have a vial or five....ten?"
There . He had askes it. It went surprisingly well, now he just hoped he would agree. "Ahhh," Art said, "Yes, yes I think I've heard of that before, actually..." it sounded like something he wanted to look into a bit more, do some research into the properties of the powder.
"Oh... d-didn't you? I.. nevermind." He didn't want to tell the lad that he had mispronounced the word. As long as he remembered it in the future. Science was a serious subject. "Oh yo...you... huuuh," he said, trying to work it out. "Y-you were... adopted by purebloods, but born muggleborn?" he asked. Yoongi further added to what he was saying, and Art thought he understood, nodding some more. "Right, right, I think... I think I understand. Yes. Well, that-that's very interesting. So, do you uhh... do you do muggle studies?"
Art laughed, "Yes, we do." He nodded more. Lots of nodding.
Art raised his eyebrows in question, and Yoongi confessed he had received a T in his Potions Owl. Art didn't want to chuckle at the young man, but exploding a cauldron? He couldn't suppress the grin that spread across his face. He wiped the smile from his face at the question, wanting to show some respect. "Ahh," he said, understanding what he was asking. He went to the back wall, where he had a cabinet of potions, and pulled one out. "This is what he must have been talking about," Art muttered to himself, pulling a smaller vial from another shelf. He decanted a few sploshes into the spare vial, corked it, and put a label on it. "Elixir of Confidence, one drop under the tongue half an hour before you need an effect," Art said with a serious tone. "One drop. The side effects of too much are... not nice. You'd be in the hospital wing for the night." And Merlin, after what he saw at the feast... that woman would scare the naughtiness from Art. "I... I wish to uh.. to say that, ummm, that... well if you need help, please know that... that I'm always free to talk." He didn't want the young man to struggle through, though it appeared his problem was with confidence, rather than his ability. But he was a Professor, and he had to show his students that his door was always open.
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