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There was no way she was going to let herself back out of this. Melbourne Johanson was going to poison herself. Well…she was going to do this for class. “Yeah, of course I’ll go uh…get the poison then.” She nodded and grinned when Madge mentioned the Bezoar stones being gross.
“Uh…no kidding I mean they get them out of goats” she crinkled her nose in disgust before heading to grab the elixir. Returning to the table and sitting she watched as Madge continued mixing the potion.
“okay…here goes then” she muttered as she uncorked the potion and lifted it to her lips befroe swallowing.
Madge, still waiting the five minutes as her timer ticktickticked away, looked at Mel.
How are you feeling?" she asked tentatively.
"You don't look any different... so far anyway..." she told Mel of her observation. Maybe her side effects would be more mild. It was almost sickening brewing a potion while others were up-chucking into their cauldrons.
ticktickticktockticktickticktockticktick DING!
Madge was startled momentarily before she realized her timer had just gone off. She set it aside and glanced back at her notes. One pinch of Unicorn horn, eh?
She grabbed the bottle and stuck her little fingers in and plonked the pinch into her cauldron. She grabbed her stirring spoon and stirred twice clockwise, in big swooping stirs which made her whole upper body move with the spoons movements.
Unicorn horn... wait as in REAL unicorn horn? It suddenly struck Madge. She knew that unicorns were real, she learned that in a Care of Magical Creatures... but using their horns?
Madge's hand shot up quickly, she had a questions for the professor.
"Professor, where do you get your unicorn horn stores from?" what she REALLY wanted to know was whether unicorns were like elephants where they were killed or hurt for their ivory tusks. Were unicorns hurt or killed for this ingredient? or was it sourced from already dead unicorns?
She didn't even know much about unicorns now other than they exist and drinking their blood will keep you alive... but it's considered very wrong to kill a unicorn for its blood. So wouldn't that mean they shouldn't kill for it's horn?