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Callie · 05-13-2016, 01:50 PM

SPOILER!!: Kitty-Kat, Mossy, and Strawberry Shortcake

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Originally Posted by Goblinfrog

And then...

HADDIE had transformed into a very small child. Kitty's mouth dropped open in amazement. "Oh my God, Haddie!" She stood from her chair and approached little Haddie and Katherine, an incredulous look on her face. "Is that really you? How do you feel being little? How old are you exactly? Were you really this adorable when you were a kid?" She fired off questions one after the other without barely any pauses in between.

It had to be potions.

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Originally Posted by StarShine

Well, Katherine wasn't about to watch every single movement of Haddie (she would absolutely LOVE to, to be honest, but she had a potion to brew either). Therefore, she completely missed it when Haddie didn't swap the tortoise shell. She also didn't see that the slices had got bigger, because she was busy cutting her own caterpillar (which deserved about five points for being so BRILLIANT at it, Mr. Newton).

"You're welcome, Denaker," she said and smiled back. She knew 'Moss' wasn't her surname!Moss, but she was going to take it so.

Anyways, she had added wine and prune juice now, so it was time for stirring slowly clockwise (always clockwise) and watching out for bubbles. She realised that they were going to stir always and never stop, so she focused on the speed of her stirring for a bit. For a perfect potion, she had to keep it at the same speed. This... was fine, it didn't tire her arm much, so she started to watch out for the bubbles. The colour had also begun changing, and soon enough, it was dark purple/brown as foreseen, with bubbles forming. Her left hand was still stirring as her right grabbed the FIRST ingredient in line - which was, of course, the mashed fungus - added it carefully, and grabbed the five-minute hourglass. She would just reverse it once it was up.

Arranging all this with one hand while keeping stirring had been VERY hard, and Katherine could see why it was an advanced potion, but she managed all with success - except, of course, while doing all of this, she completely missed Haddie's mistake of stirring in the wrong direction. Because honestly, she sometimes thought that everyone was like her and that they read the instructions 738 times before carrying them out. Anyway, when she did look over, Haddie's potion was going well as well, so she felt even more confident and proud. She - no, they - nono, SHE was going to do it. She was going to brew two PERFECT advanced potion, and then she would get an invitation to The Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers.

Ahhhhh.

When the first round of her five-minute hourglass was done, she reversed it and after ten minutes were up, at last, she noted the faded colour and grabbed the second ingredient: tortoise shell. She added that and side-eyed Haddie's cauldron. She was glad to see she was still going well. She set the one-minute hourglass first like Haddie did and after about two minutes, her potion did take a creamy colour. She was going to do it!!! Although, her arm was beginning to get tired, and even though she was SURE there was a spell for stirring, she didn't know what and it was so tiring... nononono, she kept the pace. She wasn't about to give up, just when she was about to get an invitation to MESoP. It was HER fault for not looking up the spell before coming to this class. Next time, she would look it up, but for now, she had to keep up. So she mentally quit her own mentally whining and focused...

As soon as the five-minute hourglass was up, she extinguished the fire, pleased that Haddie did the same, and while STILL stirring (though she might have slowed down a little), she added the bat tongue and caterpillar. Five more minutes of boring stirring...

...did she still have an arm?..

She quickly passed the stirrer to her right hand and stirred and stirred and stirred. The first thing she would do after class was learning the stirring spell, but for now, she tried to do her best.

FINALLY the time was up! She removed the stirrer more or less at the same time as Haddie, checked the colour (creamy green, YAY!) and looked at Haddie's.

It would turn emerald soon, right?

"You're welcome," she said, smiled and once her own potion was the emerald green the professor had mentioned, she poured some into a vial for him to grade. She carefully labelled it and turned to watch Haddie. She didn't want to drink the potion right away, though, ~~in case anything went wrong and since Haddie was willing to demonstrate~~ since she first had to clean her working area, so she started re-cleaning all her equipment and putting them away in her bag as Haddie got ready to drink. She readied a very smug but also polite smile for the congratulations of the professor. 'Thank you, Miss Moss, for helping your troubled friend. She had improved dramatically under your supervision. I'm sure you'll be a great potioneer one -

................??????????!!!!!!!!!!????????????

NO. NONONONO THIS WAS NOT HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN! Katherine watched the CHILD!Haddie with big, frightened eyes - she wasn't frightened for Haddie, but for herSELF. She then looked at the professor with the same dread - no, - and felt her eyes burning with rage/despair/disappointment/hopelessness.

"Sir!" she rushed to the man, "I swear I was looking and her potion was going WELL and I don't even know where she made wrong IswearIwaslooking but I don't know what happened oh -" She stopped talking abruptly to look AGAIN at what was supposed to be an older Haddie with the hope that if she looked HARDER, Haddie would just GROW.

If this was a sick prank of Haddie Denaker to make Katherine look stupid, she was DEAD.

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Originally Posted by Ameh

Speaking of people trying their potions, it appeared that other students had already. There was a girl that looked super duper old how... and was that Hadley?! A teeny tiny Hadley Denaker?! Jaemin slipped out of his seat and sneaked a little closer, looking at her curiously.

"You're little," he whispered, almost gleefully. Cute little itty bitty Hadley! This was so cool! How had she done that?!

...hopefully his potion wouldn't do the same to him.

The seven year old blinked at the much older kids surrounding her. Where the hell was she? Was this some sort of strange cult of fashion victims? Because that's what it seemed like. Was she their latest victim? Were they trying to convert her?

And most importantly, could she explore this castle? 'Cuz obviously it was a castle. Duh.

On top of the weird, really old dude with the rat, she was having her space invaded by a new teen girl (Kitty) and probably the biggest fashion victim of them all...I mean, robes and goth make-up? She'd actually feel sorry for the girl if she wasn't yelling and being way too freaky way too close. Kid Haddie's eyes grew wide at the approaching, and yelling girl, and she scooted a few inches away before regarding the girl like she was some sort of freak.

Because, honestly, everyone in the room kinda was...

Half the girl's questions were confusing. Didn't she just say she was Haddie? That was, Haddie assumed, how the teen knew her name. She'd just heard her say it. "I'm seven." Her tone matched the look she was giving Kitty exactly. Duh. "And I'm not little! I'm perfectly average height!" Thank you very much!

And suddenly there was another girl (Mossy) shooting her looks like she was trying to will Haddie to explode or something... uh, no thank you. The seven year old shucked off the ugly robe she was wearing and noticed for the first time she was holding a stick. A black wooden stick with silver and gold--were those eagles?--inlaid into it. The eagles turned into silver and gold streaks that spiraled to the tip.

It was pretty and already in her hand, so she was keeping it.

Free of her robes, Kid Haddie stood to her full 3'9" height. Perfectly average for a seven year old thank you! She was swimming in her ugly school uniform like clothes, and had to adjust her belt a lot to get the skirt to simply stay on. What, they couldn't dress her in ugly clothes her size?

Not too much to ask, was it?

The second girl was muttering something frantically to the old dude with the rat, but Haddie didn't care enough to pay attention. Something else caught her eye. To dolls sticking partially out of a canvas messenger bag. Unknown to the seven year old, the dolls belonged to her--a gift from Rachel representing the two of them. All Kid Haddie knew was one of them looked like her and she wanted them. And then there was another kid (Jaemin)...no, he was just a really short teen, showed up, whispering about how tiny she was.

She was quite done with this freaky cult of the badly dressed thank you very much! Haddie looked at him, then the others, then back to him. "Yeah, so are you." She snatched the dolls out of the bag and ran for the door.

05-13-2016, 01:50 PM	#199 (permalink)
Callie DMC Snidget Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Never Never Land Posts: 2,717 Hogwarts RPG Name: Andromeda Renzler-Denaker Gryffindor First Year	Post 10 - Whaaaa? Who are you people!? Fluttery Pegasi SPOILER!!: Kitty-Kat, Mossy, and Strawberry Shortcake Quote: Originally Posted by Goblinfrog And then... HADDIE had transformed into a very small child. Kitty's mouth dropped open in amazement. "Oh my God, Haddie!" She stood from her chair and approached little Haddie and Katherine, an incredulous look on her face. "Is that really you? How do you feel being little? How old are you exactly? Were you really this adorable when you were a kid?" She fired off questions one after the other without barely any pauses in between. It had to be potions. Quote: Originally Posted by StarShine Well, Katherine wasn't about to watch every single movement of Haddie (she would absolutely LOVE to, to be honest, but she had a potion to brew either). Therefore, she completely missed it when Haddie didn't swap the tortoise shell. She also didn't see that the slices had got bigger, because she was busy cutting her own caterpillar (which deserved about five points for being so BRILLIANT at it, Mr. Newton). "You're welcome, Denaker," she said and smiled back. She knew 'Moss' wasn't her surname!Moss, but she was going to take it so. Anyways, she had added wine and prune juice now, so it was time for stirring slowly clockwise (always clockwise) and watching out for bubbles. She realised that they were going to stir always and never stop, so she focused on the speed of her stirring for a bit. For a perfect potion, she had to keep it at the same speed. This... was fine, it didn't tire her arm much, so she started to watch out for the bubbles. The colour had also begun changing, and soon enough, it was dark purple/brown as foreseen, with bubbles forming. Her left hand was still stirring as her right grabbed the FIRST ingredient in line - which was, of course, the mashed fungus - added it carefully, and grabbed the five-minute hourglass. She would just reverse it once it was up. Arranging all this with one hand while keeping stirring had been VERY hard, and Katherine could see why it was an advanced potion, but she managed all with success - except, of course, while doing all of this, she completely missed Haddie's mistake of stirring in the wrong direction. Because honestly, she sometimes thought that everyone was like her and that they read the instructions 738 times before carrying them out. Anyway, when she did look over, Haddie's potion was going well as well, so she felt even more confident and proud. She - no, they - nono, SHE was going to do it. She was going to brew two PERFECT advanced potion, and then she would get an invitation to The Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers. Ahhhhh. When the first round of her five-minute hourglass was done, she reversed it and after ten minutes were up, at last, she noted the faded colour and grabbed the second ingredient: tortoise shell. She added that and side-eyed Haddie's cauldron. She was glad to see she was still going well. She set the one-minute hourglass first like Haddie did and after about two minutes, her potion did take a creamy colour. She was going to do it!!! Although, her arm was beginning to get tired, and even though she was SURE there was a spell for stirring, she didn't know what and it was so tiring... nononono, she kept the pace. She wasn't about to give up, just when she was about to get an invitation to MESoP. It was HER fault for not looking up the spell before coming to this class. Next time, she would look it up, but for now, she had to keep up. So she mentally quit her own mentally whining and focused... As soon as the five-minute hourglass was up, she extinguished the fire, pleased that Haddie did the same, and while STILL stirring (though she might have slowed down a little), she added the bat tongue and caterpillar. Five more minutes of boring stirring... ...did she still have an arm?.. She quickly passed the stirrer to her right hand and stirred and stirred and stirred. The first thing she would do after class was learning the stirring spell, but for now, she tried to do her best. FINALLY the time was up! She removed the stirrer more or less at the same time as Haddie, checked the colour (creamy green, YAY!) and looked at Haddie's. It would turn emerald soon, right? "You're welcome," she said, smiled and once her own potion was the emerald green the professor had mentioned, she poured some into a vial for him to grade. She carefully labelled it and turned to watch Haddie. She didn't want to drink the potion right away, though, ~~in case anything went wrong and since Haddie was willing to demonstrate~~ since she first had to clean her working area, so she started re-cleaning all her equipment and putting them away in her bag as Haddie got ready to drink. She readied a very smug but also polite smile for the congratulations of the professor. 'Thank you, Miss Moss, for helping your troubled friend. She had improved dramatically under your supervision. I'm sure you'll be a great potioneer one - ................??????????!!!!!!!!!!???????????? NO. NONONONO THIS WAS NOT HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN! Katherine watched the CHILD!Haddie with big, frightened eyes - she wasn't frightened for Haddie, but for herSELF. She then looked at the professor with the same dread - no, - and felt her eyes burning with rage/despair/disappointment/hopelessness. "Sir!" she rushed to the man, "I swear I was looking and her potion was going WELL and I don't even know where she made wrong IswearIwaslooking but I don't know what happened oh -" She stopped talking abruptly to look AGAIN at what was supposed to be an older Haddie with the hope that if she looked HARDER, Haddie would just GROW. If this was a sick prank of Haddie Denaker to make Katherine look stupid, she was DEAD. Quote: Originally Posted by Ameh Speaking of people trying their potions, it appeared that other students had already. There was a girl that looked super duper old how... and was that Hadley?! A teeny tiny Hadley Denaker?! Jaemin slipped out of his seat and sneaked a little closer, looking at her curiously. "You're little," he whispered, almost gleefully. Cute little itty bitty Hadley! This was so cool! How had she done that?! ...hopefully his potion wouldn't do the same to him. The seven year old blinked at the much older kids surrounding her. Where the hell was she? Was this some sort of strange cult of fashion victims? Because that's what it seemed like. Was she their latest victim? Were they trying to convert her? And most importantly, could she explore this castle? 'Cuz obviously it was a castle. Duh. On top of the weird, really old dude with the rat, she was having her space invaded by a new teen girl (Kitty) and probably the biggest fashion victim of them all...I mean, robes and goth make-up? She'd actually feel sorry for the girl if she wasn't yelling and being way too freaky way too close. Kid Haddie's eyes grew wide at the approaching, and yelling girl, and she scooted a few inches away before regarding the girl like she was some sort of freak. Because, honestly, everyone in the room kinda was... Half the girl's questions were confusing. Didn't she just say she was Haddie? That was, Haddie assumed, how the teen knew her name. She'd just heard her say it. "I'm seven." Her tone matched the look she was giving Kitty exactly. Duh. "And I'm not little! I'm perfectly average height!" Thank you very much! And suddenly there was another girl (Mossy) shooting her looks like she was trying to will Haddie to explode or something... uh, no thank you. The seven year old shucked off the ugly robe she was wearing and noticed for the first time she was holding a stick. A black wooden stick with silver and gold--were those eagles?--inlaid into it. The eagles turned into silver and gold streaks that spiraled to the tip. It was pretty and already in her hand, so she was keeping it. Free of her robes, Kid Haddie stood to her full 3'9" height. Perfectly average for a seven year old thank you! She was swimming in her ugly school uniform like clothes, and had to adjust her belt a lot to get the skirt to simply stay on. What, they couldn't dress her in ugly clothes her size? Not too much to ask, was it? The second girl was muttering something frantically to the old dude with the rat, but Haddie didn't care enough to pay attention. Something else caught her eye. To dolls sticking partially out of a canvas messenger bag. Unknown to the seven year old, the dolls belonged to her--a gift from Rachel representing the two of them. All Kid Haddie knew was one of them looked like her and she wanted them. And then there was another kid (Jaemin)...no, he was just a really short teen, showed up, whispering about how tiny she was. She was quite done with this freaky cult of the badly dressed thank you very much! Haddie looked at him, then the others, then back to him. "Yeah, so are you." She snatched the dolls out of the bag and ran for the door. __________________ Last edited by Callie; 05-13-2016 at 04:00 PM.