Oliver turned away from the group of girls at his table to look at Professor Lafay, the overwhelming need to giggle overcoming him. Horses? Heh! That was funny wasn't it? But Lafay wasn't a HORSE, was she? Not at all. Silly him.

But Professor Lafay didn't look like one for jokes, so he kept his face straight and mumbled a “Sorry, Professor.” She had a fair point after all.

He listened to a number of kids giving their replies about what a De-Aging potion was, choosing to remain quiet and not give the same answer as all of them.

They were going to be toddlers for the lesson? Oh Merlin.. of all the potions lessons he'd been to so far, this one seemed the most disturbing. He was seventeen.. he wasn't sure he liked the idea of his peers seeing him as a curly-haired weirdo tot. Ahem.

Worries aside, he raised his hand deciding to have a stab at her next question.

“Professor, could it possibly contain Phoenix tears.. or feathers perhaps? Cos they have a perpetual life span, don't they? Like once their body starts to fail, say of old age, they're reborn young once again.”

Or something.