Miranda walked back to her desk, now with her second acorn and began to lit the fire under her cauldron and then poured the water into it.

Acorns looked funny, chocolaty brown... Hmmm, she was getting hungry, and the acorns were infact not chocolate... She noticed the water was boiling now and proceeded to add all the remaining ingredienses into the cauldron.

She stirred the liquid and kept a close watch on the clock. Miranda did not want to mess this up!

Blah... he'd cross that bridge when he came to it. Jake read through the instructions twice, to make sure he understood- for the most part, anyways -and then copied down the ingredients and instructions.

Then, he collected the ingredients. But something struck his memory before he could light the flame. Up his hand went again.

"Sir..." he began, hesitantly. "We have to consume this?" Jake bit his lip. Well, he wouldn't be the first one... Jake couldn't exactly trust someone he'd just really... well, met.

Nervously, Jake lit the fire and started boiling the water.

Melanie was eager to start mixing ingredients, but she desparetly hoped it would be nothing like cooking. She was an awful cook.
Anyway, the professer looked nice. She was a bit shocked when he gave them the choice of knowing what the potion was before or after they tried it. Of course she wanted the after choice. "Oo, professer can we do it afterwards!" she asked eagerly. Her face paled abit at the mention of an acid potion. "Or not...."
She hastily copied down the instructions and lit a fire under her cauldron. It was used, but it did the trick anyway. Next Melanie walked up to his desk, her brown hair swishing behind her. Speaking a quiet thank you to the professer, she took the ingredients from his desk and began walking back to her desk where the black cauldron was now sizzling. She stumbled and an acorn went flying. Oops. She bit her lip and searched for it on her hands and knees. The Melanie finnaly found it under her own desk. She blushed and picked it up. It had some dirt and a peice of hair on it, but she shrugged not thinking any thing of it and threw the acorn carelessly into her cauldron as well as her remaining ingredients.

When it was ready. Spence carefully tried not to spill it. Whichit almost did. Gasp! It almost tipped but she got it. Whew she ws done.

Damian, that is a nice name. Lasca smiled at his question. "So far? Interesting. I am thinking it is interesting to be brewing something and have no idea what it is. And you?" After the water started bioling she followed the further instructions and stirred the ingrediants for 5 minutes. Then she removed the couldron from the fire and stirred once every minute for 5 minutes. Taking a peek inside, she couldn't decide what to call that particular color. Hmmm, have I dont it incorrectly?

Sakura quickly and precisely copied down the instructions before getting the ingredients that she would need and setting to work.

10 minutes later her potion was ready, as far as she could tell it was perfect, and she quickly, safely and efficiently stored her potion in several vials, no way was she going to ingest it.

5 minutes after Ana remove it from the flame and stired once a minute for 5 minutes. Then she let it cool. "Ah... Professor... will we have to drink this?" she asked fearing his anwser.

Lizzie happily watched her potion, it was ready. She was thankful the professor had started with something quite simple; she didn't remember much from last year. As she glanced around she briefly smiled at Chris who sat a few seats away from her. She glanced around, watching the other students finish their potions.

As his water began to boil, Jake panicked.

Right... erm...

"Let's say acorn's are eggs..." he began muttering to himself. "The outer is the shell... and the inside is the animal... like the meat..." Jake looked at the acorn and pulled the shell thing, that looked like a hat, off. "So this must be the yolk-I mean meat..."

Hoping for the best, Jake crushed what remained and repeated this with the second acorn. Just as the water began to call attention to the fact that it had, indeed, boiled, Jake added the crushed acorn... thing... the pinch of billywig wings and one dram of scurvy grass.

Next, flinching for fear of explosion, Jake began to stir, and did so for 5 minutes.

After stirring it for five minutes, Miranda removed the cauldron carefully from the fire. Burning her precious chaser hands was not a an option... Wow, that was a bit vain... She looked at her hands.

No time to worry about that now because the potion still needed more stirring!

Miranda grabbed the spoon and watched the clock again. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand Go!

4 minutes to go...3 minutes...2 min- oh I wonder if they have chicken for dinner? Oops time's up!
Looking inside the cauldron, she saw the liquid changing colors. It was pretty awesome, and she had made it!

As she waited for it to cool, her big dark eyes scanned the room. Everyone was working over their cauldrons, and it made her wonder what sort of potion they were making.
The professor had said that no harm would come of it, which was a big relief. Ofcourse, no teacher could be that irresponsible, right?

Touching the liquid with her pinky finger, it felt lukewarm and she decided it was ready!
Hooraaaaay!

Miranda had followed all the instructions, and still had three more minutes she was supposed to stir for. She had only had one little flub so far, a tiny piece of acorn shell had got in the cauldron. Hopefully it wouldn't make a difference.

Looking around as she stirred, she saw that several students were already done.

Looking back into her cauldron, she sniffed. It smelled funny. But she had no clue what it was, so maybe it was supposed to.

One minute left to stir.

"Oh I like it. But I don't know if Iam really good. I tried with my father but every thrid cauldron exploded hehe" laughed Damian while checking his potion.

Natka set up her cauldron and began boiling the water, at the same time checking she had everything else she needed.

Water's already here, the acorns are here, some billywigs... how much were there meant to be? Oh yes, a pinch... right here... oh, I don't have the scurvy grass, the girl cast one last worried glance at her almost-boiling water before rushing off for the scurvy grass.

By the time she returned, the water was boiling, indicating that it was high time to add the ingredients.

Here goes nothing, she thought, dropping in eveything one by one and stirring gently with her other hand.

Hmmm...hardcore excited? Hardly. "I wanted to say hello as you are Mariel's friend and I am too.I thought it would be nice if we got along.I wasn't 'hardcore excited' as you put it,just being polite."
Looking round at Mariel,Sarah smiled. "I'm sorry Mariel,I won't argue with him again.Perhaps it would be best not to open my mouth at all," she said turning back to Nate, "seeing as what I say,and how I say it,can be so misconstrued."
She didn't mean to be touchy,but an innocent situation and comment had turned into an arguement she wasn't expecting.Hearing Nathaniel apologise did make her soften slightly though. "Maybe next time you won't jump to conclusions and laugh at people either!" she snapped.Dammit why was she like this? Must be the atmosphere in the room.Were boys always this infuriating?

A friendly face appeared next to her,making Sarah smile once more.She giggled slightly,putting her hand up to cover her face so not to be seen.Leaning in to Lasca,Sarah nodded. "He does only seem to notice and chat openly with Mariel....but you're right,we don't need boys," she added returning the wink her friend gave her. "Although I suppose when he is with Mariel we shall have to be nice...after today obviously.Not got off to a good start."

Walking up to the front Sarah grabbed all the ingredients she needed and proceeded to follow all the steps laid out by the Professor.She lit her cauldron before starting to crush her acorns,humming to herself all the while.
Once the water was boiled she added all the bits and pieces and stirred for 5 minutes.
Looking down she wondered what it was supposed to look like.Taking it off the fire,she continued stirring every minute until it was ready.
Then she carefully poured it into the vials on the desk and stood back to admire her handy work.
"I really hope I'm not going to have to drink this now..."

"Oh... oops," he laughed at himself and rubbed the chalk away.

"The meat of the acorn is what's inside. Sometimes the edible pat of a nut is referred to as the meat," he explained.

"I'm going to go around and check the potions once we're done and you'll all have a chance to sample your potions. In fact, I'll even participate. Just make sure you wait for me before you sample."


ooc note: I will be leaving the class open for about another 22 hours so that those in other time zones who would like to participate in brewing can do so. After that I will have the professor start the tasting. :)

Jake nodded at the professor's words, hoping that he'd done it right.

The 5 minutes were up, and so the concoction was taken down from the flame and jake started to stir once a minute for five minutes. He bit his lip again as the first minute ticked by, still not thrilled at having to drink acorn and bug juice (he was a vegetarian after all) but his anxieties lifted a little when Professor Bontecou said he'd check and join in.

The next minute had gone, and so Jake stirred again. Three minutes to go...

After double-checking she had followed all the instructions, Miranda poured the potion from her cauldron into vials. Then, there was nothing to do but wait for the Professor to come around, and hope she had gotten it right.

Lasca giggled at Damian's comment. After stirring once every minute for 5 minutes, she took out three vials and filled them up. Putting stoppers in all three vials, the young girl cleaned up her mess and waited for further instructions. Looking back at Damian she said, "My Papa never allowed me to help when brewing. I was allowed to help with small magic however. I bet having cauldrons explode wasn't very fun, was it?"

She was truely puzzled why would anyone chuckle at exploding cauldrons, or exploding anything for that matter. Sarah spoke at her elbow then drawing the young Ravenclaw's attention. "I get as far as saying hello and then...nothing. He does seem to pay attention when Mariel is near though. I suppose that pleasentries are all that we should extend. For propriety's sake." She gave her friend a smile and then glanced at the boy in question. Nathaniel hadn't really said anything to her, but she gave him a wave just the same.

John copied the instruction, to make sure he did it right.

So the first thing he needed to do was boil the water. He felt that was easy and then he had to add the ingredients. He made sure he crushed the meat of both the acorn before adding just them in. He then added a pinch of billywug wings. Final he had to add a dram of Scurvy-grass.

Once John had done that he stired constantly for 5 minutes. He then removed from the flim and stired again for 5 minutes. Boy was this hard work thought John. He then allowed it to cool and whilest it was doing so he was having a rest. Then finaly he added it all into a vial.

The potion had cooled it, so she poured it into the vials and waited for the profesor.

The cauldron began to bubble and steam and really stink. The bubbling became more and more rapid and suddenly, a head popped up out of the liquid, face to face with the girl.

"Splish, splash, Peeves is taking a bath!" Peeves sang as he burst up out of the cauldron, showering students in every direction with charteuse, stinky warm fluid.


Peeves hovered above the students and shook the potion off his clothes, hailing down still more potion over the students. "Oh, loooooooook, it's uglifying potion and it's Woooooorking!" he cackled.

"OOoooh! Little girly brewed up Peeves, he's got potions on his sleeves..." he sang merrily. He rung out his sleeves over a girl's head and then flew up to the ceiling, laughing and doing somersaults in the air.