Celandine looked at the boy that had weirdly started humming then repeated her question for a moment before thinking about the new question and raising her hand to answer, "Well, first I guess powdered ginger would be drier than sliced ginger, so powdered ginger would be better to add to a dry mix and sliced ginger would be better for a liquid mix. And too much ginger makes your skin red because it is a rubefacient, so the more of the plant that is exposed to the potion, the more it would make your skin red on contact?"

Cela paused and checked her book to be sure she got the word right before continuing, hand still raised, "As for what it might do to the potion if it is sliced thicker... well I guess there would be less exposed surface area of the ginger and so less of its beneficial properties would be released into the potion, which in turn might make less of the properties of rattlesnake fang get released since usually when you add two ingredients together like that its because one or the other needs the other as a... catalyst? So that it has the desired effect. And maybe... the potion would be more bitter? Ginger is used to balance bitter flavour, and well some of these ingredients look like they'd be quite bitter... like the dragon saliva."

Celandine went back to the potion, slicing the ginger thinly and watching the potion show itself as dull yellow. How awesome was it that everyone in class seemed to be doing well? Even if they hadn't noticed the ginger discrepancy like she had? She added the drop of dragon saliva and while it was sinking, she used a silver knife to crush the rattlesnake fang. She added that to the sliced ginger and waited for the saliva to sink before adding both to the brew. 2 minutes of stirring. Celandine used her wand to stir again, watching the potion with interest as it slowly began to take form.

Daniel frowned and thinks a little before raising his hand... "Sir, I think that slicing the ginger a bit thicker will cause the potency of the potion to be less. I mean less swelling or shorter time of swelling will be experience as the effect of doing that." he said not sure of the answer.

He then mixed the crushed rattlesnake fang and the sliced ginger and stirred clockwise for two minutes and he removed the cauldron from the heat and stirred continuously for ten minutes, while waiting for the discussion.

He then grabbed a ladle and slowly transferred the potion into phials. He then grabbed his quill and labeled them as Swelling Potion.

Celandine removed the pewter cauldron from the heat and started stirring again, ten minutes of stirring this time? Eeeeek! She flipped over her little timer thingy and began to stir the potion again. She raised her hand to ask, "Excuse me, Sir? Do we get to learn how to brew the deflating draught as well? Since its the antidote to the swelling solution?"

Twilight looked up as ther professor answered them. Noe she was glad she hadnt gotten her fire started. She carefully took her ground gigner root and put it away and took out her paperthin sliced gingerroot instead.

Twilight raised her hand "SLicing gives ti more surface flavor than cubes, the thicker the less juice can escape in the same time."

Then she turned to Daniel and whispered "Could you help me get my fire started it wont start."

Cedric raised his hand"Professor,I think that slicing ginger will help to reveal it taste because when you crashed it the strong flavor of ginger will spread so the amount of ginger's flavor will be lesser...and crashing of gingers can spread out its bad smell"Cedric finished

Chris Potter raised his hand. "Professor i think the different ways you cut or crush the ginger realeases different flavors and juices. I think it just depends on what flavor is needed best for the potion."

Halfway through stirring! Celandine turned her timer over as it reached the 5 minute mark. Listening to other students answers, Celandine's eyes widened, wondering if it was simply about flavour. Flavour? Like in cooking? If you were going to flavour a potion to taste nommy, would it really be ginger as the first choice? Mulling over this, Cela decided that it couldn't simply be for flavour. Her brother always said that you shouldn't ever add unnecessary ingredients to a potion, every ingredient had a part to play. So with that logic, the ginger had to have a higher purpose than just flavouring. She continued stirring steadily with her wand, switching hands and picking up a quill to scratch out her musings in her notebook.

Herminny had turned in her potion and was thinking I should not have a problem with my potion cause I crushed those rattlesnakes to a pulp and then she sighed cause she was bored cause not everyone had finished yet and she wanted everyone to finish so they couild get to something new, and get on with class already.

"I'm not quite sure how that would relate to the question at hand, but let's see what some of your classmates have to say."

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Celandine looked at the boy that had weirdly started humming then repeated her question for a moment before thinking about the new question and raising her hand to answer, "Well, first I guess powdered ginger would be drier than sliced ginger, so powdered ginger would be better to add to a dry mix and sliced ginger would be better for a liquid mix. And too much ginger makes your skin red because it is a rubefacient, so the more of the plant that is exposed to the potion, the more it would make your skin red on contact?"

Cela paused and checked her book to be sure she got the word right before continuing, hand still raised, "As for what it might do to the potion if it is sliced thicker... well I guess there would be less exposed surface area of the ginger and so less of its beneficial properties would be released into the potion, which in turn might make less of the properties of rattlesnake fang get released since usually when you add two ingredients together like that its because one or the other needs the other as a... catalyst? So that it has the desired effect. And maybe... the potion would be more bitter? Ginger is used to balance bitter flavour, and well some of these ingredients look like they'd be quite bitter... like the dragon saliva."

"Very astute observations and conclusions. Let's see if anyone else can phrase it a bit more simply for the younger students."

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Daniel frowned and thinks a little before raising his hand... "Sir, I think that slicing the ginger a bit thicker will cause the potency of the potion to be less. I mean less swelling or shorter time of swelling will be experience as the effect of doing that." he said not sure of the answer.

"And there we have it, the bottom line, thicker slices will lead to a less potent potion. And for the reasons Miss *insert Celandine's character's last name here* outlined in her response."

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"Excuse me, Sir? Do we get to learn how to brew the deflating draught as well? Since its the antidote to the swelling solution?"

"Actually, I'm going to hold off on answering that question until later on in the lesson if that is okay," he smiled.

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Twilight raised her hand "SLicing gives ti more surface flavor than cubes, the thicker the less juice can escape in the same time."

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Originally Posted by cedricdiggory

"Professor,I think that slicing ginger will help to reveal it taste because when you crashed it the strong flavor of ginger will spread so the amount of ginger's flavor will be lesser...and crashing of gingers can spread out its bad smell"Cedric finished

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Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01

"Professor i think the different ways you cut or crush the ginger realeases different flavors and juices. I think it just depends on what flavor is needed best for the potion."

"Please be very careful when talking about flavour in potions class. This particular potion is not to be ingested so any reference to flavor is not relevant, unless we were speaking of using this particular potion as a poison."

Herminny raised her hand and said, "Crushing the ginger makes it more concentrated in the potion so the potion can be as effective as possible".

Daniel smiled... I knew it! he looks very proud of himself but he did not let anyone see him. He carefully arranged the phials that had been labeled with Swelling Potion in front of him.

He then listened to the Professor speak.

Cedric raised his hand.."professor,as Cela said powdered ginger was dry so it is better to put in dry mix why slice ginger would be better in liquid mix...Slice ginger was better in liquid mix because its natural juices or liquids contains by ginger without chemicals ...but the powdered ginger,I think it have chemicals like
in muggle world when the ginger have been process,,it contains different chemicals..."Cedric asnwered

With her fire finally started and the water boiling Twilight got started on her potion. She carefully folloed the directions step fot step. She put the ground houndstongue in the cauldron and stirred 22 times clockwise, checking the clock to make sure she stirred the right way. Then she put in the 3 lionfish quills and waited for it to boil. She let it boil for 5 minutes it was the palest of yellow. She then shakely added the one drop of dragon saliva. After it unk she added the crushed rattlesnake fang and sliced gingerroot to the potion and stirred it counterclockwise for two minutes. she sighed in relief. She extinguished her fire and continued to stir for 10 minutes.
Now to the difficult part ladling it into the labeled phials. and sighed with relief.
She carefully handed them in. and returned to her desk to listen to the rest of the lecture.

"Okay, Sir." Celandine responded when Bontecou said he'd answer her question later.

Celandine blinked, wondering how the hufflepuff boy who must have been a first year, knew her name. She listened to him and then ventured, "Or... you know, fresh ginger is wet, and thats why it is better in a wet mix. A powder might disperse unevenly or clump and not dissolve based on what other ingredients are in the potion. Plus, if it is just the essence of the ginger thats needed, then adding powdered ginger would be unneccessary. And when we powder or crush our ginger in the wizarding world," Celandine used one hand to point out the relevant part of the textbook, "We air dry it naturally, after crushing it with the mortar and pestle. We don't add muggle chemicals or use processed muggle ingredients." She told him helpfully, adding a smile before going back to her work.

The ten minutes being up, Celandine ladled the potion into phials and carefully labelled them.
She stoppered the top and handed it in before returning to her desk and cleaning her pewter cauldron and tidying up after herself.

Cedric smiled at Cela as she help him finishing his potion.."Thanks!Cela"Cedric said...maybe cela was wondering how I knew her name..Cedric thought..Cedric knew Cela's name because it is said by Professor Bontecou

Daniel was fiddling with his phials when he noticed that he put the wrong label on it... He lacks something. He grabbed his quill and added

There that's better.

Cedric ladle the potion in the phials and label them correctly...

Ana labeled the phials correctly

Chris potter listened intently to the Professor as he started to pour some of his potion into his phials.

ooc: I'm leaving this open so students can brew their potions but I won't be doing any other teaching. Professor Bontecou is distracted.

Blossom looked up at the instructions on the board.

She was surprised that she had all the ingredients while other students didn't. She started boiling her water and added the ingredients and stirred when needed to. Blossom loved potions class because it was so much like cooking. She loved to cook and she was good at it too!! She removed her cauldron from the fire and stirred for 10 minutes then started to ladle it into a phial. She quickly wrote her labeled the phial with her name-

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Swelling solution
Buffy Fineheart
Ravenclaw
First year.

She had wrote her name as Buffy as that was how she was registered in the school and how most teachers knew her and then handed her potion in, hoping for a good score.

Lina looked over the instructions carefully. She didn't know why anyone would want a swelling solution, but she would go ahead and see what she could do with it. It then occurred to her she may want to make it as directed. However, that was after she had ground her ginger and added in an extra stir. She thought a moment, then decided to continue with her little experiment. Before stirring for the additional ten minutes, she added in a small amount of doxy wing dust.

She stirred for the last ten minutes, her arm sore by the end of it, then bottled and labeled the three vials. With a sigh, she set up everything once more and continued to brew. This time, she was determined to make the potion as directed. She would just hand in two vials.

She realized soon that she was out of rattlesnake fangs, having used it in her last little experiment and the antidote for one of the other students she'd poisoned experimented on. That seemed to be happening more often. But the more she kept her experiments away from the professors, the more likely she was to be able to keep experimenting. At least she did fix the problems.

She paused midway towards the end of her potion, having been stirring so long, and switched hands. It was a little more clumsy, but she was used to having to switch after long sessions. Once finished she managed to get it into a vial and labeled. She brought both up to the desk to turn them in.

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Modified Swelling Solution:
Ground ginger
Extra ten seconds on top of two minutes of stirring
Sprinkling of Doxy wing dust added before stirring for 10 minutes

Arline Materia
Slytherin
First Year

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Swelling Solution

Arline Materia
Slytherin
First Year

She pocketed her own vials, cleaned up, and packed up her things before heading out of the classroom.

Mariel had taken her time setting up her cauldron, lighting a fire under it with her wand, and listened to the class discuss ginger as she waited for her water to boil. Thankful that the class had so far been undisrupted as she worked best with utmost concentration and no interruption, the second year pulled out her personal stores and once again glanced up at the instructions. As she arranged the required ingredients on her desk, Mariel noticed that she did not have any houndstongue, which she figured was because it wasn't as common an ingredient as some of the others.

The thirteen year old girl retrieved the ground houndstongue from the professor's desk and got back to her table just in time to add it to the now-boiling water. After stirring 22 times, she added three lionfish quills and glanced back at the instructions for the next step. As she waited for the in-progress potion to turn yellow, the Ravenclaw began thinly slicing her ginger in preparation of a later step.

Peering over the rim over her cauldron, Mariel was satisfied to see that the contents were the correct dull yellow and she added a drop of dragon saliva and quickly crushed the rattlesnake fang as she waited for the saliva to sink into the solution. Once done, she mixed the crushed fang and sliced ginger together, then dropped it into the bubbling potion as she began to stir.

Clockwise for two minutes. That wasn't too bad, and she removed her cauldron from the fire after the two minutes were up and she proceeded to continue her stirring. Glancing at her watch every few minutes and feeling like her arm would nearly fall off, the Ravenclaw finished after ten minutes. Inspecting her potion one last time to see that she was satisfied with its result, Mariel ladled a sample into a phial and labeled it before taking it up to the Headmaster's desk.

As Becca read through the ingredients list she knew that she had everything that she needed. She placed them on the table and began to measure her water. Ans as soon as it had reached the 500 mL mark, she stopped and poured it into her cauldron. Next, she added the houndstongue and stirred in an even clockwise motion whilst counting to 22. Once she had finished, she added the lionfish quills and picked up her stirrer. Oops! she thought looking at the directions which clearly stated do not stir, and set it down and sat as she waited for the 5 minutes to be up.

After 5 minutes Becca looked down at her potion which was a dull yellow, just as the directions had said that it would be. Then added one drop of dragon saliva. Now for more waiting. Becca thought impatiently. Waiting had never been something Becca was fond of.

Before she knew it, a few minutes had passed and crushed the rattlesnake fang, mixed it with ground ginger and added them to the potion. Then she stirred in a clockwise motion for 2 minutes which had passed rather quickly. Becca then took the pewter cauldron off of the fire and stirred for 10 additional minutes before using a ladle to scoop it into vials and quickly writing a label on it which clearly read:

Swelling Potion, April 2068
Rebecca A. Latrowski
1st Year, Ravenclaw

And then walked over to the Professor's desk and put it down gently.