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XanaSnape · 07-19-2009, 10:43 PM

The room remains mostly unchanged from your previous class. Although still housed in the former ancient runes classroom, the potions classroom still manages to retain its musty, creepy, dungeon atmosphere. Perhaps it is due to the way the flickering candlelight glints off the hundreds of potions jars and containers and vessels. Perhaps it is merely reflecting the somber attitude of the ancient and temperamental Professor Kazimeriz as you enter his domain.

The main floor of the classroom is filled with large work tables, each accompanied by two stools. Each seat in the class has a stand suitable for a standard cauldron and a small bunsen burner for a fire source beneath it.

The walls of the room are lined with shelves, laden with jars of every shape and size. The entire room is fastidiously neat, and all the jars have been organized according to size and shape. Each have uniform, detailed parchment-coloured labels describing their contents.

Most of the jars appear to be filled with innocous liquids or plant materials. However, many of the jars house more insidious ingredients: there is one jar that appears to be filled with bloated pickled toads, another stores fat eyeballs from an unknown mammal, and still others seem to contain the visceral organs of animals - spleens, newt tails, a whole jar filled with tiny black beetle eyes, and wriggling, fat flobberworms. There is one jar that appears to hold some sort of severed hand,suspended in gelatinous fluid as though it is waving to the class.

Black marble shelves alone the perimeter of the classroom hold a host of common lab equipment: stills, crucibles, mortars and pestles, an open jar filled with glass and wooden stirring rods, empty phials and corks, knives, evaporating dishes- everything a young potion maker may need is on hand. There is also a fairly large collection of ancient books on potion making at the back of the class.

At the front of the class, there is a chalkboard, a lectern, and a large locked cabinet which houses the more dangerous potion-making supplies and brewed potions. There is also a shelf lined with cauldrons that are steaming and bubbling, brewing whatever the professor is working on. A large worktable has been placed at the front of the class; on the left, there is an assortment of bottles and containers of varying sizes and shapes. Clustered to the right is a far larger grouping of bottles, containers, and phials.

The Professor is nowhere to be seen. The chalkboard reads simply:

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Originally Posted by CHALKBOARD NOTE

POTIONS 2: INGREDIENTS & PROCESS
Please take a seat, take out your texts and prepare to take notes. The professor will be with you momentarily. You may study your ingredients lists or you may talk quietly and respectfully amongst yourselves until I begin the class. PLEASE BE CERTAIN THAT YOU ARE WEARING LOOSE FITTING CLOTHING YOU ARE COMFORTABLE IN AND WHICH YOU DO NOT MIND DAMAGING. If you are not, please go change before class begins. Thank you.

ooc: Please go ahead and RP entering the class, but remember, the professor does not appear to be present! Class will start as soon as we have a fair number of students in the class and will run for at least 48 hours to give every time zone a fair chance for participation (and probably longer, knowing me.

) You may talk a fair bit between one another, but please don't make this a chat thread or I'll delete posts without further notice.

Thanks! ~Xana~

StarShine · 07-20-2009, 01:02 PM

Grace, feeling relaxed in comfortable and loose clothes, opened the chapter. She could never cast Accio, so she had to walk to the professor's table and get it by hand. Her mood got a bit down when she saw most of the students summon their journals. Gosh, she wondered how long it'd take her to get old and be able to do every spell.

The first year returned to her desk and waited for the professor.

Boy Wonder · 07-20-2009, 01:24 PM

Aaron opened his textbook to chapter 3 and prepared a quill. Summon his journal? Uh-Oh. What was the spell again? Appio? No, no, no. ACCIO. He then pointed his wand at the table and said the spell. "Accio... Aaron Anderson journal!" OK, faster this time. "Accio Aaron Anderson's journal!!!" This is NOT working. "ACCIO JOURNAL!!!" As he said that, a journal from another class shot out of his bag at hit him in the back of the head. "OW!" Fallon probably thinks this is hilarious. Aaron calmed himself down and pointed his wand at the table again. "Accio... journal." Nothing happened. Okay, forget this. He stood up, took three steps forward, grabbed his book, went back to his seat and sat down. There, that was easier.

Nixy! · 07-20-2009, 01:57 PM

Iris looked at Aaron and smiled at him in an at-least-you-did-the-spell! kind of way before taking out her own wand. "accio journal!" the book moved slightly, but didn't leave the desk oh for the love of merlin! ok, one more try, then I'm getting up to get it. "ACCIO JOURNAL!" The book flew on to her desk and Iris looked down at it, feeling proud of herself. Not wanting to show this new-found-proudness infront of Aaron, she quickly opened the book at the right page and began reading it whilst waiting for the professor to carry on the lesson.

XanaSnape · 07-20-2009, 05:12 PM

"It seems some of our firsties ought to spend a little more time on charms homework. Professor Ashby would be shocked." Kazimeriz snarked at those who retrieved their books muggle-style. "But I digress. During the last class, we went over a little bit about the process of potions brewing. Simply put: your potion's success or failure depends not only on WHAT you put in, or how much of each ingredient you use, but also the order you put the ingredients in and what you do during each step of the brewing process."

"We shall start this class with a little review. Who here can tell the class why your last potion was separated out into two specific steps, and why you had to alternate between counterclockwise and clockwise stirs during the first part of the potion brewing process?"

Mugglemad · 07-20-2009, 05:18 PM

Victoria put her hand up "Is it to allow the air to be introduced into the potion through alternating the stirring motions" .

Nixy! · 07-20-2009, 05:25 PM

Iris looked at Aaron as Professor Kazimeriz said this, and she frowned slightly. She looked back to the old professor and thought back to the last lesson, to try and remember why this was done.

Golden Monkey · 07-20-2009, 05:29 PM

William frowned, a slight gulp reverberating through his lips as he hesitantly raised his hand. "Professor, the potion was put into two steps to allow the potion to breath as it were while the first few ingredients were incorporated into the cauldron." he paused before adding, "And the rotating stirs were to allow air to be more incorporated and to allow the potion to become more mixed than it was already. Oh and it helps with the process too." err was that right? Hmm, time to check his notes.

MarcyMoo · 07-20-2009, 05:32 PM

Lucy looked at Professor Kazimeriz, confused. How was she supposed to know why she stirred clockwise then counter-clockwise? This was what she hated about potions, the questioning part. She was perfectly fine when making a potion, but when answering questions like the ones that the professor had asked were not her specialty.

So she decided to wait and listen for someone else to answer the questions and have the professor confirm if the answer was right before writing it down in her journel.

Boy Wonder · 07-20-2009, 05:33 PM

Ugh, how rude. I tried. That's all that should matter. And I DID perform the spell, just, not on the journal I wanted. Aaron pondered the question. he knew it, it was on the tip of his tounge. GAAAH! WHAT WAS IT???

Lissy Longbottom · 07-20-2009, 05:49 PM

Jack wrinkled his eyebrows in thought. Potions was SO difficult sometimes--why couldn't they just mix the potion and be done with it? Well, ok, that was a pretty stupid thought--after all, the theory behind potion making was obviously important too. It just hurt his brainnnnn.

He raised his hand, a look of uncertainty on his face. "Erm, was it seperated into two steps to let the air get it at?" he asked. "And I believe you go from clockwise to counterclockwise to that everything mixes together faster and more completely, and you don't let the potion sit too long and get all condensed and stuff." he answered. It was a wild guess, but it sounded good to him!

Mrs. Weasley · 07-20-2009, 07:10 PM

Abby missed the previous Potions Class because of detention. Miss Avalon is the second person to tell me I'm unteachable. All I did was divert my attention from my dancing to see what she wanted. Maybe she shouldn't be asking questions while I'm concentrating on learning the waltz. I'll never understand adults. They make things so much more complicated thant they should be. They can be soo hyper sometimes. Abby raises her hand. "I'm not 100% sure about the potion from the last lesson, but in general we cook potions heat potions to make sure all the ingredients mix together. Cooking at a high tempature will result in the ingredients sticking to the bottom of the pan if you do not stir constantly. Stirring clockwise and counteclockwise a set number of times helps the magical effects of the ingredients to blend together. Seperating the potion into two parts enables the certain ingredients to blend together and become a seperate potion so to speak. You then add the additional ingredients and allow them to blend together to create the potion desired."

GrapehSarah · 07-20-2009, 07:13 PM

Fallon had gotten her journal to get to her the first time she performed the charm. She listened as Professor Kazimeriz wanted to review the last lesson. Great. I don't remember a thing. She hoped that Aaron or someone else in the class could remember what went on during the last class.

Anna Banana · 07-20-2009, 07:28 PM

Raising her hand, Anna said, "As for reasons why we alternate the directions of our stirring between clockwise and counter-wise, we do this to reflect the fact that the potion we are brewing will ultimately end up changing one's mood. The changing from clockwise to counter-clockwise is an emphasis of the meaning of change. When we change directions, we are, in turn, gifting the potion with additional properties that will assist it in being capable of changing." She paused for a moment and took in a deep breath, using the time to think about the first question he'd asked in a little more detail. "As for why the potions were divided into two different stages, we did that to allow the first stage of ingredients to properly mix and settle before moving on to other steps and other ingredients."

She-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Psycho! · 07-20-2009, 09:22 PM

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Who here can tell the class why your last potion was separated out into two specific steps, and why you had to alternate between counterclockwise and clockwise stirs during the first part of the potion brewing process?"

Diane was starting to think no one would answer with what the professor said last class. She was mistaken; Anna did. However, she was a little too late since Diane had coincidentally raised her own hand at the same time. Ah, now she needed to come with an answer.

"There are many ways in which stirring complements the intention of the wizard or witch. In most cases, every potion implies change, thus stirring applies to most if not all of them.

"Some other factors can act on a potion, many of which signify change, like the waning and waxing of the moon and planetary alignments such as the position of Pluto. As for the potion we did last time in class... the alternation could also mean 'balance' or 'ambivalence', where change is emotions-wise.

"The reason it was divided in two steps is so that the potion can breath during those intervals. Plainly, it means there is at least a short period of pause where the preparation steps are noted... also because it results less overwhelming for a starting student than is to look at the complete formula all of the sudden." Smile.

Leeness · 07-20-2009, 10:03 PM

Why was Professor Kazimeriz so smart and so technical and yet so... old. Weren't old people supposed to be forgetful and insane (although, KraziKazi may possess the latter). But seriously, he was like a modern-day Dumbledore with spunk! and a mean glare. (Hugh Hefner, check. Dumbledore, double check. Who would be the next ingredient to the KaziPotion?)

"Sir," Varius raised his hand to try and answer the Potion Masters question, "There were two different stages because erm... a base? had to have been created first before making the finer distinguishing touches... you said yourself last lesson, both of the first stages for each of the Potions, both beginners and NEWTs were rather similar... but it was what occurred in the second stages that made the potions what they were meant to be."

Did that even make sense? Was it intelligent? He hoped it was intelligent -- he needed brownie points with Kazi-face! "As for the stirring... they are both different actions and therefore would result in different reactions. Just like turning right at a junction would take me to a different location than turning left... unless I was on a circuit of sorts... then I would end up in the same place. BUT!" he added quickly, coming to the defence of his own rather flawed imagery, "I'm sure there are potions out there where the direction in which you stir won't have any significant difference... just like... ya know, going round a circuit."

Oh boy. Potions was HARD.

dan arjay · 07-21-2009, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by XanaSnape

"It seems some of our firsties ought to spend a little more time on charms homework. Professor Ashby would be shocked." Kazimeriz snarked at those who retrieved their books muggle-style. "But I digress. During the last class, we went over a little bit about the process of potions brewing. Simply put: your potion's success or failure depends not only on WHAT you put in, or how much of each ingredient you use, but also the order you put the ingredients in and what you do during each step of the brewing process."

"We shall start this class with a little review. Who here can tell the class why your last potion was separated out into two specific steps, and why you had to alternate between counterclockwise and clockwise stirs during the first part of the potion brewing process?"

Daniel cleared his throat and raised his hand, "Professor, may I? I think the stirring was to mix the potion thoroughly." he paused and then said, "Separating the potion process into two steps is due to the fact the ingredients have different time to brew and if overdone it may give the potion an untoward reaction." he said and then thinks, Thanks to the cooking lessons.

XanaSnape · 07-21-2009, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Mugglemad

Victoria put her hand up "Is it to allow the air to be introduced into the potion through alternating the stirring motions" .

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Originally Posted by Monkey Princess

William frowned, a slight gulp reverberating through his lips as he hesitantly raised his hand. "Professor, the potion was put into two steps to allow the potion to breath as it were while the first few ingredients were incorporated into the cauldron." he paused before adding, "And the rotating stirs were to allow air to be more incorporated and to allow the potion to become more mixed than it was already. Oh and it helps with the process too." err was that right? Hmm, time to check his notes.

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Originally Posted by Miss Lissy Lou

Jack wrinkled his eyebrows in thought. Potions was SO difficult sometimes--why couldn't they just mix the potion and be done with it? Well, ok, that was a pretty stupid thought--after all, the theory behind potion making was obviously important too. It just hurt his brainnnnn.

He raised his hand, a look of uncertainty on his face. "Erm, was it seperated into two steps to let the air get it at?" he asked. "And I believe you go from clockwise to counterclockwise to that everything mixes together faster and more completely, and you don't let the potion sit too long and get all condensed and stuff." he answered. It was a wild guess, but it sounded good to him!

"It looks as though several students were not paying attention in the last class. How disappointing." He glared severely at the students who answered incorrectly.

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley

Abby missed the previous Potions Class because of detention. Miss Avalon is the second person to tell me I'm unteachable. All I did was divert my attention from my dancing to see what she wanted. Maybe she shouldn't be asking questions while I'm concentrating on learning the waltz. I'll never understand adults. They make things so much more complicated thant they should be. They can be soo hyper sometimes. Abby raises her hand. "I'm not 100% sure about the potion from the last lesson, but in general we cook potions heat potions to make sure all the ingredients mix together. Cooking at a high tempature will result in the ingredients sticking to the bottom of the pan if you do not stir constantly. Stirring clockwise and counteclockwise a set number of times helps the magical effects of the ingredients to blend together. Seperating the potion into two parts enables the certain ingredients to blend together and become a seperate potion so to speak. You then add the additional ingredients and allow them to blend together to create the potion desired."

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Originally Posted by dan arjay

Daniel cleared his throat and raised his hand, "Professor, may I? I think the stirring was to mix the potion thoroughly." he paused and then said, "Separating the potion process into two steps is due to the fact the ingredients have different time to brew and if overdone it may give the potion an untoward reaction." he said and then thinks, Thanks to the cooking lessons.

"These are simple potions, not blended potions we speak of, Miss Wright. And this is not a cooking class. Cooking is for house elves, brewing is for witches and wizards. If you want to learn cooking, I am certain the house elves would not turn you away." he snapped, rolling his eyes.

"For those of you who do not know, a blended potion combines two or more complete potions to create a compound potion effect... For instance, a dreamless sleep potion is a blended potion, made up of a calming concoction and a sleeping potion that work in harmony to help relax a nervous insomniac and allow them untroubled sleep. Come now, this is not that difficult. Does anyone else care to venture a guess as to why we alternated stirring methods in our last class?"

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Raising her hand, Anna said, "As for reasons why we alternate the directions of our stirring between clockwise and counter-wise, we do this to reflect the fact that the potion we are brewing will ultimately end up changing one's mood. The changing from clockwise to counter-clockwise is an emphasis of the meaning of change. When we change directions, we are, in turn, gifting the potion with additional properties that will assist it in being capable of changing." She paused for a moment and took in a deep breath, using the time to think about the first question he'd asked in a little more detail. "As for why the potions were divided into two different stages, we did that to allow the first stage of ingredients to properly mix and settle before moving on to other steps and other ingredients."

"And a gold star goes to the Head Girl." He drew his wand and quickly cast a spell, leaving a gold star hovering over Greingoth's head. "The clockwise-counterclockwise stirring was to reinforce your intent for change within your potion. Remember, your magic is an essential component in every potion you brew. It is your magical intent --coupled with your process and the right amounts of the right things -- which will keep the potion from being just a stewpot of useless ingredients."

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Originally Posted by She-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Psycho!

Diane was starting to think no one would answer with what the professor said last class. She was mistaken; Anna did. However, she was a little too late since Diane had coincidentally raised her own hand at the same time. Ah, now she needed to come with an answer.

"There are many ways in which stirring complements the intention of the wizard or witch. In most cases, every potion implies change, thus stirring applies to most if not all of them.

"Some other factors can act on a potion, many of which signify change, like the waning and waxing of the moon and planetary alignments such as the position of Pluto. As for the potion we did last time in class... the alternation could also mean 'balance' or 'ambivalence', where change is emotions-wise.

"The reason it was divided in two steps is so that the potion can breath during those intervals. Plainly, it means there is at least a short period of pause where the preparation steps are noted... also because it results less overwhelming for a starting student than is to look at the complete formula all of the sudden." Smile.

"You're overthinking it, Miss Entelequia, I did not break it into simpler steps for your personal convenience... but a gold star goes to you nonetheless for thinking and paying attention in the last class. There are many factors that can affect a potion... as Miss Entelequia stated, if you brew at a certain time in the lunar cycle, or use ingredient picked under certain conditions, that can have an effect on your potion. But the key thing to remember here is that your intent and your process affects the results of a potion. Potions are like puzzles -- you must brew the right ingredients, in the correct order and with the correct intent and process in order to succeed." He shot another gold star up to hover over Entelequia's head.

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Originally Posted by Leeness

Why was Professor Kazimeriz so smart and so technical and yet so... old. Weren't old people supposed to be forgetful and insane (although, KraziKazi may possess the latter). But seriously, he was like a modern-day Dumbledore with spunk! and a mean glare. (Hugh Hefner, check. Dumbledore, double check. Who would be the next ingredient to the KaziPotion?)

"Sir," Varius raised his hand to try and answer the Potion Masters question, "There were two different stages because erm... a base? had to have been created first before making the finer distinguishing touches... you said yourself last lesson, both of the first stages for each of the Potions, both beginners and NEWTs were rather similar... but it was what occurred in the second stages that made the potions what they were meant to be."

Did that even make sense? Was it intelligent? He hoped it was intelligent -- he needed brownie points with Kazi-face! "As for the stirring... they are both different actions and therefore would result in different reactions. Just like turning right at a junction would take me to a different location than turning left... unless I was on a circuit of sorts... then I would end up in the same place. BUT!" he added quickly, coming to the defence of his own rather flawed imagery, "I'm sure there are potions out there where the direction in which you stir won't have any significant difference... just like... ya know, going round a circuit."

Oh boy. Potions was HARD.

"The first step of the potion did, indeed, create something of a common 'emotionally altering' potions base... Excellent observation, Tipps." Kazimeriz conjured a star over his head as well. Some of the students were grasping it, at least. "The more specific you are in your ingredients and your processes, the more controlled your potion's results will be. The more uncontrolled and willy-nilly you are in your process and your intentions, the less likely your potion will do what you intend."

The magical chalkboard took notes as he spoke:

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Originally Posted by CHALKBOARD

POTIONS: INGREDIENTS AND PROCESS

Your Intent Determines Your Process
Every Ingredient Has a Purpose
External Factors (e.g., Lunar Cycles) Can Affect Your Results in Complex Potions
A Blended Potion is a compound of 2 or more COMPLETE potions
Potions is NOT the same as cooking!!!
Focus and Intention will help control your results

Kazimeriz looked around the room. "The gold stars have significance, in case you were wondering. You will want them; the reasons why will be apparent later. Now... First, let us address our ingredients. Based on what you learned from studying your potions text, who can name a potion ingredient that causes an obvious effect when used in a potion and state what the ingredient's effects are? I will start with an example from the last class: fluxweed, or false pennyroyal, is a component that may cause change when used properly in a potion."

ooc: Hold hands, y'all, we're venturing into a world where there are fewer right-and-wrong answers. Please feel free to interpret ingredients as best you can based on what we DO know from the HP Lexicon site, trying to keep it to canon and use critical thinking/logic wherever you can but have fun while you be creative to get those gold stars. But please... name only one ingredient per post so everyone gets a fair shot at playing, k? Thanks.

highjinx · 07-21-2009, 07:23 AM

WHAT? GOLD STARS?! Cam desperately wanted a gold star above his head toooooo! That was so awesome. He needed to get the right answers--or well, he won't get a gold star. Pout. He wasn't even sure if half of his answers would be right but eh, he'd have to give it a shot if he wanted that gold star. He raised his hand. "Umm... would lovage count? It does weird mumbo jumbo stuff to your brain so most use it in like confusing potion...draught thingies."

Anna Banana · 07-21-2009, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by XanaSnape

"And a gold star goes to the Head Girl." He drew his wand and quickly cast a spell, leaving a gold star hovering over Greingoth's head. "The clockwise-counterclockwise stirring was to reinforce your intent for change within your potion. Remember, your magic is an essential component in every potion you brew. It is your magical intent --coupled with your process and the right amounts of the right things -- which will keep the potion from being just a stewpot of useless ingredients."

Kazimeriz looked around the room. "The gold stars have significance, in case you were wondering. You will want them; the reasons why will be apparent later. Now... First, let us address our ingredients. Based on what you learned from studying your potions text, who can name a potion ingredient that causes an obvious effect when used in a potion and state what the ingredient's effects are? I will start with an example from the last class: fluxweed, or false pennyroyal, is a component that may cause change when used properly in a potion."

Anna's jaw dropped in awe as the professor casted a spell that left a gold star dangling just above her head. In all her years at Hogwarts, she'd never been awarded a gold star quite like this one. She wished she could see it, but being that it was on top of her head, that would be a bit on the impossible side right about now. Lucky for her, though, Diane recieved one, as well, so she was able to get a look at her friend's star. She smiled in appreciation at the professor, wondering all the while just what significence the gold stars would eventually have.

A potion ingredient that causes an obvious effect...hmm. There were actually quite a few ingredients that could fall under that category. Raising her hand, she said, "Glumbumble secretion causes melancholy. It's used as an antidote to cure a person who's consumed Alihotsy leaves, leaves which cause hysteria, of course." As she spoke, she recorded notes on separating brewing processes into two different stages and stirring clockwise and counter-clockwise. Below her notes, she began a list of ingredients known to cause an obvious effect. "How ironic is it that a creature whose name begins with the word glum, meaning sad, produces a secretion bearing the powers to make a person melancholy...," she added.

pR!nCet0ng!rL903 · 07-21-2009, 08:05 AM

Krizza thinks she might answer this one.
She raised her right hand , almost toppling her seat. and when her name was called she stood up, tripping unto the hem of her robes.
Blushing, she said, "Professor, is Fluxweed included? When flexweed was picked at full moon, it is used in POLYJUICE POTION. "Flux" means constant change or flow, which is appropriate for a potion that changes a person's appearance."
She feels happy that she answered that one.

Leeness · 07-21-2009, 10:06 AM

Varius read over his textbook at the list of ingredients that were before them. It was all very well them being there in print, but what the HELL did it DO to you? That part was rather unclear. "Doxycide, bubotuber pus... oh wait, jobberknoll parts, hmmm."

"Sir, jobberknoll parts are used within memory potions and truth solutions, that would indicate that certain parts of the jobberknoll may heavily manipulate ones brain in order to get the desired effect... for instance, disabling the brains ability to seek out lies... maybe."

dan arjay · 07-21-2009, 11:14 AM

Daniel scratches his head and looked puzzled. How does the old man know what he is thinking. He doesn't even mention the words cooking in his statement earlier. he just shook his head and thinks for an answer.

He then raised his hand, "Professor, will peppermint count? A sprig of this is used in the Elixir that Induces Euphoria. If no peppermint was used, the elixir will have a side effect of over singing and excessive nose-twitching. The sprig of peppermint, added during preparation counteracts this side-effects." he paused a moment and then continued, "And from what I know, peppermint have the property of anesthetic and it can relieve stress and tension, making it a great addition to the elixir."

LizzieEvans · 07-21-2009, 11:47 AM

Lizzie finished writing down what the professor had described, adding his notes from the board. As she put down her quill she heard his last words, and after thinking for a while she raised her hand slowly and said Sir, I think that The Mandrake root is a powerful ingredient in brewing. It's cry can kill a person, while you can use it in the Mandrake Restorative Draught to restore people to their original state. She hesitated, not sure if this was the kind of information the professor had asked for, or if she needed to get deeper into the properties of the ingredient..? She decided to add something, and said Also, sir, the Mandrakes are interesting since their roots have the shapes of human babies, and they grow older until they're ready to be used in the potion. So they are dangerous both as babies and grown ups, but as they grow up they become useful too. She didn't really know anything else about Mandrakes, and hoped it was enough. Actually, the professor had been a little unclear about what he expected..

Tommehbell · 07-21-2009, 12:14 PM

Paris raised her hand. "What about dittany sir," She looked down at her book to make sure she said everything right. "It's a powerful restorative. Using it makes skin stretch over a wound, and after the application, the wound seems several days old. But shredded dittany is used in Wiggenweld potion. Also known as Burning Bush, and it can sometimes release flammable vapors." She said pretty proud of herself for remembering all of that. Well it wasn't remembering it that was the problem it was reciting it back to Professor Kazimeriz.

The man was creepy enough to make a tombstone shiver.

He was the Antidiva.

Golden Monkey · 07-21-2009, 06:25 PM

William bit back the retort that was inches from his lips. He didn't need a detention or worse. Taking a deep breath he put his hand up, which was beginning to shake just the slightest and said "What about Wolfsbane, which is a highly dangerous plant? It's the main ingredient in wolfsbane potions, which can alter the effects of being a werewolf. Well not alter them but make it more ... easier to go through the transformation. Wolfsbane is also known as Aconite or Monkshood. " he trailed off, his head drooping. Why did he even bother anymore he wondered, even if he gave the most correct answer ever it would still be wrong. Face it Cullack, this just isn't your game he thought ot himself, wishing it would be over soon.

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