The little first year had to admit to be pleased with the current assignment. Invention of Potions, a most interesting procedure. And to have the opportunity to be assisted in the process... she was very excited at this possibility.

Diane opened her text book. At the moment, she was flipping pages one after the other, hunting for ideas. Step one. Let's see... it was already late afternoon, the moon may be up. Today... it was newmoon, barely waxing. Rather than picking a potion on liking, she should pick a potion with the given possibilities. New moon was good for invisibility potions.

Disguise. But not necessarily physical... disguise mental state. Unreable Potions. Something to relate to Occlumancy, fool Veritaserum... Nah, not interesting enough. Conceal from sight... conceal intentions... conceal smells. She liked that. Conceal from the senses. Conceal magical presence. She was onto something.

She made a note at the side of Babbling Potions. She made notes on Baruffio's Brain Elixir and on Scintillation Solution, along the receipie for a brevage from the Seventeenth Century. Her choices rather looked random and unrelated but, for now, she was acting on pure instinct. In any case, it would be something to fool empathic knowledge.

An infussion would be good. A solution would not be strong enough to penetrate the bloodstream and permeate the circulatory system. In this way, it would act like a Charm; but if it acted like a philter, it would need to tamper with the people-other-than-the-drinker's sense of smell.

The key was smell. Even if she was still unsure what kind of potion she would invent, she was onto a path she did not dislike at all. She might be able to find clues in Dark Magic Detectors and Mood Stones since it would very possibly affect the capillaries; in other words, thermotropic liquid crystals.

Right now her Potions journal was a mix of random notes and arrows.

Ugh. Something just wasn't right. Was it just him or would the additional ingredients do nothing at all. His aim was to make people happy and excited and hyper, not just laugh. No. He neeeded more ingredients. More ingredients meant well, MORE CRAZINESS. This potion had to be crazy. It was made of crazy. And why make a crazy-thingy potion if everyone was already crazy?? Hmm. He didn't really know. Maybe if he drank it, he'd have exploded from all the hyperness he was gonna have.

But the gold stars... he was CRAVING for gold stars. Stars in general he liked, and the gold made it all better, and the MAGIC just made it PERFECT! "Okaaaaay let's see. Hmm. More inflaming brain thingy ingredients. Moar moar moaaaaarrrr." Cam put the book so close up to his face, it completely hid his face. Skim skim skim. "Ahhh." He quickly wrote down another ingredient and added a few more details.



DOH. He wasn't sure. He wasn't sure AT ALLL. Cam raised his hand, "Er, professor, do ya mind checking if I'm... all good?" Potions. Ohhh potions. It pretty much freaked him out sometimes.

Paris pulled out her potions journal out of her bag. It was filling to the brim with her potions and her inventions, but it was charmed to keep refilling so it never ran out of paper. She pulled her quill from behind her ear and tapped it against her chin as the thought of a potion she could brew. It had to be something good and something no one else would think of. Something that only she would think to come up with. Her quill tapped against her chin.

Tap, tap, tap....

Tap, tap, tap....

She usually took weeks to come up with something and prefect it. But now she was being put to the test. She had to rise to the occasion.

Tap, tap, tap...

Tap, tap, tap...

Merlin this was hard!!! She didn't know how the Iron Chef could come up with 5 original dishes in an hour with a surprise ingredient. She would have to tip her hat to them. They were really Iron Chefs.

It was like a light bulb going off over her head. She giggled and started to write out her potion. She would have to start with some of the same things as a polyjuice potion, but it would require a few other things and then some of the things being left out. She wasn't wanting someone to turn into someone else. She wanted the potion to make a copy of that same person.

She read over her potion and made sure it made sense. She raised her hand. "Professor can you check mine as well?" She asked. She hoped it worked right. She could be on the cover of Junior Potioneers if it did.

Daniel smiled at the Professor as he approached him to gather his needed ingredients on the table.

Water, scarab bettle, ginger root, armadillo bile, aloe, skinkroot and lavender. He then hurried back as he prepared the ingredients the way he needed them.

coarsely crushed the scarab bettle, cuts the ginger root evenly, crushed the aloe and gathered its juice, thinly sliced the skinkroot, and crushed a pinch of lavender

He then looked at his journal and wrote down some instructions.

Daniel then started the flame and put the cauldron on top of it. He then got his timer and arranged it on his work station.

He then let the water simmer over the flame, when he saw that the water is nearly boiling but not quite on the boiling point (simmering), he then adds the coarsely crushed scarab beetles and then stirred clockwise for 5 times. and let it simmer for 5 minutes.

After 5 minutes, add the evenly sliced ginger and simmer for 20 minutes. He then sets his timer for the 20 minute mark and the 15 minute mark.

When the alarm rang for the 15 minute mark, he added the skinkroot and waited for 5 minutes more. He then noticed that the potion is turning into a little pink-tinged water.

After the 20 minutes of simmering, he added the crushed lavender. and then he removed it cauldron from the heat.

Daniel then waited for the potion to cool as he stir it every 3 minutes. He stirs it for seven times alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise. He sets the alarm to got on every 3 minutes so he would not forget it. He did that while he takes down notes on his ingredients.

When he tested that the potion is not hot, he added the armadillo bile and the aloe drops. *Armadillo bile vaporizes when added on a hot potion.

He then let the potion sit for another 8 minutes and scooped it in phials. He took note of the color and the odor. When done correctly, the potion should have a pink tinge and a garden scent.

He then raised his hand and said, "Professor, is this good?"

Kazimeriz came by and looked over the potions plan. Very interesting. He approved- the boy showed he was thinking about what ingredients did, and how they interacted. "Very good-- the extreme use of ginger may actually also have some side effects of balancing the lovage with a bit of cleverness and sense. We shall see, though, once you brew..." Kazimeriz gave him a gold star. "Get to work, now."

Kazimeriz evaluated Greenwood's plan. "I admire your ambition- Very Slytherin of you. though I think you may be overreaching for a potion that will only have the opportunity to brew for about 2 hours at best... Polyjuice is less ambitious than a cloning potion and that takes 21 days to mature; something on this level of complexity might take months or more-- presuming you have the right ingredients and process, of course. You show that you are thinking about ingredients and their interaction, though, I see you have selected a fair amount of ingredients that cause physical transformations, which is excellent."

He paused, considering. "You may go ahead with your brewing process, but you are NOT permitted to sample the potion yourself or give it to a test subject- there are some ingredients in there that may be fatal when used in concert. Instead, you will give your sample to me to evaluate." Kazimeriz nodded and smiled at her, giving her two gold stars. "An extra star for ambition." he tipped her a wink and moved on.

Kazimeriz came over and evaluated the plan. "Very good, Kaiser. Please bottle a phial of it..." He reviewed the potion again; there was nothing fatal in it, though the effect of the skinroot might be... amusing. "Who would like to earn a gold star by volunteering to sample young Mr. Kaiser's potion?" Kazimeriz asked, as he gave Kaiser another gold star for completing the potion. "I ask that it be someone whose potion is complete or very near completion... And for the rest of you, work quickly, I want to see some fascinating new potions taking shape! You are the future of the potions world, let us see what you can do... and remember, participation earns you stars. The student with the most stars will earn a prize!" He smiled wickedly at this last statement.

It occurred to him that he would have done well to invite the healer to this class. Oops.

William was scurrying around trying to find the best potion. His other ideas had fallen even before he could concoct a plan and so he had scrubbed those out of his brain. Something else was playing around in there but he wasn't exactly sure what the full effect of the potion would be like. He figured it was worth a shot, and even if it didn't work now the way he wanted he could always try again in the lab, or make more notes and find other ingredients to add to it.

William frowned. This was looking more like a sleeping potion than what he previously intended. Opening his potion textbook he looked through the ingredients looking for anything that would add to a babbling state. Finding other ingredients which could help with the truth telling parts he added them to the journal with little stars beside them.

OMG GOLD STAR!

Cam looked up to see another gold star be placed just above his head. WEEEEEE! Now imagine if he got this right, maybe even anoooother gold star! He didn't really care about winning and all that, because really, the gold stars already proved to be waaaaaaay awesome and such. Yup yup. "Thankyouu sir!" And he was off to work. "Okee okee, ingredients first..." He looked back at his plan, carrying his journal off with him to the side of the walls with the ingredients, remembering to put on his dragon hide gloves because he did read something about doing that.

"Ginger roots...5 chicken feathers," he paused, worrying and wondering if they had to kill a chicken to get all of these feathers, "Uhh... okay let's seeee here. Pepper, leaves, lovage, sneezewort, peppermint. And Wartcap Powder?" Hmm. He didn't know what the heck it did that could have made him wear gloves, but eh, he handled the small box carefully and went right back to his workplace area.

He skimmed down through his potions textbook yet again, using his finger as a guide. OKAY! So he was good to go. Grind first I guess. Cam grabbed about, 4 mortars and 2 pestles, placing the lovage and sneezewort in one mortar and the others in their own. He started grinding the black pepper first, grabbing a pestle and grounding it down, doing the process for about, 5-7 minutes or so. He did the same with all the other ingredients in the mortars and started cutting up the ginger roots.

Ugh. 15 slices?! Well THAT was gonna be hard. Cam took the knife. Knife. It only brought him to worry. Here he was grinding and murdering these HERB/PLANTS. It was just SADDDDD. On the 15th slice, he gave a sigh of relief and QUICKLY put the knife away. Hmm cutting up the ginger roots weren't part of the instructions? Eh. He wrote more stuff down in his plan.



Cam then proceeded to the next step.

Chris smiled brightly as Kazimeriz said they were going to play a game. He took out his notebook and excitedly started to do his Potion Plan.

Chris then proceeded to the next step.

Abby consults Advanced Potion Making by Libatius Borage and Cummingham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs. Using both books she comes up with a potion and the formula to brew it.


When Abby has finished writing her potion formula down in her potion plan book, she goes and gathers the ingredients she will need to brew the potion.

After Chris had finished writing out his Potion Plan, the Prefect walked to the areas the Professor pointed out were where the potion ingrediants were found. He caried his notebook with him checking to make sure he was right as he grabbed the necessary essence of violet, essence of rose thorn, two raven feathers, twenty skinkroots that were as thin as he could get, and three rat eyes.

He then walked back to his cauldren station with all of his needed ingrediants, he could make his own water from the Aguamenti Spell, he set them out ready for use. He looked at the notes and read the first step.

'Bring 500mL of water to a boil.' He pointed his wand into a 500mL flask and filled it to the line. He then poured the correct amount into the cauldren, after lighting the fire underneath it.

After waiting a few minutes for the water to boil, Chris looked at the next instruction 'add 5 drops essence of violet and stir 5 times, clockwise.' Seems easy enough. He grabbed the little phial in which the ingrediant was in and dropped 5, little drops into the boiling water. Potions was starting to go well for him this term. He then stirred the required 5 times clockwise.

Next he preformed the 'add 7 drops essence of rose thorn and stir 7 times, counter-clockwise' instruction from his notes stirring the correct seven times counter-clockwise.

Aislynn thought long and hard about a potion to make. It was complete free range, she could make anything. It was risky. Should she try something simple or daring that has never been done before? Daring. She wouldn't be herself if she didn't take a little risk. She figured a potions that would transform you physically would be much harder than something emotional or behaviorally. She took out a piece of parchment and wrote out her plan.



Aislynn almost felt exhausted after all of that writing. She took some elements from different potions and put them all together. She only hoped it would be approved and it would work. She raised her hand to get Professor Kazimeriz's attention. "Excuse me sir, could you please look over mine before I begin?"

At first Paris was afraid that he would nix her potion. It was ambitious she knew that. Go big or go home was something she lived by. She figured if she were going to fail at least she would fail in as much style as she did everything else in her life. She nodded and smiled as she got two gold stars.

She was looking like a right angel with halo of stars around her head. She went off to gather the ingredients to brew her potion.
After she got everything ready, she sliced and quartered all her ingredients. She lit the flame on her cauldron using her wand to adjust the flame down some. She didn't want to burn her eyebrows off when she added the dittany. She stood over her cauldron and watched as small bubbles started to form on the surface. Using her cutting board and her knife she swept the aloe leaves, skinroot and dittany into the cauldron. Now she had to stir for 10 minutes. The dittany needed time to break up into the potion. It would help the person feel whole again after their clone fizzled.

The 10 minutes went by slower than she thought was possible and she quickly added the leeches, well after she squealed because one was trying to crawl up her arm. After the little hissy fit in went the beetles and she used her wand once again to turn up the heat. Now it was time to add the boomslang and the fluxwood. She added a slice of the skin and then a quarter of the fluxwood and she did this back and forth slowly till it was all in the potion.

It was still grey and Paris started to worry that she was doing it wrong, but after a few nervous seconds it turned fire engine red. She clapped excitedly. She added the knotgrass and started to count as she stirred her potion clockwise 5 times. With her wand she doused the flame. She sat down on her stool to wait for her potion to turn silver. It took almost 15 minutes before it did and slowly added the fireseeds. She didn't want to burn her eyebrows off. When the potion was cooled she ladled some into a vial and corked it with her wand.

Quote:

Potion: A Diva's Work Draught
Brewed by: Paris Emily Greewood
House: Slytherin

She took the vial and placed it on the Professor desks.

After he had finished the first two steps of his Anti-Love (Delusting) Potion, Chris then preformed the nest step which was to decrease the temperature and to simmer the concoction for ten minutes and as each minute passes the Prefect stirred two times counter-clockwise.

Next he added the required two raven feathers, and let it boil for five minutes as he stirred clockwise. Then he came to the stopping point, in which he moved the cauldren from th heat for a few minutes as he bent down to write a not on a his Potion Plan

He found that as a useful bit of information so just had to copy it down. After putting down his quill he began to slowly bring the potion back to a boil. After doing this he added all twenty of the skinkroots allowing it to simmer until it turned pink.

Lastly he plopped the three rats' eyes in and then rduced the heat and stirred unitl dark, black streaks appeared. As he finished he made another quick note on his Potions plan.

Chris looked up to Professor Kazimeriz and asked. "Professor, Im finished and does my Anti-Love Potion look correct to you sir?" he wondered who would have to taste it.

While he waited, Chris looked down at his now updated Potion plan that contained his side-notes.

As he asked the Professor about the potion he corked some in a phial and added a label to it saying:

and place it on his desk.

Boiling water.

Cam was pretty much scared for this step, it was the first process with the cauldron. Ohhhh oh oh if he failed boiling water, he was starting to wonder if he could even do the whole thing anymore. Getting a glass of 500mL of water, he slowly, EVER so slowly, poured it into his empty cauldron. Oh the intensity! Starting the fire (even that was a pretty scary part for him), he waited for hmm, about 5 minutes or so until he finally saw bubbles appearing. Weeeee for boiling point.

Okay, that part was done. What next? Hmm. Add in ginger roots and the Wartcap powder. His dragon-hide gloves were on so he was a bit... confused why the instructions said not to let it touch on your skin. Would it do something? Cam was... mighty... curious. Maybe... later. Bleh so many distractions.

He got the ginger roots, and just decided to pour them in aaaaall at the same time. It would've been easier that way anyways. He got five and dropped them into the cauldron, doing the same with the 10 other slices. Now the Wartcap Powder... Getting the small box, he made sure it was only 1/8 teaspoon and poured it into cauldron.

"Stiiiiiir counter-clockwise... for...5 minutes?" His hand, was going to DIE from the stirring. Stirring at a medium speed, he sighed and continued that on for about 5 minutes. He was right. His hand was dead. His muscles sorta ached ALREADY. Pathetic. And he wasn't even halfway done yet. A reddish color started to form which was... ZOMGCOOL.

Chicken feathers and black pepper next. Taking about 5 chicken feathers from the 10 he took (incase he needed extra) and taking the mortar with the grinded pepper, he got ready to put in the chicken feathers first--but not without bowing his head for a few seconds in remorse for the presumably dead chicken they had killed to get all of the feathers.

Sniff.

He hesitantly dropped in the 5 feathers and poured the grinded black pepper from the mortar. Stirring for an easy two minutes, he smiled happily and looked at the change. Ahhh. There. The coloring seemed to have darkened. Dark red now. Almost the color of blood. It looked like... bubbling blood th--it MADE him SICK. Quickly, he grabbed his quill yet again and wrote down the observations and such on his potions journal.



He NEEDED those gold stars. Cam wanted this potion to beee picture perfect so he quickly skimmed back to the textbook and then went back to his cauldron.

Anna paid careful attention to the discussion, hanging on to every word Professor Kazimeriz was saying. This was the type of practical that could help her be well on her way to establishing herself in the Potions industry. She cracked open her potions journal and began to write…

POTIONS PLAN

Your name: Anna Bella Greingoth
Your House: Gryffindor
Your Year: Seventh
Type of Potion you are Making (choose ONE):

• Behaviorally Altering

Intent: The intent of this potion is to give a person additional bravery and intelligence in troubling times. The potion would give a person enough bravery to withstand and overcome trying times, as well as the additional intelligence needed to guide them through the correct processes to take while in the midst of a struggle.

Ingredients:
Stage One:
• Water (500 mL)
• Graphorn horn (1 horn)
• Armadillo bile (3 drops)
• Flobberworm mucus (1 cup)

Stage Two:
• Two stingers from a billywig
• Three 1inch x 3inch pieces of boomslang skin
• Erumpent tail (1 tail)
• Armadillo bile (3 additional drops)
• Ginger roots (cut, 2 large)
• Leech (1 whole)
• Moonstone (crushed into a fine powder)

Process:
• Begin by adding exactly 500mL of water to a properly cleaned and maintained cauldron. Bring the water to a slow boil.
• Crush the graphorn horn into a fine sand-like powder. Add precisely three tablespoons of the powder to the cauldron. Stir clock-wise until the mixture turns a gray-ish purple color (the color, of course, of an actual graphorn).
• As soon as you have achieved a grayish-purple color, you may add in three drops of armadillo bile. The mixture should maintain its grayish-purple color. As you are adding the armadillo bile into the mixture, alternate stirring techniques between clockwise and counter-clockwise. Doing so will help give your potion an equal balance between bravery and intelligence.
• Add exactly one cup of flobberworm mucus. Afterwards, resume stirring in a clockwise only direction. Continue stirring until the flobberworm mucus has thickened the mixture in a paste-like substance. A light steam should also be present.
• Place the lid back on top of the cauldron and let the mixture sit for approximately ten minutes. This should complete stage one of the process.



• After a ten minute timespan has passed, remove the lid of the cauldron and lower the temperature. Because the potion has been idle for ten minutes, alternate clockwise and counter-clockwise stirring techniques for a few minutes.
• Chop the two billywig stingers into small, half-inch long pieces. Add all pieces into the mixture. With this addition, the potion should begin to lose its grayish tint and assume a bolder purplish color.
• Chop the boomslang skin into three 1inch x 3inch pieces. The pieces do not have to be measured exactly but must come quite close. Add in these pieces one at a time, stirring counter-clockwise three times in between each addition.
• Chop the erumpent tail into inch-long pieces. Add three of these pieces into the mixture one at a time. Stir clockwise three times in between each addition.
• Add three additional drops of armadillo bile into the mixture. Momentarily, the mixture should appear to be turning grayish once again, but alternate stirring between counter-clockwise and clockwise until the grayish colors fade away.
• Increase the temperature to allow the mixture to heat just a bit.
• Cut two large ginger roots into small, inch-long pieces and add into the mixture. At this point, the mixture should assume a bit more of a bolder purple color.
• Add one whole leech to the mixture. The light steam should once again be present.
• Let the potion sit while you crush a moonstone into a fine powdery state. Add in three tablespoons one at a time. Stir clockwise six times in between each addition.
• Eliminate the temperature source and allow the potion to cool. With this, the potion should be a brilliant, bold purple color and should be ready for usage.

"Professor Kazimeriz?" Anna asked, her hand raised high in the air. "Would you mind taking a look at my plan before I begin brewing, please?" Hopefully she'd created a really nice plan that would work well and suit the purpose she'd aimed for. If the professor gave her the green light, she could begin brewing and hopefully get finished by the end of class.

Daniel did as what he was told. He grabbed phials from his potions kit and bottled the potion he just brewed. He then approached the Professor and handed him a phial and said, "Professor, I made three phials of the potion." he cleared his throat and said, "Professor" he sounded with a little hesitation, "If nobody wanted to try the potion, I can do it." he said.

He don't want any trouble happening to anybody. Especially to a newly brewed potion that is done as an experiment by a 4th year student.

I have no trouble finding the roots and seeds. Of course Professor Kazimeriz has leeches, the pineapple, cabbage, the Daffodil Pollen, and the saffron, but I never thought I find the pomegranate juice. I remember Professor Frost saying it was essential in a luck improvement charm. I never could understand how the Felix Filicus potion could go from a burgundy red to bright gold. Anyway Professor Kazimeriz had one bottle that he had hidden on the back of one of the wall shelves. It looked like it had about ten years worth of dust on it too. Amazing when you consider, he bought new potions supplies shortly after the beginning of the term.

Abby measures the juice and places it in her cauldron. She lights the burner under it. While the juice comes to a boil, Abby starts chopping up her other ingredients. She first shreds the cabbage as fine as she can with her knife. Abby puts it to one side, and proceeds to shave off the dried pineapple into perfect paper thin rings. It is important to cut your ingredients exactly as the formula says. The juice is now boiling, so Abby adds the pineapple rings, then the cabbage on top of them. She then drops the three Be-Still seeds in. It’s funny the seeds do anything but be still. Abby then takes her paddle and stirs the mixture six times clockwise. She then cuts off the heads of the leeches, dangles over the top of the potion, and squeezes the juice out of each. When the last of the leech juice hit’s the potion, the mixture turns black. It also starts emitting a noxious odor. Abby stirs the mixture two more times clockwise. She then cleans her area of the cabbage and pineapple remnants. She also moves her chair down wind of the potion.

Abby now turns her attention to the roots. She washes her knife before she starts chopping her roots. Abby doesn’t want to contaminate the ingredients before they enter the potion. It’s important not to mingle the magic too soon. Doing so may alter the results you get when the ingredients are added to the potion. I then peel and chop my ginger fine. I add ginger to the potion to boost the magic of the other ingredients. This is suppose to be a powerful luck potion. Sort of a sister potion to the Felix Filicus. Abby then washes her knife again and gets to work on the Lucky Hand Root. The name says it all. This root is full of luck. It’s also used in love potions, so you have to be sure you are careful with the ingredients. Too many ingredients that are also put in love potions will result in you brewing a love potion by mistake. I won’t have that problem. All the ingredients I’m using are full of magical luck. All I have to worry about is getting the measurements right. Abby smiles and peels and chops the Lucky Hand. I never said it was a fool proof potion. There’s always a chance of a mistake. Abby cleans her work station again and takes a quick peak at the brew in her cauldron. It’s boiling away to it’s hearts content. There is a little solid cabbage floating around, but all the pineapple had dissolved. She then breaks up the Banyan bark and drop it in my mortar. I then light the end of my wand and set the bark on fire. Banyan bark doesn’t really burn. It smolders. Unfortunately, that means it puts off a more smoky smell. After a few minutes the Banyan bark is now ash. The next thing I do is drop the Anise seeds to the mortar. I use my pestle to crush the Anise seeds. I make sure to grind the seeds into the Banyan ash. When the Anise seeds are powder, I add the Job’s Tears seeds. They are much easier to crush. I think that’s because they don’t have as hard a shell as the Anise seeds do. I look at my clock. The twenty minutes are almost up. I measure the Moonstone Powder. By then, its time to add the powder ingredients. I check my formula and then add the Moonstone powder first. The minute it hits the mixture it turns it royal blue. I then add the seed/ash mixture to my potion. Then I stir it four times counterclockwise and six time clockwise. I do this because the ingredients have more than one magical power. The counter clockwise stirring helps to mask the other magical powers not needed for this potion. The clockwise stirring increases the luck magical power in the ingredients. Hey, I also do it because it couldn’t hurt.

Now I add the cinnamon oil. Only two drops because this stuff is super powerful. Too much and the person consuming the potion could explode with luck. Not a pretty sight when that happens. My hand starts to shake as I add the oil. I drop the first drop and the potion turns a hazy red. The second drop turns it to a pale, pale pink. I then stir the potion clockwise one more time. To my utter amazement, the potion turns to a pale yellow. I take that as a good sign. My formula must be on the right track. Now I’m down to the wire. What I do know will result in my potion being a success, or the potion lab being splattered with yellow goo. I take the cauldron off it’s stand, strain it through a sieve into a clean bowl. I leave the potion to cool a little. I take my cauldron to the sink and clean out all the potion and all the ingredients that haven’t dissolved. It is important to remember not to use soap during this process. All you need is luke warm water. I don’t care how many times you rinse your cauldron, or how hot the water is you use. There is no way you can be sure beyond a reasonable doubt that you have gotten all the soap out. Soap is the enemy of this potion. It will render it to a useless fruit juice cocktail. I finish rinsing my cauldron and dry it out good with a clean dry cloth. I return it to my station, then I pour the strained potion back into it. I then look at my formula one more time. I measure my Honky Daffodil Pollen and Saffron exactly. Your measurements must be exact. I then pour the pollen in. The minute it hits the liquid, it turn bright yellow. Yesss!!! I then add the saffron and immediately stir the potion eight times clockwise and one time counter clockwise. I close my eyes while I stir. The only thing I’m thinking about is the number of stirs. When I’m finished, I take the paddle out and open my eyes. Goollldddd…. The potion is now gold. I do a little dance around my station. I’m not sure if it will be a potent as Felix Filius, but it the right color….. All right!!! I laddle my potion into the phials, and clean my station up.

Lyra had been quiet as she did NOT want to make Professor Kazi mad nor did she really want to draw attention in her direction...just yet. She took out her journal as there was really only ONE THING she knew she was good at: changing the color of things. She took out her PINK quill and began writing down what the professor asked.

Cam glanced at his Potions Plan journal. Now looking at it from a view, it looked all... messy. Messy handwritings. Messy cross-outs... the professor would approve of this, right?! Oh he was worried the old man's eyes would find his writing illegible, but suuuuurely he would understand he was up in a hurry with the writing. He'd understand. Kazi was a nice old man. Sometimes. He looked back at the cauldron and sighed. Still blood red.

It looked disgusting. Happy cheery potions weren't SUPPOSE to look disgusting. They were suppose to look all happy... and cheerful. NOT THIS. Maybe he'd done something wrong? Oh no... He looked back in his textbook. Bleh it didn't specify what color it would show up as.

Tortured him with worry, it did.

Next step. "Leeeeett's seee." Mix all grounded ingredients. Ooooh. This was easy, right? Cam got all of the mortars with the crushed and grounded herbs and decided to use the mortar with the grounded alihotsy leaves to put all of 'em in. Slowly pouring the lovage, the sneezewort, and the sprig of peppermint with the alihotsy leaves, he got a pestle again and mixed the ingredients. Mix the pixy stickssss, mix 'em up goooood. Random songs and chants filled his head.

After all the mixing was done, the result looked more like... a green-ish, yellow-ish... thing. Hmm. Well whatever, time to pour it in the cauldron. Going back to the cauldron, he slowly poured in the all of the content in the mortar and smiled. YAY. What he expected was the potion to turn either green or yellow, but instead... it turned darker.

Like. Whut. So dark it was either the DARKEST red evar or it was black. He didn't know. Hm. Maybe it was SUPPOSE to do that. Probably. "Stir clockwise...ooh...FOR 10 MINUTES?" Cam's arm WAS gonna die. Stirring for 10 minutes non-stop was gonna be... oh if they had to amputate it off of him...

Cam started with the stirring, sighing every minute and now and then. His arms hurt. Was he a freak for doing all of this trouble just for another gold star? Hmm. He just thought gold stars looked cool above his head. It was like a crown. He felt like he was from ROOOYALTY. Stir stir stirrrrrr. And then the 10th minute. YAY. So his arm went officially dead, yup, but at least it was done!

"Still blaaaccckk."

He re-read the instructions again. It wasn't like he did anything wrong... huh. Weeeeeeird. Maybe black was the new yellow/orange/any other bright happy looking colors? Eh probably. "Hmm. I think I'm done." Wait. Nope. One last step. And it included stirring. If his hand had to be amputated... WELL IT WAS FOR THE GOOD OF THE GOLD STARS. Says I hafta stop the fire and stir again.

Yay for no more fires! And he hadn't even BURNED himself. Cam smirked and proceeded to get rid of the flames, and then started stirring clockwise for about 3 minutes. Hohohoho. The black was turning lighter. OMG. Maybe it could turn into orange. It was nonetheless, his favorite color. Instead, it turned gray. Dark gray. IT LOOKED SO EMOTIONLESSSS. Cam looked back in the book he'd gotten from the shelves and read.

It said it was suppose to be light gray--the finish result. Maybe the additional ingredients made it darker? Errrrr. Cam read more and read that it'd only last for a week? A WEEEK? THAT'S IT? The professor did mention something about flobberworm mucus earlier. He sniffed at the cauldron. Smelled...INTENSE. Cam got to his Potions Plan journal and wrote the stuff down.



Grabbing a phial, he used it to scoop up his potion and closed it. "Done!" he said quite happily and then raised his hand up, "Oooh professah, I'm done!" He placed the phial next to the cauldron and labeled it.

GOLDSTARNOW??

Diane had been stalling for some time now. She almost looked depressed with her quill ghostling over the journal paper. She appeared to lack the instinct or the ambition to think of these, why was that. Quite honestly, she was stumped by her own lack of creativity. She was passive as hell and swept over by the circumstances beyond her control. It was extremely frustrating a realization. Diane thought, she could have the world on the palm of her hand and she wouldn't know what to do with it. And all this for a silly potion...

Diane brandished the journal like a wand to show the professor before going on, but she had the kind of look that could only be described as concerned.

"Could you give me your opinion, professor," she said. "The most unexperienced of us can feel magic, such as hairs that stand on end at the back of our head, when there's powerful magic around. My theory is that's an effect of smell, even if not on the most traditional sense. For example, hounds can very well tell where you have been with a sniff, some times with as much accurancy as there can possibly be... Say, like with Seers or Pensive memories; their instincts are similar, in way."

Her distant eyes returned to the professor and she was bright and alert when saying, "I should need to know what a Dark Magic Detector works like; if you happen to have one, it would be most helpful."

Krizza couldn't think of anything to do with her potion. So she thought she can just try on Daniel's potion. Well, at least her potion's almost done.
"Professor, I can try on Daniel's potion if you don't mind?"

Cela had been reading like mad and taking notes, she used the methods of existing potions and cross-referenced ingredients that should do what she intended and came up with a potion and a plan. She read some of the extra notes that her brother had added by one of the more sensitive ingredients.

One leaf ingested will cause delirium. More than four leaves will cause the subject to fall into a deep and dreamless sleep, often resulting in death in less than 24 hours if further treatment is not sought. Generally the plant is used externally, but to harness the beneficial characteristics in a potion which is to be ingested without causing a toxic reaction, the plant may be burned and the smoke or the ash applied to the potion for a time.

Hmmm. She kept reading and made a few adjustments.



Of course, the process was just a plan, based on other potions and the notes in her book; Cela certainly wasn't sure of these things on her own.

She raised her hand, "Professor Kazimeriz, can you please check mine?"

Kazimeriz shuffled over and reviewed her journal. "Very good, very good indeed. I might recommend a drachm of crushed chameleon scales as well, just after the skink eyes, to boost the transformative effect. But you definitely are showing an understanding of potions ingredients and how to build a potion. Carry on." he nodded.

Kazimeriz walked over to the boy, taking the phial and holding it up. He opened it and waved it under his nose, closing his eyes as he analyzed it. "Excellent-- it looks as though you've built an interesting all around delusting and general romantic apathy potion. For remember, the opposite of love is NOT hate -- it is apathy." He contemplated for a moment...

...and a smirk crossed his face as Miss Greingoth called for his attention. His eyes darted down to her left hand, as he seemed to recall a bit of jewelry... Yep, the engagement ring was still there. She was in looooove. Perfect.

He reviewed her potions plan. As suspected, her potions plan was fairly solid. "You want to take care with that erumpent tail, Greingoth... All in all, it should be a fairly intriguing potion plan, let's see how it carries out. Oh-- but before you do..." He held up Potter's AntiLove Potion phial, keeping the label out of her sight. "Will you help out our dear Mr. Potter and take a sip of his little... cocktail?" he smirked.

"Ah, we have a volunteer for you, Mr. Kaiser. Miss Rustovitch will assist you by drinking your potion... what was it? Oh yes... 'The Boost'. Let us see if it inspires as much confidence and energy as you intend." He handed the phial of Kaiser's Boost potion to Rustovitch for sampling, looking amused as he waited to see the results.

"Very good, Miss Wright-- methodical and well thought out plan, and I see you have made good notes. Excellent." He nodded at her.

Kazimeriz walked over by Miss Noir, glancing down at her journal. "Interesting. Perhaps Mr. Kaiser will be interested in being your test subject, to see if your little experiment leaves him feeling... in the pink?" He eyed the ingredients, his eyebrows going up as he read one of them. Uhoh. If Kaiser drinks that, he's likely going to be QUITE pink for some time to come. he thought, grinning inwardly. "Kaiser? Care to assist Miss Noir once she is done?" he asked.


Kazimeriz walked over to the boy, picking up his phial and going over his journal. "Happy Go Lucky Potion?" he said with a smile. "Miss Noir, this sounds right up your alley. Will you try this potion for Mr. Karsten?"

Kazimeriz regarded the girl for a moment, looking at her in a new and curious light. "An interesting theory, Miss Entelequia. And indeed, magical traces are detectable in the way a scent is, though as you said, it is not literally a scent that can be perceived so much as it is a.. well, for lack of a better word, an aura. Perhaps you have heard of The Trace, which is a charm placed on underaged wizards so the Ministry can track improper use of magic that is banned under the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery? It operates on a similar principle, in that it detects that aura of magical activity and energy around a central individual -- in that case, all underaged wizards and witches are the central individuals who are so marked, though it has been used in law enforcement as a condition of probation as well in some cases."

He paused, smirking. "A potion to remove the trace is something that ...well, let us just say that those familiar with the shops of Knockturn Alley may have had the opportunity to buy such a thing for their youths or loved ones on parole..." And just where have you been shopping, young miss? What is your story, that this would be the plan most interesting to you...? he wondered, intrigued. He summoned a small orb that appeared to be glass and resembled a busy little plasma ball. Arms of contained lightning radiated in each direction, as if trying to point to each student in the class at varying degrees of intensity and action, but all were contained within the ball's surface. The strongest bolt of contained lightning pointed toward the professor himself.

"You will need this for your experiment; please take care of it as it is a quite valuable Auror's tool. It is a portable Tracer; this one is set to seek all magical activity at the moment, not just that of underaged wizards or felons. As such, the rays are drawn toward the magical energy of each student in the room, and myself, of course." he chuckled. "Once your potion is brewed, you need only find a vic- volunteer to test your draught. If it is successful, the ray of magical energy leading toward that student will vanish temporarily, if your potion makes their magical energy unTraceable. Is this what you had in mind?"

"Impediment jinx in potions form, very interesting, Miss Toussaint. Very interesting indeed. You could, of course, also use such a thing for more.. ah...nefarious purposes, so if you are to brew this successfully, I ask that you keep careful watch over every drop of it. However..." he looked over the plan again. "Hensbane, are you certain? The toxicity of this plant might be an issue. Was that your intention or did you mean to use fat hen, also known as goosefoot, which would have the effects of reducing muscle strength?"

Kazimeriz returned to his desk and picked up the phial from Miss Greenwood. Ah, an interesting attempt at a cloning concoction... He eyed it, opened it and waved it beneath his nose with his eyes closed as though sampling a fine wine's bouquet. He held it up and looked at it, tilting it a bit as though at a wine tasting. "Miss Greenwood... Have you put something of yourself into this potion?"

Grr, this potion making thing was harder than he thought. Good thing he didn't have to worry about cleaning his cauldron again, having done it previously before arriving at the lesson. Looking around he gulped as he saw some people already finished their potions, letting others try them out. He didn't think his was nearly good enough though, there was one ingredient he was missing and for the life of him he couldn't find out which one it was. Sighing he put his hand in the air, "Professor, there's one ingredient missing from my potion I think. I can't quite figure it out. Perhaps you could take a look at it for me? I think it's a frozen Ashwinder Egg I need but I'm not sure." He asked in his nicest, most innocent voice. If Kazimeriz could tell which ingredient was missing, then he'd be able to write it down, make the potion and be done with it.

Paris hopped up when Kazimerix addressed her. "No sir. You told me not to test it out on myself and I didn't want to chance anything." she told him. She had been on the receiving end of two of his tantrums and that was enough to last her till hell froze over. "Do you think its alright to try?" she asked with a eagerness she wanted to hide, but she couldn't help herself.