Originally Posted by milloy112

Ricco knew it would be hard but he was determined to prove to this professor that he would infact be able to turn everything around and behave better, then looking down he saw his owl eating one of the last treats. Taking his hand off of the other side of the sign he began to stroke Stacey's head while he continued to listen to what Professor Truebridge had to say, knowing the answer before he had even said it he replied "Yes i love animals". It was the complete truth because Ricco really was interested in animals and cared for his owl.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

After a few moments in the gloom, the door swung open behind her, filling the room with blinding light.

The dark figure of Professor Kazimeriz entered the owlery, his cane clanging against the stone floor.

"Good evening. Professor Forrester could not be present. I shall be administering your detention, Miss Morgan." His weathered, pruny lips pulled back into a smirk as he sternly glared down at her, his liver-spotted hands settling onto the top of his silver-headed cane.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

"So." He drew his wand out, eyeing the small child, then conjured up his favourite wingback leather chair and sat gently in it.

"Miss Morgan. Do explain why you are in detention." Kazimeriz leaned back, waiting for the girl to speak.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

"Did you, now? How very neglectful of you. Tsk... You were quite lucky that Professor Forrester managed to rescue you before you were injured." Kazimeriz contemplated. "Surely that is not the whole story, Miss Morgan, for I do not think a man of Forrester's experience would throw a student into detention for a mere oversight, unless he had good reason. Were you instructed to put on gloves? Perhaps you were not listening and paying attention? Perhaps you were too busy talking with your little friends to pay him attention in class? Let us have the truth, now, and save a lot of unpleasantness, shall we?" He looked at the child, waiting to hear her story. This had better be good- he was missing tea for this.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

"I see." Kazimeriz said. He drew a small velvet bag out of his pocket. "Calm down, Miss Morgan. Have a toffee." he offered her the bag, the look on his face indicating that she would be very unwise to decline his offer.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

Kazimeriz nodded and smiled back. "Eat up. It will make this easier." he said, giving her an almost grandfatherly look. "It seems that your true crime was a lack of attention to detail."

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

"I see. And do you think that you have already learned from your mistake, Miss Morgan?" Kazimeriz watched the girl chewing, a smirk growing on his lips.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

Kazimeriz smirked. "Perhaps now would be a good time to begin to prove this, Miss Morgan. For it seems that you overlooked an important detail when taking the toffee from me." He held up the bag again, just has he had before, but this time pointing out the gold writing on the small velvet bag:



"They say the devil is in the details, you know... And it seems that your own inattention to detail has landed you in a world of trouble." His dark eyes gleamed with amusement as he looked gravely down at the girl.

Originally Posted by the parchment

1. Read the instructions carefully.
2. Put on dragon hide gloves immediately!!!
3. Take the jar of jarvey teeth and find one with a long root system. Bring the tooth to a boil in a cauldron filled halfway with water (use an aguamenti charm), one spoonful of bundimun secretions and a spoonful of bubotuber pus.
4. Using a long handled spoon, remove the tooth from the cauldron. Do not get the fluid on your skin.
5. Pour three drops of leech juice on the tooth. A slight hissing noise and steam should occur.
6. Rinse the tooth in cold water and scrape out the inner core of the tooth's root system.
7. Using your mortar and pestle, grind the root scrapings until it is a fine paste. Allow the paste to rest 10 minutes.
8. Clean your cauldron thoroughly and refill it with pure water.
9. Bring your cauldron to a boil.
10.Take the spleen of a rat and dice it finely.
11. Mix the root scrapings with the rat spleen, taking care not to crush the spleen cubes.
12. Pour one cup on re'em blood over the mixed ingredients.
13. Add three sprigs of knotgrass to your cauldron, bring up the temperature and steep until knotgrass wilts.
14. Remove the knotgrass from the water and set it aside.
15. Pour the knotgrass water over the mixed ingredients and stir three times counterclockwise.
16. Disregard step twelve.
17. Go back to step 13 and repeat the steps, skipping step seventeen the second time through.
18. Mix the wilted knotgrass with three sprigs of peppermint and two valerian leaves.
19. Clean your cauldron and add three cups of gillywater.
20. Place the ingredients from step 18 into your cauldron.
21. Turn around twice on your left foot counterclockwise and stir your cauldron once clockwise with the fwooper feather.
22. Disregard all steps except one, eight, nine, thirteen, fourteen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty.
23. Feed the mixture from step eleven to the kneazle.
24. Remove the knotgrass, peppermint and valerian solids from your gillywater.
25. Drink the contents of the cauldron, disregarding step 21 and 23.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

Kazimeriz smirked. "Do not despair, and do not cry. You have the power to resolve your own problem by learning how to be detail oriented."

Kazimeriz waved his wand, drawing a curtain back from near the back of the owlery. Behind it there was a basic potions lab workstation set up, complete with cauldron, jars of various ingredients, and a parchment scroll. There was also a fluffy kneazle sitting in a straw basket at the foot of the workstation.

"On the parchment there is a list of rather detailed instructions to brew your own antidote. I suggest that you get to work quickly, before that toffee starts to take effect." Kazimeriz smirked again at the girl, his eyes sparkling wickedly. "Good luck, Miss Morgan. I shall be watching."

The kneazle meowed.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

Kazimeriz watched the girl go through the instructions carefully, reading and taking the necessary steps. He nodded a little as she drank the contents of the cauldron.

"Gillywater-mint tea has long been a favourite of Mrs. Kazimeriz." he remarked dryly. "You did well, and paid careful attention to detail, Miss Morgan. See to it that you take the same care and vigilence in your studies and daily life and you should survive. Now please feed the kneazle and you are free to go." Kazimeriz said with a smirk.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

Kazimeriz smiled. "Very good. You have succeeding in passing the test, Miss Morgan. You did not jump to conclusions and instead asked for more information, keeping safety in mind. " He nodded at her sagely and then looked at the kneazle.

"Trithemius prefers to eat chopped roast turkey, which you will find on the second shelf to your left. It is in a small blue covered container that has a charm on it to keep the contents cool." He looked at the cat, which stretched and mewled, then settled back down in his basket, awating its food.

Originally Posted by XanaSnape

Kazimeriz chuckled, watching the kneazle as he sauntered over to the food. "My daughter's. She has always loved animals." The kneazle mewled in agreement. "You have done well here. Be certain that you are as detail oriented in my classes, and you should succeed. You are excused from detention, Miss Morgan."