Bahaha!

Sopophorous. That was a funny word. As Professor Lafay said it, Destiny had to control the laughter that was about to spill. Control! Last time she laughed in class, it had not been pretty. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes for a second before raising her hand.

"The sopophorous," Snort. "bean is supposed to be really hard. Just like your bones!"

"That are sopophorus beans,professor",Fee said rasing her hand,"they could be used to lower the pain in the process of regaining the bones."

Alice made a note about the newt tail in her notebook, and its ability to regenerate body parts. What a nifty little trick...

She looked up as Professor Lafay pulled up what looked like some kind of bean.

"They are sopophorous beans Professor. I'm not exactly sure what they're for, but I know their juices are used in the Draught of Living Death. So, could it possibly have something to do with getting rid of the old bone that we will be regenerating?"

Dianna was glad that the tail has been placed down since it was making her feel queasy from the inside.
"Those are Sopophorous beans, Professor." Dianna said as she raised her hand. "It is a bean with magical properties and erm..it is a very hard bean. So I guess it can..make your bones stronger too..?" lowering her hand, Dianna waited for the answers of others.

James was quiet now. He'd decided to just.... listen. Act like he didn't know any answers. Keep his mouth shut. Wouldn't want the professor to expect him to know the answers, right?

And now they were talking about beans. Beans, bran, and lizards oh my. Potions was never a class that Legend understood at all. "Sopophorous beans are beans, so they make you fart." He said more to himself. What did farting have to do with bone growth? Absolutely nothing. Leaning back in his chair, he waited till the Professor told them the right answer, because at this point everyone was just guessing.

"It does indeed have calming properties, Master Lockhart." She said nodding.

"Sort of, yes." She said moving her head from side to side.

"Yes... but how?" She asked.

...

"No, Miss Shepard, you are incorrect." She said looking at the girl.

"They do, but how?" She said.

"No... not really." She said and shook her head.

"No... that isn't the answer, Miss Malfoy." She said.

"Master Wilkes, will you no longer enlighted us?" She said to the silent boy.

...

Merlin, Why me?!

"Yes, Master Chosen, because farting is so very important to bone regrowth!" she said sarcastically.

"No... The bean is used to facilitate sleep. It will help put and keep you asleep while you bone regenerates, therefor decreasing the awful pain associated with it." She said. "Alright, the last ingredient is liquid Marshmellow... this is put in for flavor. Chocolate and Caramel both contain caffeine, small quantities, yes, but that will make you stay awake. So marshmellow it is... honey can also be used, but is not as nice a taste. So lets get started shall we?" She said starting the fire under her cauldron. "Light your fires, make sure the cottage cheese is on the cauldron first."

Finish up his notes on the various ingrediants, Simon set his quill and parchment aside for the moment to start working as Professor Lafay mentioned. He absently looked down into his cauldron to double check all was in order though his cottage cheese had already been added earlier when instructed to do so. Everything checking out he lit the fire beneath his cauldron and waited patiently for the next step.

Well, with that mystery solved, Kurumi returned to her notes to add about the beans and how they make one fart are used to facilitate sleep. She then used Incendio to light a small fire under her cauldron. She rather liked honey and like the taste better than marshmallows....they were probably only using it because Dragon Lady preferred the flavor.



She looked up. Dragon Lady was in a really good mood today and it was kind of frightening.

With the cottage cheese already in her cauldron, Dianna took one last check to make sure that her cauldron was clean before lighting it.
"Incendio." and a small fire appeared under her cauldron. She was excited in making today's potion.

Amy lit the fire beneath her cauldron that she had cleaned and filled with cottage cheese and wrote down some notes in her journal she then waited for the next step she giggled to herself as she thought about what that boy had said about the beans making you fart.

What? The bean made them sleep? For real?

Soooo many ideas flew through her mind at that moment, she was sure she was going to receive a headache at any second. The mention of the liquid marshmallow though was enough to stop her thought process altogether. Liquid marshmallow was just like, complete sugar. Ewwww.

Having already put the cottage cheese in her previously CLEANED cauldron, the Slytherin picked her wand back up and pointed it under the cauldron. Hehe, she was getting good at the creating a fire without burning herself or anything else around thing. "Incendio." she muttered, letting the flame appear under the piece of...metal.

It was metal right? Oh, wait...here was the headache. Yup.

Freya just finished her notes on the ingredients when she heard Professor Layaf instructed them to get start. She put down her quill and took her cauldron. She pulled out her wand and pointed it to her cauldron "Scourgify!" now her cauldron was clean and ready to use. She put the cottage cheese on her cauldron first before light up the fire. "Incendio!" and a small fire appeared. While waiting for the next instruction she update her notes.

Awesome! He was half right. So...they make you sleep, huh? That was nice to know, which is why he wrote that down. There were easier ways to fall sleep, trust him.

The cauldron had been cleaned before placing the cottage cheese inside it, so he was free to set the fire up. Those pretty flames.

Fire. Done. Do they had to wait for the cheese to melt?

"Scourgify!" Clean Cauldron, tick!

Patroclus was excited to get to work, the first part of the lesson had been very illuminating, and quite helpful but Patroclus was most excited about the brewing part. It had come as quite a surprise to the Fourth Year, but Potions had become one of the boy's favourite subjects!

With that thought in his mind, Patroclus placed the cheese into the cauldron and got his burner....well burning!
"Incendio!!"

Okaaay, time to get cookin....

Salander scourgified the cauldron and checked for any cracks. Satisfied that all his materials are in good working order, he took the cottage cheese and dropped it into the pot. He got the burner heated up and settled the cauldron on it.

Alice scribbled down the notes on the sopophorous beans into her notes before leaning over and turning on her burner. She eyed the cottage cheese that she had measured out and put on the bottom of the cauldron.

She did like cottage cheese...if there was some strawberry yogurt to go with it...

She jotted down notes on her parchment and then turned to her cauldron.



Nessa placed the cottage cheese in the bottom of the cauldron and then carefully she lite the flame as she was instructed.

Her hand moving swiftly across the journal page, Ivory jotted down the main points about each ingredient and why it was being used. Glad that nothing too volatile was going to be used, she hurried around setting up her equipment and donning her safety measures as the time to start brewing began.

First thing was first, inspecting her cauldron. Checking it inside and out for any flaws, she moved on to cleaning it thoroughly, she was most definitely not in the mood to be yelled at today.

Beginning a new page on the process of the potion, she wrote down the first step of adding the 1 gallon of Buffalo Milk Cottage Cheese to her cauldron.

Setting up her cauldron over the designated small depression where she would cast her fire, Ivory remeasured out the cottage cheese before adding it glop by slow glop into its recesses. Watching the curdy substance settle determinedly down at the bottom, she unholstered her wand and held it in her hand the skin contact on the age old wood resulting as always in a small blue heat-less flame that danced at its tip. Aiming for the depression, Ivory casted. "Incendio." The small flame blossomed out to cradle the pewter, and checking to see that it was of a nice size she put it away taking up her journal and waiting for the next instructions.

Pffft.

Destiny was incorrect. Not that she cared really, she had tried her best and that was all that mattered..or so her parents would say. Shrugging, she looked into her VERY CLEAN cauldron. Well, it would have been clean if the cottage cheese wasn't sitting at the bottom of it.

Cottage cheese..

Drawing her wand, she pointed it underneath her cauldron. At least she didn't have to help Evelyn make the fire anymore.. "Incendio." she said, watching the flames appear. What if..the cottage cheese BURNS!?

Everyone was doing well... "Now that the cottage cheese is warm, toss in the half cup of bran cereal and the two tablespoons of salt. With your wooden spoon, fold the ingredients together in a flipping motion." She said demonstrating.

Oi! This was a cooking lesson! He didn't like it!

It would've been better if the ingredients didn't have names like food. Treyen was frowning while he made sure the cottage cheese was warm and...

...Half cup of bran cereal. Done.

Two tablespoons of salt. Done.

He took the wooden spoon, yeah, a spoon made of wood, like the ones used in...cooking!...and did the flipping motion that Professor Lafay did, without letting out a much deserved sigh.

Cooking. Frown.

Hmm..

How did Professor Lafay KNOW the cottage cheese was warm? Destiny didn't see her walking around sticking her finger in everyone's cauldron! Unless..she was just so fast that she couldn't be seen!

Sweet Merlin! Lafay could be roaming the halls at super sonic speed and no one would ever know. Gah! That woman was snea-ky. Destiny would try and keep her eyes peeled for the Potion's Professor.

Literally tossing (that's what Lafay said to do!) the half cup of bran cereal and two tablespoons of salt into her cauldron, she picked up her wooden spoon and started folding the contents in the snazzy flipping motion. Too bad she couldn't use the snazzy pizza throwing motion.

That'd be cool.

Alice picked up the bran cereal and poured out half a cup before adding it to the cauldron. Then she picked up the salt and poured out two tablespoons of salt, making sure not to over do it because boy did that salt come out quickly!

Once both the ingredients were added she folded them in the same way Professor Lafay had demonstrated. When Alice thought they were mixed in enough she wrote down the two steps in her notebook, and waited for Professor Lafay to instruct them further.

Kurumi did as was instructed and couldn't help but feel like she was baking cookies. The folding motion was something she often did, but when she looked down to see hot cottage cheese and bran cereal....ew...clearly not cookies.

Once her ingredients were folded in enough, she gave it one more good fold before waiting for further instructions.