"No... Skim milk, Fat Free milk, Soy milk and Chocolate milk is the wrong answer." She said waving the children off.

"If you are trying to disgust me it won't work, I've handled worse things than boydung. Part of being a potioneer. But what I meant was. Go. To the cupboard. And get more. Eat it again... and I will remove the bones in your hands and test this potion on you." She threatened.

"No, Master Salander... cow milk isn't very heavy in calcium." She said. "But you are on the right track here."

Finally. "Yes, Master Wilkes."

She said turning to the students. "This cottage cheese is made out of Water Buffalo milk. We will place the gallon of cottage cheese at the bottom of our cauldrons and use it as a less than liquid base. It contains 480 mg of Calcium per cup." She said and went to the next ingredient. "Bran cereal... why are we using it?" She asked.

After getting the kind of milk wrong Alice wasn't sure whether she should try and answer this or not. Well...the worst thing that could happen was she'd be wrong again.

"Bran is very nutrient dense, containing protein, omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, and antioxidants, all of which are good for your body. So, bran would be good to use because it contains so many nutrients that are good for the body, which is in return good for your bones."

Salander nodded his head, agreeing that indeed a buffalo was way bigger than a cow. So we're gonna grow bones as big as a buffalo?

Then he shot a glance at the GitterPuff as he stood to get some more bran cereal Or better yet we're gonna disarm Fletcher and grow him a hoof?

Awesome!!


The lad tilted his head at the next question. Bran... fibers.... "Bran can be helpful for growing muscle fibers" he offered, raising his hand.

Aww. Junk.

Jimmy made a nonchalant face. Nothing wrong with happening to have read something like that in a book right? Didn't mean he knew things.

His hand went up for the next question, though he wasn't entirely sure. "Uhh well, its a starch right? And because of all the fibre, it gets sticky and all, so I guess it'd be a good binding agent for all the rest of what goes into the potion. And obviously the point of fixing a broken bone or regenerating one is that the bone is fused together right, so maybe it helps to bind the bone material too. Its a bit acidic as well so, that'd help with calcium absorption and other minerals that are good for bone health and regeneration."

Paaause.

"Or so I read this one time."

Rex raised his hand. " Professor Hecate, I believe the bran cereal could be used as a cover base for the potion" Rex told her.

Water Buffalo milk....this potion was starting to sound gross already. How did one get milk from a water buffalo? Weren't they supposed to smell terrible? At least, her mother used to always tell her brothers that they smelled like wet water buffalos when thay came home. Kurumi added the detail to her notes about the milk being high in calcium and just had to accept the fact that baking was not going to give her the right answers this time.

Making sure that her cauldron was clean and ready she added the cottage cheese before scribbling down notes on her notebook. She thought the information about the buffalo milk was cool. Haha.
"Erm..because bran is one of the hard outer layers of a grain and it contains a lot of starch, protein, vitamins and dietary minerals which can help in building strong and healthy bones." she said as she lowered her hand.

Cass listened intently at what professor Lafay had to say, when she was finished explaining about cottage cheese she pointed her wand at her cauldron, and said "Scrougify" Then she placed the gallon of cottage cheese ast the bottom of her cauldron and wrote on her parchment afterwards





Then she titled her head to one side and started thingking, Why did they have to use bran cereal?

"Professor, is it because 1 cup of bran cereal contains 10% of the recommended daily calcium intake?" Cass asked, she hoped she gave the right answer...

Emmaleigh was so sure of her last answer. It wasn't her fault she didn't know about water buffalo. She raised her hand, hoping the little she knew about Bran Cereal would help. "Um, B-bran Cereal is high in I-iron, and Iron is an i-important part of b-blood. When g-growing new bones, or r-rapidly healing old ones, W-woven bone is formed. This had b-blood vessels weaving all a-around it. So could the B-bran Cereal be used to r-replenish blood?"

Muggle science, muggle science... Oliver remembered something about this... although it hurt his brain trying to bring it to the surface. His mind was filled with much more important stuff.. like Quidditch, Star Wars and redheaded prefects. heh.

He raised his hand slowly. “Um.. doesn't Bran contain Vitamin D?" He asked hesitantly. "Vitamin D regulates the absorption of calcium and.. phosphorus. Both of which are vital for growth and development of bones and teeth.”

"Also a lack of Vitamin D can cause thin, brittle, or misshapen bones.. so it could also be needed for the structure when regrowing bones?"

Urhh.. that was painful. The lad went back to looking a bit glazed as Lafay continued the class.

"Bran ceral has Vitamin A which helps bones grow" She said she didnt really like it but it was good maybe that was why.

Fee sat in the classroom carefully listening to what professor Lafay was saying.

She raised her hand as she spoke up.

"Bran is the outer layer of grains like rice, corn, wheat, or barley. It's also the part of the grain that is the most nutrient dense. It contains proteins, omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids, and antioxidants, so i guess it could be used as a base for the potion."

She couldnt think of anything else, so she sat there hearing what the others students knew about that.

"Yes, but that won't help with the bone regeneration." She said as if she was talking to a 3 year old. "Think before you speak..."

"Yes... but there is something more than protein and such..." She said and moved on.

"Yes, Iron... but there is something else." She said moving to the next person.

"Yes, but that's now why it's being used." She said.

Why was this kid adding the fact that he'd read something every time he spoke? "Yes, Master Wilkes, but there is something else."

"It's Professor Lafay!" She said frustrated. "And no. The Cottage Cheese is the base."

"Right... but there is something else." She said.

"Yes, however we are looking for something else." She called on the next person.

"We have the calcium pretty much covered. We need something else." She said and looked at her note. "It isn't the fact it's cottage cheese, it's the fact it's made of buffalo milk. Correct your notes."

"Right, something else though..." she said looking around.

"Sure... not what I'm looking for..." She said and moved to the next student.

"That is correct but not the reason it's being used." She said, "Next?"

"Right... but not exactly." She said and called on the head boy.

"Precisely... Next to calcium, phosphorus is the most abundant mineral in the body. Both work closely together to build strong bones," she said instructing the class, "and about 85% of phosphorus in the body can be found in bones and teeth, but it is also present in cells and tissues throughout the body." She said and smiled at the boy. The Head Boy was very smart... maybe he would be more open to potioneering if she'd gotten him younger... Oh Well.

"Let's move on... Salt." She said raising the salt. "This should be easy... why salt?"

"Salt is involved in regulating the water content of a body,Professor",Fee said raising her hand again,"Chloride and sodium ions, the two major components of salt, are needed by all known living creatures in small quantities."

Was that the reason?!Maybe they needed to regulate the water content? Would make sense.

Hmm, yes, Evelyn was indeed awake.

She was just, doodling yet pretending to take notes.

But she supposed she should actually participate to make it look like she was really paying attention. The Slytherin didn’t know why, but being in a particularly good mood, well…she wasn’t all twitchy in the class today. Or at least wasn’t worried about every move she made.

"Salt helps retain moisture or liquid in other words, in your body. I think bones contain at least some water, or liquid, so I guess salt…can help with that." Maybe. Sorta. Keep the water in the bones. RIGHT? She wasn't a bone expert.

She tought that salt was bad for bones. that it would diterate them but there must be a reason for using it "Maybe," she said ''It is used to help the body retain water"

Why salt?...

''Maybe to make its taste a little bit bearable'' Josh said quickly standing up to have a better look of the professor. ''The potion apparently will taste gross and i don't know if salt alone would be enough to subdue its grossness'' and what could make this potion tasty? Josh did not know oorrrr.....

''Maybe strawberry would work professor. Strawberry flavour makes everything nice. And, ah, why do we still need salt when there's already some salt in cheese? Is not there?''

Finished with his speech, Josh sat down back with a content expression on his face. Hehehehe. Then happily tapping on his desk he started to watch Evelyn.

catching up...
 

Lara was about to sleep as usual as the Professor kept asking questions ,why don’t all teachers start with the practical part at once?1 she thought to herself.
Anyway she tried to wake herself up by thinking of an answer to the Professor’s question. Well….salt.. well she raised her hand “Salt is a very important element in the human body it’s useful for the blood pressure ….” Lara said then she thought of it ,it was stupid what does blood has to do with bones?!?!?
“Beside ,salt is used in everything because it tastes good!” Oh GOD it was worst , She was totally off topic, she wanted to add something else but she was probably going to make it worse.. so she smiled at the Professor , and put her hands on her cheeks , she thought of going back to sleep would be better than embarrassing herself even more, and she shall wake up when they’ll start doing the potion, and skip the questions and answers part.

Woah.. he was right!? Heh. Awesome. And possibly a first. Oliver returned Lafay's smile with one of his own. Yep.. she was definitely growing on him. *smiley*

He raised his hand to have a stab at her next question, although in all honesty he was pretty much clueless.

“Um... Salt.. or sodium helps regulate nerve and muscular function. Could it be that this is important when bones are being grown rapidly for pain killing reasons.. to prevent muscle cramps and discomfort?”

Alice copied what the Professor said into her notes. So far they were using cottage cheese with Water Buffalo Milk since it had the most calcium, and bran, which was good because it contained phosphorous, which worked with calcium to build strong bones. Now they were going to use Salt....why Salt?

"Well Professor I know that salt is useful in keeping calcium and other nutrients soluble in the blood, and it helps to regulate some body functions. Salt is a good way of carrying nutrients to the cells in one's body."