Emily looked at the small vial Professor Lafay held in her hand. Fascinating.... Emily couldn't help but wonder who tried to poinson Lafay, she knew that Lafay wasn't a particularly easy person to get along with at times but still... that was harsh.

"I've accidently ingested a Horse Chestnut when I was younger", said Emily as she raised her hand. "I don't remember much, but my father was there at the time."

Luin jotted down all of the poisons that were mentioned and watched as the professor brought out the Daphyr Poison. Hm, it was definitely interesting, and something she would have to take more notes down,especially a warning about that one. She was then surprised by the next question. She shook her head, she had never been poisoned, at least as far as her knowledge went.

Hand moving quickly across the journal page, she quickly jotted down the different poisons being mentioned. Most of them were pretty straight forward but whenever Lafay elaborated on a point, Ivory made sure to add that into her notes as well.

At least that's what she was doing until the Professor asked an unlikely question. A question that rattled the door on a certain closet of memories hidden deep in the recesses of her mind. A door she rarely if ever opened lately.

Almost unconsciously, her head gave a tiny imperceivable nod. Yes, she'd been poi-

Stopping her thought process abruptly she went back to furiously taking notes, just random little bullets of what people were saying as she mentally slammed the door to that closet and padlocked it for good measure. Today it was staying closed.

OH SWEET MERLIN!

Lafay was going to take care of the cookie. And the only way Destiny knew how to take care of a cookie was to shove it your mouth and eat it. Or worse! Shove it in someone else's mouth and have them eat it.

Someone was gunna die and it wasn't going to be Destiny. Lafay wouldn't kill her favorite student.

Watching in HORROR as the cookie was brought back out, she glanced around the room for what felt like the millionth time trying to find who was going to be the cookie's victim. But, apparently the cookie was the real victim, being lit on fire and then turning into nothing.

Turning to Patroclus, she gave him a grin letting him know she was not worried at all. She was pretending the whole time. Ahem.

Cookie gone and nothing to worry about, Destiny turned her attention back to Lafay as she spoke about being poisoned. She must have ate the cake, too. Mentally snickering, she waited for any of the other students to admit their poisoning and how BORING! A chestnut horse and sushi? "I have been poisoned!" she said, raising her hand. She decided not to mention what she was poisoned from and how many times.

Although, that would explain soooo much, wouldn't it?

Dianna raised her hand. "Does food poisoning count?" she asked. "I believe it was because my food contained some kind of mushroom..." she said trailing of as she lowered her hand. It was the closest thing Dianna had of getting poisoned.

She was gonna poison them, wasn't she? Emily woudn't put it past her.
She watched very carefully as Lafey put it back in her desk. Just to be sure.

Emily was surprised so many people had been poisoned! Was she, like, the only one who had never been poisoned? Mabye she was doing something wrong? She stayed scilent, still twisting her quill, and making a mental note to never eat something Lafey gave her...

Cass had been a little shocked at this lesson and stayed quite till now,

"Black Lotus is a poison, it is distilled from Lotus blossoms. And Yes I have been poisoned, by accident I ingested a very small amount of Black Lotus."

Cass seemed to shudder when he mentioned this.

"Well you asked where you can find it," Jake pointed out calmly, quite annoyed that she was doing that eye-rolling thing. He didn't understand it, which made him more irked. And jeez, had he NOT said it was a plant, he probably would have been somehow in the wrong as well.

Guh.

The young man raised his hand again. "When I was real little I drank something that had been left within my reach and I got kinda sick from it. I was three and it was one huge disaster," Jake explained, but then went on. "How did it make you sick? Like... what are the symptoms... how do you know you've had it if you're working it out?"

Poisoned? The food where she grew up was pretty foul, but Rowan didn't think it could exactly be considered poison. Who would have guessed that so many young people had been poisoned. Rowan shook her head in disbelief and continued taking notes.

Sitting quietly by Lexi's side, Salander was studiously taking notes-- or at least what it appears to be anyway. As he heard Josh's version of poisons, he raised a loose fist to his lips in th attempt to hide a guffaw just bursting to come out. He had to admit, the Gryffindor had his lame brain moments, but when he manages to think clearly enough-- it was sheer brilliance. Salander just had to wonder if Josh was aware just how many nails he's hit on the head with that statement.

Oh and with the Professor's latest question, she had to ask innit? He smirked then raised a lazy hand and replied "Every weekend m'am "Need he have to expound on his choice of poison?

Why wasn't he really surprised that Lafay had ingested poison in the lab before? Then again, it might not have been intentional. That brought a heavy frown to his brow as he considered the woman. Had she ingested it or had someone tried to give it to her? Somehow, the later seemed more likely and that was concerning, to say the least.

Raising his hand, Sabel couldn't help the frown being wiped away by a small smile of memory. "I have, when I was around three. Lamp oil. We were camping and...I thought it was something to drink." Apparently it had either tasted good or he had been really thirsty, given his dad had snatched it from him after he swallowed two gulps. He didn't exactly remember the taste, just the progression of events. And looking back on it, it was thankfully something he could laugh at. Though given Lafay's serious tone around poisons, he wouldn't be doing any of that in her classroom.

"Hydrocarbon poisoning. Really...nasty. Had to stay in the hospital for about a week." And they had really good cookies there. That he did remember.

Arya just STARED at Sabel.

STAAAARE.

He SWALLOWED lamp oil?! Actually consumed the liquid?? She couldn't believe it. Or rather, she couldn't see how it was possible for him to mix the fluid up with something such as soda or juice. She just couldn't. Really....he was always getting hurt one way or another at some point in time or another, she didn't know what she was going to do with him.

Equally confused by his smiling at the memory, she let out a silent sigh as she slowly shook her head. And then she choked back a quick laugh. "You are... unbelievably full of surprises, Sabel." And she wouldn't have it any other way.

Having NOT been poisoned at anytime in her life, she didn't raise her hand, just continued listened to the others stories.

Emma grinned triumphantly to herself. YES! LAFAY HAD JUST SAID VERY GOOD!!! Yay, so reading those Muggle newspapers did pay off after all. She took out her notebook as Lafay started talking about the poison she had dipped the cookie into it.

Putting down her quill, the blonde looked up too see who would be answering Lafay's next question. Emma had never been poisoned. Never ever.

"Have you heard of basilisks before? I know they were mentioned in Defence when we talked about Salazar Slytherin," she whispered.

Charley cringed, remembering an incident that had happened a few years back. She saw Nathaniel at the back of the room, his face growing paler. She knew that he was not going to mention it, so she decided to and raised her own hand.
"My mum, brothers and I have," she stated, then looked back at Nathaniel.

Jaina looked down at her shoes. "Sorry, Professor Lafay. It won't happen again."

Jaina began writing down information that was given on the Daphyr Poison. She then listed the other poisons that had been mentioned in case more information was given on them as well. She had never been poisoned, so she couldn't answer the question posed by Professor Lafay. She knew how poisons worked, but that was not what was asked and she wasn't about to offer that up unless it was asked AND no one else had mentioned it. Yeah, she was gonna be very quiet during this class.

Kita nodded and smiled at the Professor. So it was poisonous. Interesting...

She sat up a little straighter to see the poison the Professor was showing the class. She gazed curiously at the pinky poison in wonder. For some reason, she couldn't take her eyes off of the poison. It seemed to be luring her with that chocolatey smell. It was only when the Professor put the poison in her drawer that she shook her head and tried to stop herself from daydreaming about chocolate.

Having never been poisoned before, she sat back and listened to the stories of people being poisoned.

Riley looked at Professor Lafay and turned his head curiously when she spoke of this particular poison. 'Ummm why did she eat it then?' he thought to himself. She was definately a peculiar woman. Then rather not knowing why a 'sane' woman would eat a poison he tried to think if he had ever been poisoned. Kind of an either have you or haven't you type question.

"I haven't Professor." he said raising his hand, getting the slight sick feeling that she would take that as a bet and poision all of those who hadn't been just to give us the expereince. *shrug* Sounded alot like her.

Lexi had had her MIND poisoned by things in the past. Her family for instance, but she was certain that was not what Lafay was referring to. She couldn't think of an instance when she had been... to her knowledge... So she simply shook her head and waited for the lesson to progress.

She did, however, find it slightly worrisome that so many people in her class HAD been poisoned. Silly.

Elektra nodded and wrote down on her parchment some notes on the various poisons that were mentioned. She froze in her writing when she looked up seeing a poison that Professor Lafay had pulled out and Elektra just stared at the poison as she listened to Lafay. Elektra couldn't recall ever being posioned, but she raised her hand. "Professor? Haven't we all poisoned ourselves? I mean in some things that we eat and digest, there is a very slight percentage of a kind of poison but it doesn't affect us...right?"

Benjamin really didn't want to answer this question in particular because he did have a gruesome past with his father and grandfather. Still leaning back in his chair, perched at the darkness, he said aloud, "I have, Professor. But I'd really not rather talk about it, if you don't mind."

Poisoned? Nah, K-Lee hadn't that she remembered. She was surprised that so many others had though.

Writing down notes on the information given so far, K-Lee looked around, listening to the others. She'd thought it before but seriously, how had so many of them been poisoned? She must have led a sheltered life or something!

It was worrisome that so many people in the class had been poisoned.

"Many. Part of my job as potioneer is testing my own potions... How can I sell a potion, if I haven't tested it..." She said and shrugged.

"Because fish contains mercury..." She said. "And yes, it counts."

"There is no way..." She said smiling.

"Yes... that a good one."

"... well good." she said

"Mushrooms can be quite deadly." she said.

"Right..." she said and nodded.

"You won't and I kept throwing up and had to breath through my nose." She said.

She stared at the boy, unimpressed. "I don't want to know." She said.

"Good it wasn't instant..."

"Yeah? Good." She said.

"See that it doesn't." She said coldly.

"That's excellent." She said smirking.

"Very well." She told the boy.

"So... a lot of you have been poisoned... most of you by accident. Can anyone tell me ways to combat the potion effects?" She said.

"By drinking the proper antidote," Kurumi said unblinking for a few moments. Well, at least now she knew that Dragon Lady had technically poisoned herself...

Elle remembered vividly how she got sick one time. It was just seven months ago.

She raised her hand, "My evil menacing cousins poisoned me once. My aunt and uncle had to attend an auction somewhere far, so they were left at my house. Without knowing they put Venomous Tentacula drops into my hot vanilla drink, I gulped it down in one seating. A few minutes later, I started having difficulty breathing, my line of vision was disrupted and blurred, my throat constricted and burned and my head was spinning. I dropped onto the kitchen floor and the next thing I knew, I was on my bed, having slept for five days straight. My Mum got out the truth from the mischievous boys and as a punishment, turned them into Possums for a day. It was a good thing they only added a tinge of venom, or else, I would never have survived it."

The First Year shrugged and smirked at the thought of her cousins. She nearly... died.

She raised her hand again, after thinking of possible ways of treating poisons from the body, "We could use Draught of Peace Potion to help sooth the people's agitation during their unstable states. And it also depends on the dosage, Professor. It is no use if you do not take the proper amount of antidote. You have to take in the antidote periodically, when the instructions tell you to do so otherwise, they are useless for your body,"

There were a lot of people who had been poisoned, though few revealed exactly what it was they had been poisoned by. He didn't blame them, it wasn't a pleasant experience at all. His parents had just given him reason to look back on it with amusement. That and the whole situation was rather absurd and death hadn't resulted, so why shouldn't he laugh at it.

A small smile was given to Arya and a wink was tempting, but he had the feeling Lafay would have something severe to say against such a gesture, so he refrained. "Wouldn't want to bore you, now would I?"

And then his eyes were back to Lafay. Not instant? Well, it had taken several minutes for his breathing to go south, so not deadly instantaneous, but quick enough. "It depends on the poison, Professor. For those affecting respiration ventilators are used. Other times if the poison gets into the digestive tract vomiting is a good idea to try and expel it from the system." Hopefully she wasn't looking for an answer like the ancient cultures used to utilize, like bleeding a patient out. And why exactly was she saying good to those that had been poisoned and smirking at those that hadn't?