"Right!" He gave her a small nod. Just like with the Muggle story except...better.

He just stared "Yeah..." He said the word dully. Hadn't he told her that that was the hags plan? He had asked a completely different question.

"It basically is what you just said." Good job for you Sierra, pat on the back or something. Was she expecting some sort of prize?



And some people even knew the potion as well. Wow. "Good guesses." Or maybe they had read about it.

Alright young Puff. "You keep telling yourself that." Scabior shrugged.

He shook his head. "No. Muggles stole it." End of story. "Or rather readapted the story. It has happened many times before." He wasn't even going to listen to anyone telling him about Wizards taking the story from Muggles. That made absolutely no sense. The only reason that Muggles knew of their 'magic' was because of idiotic Wizarding slips.

"And that's a good theory." He nodded.

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"Some of you-" He pointed to the students he was sure had mentioned the name of the potion. "-Guessed the exact potion that Leticia did soak the spindle in. The Draught of Living Death." That was correct. He looked over at Hecate for a bit, before turning back to the class. "Others, noticed the flaw in this." He pointed to those two students. "Like I said, Leticia wanted to kill the Princess, so can any idea why she would use this sleeping draught instead?"

Vickers pondered the next question. It was true, if the hag wanted to kill the Princess wouldnt she have used something more potent and immediate? A curse even? It didnt make any sense to him.... unless "Professor, is it because the hag wanted to kill the Princess slowly? Maybe putting her in a coma-like state was the first step to her twisted plan? Persecute the Princess in her dreams or something? Or.... maybe she wanted to have the Princess' own people to bury her alive." man that was sick.

Hecate snapped her gum, she stood and started her burner. "In the interest of time, we will be alternating our instruction. (ooc: This means both of us will post) Students, you are required to answer both of us for the full points. (ooc: either in two separate posts or in one quoting each of us.) Be aware that as we won't be assigning homework, this class will be worth 20 points... from each of us, so act accordingly."

She then motioned to the class to light their burners. "Begin by filling your cauldrons with water..." She said.

Something about Scabior's tone didn't sit right with Sierra. He was such a sarcastic person, and you know what annoyed Sierra most about that? She was used to being the sarcastic one. She didn't like this competition, much less competition she couldn't be sarcastic back to. Blah.

Why did the hag choose the draught instead of killing the princess? Maybe because 'Death Beauty' wouldn't make a very good fairy tale title? Sierra smirked at her inner answer then raised her hand. "Because if she did away with the princess, she could no longer use her as bait. With the princess in her hands, this hag had the whole kingdom at the tip of her finger," she started. "All she had to do was simply wake her. If she was dead, that'd just be an opportunity lost."

Pausing, she realized how harsh her words sounded. "Err, ...at least, that's possibly what the hag might have been thinking..." Not her. She had more decency than that. Trailing off, she glanced up at Lafay.

Grinning at the thought of starting the potions parts of the lesson, Sierra turned to her cauldron. "Scourgify!" she said then peered into the cauldron for any sign of a foreign object. Nope. All clean. With another wave of her wand, she added, "Aguamenti!"

Ira thought about it. Yeah, it would have been much easier for the evil witch, Leticia, was it? It would be easier to kill the princess rather than put her to sleep! SO why did she do that?

Then Ira had an idea! She raised her hand up and answered, "Professor, I think that the witch thought that, maybe by putting the princess to sleep for a long time, the princess will turn old, and so will have wrinkles and grey hair, and basically, look old and ugly.." Though all old people weren't ugly, were they? Anyways, she continued, "So that when the princess would wake up, she would go into shock and then die from shame!" Hehe.. that really seemed pretty far-fetched and funny to Ira too.. But then she didn't have any other answer! "And so the evil witch won't be blamed for her murder!"


And then came Lafay's voice. Ah! She had been so quiet until now for some reason! Anyways, now they had to answer his questions as well as prepare the potion? How could they concentrate on making potions whille talking and listening to others talk?

Anyways, Ira took her cauldron, and filled it up with water as instructed. But yes, before that she was sure to clean her cauldron by using the Scourgify spell. She certainly didn't want to make any mistake while preparing the potion.

Oh, erm... Amelia wasn't really sure she could think of a good answer to this question, but she still wanted to try. "Maybe she wanted the Princess to go into a coma and suffer instead of dying immediately. Or maybe she thought killing a princess outright would cast too much suspicion and thought that a coma would work better as people would assume it was natural." Or something else. Amelia honestly had no idea how someone who wanted to kill another person operated.

When Amelia was done answering she noticed Professor Lafay motioning to them to turn on their burners and instructed them to fill their cauldrons. She cleaned hers with magic before pointing her wand into the cauldron. "Aguamenti," she said as she filled it to the right amount before stopping it.

Alyssa thought for awhile before slowly raising her hand,"Professor I believe that Leticia used the sleeping draught instead because if she had out right poisoned and killed the Princess, everyone would have immediately suspected that she was responsible for her death and she would have been arrested within minutes of the discovery. By making the Princess sleep until she died, no one would be the wiser and by the time they did, she would have been far away from the Kingdom and harder to catch."



Just as she had finished giving her answer, Alyssa saw Professor Lafay motion to them to light their burners and heard her tell them to fill their cauldrons with water. Lighting the burner at her workstation and adjusting the heat of the fire manually, Alyssa then took out her cauldron. She unholstered her wand and cleaned the cauldron by saying,"Scourgify". Then she examined the cauldron to make sure that it had been thoroughly cleaned and that it was in good condition, before she pointed her wand inside the cauldron again and said, "Aguamenti" filling it up with water. Once the cauldron was filled, Alyssa ended the spell by saying,"Finite.

She then took out her quill and wrote down the steps in her potions journal.




Then she sat back and waited to hear what other questions Professor Scabior was going to ask, and at the same time, paid attention and listened for further instructions from Professor Lafay.

Jory raised his hand. "It's probably because the witch didn't want to be caught for killing the Princess. She'd rather place a curse,'' he said.


After Jory listened to the instructions, he got out his wand. ''Scourgify!" he said to clean his cauldron. When this was done he filled it with water. ''Aguamenti,'' he said and water flowed fro the tip of his wand. "Finite'' and the water stopped.

Laura looked at the Professor and raised her hand. "It would have angered the King and Queen and they could have had her killed, and maybe she was scared of death and so she didn't want to die, but if she didn't kill her and hid her the King and Queen might not be able to find her and so she could say the Princess had run off." Laura wasn't sure if she was right and well she was guessing.

Laura looked at Professor Dragon and listening to what the woman said, she didn't really want to do this but she needed the points because the evil woman had taken points off her for no reason. "Scourgify." Laura said as she did the cleaning spell and once she was sure it was ready to use she said. "Aguamenti." once she had filled up the cauldron she said. "Finite"

Failed water charm alert!
 

Glenn hesitantly raised her hand, "Erm.. maybe the ha- Leticia," She corrected herself, "Couldn't bring herself to actually kill or maybe even wanted her soul to remain whole?" Becsause killing ripped your soul. Not good.

Glenn glanced at Professor Lafay as she gave the instruction. The water charm, one of the ones she always had trouble with. "Scourgify." She muttered. Her cauldron was whipped sparkling clean, "Ag - Aguamenti." She murmured, letting out a small shriek when the water spurted out of her wand so fast that it wet the whole front of her robes. "Finite!" She hadn't gotten anyone else wet... hopefully. But her robes were certainly soaking now.

Lea frowned and frowned at the man! Why was he so quick to believe that muggles stole it? If it was true than wizards were not the smartest either since they were supposed to keep their words secret and muggles could steal stories that involved magic from them. Haha. HAH! Anyway...

She has started to think that this Leticia hag had been really stupid. Using that Draught of Living Death? Really? ''That potion. Lame.'' The little Gryffindor murmured. Yes, that was what she thought of the diea; lame. There were so many way effective means to attempt to kill someone.

''Hags does not have all the magical skills wizards do professor. So maybe she wanted to kill the princess by dark magic so it would be easier but she was unable to use better magic for that. So she just brew this potion and hoped the getting old or starving would kill her.''

Huh?

It surprised Lea a bit when she heard the woman's voice as she kinda had forgotten that she was in the class. All of her attention had been on the man...until now.

Hmm...20 points from each was not bad at all. No homework sounded good.

Turning around quickly, the little girl stared at the woman for a moment before lighting the burner before her. Then she took her wand and pointed it into the cauldron just like everyone did. ''Aguamenti''

Just that she failed to produce water. She scoffed.

Tayla was listening to the questions and answers, but this time decided to share her thoughts. She raised her hand and said, "Maybe it was too boring for her to simply kill the princess. Perhaps she wanted to do things in a more interesting way. Or maybe she didn't know how to brew a fatal poison properly but was a master of sleeping potions like the Draught of Living Death."


Tayla nodded as Professor Lafay explained how the class would go. 20 points from each professor! Now she definitely wanted to earn that for Gryffindor.

After answering Professor Scabior's question, Tayla made sure her cauldron was clean then pointed her wand inside it and said, "Aguamenti." Her cauldron filled with water.

Laura put her hand up. 'Maybe because the use of the potion wasn't as punishable as killing the princess..maybe she was scared that she might be caught...and she just wanted the princess's life ruined,' she said





Wow!!! 20 points...Laura would love to earn that many points for her house.

Laura took her wand and pointed it to the cauldron.She made sure it was clean. 'Aguamenti,' she said and water filled her cauldron.

Ella thought this was a hard question. If one wanted someone dead, they wouldn't just put them to sleep... "Professor, maybe Leticia used the potion because she wanted to keep the family and friends suffering...I mean if the princess had died they could grieve her and move on but it must of been hard knowing she was in a sleep so deep it was like death and stuck that way."



Ella lit her burner and then pulled her cauldron towards her, making sure to clean it before filling it. She raised her wand, pointing it into the cauldron. "Aguamenti!"

Kurumi wrinkled her nose slightly. She really did not like talking about this potion. Putting someone into a deep sleep was not something that she really wanted to think about. Still, she was sort of forced to think about it now, so Kurumi swallowed hard before raising her hand. "Perhaps what Leticia wanted to do was not literally kill her, but more fake her death? In doing so, she not only brought about despair to the country, but she also would have a captive that she could use to her advantage should the opportune moment present itself." On that last bit, Kurumi nodded her head towards Sierra, who had said essentially the same thing earlier. It was scary how her and the Slytherin were on the same page. Really scary actually.

Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

Professor Lafay's warning about not going easy on her just because of her situation rang strongly in her ears, but Kurumi was going to have a hard time keeping up now that it was clear that they were going to have to multitask their way through the rest of the lesson. Ridiculous. Kurumi was less than pleased, but she began getting her station set up and removed her wand from her pocket. "Scourgify...Aguamenti..." Were they even told which potion they were going to brew? The Gryffindor wasn't even going to be able to take proper notes. "Finite."

Taylor thought about it for a bit then raised her hand,
"PRofessor, could Leticia perhaps have thought that it would be awful to actually kill the princess since her soul wont be whole or she would of felt bad." She shrugged, "Or maybe it was too cause more suffering."
Taylor lit her burner. "Scourgify." Once the caludron was clean. She did the water spell, "Aquamenti." The cauldron was filled so yet again another spell, "Finite." She glanced up at the two teachers, not sure which one was going to speak next.

Elise smiled a little as she scribbled down the notes. Draught of Living Death, spindle soaked. Silly princess pricked her finger. Now, why didn't she poison the princess instead of making her sleep.

Raising her hand, she smiled. "Maybe the hag thought that by causing the princess to sleep, she would have the whole kingdom under her control because she could revive the princess whenever she wanted. But if she'd killed the princess, everyone'd just cry and move on."



Blinking, she set her cauldron up while still jotting down a few of her classmates answers. Now they had to multitask. Elise could do this! If she could study while the tv was on at home, this was nothing.

So.. 20 points. Each Professor. That was a nice number that she wanted for Ravenclaw. So, twirling her wand in her left hand, she pointed it into the cauldron. "Aguamenti," she muttered and waited until the water reached the desired level. "Finite," she mumbled and stuffed the wand back into her pocket. Starting the burner, she turned her attention back to Professor Scabior.

Daichi didn't raise his hand at the next question Professor Scabior asked them but instead he was scribbling down notes in his note book. He wasn't much of an theory person and despite that he liked reading , the Slytherin rather did things with his hands and be busy than listening and answering questions.

He tried to keep his interest at the subject but every now and then his eyelids fell close and he had to rub them to keep awake. Were they ever going to do something? Professor Lafay wouldn't be here if they weren't right?

what? They had to answer both of their questions and instructions? But Daichi didn't know the answer to Scabiors question! The Slytherin bit his lower lip for a second before he shrugged his shoulders. Oh well, a point less wasn't the end of the world.

When Lafay instructed the class to fill their cauldrons with water, Daichi snapped his note book shut and went to a cauldron. Grabbing his wand , he pointed it at the inside and said "Scourgify!" to clean it. He then lit his burner and placed the cauldron on top of it. "Aguamenti!" Daichi watched the faster flowing than in the beginning of the year water charm fill the empty cauldron and with a "Finite!" he lowered his wand.

Annabelle heard the professor and got out her cauldron. She filled it up with water but first she cleaned it up first. "Scourgify!" she said then she began to fill the water into the cauldron. "Aquamenti!" she said and waited further instructions from the potions professor.

Belle could only think of an logical reason. "Well Professor i think she used the sleeping draught instead so the death wouldn't look so conspicious. No one could prove that she was dead or that someone poisoned her." Belle said with a little smile. She wasn't sure if it was right but she gave it a shot.

Hecate snapped her gum again, and waving her wand she make certain ingredient appear on everyone's table.

"Before you, you have, one pint of Horklump juice," and as she named them they glowed, "a dropper with 2 drops of Flobberworm Mucus, Seven Chizpurfle fangs and a billywig sting slime." She said. "Put half of the juice, mucus, the fangs and the slime in the mortar. Crush the fangs in the liquids. This will turn a bright purple. Add the purple... goo... and the rest of the horklump juice to the boiling water." She demonstrated.

Tay put half the juice, mucus, fangs and slime in the mortar and started crushing the fangs in the juice. She poured the purple 'goo' into the boiling water with the rest of the horklump juice.

After lighting her cauldron, Amelia watched as Professor Lafey went on with the next step in the potion process. She followed suit by adding half of her juice, the fangs, mucus, and slime into her clean mortar. She began crushing the fangs into the liquid until everything was bright purple goo. She added said goo to the cauldron and then added the rest of the juice to that.

After lighting her burner, Ira followed Professor Lafay's instructions. The names sure did sound weird and diverse. Ira decided that writing them down first in her journal would be a better idea.

So taking out her potions journal, on a new page, she wrote the ingredients listed till now, and the steps. Once she was sure that she had copied down everything correctly, Ira began preparing the potion.

Taking a clean mortar and pestle, she put half a pint of Horklump juice, and then added half of the juice, mucus, the fangs and the slime in it. Then crushing it, she watched as it slowly turned purple. So that meant that she was right till now.

Then she added the purple goo into the boiling water in her cauldron. Wait, had Professor Lafay herself said 'goo'? Hehe!