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Hecate had finished setting up her classroom. The tables and chairs were there but the burners were not there. Instead, in their place was a slimey... wet creature, which had the body of a fish and the legs of a frog which just happened to be tied together. A box of tools being used as propping the creature up a bit...
This may be a hard class.
Oh well... maybe they'd like it or maybe... don't really care...
ooc: This class will stay open for at least 72 hours (probably more.) Also thanks to Antarctica! for taking the picture of the Potions Classroom for me at the WWoHP, and to Ameh for makin it into a pretty graphic!
Lilly had to stay. For the sake of Gryffindor winning the House Cup. And she wasn't going to sit and watch, either, because that wouldn't earn any points. And she wasn't squeamish, it was just the poor little things being cut up and harvested.
No. No. No. This was horrible. Not because she was scared of dead plimpies, but because it was HORRIBLE. What would Blue think? Lilly wasn't sure whether the firstie was in the class, but her eyes were glued to the POOR plimpy and she didn't want to look around for anything.
She pulled on a pair of old gloves and began to work, keeping her mouth shut so she didn't scream out loud at what was in front of her. Lilly copied what the professor did, gently untangling the creature's little legs and taking a deep breath.
After a few minutes, she was finished. Lilly took a deep breath and whispered, "I'm sorry, Plimpy." Then she sat back down and turned her attention to the Professor, awaiting further instructions.
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Text Cut: Professor Lafay
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Originally Posted by Droo
"Every one of these creatures are from our own lake. Merpeople in general consider these creatures to be pests, like farmers may consider squirrels to be. They eat their crops and destroy their hard work. The way they get rid of the creatures is by tying their legs into a knot and letting them drift away. The younger Plimpies are able to untangle themselves, while the older, they float away and die. Our house elves have placed traps for the older ones to fall into... sometimes they are dead and sometimes still alive. When they catch a live one, they'll untangle it and throw it back in the water. The dead ones are..." brought to her... "disposed of."
"The first step in harvesting ingredients from a dead plimpy is to untangle it's legs. Be very gentle, and you can damage them." She began showing the students how to take the knot out of the plimpy's legs by demonstrating on her own, very large plimpy. "There. No bruising. The legs are intact. You may try." She said and began walking around the class but stopped. "If you haven't understood what we are going to be doing, I'll be more clear. We're opening up this creature and taking it's parts to use as ingredients in potions. If you are squeamish, you are free to leave. If you wish to stay, and not participate but watch... you may chose to do so as well... though you will not receive full points on this lesson." She waited a moment, again rubbing her temples and then added. "But you'll need to chose now..."
Stella had been staring at the plimpy on her station in sympathy ever since she'd sat down, half-wondering if it knew what it was in for. She'd noticed when Blue had joined her, at least peripherally, but she'd only given the girl a brief smile before returning to bound creature contemplation. Namely, if it in fact was a plimpy and then if it was dead. Both ideas apparently got verified, as she snapped back into focus to realize she'd missed a question having been asked. Well, at least I know you were a plimpy, and from the black lake. Oh, and that you were dead before you got trapped, she thought, silently communicating with the bound and deceased water creature. At leaest she knew something about it before giving it an unceremonious autopsy and involuntary organ donation.
She was honestly surprised that Professor Lafay was giving them the option to back out of the lesson, however, and she looked over at Blue again as if she was silently asking the firstie if she was going to be alright or if she wanted to take the professor up on the offer. The girl had seemed a bit squeamish about it not that long before, as she'd noticed even if she'd tuned out half of the rest of the discussion. She was back now, and no matter how much she wished she wasn't going to be doing it, she wasn't leaving the lesson. She just wanted to make sure her DADA partner wasn't going to faint, as well as wondering if both of them would have to work on the plimpy. Either way, she slid her Potions journal out quietly to take notes on what they were doing. It wasn't exactly brewing, but she had a feeling it was just as important.
Text Cut: Stella's Potions journal
Plimpy harvesting
Step 1: Untangle the plimpy's legs. (They commonly get tied together by merpeople to keep them from being able to damage their property.)
Once she'd written that down, adding a bit of random plimpy facts she remembered from some CoMC reading she'd done a while ago, she reached over to gently pick up the plimpy's legs. Delicately untangling them as had been demonstrated by the professor, she gently laid them back onto the table. Just because they were going to be harvesting it for its parts didn't mean she had to disrespect the dead. She just also knew better than to disresepct Professor Lafay, too, and the woman already looked to have a bit of a headache. That only meant they'd all have to be that much more careful.
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Oh dear. Poor little pimply, well it wasn't that little but you got the idea. Kaitlyn had been sat near the back of the class watching and waiting, trying to keep her eyes away from the creature on the desk in front of her, but now, she needed to draw her eyes to it.
She quickly wrote down the first step inside her potions book, along with information about pimplies.
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Originally Posted by Kat's Potions Book
Pimplies:
-Live in lakes.
-Merpeople consider them pests because they eat and destroy their crops and property.
-Merpeople get rid of them by tying their legs together so that they float away.
-Young pimplies are able to untangle their legs. Older pimplies float away and die.
-House elves place traps for the older ones to fall into. If they catch a live one, they'll untangle it and throw it back in the water. The dead ones are disposed of.
Harvesting Pimplies:
1. Untangles legs.
She couldn't believe she was going to do this. Well, it was a good she wasn't squeamish! Slowly she reached out and untangle the dead pimply's legs. The legs seemed really, REALLY, knotted together..Kat was surprised it's legs didn't fall off while she was untangling them. Luckily, she was done quickly and there seemed like there was no harm done to the pimply..apart was the fact it was dead.
Lilly had to stay. For the sake of Gryffindor winning the House Cup. And she wasn't going to sit and watch, either, because that wouldn't earn any points. And she wasn't squeamish, it was just the poor little things being cut up and harvested.
No. No. No. This was horrible. Not because she was scared of dead plimpies, but because it was HORRIBLE. What would Blue think? Lilly wasn't sure whether the firstie was in the class, but her eyes were glued to the POOR plimpy and she didn't want to look around for anything.
She pulled on a pair of old gloves and began to work, keeping her mouth shut so she didn't scream out loud at what was in front of her. Lilly copied what the professor did, gently untangling the creature's little legs and taking a deep breath.
After a few minutes, she was finished. Lilly took a deep breath and whispered, "I'm sorry, Plimpy." Then she sat back down and turned her attention to the Professor, awaiting further instructions.
Violet saw Lilly's traumatised face and went to sit next to her. Vegetarian. It probably ruined your life. Her twin looked like she would scream any second. It wasn't like they were killing them or anything, that was already done. So it was alright. She patted Lilz on the back reassuringly.
"That legs still a little twisted," she said and put her gloves on to twist it around the right way, without Lilly having to touch it again. She would do anything for house points, honestly. Then again, Violet probably would do most things to help Hufflepuff win.
Then the girl sat down and waited for further instructions. Likely horrible ones.
If she was being honest Prue would admit that she was feeling a bit more than slightly squeamish about this entire thing. 'It's dead... it's dead' she kept repeating to herself in her head trying not to seem to distracted. "Get yourself together Prue you did something like this in a muggle school for crying out loud!" she muttered to herself nodding. She wasn't leaving, how could she? That would be going against everything she knew...
Oh if only it wouldn't wound her pride.
So she remained, perfectly still and refusing to push. Stupid pride...
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Indy wasn't your average girly. Maybe she should've been freaked out at the idea of dissecting an animal. But she really liked Potions, and had messed with more gross stuff. So it wasn't really bothering her that much. Really though, if you had a passion for something, you'd do anything, and Indy really did want to learn everything about potions. So she was kind of dissecting this Plimpy. She looked down at the little thing. It was a little sad that it was dead, but then she'd used dead things in potions before, so it wasn't that bad really. And if she wanted to pass she'd have to dissect it anyway. She was sure Lafay wasn't going to be happy if they all turned into soppy messys about having to dissect this little Plimpy.
Okay. She needed to untangle it's legs. Good thing she had little fingers, because she had a feeling that this was going to need a delicate touch. After watching the professor demonstrate, Indy carefully untangled the legs, being careful not to break them off or soemthing. That would be bad. Okay. She was done now. With a smile, she looked up waiting for further instructions.
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Originally Posted by ForeverYours
Oh dear. Poor little pimply, well it wasn't that little but you got the idea. Kaitlyn had been sat near the back of the class watching and waiting, trying to keep her eyes away from the creature on the desk in front of her, but now, she needed to draw her eyes to it.
She quickly wrote down the first step inside her potions book, along with information about pimplies.
She couldn't believe she was going to do this. Well, it was a good she wasn't squeamish! Slowly she reached out and untangle the dead pimply's legs. The legs seemed really, REALLY, knotted together..Kat was surprised it's legs didn't fall off while she was untangling them. Luckily, she was done quickly and there seemed like there was no harm done to the pimply..apart was the fact it was dead.
It wasn't West's fault that he was already done untangling. It wasn't his fault that the plimpy legs were calling to him and trying to get him to make them dance. Obviously he needed to distract himself, so that's why he was looking around and being nosy at someone else's work.
He shifted over to peer at what the Hufflepuff was writing, and then he sniggered. "Its not pimply. Its plimpy." So helpful, he was.
But that DID make him wonder.... did plimpies get pimples?
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Yikes. This little plimpy's legs were seriously tied together. Ella wrinkled her nose, trying to untie them as gently as she could. "Come on you dead legs, if you'd just come un-" O__O She had done it! The legs were untied! And all without throwing up! SCORE. ...But she was still holding them as they rested lifeless in her hands, the legs that is. EWWW. Gross. Ella let the legs fall gently to the table and shuddered a little, knowing things were only going to get more invasive from this point on. No time to panic though, she needed to be a big girl.
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Originally Posted by Tegz
It wasn't West's fault that he was already done untangling. It wasn't his fault that the plimpy legs were calling to him and trying to get him to make them dance. Obviously he needed to distract himself, so that's why he was looking around and being nosy at someone else's work.
He shifted over to peer at what the Hufflepuff was writing, and then he sniggered. "Its not pimply. Its plimpy." So helpful, he was.
But that DID make him wonder.... did plimpies get pimples?
As Kaitlyn sat twiddling her thumbs waiting for the potions teacher to give the class more instructions, she noticed that someone was looking over her shoulder at what she was writing. Then the person who been reading her work, a boy, sniggered and pointed out her mistakes. Well, she thought, he seemed a bit full of himself.
Instead of thanking him, she narrowed her eyes slightly at him. Then simply to confuse him, she gave him a quick wink. "Whatever," she muttered and turned over a clean page, writing everything out again, in her scruffy handwriting.
SPOILER!!: Kat's Potions Book
Plimpies:
-Live in lakes.
-Merpeople consider them pests because they eat and destroy their crops and property.
-Merpeople get rid of them by tying their legs together so that they float away.
-Young plimpies are able to untangle their legs. Older plimpies float away and die.
-House elves place traps for the older ones to fall into. If they catch a live one, they'll untangle it and throw it back in the water. The dead ones are disposed of.
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Originally Posted by ForeverYours
As Kaitlyn sat twiddling her thumbs waiting for the potions teacher to give the class more instructions, she noticed that someone was looking over her shoulder at what she was writing. Then the person who been reading her work, a boy, sniggered and pointed out her mistakes. Well, she thought, he seemed a bit full of himself.
Instead of thanking him, she narrowed her eyes slightly at him. Then simply to confuse him, she gave him a quick wink. "Whatever," she muttered and turned over a clean page, writing everything out again, in her scruffy handwriting.
SPOILER!!: Kat's Potions Book
Plimpies:
-Live in lakes.
-Merpeople consider them pests because they eat and destroy their crops and property.
-Merpeople get rid of them by tying their legs together so that they float away.
-Young plimpies are able to untangle their legs. Older plimpies float away and die.
-House elves place traps for the older ones to fall into. If they catch a live one, they'll untangle it and throw it back in the water. The dead ones are disposed of.
Harvesting Plimpies:
1. Untangles legs.
Was there something wrong with her EYE? Why was she winking at him? If he wasn't in class West would have right away ASKED if her eye was bung, but instead he just looked to the front of the room as if the professor might have answers about why Hufflepuffs were so....
JUST LIKE THE OLDER SLYTHERINS HAD TOLD HIM!
... wait, was he supposed to be taking notes? He looked at his untangled plimpy. NAHHHH.
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SPOILER!!: Everyone is staying? Cool!
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Good. It seemed like everyone was staying in one way or another... though Hollingberry seemed like she may change her mind later...
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Originally Posted by Leeness
Elijah liked the wording of his Potion partners question. Hopefully the Professor took the hint and decided that instead they would help GROW the plimpies and make them big and strong. Surely plimpies could use a healthy diet of vitamins and other such things to help bulk them up and make them true survivors of the OCEAN!
Or not, because...
"Dead!?" Elijah's hand went straight to his mouth before he ended up barfing everywhere. He was staring at a DEAD thing. A corpse! He was staring at an actual real life, without the life part, CORPSE! He was too gorgeous to be a pathologist of any kind or a necromancer for that matter!
This woman's MIND was also highly unattractive, it seemed. He watched her untie the knots binding the plimpy's legs and with each movement she made, Elijah was certain SOMETHING was kicking the insides of his stomach willing him to vomit all over his very own plimpy...
And then the thought of him vomiting on a dead plimpy entered his mind and it all became WAY too much for his gorgeous lil' head to cope with. He turned to Vickers hoping for some moral bro support but...
"Vickers!?" he seethed as he saw the boy practically UNDER the table. "You cannot not leave a bro up here by himself like this with two dead ickle fishes! It. Is. Not. Cool." When the boy stood straight once more behind their workbench, Elijah couldn't deny that it helped relax him a little. There was something about Vickers that set him at ease about this whole task. Perhaps it was because the boy seemed to have similar thoughts as him in regards to this lessons task.
Elijah was in the process of putting on his own gloves and working out in his gorgeous mind how would be best to get Vickers to untie his plimpy as well as his own. The train of thought was interrupted when he noticed Vickers PATTING the dead creature and the onset of nausea was back. "Vickers! Don't pat it! It's dead. What if it's guts start oozing out of it's eyeballs if you pat too hard, huh?"
This whole ordeal was proving way too traumatic. If things got much worse he had a feeling his hair would start to fall out and how could he POSSIBLY remain unbelievably good looking if he lost his enviable, luscious locks?
Vickers set to work on his own plimpy, untying the knot just like the Professor had showed them, whilst Elijah just STARED at his. It was such an ugly creature. Elijah was all for getting rid of unattractiveness from the world, but he didn't want to be the one behind cutting it open. At least the untying part wouldn't be too bad. He could do that himself surely, right? Then when it got to the actually cutting open part he could try and get Elijah to do his work for him. He'd be sure to use Vickers previous wimping out to his advantage.
Reaching for the knot, Elijah began untying it. However, in the process he tugged maybe slightly too hard which caused the creature itself to move slightly. "MERLIN!!!! IT'S ALIVE! MY SPIMPY IS ALIVE! IT MOVED! IT BLOOMIN' MOVED! VICKERS! KILL IT!" and now it was time for Elijah to be hiding under the table.
"Master Wilde. I suggest you calm down. Now." she said approaching the panicking boy. She looked at his Plimpy and then to him, and in a very serious and nefarious voice whispered to him, "It's dead, or did you wish me to cast the unforgivable Death curse at it to make you feel better..." Her eyes narrowed at him and then she straightened.
"Trust me. Your plimpies are all dead." She had made sure of that last night. "Now." She resumed pointing at her blackboard with her wand and her plimpy floated up to it. "There are many parts to a plimpy... let's begin with the external."
She pointed at each part with her wand and the words would appear on the blackboard by them. "The nares are the nostrils, not for breathing, but for detecting smells. It's how they find food. The eyes obviously or for seeing, and they can see different colors. The fins are used for maintaining position, moving, steering and stopping. The gills are covered by the Opercolum and the mouth obviously is for eating. The scales are the external protection of the plimpy... If you know fish, you know there are four kinds of scales. The scales on a plimpy are the cycloid and ctenoid type. The legs are for walking and when used, they are used whole. Finally the peduncle is the part of the fish that attaches the caudal fin, or tail, to the rest of the body and is used for propulsion."
Her plimpy stayed floating in front of the blackboard. "Nares are used in many health potions, including Pepperup potion. Can anyone tell me what other potions these ingredients may be found in and why?"
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Merlin, Aurora's head hurt. She hadn't slept properly last night... She frowned in concentration as she scribbled notes down - her handwriting resembling something she imagined the Giant Squid would write.
What are they used in? Well... "The eyes can be used in fertilizer potions, professor. I think it's because of the protein or something." she wasn't sure to be honest, she just knew that Rufin used them...
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Theodore blinked a few times, and studied his Plimpy closer. "I dunno about potions. But they could be used for a wizarding fish pie, or something." He watched the professor with careful eyes, then buried his head low.
Fish pie. WHAT.
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When the other dude started freaking out, he shouted so loud that Dale was brought out of his concentration and he jumped nearly a foot in the air, so that the plimpy he still had a hold of nearly went out of his hands and across the class. Panicking slightly, he reached out for it before it could go too far, but the sliminess and his grip were not friends, and so it shot out of his hand again. This repeated until finally he just about caught it but the foot.
Didn't seem the healthiest way, but at least the legs were untied.
Placing the slippery little bugger back on his desk, Dale realised he had been standing by that point and hurriedly sat down.
Ahem.
Nothing. Happened.
As Lafay spoke, he hurriedly scribbled down notes and drew a super basic version of the Frish (because saying Plimpy was ridiculous, right?). Nevertheless, he wrote PLIMPY at the top and underlined it.
Cautiously, Dale raised his hand. He was quite afraid, at this point, of being wrong. The Hufflepuff had TRIED reading ahead and reading up to this point, but he was furiously catching up with all his other subjects.
"I can't really think of anything specific, Professor, but... I guess... I mean it could be that... you know in spas? They usually have things that are in some way from or related to the sea. Like, you get seaweed wraps and stuff like that, and it kind of rejuvenates people. That could be one reason," he started to lower his hand as he added. "Or, you know, that whole 'healthy omega three' thing."
They were fish... right?
Or Dale could just be completely wrong.
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This was testing Kaitlyn's memory and her knowledge. Why did it have to be such a hard question? She remembered something she read in a potions book once, what was it now? Ugh!
Well, it was worth a shot, right? "Urmm, are the plimpy's eyes used in a fertilizer potion?" Kat asked uncertainly.
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Ella's eyes were now on the floating plimpy as Professor Lafay explained the parts of the creature and what they were used for. She scribbled down notes, attempting her own diagram of the fish-like creature, before considering the question that had been asked. What other types of potions were the ingredients used in? Hmmm...
Well eating fish was supposed to be good for you, yeah? Hence the whole health potion bit. But maybe it was as good for your mind as it was for your actual body. "Professor, perhaps you would find parts of the plimpy in potions that benefit one's mind...like the calming draught... because maybe fish parts are as good for your mind as they are for healing your body."
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SPOILER!!: The helpful kid
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Originally Posted by natethegreat
Nate was minding his own buisness. When he was about ready to take off his knot he heard someone scream. So he simply said "It's not alive. You just moved it a bit when you were trying to take off the knot." He couldn't help but giggle a little. After he was done with that he went back to his own plimpy. He was untying it bit by bit until he finally had it fully off. He put the rope to the side, and waited for furthe instruction.
What the boy said made sense. Afterall, that is what had actually happened unbeknownst to Elijah. However, he didn't take in ANY of the logical explanation the boy gave since he was far too terrified to be processing anything at the moment as he continued to search underneath his desk for a place of safety from resurrecting plimpies.
SPOILER!!: The moody prefect
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Originally Posted by Lislchen
Lewis had started doodling on his notebook, only half paying attention to what Professor Lafay was talking about. Yes, Plimpies were considered a pest by the Merpeople and something told him Kurumi would need Jonathan's help working with the creature. And in Potions in general. So maybe he should have just taken the seat next to Jonathan and he hadn't known that the house elves were the ones catching the Plimpies from the lake here at Hogwarts.
But he guessed that was an efficient way to do it. At least they didn't kill them.
This time actually fully paying attention to the professor's instruction, Lewis nodded his head slowly and turned around in his seat once more to look at Kurumi. Something told him that she might just be one of the ones to not actively participate in the working-with-the-creature part. But he had to work on the Plimpy on his desk now so he didn't have that much time, staring at her AND JONATHAN!. Right. Back to the plimpy. And untying the knot which held its legs together.
It was only now that Lewis actually looked at who he had sat down next to...and literally jumped in his seat a little. "Oh...hi!" It was Louisa. Oops for not noticing her earlier. AHEM! Right, after a short moment of just looking at the Ravenclaw, he reached for the Plimpy on their desk and slowly started untangling its legs carefully. Phew. There, done. Without damaging the Plimpy at least. He wasn't quite sure what he would have done if he'd harmed the creature right now. Maybe throw it at Jonathan.
But he hadn't, so good.
Forcing a small smile for Louisa while leaning back in his seat again, Lewis' attention was caught by another boy across the room yelling something and hiding under his desk. His eyes briefly flicked to the Plimpy on the boy - and Vickers' - desk...which was very obviously dead. Completely. Dead as a doornail, so to say. "It's Plimpy not Spimpy." The Hufflepuff corrected him with a small - slightly irritated - sigh, turning slightly in his seat. Nooooo, he was not in a bad mood or anything, noooo.
however, his house prefect wasn't too far from his and Vickers' workbench, so when the not-as-attractive-as-Elijah-Huffer oh so helpfully corrected him, Elijah had managed to snap out of his terror for a moment to hear what he was saying. "Oh wonderful, I am so glad that at a time like this when a PLIMPY is resurrecting from the dead again you decide that the appropriate response is to correct my errors."
Who were these people? It seemed as if all of them were extremely MAD as well as unattractive.
SPOILER!!: The awesome Potions bro
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Originally Posted by Steelsheen
Vickers, still in mournful mode, turned his head as he could feel sudden movements beside him. The Hufflepuff didnt look all too pleased to say the least, the Ravenclaw mistaking the mouth clamping to be Elijah's way of stifling the mournful cry he himself wanted to make. But just as he has gone back to respectfully straightening out his own Pliimpy Elijah started yelling and hiding under the table.
Wait.... did he say it was alive?
"Its alive???" the Ravenclaw scampered over to his partner's tray, peering ever so hopefully that indeed they had a SURVIVOR, one that would not go quietly into the night.
But as he stood and stared it was increasingly obvious that the Plimpy was doing anything but move. Guh after getting his hopes up, he sat dejectedly back onto his seat, wanting to wibble some moarrrr. But no no not in front of the currently cowering awesome Hufflepuff "Its not alive Elijah " he mumbled sadly "Its moved on to a happier place where Plimpies can swim and not have to worry about being tied in knots and used for parts." Sighs for life!
Elijah watched with his breath held as his knight in shining armour! His saviour! went to investigate his risen-again fish. He confirmed, what everyone else probably expected, that the plimpy was, in fact, dead and Elijah must have been seeing things. "You're sure?" he asked, as his awesomely attractive face began peering up from underneath the desk once more.
Yep, it looked pretty dead...
"Thank Merlin for that. Thanks for finishing it off for me Vickers," he lied, passing it off as if it HAD been alive and Vickers and killed it for him. He didn't want to look like a complete fool, afterall. "I feared that it may have went for my nose if you hadn't stepped in there and what a waste of such an attractive nose that would be..."
Yep. Lies lies lies.
SPOILER!!: the scary corpse puppeteer
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Originally Posted by Droo
SPOILER!!: Everyone is staying? Cool!
Y'all know who you are!
Good. It seemed like everyone was staying in one way or another... though Hollingberry seemed like she may change her mind later...
"Master Wilde. I suggest you calm down. Now." she said approaching the panicking boy. She looked at his Plimpy and then to him, and in a very serious and nefarious voice whispered to him, "It's dead, or did you wish me to cast the unforgivable Death curse at it to make you feel better..." Her eyes narrowed at him and then she straightened.
"Trust me. Your plimpies are all dead." She had made sure of that last night. "Now." She resumed pointing at her blackboard with her wand and her plimpy floated up to it. "There are many parts to a plimpy... let's begin with the external."
She pointed at each part with her wand and the words would appear on the blackboard by them. "The nares are the nostrils, not for breathing, but for detecting smells. It's how they find food. The eyes obviously or for seeing, and they can see different colors. The fins are used for maintaining position, moving, steering and stopping. The gills are covered by the Opercolum and the mouth obviously is for eating. The scales are the external protection of the plimpy... If you know fish, you know there are four kinds of scales. The scales on a plimpy are the cycloid and ctenoid type. The legs are for walking and when used, they are used whole. Finally the peduncle is the part of the fish that attaches the caudal fin, or tail, to the rest of the body and is used for propulsion."
Her plimpy stayed floating in front of the blackboard. "Nares are used in many health potions, including Pepperup potion. Can anyone tell me what other potions these ingredients may be found in and why?"
ooc: The picture is not mine. The one I kept drawing looked aweful. This is one I found on Deviantart, by Juan Ruben Juarez M. on which I added the writing.
Suggest he calm down? HMPH! That was easy for her to say. She wasn't close to facing a near death experience by a plimpy come back to life... sorta. "Um, no unforgivable curses needed here ma'am, Vickers here finished him off. I think he is definitely dead now," he quickly untied the knot round the plimpy's legs. "See? Not going anywhere now."
Unforgivable curse?! This unattractive lady was EXTREME.
However, the worst was yet to come. Oh boy, yes it was, because not long after she had offered to cast illegal magic right there in front of him, than she was FLOATING her own dead plimpy corpse up in front of the board.
Sick.
"Oh gosh, Vickers. I think she is purposefully trying to make us spew," he whispered to his partner, "I am way to attractive to be spewing my insides. People would probably try and steal my vomit and sell it off in some black market because i'm sure vomit from SUCH a handsome guy would go for a few galleon."
He really didn't even want to think about what sort of potions this fish made. His stomach was unsettled enough as it was. "Vickers? If I do end up spewing, will you hold my hair back for me? I can't imagine anything worse than if I were to get sick in my hair. Not even the end of the world is that bad."
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SPOILER!!: Droo
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Originally Posted by Droo
SPOILER!!: Everyone is staying? Cool!
Y'all know who you are!
Good. It seemed like everyone was staying in one way or another... though Hollingberry seemed like she may change her mind later...
"Master Wilde. I suggest you calm down. Now." she said approaching the panicking boy. She looked at his Plimpy and then to him, and in a very serious and nefarious voice whispered to him, "It's dead, or did you wish me to cast the unforgivable Death curse at it to make you feel better..." Her eyes narrowed at him and then she straightened.
"Trust me. Your plimpies are all dead." She had made sure of that last night. "Now." She resumed pointing at her blackboard with her wand and her plimpy floated up to it. "There are many parts to a plimpy... let's begin with the external."
She pointed at each part with her wand and the words would appear on the blackboard by them. "The nares are the nostrils, not for breathing, but for detecting smells. It's how they find food. The eyes obviously or for seeing, and they can see different colors. The fins are used for maintaining position, moving, steering and stopping. The gills are covered by the Opercolum and the mouth obviously is for eating. The scales are the external protection of the plimpy... If you know fish, you know there are four kinds of scales. The scales on a plimpy are the cycloid and ctenoid type. The legs are for walking and when used, they are used whole. Finally the peduncle is the part of the fish that attaches the caudal fin, or tail, to the rest of the body and is used for propulsion."
Her plimpy stayed floating in front of the blackboard. "Nares are used in many health potions, including Pepperup potion. Can anyone tell me what other potions these ingredients may be found in and why?"
ooc: The picture is not mine. The one I kept drawing looked aweful. This is one I found on Deviantart, by Juan Ruben Juarez M. on which I added the writing.
WOAHHHHHHHH.
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West watched with great interest, his mind ticking over all the possibilities. Nares are for detecting smells?
He thought about it and put his hand up.
"Maybe nares are in potions that are for sniffing out trouble?" WAS THAT HOW HIS DAD ALWAYS KNEW WHEN HE WAS DOING STUFF? West was suddenly sure of it. His dad DID call him Trouble after all, and always knew when he was In It or Trying To Be In It.
Obviously his dad had a supply of nares. That was his secret.
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Elliot simply glared at the professor...they were going to be harvesting? Elliot wished she had brought gloves. The blonde put her hand to her mouth, staring down at the plimpy in complete revulsion. Should she leave? Should she just watch? NO. Elliot was BRAVE! Right? Right.
No vomiting. Nope. That is so... classless. Come on, you can do it, you pansy! She took a deep breath, and put one finger on the plimpy, felt the slimy scales, and yanked her hand back. Her blue eyes were watering...she closed her eyes, muttered to herself, and began again. This time, she did it quickly(but also carefully, mind you!) and got it OVER WITH.
UUUUUGGGHH. How gross was that? VERY. Elliot never wanted to do that again. She took a handkerchief from her bag and wiped her hands. She then picked up her quill and notebook and began to scribble down what people were saying about making other potions, blah blah blah. Elliot wasn't very good at potions, nor interesting in this class...she was only interested in keeping her lunch in her stomach instead of letting everyone else witness it on her desk.
Gross. Gross. GROSS.
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Alyssa was about to raise her hand and answer that the eyes could be used for fertilizer but then the other students beat her to it, so she thought of other possibilities and one just popped into her head. She heard that it was rumored to be used but Alyssa figured that it was worth a try.
So she raised her hand. "Professor is the Plimpy's scales one of the ingredients used to make the Memory Potion?" Alyssa hoped she wasn't grossly wrong.
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Nerida listened to the Professor explain what Plimpies were and took notes all about them. Mean merpeople tieing their legs together and poor old plimpy! Untangle the Plimpy's legs not hard at all. After the Professor told them they could untangle the Plimpy's legs. She stood up and took a deep breath she couldnt hurt it could she. Whispering Just ungtangle yourse- Before she could finish whispering she had done it. Smiling she sat back down just in time for Professor Lafay to began talking about the external of the Plimpy she jotted it all down and drew the picture and waited for the hard question that was sure to come! There it was...Um are the eyes used in a fertilizer potion because of the nutrients. Thats really all she knew! She hadnt memorized the ingrediants for each and every potion.
SPOILER!!: Nerida's Potions Book
Plimpy
Lives in lakes
Merpeople consider these creatures to be pests because they eat their crops and destroy their hard work.
Merpeople get rid of the creatures by tying their legs into a knot and letting them drift away.
Younger Plimpies are able to untangle themselves. Older Plimpies float away and die.
Our house elves have placed traps for the older ones to fall into sometimes they are dead and sometimes still alive. When they catch a live one, they'll untangle it and throw it back in the water. The dead ones are disposed of.
Harvesting A Dead Plimpy Steps
Untangle it's legs.
Nares=nostrils~not for breathing, but for detecting smells.It's how they find food.
The eyes~seeing, and they can see different colors.
The fins~used for maintaining position, moving, steering and stopping.
The gills~covered by the Opercolum
The mouth~for eating
The scales~the external protection of the plimpy.The scales on a plimpy are the cycloid and ctenoid type.
~The legs are for walking and when used, they are used whole.
The peduncle~the part of the fish that attaches the caudal fin, or tail, to the rest of the body and is used for propulsion
Nares are used in Health Potions
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Sarah was racking her brain for an answer, yet one idea was blocking her way and kept coming up. Exasperated she said it. "Proffessor, maybe Plimpie Soup. Soup has healing properties. Maybe it works like chicken soup. Heals those that are sick." she said rather tryingly
Angelina stared down at her plimpy and up at Lafay when she pointed to each part. She really wasn't afraid of any part of the plimpy, just the whole head part with the eye, and nares, and also mouth. If they get to see the inside, then she will then get grossed out. Hmm... she wasn't to sure of what to answer. Looking over the plimpy once again she raised her hand and said, "Umm... can't you use the scales or the eye?"
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