Minerva sat there and felt some relief when Lafay said they were almost done. This had been the hardest potions lesson she had ever been through. She would take the hate potion results back any day compared to this. Then Lafay said the next step and the color that was coming back to Minerva's face rushed away again. She knew it was a leech and leeches sucked blood, which made her sick thinking about, but it was living. It was a living creature... She couldn't kill spiders let alone anything else and now they had to kill something by letting it poison it's self in the potion. She whispered "You have to be kidding me..."

She watched as the others went about their business like it was no big deal. She really felt like she might throw up now. Not only did she had to smell and see blood, but she was going to have to kill something. This was just not working out.. She wanted to run out of class, but figured she would end up in detention or something. She just sat back breathing hard trying not to get sick over all of it. She wasn't sure she could finish this potion and that did not help her feeling sick...

Leeches. That wasn't be appreciated. Cassia immediately decided that she wasn't going to drink this potion even if her life was on stake. No way! Not even the slightest chance. Couldn't potion masters find a replacement for this particular ingredient. Does anyone even drink it willingly,Cassia doubted that. Trying not to think further about how would someone drink something that has a leech in it, Cassia put on her gloves. She then reached for the jar that contained the little things and opened it.

She held her breath pulling out five leeches from the jar and tossing them into the cauldron. Closing the jar quickly she sat back waiting for the leeched to do whatever they were supposed to do. Cassia wasn't interested in watching that. She took the opportunity to watch how people around her were doing. Most of them if not all seemed to be not so content about interacting with leeches. No one would blame them. Probably only potion masters are ok with using them.

She almost forgot why was she sitting here swinging her lags back and forth while watching the others. But of course the huge cauldron before her jerked her back to reality. Yeah..right..brewing a potion here. Cassia took her wand and aimed it at the liquid, "Verax." She spoke. Then peering down at her potion she saw that it now turned clear just like water. A simile played on her lips implying that she was happy that she had brewed this potion successfully.

It'll start sucking the liquid, thought Olivia. She figured the Joberknoll blood had something to do with that. She put on her gloves and handled the leech properly. Dropping it in, it began absorbing the fluid. Olivia took notes and nodded her head at the potion's progress. Recording each step of the potion making onto her parchement. Once it was done, she twiddeled her wand before making the jabbing motin and said "Verax" loud and clear. "Um, professer" she raised her hand "is the potion supposed to be clear in color when it's finished?"

Ethan suddenly snapped his eyes opened and glanced furtively around his area. Had he just drifted off? Hmm, he thought he might have.. but probably only for a few seconds as he noticed Lafay was now speaking about their last step. Oh good.. they were almost done and he could go take a nap or something.

He listened to the instructions, his face growing more somber as she continued. He had been under the impression that they were using dried leeches, not live ones. Had he really been that tired to not have noticed? Than peered over at the leeches at his table. Apparently he had.

The boy pulled on his gloves after quickly Scourgifying them. Not that he had a problem working with leeches - they weren't all that unlike the worms he used in his personal Herbology work - but he was still really tired and was afraid he would be careless in his exhaustion and inadvertently allow them to latch on to his skin. He dropped the first leech in and sneaked a glance over at Minnie. Oh.. she did not look good at all. Nope, she looked much worse. He glanced into his cauldron, noting that the leech was beginning to disintegrate, and he leaned closer to Minerva. "Minnie," he murmured. "You don't look so good.. are you sure you're alright?" He glanced over at her remaining ingredients, seeing that all her leeches were still present. Hmm, maybe that was the problem..

He dropped one of her leeches into her cauldron. "Here.. I'll do this part for you. Do you think you can cast the spell when it's finished?" Ethan didn't think he should really brew the potion for her.. but maybe just help her with this part and hopefully Lafay wouldn't mind. It would be better than having a student puke all over her floor, right? Ethan alternated dropping leeches into each of their cauldrons, giving them time to disintegrate, until they each had five. He pulled his wand out and jabbed it straight at the cauldron. Verax.

Minerva had never been in trouble during Lafay's class and she always did what she was told, but at the moment, she was unable to move. How on earth was she going to finish this potion. She just looked at the leeches....poor gross blood sucking leeches. She knew it was silly, they were gross and sucked blood, but they were still living.

Faintly she heard someone say something to her and she slowly turned.. "I..I don't know.. I just can't.." she looked back at the leeches. That's when she saw his hand go in front of her and dropped a leech into her cauldron, she gasped quietly and shut her eyes not wanting to see the thing die. She opened her eyes just slightly and saw him doing all her leeches. That was so sweet of him to come to her rescue she thought. She glanced at Lafay hoping she wouldn't freak out that Ethan was helping her. She owed him big for this one. When he seemed finished she cautiously opened her eyes fully and looked at him, not the potion (that could still have parts of leeches floating). With a weak voice she whispered, "I owe you big.. I..I can do the spell." Pulling out her wand she pointed at the cauldron and took a deep breath. Jabbing her wand at the potion she tried as clearly as she could "Verax" When the potion went clear she breathed easier and smiled weakly towards Ethan, "Your amazing, you know that.."

I'd better use my gloves, thought James to himself. Even though he had no clue what was happening as the potions mistress uses such fancy English. He put his gloves on and shook his hands in the air to make sure they were on properly. He then used the pincer grip to pick up the leech and put it in the potion and watched.He waited with bated breath it started sucking the potion
,it turned red dark red it was done finaly he had done it to the end and succeded.James took out his wand and said "Verax" loudly and clearly and looked back at his potion... it was clear.

Sarah put her gloves on and picked up a leech which squirmed in her hand and put it over the potion, which it began to lap up. Once it had its share it began to disintergrate. Sarah then picked up the next leech and did the same, as with the next three leeches, by now the potion had a deep red colour.
Sarah then took replaced her wand in her hand and gave a straight jabbing motion. "Verax" she said and prayed that the potion had worked although she had added the wormwood essence too fast.

The last step already? Ella looked up, a bit surprised. Potions always seemed to fly by but that was probably because the time was the last thing Ella was thinking about. Her mind was always focused on not messing up.

Grabbing her gloves, Ella placed them on and eyed the leeches nervously. The whole blood sucking thing freaked Ella out a bit but at least her skin wasn't exposed, that made her feel a bit better. Following Lafay's directions, the third year placed the leech into her potion and watched as it started to drink. YUCK. It was definitely starting to disintegrate. And it was really really red. So that must mean...

Picking up her wand, the blonde pointed it at the potion and made the straight jabbing motion. "VERAX!"

Watching the potion, the badger sighed with relief when it turned clear. Meep. This was good, yeah?

Taylor slipped on her gloves and then reached into the jar. She took out a leech and placed it in the potion. Tay watched, a little interested as the leech sucked some of the liquid. Taylor grimaced a little as the leech disintegrated into it. The potion changed to a deep and dark red in front of her eyes. She took out her wand and did a straight jabbing motion, "Verax." Tay couldnt muster a smile when the potion turned clear though.

Oh. Merlin. Leeches.

This had to be almost as bad as the blood, it probably was worse in fact. Seeing as these creatures sucked blood. Eww. Why did potions have to be so gross at times?

With a small sigh, Renesmee put on her gloves and eyed the creatures. She took a deep breathe and then as carefully as she could she placed the leech inside her cauldron. She almost wanted to vomit as the leech began drinking away. It even got worse when it began to disintegrate.

Trying not to look, Nessie decided to focus on her spell instead. Almost done she was. "Verax" she said clearly, quickly and loudly with a jab movement. Then like magic the whole potion turned clear.

Much better. Ness beamed and then finished off her notes.

While she waited on the Professor to continue with the instructions, she grabbed her quill. Might as well take notes. She might've needed them again.



Okaaay. Leech time.

She turned to the six leeches on her table. "Hmmm...here's the hard part." She said eyeing each of them. "One of you's gonna get to live...but the rest of you...well at least you get to be part of a cool potion!" See? Always a bright side if you looked just right. "Now, let's get this over with." Then quite randomly she grabbed five of them, one at a time of course, and plopped them into the solution.

"Congrats Jimmy! You're the lucky leech!" BEAM. Wasn't he going to be so happy. Yuuuup.

Looking over into the cauldron she saw them begin to suck up the liquid then turn red. Now came the fun part. Her favourite motion was one that involved jabbing so she had a feeling this one would come easy. Jab. "Verax." A puff of smoke appeared at the tip of her wand but nothing else happened.

Ahem. JAB. "Verax!"

She grinned widely when the potion turned clear. Oh yeah. Like a boss!

Belle put her gloves on for an extra precaution. She knew how slimy creatures felt on her skin and she did not like the feeling. Belle found the leech and put it into the potion. It did start sucking the liquid as few seconds after it was in the potion. It was turning a deep dark red!


Then Belle took out her wand and did a straight jabbing motion and said, "Verax!" loud and clear. Then the potion was clear. Phew she did all the steps right! Belle was smiling and a weight was lifted! She was glad she was done with the potion.

Vivi had no affinity for insects, spiders, or slugs, and she certainly didn't feel bad about boiling leeches alive. Aside from the whole thing where it reminded her about where the blood in this cauldron had come from.... other than that.

She eyed the little wriggling pile in front of her before shrugging and dumping them unceremoniously into the cauldron. Although still wearing her gloves from the last step, it wasn't strictly necessary considering she just dumped them out of the little container straight into the boiling liquid. As Lafay had said, they seemed to grow fatter before disappearing into the potion, which darkened into a horrifying crimson. Like a vat of blood. There was that gagging again.

It would help if it wasn't that color, Vivi decided, and she pointed her wand at the cauldron and jabbed. "Verax," she spoke clearly, and the potion immediately began to fade from crimson to salmon to pink and then the color was gone and she was left with clear liquid. Strange how all the potions so far had been clear.

Ugh! Now it was time to involve the leech. She listened as the professor said if they did not know how to handle a leech to use their gloves. Who has had leech practice? Regardless if they knew how to handle them or not she had no desire whatsoever to touch the bloody thing with her bare hands. Even with gloves it still had a major ick factor. She placed her gloves on her hands and tried to trick her brain about the whole leech thing.

She picked up the leech and placed it into the potion. Sure enough it started sucking up the liquid and it didn't take long for it to get full because right before her eyes it started to disintergrate. She watched it as it turned a deep dark red. She took out her wand a did a straight jabbing motion. "Verax." she rang out loud and clear. Whew! She was done.

Last step? Cool, and usually Sierra was happy to hear those words. It meant class would be over soon, and they'd be dismissed. Potions was a little different, though. Sierra liked spending time with her mom. The woman was her best friend, and Sierra found brewing sort of relaxing. She thought about this as she slipped her gloved on her hands. She was pretty sure she knew how to handle a leech, but she didn't want to make a wild guess either.

She picked up the leech and placed it inside the potion. She watched it as it went to work, sucking some of the liquid. Everything happened just as it should, and soon, Sierra's potion was a deep, dark red. She flicked her wand out her holster, jabbed it toward the potion, and said, "Verax!" A few moments later, the potion was clear.

ooc: Sorry guys I realize I didn't specify that you all should repeat the process with the leech for the other leeches, I meant it to...

"Very well... your potions should be clear. Indistinguishable from water. Take a vial and fill it with a portion of it, then pour the rest into a bottle, cork it and bring it to me." She said and then held her stomach. "Homework. Find someone to give your potion to, and ask them a question. They should answer with the truth. Then tell me where it happened. Class Dismissed!"

More ooc: Rp somewhere giving someone the potion. You should ask permission to do so. Then PM me with links to where you RPed.

Taylor took a vial and filled it to full with potion. She poured the rest in a bottle and corked it. Tay sat it down on the desk. Taylor cleaned up her workspace and wrote down the homework. She put up the parchment and vial then went over to the professor. "Here you go, Professor Lafay." She handed the bottle to Lafay, "Have a good day." She turned and left.

No possible way...

Had she fallen asleep before the end of the class or had she simply slipped into a day dream? Either way the Professor was giving her permission to use the potion on someone! Man! She was already gonna but now she had legit reason and a Professor's 'okay?'! Could this get any better?!

She took a vial and poured as much as she could before it started over-flowing. The rest she reluctantly bottled and corked then handed over. "Here you go Professor...I hope you feel better." Then she headed back to her table to begin gathering her things and cleaning up the area. When she was done she left, eager to try out the potion.

"Scourgify." Sophie cleaned the mortar and pestle before adding two tablespoons of poppy seeds into it. She started crushing them with the pestle, glancing over to her Potion every now and then, with a worried look on her face.

The feeling she'd get the Potion wrong was horrible! She was even afraid to try it once she was done. Hopefully professor Lafay wouldn't make them drink it... or at least she would give out some vials with the correctly brewed one. Gah.

When the seeds were grinded to a dust, Sophie got the valerians springs and started breaking them with her hands, right over the mortar. After she added to the mortar the seven springs, all broken, she crushed it all together some more before putting it all into the Potion.

Sophie eyed the mixture in her cauldron as it slightly changed colours. Eep! She quickly looked around to see if the other students' Potions were also changing their colours. Professor Lafay didn't mention colour changing, did she??

Gaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

That was frustrating... well, she couldn't do much now, could she? Sigh. Her shoulders lowered a little bit as she almost missed the next instructions.

Leech? Sophie looked down at the ingredients she had retrieved earlier. It was alive?? Merlin! The girl didn't look disgusted because she was used to all sorts of small creatures from her mother's garden, but she didn't feel like killing the poor thing because of a Potion...

Anyhow, she had to finish it. Not even in her thoughts would she argue with professor Lafay. Nope. So Sophie got the leech - without gloves - and quickly tossed it into her cauldron. The badger looked up at the Head of Slytherin House when a colour was mentioned. Looking back down at her Potion, Sophie watched closely as the liquid did start to change colours.

HOPE!

A few seconds after the leech desintegrated, though, Sophie's potion was marron. That... wasn't exactly a 'dark deep red', but... it was closer that Sophie expected! Maybe it could work anyway??? She wouldn't try it anyway, just in case... eh.

Oh, a spell! Sophie's favourite part.

Verax. The third year mouthed the word before getting her wand out. She made a jabbing motion straight to her Potion. "Verax." And the Potion was now clear.

Which got Sophie really confused. She had no idea whether it was brewed correctly or not now... her potion did look like what it was supposed to look, but... she wasn't sure if she had put the right amount of wormwood essence... aaaaaahhhh!!! The agony!!

But back at the spell... Verax. Sophie had decided she would learn Latin so the process of learning spells would be easier and faster. Verax... hm... what if she used that spell directly on people? Would it also make them tell the truth, like the Potion? Maybe... it did make people tell the truth, but not as easily as it would be with the potion? Why not use just the spell??

Sophie was definitely going to the library after this class. And yes, she had completely forgotten about her potion already.

It was professor Lafay's words that brought her back to reality. And OHNO!!! They would have to give their potion to someone as their homework! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Sophie didn't really want to do that... what if she killed someone?? MERLIN, OHNO!!!

Nervounesssssss!!! Sophie's hand was actually trembling slightly as she filled a vial with her own potion. They'd have to take the rest to professor Lafay, ohMerlinnooooooooo!

Siiiiiiiiiiigh. After putting the rest of it in a bottle, Sophie put her things away and cleaned her workstation. Getting up, she went to professor Lafay looking at the floor and placed the bottle on her desk, not looking at the older witch in the eyes.

Turning on her heels, Sophie quickly walked out of the dungeons.

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Everyone was doing well, odd. "Alright, now retrieve your mortar and pestle from your potions kit, and, after making sure it is clean, put the two tablespoons of poppy seeds into it. Start grinding them down to a dust and then breaking up with your hand the seven sprigs of Valerian, put them in the morter. Then crush it together with the poppy dust. Be sure to then add the contents to your potions." And she demonstrated it all.

Reaching into his potions kit, Gideon found both mortar and pestle and laid them out on the table beside his brewing cauldron. "Scourgify," he cast on both to make sure they were clean and clear of anything that could adversly effect anything. With that done, the Gryffindor added the poppyseeds into the bowl and begain grinding them as directed until he had a dusting of them. He then picked up the Valerian twigs and broke them up, adding them to the dust and crushed both ingrediants some more, the two meshing as one. Once he was satisfied, he carefully dumped the contents of the mortar into his cauldron.

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"We are at the last step. If you do not know how to handle a leech, which, then put on our gloves. I don't want it to attach to you and contaminate itself. Place the leech inside the potion and it'll start sucking some of the liquid. Once it's full, you'll notice it'll start disintegrating into the potion. It will turn red, a dark deep red." After demonstrating, she took her wand out. "Cast on the potion in a straight jabbing motion and say 'Verax' loud and clear." She said and again, demonstrated. The potion became clear. "And it is done."

Moving on to the last step, Gideon slipped on his gloves. No getting leeches attached to oneself as Professor Lafay said. That would certainly be a bad thing. He placed the first leech inside his potion and watched it suck at the liquid before dissolving once it was full. It really was an interesting effect. The young man then repeated the process until all the leeches were in the cauldron and liquified into the potion for lack of a better term. The liquid now a dark red...even more so then the blood had been.

He then picked his wand back up, preparing to cast the spell that marked the end of the brewing process. "VERAX!" he cast loud and clear, a jabbing motion straight as an arrow proceeding it. There...all done.

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ooc: Sorry guys I realize I didn't specify that you all should repeat the process with the leech for the other leeches, I meant it to...

"Very well... your potions should be clear. Indistinguishable from water. Take a vial and fill it with a portion of it, then pour the rest into a bottle, cork it and bring it to me." She said and then held her stomach. "Homework. Find someone to give your potion to, and ask them a question. They should answer with the truth. Then tell me where it happened. Class Dismissed!"

More ooc: Rp somewhere giving someone the potion. You should ask permission to do so. Then PM me with links to where you RPed.

Gideon removed his gloves and added the last pits of information into his notes, making sure he had all the steps and comments within for future reference. His attention drawn back to Lafay as she ended class, he listened to the homework assignment. Adding that to the parchment as well before bottling up his work...a now crystal clear potion, and proceeding to clean his work area up.

Hmm...giving the potion to someone and ask a question? This sounds thrilling.Befelda then took a vial and filled some of the potion to it. Then she took a bottle and filled the rest of the potion and corked it.

She fixed everything on her desk, packed up her things and headed towards Professor Lafay. "Professor, so we are to find someone to give the potion and ask a question? So that someone must drink the potion, and afterwards, ask him/her a question? Any question at all, Sir? What type of question are we going to ask? And we should ask him/her permission first if he/she's willing to take the potion? Sorry, I just want to make the homework right. By the way, here you go.", Befelda said to the Professor. Seems she wants the homework to be clarified before doing it.

Last step whoop whoop! ariana could of danced she was so excited to be finishing. she went into her kit and put on her gloves. GLOVEYSSS. meh she then picked up her first leech and placed it in her potion and watched as it began to suck up the potion.. then it just disintegrated before her eyes. 'wicked." she said softly to herself ohh que the Dark deep red in her potion that was also veryy cool might she add. She then took out her wand and Casted "Verax!" loudly and clearly with a straight jabbing motion. She then repeated the process for the remainder of the leeches and.. Done. She did a sigh of relief. "finally." though she was so proud of her work.

Clear Potion? she looked into her cauldron Crystal clear. 'Good Job Logan!' she thought to herself She took out a vial from her potion kit and poured some into it. then poured the rest into a bottle. spilling some on the table. "opps" she said. After she was finished pouring the remainder portion into her bottle she put her cork on it she cleaned the table with a quick sourgify and was on her way to approaching the professor after she made sure her name house & house were written clearly on her bottle. she walked over to the professor and gave her her bottle "thank you for the lesson professor." she said with a polite bow and she was out. CLASS DISMISSED Bring In The Dancing Lobsters!

Ah, the mortar. I think that may be my favorite part of potions so far. Unless there's a potion that smells a bit better, then maybe the stirring will be, she mused. Eliza cleaned her mortar, pestle and lastly the tablespoon. She dipped her tablespoon into the poppy seeds and deposited them into the mortar with an out loud "One....and two." She ground them down substantially and then took some sprigs into her hands, with her gloves still on, to break up. She tried her best not to lose any of the sprigs through her fingers but she may have dropped a piece or two...or three. I wonder why we don't have to wear masks while we grind poppy seeds. Maybe it's only the full poppy flower head that makes you sleepy? She re-gathered what she could and put it into the mortar to continue grinding and crushing. Once it looked about right, she added it to the potion.



Eliza was glad she had found her gloves earlier, because she did not want to pick the leech up with her bare fingers. She thought it was sort of cruel to give the leech a last meal that would destroy it entirely, but then again, if she was being honest - she really didn't care much about the well being of leeches. She picked hers up between two gloved fingers and quickly dropped it into the potion. Sure enough, the little sucker grew to almost twice or three times its original size as it fed off of the blood in the cauldron. Then it began to fall apart. It was sort of grotesque to watch, even if it was just a leech. Its body made tiny, tiny bubbles as it seemingly melted away into the potion, turning the mixture a very deep red. Well that was rather creepy, she thought with a slight look of disgust. Why did we need five leeches, when she only showed to use one?She shrugged and hoped all of these potions would be stored or given to the ministry for good, just, and official use - but she wasn't so sure that's what was going to happen. She delayed a moment, wondering if she really should finish the potion or not, and ultimately decided that it was a much safer version than others so she might as well contribute to the world in a the way of a lesser evil potion. "Verax," she said as she made a sharp jabbing motion towards it. There. It's done, she thought as the potion shifted to a completely clear appearance.

Jory took a vial and poured some of the potion into it then he poured the remainder in a bottle. He then cleaned up before replacing his possessions in his bag.

"Than you for another great lesson, Professor,'' the Badger said as he handed the bottled potion to her.

Honestly, Kendall hadn't even questioned what Professor Lafay had meant by clear. She'd just gone straight for assuming it meant they'd been brewing yet another potion that looked like water, and, for that matter, she'd thought it was a good assumption. At least, as she'd mentioned after the last class, veritaserum was clear. So it made sense that this truth serum would be as well. It wouldn't be very sneaky if the person taking it knew what they were drinking, after all, but then she had the sneaking suspicion a person would know what they were drinking anyway. At least, she couldn't see how anything that contained blood and disintegrated leeches would taste very good, and that made her wonder how veritaserum was as successful as it was rumored to be. Unless both potions could be put into other things without being diluted to the point of not working.

That was a question she filed away for the time being, as she took a small vial out of her supplies along with a larger bottle. She could ask that once she'd cleaned up, and she took care to Scourgify her bottle and vial before filling each one. Then she made sure to label the bottle with her name and house, as well as a tiny label on her vial so she knew which potion it was. She wouldn't want to mistake it for the dream potion, after all, once it was inside her bag. Once it was safely stowed away, she applied herself to cleaning the rest of her workstation and her supplies so they could all be put away too and everything was back the way it had been when she'd arrived. And then she headed up to deliver her potion to the professor. "Can this potion be added to drinks and stuff so people don't know they're taking it?," she asked, setting her bottle onto the desk. She was just curious. She wasn't going to suggest spiking Patrick's chocolates or anything, but it was an intriguing idea. Maybe they could use it against people they didn't like, to get them to admit the truth. Either way, she wanted to leave the classroom knowing her options.