Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo (Post 11354417)

She wasn't paying much attention to anything in particular, juuuust looking around at everything, thinking about her candy and the occasional random humming that seemed to be happening more and more frequently since lately. Humming was fuuuuuun.

Her attention only returned to the class when the first question was asked.

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It wasn't one about the ingredients and what they did!! GOOD! She never knew the answer to those. This though, she could answer, even if only a little so she stuck her hand up. "It's a mixture--the magic kind--that you have to brew in order to obtain and it can be used for lots of stuff. Like you could use it to heal someone...or poison someone...or...well, like I said, you could use it for lots of stuff because the mixture has an effect on the people it's used on."

That's basically it...to her anyway.

Originally Posted by lazykitty (Post 11354418)

Uh...... okay that was a weird way to start the class. But then, everything was weird and different this term. So...yeah. "A potion is a brew or drink that has various effects on the user depending on what type of potion it is." Basically, they could do pretty much anything if brewed correctly. Though, personally, if there was either a spell or a muggle concoction that would do the same thing, she pretty much tended use those. Most potions tasted nasty and took much too long to brew. Shortcuts for the win!

Originally Posted by Meizzner (Post 11354421)

Daydreaming a little before Lafay started class. Nigel always goes back to when he HAD to ask how a bezoar worked. Nigel did not have to ask. But of course he did. Though, Nigel did learn something from being poisoned that day. He learned to always have a bezoar on him at all times. He has not had to use it yet. But like his uncle always says . Better safe than sorry.

Nigel raised his hand and answered the question. "A Potion is a magical mixture usually mixed or brewed in a cauldron."

It was basically the textbook definition. But whatever it was right and Nigel wanted to see what they were going to be brewing today.

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Originally Posted by MaverickMagpie (Post 11354423)

Master Tempus? That was a new one. Okay, yeah, wow.

Tobias had progressed to tapping slightly on the desk, but stopped at once when the professor (Lafay apparently?) pointed her wand at the door. He couldn't see it or hear it, but presumed she had closed it. But why did she need her wand to do that? She couldn't have locked it... surely?

Literally shaking his head to get rid of that idea, the Hufflepuff raised his hand at her question, even though he wasn't entirely sure of the answer. The energy had to go somewhere, and talking was the best thing to try. "Uh, is it like... a mixture of certain ingredients, but only like actual proper ingredients, like magic things, and they work on living things by kind of... changing things about them. Physically and not so physically. And they can be bad as well as good." He was unsure and his words had a way of abandoning him when he needed them most. Tobias shifted slightly, acting as though he was pulling his stool closer to the table to try to disguise his need to constantly fidget.

Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11354424)

What they were really slowing it down to start this term weren't they. She wasn't sure Lafay ever took it to that big of the basics, well not that she could remember. Listening a moment, she couldn't believe Lafay wouldn't just expect the first years to know that. Did she think this knew lot were slower then most?

Putting her hand up she answered, "Professor a potion is something that is brewed with different ingredients. Depending on the ingredients the potion could do almost anything you need it to from poisoning someone to almost bringing someone back from near death." She put her hand down and listened to the others.

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow (Post 11354425)

Theo smiles? Ella was too tired to question this so she smiled back, giving him a small nod of acknowledgement. Honestly, she hoped they'd be proper friends soon. No more of this wishy-washy stuff.

And Professor Lafay had called her Captain Bishop, which was nice to hear. She still wasn't quite used to hearing it but she smiled anyhow.

And the boyfriend sat next to her which was good, for reasons. Also bad for reasons too. Concentration reasons. Because trying to concentrate while he was around was going to be a struggle.

The blonde listened carefully to Lafay's question and thought it over for a minute or two before raising her hand in the air. "Professor, a potion is a mixture of ingredients and like Alexa said, potions can heal, harm, or give the person taking the potion the desired effects of said potion... if brewed correctly. For example, a love potion would cause the drinker to become infatuated with another person."

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Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight (Post 11354431)

Nerida had sat down right as the Professor asked the first question..[i]Wow Nerida way to be almost late[i].She raised her hand "Potions are mixtures commonly brewed in cauldrons and used to create various effects on the drinker. Potions can be used as medicine, poison, or it can give the drinker any effect from strength enhancement to immunity to flames."

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 (Post 11354441)

Jory raised his hand after a while. "A Potion is a concoction which was brewed using a variety of magical ingredients,'' he said. "Each potion has a different effect on the drinker and the effects depend on the ingredients used.'' Wasn't he forgetting something? Oh yes! "And a Potion does not necessarily have to be swallowed.''

Originally Posted by JustAlice (Post 11354451)

Tell her what a potion is..? O___O

That had to be a trick question, right? ... Or maybe not..? Derry had no idea, she didn't know the definition of potion, she just knew what they did. Some of them. But... it was good to hazard a guess, right? "A potion is a mixture of ingredients, sometimes including a magic spell as well as magic ingredients, and they have to be mixed in the right order with the right amounts to work properly..." Right..? "And they're for... whatever the specific potion is for. There are hundreds of uses..."

She was writing some of the suggestions down, scribbling away in an attempt to get everything written down. Because she'd forget it otherwise... probably...

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Susan sat and watched everyone file into the classroom and take their seats. Well they really were starting with the basics. Susan wanted to think about her answer before she answered the professors questions. If she talked before she thought about it she tended to sound stupid. "Professor Lafay, a potion is a concoction you brew with various ingredients and potions can do many things such as healing." There, that sounded half way decent, she hoped.

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Originally Posted by Ivana R (Post 11354475)

Oops! Did the teacher lock the door? Ok, let me see... I can't run off, perhaps I can hide myself shrugging my shoulders and sliding under the desk, so the teacher can't see me either... *Annabeth tried to slide* It doesn't works. It's better to venture a guess: "A potion is the result of a carefully chosen combination of brewed ingredients brought together in the right proportion into a cauldron. It might be used to heal, bewitch or poison people."
Zero of knowledge but 100% of imagination mixed with pompous words... It should be enough. She thought, waiting for the teacher's reply.

Originally Posted by lemon (Post 11354477)

Oh, hey, look. It was that one kid who was friends with the REALLY LOUD Gryffindor. She didn't say anything, but sorta kinda LOOKED at him out of the corner of her eye.

The awful thing about answering questions after most of the clever people in the room had was that there was absolutely nothing else left for Alice to say without sounding repetitive. "Like everyone else said, potions don't necessarily have to be ingested, and the ones that aren't can be physically applied or can effect the potioneer just by being created," she voiced after a few moments of thinking, raising her hand before she spoke. "They can serve for as much of a channel for magic as wands can, I think, seeing as loads of them enhance or worsen our senses and abilities, and that's what a bunch of spells do, too."

She fell quiet again and continued examining the first year as inconspicuously as she could.

Originally Posted by Sonea (Post 11354487)

Sonea smiled shortly when the professor greeted her bag, just as she had greeted everyone back and searched in her bag for her parchment so that she could make some notes during this lesson. She was not sure how difficult this lessons would be and Sonea had learned that it was always better to make notes, even if she would need them afterwards, it was good to just have them.

The young girl looked with her quill in her hand at the teacher, ready to write that what the teacher told the class and made her notes.

Sonea pointed her hand in the air and tried to answer the question. “A potion is a substance, created by a witch or wizard, you can heal, hurt and even poison somebody with a potion.” Sonea hoped that she had answered the question right because she was not sure if her answer wasn’t good enough. She looked a little nervous when she sat back down in her chair and waited.

Originally Posted by Charely Potter (Post 11354491)

As soon as Wade had settled in his seat, class was already beginning. Cool, so they were starting with the basics. Wade didn't have to furrow his brows over the first question, as he rose his hand. "Potions are concoctions brewed, with the use of prepared ingredients and magic.. It gives the drinker some effect from changing how they look or feel.. even kill." Especially if done wrong.

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Originally Posted by RachieRu (Post 11354543)

What a potion was? Well Clement knew that. Well he had better do, or he had no reason in passing his potion Owl has year. Which he did. Which was the reason why he was sitting here in the class in the first place of course. After a few minutes thinking, and listening to the other students obviously, he raised his hand. "A potion is a mix of various ingredients, such as bat wings and boomslang." See he could remember some stuff. He hadn't forgotten it all over summer, which had been something he'd been a little nervous about. He had to wait for a minute now, trying to work out what the correct word was. A summer of speaking just french had made his English a little rusty. "They can sometimes be used for medicine, but they can also be used for stuff, such as to make the drinker lucky, or give them strength."

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Originally Posted by Kitten (Post 11354569)

So they were quickly going over the basics? What was a potion and what where they for? The Slytherin smiled, happy that she actually knew this after pouring over multiple potions books in preparation for this class.

"Well... a potion is usually a magical brew, that can be consumed" something the blonde remembered because of the etymology behind the word. "Some uses can be to heal people... or poison them in some cases... but there can be other things... she finished her rambling as she thought of the polyjuice potion she was reading about earlier...

She didn't know what category that would fall under though!

Originally Posted by dansgurl (Post 11354574)

Potions. Potions. YAHOOO!

She cocked her head and looked at the professor with all the concentration she could muster up. She had been waiting for this class. The Brewing Class. Sounds cool. She couldn't wait to get started. Couldn't wait to brew something amazing! Wait till dad knows.. He had been showing off lately, telling her to stay away from the basement and his potions until she attended the potions class.

What is a potion? What..? She doesn't know that?

"It's a liquid..brewed to perfection..only by apt potionists" Like dad "..to be consumed by people to have ANY desired effect they want" Ask basic question, get basic answers. Savvy?

Originally Posted by Emzily (Post 11354578)

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Lafay was getting seriously sassy with Theo lately. He just blinked at her exaggeration of his name, and looked down at his desk.

What was a potion? That was possibly the easiest question ever, so the Slytherin felt no problem at all at raising his hand straight away. "It is a brew... or a mixture that has all sorts of different effects, depending on what ingredients a person adds." He said with a nod.

Originally Posted by Rosa Chispa Princessa (Post 11354592)

So what is a potion eh, hmm, that a rather interesting question since it can be answered in many different ways. However the answer at the core is simple and I know just how to answer this, I better after 5 years of magical training. She raised her hand, "Potions are concoctions brewed up to do many different things from mundane to helpful t especially harmful depending on the ingredients and the timing you put them in you're potion.".

Originally Posted by Harry174 (Post 11354598)

Laura raised her hand and decided to answer the question. "Potions can be used for many different things, but I would say the most important thing that Potions can be used for is healing the sick, because without the potion that they take they could die from the illness they have." Laura sighed, she really thought the nurses at St Mungo must be happy with the work they were doing and Laura thought that they weren't appreciated enough.

Originally Posted by lemondrop13 (Post 11354661)

Carsyn's eyes grew wide in fear, like a deer in the headlights. Her main goal in life was to be invisible and she was already failing miserably. Yet, what was more upsetting to her was that she knew the professor was right. Her parents raised her better than that, so with flushed cheeks Carsyn quietly replied, "Sorry Professor Lafay."

To repair some of the damage done by her paralyzing shyness, Carsyn forced herself to raise her hand in response to the professor's question about potions, and offered, "Potions are a blending of ingredients, combined using very specific formulas to create a magical liquid, in which each ingredient is chosen to impart a specific quality to the whole. Potions can be used for so many things - the purpose is often at the will of the witch or wizard brewing it. Ultimately, their purpose is to effect a change in the one who consumes it."

Originally Posted by DJ ExpelliarMOOSE (Post 11354697)

So this was going to be a basic review class. "Professor, a Potion is a specially brewed liquid that as others have said can either cure an ailment or cause them. Although other potions can be used for other odd purposes too."
He could give a list of some of those things, but he'll leave that up to interpretation. There were vast amount of them.

Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife (Post 11354712)

For the first time, Kat was called 'prefect' in a class. It was so different, yet so awesome to hear it. She'll be getting used to it soon, because she'd be having this badge until next term. Looking forward to it from the other professors, the be honest. Ahem anyway...

Basics. Hmm... okay. Not that Kat had anything bad towards it. It was going to be a refresher for them, and it was a new thing too.

What was a potion? Yep, Lafay was really right about that basic thing. Kat raised her hand, even if everyone seemed to have answered. "Witches and wizards use ingredients in brewing potions which have different magical properties." Yeah that was about it.

Originally Posted by Deniiz (Post 11354840)

Forrest had only a vague idea what a potion was. They always struck him like medicine. Syrup, to be exact. So, he raised his hand after a moment of giving it a thought, and said "They are liquid that wizards drink to have whatever effect they do." That was put in its most general.

Originally Posted by Enigma (Post 11354874)

Oh okay.. so this was going to be a basics class. Which shouldn't be at all difficult considering that she had just passed her OWL exams. And passed nicely enough in Potions especially. She settled in her seat, her bag in place at her feet and her parchments and quills ready.

And at the first question, she listened to others answer, and everyone had basically said the same thing. But still, just to make her presence known, she answered. So, then she raised her hand and answered, "Professor, a potion is a mixture of various ingredients combined together in specific proportions, and having specific properties." Then adding to her answer, she said, "Some can cure a disease, while some others are poisons meant to maim or kill." As in, they can be used for both, in good ways and to cause harm. But then there were some others too, which didn't cause any harm, but weren't too useful either.

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Originally Posted by THE Govoni (Post 11355004)

SMIRK. Brows for you, Professor.

"Potions can pretty much do what more spells and magic can...but are often times consumed orally. There are the exceptions...like that gross potion you had us brew last term." You know....the one that had him throwing up for days. The smell of spoiled milk just....He lost his 'can' with it. "They can cure aliments, cause pain, act as medicine, and even take lives."

In other words?

"Potions deserve patience, concentration, and respect." Yes, Dylan had been poetic about them...but he loved potions. So, it was to be expected.

Originally Posted by Bubbles (Post 11355337)

Huuuuuuuuuuuh?:blink:

Okaaaay. Peyton stood up and sat down where Lafay told her to. She hugged her bag to her chest, eyeing her previous seat. She liked sitting at the front. She liked sitting at THAT specific spot. Oh well. This one would have to do.

At least she wasn't sitting on the floor, right?

Hahahaaa!

She raised her hand to answer the question. "A potion is a magical mixture that can cause a variety of effects. It's ingredients, if not all, have magical proterties, too."