West was wondering if he should maybe try out this potion antidote thing even though he'd not been eating ice cream, just in case. Preventative measures. What if somehow the ice cream fumes got into his lungs or something?

Okay. More instructions.

West put his gloves on and carefully counted the fluxweed. Seven blades of it. That went in, and then he measured 2 spoons of poppyseeds too. So that was interesting and everything. He was thinking a lot about all the properties of the ingredients . He was definitely interested to see how things would go. It'd work right? Get rid of all the crazies? Yeah. Anyways. Waiting for the next ingredients again mmhmm.

Ugh it was so loud in here, Derry needed to concentrate! She really didn't know how the others were even able to count in this room. And that was kind of important. She put her gloves on and started to drop in the fluxweed.

One... two... three... WOULD YOU ALL SHUT UP... four.....

Or was that five? Um... maybe? Okay. Six... seven... But it didn't LOOK right. She chewed her sleeve nervously and eyed the cauldron's of people around her. Hers looked... thinner. Sort of. Hmm... She picked up another blade of fluxweed... Maybe she had miscounted. She held it at arms length and turned her face away from the cauldron just in case, then dropped the blade into her potion.

...

Oh! Okay nothing bad happened. And it was starting to look kiiiiind of like other people's... maybe she had got the counting wrong. Ugh, that would have been embarrassing. Failing at basic maths...

Right, poppy seeds. She liked these, they looked like the eggs that her stick insects had laid when she was little. She carefully measured one spoon of them and dropped it into her potion. One. Then measured another - she was counting loudly in her head - Two. She dropped the spoonful into her potion and rested the spoon back down on the desk.

Nothing had exploded yet!!!!

Yes of course. This was EXPECTED to happen. Could you believe Kat was supposed to be working with these two? They had a bloody house to babysit and then... this. Kat frowned and stuff... even if she wanted to laugh at that Daichi!glare. Because, really, that didn't look like a glare even a bit.

So she bit her tongue and tried not to burst into laughter. Merlin, really.

And the next instructions.

Kat took out her gloves and wore them. They weren't supposed to touch the fluxweed right? But... they could probably just levitate them. Curiosity filled Kat... but she'll just stick to the instructions given. She picked up the fluxweed and dropped them in her cauldron one by one, until all seven of them were inside.

Then the next was the poppyseeds. Kat measured two spoonfuls and added them inside the cauldron too. Okay... next?

That was a lot of information at once. Well, it wasn't really. Theo blinked a few times, because his stomach grumbling distracted him from the last ingredient. So he relied on watching Professor Lafay's demonstration. Seven blades of fluxweed. He went straight for it but OH, his gloves. Good thinking, brain. Theo pulled those on quickly and turned back to the fluxweed.

He counted seven blades and plopped them straight in. What was next? He couldn't remember.... so he watched Lafay closely again. Poppyseeds, cool. She put in 2 spoonfuls it seemed, so Theo did the same.

Merlin...

Sophie was once again trying to ignore all the craziness that was happening, and wanting to not listen to what people were saying. That was hard though, and she gave a few people some suspicious looks. That was all just so mental!

But... well... she needed to finish that 'Potion'. Blink.

The badger listened to the instructions and slowly put on her gloves... trying not to look around suspiciously but failing. She was glad she had to focus on the ingredients now to count seven blades of fluxweed. That was a brief moment where she actually didn't quite pay attention to her surroundings. The girl added them to her mixture and checked the fire underneath her cauldron before also adding the two spoonfulls of poppyseeds.

While waiting for the next instructions, the brunette eyed some of her crazy friends.

The second year old eyed the fluxweed blades and she grinned, she knew this plant, it had purple flowers, and purple wasn't as good as pink but it was a nice flower... She nodded to the professor when she ordered to use their cloves, and of course, she had her PINK cloves with her! She grabbed her cloves she had put in her schoolbag and put them on before she repeated what professor Lafay had done.

Daichi's gaze followed the little first? second? year as he passed the working station where Dylan was and even said an hello to him. He wrinkled his nose but didn't say anything.

Alright, so Asher his name was. Daichi nodded to show he had heard him

He waited for Asher to start over the first steps and raised an eyebrow when he added the marshmallows. Didn't he knew that chocolate was far better?

Ah! so that was why Professor Lafay decided to vanish Asher's potion earlier. He had mixed up the ingredients. The Slytherin did not know the reason at first why the kid needed help but now that he did he knew what to do.

Make sure he was focused on the potion and not make any mistakes...HE COULD DO THIS!

"Yes" the Prefect nodded his head when the Hufflepuff told him his own mistake. At least he knew what he did wrong right? "add one butterbeer and then six drops of Lethe River Water"

BUTTERCUP?!

His back to the Captain , Daichi's cheeks blushing with embarrassment. He flicked his wrist and his wand fell out of its wrist holster. He wasn't pointing it at Dylan though, just held it by his side as he closed his eyes for a moment.

"Don't curse him, don't curse him, don't curse him" he muttered under his breath and then counted to 1..2..."Don't curse him" ...3...4..5.."He's not worth it" 6...7..8..9..10. Taking in a deep breath, Daichi tried to ignore Dylan and turned his attention to the Professor and Asher.

He was very happy to have the next steps of instructions so that he could focus on making the potion. Grabbing his gloves, he put them on and then motioned for Asher to do the same.

Alright, seven blades of fluxweed. The Slytherin searched for it on the table and when he found them at the edge he leaned forward to grab them. He counted them until he had 14 blades. He then shoved seven pieces of fluxweed to the Hufflepuff kid so that he could use the rest.

Adding in 2 spoonfulls of poppyseeds, the Slytherin turned to Asher as he folded his arms in an 'now you' way.

Minerva stared at the mess shaking all over. Her breathing was rapid and her heart was racing. She felt ill.. very ill. Is this what a heart attack felt like, because at seventeen she really felt that she was having one. She really needed to clean up the mess, but she couldn't move from fear and pain in her arm. It was that Valentines Night all over again. She didn't let her eyes look at the rest of the class, they had to have been staring at her thinking she was made and honestly she was beginning to feel she was crazy anymore. Hearing Ethan's voice she looked at him and shook her head to his question not able to find her words.

No she was not alright... She was in pain, her robes burned AGAIN and this time so was her arm. She felt his hand tough is and she jumped from pain letting out a small whimper. Just then she felt hands on her shoulders and she so badly wanted to jump away.. Get away.. It was either of the adults wanting to torture again, but she couldn't move the voice made her freeze. What was she going to do to her... There were other students. Tears had already started and she bit her lip trying to control it when she saw some sort of leaf. A PLANT... PART OF A PLANT... It was the detention again... She couldn't help but gasp and try to pull away, but fail from Lafay having hold of her. As the plant snapped she realized what it was and felt the cool on her arm.

She blinked a few times before looking up at Lafay. Forcing herself to speak even if her voice came out hushed and trembling, "Thank you ma'am..I'm sorry..." As she watched her head back to the front of the room Minerva looked down at her burnt arm first and then to her mess. "I have to clean this mess up" Gripping her wand she pointed and "scourgify" the area cleaning everything including her cauldron. Filling chocolate half way again she stared at the cauldron.. "E...I.. I can't.. I can't do this." She put her head in her hands. She couldn't start the fire again. Shaking all over she tried to breath deep and calm herself, but knowing that Healer was still behind her and the fact that she terrified beyond compare to see flames again made her unable to calm.

And now they were moving on it seemed. Good. All of the adult drama along with his peers drama was boring. And naturally it was his house that was getting involved. Insufferable pseudo intellectuals. Okay, maybe not pseudo, but was there REALLY a reason to get involved? Pfft. No.

Throwing on his gloves, Ascanius took each blade of fluxweed and dropped it in one at a time. Gloves made sure it was untouched so he was just chugging along here, yeah? Yeah.

Then he took two spoonfuls of poppyseeds and added them one right after the other. Jeez. Easy.

Next?

Ella had been waiting patiently for the next instructions and by that, she'd been bouncing in her seat and trying her best not to go for the array of toppings to eat as a snack. Like...some chocolate sauce sounded really really reallyyyyyyyyyyy good right now, okay? She'd also been watching the interactions between Professor Lafay and Kitty!Wade because the professor had seemed to take some kind of interest in the badger. Brows for that and mild concern. Lafay wasn't going to try and like...add Wade to a badger sundae, was she? O____o Merlin!

Shaking off bad thoughts, the sixteen year old was happy to see they were moving on. She grabbed her gloves and placed them on before touching the next ingredients.

7 blades of fluxweed, yeah? 1...2..3..4...5...6...7

Next the blonde cleaned a spoon with her wand and reached for the poppy seeds, scooping out two spoonfuls into her cauldron. "One...two."

There. GRIN!

Hecate heard the girl and rolled her eyes. "You can and you will." she simply said. "You are a witch. You have power. If the flame goes high, you lower it. Do you understand? Just pay attention and you'll be fine. Now start your fire." Hecate's hand automatically shot up to stop prefect McCarthy from even attempting to help the girl. She would do it on her own. She could and she would.

"One last ingredient before we cast our spell... Glumbumble fluid." She said and summoned it from the cupboard. "One tablespoon of it. Drop it slowly, stirring with a wooden stirrer counter clockwise. Like this." And she demonstrated.

Cassia was occupying herself by staring at the ingredients' table while people talked and asked and stuffs. She didn't know why it was such a big deal. Why didn't Lex want to test her syrup. Hmmmm.. Not that Lafay seemed like she was going to give people choices. The snake lost in thought and bored as she was almost didn't pay attention to the next instruction. Luckily she was alerted by other students reaching for bottles and all.

She perked and straightened and immediately copied what others were doing. Starting with the fluxweed, she added seven blades a bit in a hurry to catch up with the next step.

With her gloves on, the fourth-year grabbed a spoon and watched the Professor demonstrate then did the same and added two spoonfuls of poppyseeds.

All good, next!

Last ingredient. That was easy. Then again, it was just a syrup. Though obviously not an ordinary one. The blond went and grabbed the next ingredient then watched how it was added. She turned back to her cauldron and added a tablespoon of the fluid slowly. Then she started stirring counterclockwise as instructed. She wondered what spell will they cast.

Also, were they going to have it like without ice-cream? Ice-cream in lessons did really sound weird. Like in charms.

Glumbumble fluid. Right. A tablespoon.

Potions were weird, man... she really hoped she didn't have to try and eat this because she could not STAND ice cream and all associated with it. It was a trauma thing. Back with the pistachio mess and the hospital and... ugh. Shudder.

Right. One tablespoon of glumbumble fluid. Derry carefully measured it out and grabbed a wooden stirrer, adding the fluid and stirring anti clockwise slowly. Good, yes? Hopefully? ....... Merlin this was stressing her out.

As Kace looked up at the board, she noticed that the Professor added more ingredients. He got a hold of his seven blades and fluxweed. Well he found them and he noticed he needed his gloves. He put his gloves on first *slip..slip* Then he touched his fluxweeds and but them in his potion.

He took off his gloves and added 2 spoonfulls of poppyseeds. 1 spoonfull....2 spoonfulls and the he was done for now. After his spoonfulls were put in. He noticed the professor saying he needed one more ingredient. He needed Glumbumble fluid? Whatever that was. But it seemed it was fun to say. He smirked at that. He added one tablespoon very slowly and then he got his wooden spoon and stirred it counter clockwise. Just the way the professor was doing it.

He hoped this potion was worth it.

Glumbumble fluid? What the heck was that?

Oh well, at least it was an easy instruction. Theo watched Lafay's demonstration before he tried it, and nodded because it was simple. He dropped one tablespoon into his cauldron and paused for a moment to remember which way anti-clockwise went. Okay, that way.

He stirred it and stuff, and just watched.

Last ingredient then they got to have ice-cream!! Yaaaay!! It seemed like she'd been waiting forever for this. Of course, at first she was waiting for the syrup but that was officially out now all she had to look forward to was the ice-cream that she was meant to be putting the syrup on.

Hopefully the Professor had chocolate. That was the best flavour!!

Oh wait. Glumbumble fluid? Since when was THAT something you put in ice-cream syrup?? Merlin beeeard, this thing was getting stranger and stranger! Nevertheless she added it slowly and took the wooden stirrer in hand. counterclockwise...she could do that.

Stir stir stir.

How long were they meant to stir this?

His face flushed once again. "Yes ma'am" he said in a humble voice. The last thing he wanted was the professor to think he didn't care. He did. Asher was only frustrated by his lack of potions abilities.



Asher listened to Daichi and followed his lead to get his potion caught back up to the rest of the class. One Butterbeer and six drops of Lethe River Water over a low heat.

As soon as he felt comfortable looking away, Asher turned to Daichi "Sorry you got stuck helping a first year. Can't be much fun for you."

Right after he said that, the professor gave them the next set of instructions. Asher watched Daichi grab the fluxweed with his gloves then handed them over so he could add them to his cauldron. "Thanks" he said before adding them to his cauldron. Asher then scooped up the 2 spoonfulls of poppyseeds and added them along with the other ingredients.

Much to his surprise, his wasn't overflowing or turning a strange toxic color. "I think it might be working!" he excitedly said.

When it came to the last set of instructions, Asher paused. He wanted to be sure to follow them exactly. The demonstration seemed fairly straightforward, but so did adding the butterbeer. "We add just one tablespoon of Glumbumble fluid, right? Then stir this way?" he asked while demonstrating in the air, in a counter-clockwise motion.

There was a lot going on in this class it seemed like. Lots of people messing up and stuff. But so long as nothing exploded and got on her, she was fine. No need to pay too much attention to it, especially when the next instructions were being given.

Penelope pulled on her gloves before picking up the fluxweed. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven blades were added, and then she grabbed a spoon, cast a quick Scourgify on it to make sure it was clean, then added the two spoonfuls of poppy seeds. Should she take her gloves off now or...?

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"One last ingredient before we cast our spell... Glumbumble fluid." She said and summoned it from the cupboard. "One tablespoon of it. Drop it slowly, stirring with a wooden stirrer counter clockwise. Like this." And she demonstrated.

...Glumbumble fluid. Heh. She forced herself to keep a straight face but glanced over at Alice to see if she had the same reaction. Only a brief glance though and she was focused again on her cauldron.

She measured out a tablespoon of the fluid and then carefully dropped it in. Her other hand Scourgify'd the wooden stirrer then set her wand down and picked it up, carefully stirring the mixture in the cauldron with it counter clockwise. There, this wasn't too bad, yeah?

Sarah reached for her gloves. Then she got the blades before her and began to add them.1.2.3.4.5.6.7. Greath. Then she reached for a spoon and cleaned it before fulling it with poppyseeds.She was allergic to those stuff, so she would probaby try not to have the potion. Maybe there waas a substitute?
Sarah took another tablespoon and carefully measured out the fluid. She reached for her wooden stirrer with her one hand and alternated between dropping it slowly and stirring it counter clockwise.
That being done, she too out her noes and began to write

Again, she followed the instructions professor Lafay had given her and she stared at the cauldron before her. She remembered the potion she had made with Daichi for their homework and she smiled. Making the potion had been fun, with all the strange but funny colored bubbles… But this time the potion wasn’t really special, she even didn’t liked it because it has something to do with ice-cream, and THAT was something she disliked! She was sure that she wouldn’t use this potion, EVER! So, if the potion would work, and you would not die after tasting it, she could give it away or just throw it away…

Ethan frowned a bit as Minerva shook her head in response to his question. No.. he knew that she wasn't really alright, not in this class.. and it just seemed to be snowballing. But he meant more was her arm physically alright. As long as it was, they could get through this class and that would be it for the term.. he thought they were about done with the lesson.

He started to move to see how bad the burn was, then green eyes snapped up from Minerva's arm as Lafay came over and applied aloe to the burn. Hopefully the burn wasn't too bad and that would help.. amazing healing properties that plant had. Oh.. His eyes snapped up to her blue ones to see how she was taking the plant, hoping she realized that it really would help her. He wanted nothing more than to take her out of this class, but she had to be here and he was really proud of how well she was handling everything, even with the fire mishap.. or maybe because of it.

Hearing Lafay snap at him, he nodded and put his wand away, turning back to his potion, but staying close to Min. "Yes, ma'am," he said, keeping his eyes at his cauldron. He was only trying to put the fire out, but since Min handled it herself, he had no need for it right now anyway. He pulled his gloves on then began adding his fluxweed blades. One.. two.. three.. He glanced over to Minerva as she began shakily cleaning up the mess. Four.. five.. six.. Then he watched as she filled her cauldron with the base again. Seven..

Couldn't do it? He frowned a bit, watching her put her head in her hands, and he gently placed his hand on her back, leaning in to whisper. "Min.. you can do this.." He knew it was the fire that she was reluctant to cast and he reached for his wand to do it for her. But before he could grab it, he heard Lafay's words and saw her hand. Yeah.. guess that won't be happening.. He turned back to Min and said, "You can do this.. we're almost done now. You are very strong. Show them that this won't beat you. And I'm still right here next to you."

He looked up as he heard what the next ingredient was. He was just slightly behind.. oh. He knew exactly what glumbumble parts did, which only served to confirm one of his earlier suspicions. Good.. he'd add that right after the poppy seeds. He scooped out a spoonful, added it to his potion, then repeated the process. Ethan then retrieved enough glumbumble fluid for himself and his tablemate since that was not one found in his own kit. After he measured it out, he tilted the teaspoon over the cauldron and let it slip off slowly as he picked up his crystal stirrer in his other hand, sticking it in the cauldron and giving the whole mixture a counterclockwise stir.

Glumbumble. That was a funny word. Glumbumble. Hehe. Anyway, Sky watched as the Glumbumble fluid slllooowwllyy slid off her tablespoon into her cauldron. Totally ignoring the wand she saw dropping out of someone's sleeve. Because she wasn't getting involved in that. Nope, she just picked up her wooden stirrer, cast a cleaning charm at it and started stirring counterclockwise just as Professor Lafay was doing.

Awwww this kid was adorable!

Now he got why people used to ruffle his hair when he was younger and some still do it now he was nearly eighteen *EYES THEM ALL* because he seriously wanted to do it as well. He didn't do it though because he also remembered not liking it himself. So why do something to someone that he doesn't like himself?

He did chuckle at his comment though. "I really don't mind" he gave the kid a small smile before continuing. "I used to be so horrible at potions during my first year, kept blowing up the cauldron each lesson" Ah the memories~ And now look at him!

While Daichi watched how Asher added the ingredients, he also listened to Lafay's next instructions. He grabbed a piece of parchment, quickly dipped his quill in the ink and wrote the steps down in a hand writing that only he seemed to understand at the moment.

But it turned out that he didn't have to write it down as Asher already repeated what the professor had just said. And he was right. "I don't think you actually need help with potions" the Prefect said as he pointed his wand at the wooden stirrer.

He cleaned it with a Scourgify before adding a table spoon of fluid in to the cauldron. "I think your head may be too much in the clouds, 'cause i think that if you focus you are pretty good in this subject" he said and began to stir the mixture inside the cauldron counter clockwise.

"Don't forget to clean the stirrer first with Scourgify , i know the Professor hadn't said it but better safe than not right?"

Last ingredient... oooo, a spell! That made Sophie a bit happier, but no less suspicious, really. But anyway, at least the lesson would be over soon and she wouldn't have to fight to concentrate amongst all those crazy students.

The Hufflepuff watched professor Lafay demonstrating how to add the Glumbumble fluid and as soon as the older witch was done, she gave a quick glance around the dungeons before adding said ingredient in her 'Potion'. Sophie couldn't help but keep eyeing all of her friends... she hoped their brains - or whatever - would go back to normal soon...

She looked back down at her mixture and stirred it counter clockwise.

Glumbumble fluid. That stuff was supposed to induce melancholy. So they had forgetfulness and melancholy out of ingredients that were supposed to simply make ice cream taste better, right? That didn't make a whit of sense to Mo, and as he maneuvered out around Cat and Alice to retrieve the liquid from potions stores, he mused over what it meant.

It meant really really really don't put it on ice cream.

Mo clutched the phial in his hand and circled back to his work station. Just a few feet away from the desk, Mo started to cough. Just a tickle at first, but then it grew strong enough to practically knock him off his feet. Instead, he dropped his phial, slipped on the fluid now on the floor, and ran into the end of the workstation and Cat's cauldron.

Cat's cauldron slid off its fire and into Mo's, which slid into Alice's. Like some ridiculous Newton's Cradle, all three cauldrons slid one into the other and off the end of the table. Um... oops? "Professor..." He coughed again, this time into his elbow, and held up the hand he'd burned when it ran into Cat's cauldron.