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The class is more or less the same with the proper chairs with soft cushions to sit and lean back on, and they are still are charmed to take the most comfortable shape and height once a student is seated. The walls are still a soft, calming blue. There are just two additions: one big, grey rubbish bin by the door and a white, porcelain washbasin with a tap for those who wants to wash their hands before/after the class and who can't perform 'Aguamenti' charm (a short hose to direct the water to the cauldron is on the white, porcelain shelf hung on the wall, in case it doesn't fit the washbasin).
Professor Culloden opens the door 15 minutes before the class time and sits at his desk to wait for the students to arrive--he looks stressed this time, though. Why would that be?
OOC: If you are going to RP your characer use the washbasin or the washbasin, you don't have to take Cosgrach's permission. Just assume he has granted it.
Come in, take your seats! The class will resume approximately 10 hours later. You may chat among yourselves, but please don't go overboard with it. Thanks! The lesson has started, so please do not post your character arriving late! Just RP as if they have been there all along.
Potion progress
• One bubotuber’s pus
• 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
• A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
1. To be prepared beforehand: Add some water to a glass bowl, wear your gloves and squeeze bubotuber’s pus into it. Put it away, get pestle and mortar and crush asphodel roots. Put that away for future use too.
2. Add 0,2 litre of seal milk to your cauldron. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
3. Add hellebore syrup, make a small cut at the back of the puffer-fish eyes and squish them to the cauldron. Add ONLY their liquid and vanish the eyes themselves or dispose of them in the rubbish bin.
4. Stir 3 times counter clock wise with a wooden stirrer and lower the heater to minimum.
5. Add bubotuber pus. Stir 3 times counter clock wise and 3 times clock wise with wooden stirrer.
6. Add one leech. Count to ten and add water-dwelling planaria.
7. Up until this moment, the potion should have been milky white. Wave your wand horizontally and continuously at a medium pace, starting from left to right, until it turns sparkling purple.
8. Add pomegranate juice. Wait until the potion is lime green and add the asphodel roots.
9. Crush sopophorous beans in mortar and add their juice.
10. Stir 5 times counter clockwise and turn off the heater. Wait for a few minutes until it precipitates (the solid part seperates from the liquid and sink to the bottom. The solid part's colour should be sparkling, light pink and liquid, still lime green. Afterwards, either wait until the liquid part evaporates or pour it down the washbasin.
11. Apply on bare skin.
Notes
The skin will be smooth like a baby's for three or four weeks (depending on the skin), but they will reappear suddenly after the potion wears off.
It may be used as many times as you want, because it doesn’t have any known side effects.
It may be used on animals too, but it kills plants.
Discussion: The term 'beautiful' and the necessity of beautifying products
OOC: It won't affect the class points. You are welcome to join even if you didn't participate in the brewing. ^____^
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He was helping, Culloden was. That was enough to get a tiny smile out of Ella. Only tiny, though. The blonde could see much more clearly now and none of that squinting stuff she'd been doing was happening which was good. She really should write home and see what Gran could do for her about glasses. That might be good.
And moving on.
Ella glanced from the board to her ingredients and then back again. Seal's milk next? Okay. She quickly cleaned her cauldron and then turned the burner up to high. Then the seal milk was added in carefully, not wanting any splashing to happen. That's when the counting started. In her head, of course. She didn't want anyone else to be disturbed. When a minute was up, the burner was returned to medium heat.
Done.
SPOILER!!: Notes
Wrinkle-Heal
•One bubotuber’s pus
•0,2 litre of seal milk
•One hellebore’s syrup
•Two puffer-fish eyes
•One leech
•One water-dwelling planaria
•One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
•A bunch of asphodel
•6 sopophorus beans
1. Add some water to a glass bowl, wear your gloves and squeeze bubotuber’s pus into it. Put it away and crush asphodel roots in mortar. Put that away for future use too. 2. 2. Add the seal milk. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
Oh, makes sense, seals do come up to breathe, thats a sea mammal and all mammals produce milk. Now back to the potion.
Oichi listened as the professor continued to thd next step of the potion and added it to her notes.
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Potion progress
• One bubotuber’s pus
• 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
• A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
1. To be prepared beforehand: Add some water
to a glass bowl, wear your gloves and squeeze
bubotuber’s pus into it. Put it away, get pestle
and mortar and crush asphodel roots. Put that
away for future use too.
2. Add 0,2 litre of seal milk. Turn the heater to
high for a minute, then lower to medium.
Oichi then noticed a some specs that did not look like asphodel in the small bowl of it she put to the side. She quickly poured it out and scougifyed both the mortar and pestle and the boul with the tainted asphodel. She then crushed new asphodel and put that to the side. She then moved on to step 2. She grabbed the seal milk and added it to the potion. She then turned on her heater to high and then waited a minute and then turned it to medium. Whats next.
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Once he had completed the first step, the Professor had decided to move onto the next. Which was when he enlarged the board so that everyone could see it better. With a sigh of relief that he could finally read the instructions, the Slytherin's blurry eyes scanned over the words. Honestly, he was just as annoyed by it as Culloden seemed to be.
He got the seals milk and measured out 0.2 litres carefully, making sure it was the exact measurement. Once this was completed, he glanced into his cauldron to see that it was a little bit dirty. "Scourgify" he spoke as the cauldron returned to sparkling clean once more. That was better. Didn't want dirty equipment from ruining his potion. Who knew what bizarre effects that might generate.
He lit his cauldron to a high heat, pouring in the seals milk and leaving it for a minute. Once that time was up he progressed to turn the burner back down to a low heat and leave the milk to warm up whilst he waited for the next instruction to be said.
He took the opportunity to glance around and see that most people were writing in their notepads or on their parchment which he had yet to have done. Mainly because he was concentrating on his potion. But the instructions could prove to be quite useful in the future. The very distant future if he could help it unlike some people here. He was so lucky to have escaped it but the hair, now that was a definite problem. Choosing to follow in the lead of others, he took out his parchment and began to write notes.
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Anti-Wrinkle Potion
✦ Pus of one Bubotuber
✦ 0.2 litres of Seal milk
✦ Syrup of one Hellebore
✦ Two Puffer-Fish eyes
✦ One Leech
✦ Juice of one middle-sized Pomegranate
✦ A bunch of Aspohdel
✦ 6 Sopophorus Beans
✔ Add water (using Aguamenti) to a glass bowl. Wearing gloves, squeeze Bubotuber's pus into the water and place to one side. Crush Asphodel roots in mortar and store this to one side for later use.
✔ Add 0.2 litres of Seal milk into the cauldron. Heat on high for one minute then lower burner to a medium height.
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Alexa scribbled the next step into her book. Notes were something she was rather meticulous about when it came to Potions. Everything had to be precise. There was no room for scratchy writing and unclear instructions, nor was there time for loud people who couldn't understand the value of SILENCE.
Her tolerance for noise had sunk...her tolerance in general had lowered and that couldn't be good considering she had very little in the first place.
Carefully, she added the milk, being sure that none spilled over on the table or anything. It was important to keep a clean work station at all times. Now for the heat...set to high. According to this, it was meant to stay that way for a minute? Sure. Lex kept a steady gaze on her watch, waiting as the seconds ticked by. The hand making a slow grind on the way around the face of the watch, like time wasn't moving in that one minute. She could easily chalk that up to her impatience.
Finally the ridiculously long minute ended and she turned the fire to a medium burn. Now what?
SPOILER!!: Lex's Notes
• One bubotuber’s pus
• 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
• A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
1. Add some water to a glass bowl, wear your gloves and squeeze bubotuber’s pus into it. Put it away and crush asphodel roots in mortar. Put that away for future use too.
2. Add the seal milk. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
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Paying close attention to the Professor, she made sure that she had written down EVERYTHING he was saying. Although at first she did find it a bit difficult to hear everything he was saying, but that quickly changed when he'd changed the volume of his voice! Not only that, he'd even enlarged his notes on the board for everyone to see, which made her a lot happier. She couldn't help but said to the nice man, "Thank you Professor.." Now to start on the first step as the Professor had done.
SPOILER!!: Josie's Notes
Wrinkle Heal Potion
• One bubotuber’s pus
• 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
• A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
1. Add some water to a glass bowl, wear your gloves and squeeze bubotuber’s pus into it. Put it away and crush asphodel roots in mortar. Put that away for future use too.
She did as everyone else had done performing an almost EXCELLENT performance of Scourgify (THANK YOU ELLA), thus making her cauldron nearly sparkling clean. After doing this she, she'd added water to her bowl & almost went to squeeze the bubotuber's pus but not before puttinng on her gloves. Then going on to crush her asphodel roots in mortar. Just as she'd finished that, she'd heard the Professor already going onto the next step.
SPOILER!!: Notes
2. Add the seal milk. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
Grabbing some seal milk from the Professor's desk, she returned to her desk and added the appropriate amount of milk as directed. How long was it supposed to be on high for? OH RIGHT A MINUTE! Staring at the clock waiting for sixty seconds to go by, which seemed to take forever to her. Then she'd done as directed next and lowered her flame to a medium temperature. That was correct so far, right?
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SPOILER!!: Catching up
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Cosgrach was glad to see her there, and listened to her answer with interest. Hmm... no wonder she gave a vague answer--she was still young to worry about age. Should be, anyway. With the current events in this castle, though... even he was tempted to import everything.
"I know a potion, yes." Need he say they were going to brew that one today?
Cosgrach thought it over, then hesitated before giving her a full answer.
"Elastin, or collagen?" Not that he was an expert. He just heard it was collagen. Either way... "Good answer." As much as he... didn't quite like her, he had to admit: she was decent.
True, this boy. Everyone should hear him, if they didn't want to get wrinkles early--never mind that they have done it. Oh, dear. Cosgrach looked stressed again.
"You've very right, Mister Mordaunt." He pronounced it the way Cutty had done at his first class. Names were important, so were wrinkles.
Merlin.
Magic and... magic? Cosgrach raised his eyebrows at West expectantly. That was it? He wasn't going to elaborate?
...okay. At least he'd elaborated in his homework.
"Hydrated, or dehydrated?" Cosgrach still nodded at the boy, though, because he believed the Hufflepuff meant the latter in the depths of his heart.
...if... this condition... also affected the mind?!
...of course Captain Ravenclaw was 100% correct.
"Very well, Mister Branxton. That's completely right." Cosgrach offered him a small smile that caused his natural wrinkles around his eyes to show.
Silent lot, eh? Cosgrach didn't mind, as long as they listened and brewed well.
N'aaaw, wasn't she an innocent lil girl. Even Cosgrach had to smile at her genuinely and let the 'a duck's feet' type of wrinkles around his eyes show.
"The first one is correct, but I'm not sure about the second one. Smiling causes wrinkles too." Albeit, without doubt, they were the best wrinkles to have.
Cosgrach was glad to hear the boy was alright.
...
Interesting. So far, only this boy had mentioned the wetness wrinkles. Cosgrach was thoroughly impressed.
"Stretching out may help." Nod nod. "But that's not what we will today." Today, they were going to restore it. Hopefully.
Was she staring at him? He frowned and stared RIGHT back. Why wasn't she answering? Had he offended her somehow? Eh, not his problem. It would be her loss in any case.
Toby, too. Now, this hurt his feelings, because Cosgrach believed they had formed some kind of friendship at the last class. He shook his head to himself, wondered whether he should speak to him at the end of the class, and moved onto the next student.
Whatever was up with Hufflepuffs, he didn't like.
"Right, and right." A small smile. It filled his chest with pride when the snakes students got it all correct.
Right, she was. A Ravenclaw, no wonder. Cosgrach nodded at him.
"I don't know Olay, but you are right about the rest." That was the reason no one should laugh more than they should. Or frown. But laughing caused wrinkles too.
"Yes?" Oh, wait, he was going to answer. Sure. Cosgrach listened to him and nodded in the end.
"They could, just not in this potion we'll brew today. But good thinking." So he wasn't the Head Boy just for his looks. Good to know.
Cosgrach listened to Sander, and nodded in response. "Correct, Mr. Strand, though I think the milk part is just a show off." But that didn't ensure they wouldn't use that. This very potion had milk in it.
"Possibly." This potion was something like that too.
'The Great One'? Cosgrach smiled--really smiled, and he looked younger for the moment that the smile lasted. He was glad she didn't call him that at class, but he couldn't help the smile too.
How he LOVED true compliments!
...and she knew those how? He raised his eyebrows at her in surprise. She... wasn't USING them, was she? He frowned to himself, but nodded in the end.
"Potions dominate the sector, yes." The beauty sector.
He... had to ask her if she used those. Hopefully not.
"Or smile, surprise, disappointment--any expression, really." Why did everyone focus on frowning? Any expression left its mark on the face. "You mean, the muggles' hot rooms?" He made a disgusted face. Ugh. He had never been to one, and he had no plans of doing that. "I think... those work to get rid of excess fat?" Goodness. Suffocated--he involuntarily reached for his neck. Even the idea made him cringe.
ANother Ravenclaw, albeit one he didn't quite like, got it all correct again.
"Right." About not worrying about it too. She was completely right. They were too young to worry about beauty.
Life? Cosgrach laughed genuinely again. "You're right." Life. Goodness. He was so right!
Mhmmm, the brownie girl! Cosgrach griiiiinned at her. Wonder if she would bring more brownies to him? Since his office was like a few metres away from her common room entrance?
"Correct, Ms. Adams."
...Cosgrach didn't hear the mumbling, but he sure noted the attitude. Well. His loss. He wasn't going to beg him to participate, after all.
"You're right, Ms." Something. Cosgrach was terrible with the names, so he didn't even bother asking them. He also noted how she didn't say 'frown' but laugh, and it pleased him for some reason. Frowning wasn't always a terrible thing, y'know.
The first part was correct, so Cosgrach nodded, but the second part... he shook his head.
"I'm not completely ruling it out, but I don't think so. Not for this potion, anyway."
"Muggle creams do have little impact, yes." Cosgrach chose to answer her in reverse order, because he had to think about the oil thing. "Magic, though, is effective for a while." Now the oil thing... hmm... "What I know is the collapse of collagen makes wrinkles." He wasn't an expert on it, though, so he didn't want to sound too sure.
.....two more of silent students, and one of them Cosgrach preferred to be quiet for this lesson, at least. Okay. He would be content so long as they brew it correctly.
"Age, correct." Lex was Alexa Cambridge in this context? His eyes focused on the said girl, then back at the boy. Were they dating or something? Goodness. A Ravenclaw was agreeing with a Gryffindor. When did that happen? "The potions are always temporary, yes." So, unless some of these wrinkles he saw was caused artificially...
He didn't want to think about it.
Charm? This was a new one? "Do you mean..." he used to be good at charms. "Which charm?" Huh. How dare charms steal his spotlight?! Potions had always dominated the beauty industry, and it was going to do so despite charms.
Hmpf.
But he wished she hadn't stopped talking!
Cosgrach smiiiiiled at her. "Another perfectly correct answer." As far as he knew, she was pretty right. Especially her second answer. That was what they were going to do that day.
"...and laughing, being shocked, staying in cold weather or under sun too much..." Not just frowning, see Huffie girl and Snake prefect boy? In fact, frowning affected only a small area.
"But potions and magic, that's what we will do today."
Cosgrach shook his head. "Muggles couldn't find a cure. We have, though, and will brew that, yes."
WHO asked the questions here, though, really?
......a silent student.....
......and a yelling one.
Cosgrach frowned at the latter, as he had ignored her speaking to Cutty previously, and EYED her. "I hope you realise you are yelling," he told her in a serious tone, "and I hope you won't repeat it." Understood? He didn't care how she looked, or why she was all... old. He was going to teach them the potion to fix the wrinkles though, so no need to yell.
Speaking of which...
"Facial expressions, age, collapse of collagenous fibres, sun, cold and magic," he eyed them all as he was speaking to all of them, "and many more are the reasons of wrinkles. Luckily, the potioneers have found a cure, albeit temporarily." What was permanent even with magic, anyway? "Today, we will brew 'Wrinkle-Heal'." The name was cheesy, he knew, it disgusted him too, but what else could he do? "It's not as cheesy as it sounds, I promise," he said, then tapped his wand on the blackboard. The ingredients list and the first step appeared.
"The seal milk and planaria are on my desk," he told them as he indicated to his desk: there were enough 200 mililitres of glasses filled with seal milk and some smaller glasses contained the planaria with some water to keep it alive. "You should have the rest in your potions kit." He eyed them, but he wouldn't object if they had to use from his personal stock. "As you see, we have to prepare the bubotuber and asphodel beforehand, so, start."
He wasn't going to brew with them as he had already brewed his potion, but would supervise theirs.
Fun.
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Text Cut: The shouting lot
Lucky for the Gryffindor, PRofessor Culloden had been too busy with others to pay much attention to him to notice he had been sleeping. When he shouted though--he succeeded pretty well to draw his attention and the man jumped, anger rising in himself.
WHAT even?
Turning to GLARE at the boy, he narrowed his eyes and waited for him to stop behaving in a silly way. Which he did. Good. He was getting to work.
...not. Correctly. He was working INcorrectly!
Taking DEEP, DEEP breaths, Cosgrach toooowered over the boy. If looks could kill...
"Aguamenti," he simply said, wand already directed in the glass bowl, and filled it with some water. He didn't say anything, though, and preferred to stare gravely. He also knew Kevin didn't clean his mortar and pestle, and doubted they had been clean really, but it wasn't Cosgrach problem unless it threatened others, so he let that be. Next time? Kevin was fixing his mistake on his own. Next time shouting--
--TOBY, of all the people, HAD TO shout too!
Cosgrach didn't jump this time, but he was even MORE angry! WHAT was going on here? Was this some kind of a joke--
--And people were answering them! Cosgrach couldn't breathe properly for a moment. He grabbed at his neck, leaned on his desk and tried to calm down. Calm, calm, he was caaaalm.
"I appreciate your good intentions," he said to the girl caaaalmly, "but that's not very friendly." As in other words, he got this. He wouldn't warn her, or anyone else, for another next time.
Now. To figure out WHAT to do about the shouting people.
Cosgrach was. On Toby's side, that is. He just... didn't understand why Toby had to shout in the first place. Surely the aging wasn't that terrible? Could it be? Could it... really be that...
Cosgrach sighed dramatically to himself. He didn't even know, but he was thinking of something to help the kids.
Cosgrach had either missed the glare or ignored it, because he didn't look at or say anything to the girl. He was just glad they dropped the matter. He knew how to help Toby, Kevin and all those that had to get up to see the blackboard anyway.
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Crashing.
Something was crashing!
Trying not to look frantic, Cosgrach turned around to spot the culpable. WHO crashed something? That--this--AHA! It was HER! His eyes narrowed and in a few strides, he was beside her.
"Is everything alright, Miss?"
Y'know, calm, he was. Perfectly calm. He was simply asking if she needed help.
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See, Cosgrach had changed his strategy. Instead of vanishing the contents of those who didn't clean their materials, he was just going to let the dirty stuff lead to a chaos and exploding potions, and students needing The Healer. He wasn't even going to warn them. It was their responsibility. So, this time, he didn't say anything too, but conjured water into her glass bowl for her, because she seemed to have forgotten that. Next time, though, she was completely on her own, cleaning included.
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Yep, yep, Cosgrach was calm. He wasn't picky. He wasn't obsessed about cleanliness. He was going to ignore. Ignore until the dirty pestle and mortar led to mistakes and disgusting potions and all that.
Yes. Ignoring. Not warning them to clean it. Not vanishing anything. He was going to enjoy their squirming later.
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...okay, this ageing REALLY was real. And disturbing. And spreading. And affecting people's lives.
......if Cosgrach locked himself up in his office and spoke to no one until they were all cured? What if he, too, was getting old rapidly?! What if he died tomorrow?!
MERLIN! He couldn't die tomorrow!
Taking deep breaths, he tried his best to look calm, because he was NOT calm. "Slippers, yes, right, okay." Okay. So long as Bart kept away from him in those slippers, he was fine with them. He vaguely remembered he had to answer some of his questions, but what those were, he didn't even remember.
...the Gryffindor tower was several floors up... Cosgrach grunted to himself. "Share it with a friend or use from my stock," he said grudgingly. He didn't like it. He didn't like it at all--how the school looked like a care-house now. Was he the only one that noticed stuff?
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"Then it should be 'dehydrated'." Err--it was a simple mistake of his tongue, right? Right?! Not that ageing stuff again?
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But she had JUST cleaned everything? Cosgrach watched her for a moment, questioning his memory in the process, then grinned and shook his head at her. She was great, did she know? Truly. The best protege anyone could ever have.
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Cograch waited for her to add the water until the last minute, y'know, but when she didn't, he added it for her without saying anything. He was giving everyone one mistake chance, basically, but they were on their own with their next mistake.
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Eh, no wonder Cosgrach didn't know those charms then. He hated beauty sector, thought it was silly, and it hurt him to see such young brains were infected with it too. Everyone here seemed to know more about it, and if it weren't for the... curious incidents, he would feel bad for them.
He sitll felt bad for them. Anyway.
Nodding at the girl politely and definitely appreciating her answer, he smiled and went on to address to the class...
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"They are mammals too," he said as an answer to the girl, "so they have mammae." Err--he doubted it was like a cow's, really, but it wasn't too different?
She too. Didn't clean her pestle and mortar. Her choice. He was done reminding them the cleanliness.
Who was it? Oh, that Slytherin boy. Cosgrach nodded at him to ask his question.
"We want a perfect one." Because the skin has to be perfect too. Yes.
"Yes?" This turning-around-trying-to-spot-the-student made him dizzy, but he survived it this time too and made eye contact with the girl. He remembered her from the last class. She had rather different questions.
"Because glass doesn't react to bubotuber," he said in response, and nodded at her work. She worked as well as she could ask questions.
Impressive.
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WHAT was he doing? Didn't he hear? Didn't he see?! Cosgrach was beside the young man in only a few seconds, and POOF everything in his cauldron went.
"Read the blackboard, please."Please. But Cosgrach beat him to it, in case he was one of those with poor eye-sight too.
"It says, add water to a glass bowl and squeeze the bubotuber in that." He EYED the boy. What had he done instead? Adding it to the cauldron!
"These are for future use." Understood? Clear? Done?
Merlin.
So, obviously, they had a problem.
Cosgrach looked thoughtful for a moment, then tapped his wand at the blackboard again as he muttered to himself. The blackboard expanded, covering nearly the whole wall now, and the letters got BIGGER too--almost their double length and width.
"IS THAT--" he pointed at the blackboard while shouting for everyone to hear, "CLEAR NOW?" He turned to look at it again. It seemed so. He was impressed with himself.
Hehe.
He tapped his wand at the blackboard again, and a message appeared in BIG letters:
'Write what you have to say on a paper if your hearing is failing.'
It stayed there for a full minute for everyone to see, then it erased himself, and the next step appeared beneath the first one:
"NEXT. STEP!" Could everyone see it? Yes? No?
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What…no Mandrake root? Andrew tilted his head and pondered on this. Mandrake root is a strong ingredient to reverse and or cure things. The seventh year simply shrugged, got up and took his Seal Milk and Water-Dwelling Planaria off of Culloden’s desk.
Really, no mandrake root? Andrew placed both ingredients on his workstation and gathered the remaining items on the board. After wearing his gloves, he placed one dirty glass bowl in front of him and cleaned it with a cleaning spell. He then conjured some water into the bowl and added the bubotuber’s puss by squeezing it. He then disposed the remains of the bubotuber on a tray and moved on to the next step. He got himself a bunch of asphodel roots and crushed it with his pestle and mortar.
Andrew then consulted the huge writing on the blackboard and went on to do the next step. He got his cauldron and placed it on the heater. Just to be sure, he cleaned his cauldron first before adding the seal milk in it. Andrew carefully turned the heater to high and waited for a minute.
One…two…three…four…fifty-eight…fifty-nine…sixty.
The seventh year eyed his cauldron and set his heater to medium.
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Ooops. Delilah blushed slightly. She'd totally forgotten to add the water.. Heh. She directed a sheepish smile at Culloden. Oh, well. She had to be more careful next time. The girl quickly noted down the next step. Seal's milk.. heh. Potions' ingredients were just so weird. Anyway.
She picked up her wand from the desk and cast a "Scourgify" onto her cauldron. She proceeded to pour the milk into it before turning up the burner to high and waited, looking around the classroom for a moment. What was it with all the yelling? She was starting to get a headache. Ugh.
... Oh! One minute up! She turned the heat down to medium.. and done. See, that was pretty simple.
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Wow, now the Professor was shouting. O_O
Wincing slightly at the loudness, she quickly jotted down the next part of the instructions. Fortunately, it did not seem to be all that complicated, since she did not have a demonstration to go off of.
SPOILER!!: Lux's Notes
WRINKLE-HEAL
Ingredients: • One bubotuber’s pus
• 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice • A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
Procedure: 1. Clean equipment
2. Add some water to a glass bowl
3. Put on gloves
4. Squeeze out bubotuber's puss into bowl and put aside
5. Crush asphodel roots in mortar and put aside
6. Add seal milk to cauldron
7. Heat on high for a minute before then lower to medium
Placing her cauldron in front of her, she used her wand to clean it with the Scourgify spell, watching as it became shiny in front of her eyes. Next, she poured the seal milk inside then turned her cauldron on to high heat. Counting in her head, she waited for a whole minute to pass before she lowered the heat to medium.
That part done, she crossed off what was completed in her notes:
SPOILER!!: Lux's Notes
WRINKLE-HEAL
Ingredients: • One bubotuber’s pus • 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice • A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
Procedure: 1. Clean equipment
2. Add some water to a glass bowl
3. Put on gloves
4. Squeeze out bubotuber's puss into bowl and put aside
5. Crush asphodel roots in mortar and put aside
6. Add seal milk to cauldron
7. Heat on high for a minute before then lower to medium
Patiently, she waited for the next set of instructions, hoping that there would be no more shouting.
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Bay watched as the blackboard showed if you can't hear write what you need.. he heard fine so he just listened… oh they now need to add the seal milk.. turn the heater to high for a minute and then lower to medium.. he could handle that.
Grabbing the seal milk he added it and turned on the heater to high as indicated. he started to count in his head the seconds to make sure it was only on high heat for exactly a minute..
"50…51..52…53…54..55...56….57…58..59…60"
Alrighty so now he needed to lower the heat to medium.. lowering it carefully he waited for the next step.
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Ingredients:
• One bubotuber’s pus -added into water and put to the side.
• 0,2 litre of seal milk -has picked up seal milk from professors desk, added it and heated
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria - has picked up dwelling Planaria from professors desk
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
• A bunch of asphodel -crushed asphodel in motor and put to the side.
• 6 sopophorus beans
Steps:
• make sure the equipment is clean, add water to glass bowl. -done
• wear gloves -done
• squeeze bubotuber’s pus (and put away) -done
• crush asphodel roots in mortar (and put away) -done
• Add the seal milk. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium. -done
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Sander looked up as the Professor began to give further instructions. Like before he picked up his quill and quickly copied down the next steps into his potions journal.
Text Cut: Sander's Potion Journal
Wrinkle Heal Potion
Ingredients: 1. One bubotuber’s pus
2. 0.2 litre of seal milk
3. One hellebore’s syrup
4. Two puffer-fish eyes
5. One leech
6. One water-dwelling planaria
7. One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice 8. A bunch of asphodel
9. 6 sopophorus beans
Steps to make potion: 1. Clean glass bowl, mortar and pestle.
2. Add water into glass bowl.
3. Put on gloves.
4. Squeeze bubotuber pus into bowl and then place it aside.
5. Place asphodel roots into mortar and crush with pestle
6. Once crushed put that away for future use.
7. Clean cauldron.
8. Add 0,2 litre of seal milk to your cauldron.
9. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
Once he was done, he put down his quill and reached for his cauldron. Pointing his wand at it, he stared at it for awhile trying to remember the cleaning spell again. Finally, he reluctantly turned to the page in his journal, read through the spells he had written in it before finding the one he wanted. Scourgify.
Pointing his wand inside his cauldron, he said,"Scourgify" and then ended the spell before picking up his cauldron to examine it. He checked to make sure it was thoroughly clean and free from cracks. Once he had determined it was, Sander holstered his wand and placed the cauldron on the burner.
He picked up the glass containing the 0.2 liters seal milk and placed it as close to the cauldron as possible, before slowly pouring the contents into the cauldron. Once every drop was emptied from the glass, Sander placed it aside.
Then he turned the burner on, pointed his wand at it and lit it, saying the words to the spell, "Incendio". He adjusted the temperature to high and counted down one minute on his watch. When the second hand ticked off the last minute, Sander lowered the temperature back down to medium.
Picking up his quill he checked his notes again before scratching out what he had completed.
Text Cut: Sander's Potion Journal
Wrinkle Heal Potion
Ingredients: 1. One bubotuber’s pus
2. 0.2 litre of seal milk
3. One hellebore’s syrup
4. Two puffer-fish eyes
5. One leech
6. One water-dwelling planaria
7. One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice 8. A bunch of asphodel
9. 6 sopophorus beans
Steps to make potion: 1. Clean glass bowl, mortar and pestle.
2. Add water into glass bowl.
3. Put on gloves.
4. Squeeze bubotuber pus into bowl and then place it aside.
5. Place asphodel roots into mortar and crush with pestle
6. Once crushed put that away for future use.
7. Clean cauldron.
8. Add 0,2 litre of seal milk to your cauldron.
9. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
Sander then sat back, while keeping a vigilant eye on the mixture in his cauldron, and waited for the Professor to tell them what to do next.
But she had JUST cleaned everything? Cosgrach watched her for a moment, questioning his memory in the process, then grinned and shook his head at her. She was great, did she know? Truly. The best protege anyone could ever have.
So, obviously, they had a problem.
Cosgrach looked thoughtful for a moment, then tapped his wand at the blackboard again as he muttered to himself. The blackboard expanded, covering nearly the whole wall now, and the letters got BIGGER too--almost their double length and width.
"IS THAT--" he pointed at the blackboard while shouting for everyone to hear, "CLEAR NOW?" He turned to look at it again. It seemed so. He was impressed with himself.
Hehe.
He tapped his wand at the blackboard again, and a message appeared in BIG letters:
'Write what you have to say on a paper if your hearing is failing.'
It stayed there for a full minute for everyone to see, then it erased himself, and the next step appeared beneath the first one:
"NEXT. STEP!" Could everyone see it? Yes? No?
Merlin. He had to see Annie as soon as this class was over.
With her asphodel root nicely mashed, Sophie noticed Tobes was having a tough time and frowned at him. It was nice that Culloden was helping out those who were struggling and was making classroom accommodations for them. She supposed he didn't have a choice, though, if he wanted the class to be somewhat normal and reduce the number of people shouting and complaining.
Even though Sophie KNEW Culloden saw her clean everything more than once, she was still nervous as she picked up the glass of seal milk. He wasn't going to give her a LOOK, was he? He knew she had already made sure the cauldron was clean to use? Avoiding his gaze, she was suddenly aware of just how much she wanted to impress him. And... how crushed she would be if she did something wrong and he reprimanded her for it. That was a lot of pressure for a second year, but she was putting it upon herself. It was okay. But... maybe next class she'd consider sitting somewhere else? Or maybe it was good that she was right there next to him so he could tell her quietly in passing where fewer people could overhear. Meeeh.
Her gloves still on her hands, Sophie lifted the measurement of seal milk and poured it gently into the cauldron so it wouldn't splash out. Seal milk. That was weird, she thought, but just shrugged a little bit to herself and slipped a glove from her hand to pick up her wand. Lighting the cauldron to high, she peeked a little bit over the brim of the cauldron to watch the liquid with curiosity as she counted silently to herself. How would seal's milk react to being heated? Would it take longer than a minute to boil? Would it just be moderately warm after the minute was up?
Well, after the minute was up, it wasn't boiling, but Culloden hadn't said to bring it to a boil or anything, so maybe that was good and it just needed to be warm. Reducing the heat to a medium flame, Sophie set her wand back down and put on her other glove again. READY FOR MORE.
That was most definitely loud enough for Nigel. Moving sounded good because it seemed to Nigel that Culloden disliked Ascanius. Hated is too strong a word. Must be because of his looks. Probably what Ascanius was thinking also.
Now add the sealed milk. Well okay then. Milk added. Next Nigel turned the heater on high. Now the worst part of waiting a minute doing nothing but counting. So much fun. Nigel just scratched his growing beard for a minute. Once the minute was up and Nigel was being to wonder if the stubble was coming in faster than before. He lower the heat down to medium.
Alright onto the next step.
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Bigger letters. That was nice, then maybe she wouldn't need to wear glasses. Beverly took them off and just...no. Blurry vision made for bad measuring, which could result in explosions or melting the desk. Glasses back on.
At least the professor's voice had gotten clearer. Even sitting at the front she had to strain her ears to hear him. Sigh. For what felt like the thousandth time Beverly repeated what seemed to be becoming a mantra: This sucks.
Looking up, she nodded at the next step. Seal milk and turn the heater on for a minute, then lower temperature to medium. She did the former, carefully keeping her hands from trembling. Then...
... What was next? O__o
Oh, right. The heater. At this rate she'd need to carry a Rememberall with her at all times. One that informed her what she'd forgotten would be nice too. She turned the heater on and after a minute lowered it down to medium.
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"NEXT. STEP!" Could everyone see it? Yes? No?
Tessa looked up and squinted slightly as the next step was announced. Suddenly, the letters were MUCH bigger. What a relief! She quickly jotted down the next instruction in her notes:
Text Cut: Notes
Potion progress
• One bubotuber’s pus
• 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
• A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
1. To be prepared beforehand: Add some water to a glass bowl, wear your gloves and squeeze bubotuber’s pus into it. Put it away, get pestle and mortar and crush asphodel roots. Put that away for future use too.
2. Add 0,2 litre of seal milk to your cauldron. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
Tessa went up to get the milk and brought it back to her work space. However, as she set down the milk, she frowned as she looked at her cauldron. Had she cleaned it? The beginning part of class was fuzzy... as if it had happened days, not minutes ago. She sighed and brought out her wand, casting a cleaning charm on everything again, just to be safe. This felt familiar, had she done it before?
The cleaning done, she measured out the milk carefully and then added it to the clean cauldron. Then, once that was ready, she lit the fire under the cauldron, keeping the head on high. She turned over the minute timer, watching the sand slowly trickle down- it was much more reliable than her memory at this point.
3... 2... 1...
As the last grain of sand fell, Tessa turned the heat of the fire down to medium, watching the cauldron carefully as she waited for the next step.
Had she cleaned everything? She couldn't remember... she began cleaning her other tools as she waited.
ePulling her wand out, she pointed it at the bowl. "Aguamenti!" Andd it worked. Yaaay. She was happy. She beamed as she pulled her gloves on, and began squeezing the pus out. It looked disgusting. But she was just glad that she had been able to do the spell. Once that was finished, she put it away to use later, and began crushing the asphodel roots. Crushh Crushh Crushhh. And then that was done. Smiling, she pushed that away to use later.
But she did wrong.
Cosgrach didn't bother warning her when she used the glass bowl and mortar without cleaning them. He wasn't going to warn students to be clean all the time. He was just going to let them be, and see if being dirty taught them anything. So, he just gave her a LOOK, but passed on without saying anything.
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After a minute, the girl lowered the heater to medium and looked at the teacher, grinning.
Cosgrach caught the girl's look this time, and stopped for a moment to look back. Why... was she grinning? Had she... done something wrong? Hopefully not? He frowned to himself--he didn't see her do anything wrong, but... he gave her a small, awkward smile in return in the end.
Children. Better to watch that one moe closely.
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Originally Posted by Saiai
Pushing her hair back from her class Ana unholstered her wand and turned it towards the bowl in front of her, "Aguamenti," she whispered as water poured from the end of her wand and into the bowl. Ending the spell she pushed herself from the chair and walked slowly over to the Professors desk to get the seal milk. She'd have to get onto buying those shoes Tessa had ASAP. The ones she was wearing currently weren't the most comfortable, and so after grabbing the milk she scurried quickly back to her own desk. Ahh, the relief of sitting back down.
Frowning Ana grabbed her gloves and put them on before grabbing the bubotuber and squeezing the pus into it. Ugh. Gross. Pushing the concoction off to one side Ana grabbed her mortar and pestle, dragging it towards her along with the asphodel. She patiently began crushing the asphodel and once that was done she pushed the mortar and pestle away too.
Turning to her cauldron Ana cast, "Scrougify," before grabbing the correct amount of seal milk and chucking it in, turning the heat up to high. Ana got distracted slightly by the calming blue of the room, and so accidentally left the heat on high for 30 seconds too long. She looked around to see if anyone had noticed while turning the heat to medium. Surely 30 seconds extra on high wouldn't do that much damage. She hoped. There was a reason she didn't do cooking. That was also the same reason why Potions wasn't the highlight of her academic career.
This one too. Not cleaning. Cosgrach died to ask them just WHY--WHY did they clean the cauldron and NOT the other material? He then sighed to himself. It would be a useless question, so he didn't vanish her work or anything, but looked at her with the hope of reminding her to clean everything. He looked away, though, because looking at children too much proved to be harmful. As he looked away, he missed those extra 30 seconds. Lucky for her. For now. One could only wonder if her potion was damaged or not until trying it on.
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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah
With a careful hand, Cutty poured his seal milk into his cauldron and drew his wand to light the flames beneath the cauldron, but he paused...to consider how he would control them in the precise manner required for the potion.
Had Cutty Mordaunt cleaned his cauldron beforehand? Cosgrach couldn't remember, and he wasn't going to LOOOOK at the boy for something he wasn't sure about. Still... he hoped Cutty had. It would be a shame if his potion went wrong due to dirtiness.
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So STARTING all over again, he scourgified his cauldron and added the seal milk to his cauldron before turning the heat up high. He made sure to count to sixty and drum a little on his desk to keep track of the time also to be annoying. Once a minute was up he turned the head down to a solid medium.
And he wasn't going to PREPARE the bubotuber BEFOREhand? He was just going to skip that step? Did he really think he could do it later? Well, HIS choice. Cosgrach had warned him once, and he wasn't going to warn him again. He wouldn't have any time to squeeze the bubotuber pus, though, and he certainly was going to need it for the potion. And he was a Slytherin... a Slytherin about to get a potion wrong.
Shame.
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Originally Posted by Rosa Chispa Princessa
Oichi then noticed a some specs that did not look like asphodel in the small bowl of it she put to the side. She quickly poured it out and scougifyed both the mortar and pestle and the boul with the tainted asphodel. She then crushed new asphodel and put that to the side. She then moved on to step 2. She grabbed the seal milk and added it to the potion. She then turned on her heater to high and then waited a minute and then turned it to medium. Whats next.
Cosgrach nodded at her prudence. Good move, girl. How she crushed new asphodel. Really smooth. He hoped that she wasn't going to be imprudent, though, with adding the milk without cleaning her potion first... she had surely cleaned it BEFORE?
One could only hope.
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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo
Carefully, she added the milk, being sure that none spilled over on the table or anything. It was important to keep a clean work station at all times.
It was also important to keep a clean cauldron, which Cosgrach couldn't remember if she had done so, but which he wasn't going to question. He just HOPED she had cleaned her cauldron before adding the milk, and went on patrolling the class slowly.
Merlin. He could do with a memory strengthening potion now.
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Originally Posted by SweetPeea
She couldn't help but said to the nice man, "Thank you Professor.." Now to start on the first step as the Professor had done.
She did as everyone else had done performing an almost EXCELLENT performance of Scourgify (THANK YOU ELLA), thus making her cauldron nearly sparkling clean. After doing this she, she'd added water to her bowl & almost went to squeeze the bubotuber's pus but not before puttinng on her gloves. Then going on to crush her asphodel roots in mortar. Just as she'd finished that, she'd heard the Professor already going onto the next step.
...what about cleaning the MORTAR, PESTLE and GLASS BOWL, though? Cosgrach dramatically sighed to himself. Maybe he ought to hold a class about that--cleaning alone. Not saying anything again, he moved onto the next student who probably forgot to clean something too.
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Originally Posted by Meizzner
Now add the sealed milk. Well okay then. Milk added.
The Ravenclaw prefect... surely wouldn't do such a mistake to add the milk to a dirty cauldron? Surely? Yes? Could Cosgrach hope that much?
Blimey. He WAS going to assign them to research the importance of cleanliness as the homework.
Now, to SHOUT or to speak normally? Cosgrach hesitated for a moment, then chose the latter. Those with failing hearing would see the blackboard soon anyway.
...not EVERYONE had terrible ears, did they?
Eyeing them, he took a deep breath and said "The next step is kind of tricky and requires a good hand." He eyed them again. "So if the eye slips out of your hands, CLEAN it before trying again. If you ruin an eye, seek help." Because, obviously, he didn't want them to ruin several eyes. Every ingredient was too precious to waste. Hoping that they understood, he tapped his wand again and the new step added itself with BIG letters.
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Originally Posted by Blackboard
3. Add hellebore syrup. Make a small cut at the back of the puffer-fish eyes and squish them to the cauldron. Add ONLY their liquid and vanish the eyes themselves or dispose of them in the rubbish bin.
NOTE: CLEAN before trying again if the eye slips out of your hands. SEEK HELP if you ruin an eye.
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... That was one big board.
Alec raised his eyebrows. Yeah... big. But he was glad because the words were much bigger and he could definitely see them now. A small smile flitted across his face as he checked the previous list of instructions. They were pretty much the same and Culloden hadn't noticed anything wrong so... yeah. Much better, this was.
They were moving on, yeah? Yeah? Awesome.
Scribble... scribble... scribble...
Cleaning his cauldron magically with his wand, he added the seal's milk before turning the heating up to high. A quick glance over at his journal told him to wait a minute and then lower the heat again. A minute. He glanced down at his watch and waited...
... one minute...
... tick tock... tick tock...
... And the minute was over! He turned the heat down to medium and smiled, satisfied with himself. There. And since they were moving on pretty quickly to the next step. ... Required a good hand? Alec looked down at his hands and turned them over. Did he have good hands? Not looks wise but... he was a Seeker. He had to catch a tiny, walnut-sized Quidditch ball. Surely he had good hands, right?
Shrug.
The syrup of hellebore was added. Awesome. Now... onto the tricky part that Culloden was talking about. He magically cleaned his knife before picking up a pufferfish eye. Slowly... carefully... He made a small cut at the back of the eye before squeezing the liquid out into his cauldron. ... This... was not a fun step. Eyes. They were using the liquid from the inside of a pufferfish's eyes. And the eye seemed... squidgy. That was the only way to describe it.
Once that was done, Alec picked up the other eye and, cleaning his knife again, did the same. Cut and squeeze the liquid out. Slowly and carefully. When he was sure that all the liquid had been squeezed out of both eyes, the eighteen year old vanished the now liquidless pufferfish eyes. There. Now he was done.
Text Cut: Journal
Wrinkle-Heal Alec B. Summers
Ingredients:
- One bubotuber’s pus
- 0.2 litre of seal milk
- One hellebore’s syrup
- Two puffer-fish eyes
- One leech
- One water-dwelling planaria
- One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
- A bunch of asphodel
- 6 sopophorus beans
Instructions:
1) Add water to glass bowl
2) Wear gloves, squeeze bubotuber pus into the bowl. Put it away afterwards
3) Crush asphodel in a mortar. Put it away too
4) Add the seal milk
5) Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium
6) Add hellebore syrup
7) Make a small cut at the back of the puffer-fish eyes and squish them to the cauldron. Add ONLY their liquid and vanish the eyes themselves or dispose of them in the rubbish bin. (CLEAN before trying again if the eye slips out of your hands. SEEK HELP if you ruin an eye)
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Now, to SHOUT or to speak normally? Cosgrach hesitated for a moment, then chose the latter. Those with failing hearing would see the blackboard soon anyway.
...not EVERYONE had terrible ears, did they?
Eyeing them, he took a deep breath and said "The next step is kind of tricky and requires a good hand." He eyed them again. "So if the eye slips out of your hands, CLEAN it before trying again. If you ruin an eye, seek help." Because, obviously, he didn't want them to ruin several eyes. Every ingredient was too precious to waste. Hoping that they understood, he tapped his wand again and the new step added itself with BIG letters.
Theo yawned quietly but couldn't hold his hand in front of his mouth since he still had his gloves on, and they stank of pus. Ohhh, brilliant, the next step was difficult AND disgusting. Theo's favourite. Not.
He cleaned his gloves and then added the hellebore syrup. Well, that was the easy part. Theo pulled up his gloves tight and then took hold of a fish eye thing as well as a knife which he had cleaned, too. It was annoying that they had to clean everything. Things should be cleaned FOR them before they entered the room, sheesh. He made a face when he did the cutting behind the eyes, because it really was gross. Theo loved potions but there was ALWAYS something gross.
It went well until he started to push the liquid out. It slipped out of his hand and he made a GROWL, GRUNT, GRRRR noise. "Scourgify." He cleaned the eye before trying to get the liquid out again, only this time he was much more focused.
Theo did the same with the next eye until he was all finished. And of course, he binned the eyes because he wasn't confident with vanishing them.
....... Bah, he would write this down later.
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They had to do what now? O_O
This Professor had to be insane...
Lux liked him and all, but seriously? He expected her to deal with fish eyes? EWWWWWW. A look of utter revulsion on her face, Lux went about adding the next steps to her notes. It was a good thing that she did not have any wrinkles, because she was not making anything involving fish eyes ever again if she could help it.
SPOILER!!: Lux's Notes
WRINKLE-HEAL
Ingredients: • One bubotuber’s pus • 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice • A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
Procedure: 1. Clean equipment
2. Add some water to a glass bowl
3. Put on gloves
4. Squeeze out bubotuber's puss into bowl and put aside
5. Crush asphodel roots in mortar and put aside
6. Add seal milk to cauldron
7. Heat on high for a minute then lower to medium
8. Add the hellebore syrup
9. Make small cut at back of puffer-fish eyes and squish them into the cauldron (use only LIQUID and dispose of the eyes themselves afterwards
Sighing, Lux added the hellebore syrup and then set about doing the nasty part that seriously made her feel like she was going to gag. Picking up her knife, she made sure to magically clean it before even attempting to do anything else. Another sigh, and she picked up one of the puffer-fish eyes trying really hard not to pay attention to the texture or the fact that it was looking at her. With her knife, she made a small cut at the back of it before squeezing the liquid out.
EWWW EWWW EWWWW.
Even with her gloves on it was still gross.
One done, she picked up the other eye and repeated the same process before tossing them both into the trash.
SPOILER!!: Lux's Notes
WRINKLE-HEAL
Ingredients: • One bubotuber’s pus • 0,2 litre of seal milk • One hellebore’s syrup • Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice • A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
Procedure: 1. Clean equipment
2. Add some water to a glass bowl
3. Put on gloves
4. Squeeze out bubotuber's puss into bowl and put aside
5. Crush asphodel roots in mortar and put aside
6. Add seal milk to cauldron
7. Heat on high for a minute then lower to medium
8. Add the hellebore syrup
9. Make small cut at back of puffer-fish eyes and squish them into the cauldron (use only LIQUID and dispose of the eyes themselves afterwards
~ Mrs. Steve Harrington ~ It be like that sometimes.
Next step. Adi read it carefully after it appeared on the board. Didn't want to make any mistakes now, did he? Adi poured in the hellebore syrup. Okay, now for the puffer fish eyes. Carefully Adi grasped it. However, it was quite slippery and it escaped from his hand, promptly landed on the floor and rolled a few feet away from the workstation. Oops.
Hurriedly the Hufflepuff retrieved the eye. '"Scourgify!' There! It should be clean now. He also Scourgified his knife and was preparing to make the cut when the eye jumped out of his hand again. He made a lunge for it and managed to catch it before it hit the ground this time.
"I'm going to get you this time,'' he muttered with determination. Adi made the cut before the eye could try to make it's bid for freedom once more. He squeezed the eye so that the liquid escaped into the cauldron before throwing it into the thrash can. He repeated the process for the second eye (including cleaning the knife). Surprisingly he didn't have trouble with that one.
Now he updated his notes and waited patiently for them to move on.
Cutty took down the information on the board and slipped it over near Toby, just in case he still needed it. He then moved on to adding the Hellebore syrup into his cauldron. He watched it go in slowly and carefully and then he placed the empty bottle onto his desk and took out his wand and a thin blade, which he then cleansed using a spell. Cutty put his wand down and dug out the eye. He twisted it in his hand wondering how complex the eyes of puffer fish were because he wanted to try a vanishing spell on it.
With the blade he began to cut an X toward the back of the eye. Touching it now it felt juicy and he was looking forward to squeezing it. He held the eye above the cauldron, and as if he were juicing a lemon, he squeeezed the eye which slipped in his hand and threatened to fall whole into the potion had he not caught it. From that point, he decided to hold his other hand beneath the eyeball mimicking his mothers technique for straining citrus in cooking.
Having extracted all he could from the first puffer fish eye, Cutty moved on to the next. This time instead of cutting an X though, he decided on one simple slit. Holding the eyeball as before Cutty set to work squeezing out the eyeball juice and found it kind of fun. He'd always wanted to touch an eyeball.
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Wrinkle Heal Potion
• One bubotuber’s pus
• 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
• A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
1. To be prepared beforehand: Add some water to a glass bowl, wear your gloves and squeeze bubotuber’s pus into it. Put it away, get pestle and mortar and crush asphodel roots. Put that away for future use too.
2. Add 0,2 litre of seal milk to your cauldron. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
3. Add hellebore syrup, make a small cut at the back of the puffer-fish eyes and squish them to the cauldron. Add ONLY their liquid and vanish the eyes themselves or dispose of them in the rubbish bin.
The syrup was the easy part. Then came the ingredient that Gwen was looking forward to the least. Eyeballs. Thank Merlin for gloves, because no way could she do this without them. She picked the first one up carefully and cleaned it, just to be sure. Leaning her head away from her hands (in case any liquid squirted out or something) Gwen made the slit.
Ew ew ew. Squishing it. Gross. She couldn't help but imagine if she donated her organs after she died, what if some class somewhere made a potion with her eyes? Squeezing them until all the liquid came out. "I'm gonna be sick," she muttered.
She tried to banish the thought as she picked up and cleaned the second eye, but it was just too gross. No stirring still, right? She squeezed the liquid from the second eye in there and hurried across the room to toss both of the empty-eye things into the garbage. Ugh. This was definitely the worst class. Last time, Gwen had ruined her potion entirely, and this time she was squeezing the juice out of eyes.
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Ben wasn't a fan of the professor's use of tricky. Not one bit. He was already not the greatest in the class, now he had to do something considered 'tricky' by a potions master, or at least he felt his students including the other ones, would have some difficulty. Great...just great. Taking up the hellebore syrup after writing down in his notes, the second added it to the brewing potion, that step easy enough. It was upon seeing the description of what he had to do with the pufferfish eyes that he realized where the trouble lay. Trying to make a small cut on the back of a small round object.
Taking up his cleaned knife, he paused and bit his lip before trying the first time. Unfortunately it slipped around in his grasp. So it did on the second and third tries as well and the pufferfish eye in his hand fell to the counter and rolled along it, stopped thankfully by the bowl he had set aside earlier. Ben couldn't help but sigh in frustration. Deciding to try without his gloves, the Gryffindor slipped off his left glove since his right was doing the cutting. He then picked the eye back up and cast a quick "Scourgify" upon it.
Now lets try this again.
It took him a few more shots including nearly slicing his now-bare finger with his knife before Ben managed to get the two puffer fish eyes Then setting down his knife, he used his gloved hand to squeeze the insides out into the potion, juggling them as he did so. Finally he believed all was done and the Gryffindor could actually relax. Although getting the eeriely empty eyes to the rubbish bin beat out and he got up to do so before returning to his seat to await what was next.
Oichi grabbed the eye which was really slippery and slipped around in her hands till it fell out of her hands to the floor. She looked for it but could not find it till 'squish', she stepped on the eye. "Professor, I had an accident with my eye".
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Professor Cosgrach began to speak and Sander gave his full attention, especially since he seemed to find his mind wandering a lot lately. He watched as the next set of instructions appeared on the board, read it before picking up his quill and began copying it word for word into his journal.
Text Cut: Sander's Potion Journal
Wrinkle Heal Potion
Ingredients:
[s]1. One bubotuber’s pus
2. 0.2 litre of seal milk[s]
3. One hellebore’s syrup
4. Two puffer-fish eyes
5. One leech
6. One water-dwelling planaria
7. One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice 8. A bunch of asphodel
9. 6 sopophorus beans
Steps to make potion: 1. Clean glass bowl, mortar and pestle.
2. Add water into glass bowl.
3. Put on gloves.
4. Squeeze bubotuber pus into bowl and then place it aside.
5. Place asphodel roots into mortar and crush with pestle
6. Once crushed put that away for future use.
7. Clean cauldron.
8. Add 0,2 litre of seal milk to your cauldron.
9. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
10. Add hellebore syrup.
11. Make a small cut at the back of the puffer-fish eyes.
12. Squish them to the cauldron. Add ONLY their liquid.
13. Vanish the eyes themselves or dispose of them in the rubbish bin.
Then he put down his quill and picked up the hellebore syrup and slowly poured it into his cauldron.
Now for the totally not so pleasant part. Sander was not really squeamish but he still had to draw the line at poking or cutting up an eye. But he knew, especially for this class, that he had to expect the unexpected.
So first he pulled out his silver knife, cleaned it by pointing his wand at it and saying, "Scourgify". Then after ensuring that it was clean, he took a deep breath, slowly released it before delicately reaching for the first puffer fish eye with his gloved fingers. A mistake he quickly discovered when the eye immediately slipped out of his grasp...and went up flying into the air.
Sander grappled with the eye, first trying to catch it with one hand, but then it slipped out again. Then he tried to catch it with both hands but it slipped out from in between his fingers. Just when he thought the eye was going to end up on the floor, he managed catch it just by opening his gloved palm and letting the eye fall gently into his palm. Once it lay there, he gently closed his fingers around it.
Placing the eye on his workdesk, he delicately positioned the eye before picking up his silver knife and making a small cut into the back of it. Then he picked it up with his fingers, and began squishing the liquid out of the puffer fish's eye into the cauldron. He continued squishing until there was no liquid left and then he placed the used eye to one side before reaching over for the other eye.
This time Sander decided to try a different approach. Using his fingers, he rolled the eye closer to his cauldron. Then he pointed his wand at it and cleaned it by saying, "Scourgify". Holstering his wand, he delicately held it in position with the fingers of his left hand while picking up the knife with the other, made a slicing cut into the back of it.
Sander then picked up the Puffer fish eye, held it over the cauldron while he proceeded to gently apply a little pressure to force the liquid out of it and into the cauldron. Once he had all the liquid squished out, Sander placed that eye next to the first and stared at it.
He knew that he needed to do something with them but couldn't quite remember what. He quickly opened up his journal and read the steps again. 'Okay I'm supposed to vanish them. Darn it what is the spell for that?' Sander thought to himself as he flipped the pages of his journal until he found the page where he had written down as many spells as he could when he realized that his memory was not working as well as it should.
'Vanishing spell - Evanesco. Okay got it.' Sander thought to himself. Picking up his wand he pointed them at the puffer fish eyes and said the words to the spell,"Evanesco" and poof!! they were gone.
Picking up his quill Sander, quickly updated his journal.
Text Cut: Sander's Potion Journal
Wrinkle Heal Potion
Ingredients: 1. One bubotuber’s pus
2. 0.2 litre of seal milk
3. One hellebore’s syrup
4. Two puffer-fish eyes
5. One leech
6. One water-dwelling planaria
7. One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice 8. A bunch of asphodel
9. 6 sopophorus beans
Steps to make potion: 1. Clean glass bowl, mortar and pestle.
2. Add water into glass bowl.
3. Put on gloves.
4. Squeeze bubotuber pus into bowl and then place it aside.
5. Place asphodel roots into mortar and crush with pestle
6. Once crushed put that away for future use.
7. Clean cauldron.
8. Add 0,2 litre of seal milk to your cauldron.
9. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
10. Add hellebore syrup.
11. Make a small cut at the back of the puffer-fish eyes.
12. Squish them to the cauldron. Add ONLY their liquid.
13. Vanish the eyes themselves or dispose of them in the rubbish bin.
Once he was done, he sat back with a sigh of relief and waited for Professor Cosgrach's next instruction, while keeping an eye on the mixture in his cauldron.
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Caleb HAD been taking notes and getting his ingredients and stuff, but he had been moving sooooo slowly lately that by the time he was actually READY to get started, he was way behind. Three steps in already and he hadn't started! EEEK!
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Potion progress
• One bubotuber’s pus
• 0,2 litre of seal milk
• One hellebore’s syrup
• Two puffer-fish eyes
• One leech
• One water-dwelling planaria
• One middle-sized pomegranate’s juice
• A bunch of asphodel
• 6 sopophorus beans
1. To be prepared beforehand: Add some water to a glass bowl, wear your gloves and squeeze bubotuber’s pus into it. Put it away, get pestle and mortar and crush asphodel roots. Put that away for future use too.
2. Add 0,2 litre of seal milk to your cauldron. Turn the heater to high for a minute, then lower to medium.
3. Add hellebore syrup, make a small cut at the back of the puffer-fish eyes and squish them to the cauldron. Add ONLY their liquid and vanish the eyes themselves or dispose of them in the rubbish bin.
First things first - cleaning the cauldron. That was always the first step. He took his wand and muttered "Scourgify" and watched as his cauldron was polished and clean. He didn't want any of his previous potion to mix with this one, giving him a fire breathing side effect. Yuck.
Alright, so his cauldron was clean, but he needed that glass bowl first. He pulled his gloves on and took the bubotuber, squeezing it over the bowl and watching as the pus fell into it. GROSS. This was disgusting and it smelled. UGH.
Trying to ignore the diesel-y smell, he grabbed his pestle and mortar and started to crush the asphodel roots. This really hurt his knuckles and made it painful to grab the pestle, so it was a pretty slow process. Ow. Ow. OW.
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