Her five minutes were up. Gwen added the mixed blood as slowly as she possibly could, then instantly the powdered griffin claw. Now to wait ten more minutes before adding fangs. Thank goodness Culloden had said that one out loud. Gwen didn't even have to bother with Adrienne's notes. It was just a pain when teachers wrote the words on the board and didn't say them out loud.

Oooh! Gwen's head snapped around to look at the commotion. Somebody was in trouble. For what, she wasn't sure. She hadn't been paying that close of attention to the class, too focused on her own potion. But now that Culloden was angry at those kids, it was getting interesting. Gwen noted the time on her watch, and continued to observe the kids that were in trouble.

Cris monitored Angel's progress as she prepared cleaned the items and prepared the blood mixture, nodding his approval. Checking his watch, he noted that five minutes had passed.

"Okay Angel. It's five minutes now. Pour the blood mixture slower into your cauldron and once you have done that, add the crushed claw in." Cris told Angel even as he reviewed his notes.



"You will need to wait 10 minutes before adding the snake fang. I'll let you know when it's time to add the fang in," Cris informed Angel. The countdown would start once she had added in the crushed Griffin claw.

Cosgrach listened to Derry, Beverly and the boy. You know what? He wasn't a justice man, he wasn't going to kill himself to discover the truth. And he wasn't wasting any truth serum for someone like this boy. Nay, he drew his wand, pointed it at Beverly's hair to clean it, and turned to the boy.

"Pick that snake fang up," he said threateningly calmly as he pointed at the fang by Beverly, "and wait for me outside, please. I haven't decided yet, and if you are correct, after all," he snorted - he clearly doubted that, "you will get your chance to finish the potion. I don't want to hear any whining. Now if you don't mind, I'll deal with responsible people." He eyed them all, and walked away to the blackboard.

"CLASS!" His voice was on edge, but he tried to contain his anger, "put the fire out, add the other snake fang and stir once counter clockwise. You should have been able to see all the contents inside your potion up until now, but once you carry out these two steps, it will thicken and turn bright yellow. Then we drink it." He eyed the boy to see if he was out yet. He also waved at the blackboard to add the new and last two steps.

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7. Put the fire out and add the other snake fang
8. Stir counter clockwise once

"Now, the potion will last for 12-14 hours. You will feel it's leaving you, so that it gives you a chance to stop doing whatever you are to save your life." He looked into a few eyes, and he looked calmer.

"Drink a cup, and one cup only. To have a longer effect, drink another cup when its effect is gone, instead of drinking more. If you drink more than enough, you will be dizzy. Too dizzy." So dizzy they wouldn't be able to stand. Clear? Clear. Good.

"After drinking, sit down for a few minutes for your body to adjust. Then, once you feel fresh, you can go around being super strong. You will have a perfect sense and control of your strength, so don't worry while handling things."

He smiled again. "There are different types of strength potions, and this one is the strongest. You don't have to add the heart and the Re'em blood, but then the effect will be reduced to one tenth. You have to brew slightly differently then, which will show up on the blackboard soon." He paused and thought if he forgot to mention something...

"Oh. One last thing. Or two." Two, yes. "To conserve it for a week, which you should do for homework, take a cup to drink now and add a cube of ice into the cauldron. After a week, I'm afraid it will lose the effect quickly." Shrug. "And most importantly perhaps, drink in one go, while still hot.

"That's all for now. Go finish your potions and put aside a cup. Don't drink yours, but drink from someone else's cup, and either wrist-wrestle with a friend, or try to break a record in this muggle toy I'll bring in a moment."

He walked inside the small store room again and magically moved a High Striker inside the class. He put it in front of the blackboard, and grinned at them.

"It's really easy! You'll try to ring the bell at the top, here," he touched with his finger to show them, "by hitting the lever here hard enough. You'll get two chances with this toy. The ones that hits the lever will get a treat. Also, those who beat their friends at wrist wrestling." He grinned at them again. "Don't worry. The High Striker's enchanted, so it won't break.

"Are there any questions?"

OOC: To get full credit from this activity, you must post twice. The deadline is Friday 19.00 GMT/14.00 EST.

You don't have to keep track of who drank from who's cup, so as not to drink from that person's potion: That part is purely IC and won't affect your points if no one drinks your cup. There is one thing that Cosgrach didn't mention, however - that how well the griffin claw was crushed determines the strength that potion will give. So, rate how well your character crushed the claw on a scale of 1-10, but don't say it until someone asks to drink your potion. Then, PM/IM that person for others not to see it to keep it fair. During the activity, though, the bigger number doesn't automatically win: Please also consider your character's normal body AND mental strength, as those DO come into play as well. During posting for the activity, please add the rating of that potion in the title part so that your friend and I can see how strong that potion is.

So what am I trying to say? I'll grade this part by how realistic and creative you are playing. Now, have fun with super strength!

After ten minutes he added one snake fang, that being the sixth sense. During the ten minutes he finished cleaning up most of his workstation so that all he'd have left to do would be cleaning the cauldron once it was over.

As soon as he'd added the snake fang, following instructions, he put out the fire and then added the other snake fang, then carefully stirred anti-clockwise once, then he watched as it went yellow and thick. West listened to the professor as he watched its progress.

.... they had to drink someone else's potion? That sucked. West didn't particularly want to drink it at all but he definitely preferred trialing his own, otherwise what was the point of taking so much care with it? Annoying.

He put his hand up. "Why can't we drink our own, professor? I'd much rather do that given I trust how I brewed it and someone else might've done something wrong and turned it into poison."

It was a good point, right? Meanwhile though, he did take a cup out and then add ice to conserve the remainder.

Professor Culloden was MAD. OR angry cause Maddie's Mum always said that mad was for dogs and angry was for people. But STILL. If Maddie was gonna draw him right now, she'd make his face ALL red and steam coming from his EARS. Better visual in her opinion. And she'd CLEARLY be adding artist to her list of possible future professions now TOO.

ANYWAY, the professor was saying LOTS of words and Maddie SQUINTED at him because before now, they'd been doing one thing at a time and NOW they had ALL sorts of instructions at once. Good thing she was SUPER focused and good retain ALL THE THINGS at once. Brain power, Maddie had lots of that.

The small brunette put the fire out like she was TOLD to do See? She was SUCH a good listener and then added in another snake fang. She cleaned the stirrer thing again with that HANDY cleaning spell and then stirred it counter clockwise. Then she took the stirrer OUT and set it aside. When she looked back, the potion WAS yellow. Like when you have TOO many vitamins and THEN you need to use the loo and-WELL, she wasn't going to think about THAT.

Since she'd ALREADY cleaned her cup cause she was super productive like that, Maddie took it and scooped out some potion to have now. Then she got herself an ice cube and dropped it into her potion so she could use THAT for later.

SPOILER!!: Notes

Strength Potion: Enables you to lift cars and other heavy objects AND is good for Anemia (blood problems)

Ingredients
2 kilograms of dragon heart (a few grams more/less doesn’t matter)
1 pomegranate
A cup of re’em blood
One mature salamander’s blood
2 unicorn tail hairs
Powdered griffin claw
2 snake fangs

Steps
1.Add 2 litres of water and the unicorn tail hairs one by one
2.Turn the heat to high and add the dragon heart
3.Wait until it boils and add pomegranate
4.Turn the heater to medium and wait for five minutes. In the meantime, mix re’em and salamander blood in a bowl and stir them five times clockwise and five times counter clockwise and crush griffin claw.
5.Add the blood mixture slowly and THEN, the powdered griffin claw IMMEDIATELY.
6.Wait for ten minutes and add one snake fang
7.Put the fire out and add the other snake fang
8.Stir counter clockwise once
9.Drink a cup of the potion in one go, while still hot

Note Stuff about the Potion:
- It’ll taste like metal
- Good for blood problems
- Don’t drink more for longer duration, but rather drink another cup after you feel it’s wearing off. Otherwise you’ll get all DIZZY and feel like vomming.
- To conserve for a week after brewing, add a cup of ice from pure water
- Bright Yellow like Hufflepuff people
- For the first few minutes after drinking, sit and let your body and muscles adjust to it. Once you feel fresh, go around being super strong, and don't worry: you can control it.
- You can omit the heart part by adding a glass of water, counting to 18 and adding pomegranate. You can also not mix Re’em blood at all and add another pomegranate instead, but this will reduce the effect to one tenth.

OH, that boy was a SNAKE person. He didn't trust the other people in here, then? Did that mean that SHE shouldn't? She looked around and squinted at her classmates, especially that boy she'd met at the WALL on the platform. She definitely didn't trust HIM.

Thankfully Bay had slipped in his first fang at the end of the ten minutes before the Professor started talking again. okay awesome so he had step 6 done just in the nick of time. PHEW!

oh okay so now there were more steps. and AWESOME!!! an activity how cool is that. but wait people had to drink the potions he didn't expect that.. might as well finish his potion before people started to try it. Turning off the heat Bay picked up the snake fang and added it to his potion…. now one last step to stir it counter clockwise only one time, he picked up his stirrer and then stirred it once counter clockwise and now his potion was done. All he had to do was cross off those last steps.

now was time for the activity…. He guessed he just had to wait for people to come to him.

So now they had to wait ten minutes. Cat didn't do well with waiting. She wanted to DO THINGS. Be active. If she were the professor, she'd have let the students run laps around the class.... after using some sort of protection spell on the cauldrons so no one could trip and knock them over or something. Hmm. That needed more thought. So... waiting ten minutes. Riiight. Cat tapped her fingers against the others and tilted her head to look at Mo beside her. "Hey. Hi. How's it going?" Hehehe. Hey boyfriend. Hey.

Chatty chatty with the boyfriend and cleaning up things made ten minutes pass easily enough and Cat finally added one of the snake fangs. That was it? Just add it in? No mixing? Alright. She got all sorts of distracted at all the drama that was happening across the room. What.... boys. Boys were pains more often then they weren't. She knew it, she had four brothers at home. But since it had nothing to do with herself, Cat was not going to bother with it and instead, she watched her cauldron for a while and then craned her neck to look at Mo's.

Oh! Now there was something else to do. Firstly, put out the fire. That was easy enough. She considered asking Mo if he wanted to put it out since he had lit it, but she figured that she'd just do it on her own. So after she put out the flame, she added the other snake fang and stirred the cauldron once counter clockwise. Cat watched the contents of the cauldron and, luckily, as the professor said, it thickened up (which was actually pretty gross) and turned yellow. Well, at least that meant she'd done everything correctly, yes? Now came the part she'd been least looking forward to. Drinking the potion. Sure, super strength was a cool thing, yeah, but she didn't quite like thinking about drinking something she'd put heart and blood in. Ick. She carefully took out a cupful of the potion and added the ice cube into the remainder in the cauldron as directed. Now she needed to decide if she wanted to wrestle or try her hand at that toy thingy. Hmmm.

Dec did as was told, adding the blood slowly and then immediately following it with the crushed griffin claw. Okay, now wait for 10 minutes...
....
.....
......TEN!

He plopped in one of the snake fangs, waiting until he put out the fire to put the other one in. Stir counter clockwise one time...AND IT'S DONE. Wait! Queue mad scientist laugh. Okay, now its perfected.

Declan looked around, "Anyone want a taste of my delicious brew?"

Still trying to mind her own business from the commotion behind her, Sophie was relieved when class resumed. Following Culloden's directions while he spoke, she extinguished the flame under the cauldron and dropped the second snake fang in with her gloved hand again. Easy peasy. Leaning toward the cauldron, she peeked at the potion's color before stirring one time counter-clockwise, pleased that the consistency of the potion instantly thickened and became a pure shade of bright yellow. Could it have been more perfect? She doubted it, and she looked forward to the next time Culloden walked by, anticipating a nod of approval from him.

The next set of explanations from the professor made Sophie slump a little. Gosh, he just kept talking. Normally she didn't mind, but... she actually had to grab her quill and start making notes along the way. A lot of information to take in, and she wished he would slow down, but she just kept writing - she could re-read anything she didn't absorb when he was done talking. She did put both gloves on and use a new ladle to spoon her potion into the freshly-cleaned cup next to her while his explanations slowed down, wanting to stay ahead of the game. Twelve to fourteen hours was quite a hefty amount of time. She shot a glance at Tobes, then - what kind of fun could they have later with some super-strength?

Of course, looking at her picture-perfect potion, she realized she didn't actually want to drink it. Dragon's heart and two different kinds of blood? That had to taste vile, didn't it? Surely the pomegranate was supposed to help with the taste, but... could it really make it significantly less putrid? Sophie doubted it.

With her cup already set aside, the Ravenclaw added an ice cube to the remaining potion in the cauldron and worked at cleaning her workstation while side-eyeing everyone. She had followed the directions as closely as humanly possible, or so she thought, and even cleaned every object and her gloves after every step to make sure nothing went wrong with cross-contamination. She wanted it to be flawless to impress Culloden, and she thought it was flawless, but... were there other students who had cared as much as her? Did she trust anyone else's potion?

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After ten minutes he added one snake fang, that being the sixth sense. During the ten minutes he finished cleaning up most of his workstation so that all he'd have left to do would be cleaning the cauldron once it was over.

As soon as he'd added the snake fang, following instructions, he put out the fire and then added the other snake fang, then carefully stirred anti-clockwise once, then he watched as it went yellow and thick. West listened to the professor as he watched its progress.

.... they had to drink someone else's potion? That sucked. West didn't particularly want to drink it at all but he definitely preferred trialing his own, otherwise what was the point of taking so much care with it? Annoying.

He put his hand up. "Why can't we drink our own, professor? I'd much rather do that given I trust how I brewed it and someone else might've done something wrong and turned it into poison."

It was a good point, right? Meanwhile though, he did take a cup out and then add ice to conserve the remainder.

Ah-ha. West. A seventh year. One... that, surprisingly, she felt she could trust, despite his general mopey demeanor. She normally didn't trust people who seemed sulky, aside from Ascanius, but West's reputation was outstanding. Sophie definitely knew enough about him to know that he was a clever student.

It was a valid question on his part, and she was wondering the same thing, so she admired the fact that he asked. That meant his potion was trustworthy, for sure. "Psst." She gave him a 'sup' nod after his question to get his attention and pressed on, "Bet you could trust mine. Y'can look at the color - s'pretty perfect. And I'm his protege." She nodded at the professor, grinning at him. He would back her up, right? "He can vouch for me. I definitely know what I'm doing." Didn't matter that she was just a third year. Potions was easily her best class, and the smug sort of expression she gave West when she lifted her cup toward him accentuated that point, encouraging him.

C'mon, West. Dare ya.

As Jasmine listened to the Professor explain what they had to do, she was not pleased. She didn't really want to drink the potion at all, let alone drink the potion of a random classmate. What was the rationale behind that? She guessed it was just the Professor's prerogative. She, the student could do nothing but comply.

Anxious to complete the potion, Jasmine put out the fire beneath her cauldron. She picked up the remaining snake fang and added it to the potion. Finally she gave the potion one counterclockwise stir and held her breath. And then, she could breathe. Thankfully, the potion began to turn yellow and thicken as she watched. Jasmine believed that she had done everything right, but was her potion perfect enough for someone else to drink? Grabbing a cup, she filled it with potion. Then she added ice to the mixture to preserve it for later. Now to find someone whose potion she wasn't afraid to sample.

HM. THAT boy was older AND asking for someone to try his potion. Maddie didn't know for SURE that he was a good potioneer but he DID probably have more experience brewing than she did so chances were that his potion wouldn't kill her or anything. PLUS Culloden probably had stuff to help kids who were poisoned and deathly. OKAY, decision made.

Maddie picked up her cup and wandered over to him, a confidence in her stride that only a kid woman of eleven could have. "I'll try yours if you try mine." That was the deal. "AND I want to check the color of yours to make sure it's properly yellow." That was part of the deal TOO.

Now a fellow Snake a bit older than Marisol was approaching her. She asked a question tentatively that the first year would try to understand. Help? Yes, please! There was obviously something wrong with Mari's potion, and it was getting embarrassing. She didn't dare to drink it as it was now.

"Yes, please," she smiled. And now what?

No one was coming, whaaaat?! "Nice and hot, ready to-" Oh, a tiny voice. He looked to his sides and then down. There. A small girl. A sassy one at that. Hmmph. "Deal."

This was risky, right? She looked like a first year, probably was. Well, yay for healers in the castle.

The tall boy poured a cup and nudged it towards her, "Be my guest." He boasted, confident it was the greatest color of yellow of all the yellows. Pfft.

He waited for her to do her little inspecting, "Good?"

Maddie slid HER cup over to him and smirked. Was HE worried cause she was small? It sort of made her feel powerful when others were afraid of her and what she was capable of so she relished the thought for a moment before considering HIS cup.

It WAS bright yellow, that was for sure. She made a REAL show of inspecting it, though. Didn't want the guy to be all smug about getting his potion right. Had to earn her praise, duh.

"S'okay. Guess we'll see how good it works after I drink it." She smiledddd real big at the boy and then raised the cup. "On three, okay? One...two...three." And the potion went down the hatch.

Beverly regarded the boy with a resentful gaze. She was leaving things as they were for right now. Professor Culloden didn't have to go through all this rubbish because of someone who was clearly missing their brain. She'd deal with him later, and that was something she wouldn't forget.

"I'msorry, Professor," she mumbled, feeling her face grow warm. It wasn't her fault, clearly, but neither was the nice potion's man.

Tugging on Jeremiah's arm, she hoped to turn them back around to their work area and finish the next steps. Which weren't complicated. Putting the fire out and adding the last snake fang, she cleaned her stirrer again before using it to stir once as directed. She didn't trust anyone but the boy next to her. Trust issues happening all over again. >.>

Gradually, the solution seemed to change texture and turn a bright yellow. THAT brought a small grin to the Slytherin's face. Success!

After listing down a few more things Culloden mentioned she turned to Jeremiah. "Want to trade potions?" She'd seen how he made his and, honestly, she didn't trust anyone's potion abilities in this room beside his and Professor Culloden's.

He did his best to not let it show that he actually was a bit worried she'd find something wrong with it. He did follow all the instructions and WITH STYLE, if he may add.

Dec did the same, occasionally looking up to see if she was making any faces at his masterpiece. "Er...it's yellow alright." There's his conclusion.

HOORAY! He passed the girl's test. Smug smirk. Declan raised his cup as she did, "To us!" He toasted, clinking his cup against her's.

One...two...THREE!

He drank the potion in one swig, hoping he wouldn't be able to taste it. Unfortunately, he did. HUNGMPH. His hand flew to his mouth, this rusting metal taste filling it. Dec tried to send eye signals to the younger girl to see if she was having the same reaction to it.

Braving it, he took a seat, pushing another seat to her, so she could sit down as well, and waited for the potion to settle in. Boy, was he queasy. Blegh.

There were so many steps. And so many things to do. And now an activity? AHHH SLOWLY PROFESSOR PLEASE. Zander did the best to scribble everything down on his parchment as carefully as he could. Definitely did not need to get SCREAMED at again. That wasn't fun. After putting the fire out, Zander took out his second fang and dropped it into the potion. Then one stir to the clockwise direction and TADA! Oooh the potion suddenly turned a thick gooey yellow color HA! Good news then? "Erm... Anyone want a swig of mine?" He set out a cup next to his potion and then set out to find one for himself.




Now Zander just needed to drink from someone else's potion. Which was highly unnecessary and unsafe. What if the other person made a screwy potion? So instead of going to just anyone Zander just looked for a yellow potion because that's what they were supposed to look like, right? OOH FOUND ONE. "Hi,uh, do you mind if I have some of your potion?" The boy who he stopped in front of looked vaguely familiar. Perhaps Zander had seen him in the Gryffindor common room? It was hard to tell because it was so crowded there right after the feast, but the older boy was wearing a lion badge.

Adi watched the commotion in the class in silence. Professor Culloden would sort that out. And sure enough, he did. Afterwards came more instructions. The Puffer extinguished his fire and added the snake fang. Now, with his Scourgified wooden spoon, he stirred counter clockwise one time. All done! He updated his notes and turned his full attention to Culloden once more who was explaining the details about the potions as well as the activity.

Ah man! Why couldn't they drink their own potion? That was the only part Adi disapproved of but...*shrug* His eyes caught AJ, his new Lion friend. He headed over to her, a cup of his potion in his hand (he had then added an ice cube to the rest of his brew). "AJ! Would you like to try my potion?'' He waved the cup in front of her. "I'll drink yours and then we can wrist wrestle.'' Adi grinned hopefully.

OOOOoooooOOOOH! There was a FIGHT going down.

But the timing? Jeez, couldn't this have happened during the ten minutes where he was waiting? Why did it have to happen NOW? No matter no matter. He was waiting for further instructions which meant that the fourth year could sit back, relax and watch the commotion take place. A commotion that included some people he knew: Lizard Boy, for one. Jeez, the boy hardly talked back at the pet store but he was all up for this? Man, he had underestimated him. Then there was the girl who had used him as a bodyguard. The fiery redhead and the other boy were unknown to this Slytherin.

Then things heated up when the Professor got involved. Smirk. This was GOOD. So good that it made Grayson wish he could snack on some popcorn while watching things unfold. The fact that they were in a classroom sucked. Next time, take this outside, mkay? And he'd watch while chanting 'FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT' in his head.

Oh shucks. They had to move on.

And it was over. That was interesting while it lasted.

Grayson turned his attention over towards the board and then at his cauldron. Putting the fire out was simple, and the boy went in to do so before collecting up the other snake fang and adding it into his cauldron. Once that was done, the fourteen year old picked up his rod and gave it a magical clean. Couldn't have it staying dirty. He placed the rod into his cauldron and have the potion one counter clockwise stir. There. Look at the thick, bright yellow potion.

Trying not to look too pleased with himself, the Slytherin picked up a cup and cleaned it using Scourgify before scooping up some of the potion. He set the cup down, grabbed an ice cube and dropped it into the remainder of his potion in the cauldron. A week. This was going to last a week. And the man had mentioned homework. Merlin!

Then came the difficult part: finding a partner. Not because someone wouldn't want to pair up with him but because he wasn't sure how many people's potions he trusted. Some people weren't to be bothered with, like the girl he had met by the wall in King's Cross who was squinting at him. Jeez, you'd have thought he had set her hair on fire with the way she was looking at him.

"Anyone want to try my potion?" And don't you all come at once, either.

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Strength Potion
Grayson Whitlock

Ingredients:
- 2 kilograms of dragon heart (a few grams more/less doesn’t matter)
- 1 pomegranate
- A cup of re’em blood
- One mature salamander’s blood
- 2 unicorn tail hairs
- Powdered griffin claw
- 2 snake fangs

Instructions:
1. Add 2 litres of water and the unicorn tail hairs one by one
2. Turn the heat to high and add the dragon heart
3. Wait until it boils and add pomegranate
4. Turn the heater to medium and wait for five minutes. In the meantime, mix re’em and salamander blood in a bowl and stir them five times clockwise and five times counter clockwise and crush griffin claw.
5. Add the blood mixture slowly and THEN, the powdered griffin claw IMMEDIATELY.
6. Wait for ten minutes and add one snake fang
7. Put the fire out and add the other snake fang
8. Stir counter clockwise once

Yay someone wanted to drink his potion, eyeballing the Gryffindor kid he thought he would make a good potion as he looked into his cauldron to see its colour and yup it was a yellow colour.. good start so far.. "sure mate.. we can do that.. " he scooped a cup potion for him "I'm Bay" he said… always good to know the name of the person who would be optionally poisoning you.

All Bay had to do was to wait for him to give him the cup so they could get this party started.

Zander looked up at bay with a small smile. Yes! Fantastic now he had a trusty potion to drink and also got the chance to meet a fellow lion. Two birds with one stone? "I'm Zander," the young Gryffindor said with a small nod. What was Bay waiting for exactly? OH! Did he want Zander's potion? Oof. Hopefully the third year prepared it right... "Hold on a sec. I left my cup by my table." He quickly ran to his cauldron and filled a cup with the yellow substance, then threw an ice-cube into the cauldron for later use. Afterwards he went straight back to Bay. "Here ya go!" He held out the cup nervously, praying to the potion gods that it wouldn't poison the unsuspecting older lion. Taking the other cup from Bay he let out a deep breathe, "Bottoms up?'

10 minutes was up. Turning to Angel he directed her to add one snake fang in, while he listened to the Professor as he explained what they wee supposed to do next. Picking up his quill, he quickly wrote down the steps.



Turning the burner off, Cris added the second snake fang gently into the mixture. Then he picked up his cleaned metal stirring spoon and stirred the mixture once counter clockwise. Then he peered inside the cauldron and with abated breath watched the potion change in texture in color.

First the mixture began to thicken as it changed from a clear, liquid to a murky color before turning a bright yellow. Releasing a sigh of relief, he picked up his cleaned cup and scooped a cupful of the potion into it. Placing it on the workstation, he then magically froze a cube of ice which he popped into the remainder of the potion in the cauldron.

Now that was done, Cris looked around for someone he could swap potions with. Glancing over at Jasmine, he walked over to her and offered his cup to her. "Would you like to swap drinking potions?" Cris asked his friend.

Why were people fighting when they were brewing a potion that would give them strength? Shouldn't they be more concerned with the awesomeness that is going on around them? Anywho, she listened to the last step and had to contain herself from fist bumping repeatedly because she was SO excited about the fact that they were going to try their potion out. AJ didn't know how she felt about drinking someone else's, but what choice did she really have? She was going to drink that potion no matter what it took.

The first year turned off the fire and added another snake fang, and stirred counter clockwise just once. She was wondering if that would really be enough, but apparently it was because before no time it was changing to the exact shade the professor told them it should be.

WOOT! They were actually going to give the potion a go and see how strong they were. "YAY!" she exclaimed before she could control it. Who was she going to switch potions with? No need to think on that too hard because her friend Adi was already making his way to her. She have him a warm smile. "You betcha!" She had a feeling that Adi's potion was done right, and that she had nothing to worry about. "Sounds fun. Let's do this!" Game face was on.

He Didnt Do Anything so Nothing shouldn't be blamed on him. nothing at all, No! Putting his fire out he sighed and added in his last snake fang before picking up his stirrer which he cleaned before and stirred the potion once in the right direction. He quickly leaned over and into his potion.. YELLOW?! YELLOW!? YELLOW!!!! SUCCESS!!! He DID IT!!! He glanced over as Beverly offered to switch potions which was a no brainer.. "yeah." he wouldn't want anyone else's really.

Lux didn't want to stop talking to her boyfriend, but the ten minutes passed, and it was time for her to add one of the snake fangs to the cauldron. In it went before Professor Culloden gave the last steps to them in one go.

After crossing off the last thing she did, Lux added the rest of the steps to her notes:

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STRENGTH POTION

• 2 kilograms of dragon heart (a few grams more/less doesn’t matter)
• 1 pomegranate
• A cup of re’em blood
• One mature salamander’s blood
• 2 unicorn tail hairs
• Powdered griffin claw
• 2 snake fangs

1. Add 2 litres of water and the unicorn tail hairs one by one
2. Turn the heat to high and add the dragon heart
3. Wait until it boils and add pomegranate
4. Turn the heater to medium and wait for five minutes. In the meantime, mix re’em and salamander blood in a bowl and stir them five times clockwise and five times counter clockwise and crush griffin claw (doesn't have to be a perfect powder - just crush as well as you can withOUT magic)
5. Add the blood mixture slowly and THEN, the powdered griffin claw IMMEDIATELY
6. Wait for ten minutes and add one snake fang
7. Put the fire out and add the other snake fang
8. Stir counter clockwise once
9. Drink a cup of the potion in one go, while still hot

Turning the burner off, she added the other snake fang to the potion before stirring it once counter-clockwise with her stirrer. As she listened to the Professor speak, she got a cup and gathered some of the liquid in it. Okay, so they were supposed to drink each other's potions, not their own. That was fine, because Lux was always up for fun activities.

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STRENGTH POTION

• 2 kilograms of dragon heart (a few grams more/less doesn’t matter)
• 1 pomegranate
• A cup of re’em blood
• One mature salamander’s blood
• 2 unicorn tail hairs
• Powdered griffin claw
• 2 snake fangs

1. Add 2 litres of water and the unicorn tail hairs one by one
2. Turn the heat to high and add the dragon heart
3. Wait until it boils and add pomegranate
4. Turn the heater to medium and wait for five minutes. In the meantime, mix re’em and salamander blood in a bowl and stir them five times clockwise and five times counter clockwise and crush griffin claw (doesn't have to be a perfect powder - just crush as well as you can withOUT magic)
5. Add the blood mixture slowly and THEN, the powdered griffin claw IMMEDIATELY
6. Wait for ten minutes and add one snake fang
7. Put the fire out and add the other snake fang
8. Stir counter clockwise once
9. Drink a cup of the potion in one go, while still hot

Looking around the classroom, Lux wondered if she could switch potions with Bay, but saw that he was already trying someone else's. Ah well. But there was a boy who seemed only a year or so older than her asking if anyone wanted to try his. "Me, I'll try yours!" she said excitedly as she approached him.