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SPOILER!!: Le Professor :3 Wait so he was in his last potions lesson? Where did the time go. He was happy to be in the last class. He didn't mind the professor, he was really knowledgeable about the subject. He was doodling in his notebook when the professor greeted him. Kace smiled and was glad the professor was so nice. "I am fine thank you." he said politely back. Then he heard the professor move on. He wondered about the question and thought about it. He raised his hand and said, "Professor i think if you are in fear it can be manipulated because then it can lead to anxiety." He thought he explained it well enough. |
Jasmine was surprised that this would be the final Potions class. This was rather disappointing because she felt like she was just starting to hit her stride in Potions. Oh well, she would just have to make the best of this class. The Professor presented his first question and Jasmine raised her hand when she had thought of an answer. "Love could be used to manipulate. When a person is in love they are vulnerable. They may do things for the other person or to make the other person happy that they would not ordinarily do." |
Arista's mouth dropped, last potions class but this was only the second. Lame. Oh well. She just started to like this class! Fine then this class would be awesome!!! First question time!! She was good at these. Specially since her answers were awesome!! "How about happiness!! Because when a person is happy the things they do are better!" the first year said with a big smile. It made sense to her, but probably only because she was always happy! |
Ooooh, emotions. This should be interesting. Marigold grinned, glad that the professor was smiling a little, then raised her hand, searching for an emotion someone hadn't already said. "I think boredom can actually be manipulative. Maybe causing someone to do something they wouldn't normally do?" She wasn't really sure, as she was rarely bored. |
Text Cut: Jeremiah before lesson started :3 Hello little fluttering wings in her stomach. Beverly perked up as Jeremiah sat beside her and grinned. Potions was already her favorite lessons of all time, but it just got better. Heh. She flashed him a grin with a flutter of her eyes. "Hi," she whispered. Nice to see you here, Walker. Text Cut: Cosgrach! Culloden got an ever bigger grin when he beamed at her. Did he know she liked his smile? Because she did, but she was too shy to ever say THAT. She'd die of embarrassment. Beverly's face fell immediately. This was the last class for the term? Why? Was he leaving? No. She wouldn't have it. She'd finally found the perfect potions' teacher and...She was getting ahead of herself, wasn't she? Settling her mind a bit, Beverly fidgeted with her bracelet while thinking about the question. It was an easy question if you were Beverly Wayne. More so when you were raised by men that feared any signs of tears or sadness. Really. She didn't even NEED to try and manipulate her dad and brother. They simply did it on their own. True story. She raised her hand. "Acceptance," she said. "Someone who longs to feel accepted is usually vulnerable and an easy target of manipulation because they want to please and feel like they belong." Which was sad, honestly. |
SPOILER!!: professor Hayden pondered the question. It was really interesting, and also sort of depressing, and could have easily been able to start a discussion. Considering this was potions class, she wondered what they were going to be doing that would warrant such a question. She raised her hand to answer. "Hope." Was that an emotion? ...Yeah. Hayden continued. "If you give someone enough hope, you could manipulate them to do pretty much anything you want." |
Zander chose not to say hello to his professor this round. Just because he wanted to stay as out-of-the-way as he possibly could. So instead of speaking up when he had come in before class, he just quietly sat in his seat the entire time. He kept to himself until, AH CLASS HAS STARTED. Ugh. Wait, class has started. Potions was the worst. The directions were just so hard to follow and you always had to do them carefully. Or else you'd get yelled at... not like Zander was speaking from experience or anything... It was one time, okay! So, is it too late to walk out? You know to un-start class? The third year looked up at his professor right as the man said 'last class'. IS THIS REAL LIFE? OR IS THIS JUST FANTASY? BEAUTIFUL DAY. JOYOUS DAY. AHHH. LAST POTIONS CLASS OF THE TERM. HALLELUJAH. PRAISE. BLESS. THANK MERLIN. Wait... That was really quick. Wasn't this just the second lesson? NO, NOT QUESTIONING IT. BECAUSE THIS IS WONDERFUL HA. YES HA! Though Zander was having a party in his mind, he was careful not to express any of his joy to the class. That would be bad. Very bad. Very, very bad. So instead, he distracted his rejoicing self by choosing to answer the first question. "Envy? A lot of people do weird things when they're jealous because the green-eyed monster takes over their soul and controls their mind," Yep yep. It was 100% true. That's what Mr. Adair had always said. The green-eyed monster is very dangerous AND powerful. And also very greedy. |
Angel smiled at the Professor and raised her hands. "Professor, if I used my puppy-dog eyes then my papa will do anything for me." Angel beamed as she thought about all the extra times she had got to stay up to watch a film with her sisters after they had done that. |
LOOK TOBY HE CAME AND-Toby was being quiet. Why was he being quiet? No guess? Kyroh leaned over and poked the other boy in the side HARD. HIII!!! Turning his attention back to Culloden Kyroh tapped his fingers to his chin. After a second his hand shot up into the air, a question suddenly hitting him. "Professor, can't every emotion do that? I mean some better than others but...." But what? Where was he? Oh yeah! "If you want one i'd say anger because if a person is angry at someone you can really make them do anything. Like fight a wild unicorn." GRRRR. Kyroh didn't like getting angry either. Not because people could manipulate him, but because being angry wasn't fun. |
Last class for the term? WHAT?! That mean they only have two potion classes? o______O Okay, moving on to much important things. The question. Which emotions can be used to manipulate people? Candice raised her hand "I agree with love, Professor. Because there's a phrase that say love is blind? People tend to do stupid things in act of love." She offered. |
They were talking emotions here. Gwen wondered if the potion they were making today was about manipulating emotions. "I think love is a pretty powerful motivator," she offered. People would do just about anything for people they loved. Like, if someone was threatening a person, they were likely to do what the threatener wanted, but if they were threatening someone a person loved, well, they had better watch their backs. At least, that's the way it worked with Gwen. She'd been picked on most of her life. At this point, mean words just kind of stung and rolled away. They didn't bother her much. But when someone picked on Iestyn or October, that hurt her more. Because she loved them. |
This was kind of easy? "Love is a strong manipulator. Some people feel the need to have someone there all the time, fall in love with them and do ridiculous things," Which is why Jun distant himself from people sometimes. He's never been in love, and doesn't know if he'll ever really be. Those were just things he'll probably deal with later in life. |
Last class? It was only the second lesson! Penelope was disappointed because she enjoyed potions. Not only did she like brewing potions, but the chairs were cool. What was the thing about manipulation? Would they be brewing some kind of potion that could manipulate people? "Love is a strong emotion that can be used to manipulate people," |
Had that been a response, Professor? Kevin grinned as he set up his potion kit on his working space, avoiding looking at the front. This was way more funnier than doing big and loud pranks. When he was done setting everything up, he sat back down and now looked up to listen. Last potion class? This made him frown. As much as he DISLIKED the man, Potions WAS his favorite subject...and now they didn't have it anymore? "We can still brew potions in the lab right?!" he asked. He was actually looking like he was going to miss the subject. And he did, but only the subject. Oh right... they were ignoring each other. He didn't raise his hand as the others did when they answered the first question. "Fear is a strong manipulator. Because when someone is scared, they might do irrational things. Unless you're a Gryffindor of course, we don't get scared easily" he grinned. But of course this wasn't true. Gryffindor's got scared really quickly, it was just their will to stand back up and face whatever was scaring them was what made them braver than the other houses. "Also, when you know someone else is scared, you can easily manipulate that person in to doing things. Like, "If you don't tell me where the candy is i'm going to hex you!"" He figured that would be scary. Kevin wouldn't know because he was usually the one who was the person to hex someone in to telling where the candy was hehe |
So… This new professor shook her hand and that was not all what happened, he also SMILED! Yes, he smiled and THAT was a good sign! When a professor was smiling at somebody he or she was in a good mood or just liked something, or somebody… She realized when she looked at the professor that she had done a good thing when she had decided to offer him her hand, it was always good when a professor had a good first impression from her, but… Now she had a problem, she needed to STAY in control during his lessons if she wanted to have some house points, almost all the other teachers knew her and they all knew how eh… she liked it to break some rules… No, liking was not the right word, she LOVED it to break the school rules! But who knew, maybe she could get better if this professor liked her! She already saw it before her, Slytherin’s most popular student, Sonea Duvessa, the student who has won almost all the house points!!! Yes, she liked that! Her grin widened while she smiled again sweet at the teacher while he had spoke to her and she nodded to him. She walked away from him but before she did it she spoke again, “nice to meet you, professor Culloden” and yes, she was behaving herself strange, normally she would NEVER have spoke like that to a teacher and showing him or her her manners, but who cares? She wanted to have some house points and this teacher seemed to like her! She walked away from him and grabbed a parchment and something to write to make some notes. The professor started with talking and quick wrote she the things he was telling the class and she immediately thought about love, love was a way to let somebody do something, she had seen it by her STUPID new family, her biological father thought that he loved this STUPID mudblood wife and because of that he did everything SHE wanted, even moving away from his family and leaving everything behind. Love was a powerful emotion… But just when she wanted to raise her hand she heard that another student had given the answer she had wanted to give! So slowly she lowered her hand and stared irritated at the student! |
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Cutty thought about this. What emotions couldn't be used to manipulate someone. It was something that Cutty had been doing all of his life. He'd found it incredibly easy and sometimes he'd do it purely for the sport of it alone, as a Cheetah might hunt not only for nourishment. But not wanting the Professor to think of him as manipulative, he raised his hand and attempted to manipulate him with some natural-sounding answer like, "Love is by far the most powerful emotion we can use to trick someone, Professor. It's so strong in fact it is the driving force behind some spells." Especially protective ones. |
Text Cut: The New Professor Desiree watched as the friendly professor greeted all the incoming students and learned his name was Cosgrach Culloden. She suddenly felt rather guilty not properly introducing herself and made a mental note to remedy this in the future. He seemed great anyway and the topic was interesting. heh- I guess guilt is a pretty powerful motivator. She was slightly disappointed though to hear that her first potions class of the year would also be her last. Determined to make up for her lack of engagement, and apparently make the most of her one and only potions class (it's a good thing she had a knack for the subject, or else how could she hope to pass her OWLS?) she raised her hand. She didn't see the point in re-hashing what had already been said- love and fear were certainly the big ones but they weren't even scratching the surface, "Jealously professor, a person who is envious of someone or something else is discontent with their current situation, and can easily be manipulated into doing whatever it takes to obtain the object of their jealously or to deprive the other person of it." She hoped that came out alright. It sounded slightly more concise in her head. Was jealously even an 'emotion'? too late now. |
Lucy raised her wand and said, "Curiosity is something inside that drives people to read, to listen, to study but also to poke their noses everywhere! Someone curious can be manipulated easily!" |
pretty sure IC it wouldn't be the last lesson? isn't that only ooc? *is confused* Quote:
"I think it depends if its conscious or subconscious manipulation. People subconsciously manipulate other people all the time, and that's when I think its more likely to play into the big ones... love or guilt or whatever. That's nature. That's instinct. If we couldn't play on other people's emotions, then people couldn't connect, and even parents wouldn't care to raise and care for their kids. But when it comes to consciously manipulating someone I think it also depends on how the emotion manifests in an individual. For instance I don't think everyone can be manipulated by love... because some people cut themselves off from it, but anger? Everyone gets angry. I think anger would be an emotion that could and is used both consciously and subconsciously when it comes to emotional manipulation, because when someone is angry they are less likely to think rationally." So... where were they going with this? |
Hmm. Emotions to like manipulate people. Grace hummed a little as she thought. She knew a good answer. "Love...." She mused, as she put her hand up into the air. "If someone loves you... you can use it to make them do something for you." It worked. Because she did it a lot with her mother to be honest. "Like... you can say that the person would let you do something if they really loved you." She mused, nodding as she talked to the Professor. |
Bree was intrigued by this lesson. Emotions that manipulate, this was gonna be interesting. She listened to the others inventively and in time came up with an answer of her own, she raised her hand, "Professor, I believe greed would be a powerful manipulator. If you know what someone desires and you have it or make the person think you have it you could have that person eating out of the palm of you're hand", Bree said with a smirk. |
So, nothing interesting before class? That was a shame. Ves had been ready, too. Since they were getting started, she titled the page in her notebook and waited for words. Of course, she hadn't expected him to start with that first statement. Why would this be the last potions class? It wasn't even Christmas, yet? It seemed highly illogical to her. There was another 6 months of school... So, NEWT study wasn't a thing this term? Or.....would it be mostly independent study? She'd think about this further...later. Of course, the Ravenclaw did have an answer. "Any emotion can be used to manipulate...if used correctly." Not that she did this personally, but she'd seen enough to understand its validity. "If you want to focus on singular emotions, though, I'm going to say...stupidity." Casual. |
Last class of the term? Confusion flickered across Benjy's face. He wasn't all that bothered about NEWTs, given that his chosen career path didn't even involve magic, but he was still curious all the same. If he had to take the exams, he at least wanted to stand some kind of chance of doing well in them without a ton of work in his own time. Anyway, back to the question and manipulation. "What about fright?" Benjy said, raising his hand. "If people are frightened, they're probably distracted...and would do anything to get out of that situation." |
Hiiii Dima Dima had come taken the same seat again. Sure she sorta expected it but at the same time, last class was rough, wasn't it? He got a nudge and a smile when he took the seat next to her before her attention was brought back to the Professor. Something about emotions and manipulation. Did it have anything to do with the smiley face on the board?.....It was kinda freaking her out, though far less than it would have before she had that talk with him in his office. Collarbin wasn't scary, he was like....a teddybear...one that probably wouldn't accept hugs from everyone and thought acting tough would work better in his favour but Lex knew better and there was no changing her thoughts on the man now. Not even if he locked her in the dungeon for a century. The Prefect lifted her hand to offer a response. "Happiness can be used to manipulate, like with my father, he likes me happy and I stress how happy I'd be were I to get certain things." So in the end she got what she wanted. See how that worked? |
That sounded wrong, didn't it? Eh. Cosgrach waved his hands a few times to dissolve the confusion. No frowning, people. He wasn't going anywhere. Hehe. "The rest of the classes will be all revision'n'stuff, nothing exciting. This is the last class where you will learn something new. I jus' worded it wrongly." K? K. Moving on. Text Cut: Replies "Many of you said 'love, hate, greed, happiness, fear, sadness' and 'jealousy'," he said, to sum up, and in case they couldn't hear all the answers, "but there were also answers such as 'anger, trust' and 'acceptance'. I believe, as Kyroh and Vesper mentioned, that all emotions can one way or another be used to manipulate people. Before we start brewing, I want to ask two more questions that are connected to each other: which potions or spells do you know that manipulates people? What are the laws regarding these? Please only name one spell OR potion." Wellllll? Could they guess what they would brew today? OOC: The class will continue about 5 hours later. |
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