So love potions were forbidden? That was good to know. Not that AJ would ever use one, and she would hate for one to be used on her. In fact she would be infuriated with whoever tried to pull one over on her. She listened to all of the others answers that everybody gave and it was so much information. The first year had no idea how people knew so much about this world. Of course a lot of the people were older so that made a difference.

So what potion were they making again? While she was listening to the professor, she was having a hard time retaining all of the information that was give. She would figure out the name of the potion as she went. Instead she wrote down the notes from the board. So far all they had to do was grate half of a unicorn horn, and she could totally handle that. Making sure that all of her equipment was clean, the first year got straight to work. Half of a unicorn horn was grated. She was ready for the next step.

Cris breathed a sigh of relief to hear that his answer had been acceptable but that didn't stop him from taking down notes.

Cabeza De Turzo potion huh? That really did sound interesting. Cris picked up his quill and began writing down the ingredients and the first step they were supposed to carry out.



Cris pulled out his cauldron, grater and a bowl from his potions kit and magically cleaned all three using the Scouring spell, by pointing his wand into each other and saying,"Scourgify." Then he ended the spell before picking each one up to examine them. Ensuring that they were thoroughly cleaned and that the cauldron was free of cracks, he next cleaned the surface of his workstation and once that was cleaned, he ended the spell, temporarily holstering his wand.

Putting on a clean pair of gloves, he then extracted half a unicorn horn from his potions kit and holding the horn between his fingers, Cris began to grate it. Up and down, up and down, he smoothly grated the horn, allowing the grated parts to fall into the bowl he had cleaned. When he had finished the last bit, he brushed off any remaining bits that were stuck to his fingers before placing the grater down on the table.

Then he sat back and waited for further instructions.

Beverly watched the professor's expression at her reply and had to chew on the inside of her cheek to keep from looking amused. Has that gossip paper made it to him? Did he KNOW? A hunch told her Culloden was in with the info. Anyway...

She had to pay attention to all of this information being thrown at them. Normally, history wasn't her thing, but all this talk about manipulation kept sparking her interest and she HAD to know things for certain reasons. You never know when a potion like this could come in handy. You never knooow.

After jotting down what she believed was important, Beverly set her quill down. It was potion-making time! And they were going to start by grating half a unicorn horn. The Slytherin was on it.

Norah grinned. "Kittredge, sir. Norah Kittredge." Whoops, she guessed she had forgotten to introduce herself on the way in. Although she had heard some mixed opinions on Professor Culloden, she decided she liked him. At least the smiley face on the board made him see like a man worthy of respect.

After scribbling down the ingredients and instructions on her parchment, Norah pulled out her supplies from the potions kit she had gotten over the summer in Diagon Alley. Inspecting everything closely to make sure they were clean, she rummaged through her ingredients until she found something that seemed as if it could be a unicorn horn. A quick glance around the room confirmed her assumption, and she set herself to the task of grating half of it. Up, down, up, down. The methodical task was oddly soothing, considering she was in the process of pulverizing a solid object, and paired with the calm blue of the walls and the cushion of her chair Norah found her eyelids growing heavy. Wait. Being tired would definitely result in something blowing up She shook her head slightly and focused on the unicorn horn as more of it disappeared into her bowl. She was NOT going to blow anything up, thank you very much.

Okay this lesson definitely had Desiree's interest. Even the history interlude was pretty fascinating. She did notice the professor leaving a potion on some girl's desk, but didn't have time to dwell on it as she was still trying to keep up with the lesson- When he was done she took out her cauldron and muttered "Scourgify". Satisfied with that she took out her parchment and jotted down the notes:


So, 'Cabeza De Turzo'- it can make you confess to a crime you never committed.. hm. Naturally it makes sense that they would ban it from courts then. And as for who was going to be more susceptible to the potion, that she was really looking forward to. It was like one big social experiment. Personally Desiree liked to think she had a very active conscience and so it was probably going to have a pretty big effect on her. She looked around the classroom trying to gauge her classmates as she grated the unicorn horn. She couldn't judge off more than face value though and vowed to actually meet some of her classmates soon. She supposed evaluating their consciences wasn't a bad place to start.

Gwen listened intently. This was some cool stuff. A potion that had been banned once, and was still not allowed in courtrooms? The sole purpose of this potion being manipulation? That was the coolest thing ever. She imagined giving the potion to people who upset her, and watching them practically melt with guilt. Then she squashed the thought. That was mean. Gwen wasn't a mean kid.

Also, so many people had said fear was a motivator, but Gwen disagreed. Fear was a paralytic. People weren't motivated by fear, they were crippled by it. Guilt though, that was a good motivator. If this potion was going to make them feel guilty, Gwen wasn't really sure she wanted to try it. As it usually was though, it was probably part of the lesson to partner up and taste some potion, so she set to work grating her unicorn horn.

Talk about an interesting history lesson. So it was suppose to be a guilt serum thing and it was too effective. Sounded fun to try on a prank or something like that.

Awesome, they were actually going to make it or Nigel presumed they were. He cleaned all his things he needed before hand like he should. Not dirty cauldron or anything like that. "Scourgify". Though one question. What was that potion he put on one of the Sophie's desks. There were seriously a lot of Sophie's for Nigel to remember. One that just graduated and now the two here. Probably forgetting a couple too.

The Seventh Year just grated his unicorn horn thinking random awesome things.

Sophie was proud of her response--oh, sooo proud! That was until Sophie Brown decided to contradict it. Followed by the professor who decided to contradict it, as well. Well, BOO to you, Sophie Brown and Professor Culloden. She eyed the professor as he agreed with the wrong Sophie other Sophie but otherwise said nothing as the lesson continued.

She was listening--she WAS--but the professor decided to uncork a vial of potion right by her just in case she might be drifting off. She sort of reached out her hand to take it--a free potion?--but figured out a second later that this wasn't a free-for-all. Oh, well. He had her attention, though.

So it was forbidden to use in courts...but nobody said she couldn't prank an unsuspecting Puff or Lion with it, did they?! Heh. It'd be funny to make them to confess to random rule-breaking around the school. Hee hee. ... This wasn't the right line of thinking, though, was it? Focus, Sophie. Focus.

She needed a unicorn horn. Right. Looking around, she spotted the one that was to be used in her own potion then began the process of cleaning everything she'd need before using it. Yup, always a good cleaning first. Then she set about grating the horn. Should they have a lit cauldron or something by now? Hmm? Glancing up at the board, she noted where that part was grated first. Mmkay. All done.

For the next question, Adi raised his hand. "Imperious Curse, Professor. But I think the Ministry of Magic would have or should have punishments in place against those who use it.'' He wasn't too sure on that but he was stating what he thought should be.
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Adi eyed the vial. He wasn't sure he liked the sound of that Potion. Who would like it to be used on them? He made some notes on it before copying down the list of ingredients as well as the first step.

Now it was time to get started on getting the unicorn hair ready. Adi cleaned the grater he would be using as well as a bowl using Scourgify. Then they boy started to grate the unicorn horn, letting the bits fall into the bowl until he had completed half of the horn.

West shrugged one shoulder. It wasn't always what you knew, sometimes it was who you knew. Speaking of, he hadn't seen Borr in ages. Maybe he should write the old man before he died and stuff.

Y'know, after listening, West was curious about the part that the professor skipped over. Was there something else they needed to be prepared for?

... would they be having to test this potion?

That could get messy. Well fine, he'd just spend the lesson time mentally preparing himself and convincing himself he wasn't guilty of things, and justifying stuff. He'd be okay.

He got his things out and began to grate a unicorn horn, measuring half of one. Then he put that aside and made sure all of his other equipment was clean and ready, including making the effort to gather the ingredients that the professor had just put on the board.

Kace heard the professor's expliantion and realized it required a lot of note taking. He dipped his quill into his ink jar and scribbled. He scribbled till his hand hurt. This was useful information to know. He then looked up and realized he moved on the next question and he was so abosred into his notes he didn't realized they moved on. He looked over to Lux and realized they were beginning the potion. He copied down the potion into his notebook.



After that he cleaned out his cauldron and said, "Scourgify!" and it was all clean. Then he went up to the room and got the Unicorn horn. He realized he needed to grate it. He got his grater and started to grate the unicorn horn. It seemed harder than it looked and he used some strength.

Oh. Well yeah, that made more sense, she supposed. Sticking to the emotional; she'd have to keep that in mind as the lesson progressed. Wouldn't be too hard after that whole history lesson they just got. Ugh. This class better had not have been one of those because Lex wasn't in the mood for too many words right about now. She did listen though. The potion almost reminded her of Veritaserum, 'cept that one made you tell the truth. This one just made you feel guilty...? But...what?

Guilt? That was a result of regret yeah? Something the Gryffindor didn't have. She thought all her actions were justified.

Was the Professor giving them looks at the mention of making people cry? Nothing wrong with that so long as you'd gifted them with the truth. They'd get over it eventually and might end up a better person for it. Merlin this was going to be an interesting potion. There wasn't a thing she could feel guilty about...nothing that was coming to mind at the moment...

Nope, so she'd just scribble down the steps.



Lex turned to the grater and cast a quick "Scourgify." to begin with/ Had to make sure it was nice and clean. Hopefully Dima was looking and remembered or maybe he already remembered that everything was meant to be cleaned before use. There was always that small hope.

Then she began grating the half of the unicorn horn that she'd been given.

Yeah, her intentions of commenting on what the other Sophie had said hadn't been entirely pure and innocent, and certainly Culloden knew that, but at least he didn't give her away by giving her any knowing sort of looks. He was playing it cool, and she appreciated that - and she also appreciated Vesper chiming in. Good on you, Ves. Grinning as she was referred to as "S.B.," Sophie didn't look at all surprised that the professor was agreeing with her. Obviously he was. And then when he told the other Sophie which kind of laws he meant - ha! Made her look dumb, didn't they?

Was everyone paying attention? Did they see who the superior third year Sophie was? Made them think twice about their previous life choices? Hm? Yeah, she showed them.

As Culloden got into the pre-potion making lecture, she scooted her parchment and self-inking quill in front of her, taking notes as he spoke and not even noticing the potion he gave to Slytherin Sophie. It was interesting to hear all this history and insight to its former uses, but the potion itself was kind of... disheartening. She didn't want to be made to feel guilty, assuming he was going to have them try it. She rarely experienced guilt over anything, really, since she usually believed things happened for a reason and didn't always realize if she hurt anyone's feelings - it wasn't that she was careless, but she was... strongly opinionated and strong-willed and felt no regret for putting someone in their place. Heh. Oops.

She wondered how Culloden would react to the potion, then. Had he taken it before? She... didn't think he was a particularly guilty person, as they were a lot alike. He definitely had to take it with them. FOR SCIENCE.

With her workstation, materials, and utensils already cleaned, Sophie just had to move her parchment and quill aside once she was done writing the ingredients and used her wand to clean her hands and the tabletop in front of her again. And her gloves once more, while she was at it. No such thing as too clean. She set her wand aside and slid her gloves on, eyeing the ingredients she had written down as she did so. Hippogriff feathers? That was a cool ingredient. But the Fwooper voice chords? THAT... was something else. She'd never heard of that used in a potion before. Sort of cool, but... strange. Very strange.

Sifting through her potions kit, Sophie picked out a unicorn horn and marveled at it for a second. For all her materials, she tried not to peek at them too much when she bought them, for she wanted them to be as untouched as possible before using them - but now she thought it was cool to be holding half a unicorn horn. She certainly knew the value of it. Another one of those ingredients to be super careful with, just like the dragon's heart from the last class. Though... maybe not QUITE as valuable as the dragon heart. But. Still an expensive ingredient that she knew better than to mess with, so she was careful to measure out and grate half of it into her bowl with as much precision as possible, even though she was cringing a little at the sound it made. NO MISTAKES HERE.

Was there a more clever, cunning or sneaky Professor than Cosgrach Culloden? Cutty felt like his tiny and deficient heart might burst for the man as he'd given him at least four years worth of useful confessions. And they hadn't even hit the half-way mark for the potion they were brewing yet. The man was a genius. I mean there he was, laying out credit for whomsoever confessed his or her ideas on what constituted as manipulation and ways in which it might be achieved according to his or her own imagination. Brilliant.

He took a moment, a frail-looking smile upon his face, to write down the ingredients to the potion and before systematically beginning the scourgification of the following items: 2 stirring sticks, a cauldron, the grater, a bowl, and his mortar and pestle as well as a cutting knife. He left his items alone, but not unattended as he fetched the unicorn horn. He'd never held one of them before and took a moment to note what he thought of as a glass-like feeling. Almost like a tooth. It must've been a gush of silver to see two of these creatures duke it out in the wild.

It was kind of a loud substance to grate as it made a little Zhizza-Zhizza-Zhizza-Zizz sound when Cutty dragged it across the grater, which he'd positioned below the bowl.

The look of hostility in the Professor's eyes when they looked at each other did have an effect on him. The Gryffindor lowered his gaze towards his desk for a moment and tried not to look like he was uncomfortable. As the man began to walk around the class while speaking, Kevin looked up in curiousity when he saw that in the corner of his eyes that he gave a vial to an older Slytherin student and craned his neck to see what it was. He couldn't see anything though.

Wait, so they were going to brew a potion that would make people confess what they were guilty of AND would even make them feel guilty about things they hadn't done? WHY did he have the feeling this potion was targeted towards people like him? He hoped they didn't have to try it out. He wasn't sure if he liked this potion but it would be amusing to see how others reacted to it hehe.

The second year grabbed his wand and scourgified everything clean before he got a bicorn horn and began to grate it in to a clean bowl.

Were they going to be testing the potion they were making? It was illegal, after all. Hayden really had no idea what to expect but honestly she wouldn't be all that surprised if they were going to be tasting the potion. She'd learned to expect the unexpected at Hogwarts.

Hayden took out all the ingredients she needed. Then she inspected her cauldron very carefully to make sure it was clean, even though she had no idea how it would have gotten dirty. Luckily it hadn't so she was able to get right to work without cleaning it first like several people were. (Speaking of which, Hayden took a mental note of the spell they were using.) Next she took out all the equipment she needed and made sure that was all clean before grating half a unicorn horn.

Kate was way too busy scribbling down notes to answer any of Culloden's questions, not that she knew any of the answers anyway. After copying down the ingredients list for the Cabeza de…er, the scapegoat potion, Kate peeked around at the other students. They were using a spell to…clean their cauldrons. Kate didn't want to risk using that spell. She peeked into her cauldron. Yup, it looked nice and clean. Mostly. And all her other materials looked like they were in tip-top shape, too.

So Kate got out a grater. And half a unicorn horn, and a bowl. Grate the unicorn horn, Culloden had said. Kate pursed her lips and eyed the grater. It better be a heavy duty thing to be able to grate a horn. Still, how different could it be from grating cheese?

Kate held the half unicorn horn in one hand and the grater in the other and began grating…sort of. She shuddered on the first go. Not only did the unicorn horn against the grater make a horrible sort of sound…she could feel it making the horrible sort of sound. If only they just had to grate cheese…

Bracing herself for the prolonged grating sound and the feeling of the grating sound, Kate got busy grating the unicorn horn half.

He didn't know any potions that could be used to manipulate others, nor did he possess hands quick enough to make note of all those that were mentioned. Dima listened to the professor's explanation of the potion they were learning TODAY, though! Sort of. Meaning he ignored all the history stuff and wrote down the name and what it did and all the ingredients. But that was good enough, right?

The first year almost forgot that he was supposed to clean things before he used them, too, but he drew his wand upon seeing Lex perform the spell. Yeah! He could DO that charm now! Was professor potion-sharing-man watching? Dima had kept his promise and stuff!

"Scourgify!" Drawing the funny squiggle shape above the grater, he watched in awe as all the little dust spots disappeared. So COOL.

Next came... horn grating. Did that hurt the unicorn? Was whatever creature that the horn in his kit had come from still okay? The kid was about to protest, but he knew that taking tail hairs didn't hurt the things... maybe horn extraction didn't either? Choosing to just stay quiet, Dima performed the Scouring Charm on his knife and sliced his horn in two with a little bit of difficulty.

But grating! That was the FUN part! Eagerly, he shoved up his half-horn against the grater and worked away. He was an EXPERT at this.