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For the first time in three years, the first drastic change has been made: There are proper desks and no stands for cauldrons, though the seats are still the same cushioned chairs. The washbasin and rubbish bin are still there, though it is clear they won't be needed today. Although the classroom doen't have any windows, it is well-ventilated. Despite the early hour, the professor looks well-rested and completely ready for the class ahead with a small smile on his face, sitting at his desk and welcoming the students.
OOC: The lesson has started, so please don't post yourselves late!
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HEHE.
Okay, so maaaaaybe she had been a little TOO enthusiastic in her response, but at least it got a laugh from Professor Culloden. Beam. Listening to the other responses, some of them were pretty funny, and she smiled to herself as she wrote down more notes.
What COULDN'T potions do?
What a good question! Raising her hand, she said, "They can't give you hugs." But she was okay with that. Boyfriend hugs were the best kind anyway.
......"Hug potion." He said loudly. And that was all the boy was going to say to the girl about THAT. As for about the question? What couldn't potions do? Maybe taste good? Make you cookies? Yeah. Those sounded about right. THE LIMIT DOES NOT EXIST! No. Wait...it did. The possibilities were just endless. Or something. Kyroh didn't know. Culloden was already losing him, and his attention.
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Maddie was surprised with how quickly the lesson was progressing but she was ALSO relieved. SHE was the one itching to brew, crazy Gryffindor. It was hard sitting here and NOT making something but she was doing her best to pay attention and NOT think about all the OTHER, more PRODUCTIVE things she could be doing. She DID like this class, after all.
"M'not sure a potion can make you love, Professor. I mean ACTUALLY love. S'more of a infatuation when you take a love potion, right? Like an obsession. Maybe you become a stalker but s'probably not REAL love." And no, she wasn't sure SHE even bought into such things. "M'PRETTY sure my brother had a crazy girlfriend once who said she LOVED him but she was a big creeper. Maybe SHE took a love potion." She'd considered that, truly.
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Notes, notes and even moaaar notes! Adi was wondering whether he would run out of ink anytime soon. This was the most writing he had ever done in a Potions class.
At the next question, Adi grinned at Lux's answers. Leave it to her to say something like that. "They can't make us act mature, Professor,'' the Puffer said pushing up his hand. Even if there had been any potion that made people act like that, he wouldn't be taking it. He liked being immature sometimes. Hehe.
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This lesson was moving quickly today and all Hady was able to do for the moment was grab up her quill again and began jotting down more notes. She knew Potions did so many different things but off the top of her head she really couldn't think of what one couldn't do. So rather then answer the question she simply continued to take detailed notes. Nothing at all wrong with that.
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They really weren't going to be brewing a potion? This was one class that AJ was really good at, and it was a bummer that she was missing out on a cool potion. Questions got boring after a while.
What couldn't potions do? Hmmm... millions of different scenarios ran through her mind. They couldn't make you own a unicorn, that was for sure. "They can't make you smell nice." Out of the box thinking was going on over here. Hey, it wasn't any worse than hugs.
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...twirling his wand?
"Please put your wand away." Didn't this boy know wands were instable like that and could send a random spell somewhere? Ugh.
Cosgrach ignored his wishes part, because it was boy's responsibility to look up a thing he wanted to do. Instead, he said "They certainly can't do everything." Nope. But that was the next question.
Cosgrach briefly laughed at Lux's enthusiasm. "I'm sorry, but they can't do anything." He didn't say more, though, because the next moment he would ask them that very question.
"That only happens if you are careless enough," he said in a cautious tone. So, Angel had better not have such ideas. To make a point, Cosgrach didn't add it to the list.
See, Cosgrach WOULD take off -
Oh.
The man chuckled softly. "They can, yeah." He didn't add it to the list, though, because surely Zahra didn't mean it seriously?
"I am sure, Zahra, yes." He smiled nevertheless, because her itching was quite dramatic.
The blackboard added what they said, again, as Cosgrach generally kept silent. He smiled at everyone who answered, of course, to encourage them. This lesson would be enjoyable only if they shared their ideas.
Clearly the last phrase was his addition. He walked to the front and looked at a few faces while waiting for them to copy it down. Then, he pointed at it.
"This list is rather short, though it does cover many things. So, I guess, we should ask the opposite to define the limits for sure: What can potions not do?"
More writing.
Gabriel would have carpal tunnel of this lesson. His fingers were already cramping up. The horror.
SPOILER!!: Potions' notebook!
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Ravenclaw Fifth Year
December 12, 2084
Potions' classroom
Potions Two: Review (no cauldrons in sight)
What are potions? A potion is a liquid, balm, or salve with healing, magical, or poisonous properties. (verbatim)
Potion Characteristics - Similar to work in chemistry amongst muggles
- Brewed in a very specific way
- Negative or positive effect
- A mixture
- Brewed with different ingredients
What are the types of potions? Poisons
Mental
Healing
Transformative (Polyjuice Potion)
Cleaning Unctions
Types of potions according to how they alter something/someone Physically altering: Healing, beauty, polyjuice, sleep, shrinking
Emotionally altering: Love, hate, euphoria
Behaviourally altering: Truth, sleep
Types of potions according to what they are Balm
Unction
Serum
Antidote
Draft
Poison
Draught
Elixir
Tonic
Solution
Mixture
Beverage
Paste
Concoction
Essence (of something)
Salve
Can a muggle brew our potions? No, because 'our' potions need the element of magic to make them work. Most times when brewing 'our' potions, a spell or incantation is needed to set the ingredients. Muggles can't perform magic.
Do they have potions of their own? Yes, using various herbs, plants, minerals, and fungi. They typically call these things medication or supplements, however. Not potions.
What can potions do? help solve crimes
harm and in some instances to kill or seriously maim
manipulate emotions
heal illness and injuries
change our appearance
make you super strong
causes eternal sleep
enhance your memory
help you have more or less full control over a situation (unless your opponent has a bezoar/an antidote)
affect the outcome of a situation (like Felix Felicis)
keep things stable
manipulate people into doing things without their control
save lives
make someone's day infinitely better or worse
etc.
"They can't bring someone back from the dead." Dark magic could reanimate corpses, but the people reanimated wouldn't be a living, breathing....human?
Seriously, this was the most comfortable Gabe had felt in a lesson at the school....ever.
It was discerning...but nice. He relaxed further.
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What could potions do?
He was sure there was plenty, especially seeing as they had already given the basics by describing what a potion was. But anything specific Ben was trying to think of to answer to give. Again there were vague answers and more direct ones and then the one that Angel gave that made him start. Yeah...potions exploding. That was something he knew about. He unconsciously gave Professor Culloden a glance at that mention before resuming his thoughts and listening.
As for what potions couldn't do...
"Potions can't create anything." It wasn't like a transfiguration spell or charm that worked that way.
Toby raised his hand again. He'd though about it for a while, longer than when he'd been thinking for an answer for the last one, but he had it.
"They can't, like... be your friend." ............... Heh. "But they might be able to help you make friends." Liiiiiike if you bonded over potions, or there was some sort of Confidence Draught, or whatever. "But yeah, they're not sentient... at least not in the same way humans are. I mean, I think. Who knows, really. But yeah... they can't be your friend." Not for want of trying, of course.
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Hmmm. Red wasn't sure if the professor agreed with her soup response or not, but it seemed that her classmates did. See? That's why he was a big bad wolf and her classmates were like... like helpless woodland creatures. Red bared her own little baby fangs... riding hood fangs... at the man.
"Apparently potions can't be soup. Sir." She raised first one eyebrow and then the other at the wolf-man.
Hmmm. Red wasn't sure if the professor agreed with her soup response or not, but it seemed that her classmates did. See? That's why he was a big bad wolf and her classmates were like... like helpless woodland creatures. Red bared her own little baby fangs... riding hood fangs... at the man.
"Apparently potions can't be soup. Sir." She raised first one eyebrow and then the other at the wolf-man.
..... Toby's answer was pretty funny, but Zahra HAD to snort at this baby Snake's answer. She wondered if that one knew from EXPERIENCE? Sounded like something Zahra would do. hehe
The teeth thing was weird though.
"Potions can't.... uhm.... hehe... I dunno, Professor C. You got me STUMPED. Maybe they can't be conjured.....?" she .... guessed?
..... Toby's answer was pretty funny, but Zahra HAD to snort at this baby Snake's answer. She wondered if that one knew from EXPERIENCE? Sounded like something Zahra would do. hehe
The teeth thing was weird though.
"Potions can't.... uhm.... hehe... I dunno, Professor C. You got me STUMPED. Maybe they can't be conjured.....?" she .... guessed?
They couldn't be conjured? What?
"Now you got me stumped, Zahra," the man answered, "we can't conjure them, yes... but what can't they do?"
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What a good question! Raising her hand, she said, "They can't give you hugs." But she was okay with that. Boyfriend hugs were the best kind anyway.
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......"Hug potion." He said loudly.
Kyroh could be sensitive, huh?
"I believe she meant the potion itself can't hug ya." Which was true, unles Kyroh meant for the POTION to hug? He owed the kid a meeting on that one, didn't he...
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“Is it at all possible for a potion to alter emotions permanently? I’ve read that a lot of emotion based effects are only temporary.”
Ravenclaws were clever, as always. "Right," he said to the girl and smiled. What she said appeared on the blackboard.
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"Erm professor the potions can't grant you eternal life?"
Hmm... "I'm sure yo are familiar with Nicolas Flamel and his Elixir of Life? It's a potion, and as long as you take it regularly, you can live forever and ever."
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"Using a potion can't make ya rich." Well? It was true. "Not directly, at least. But if you created the potion, s'pose y'could make money that way." Like THEY WOULD DO SOME DAY. And she supposed a potion that enhanced one's self-confidence could indirectly result in becoming rich, too, perhaps, but... she left it at that, grinning away.
Cosgrach grinned right back as if it was a secret joke between them while what she said appeared on the blackboard.
"You're right, money is our world's limit as a whole."
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"Professor a Potion can't make itself."
Haha... "Clever." Though it wasn't quite what he was looking for.
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"Well a potion can't ACTUALLY make someone fall in love. It only makes one think they are, until the affects wear off."
"Exactly." Cosgrach smiled at the future potioneer. He got this!
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"M'not sure a potion can make you love, Professor. I mean ACTUALLY love. S'more of a infatuation when you take a love potion, right? Like an obsession. Maybe you become a stalker but s'probably not REAL love." And no, she wasn't sure SHE even bought into such things. "M'PRETTY sure my brother had a crazy girlfriend once who said she LOVED him but she was a big creeper. Maybe SHE took a love potion." She'd considered that, truly.
"Sorry to hear about your brother. Girls tend to be so, I know." Oh, he knew. As for her answer... "but you've observed her well. You're right about love."
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"They can't make us act mature, Professor,'' the Puffer said pushing up his hand.
Cosgrach frowned, thinking. "No, well, it depends on your definition of 'mature', but I'm sure with a healthy combination, this can be achieved." Good try, though?
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"They can't make you smell nice."
C'monnnn, didn't she know any perfume?
"But they can! That was one of the things that set us apart from muggles in the Middle Age." How they didn't bathe and smelt but wizards smelt all well? Yeah?
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"They can't bring someone back from the dead."
Leave it to the Ravenclaws to get the correct answers!
"Precisely." He smiled at the boy with much approval. This one had enough wits to be great, he did.
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"Potions can't create anything."
"Right, Ben." The count stood at 4 Ravenclaws, 1 Gryffindor that gave the answers he'd wanted. He smiled at the boy. Hopefully he felt better?
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"They can't, like... be your friend." ............... Heh. "But they might be able to help you make friends." Liiiiiike if you bonded over potions, or there was some sort of Confidence Draught, or whatever. "But yeah, they're not sentient... at least not in the same way humans are. I mean, I think. Who knows, really. But yeah... they can't be your friend." Not for want of trying, of course.
Cosgrach chuckled. "They can't, right." These Huffies and their friendly nature. Made his day... usually.
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"Apparently potions can't be soup. Sir." She raised first one eyebrow and then the other at the wolf-man.
...soup? WHat was up with soups and Dot today? Did she just... BARED her teeth? Uhhh...
"That's... right. Yes. They can't be soup." Okayyyy.
So.
"Five of you were right on target," he said while the blackboard updated itself fully, "and we covered everything. These are potions' limits."
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A potion can't...
-revive dead
-make someone directly richer
-create an object
-create eternal love (or any other emotion forever)
He let them copy it before speaking again.
"Let's move onto safety and such, then. What are the safety guidelines we should follow? Please list only one thing, thank you."
That other question had been hard, but Z was on top of this next one! She even raised her hand first, then waved it around. "NEVER lick your cauldron!" Woo! Not that she knew from experience or anything.Teehee.
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Safety things. Considering everything, Marigold was surprised Z even bothered to answer the lovely troublemaker she was. Anyway, she finished writing down answers to the last question, then raised her hand. "Don't set anything on fire. Especially flammable ingredients."
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Merlin's beard this was so booooooring.
The Gryffindor opened his mouth to yawn loudly , not even bothering to cover his mouth. He then rolled his eyes when the Professor told him to put his wand away but did so anyways. It was as if he wasn't trusted with a wand. hmpf.
Once the wand was back in his wrist holster, Kevin listened to the next question. These...questions...he didn't need to answer them all correctly back at the room in a week right? He had a feeling he had and just the thought of it made him groan ...again. "Never drink someone elses potion!" whuuut? That was safety right?
The next set of answers that appeared on the blackboard Sophie did write down this time, since the question had seemed super open-ended, but there WERE certain answers he wanted them to note. So. It was important to get those down - and she was a little surprised that hers, which had been a little in jest, was deemed one worth noting.
She was a little smug.
A safety guideline? Soph grinned at Toby's answer he gave straight away - he was a keeper, wasn't he? - and she raised a hand to offer her own input. "I think it's important to concentrate and be really conscious of what you're doing 'cause if you're not paying super close attention to every step all the time, you could end up with a big mess and a dangerous situation." Did EVERYONE hear that? She gave a subtle look to a few students she knew were careless in that way. Such a shame, really.
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He had gotten something that no one else had gotten?
Benny had been a little surprised when his answer had been picked out as one of the 5 that Culloden had been looking for. His suggestion appearing on the blackboard in the front of the classroom before they moved onto safety mentions as their next topic of discussion. Another thing that kind of hit him like the explosions mention of Angel. Hadn't that come up recently.
"Always remain calm," he answered remembering the conversation in the professor's office.
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Culloden knew that Maddie was a girl, yes? STILL, she smiled at his response to her suggestion AND the fact that she'd been right. MOSTLY that fact, to be honest. She quite liked being right. She did.
As for safety, that was quite a boring topic. Necessary? Yes. Boring? Double yes. Still, she had some opinions.
"S'probably in your best interest not to accept a potion from someone you don't trust and even MORE so, someone who dislikes you." She was going to mention people you knew were incompetent TOO but she didn't want to add to the list of people who disliked her, obviously. For SAFETY reasons.
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Hug potion?
Whaaaaaaaaaa???
Confused, Lux blinked at the boy and wondered why he was being LOUD. It was like Culloden said: potions themselves can't hug you. So she nodded along with what the Professor said before taking down a few more notes. This lesson was really informative so far, and she was excited to learn more even though there was no potion brewing today.
Raising her hand, she said, "If we brew a potentially dangerous potion and we make a mistake we need to tell you immediately instead of trying to fix it ourselves." Or so that seemed logical to her.
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Never in her months at being at Hogwarts had Layla felt so proud of herself. She had come up with an answer before any of her peers that was actually right and she hadn’t even read it up in a textbook. See? This was the exact reason that she was a Ravenclaw. She might not have been completely book smart or obsessed with her grades but boy did she have logic and common sense. She kinda felt like she belonged for once..
Although that thought was perhaps a little too weird. No, she was still a muggle and her real friends were back in Clapham.
As for the next question Layla was once again falling behind and she knew that she’d have to offer something. Her hand raised as she thought back to her chemistry lessons at school. “It probably ain’t an official guideline but I guess girls with long hair should keep their hair tied back in case it falls into the burner.” A burnt scalp would NOT be fun and the Ravenclaw was trying to think outside of the box here. It was a safety guideline that she always followed anyway.
Waaaaait. Hold up. Norah was still in the process of scribbling notes on the third question when suddenly they were already talking about safety. She eyed her parchment, registering the fact that absolutely none of it was legible. Whoops. The second year shook out the cramping muscles in her hand before trying to catch up on her notes. Was the marathon note-taking over yettt? She shot a pouty look at Professor Culloden. Was there a point to this?
"Always wear gloves. Like ALWAYS." She was good at that part. Well, when they actually brewed stuff. Hmph.
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This had to be the most she'd written since she got to Hogwarts. Legit. Even that one theoretical Defense Against the Dark Arts class didn't contain all this information in one setting. Good thing it was just revision--for her anyway. After seven years of taking Potions class she knew this stuff and could even recite it in her sleep--but Merlin help the idiot that woke her up to test this theory.
Lots of listing too, first for what potions could do then what they couldn't. An impressive list if you thought about it and a whole bunch of ink to paper to get it all done. Times like this, you began missing Mo and his camera. He could have taken a picture of all this then she could have duplicated it....except she didn't have a wand at all....
Welp, that line of thought got sad fast. She'd just...keep listening to the class and the safety measures etc.
"Don't drink a potion you don't know the ingredients of."
SPOILER!!: Notes
Alexa Cambridge Potions
-Similar to work in chemistry amongst muggles
-Brewed in a very specific way
-Negative or positive effect
-A mixture
-Brewed with different ingredients
It is a mixture brewed in a very specific way with different ingredients to cause a magical, negative or positive outcome; similar to the chemistry of muggles.
Types of potions according to how they alter something/someone
-Physically altering: Healing, beauty, polyjuice, sleep, shrinking
-Emotionally altering: Love, hate, euphoria
-Behaviourally altering: Truth, sleep
Types of potions according to what they are
-Balm
-Unction
-Serum
-Antidote
-Draft
-Poison
-Draught
-Elixir
-Tonic
-Solution
-Mixture
-Beverage
-Paste
-Concoction
-Essence (of something)
-Salve
* Muggles can't brew our potions, nor do they have magical potions of their own.
Potions can...
-help solve crimes
-harm and in some instances to kill or seriously maim
-manipulate emotions
-heal illness and injuries
-change our appearance
-make you super strong
-causes eternal sleep
-enhance your memory
-help you have more or less full control over a situation (unless your opponent has a bezoar/an antidote)
-affect the outcome of a situation (like Felix Felicis)
-keep things stable
-manipulate people into doing things without their control
-save lives
-make someone's day infinitely better or worse
-and a million more things
A potion can't
-revive dead
-make someone directly richer
-create an object
-create eternal love (or any other emotion forever)
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Ian had been scribbling furiously throughout the lesson. There was so much going on, so many answers and questions and discussions and everything. They had covered what a potion was, types, limits and possibilities and so much. He was starting to get dizzy and his hand was completely and thoroughly cramped. He was now shaking his hand out roughly every two or three words. This was crazy. He wished he had one of those quills that wrote for you. It certainly would hopefully have helped him to contribute some to the discussion. As it was, he was just trying to keep up.
He liked this question. Safety was a good thing. He raised his hand and offered the following, Know your own skill level, sir. You wouldn't want to be attempting to brew potions that are above you. Quite dangerous I would think.
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Potions 2- Theory Lesson
5th Year Puff
What is a Potion?
-Similar to work in chemistry amongst muggles
-Brewed in a very specific way
-Negative or positive effect
-A mixture
-Brewed with different ingredients
True Definition: It is a mixture brewed in a very specific way with different ingredients to cause a magical, negative or positive outcome; similar to the chemistry of muggles.
Types of potions according to how they alter something/someone
-Physically altering: Healing, beauty, polyjuice, sleep, shrinking
-Emotionally altering: Love, hate, euphoria
-Behaviourally altering: Truth, sleep
Types of potions according to what they are
-Balm
-Unction
-Serum
-Antidote
-Draft
-Poison
-Draught
-Elixir
-Tonic
-Solution
-Mixture
-Beverage
-Paste
-Concoction
-Essence (of something)
-Salve
Muggles can't brew our potions, nor do they have magical potions of their own.
Potions can...
-help solve crimes
-harm and in some instances to kill or seriously maim
-manipulate emotions
-heal illness and injuries
-change our appearance
-make you super strong
-causes eternal sleep
-enhance your memory
-help you have more or less full control over a situation (unless your opponent has a bezoar/an antidote)
-affect the outcome of a situation (like Felix Felicis)
-keep things stable
-manipulate people into doing things without their control
-save lives
-make someone's day infinitely better or worse
-and a million more things
As he answered the question, Kace felt dumb and forgot about Nicholas Flammel's potion. He grinned sheepishly and nodded and looked down. He just stared at his notes and then he copied down the notes on what the professor put on.
SPOILER!!: More Notes
A potion can't...
-revive dead
-make someone directly richer
-create an object
-create eternal love (or any other emotion forever)
Man this was just a lot of notes. His hand was cracking. Now he wanted to know what safety guidelines they should follow. He heard other student's and they copied what he was gonna say. He just sat there quietly and just doodled.
"Let's move onto safety and such, then. What are the safety guidelines we should follow? Please list only one thing, thank you."
Now, this would be interesting.
Annabeth was bored. She hated theoretical classes, however Professor Cosgrach hadn't seen her new hairstyle and she couldn't hold back her necessity of causing a stir. Anna raised her hand.
"Professor, I think that when we think about safety, the first thing should be No one can mix ingredients aimless, trying to make a new potion. It can be very dangerous."
She shook her head slightly. Would he have noticed her green hair? she grinned.
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