Ian sighed as he wrote more. This was such a brutal lesson. It was very much like a strange audience participation lecture. He scribbled and scribbled so much he wished he knew short hand. When the professor said there were three more questions, Ian let out a guttural sound of relief.

Ian raised his hand. professor! we use vials to hold the potions when we are done. cauldrons were not good long term storage solutions.

Only THREEEEE more questions?! Eden could do it! C'moooon tummy! You got this! She mentally told it, patting it, and trying to not be so daaaaarn hungry because if this continued she would disturb the room with loud TUMMY!rumbles. Ugh.

A potions tool. Hmm.

"Well. A WAND would technically be a potions' tool--" she said with a nod. "Because you know--to get potions to work you kinda' need one. As we discussed earlier."

Easy peasy. THough he might not count that as a tool, but EDEN so did so EH. She scribbled more things in her notebook. Soon it would be full of her bored!class doodles, yeah. Her notes weren't even neat. She had such BOY handwriting--but that was okay.

SIGH.

She knew she wanted a watch now...because not knowing when class would end...was TERRIBLE.

His idea had made it onto the boar, so he assumed it was correct... assumed, because there was no affirmation with these things this lesson it seemed.

Diligently copying down the information, Zeke opted to just listen in to this one. Most of what came to mind had already been said, and he didn't have patience enough to think of another answer, which by the time he thought of it, someone else might have said. Ugh.

Theory. Sucked.

Zeke re-inked his quill, ready to take down the new flurry of notes.

Annabeth was been on cloud nine since Cosgrach had praised her hair and grinned at her. It seemed that he was going on asking them about potions, though she wasn't able to reply anything at the time, while the words "nice" and "hair" were still echoing in her mind.

How so? The last three questions?! Anna's smile faded on her face. She had spent hour casting spells on her hair to get the perfect look for his class and now... Now he had just more three questions before dismissing them.

Anna raised her hand, "Stirrer. Wooden, glass or metal stirrer. They are used to mix the ingredients and prevent the ingredients don't stick too much to the bottom of the cauldron. If we look at them from the point of view of magic, stirrer also promotes the perfect magical blend among the ingredients when you stir clockwise or anticlockwise." Anna sighed and grinned at him.

SpeRevelio. Heh. He should make a note of that little spell. Never know when it could come in handy. Not that he expected to be poisoned or tricked into taking a potion he didn't want to take or whatever but it would be handy to know what was in a potion he was going to be given.

He was also interested in finding out how you can find out if a potion contained dark magic. Again, this would be very useful to know and he half wondered if Culloden would tell him. Maybe............... blue eyes landed on one Cutty Mordaunt. Would HE know? Or would he be able to find out somehow? There was that potions lab that Cutty had shown him which MIGHT hold the answer too. Maybe.

ANYWAYS. A potions tool? EASY. "Sometimes you have to shred ingredients -- rare occasions, I bet -- so a shredder or grater would be dead useful."

This was taking forever really, but wa-hey! Last three questions! Ethan never felt so excited about ending Potions. His head was already aching from the absence of brewing an actual potion. Anyway, potion tool. Cauldron, mortar and pestle, grater, stirrer, vial, weighing scale...what else was missing?

Of course. The one that is always forgotten. Hand up. "Dragon-hide gloves, professor." Uh-huh. Very elementary.

...

Then there was Caleb. Ah. Finally. Somebody brave enough to actually ask what's going on. Yes, Professor C. What are we doing, really?

Whaaat three more of these questions? Ruby hid a yawn. She'd get Gabriel's flawless notes later and pass them off as her own of course. Instead of all that she just thought about Christmas. Namely the Christmas dress that she had got out with Phoenix. How would she paint her nails to match? There were sooooooooooooooo many options. Ruby faked an interested expression as if she was paying ALL the attention in class but really...

... nails.

Finallllyyyy almost over. Norah looked up from her parchment and raised her hand.
"A metal stir stick for stirring things." Easy peasy.

That's it. Zander had officially stopped paying attention to the lesson and had officially started doodling over his notebook page. Whoops. No offence, Professor C, but this Gryffindor had checked out. Normally he'd just look to Kevin for the potions help. But this was theory and so he was kind of on his own for this one. Except Zander didn't have anything to add. He didn't need to say another dumb thing that landed him in a detention, but not really detention, detention?

So yup. Just doodling for now, sir! And making it look like he was copying down the notes. He'd just as Sophie for a copy of hers later. She always payed attention in potions. It was her thing.

Cosgrach's eyes were on the blackboard once again as people gave answers, picking the correct ones, although every answer was correct with this question. It was the easiest, he believed.

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-Cauldrons: To brew the potion
-A mortar and pestle: To crush and break down ingredients into powder or at least smaller pieces
-Scales: To help measure out the ingredients
-A clean cutting knife: Used to cut and slice certain ingredients in the preparation stage
-Stirrers: To mix the ingredients and prevent them from sticking to the bottom of the cauldron
-Vials: To bottle your potion after it is completed
-The person making the potion: To make it
-A wand
-A shredder or grater: To shred the ingredients
-Dragon-hide gloves

Cosgrach nodded to himself once they were done. It seemed to have all the tools used.

"This list seems to be complete," he said and let them copy it before asking the question before last.

"How would you classify potions ingredients? Into which groups?"

.............................. this was mentally exhausting, and though he was content moments ago keeping his head down and copying notes, if he didn't SPEAK soon, then he was going to go NUTS. But... how would you classify potions ingredients? What groups were they in? ...

Zeke's hand slowly rose into the air.

"Uhh... plant matter, or animal matter?" Cause those where GROUPS, yeah? You couldn't be BOTH.

After shaking her wrist some more, Lux recorded all the new information Professor Culloden was giving them. Fortunately they were almost done so she would be able to rest her wrist.

That Caleb boy was being weird, but then so we're half the students. At this point she had honestly chosen to ignore most of it. Raising her hand, she answered the next question. "Well, there are liquid ingredients and solid ingredients." Was that the sort of thing he was getting at?

Okay. Almost there. Almost. There.

Ethan had to make a face as his hand started to cramp. Merlin's beard he'll be needing lots of food after this. Note-taking was just...REALLY not his thing. He doesn't mind the notes, sure...but a whole period of Potions just to write? Hell no.

Willing himself to focus and forget about his aching hand, he raised his other hand to answer. "I believe it is classified into two, professor. One is derived from plants or herbs, and the other one is from magical creatures." Or were they using other ingredients besides those?

Ugh. Can they go now?

Jasmine's hand was starting to cramp froma ll of the notetaking she was doing. However, she tried hard to keep up because the information was useful, this being a NEWTS year. You never knew what might pop up on an exam.

Next question. How to classify a potion ingredient? This one was harder because Jasmine felt the best answers had already been presented. She raised her hand anyway......not quite sure how to state what she meant. "They can be whole or........not whole. I mean like chopped, cut or shredded, for example." Wow, was there a more awkward way to say that?

Ian scribbled some more. His noted began to be less detailed than the ones he had begun with and he was now basically left with a topic, underlined and then snippets of words underneath. He was tired of taking notes. This class was moving fast and he was ready to be done. His answer was on the list, yay! Him.

The next question seemed simple and someone had provided the answer he would have and Ian remained silent for this one.

Hadleigh raised her hand into the air. "Maybe liquids like water and solids like feathers or something?" She wasn't sure if it was correct but at least this time she was trying to give an answer.

Letting her hand drop down after she'd spoken she quickly snatched up her quill from her desktop and went right back to take notes. Her hand was starting to hurt but she didn't let that slow her down at all. Everything she was writing down would be needed she was sure. She could handle some more writing, they were almost finished anyway. The Professor had said so. So that was good.

"The main two groups would be plants and animals slash creatures...but I'd take it a step further and put it into magical and non-magical groups, too: Magical plants, non-magical plants, magical creatures, non-magical creatures."

Yes, he'd warmed up to the topic, completely...and Gabriel added his bit, leaving space for whatever the professor might put on the board. Going by the professor was the most logical way. Considering there were things Gabe most likely missed. Best to have his notes not full of holes.

Adi copied this new list onto his parchment. But he paused to consider the new question. How could one classify potion ingredients? He rather liked the solid and liquid answer some of his classmates had given. But the plant and animal one made sense too. Maybe the ingredients could be classified into both groups?

He shrugged to himself and continued his list of potion tools. He'd remain silent on this one.

Which groups? Gross and not-so-gross. Obvy.

Some ingredients were sticky or stinky or slimy. Others were mostly harmless. Best categorizing ever.

Sure it wasn't as worrrrrdy and exact as her brother's answer, but Ruby put her hand up anyway, "Gross and not-so-gross." Right? Everyone knew which ingredients were which. And she was participating. Enough to squeeze by with an A, right?

Out of all of the questions that were being thrown their way, AJ maybe answered like three of them. She was having a hard enough time trying to keep up with the note taking. This part of potions wasn't fun. Brewing potions was way better. AJ dotted her I on the last word she was writing about the tools needed. She was finally caught up.

Only for a second though because as soon as she flexed her fingers there was another question coming at them. Ummm... she was in agreement with everybody else. There was nothing else to add to that. More scribbling for more notes. Her tongue was sticking out a bit to the side as she was in full concentration mode.

Hmmmm. Norah couldn't think of an answer that hadn't been mentioned, so she sat silently for this one. Instead she took the opportunity to catch up on her notes. Boringboringboring.

Agatha's mind was elsewhere as the professor ansked more boring questions. The girl might've known a few answers or maybe would have enough creativity to guess something, but she couldn't be bothered to even pay attention to neither the quesitons nor her classmate's answers.

The Slytherin had stopped tapping the quill on the parchment and now was fiddling with it absentmindedly as she thought about ballet coreographies. She started doing some feet exercises under her desk and wishes she didn't have to wear those shoes. Her stretching wasn't as successful when she had shoes on. But she was trying her best to stretch her feet as much as possible inside them.

Zander lifted his head up from the doodling bit, just in time for the next question. Categories for potions ingredients? Welp, everyone else seemed to have pretty thought out answers. Except for that one girl, but wasn't she best friends with Zahra? That'd explain it. But anyways everyone else seemed to have already answered, so instead of any of the speaking stuff, the Gryffindor opted to start taking notes again.

O__________O

Since when did the board have so much written on it?! ..... This was going to take a while. A very long while. Sigh. Scribble scribble scribble scribble. Yup, his handwriting was definitely getting worse and worse the more he wrote.

Good. Wand made the list. Eden KNEW she wasn't far off on that one. Eden doodled more and rubbed her HUNGRY tummy. Lunch time NOW?

NO?

Okay. SIGH.

She didn't know the answer to that question, but had to snort in laughter at what Ruby said--Merlin, the girl was funny. She thought her brother had a better idea, buuut...whatever, she could admire Ruby's creativity and stuff. Heh.

More and more information came to his mind and the gryffindor had to rub his forehead when he felt a headache coming up. He wanted to learn all those stuff especially when the more dangerous potions were briefly mentioned , yes he caught the gaze, but in his own speed.

As the blackboard began to fill up with words, Kevin decided to finally write it down on a piece of parchment. He opened his bag, grabbed a parchment and muggle pen and began to write. But ONLY because he WANTED to ..not because he HAD to.

Last three questions? The Gryffindor cheered softly and focused his attention on the Professor again. "The groups are animals and plants, both magical and non-magical i guess"