Woah. A lot of things just happened.

1) AJ threw up?? EVERYWHERE. Zander didn't even have time to react because he was so busy trying to figure out HOW the heck that could happen. And WHY the heck that would happen. And wait a minute, they were getting points deducted??? But it's not like she could control being sick. Well, granted, Zander hadn't really been paying attention to what AJ was doing. But STILL. Flammy had quite the sensitive stomach apparently. Or maybe it had something to do with how protective he was over his suits.

2) Flammy was yelling some more about something else, apparently.

And Zander was still chuckling over Sophie and Toby to realize that Flammy was yelling at them. Oh. Oh man. The Gryffindor quickly put an end to the snickering, instead looking at the two in trouble. oh no. They both looked horribly sad and it made Zander feel terrible too. Flamsteed sounded genuinely angry. Of course it probably had to do with the unfortunate turn of events all at once, so it was probably worse because of the vomit situation. But still.

Still, he was listening to his Astronomy Professor, turning with the moon in hands to demonstrate the next few phases. But in between doing so, Zander tried to make eye contact with the two of them, maybe to let them know it'd be okay? But man, they both looked really, really bummed. Maybe the cookies would cheer them up? Food always seemed to do the trick for Sophie. He only took his eyes off of her when they were told to go ahead and do the cookie chart. And he took only a few moments to make his own, stuffing bits of extra cookie in his mouth as he did so.

But after sparing a few glances towards Soph, the Gryffindor Prefect noticed she hadn't eaten hers. Oh man, this was even worse than he thought. Of course Sophie was really good at pretending like she was okay, so Zander probably would've have even realized had it not been for the cookies. Sophie Brown always wanted food. This was way out of the ordinary.

Unfortunately, he was too far from her to say anything, so again he tried sending her reassuring looks. Man, this was difficult.

It wasn't long before Culloden stepped up though, and Zander had to again take his eyes off of the Ravenclaw and look towards his Professor. OH OH OH, Zander knew things about Werewolves. And that Wolfsbane stuff, for that matter. "Normally when a Werewolf transforms, they can't really control themselves 'cause they aren't in a proper state of mind. But, Wolfsbane works by letting them keep their human thoughts, so they're less dangerous."

So now they were going to brew a potion that they would probably fail at. Marvelous. What a waste of potions ingredients, Kate thought to herself. Maybe somebody would get it right, though, and the potion could at least be used by somebody somewhere. Kate was torn between trying to form an answer to the question the professor and asked and eating the rest of her Oreos, even though they were shaped just like the phases of the moon.

Prying her eyes and thoughts away from the cookies, Kate listened to what her classmates were saying. She knew she should come up with something new, so she waited, her hand still by her side, until she could come up with something to say. Suddenly, her hand extended into the air. "After the potion is taken, most werewolves go somewhere and just sleep through the whole transformation," she said. Powerful potion, it was.

What was with the yelling? AND 10 POINTS FROM ALL HOUSES?!

Zhenya turned to see... eww, AJ had vomited on Professor Flamsteed. Well, not ON him but... near him. Near his SUIT. Did she HAVE a death wish? But it was kind of funny... in a... in a few weeks when we all look back at this it will be funny.

Hmm... so NOT a waning gibbous. A Waxing gibbous. That was all good, she mentally made a note next to WAXING GIBBOUS, and crossed out Waning Gibbous.

And uhhohh more trouble... Zhenya just kept on ignoring that...

Right, now back to being a Full Moon with the styrofoam moon. Zhenya continued in her slow orbit to the left, and she observed as the light started to disappear from the face of the moon facing her. And there's the WANING; shrinking, disappearing. Yes, because the light and illumination was shrinking, disappearing. It all made sense. Still orbiting, Zhenya noted the stage of 'half moon' or, really, 'quarter moon' at the 9 and 3/4 mark. Eventually, she was back to the beginning, with no light on her moon. New Moon.

Now that the lights were on, her eyes quickly adjusted to the newly bright lights. But wait... what? They were getting TREATS? After he'd just been used as a vomit bowl? AWESOME!

COOKIES!

Zhenya let the cookie packet come towards her, and she reached out a hand and grabbed the packet. AND they were allowed to EAT THEM?

This was actually SO awesome!

Zhenya sat down, pulling all of her cookies from her packet and stacking them up. She grabbed the top one, twisted it open, and saw the delicious white stuff inside. She pulled it up to her nose to sniff it, resisting the urge to lick it. No, she'd get to scrape some of it off in a moment. That was the full moon, and she put that down in the top left corner. The other bit of the cookie could be her New Moon, so she put that one down on the bottom left. There, full moon and new moon. The next one she opened, she did what Professor Flamsteed had done and scraped some of it off with her teeth. Oh YUM! She put her Waning Gibbous moon down next to her Full Moon. Next was the first quarter/half moon, so after shoving the spare new moon into her mouth and eating it, yum, she scraped half the icing off with her teeth. Delicious again. Before she had eaten all the icing, she put the next new moon into her mouth, mixing the cookie and icing together. She placed the first quarter down next to the Waning Gibbous. The next cookie was her Waning Crescent, so she opened the cookies, ate most of the icing, and placed it next to the first quarter, and ate another New Moon. There was her already placed New moon, so she just had to continue from there. Opening another cookie, she ate the spare bit and scraped most of it off with her teeth; Waxing Crescent. That went next to her New Moon. The next cookie she scraped half of it off, again, for the last quarter. And then finally the Waxing Gibbous. She scraped just a little off. Making sure all the spare bits were safely in her mouth, she lined the icing up the right way to make sure it was all correct. Yes, it was. And there as her cookie moon phases. How awesome, having it all in front of her like that, as well as the practical activity of orbiting the moon, it was all making more and more sense to her.

So Flamsteed was giving them cookies. Eden liked cookies. And to be specific, they were Oreos, so Eden REALLY had no complaints. She was about to like the cream in the center off when he told them to make a moonchart...well then. FINE. At least they still got to eat them, or else that'd be a very big waste of perfectly delicious cookies.

She made her little moon chart, licking off the right amount of cream with each cookie, eating the cookie parts that she wasn't using, the parts not connected to the cream. Ugh. SO GOOD. Eden wanted water now, though...poop. It was pretty simple to do. She left one cookie with ALL the cream on, and eyed it..yeah, she was COMIN' FOR YOU IN A MINUTE, COOKIE! DON'T THINK YOU'RE SAFE. A liiiiiittle bit scraped off the second one....this one also got a squint from Eden. She went on and on until the chart was done...and then Professor Cosgrach was speaking and Eden wanted to SINK.

SINKING.....NOW.

Maybe if she slid clean under her desk she could skip the potions portion of things. Her confidence level was SO LOW for this subject....she wanted to eat her cookies in peace. Ugh. But right before she was about to sink underneath her desk, she sighed and sat back up. He had asked a question, and Ravenclaws couldn't just IGNORE a question unless they didn't know the answer. And Eden did know...something about the wolfsbane potion.

"Well...wolfsbane potion is ACTUALLY made from the wolfsbane plant, the leaves, which are suuuuuuper toxic, you know." She nodded. She had done research on this plant for one of her Quill articles. That article...really had helped her learn stuff, what d'ya KNOW!

Oh no. OH NO. Dot was pretty sure that if the professor hadn't turned to explain to her what LUNATION meant, he never would have seen the flirty happenings between Sophie and Tobes. It was ALL her fault. All of it. Everything.

She was going to hug Sophie right now. And Dot did, ninja attacking the older girl for a hug before turning her attention to the cookies. Scrape and nibble and... okay, that cookie was just gone. What happened? Oops.

Culloden started his lesson, and Dot methodically used her fingers to scrape and shape icing as he talked. WEREWOLF POTION. Something they would NOT be testing. "Wolfsbane Potion has to be taken for a whole WEEK before the full moon, sir! That's like... if you just forget one time, then you might as well not bother."

And there was Professor Culloden, here to teach them how to successfully brew a Wolfsbane Potion. Or... maybe not. Zhenya was hopeful. The lights went on and Professor Culloden commenced his section.

Wait..

They WERE going to learn how to unsuccessfully brew the Wolfsbane Potion! Zhenya clapped her excited hands over her excited mouth, which had just dropped open. OH YAY! YAYYAYAYAYAY! This was an amazing potion! Not amazing in that the poor folk who were bitten by werewolves HAD to take it, but its effects. Like pain relief, obviously doesn't cure the pain, but who wouldn't want the pain symptom relieved? It was a helpful potion, allowing the werewolf to maintain their capacity to THINK which in turn helped the community by not having the werewolves animal instincts running throughout the streets.

But what? He didn't expect any of them to get it right? But... but... that... an unsuccessful potion? Zhenya hated those. But he was right, even an unsuccessful potion wasn't a waste. Lessons and things. She lowered her hand from her mouth, which was closed again. She had been brought back to earth.

And now it was suggestion time. Zhenya kept quiet a while, listening to the facts her classmates were giving about werewolves and wolfsbane. She had a fact on Wolfsbane potion, so she raised her hand to share it. "The creator of the Wolfsbane potion was Damocles over 100 years ago, and HE was in the Slug Club." How cool was that? He was a hugely intelligent and accomplished potioneer.

Norah switched to purple ink as Professor Culloden began to speak, hoping that maybe color coding her notes would make them magically stick in her brain more. It was worth a shot, right? He was the one who'd said she had to concentrate or whatever. Speaking of concentration...CHOCOLATE. they both started with a C, it was totally relevant. She took the full moon cookie from her moon cycle diagram and put in her mouth as she added the name 'wolfsbane' to her parchment. A HARD potion? Aw, man. She' deem kind of not stinking at potions recently and he rewarded her with a hard potion that she was going to get all wrong? That wasn't very nice, y'know. She ate two more of her moons for consolation reasons before putting a crumb-covered hand in the air. "If you get bitten by a werewolf you become one on every full moon, except I'm not really sure how the first werewolf happened if there was nothing to bite them." Who knew what the potion thing was, though. Well, some people did but not her so she was just going to stick to the cookies because that's what SHE knew about.

That Gryffindor girl (AJ) just threw up at Professor Flamsteed and he thought it was... hilarious. Well, he knew that it was an accident and she didn't mean to threw up, right? *Insert positive thinking in here*

But seriously, it was funny and he didn't really care about house points.

And now moving on to the next activity. Oooh, oreo cookies! Jackson loved this muggle cookies because... It was delicious, okay? He grabbed one and munch at it. Nomnomnom.... Well, it's not for your snacks, Jackson! Back to the activity. So... He grab another one, twisted it open and tried not to lick the white cream. So, this would be the new moon and full moon, right?

Next, he grabbed another one and twisted it again. Now he took half of the white cream to make the half moon. Well, he could eat the other half but then he decided to place it to the other cookie so now he already had two half moon phases. Neeeext... The crescent and gibbous moon phases. He grabbed four more cookies, twisted it and shaped the cream into crescent and gibbous phase. Finally he arranged the moon phases and.. DONE! There are some cookies left, could he take them please? Hehehehe...

Finished with the Astronomy activity, now it's time for Professor Culloden. The Korean boy wondered if they're gonna brew wolfsbane potions because... It seemed like the theme of this class today was werewolves. But maybe not because it takes long time to brew that, right? "One of the ingredients of wolfsbane potion itself is the aconite, or wolfsbane." He raised his hand and answered the question.

So intent was his focus on AJ that Adi failed to notice he was about to practically sit on Ilia. It wasn’t until he accidentally brushed his upper arm against her as she got up that he looked around. “Ilia!’’ He looked down at her belonging s on the desk. Woops. It seemed as though it were his friend’s desk he was snagging. “Sorry, I hadn’t realised you were sitting here.’’ If he had, he would have asked her permission but she seemed to figure out why he was unceremoniously butting in. And yet… she was giving him a present “Thanks a ton, Ilia!’’ He grinned at the Snakette, wondering what she had gotten him. There seemed to be an awful lot of things under that wrapping. Man, this was turning out to be a memorable birthday! Adi watched Ilia go to take over his old seat next to Henric. Now he didn’t feel so bad about ditching his friend.
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With AJ seemingly back to normal, Adi relaxed a whole lot. He wouldn't show it because AJ hated anyone to be fussy over her even if the person was him. But he couldn't help it. She was one of the persons he cared the most about. And the House points didn't matter. They all lost the same amount of points so it's not like the lead was going to change even if the Lions lost and extra five.

Anywayyy, Adi set Ilia's wrapped gift neatly to the side of the table, poking it slightly. Man, he was SUPER CURIOUS to know what was so squishy in there. Buuuuut the part of the lesson he was most looking forward to was starting! WOOT! And seeeeeeeee? He had been right! It was the Wolfsbane Potion they were focusing on!

Why was Culloden looking at him like that? Adi had this potion down, no biggie. Yup! He was THAT confident. It was always best to be positive and confident, yes? Adi raised a hand. "A gobletful of the potion should be taken each day of the week before the full moon.''

Angel looked over at her sister, she would check up on her later, she felt really bad now for not going straight over and she looked at her best friend before whisper to her. "I'm terrible aren't I." Angel pouted and then she looked back at the Professor as he talked about Oreo's. That was good Angel hated the things with a vengeance and why couldn't they use Jaffa cakes like she had when she had been learning.

Angel started to scrape of the cream on the Oreo's that she had to, she wanted to make sure they were right and then she put the cream somewhere closer to Leah than herself, she just didn't like them sorry Professor nothing personal.

"Professors." Angel raised her hand. "What do you do with the cream if you don't like Oreo's?" Angel wondered if the Professor had thought about that as she pointed at the cream that she had put near Leah a nice pile was starting to form as she made sure that everything was perfect with her chart, though she was never eating an Oreo so the mess was staying there until she got her answer.

Angel then looked at the Potion Professor as he spoke about an amazing potion. Angel raised her hand "Professor it can go BANG if you get it wrong." Angel had thought about adding on like Professor Flamsteed had just done but she had a feeling this wasn't the time since if she did in his current mood her head of house probably would take like a million points of her.

Oh boy, AJ just puked all over the Professor’s shoes. This was GOLD! And red considering that she was a Gryffindor… Yoongi started to laughed but quickly shut his mouth when their Head of House face was contorted with rage and he coughed in his hand. Nope, he wasn’t laughing right now…eventhough he was in his mind.

Yoongi wanted to fold his arms over each other but it was kinda difficult as he was still making that new moon thing that he was holding in his hand. So instead he rolled his eyes. Honestly, the Professor needed to get some meditation classes, he knew a good muggle zen place in London! Anyways, AJ just puked she did not die. Well, at all houses lost points so it was even. But seriousy sir, get some yoga classes.

Standing in the full moon position, Yoongi turned slowly to the left and saw that the light on the left side began to disappear. He made a mental note to write down waning and its meaning for later. He kept turning until he was at the last quarter and at the beginning where he started. It was over? Finally. Now was it time for Defence cla---COOKIES! Okay nevermind, Astronomy part can stay for a bit longer.

He opened the package of the cookies, it looked like ones he saw in muggle stores but never had them before. He placed the ten cookies in front of him and twisted off the top of the first one so that the cream was still stuck on the bottom. He placed this on the left side corner of his desk. The full moon. The other end of the cookie was placed below it, the new moon.

Grabbing another cookie, Yoongi twisted the top off and scraped off some of the cream with his finger and placed it next to the full moon. Waning Gibberious or something like that… whatever. Next he made the waning half by eating a part of the cream and letting the other half stay and then he… POTIONS PART ALREADY?! But he wasn’t finished yet! Well, since the other Professor started talking it was rude not to pay attention right? So he stuffed his face with the cookies and chewed on them with a big mouth full while staring at the old man. He was pretty old, he had gray hair.

Oh great, an extremely hard potion to brew today, yay. He couldn’t even brew a simple cure for boils potion. Guess he had to pay extra attention now. The question however he could answer. “Wolfsbane potion has a faint blue smoke when it’s completed, sir” Just because he was HORRIBLE at the subjects(s) did not mean he couldn’t read.

She had finished the cookie chart begrudgingly and set aside her unused cookies aside, placing them closer to Henric. He seemed to like these odd muggle cookies and she had no desire to try and taste anything after what happened with poor AJ. Next professor......What did she know about werewolves or wolfsbane potion......It seemed that most people were opting for facts about the potion. She didn't want to repeat anyone else and decided to speak about the afflicted beings themselves. She raised her hand politely and upon her turn replied. "Any bite or scratch from a werewolf whether in wolf or human form will leave a permanent scar that no magic can heal. However, if the victim is bitten or scratched while the werewolf is in human form, they will only have the scar and gain lupine tendencies such as a craving for raw meat rather than actually being afflicted with lycanthropy." She wondered if in that case it would almost feel more like you were a crup or a dog. Eating raw meat, howling.......the list went on in the young snakes mind, but she decidedly kept it to herself.

Henric blinked at what his bestie was doing, he couldn't talk to her because his mouth was full of cookies. Why hadn't she had any of the deliciousness? Well...if she didn't want any, he would gladly take one of her unwanted fallen pieces of Oreos for her. Oh she seemed to not mind if he did take one...or two for himself. Yey!He nodded happily and stuffed more into his mouth. Giving her two thumbs up when he saw her completed work. Unlike his whose moon phase cookie chart was never quite finish thanks to his unhealthy love for cookies and cream. He couldn't help it even if he tried.

Wolfsbane potion? Oh he read about them before...very interesting stuff..yup...really...he just couldn't say it right now...again...he was still munching on his cookies. Henric was impressed at llia's knowledge about the werewolves....how did she know all that? Had she encountered one before? Henric stayed quiet and listened to the other's answer too.

This was uncomfortable for Cosgrach, because he was used to walking in the aisles OR sitting down; but there were no aisles and his chair was trapped behind Mr. Dark Wizard Sabel. So, he had to stand in the middle. How did Airey look so natural, again?

He listened to all of the answers and there was no wrong ones, so he was happy that they had an idea about it. He noted the silent ones too and hoped that didn't mean they didn't know... but everyone had an idea about werewolves, so more like they were too shy to talk or something. Oh well.

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"Professors." Angel raised her hand. "What do you do with the cream if you don't like Oreo's?"

"You can vanish it, Angel," he said to the girl before addressing the whole class:

"A werewolf is a human who becomes wolf-like when it's full moon. They forget all their human memories and they become deadly. They have absolutely no control of themselves and no choice not to transform. So," he began to walk in the open slowly area because WOW standing still was weird, "they have traditionally been cast out by societies. Although they are harmless otherwise, people still think they can pass on this condition by merely talking." His face showed his opinion about such people. He used to be one of them and believed werewolves had to live far away, but his opinion had drastically changed, and for good. "The only way this can pass is through the contact of a transformed werewolf saliva and human blood. Even then, if the scar isn't sealed by silver and dittany, the victim will die. Muggles can't even survive it. If a werewolf bites someone while human, the victim only gains lupine tendencies such as preferring raw meat.

"Back to the memory thing. I said they don't remember who they are, but they do remember what they did when they transform back to their human form. This is essential, then: if they can remember who they are, they wouldn't attack. Which is practically what Wolfsbane does. It relieves some pain and allows the werewolf to hold their human mind. This is one of the biggest discoveries in our society, so a huge thanks to Mr. Damocles who invented it after the mid-1970s." He paused to let it sink in, because he didn't want them to miss the nest part about Wolfsbane.

"As some of you have said, its main ingredient is wolfsbane, a.k.a. aconite, another a.k.a. monkshood. Since aconite is very poisonous, an incorrectly brewed potion is as well. The werewolves say it tastes terribly but adding anything else will make it ineffective. It's also unique in that the werewolf must drink a gobletful for a whole week before the full moon. If they miss even one day, they'd better find a safe place to pass the night, because it won't be effective. It's because the curse, or magic, or whatever you call this condition is very strong. Remember: there's no cure yet, this just eases the symptoms. The werewolf still transforms, but they keep their human mind."

PHEW. That was some explanation, eh? At least it was done now - until Sabel added more about werewolves - and now they could start brewing!

He tapped his wand on the board. Airey's WEREWOLVES got smaller and the ingredients appeared.

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• 1 glass of regular cow milk
• 1 measure of fluxweed (picked on full a moon)
• 1 handful of a tame dog's neck fur
• 14 Jobberknoll feathers
• 7 tea spoons of Armadillo bile
• 7 grams of a well-whisked Runespoor egg
• 7 aconites' roots

"Like I said, this is a delicate potion, so it can only be brewed with a brass cauldron." He gestured at the cauldrons by everyone's desk. If they had a different type, they were welcome to use them.

"Please heat the glass of milk for 3 minutes on medium flame seperately. Fill your cauldrons fully with water in the meantime and add the milk. Set the cauldron on low flame."

The start was EASY and if anyone got it wrong, it wouldn't be nice for them. They'd BETTER clean their hands before starting not to get any cookies in the water, too. So, this was a test to see who embraced potions brewing and who came to class just to pass.

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• 1 glass of regular cow milk
• 1 measure of fluxweed (picked on full a moon)
• 1 handful of a tame dog's neck fur
• 14 Jobberknoll feathers
• 7 tea spoons of Armadillo bile
• 7 grams of a well-whisked Runespoor egg
• 7 aconites' roots

1. Heat a glass of milk for 3 minutes on medium flame (seperately)
2. Fill the cauldron fully with water and add the milk
3. Set the cauldron on low flame

OOC: I'll post again 12 hours later.

Notes, notes, notes! So MANY words, yo! Adi was not able to get everything but he got a great deal. At least he made sure to get the essential parts of the potion down. But FINALLY all the talking was done. He stared at Culloden. Did the man need a drink of water now? Surely his throat was parched.

BUUUUUUT onto the brewing! WOOOOOOT! This was what Adi had been looking forward to. He turned his head in Benny's direction. He usually helped the Gryffindor out during the lessons but it looked like he would be flying solo today. Adi focused his attention in double checking he had a brass cauldron. Yep.

"Scourgify!'' Cauldron cleaned CHECK! Next, he measured out a glass (also Scourgified) of cow's milk. Gosh, this would go really good with those cookies right now. Hehe. Anywayyy, Adi set the milk to be heated on medium flame, taking note of the time on his watch. While that was being done, he filled his cauldron with water.
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Annnnnnd three minutes were up! In went the hot milk, joining the water. Lastly, the Puffer adjusted the burner so that it was now on low. Yaaaaay! First steps DOWN!

Toby hadn't been taking any notes at all. How could he, with his head still buried firmly in his arms? Maybe he'd remember it. Maybe he'd just have to add this to the extra reading and studying he needed to do in his own time. Maybe maybe maybe.

He didn't bring his head up again until the very end of Culloden's spiel, and even then he only looked up to see the list of ingredients on the board in order to copy them down, his eyes suspiciously red-rimmed and puffy. Even the mention of a cow in the list didn't make Toby as enthusiastic as it might usually have done. It just made him miss his cow friends. He wanted to go home.

The brass cauldron was already there, and Toby mumbled a simple cleaning spell as he pointed his wand to the inside of it, and then the glass. Once the glass was full of milk he lit a fire and set it up to do its thing, on medium. Or something.

"Aguamenti," Toby murmured, just wanting to stay as quiet as possible and blend into the background for the rest of this class. A stream of water emitted from the tip of his wand, filling up the cauldron. Once the three minutes (maybe three minutes, anyway... Toby wasn't really paying attention or counting, his mind was elsewhere) was up, he switched the glass for the cauldron, to allow it to heat up in its place. He poured the milk haphazardly into the cauldron, set the glass down heavily, twiddled his wand at the flame to set it to low. Then he sat back in his seat again, back to chewing fitfully at his fingernails and staring unseeingly at the his warped reflection in the brass cauldron.

Turning her notebook to a new page, Lux made sure to copy down all the information that Professor Culloden was giving them. Even though she had read a lot about the Wolfsbane Potion it never hurt to be extra thorough - especially with something so potentially dangerous. Honestly, she was super excited about this part of the lesson and not just because POTIONS. The extra challenge it presented would really test her skills even if she had already brewed advanced potions in the past.

Time to get started!!

YAY!!

Lux made sure to clean her workstation AND hands before setting her equipment down on the table. Everything got a thorough cleaning with Scourgify including her BRASS cauldron. She was so happy that she had bought the right kind.

Donning clean gloves, Lux measured out a glass of cow's milk. Shame she couldn't dunk the Oreos in it, but she had a feeling Professor Culloden might not approve. Hehe. Placing it on medium heat, she made sure to note the time before filling her cauldron with water.

When the three minutes were up, Lux added the milk to the cauldron before adjusting the burner to low heat. Okay, first step done.

SPOILER!!: Lux's Notes

WOLFSBANE POTION

Ingredients:

• 1 glass of regular cow milk
• 1 measure of fluxweed (picked on full a moon)
• 1 handful of a tame dog's neck fur
• 14 Jobberknoll feathers
• 7 tea spoons of Armadillo bile
• 7 grams of a well-whisked Runespoor egg
• 7 aconites' roots

Procedure:

1. Heat a glass of milk for 3 minutes on medium flame (seperately)
2. Fill the cauldron fully with water and add the milk
3. Set the cauldron on low flame

What? Vanish the cream? The best freaking part of the cookie. AJ would take it, she would. Only considering that she had JUST vomited everywhere... maybe that wasn't the best idea. When had she ever followed THAT rule though? She had been able to nom on her cookies and her tummy wasn't threatening to expel any more of its contents, soooo...

No. She wasn't going to chance any more point loss right now. Not after she JUST lost her own house 15 of them. Not really in a note taking mood, AJ stored the information in her head because that was a good idea. Yeah, right. No need to worry about her oreo hands because there wasn't a spec of chocolate on them. Like AJ would leave behind any remnants of chocolate. Brass cauldrons were important for this potion. Got it. "Scourgify." There. A nice and clean brass cauldron. With a CLEAN glass, she measured and heated the milk.

While she waited for the three minutes to pass she filled her cauldron full with water. "Aguamenti." Once the three minutes had passed she added the cow's milk to her cauldron. Her cauldron flame was on low. So far so good.

That was a lot to remember. Sweet. Merlin.

Zander wasn't even going to bother taking notes, hopefully he could ask to borrow Adi's or something at one of their Prefect meetings. Besides, his mind was elsewhere at the moment.

He wasn't even sure if his cauldron was a brass one, but since it sounded special he figured he only had copper or something. Pewter maybe? He wasn't quite sure. So he opted to use the one sat out in front of him, best to be safe. Especially since this potion was apparently real temperamental or whatever. That also meant he probably wouldn't get it right... But he had hope okay? He was trying to remember that stuff that Professor Q had told him. Ahem. Being confident. That's what he was doing.

Before doing anything, the Gryffindor took out his wand and began scourgifying basically any surface near his cauldron, including the cauldron itself 'cause that was always vital. Plus, he didn't know where this brass one had been before 'cause it wasn't his. And knowing Culloden, he probably didn't clean them just so he could make a point. "Scourgify," he also had to make sure his hands were clean as well, because man Zander had learned the hard way, okay? Overly cautious now. That's what.

"Incendio," he heated the glass of milk on a medium flame, checking his watch in the mean time. While he waited for the three minutes to elapse, he decided to do the rest of the steps. Multitasking 101. Zander Adair has got this, mhm. "Aguamenti!" He filled the cauldron up with water and casted a quick, "Finite," just as it was done. Then again, he checked his watch. Fifty. Fifty five. Sixty secoooonds and THREE MINUTES. Bam.

He didn't want to touch the glass, seeing as it was hot hot HOT, so he levitated it over the cauldron to add in the milk. Then pointing his wand he whispered, "Incendio," again to heat the milk/water/cauldron up on a low flame.

Taking the hint from Professor Culloden's answer to Angel's question, Ben opted to vanish his moon phase cookies. Eating was the last thing he wanted to do...besides brewing wolfsbane potion. He knew enough about it that it was far from easy and while he had passed his OWLs with flying colors, to his surprise, the Gryffindor was nervous about it. He listened to the man's description of it while taking notes, finally copying the ingredient list in with everything else.

Ugg...he didn't have his brass cauldron on him.

Must be in his trunk with the present.

He tried to discretely make his way to the table where the extras were, taking one and making his way back. The Gryffindor tried not to look at anyone, especially not his usual potions helper as he went back to his workstation. Cue sigh under his breathe as he worked on calming himself and getting to work on the beginning steps.

Relax Atreyu...the start is easy.

First there was the glass of cow milk. He scourgified the glass before measure it out and then set it to be heated, the flame on medium. Checking his watch, Ben took note of the start of the three minutes before getting to work on the water. Another "Scourgify," cleaned the cauldron as well and then an "Aquamenti" to start the stream of water flowing freely into the cauldron. The sixth year had just ended it and glanced at his watch to notice the time was almost up.

He just waited half a minute til it was before exchanging glass for cauldron and adding the milk. Then he lowered the flame to low heat and waited. He had done it correct....right?

What in the name of........

Disgust. An expression of pure and utter disgust spread itself across Grayson's face as he STARED at the sight in front of him. The sight of AJ throwing up on Flammy. Jeez, man, did she hate the topic that much or what? Or maybe she hated the fact that Flammy was such a nerd. Was this a case of personal revenge? HMMM?

Whatever the reason, lol, he did not envy Airey Flamsteed right about now.

And then things got even more interesting when Flammy went ahead to tell Toby and Sophie off. He didn't really care for Sophie that much but TOBY?! Dude was more innocent than a baby unicorn. What in the name of Merlin? Was this a moment to be proud of Toby being a possible rebel or defensive over the guy? Merlin knew, man.

Talk about an interesting lesson.

But they had to continue with the learning portion of it all. MAN. Trying to think about the werewolves part, Grayson continued to move around the moon-on-a-stick until he was viewing the waning process as well. Just to get an idea of it and all. To be honest, it didn't seem as interesting as it had been before.

That was, until the food came in.

Why? Because freaking oreos, man!

The Slytherin immediately lit up as if he was a little kid who'd just been let loose in a sweet shop. Be mindful of crumbs? What. EVER! He was gonna enjoy eating these cookies. Taking the first Oreo out, Grayson twisted it until he got cream on one side and a nearly blank bit of biscuit on the other. Alright. There was the New Moon, then. The blank bit of biscuit was placed on his desk for the activity or whatever it was.

He continued with the activity until he had eight bits of biscuit, some with different amounts of cream on them. All part of the moon cycle.

AND THEN IT WAS THE POTIONS PART. FREAKING YEEEEEEEEES!

THIS was what Grayson was looking forward to. He was immediately paying a LOT more attention and there was less of an internal sassy monologue going on. Full attention on Culloden as he talked about the Wolfsbane Potion. The WOLFSBANE Potion. MAN! Talk about an interesting potion to make.

But onto the brewing part. Taking a glass, Grayson Scourgified it before measuring out the cow's milk. That was then gonna get transferred to a separate, clean beaker and then heated up on a medium flame for Potions reasons. Three minutes were ticking by while the seventh year went ahead and scourgified the brass cauldron near him before filling it up with water. Simple. It was kinda weird to be filling it up all the way up to the top but whatever.

Alright. Three minutes. Why was it taking so freaking long to tick by?

This was practically torture. Jeez, man.

Tick....... tock.......... tick......... tock.........

And that was three minutes over! Taking his glass of now warm cow's milk, Grayson added it to the water in the cauldron before lighting a low flame beneath the cauldron. There. Done, yo.

Kate focused her attention on the brass cauldron in front of her. She couldn't believe she was about to attempt to brew Wolfsbane Potion. ATTEMPT, because according to the professor, they'd all likely fail. Kate still wanted to know what kind of loss the potions supply cabinet would suffer after the entire class using all these ingredients and then likely tossing out whatever they brewed.

Kate cleaned her cauldron and the materials she'd be needing right this moment, and then she measured out a glass of milk. Setting it to heat on a medium flame, she read over the next set of instructions. Remembering to keep track of the time as she worked, Kate pointed her wand toward the cauldron. "Aguamenti!" she said.

The cauldron filled with water, and when she'd ended that spell, Kate collected the heated milk and added it into the cauldron. Then with a low flame under the cauldron, Kate stood back and looked over what she'd done s far.

Brass cauldrons? Why in the world were they supposed to use brass ones? Dot had a perfectly good pewter cauldron, and her dad had paid for it with his hard earned galleons, and it was apparently NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU PEOPLE. She smirked quite happily at her own silliness as she cleaned out the borrowed cauldron, the glass for milk, her stirring sticks, and knives... oh, her shoes! They were filthy!

She'd have to owl her daddy later and tell him about the brass cauldron and see if he ranted like she was sure he would. For now, though, she had to heat a glass of milk (very tricky, very tricky) and keep time on the flame, AND she had to fill her cauldron with water. Multi-tasking was a thing in Potions class. Did StarMan know how good they were at multi-tasking? Was he super duper impressed? "Aguamenti," she filled her cauldron with water, added the milk, and lit the flame nice and low.

People were being very nice - Marigold's blown kiss got a small smile out of Sophie Brown, and she halfheartedly returned Dot's hug. It was just... too much. All of it. The whole class. Zander's gaze didn't help either - it actually made her want to cry more. So... she kept her gaze firmly on her notes in front of her. Not the professor who was lecturing, not Tobes anymore - no one. Just her parchment.

Notes were all that mattered right now. She was channeling all her feelings into this - just writing down whatever she heard Culloden say. Her handwriting was pretty much completely illegible as she tried to keep up - honestly it was a pretty ridiculous thing for her to be doing anyway as she already knew most of what was being said - and when she heard him tap his wand on the board, she looked up to study the list of ingredients.

Cow milk, huh? Cows - Tobes - big ol' nope, she quickly jumped along to the next items. A tame dog's neck fur? That was... oddly specific. The other ingredients weren't SUPER out of the ordinary, though she was almost certain this was the first time she'd ever needed Runespoor egg. And... well... all things considering, this was bound to be an interesting brewing session.

Her sixth year supply list had included one stone cauldron, standard size 1, and one copper cauldron, standard size 4. There had been no requirement for brass, so... looked like she'd be using the provided one. But... as the first set of instructions were being given, Sophie just... wasn't... feeling it.

She couldn't do it. She didn't want to. How could she when Culloden expected her to fail, Flamsteed undoubtedly demoted her from his secret list of favorite students, and she was about to lose Tobes forever?

Somberly, Sophie copied down the instructions to brew the potion, including details about only using a brass cauldron. But then she just... kind of... sat there. Staring at her cauldron blankly. Contemplating her impending doom with a surplus of moisture in her eyes, her expression otherwise blank.

She was just going to sit there.

Marigold was taken aback by the sudden jump, right into potions. Taken aback, she took out her wand and pulled the borrowed brass cauldron towards her. "Scourgify" took care of the cauldron, along with an added "Aguamenti" to fill the cauldron fully with water.

She put some milk into a glass, which she put over the flame, turned to medium. As she waited for the three minutes, she realized Sophie Brown wasn't doing anything. She was just SITTING THERE. Oh no oh noo. Marigold flapped her hands anxiously, then nervously bit her lip and checked to see that the professors weren't looking. She switched cauldrons out with Sophie Brown, hers filled with water and clean, so that Sophie Brown could be okay. Yes. Sophie Brown was going to be okay if Marigold had anything to do with it.

Another minute until she needed to add the milk to her cauldron, but she had a dirty, empty, Sophie-Brown-old cauldron now. She did her spells, "Scourgify. Aguamenti!" and then added the milk, quick as she could, after the three minutes were up. She set the cauldron on a low flame and waited it out.