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The class is the same with the proper chairs with soft cushions to sit and lean back on, and they are still are charmed to take the most comfortable shape and height once a student is seated. The walls are still a soft, calming blue. There are one big, grey rubbish bin by the door and a white, porcelain washbasin with a tap for those who wants to wash their hands before/after the class and who can't perform 'Aguamenti' charm.
Before you enter the room, however, you are greeted by a big, red, sparkling heart hanging from the door and brushing your hair as you pass under it. You can't decide if it's horrible, embarrassing or both. Touching it brings good luck... says your professor.
The door is open 15 minutes before the class time. Professor Culloden is nowhere to be seen, and his table is completely empty for... y'know, whatever you brought.
OOC: If you are going to RP your characer use the washbasin or the bin, you don't have to take Cosgrach's permission. Just assume he has granted it.
The class has begun, so please do not announce late arrivals but just RP as if your character has been here all along.
8 flower heads of sneezewort (seperate the petals beforehand)
8 berries of atropa belladonna
8 chopped leaves of Alihotsy (prepared beforehand)
One frozen ashwinder egg broken in 8
8 tea spoons of powdered moonstone
All the thorns of 8 roses
8 drops of salamander blood
8 table spoons of peppermint
Instructions
Prepare the sneezewort, alihotsy and moonstone.
Fill the cauldron with purified water and add the sneezewort petals
Light a fire under the cauldron and set it to maximum
Add the heads of the sneezewort
Stir 8 times clockwise with a metal stick
Add the berries of atropa bellandonna one by one
Sprinkle Alihotsy leaves in a circle in clockwise direction
Wave your wand. The colour should turn to dark red
Wait for 25 minutes for pewter cauldrons, 13 for brass and 8 for copper
In the meantime, break the egg into 8. If you break it into more pieces accidentally, get another egg.
When the time is up, add the egg parts
Stir vigorously clockwise with a metal stick until the colour is purple
Sprinkle the moonstone in the middle of the cauldron
Throw all the thorns in quickly
Add the drops of salamander blood one by one: with each drop, observe that the potion turns to its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen.
Add the peppermint spoon by spoon. Stir clockwise with a metal stick slowly until it dissolves.
Wave your wand again.
Put off the fire when you see the spiral steams and smell its aroma.
Extra notes
Love potions cause a infatuation or obsession for the brewer or the first person seen. Amortentia is the most powerful of them.
The duration of the effects (usually up to 24 hours) vary depending on factors such as the weight of the person drinking the potion and the attractiveness of the person with whom the potion is supposed to make the drinker obsessed. The effects wear off naturally over time, but can be renewed by administering further doses of potion. Therefore, there is no overdose.
The effect is near instantaneous: the drinker appears "pale and sickly" and becomes obsessed with the brewer or the first person seen and excited or dangerously unstable towards others.
A hate potion can cancel out love potions and vice versa. There is also a proper antidote.
The brewer doesn't have to be present for the effect if it's that sort of love potion.
The drinker does not forget what he or she did while under its influence.
Love potions mature over time; so the longer it is kept, the stronger it will be.
Amortentia's characteristics are a distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen and spiral steams. Its aroma is different for everyone and reminds each person of the things that they find most attractive, even if they don't acknowledge or are unaware of their fondness themselves.
The smell of Amortentia can change as you see new things and people.
Life advice from Blaise Bellaire: You should NEVER give a love potion to a girl who's bigger than you and throws a harder punch 'cause when it wears off she'll remember everything and beat the living Circe out of you. It causes strong dislike after.
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Oooh so Amortentia COULD change for you. Well that at least was cool. The love stuff though... no no no no no no. Davie's nose was constantly wrinkled in a state of dislike as he took his detailed notes.
Text Cut: Notes
Love Potions
cause an infatuation/obsession for the brewer or the first person seen.
Amortentia = most powerful
Duration varies on: weight of the drinker, attractiveness the brewer, etc.
Effects wear off naturally over time, but can be renewed by more doses
There is no overdose
Effect = instantaneous
Drinker appears "pale and sickly" and becomes obsessed with the brewer or the first person seen; excited or dangerously unstable towards others
A hate potion can cancel out love potions and vice versa. There is also a proper antidote.
Brewer doesn't have to be present for the effect
Drinker does not forget what he or she did while under its influence
Love potions mature over time; the longer they're kept, the stronger they will be
Characteristics: distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen + spiral steams; aroma is different for everyone and reminds each person of the things that they find most attractive
Smell of Amortentia can change as you see new things and people
Potion Ingredients
8 flower heads of sneezewort (separate the petals beforehand)
8 berries of atropa belladonna
8 chopped leaves of alihotsy (prepared beforehand)
One frozen ashwinder egg broken in 8
8 teaspoons of powdered moonstone
All the thorns of 8 roses
8 drops of salamander blood
8 tablespoons of peppermint
Brewing Instructions
Prepare the sneezewort, alihotsy and moonstone.
Fill the cauldron with purified water and add the sneezewort petals
Okay, now that that was done, he had to actually brew it. Davie prepared his cauldron and his utensils by casting scourgify on everything, now that he COULD do that, and then going to get the sneezewort petals. He carefully separated the eight flowerheads, noting that everything had to do with the number 8, and then moved on to the alihotsy. He gently chopped it up with his potions knife and moved on to the moonstone to grind it up. They only needed 8 teaspoons, so after he ground up a good amount, he measured it out in a separate container.
Now time to fill his cauldron up with water from his wand (a spell which he was AWESOME at) and gently adding the sneezewort petals.
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It was too bad, too, 'cause he hadn't even eaten any of the oatmeal cookies she'd bakes for him. Well, y'know. Tried to bake for him. They'd come out all lumpy, but it was the thought counted, right? There was no possible way they could ever taste as horrid as they had last time, which had to count as an accomplishment.
She dipped her quill in ink and began to record all the lovey dovey stuff Culloden had written on the board, looking up to read the next line and catching a glimpse of Yoongi from the corner of her eye just as her hand gave a completely involuntary spasm and knocked her ink well all over her desk. UHHHHH. Had Culloden done something to the AIR in here? It sure was feeling very strange. He was probably trying to teach some grand lesson on how dangerous love was; that sounded like something he'd do. She pulled out her wand and cast a quiet "Scourgify" on the ink-covered surfaces 'till they were all good as new, then looked up at Professor Culloden with a polite smile. Nothing had happened. Nothing at all. Just at him. Not at anybody else. Yoongi was her FRIEND there was no reason why she should feel the need to look at him during a lesson. Unless his hair was on fire or something, but that was a different story and probably much more dangerous than love potions. Plus, it was very nice hair.
Thought WASN'T the thing that counted, no. Not for him, who happened to take a bite from the cookies as his eyes fell on her ink, and he was not happy with what he was eating and seeing. Of course, he didn't know they were her cookies - which was precisely why he had been arriving at classes after the students came in, but he knew SHE knocked the ink all over. He made a face that clearly showed he would... feed the cookies to some innocent animal or something, and that he would not allow another mistake from her in this class.
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So yeah, Amortentia. Gwen knew enough about that to say, Wait, had that been said already? Gwen's brain tumor had left her with short memory span issues.
Cosgrach looked around to see if anyone heard that. Good. He didn't like his homework questions to be answered at class.
"That's up for speculation," he said, "thank you for your input. We've moved on now, so why don't you copy the blackboard and fill your cauldron with water? If you need help, you can ask your friends or just raise your hand and I'll come." They had already covered the basic potions skills in the previous lessons, so he didn't need to remind her, did he?
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Amortentia to him smelled like... a CAULDRON, though? He liked the smell of a cauldron?! HAHAHA. Soph laughed when he said it, bringing a hand up to her mouth in a lame attempt to suppress her laughter, and almost raised a hand to comment on the fact that of COURSE food was one of the scents for him... but, luckily, she had enough sense to decide against doing that, and instead kept giggling to herself.
...
Before she could stop herself, she was talking aloud, mostly to Culloden, though her hand hadn't raised, but did she really need to since she was sitting in the seat nearest to him at the front anyway? "Lots of number eights." Lots of them, in the WHOLE RECIPE. "In 'rithmancy the number eight represents, like, success 'n finances 'n power 'n stuff." Did he know? "M'not so sure about the money part with this, but I can see how success 'n power relate. You're essentially gaining power over someone by giving this to 'em, 'n you're finding success in making 'em display the attitude of having fallen in love with you. Not real, but they're at least acting that way, 'n a lotta desperate people would see that as success."
...okay, no, Cosgrach wouldn't take offence because she had just gone through terrible things. Nope. He was going to take a bite from her breakfast plate instead to show her all was REALLY fine...
Well, of course she noticed that and had a few things to say. He listened, and actually liked it. Of course he didn't know about Arithmancy - could she really imagine his young self dealing with numbers? - but he nodded in the end.
"It can certainly be related to that," he said, "there are many speculations about the way some potions work. The version I read is 8 is the symbol of infinity when placed horizontally, and that there are 7 days in a week so 8th day practically doesn't exist, but love is supposed to be beyond and infinite so it goes onto 8th. Figuratively." He shrugged. Maybe all were true, maybe none was. Who knew?
Did she... need to get out or something?
Moving on, then.
He revealed new steps on the blackboard.
"Light a fire under the cauldron and set it to maximum. Then, add the heads of the sneezewort all at once and stir 8 times clockwise with a metal stick."
This was his cue to begin walking slowly in the aisles to see if they did correctly.
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3. Light a fire under the cauldron and set it to maximum
4. Add the heads of the sneezewort
5. Stir 8 times clockwise with a metal stick
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Merlin. Sophie Brown had a lot to say.
Not that she didn't always, but... there was just something about the way that she couldn't stop with the giggling??? It was kind of concerning actually. Felt real out of character. Except, Zander couldn't even ask if she was alright seeing that he wasn't sitting anywhere near her. He would've and he wanted to... But potions was always the class where she sat by Dot. Also Sophie sat in like the very first seat in the front and Zander Adair was not about that life.
Oop.
But anyways, they were moving on again and this Gryffindor really didn't fancy falling behind on any of the steps. He'd chase after Soph after class. It was the only way. Right. Quickly, the Gryffindor picked up his quill again to write down the next set of instructions, before setting it aside and reading over the board once more to make sure he had gotten everything down correctly. "Incendio," he lit the fire under his cauldron, moving his hand and wand slightly to set the fire at a maximum.
Then he took all the sneezewort heads and added them all in one go. And now, METAL stick. That was always important. And... He had cleaned it before hand, right? Uh. Well it was a risk he was about to take 'cause it was too late now.
He had already began the clockwise motion. Stirring once... Stirring twice... Stirring three times... All the way to eight/
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While waiting for the next set of instructions to be given Hady took it upon herself to quickly jot down a few more notes onto her parchment. No point in allowing herself to fall behind or forget anything if she had a spare moment to get it done.
Just as she was setting her quill down the next instructions were given. Good timing Miss Hady. Picking up her wand she pointed it at the bottom of the cauldron. "Incendio," she recited lightly a fire beneath the cauldron and turning her hand a bit still with her wand to set the flame at maximum. Easy enough so far.
Setting her wand down on the table she collected all of the sneezewort heads and added them into the cauldron at once. That finished she found her clean metal stick and carefully began to stir the potion contents in a clockwise motion.
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. And eight! There finished.
Removing the metal stick from the cauldron she cleaned it and put it aside.
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So she was kinda right. Leave it to Sophie Brown to get to the bottom of things. Janelle did get the idea that the sideways eight/infinity sign was somehow significant. She would have to ask Professor Tanner about the Arithmancy connection later. For now, it was time to get back to work.
Janelle copied the new instructions down and then set to work. First, she took out her wand and cleaned her metal stick. Then she directed her wand beneath the cauldron and said, "Incendio". The fire lit and began to warm the beginnings of her potion. Janelle set the temperature to maximum and peeked at the water inside her cauldron. She took the heads of her sneezewort flowers and added them all at once, as instructed. Finally, Janelle took her metal stick and placed it in the water. She began to stir in a clockwise direction, counting as she went along. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, done." Once the steps were completed, Janelle cleaned her metal stick and watied.
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So far so good. Ava hadn't make any mistake.... yet. Well, just hope that she wouldn't screw this potions up.
Moving on to the next step.. Light the fire, yes... How could she brew the potions if the fire wasn't one? The young lioness then cast the incendio and set the fire to the maximum level. And then she added the heads of sneezewort all at once. And the next step is...... the stirring.
She had to use the metal stick, right?
Grabbing her metal stick and cleaned it, then stirred up her potions eight times... clockwise. The instruction did say clockwise, right?
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Between tasks he managed to sneak a couple of quick looks over his shoulder at Maggie, sending small smiles her way. But... the next steps were announced, so he continued working. If there was ever a potion he couldn't fail to make... this had to be it. Gavin would smack him one if he managed to get it wrong. Well okay, perhaps that wasn't entirely accurate, disapproving looks and being disowned were more his style, which would be bad enough.
Lighting the fire beneath his cauldron, "Incendio," and setting it to max. Zeke adjusted his gloves before taking his clean metal stirrer in one hand while adding all 8 sneezewort heads to his cauldron with the other... and then he stirred clockwise... 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8.
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So far both his and Benny's potions were on target and the Puffer prefect was keeping and eye out on his fellow Hufflepuffs too. Especially the younger ones. Mhmm. But looky! More steps on the board!
"Incendio!'' One fire to the maximum! Next up, all the sneezewort heads were added altogether before Adi grabbed his metal stick. "Scourgify!'' Time to stir this mixture! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight times clockwise! Woot! He updated his notes then fixed his attention back on his dragon.
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So far so good.
Paulina had managed to avoid any mess ups during the first steps, and that was always a good sign when it came to potion brewing. So long as she didn't see any smoke or her cauldron didn't explode, she should be all right.
The next steps were written down in her notes then it was time for her to light a fire. "Incendio!" She made sure to set the temperature to maximum. See, she was a good student and trying her hardest not to make any mistakes. Smiling at her accomplishment, Paulina added the sneezewort heads.
1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8... clockwise stirs with her metal stick and she was all caught up.
What next?
SPOILER!!: Paulina's Notes
AMORTENTIA
Ingredients
8 flower heads of sneezewort (seperate the petals beforehand)
8 berries of atropa belladonna
8 chopped leaves of Alihotsy (prepared beforehand)
One frozen ashwinder egg broken in 8
8 tea spoons of powdered moonstone
All the thorns of 8 roses
8 drops of salamander blood
8 table spoons of peppermint
Instructions
Prepare the sneezewort, alihotsy, and moonstone.
Fill the cauldron with purified water and add the sneezewort petals
Light a fire under the cauldron and set it to maximum
Culloden didn't say anything about her potion that mean she didn't mess up the first steps. Then she heard the Potion Master gave them the next instruction. Candice quickly copied the note on the blackboard to her notebook before she light some fire. The Gryffindor grabbed her wand "Incendio!" She set the fire to maximum. Then she added the heads of sneezewort all at once into her cauldron.
When she was finished adding the heads of sneezewort, Candice grabbed her clean metal stick and began stirring the potion clockwise.
1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...
Once she was done stirring, she took out her metal stick from her potion and cleaned it with The Scouring Charm before she set it aside.
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Right...lighting the fire.
"Incendio!" he cast, aiming beneath the cauldron at the burner, letting it go to the maximum as directed in their instructions. Sure was real hot there. Benny then scooped up on the heads of the sneezewort and held them up over his cauldron before suddenly dropping them all in. It had said all at once according to Professor Culloden. Yeah...I see you boyfriend, the Gryffindor mused to himself noticing Adi paying attention to his work as well as his own mildly thankful.
They didn't need any boil cure mishaps once more.
"Scourgify..." he cast on his metal stirer moving on. Benny then carefully dipped it in the hot liquid and began stiring the whole mixture so far eight times clockwise. One...two...three...four...five...six...seven...ei ght.
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Text Cut: Notes
Love Potions
cause an infatuation/obsession for the brewer or the first person seen.
Amortentia = most powerful
Duration varies on: weight of the drinker, attractiveness the brewer, etc.
Effects wear off naturally over time, but can be renewed by more doses
There is no overdose
Effect = instantaneous
Drinker appears "pale and sickly" and becomes obsessed with the brewer or the first person seen; excited or dangerously unstable towards others
A hate potion can cancel out love potions and vice versa. There is also a proper antidote.
Brewer doesn't have to be present for the effect
Drinker does not forget what he or she did while under its influence
Love potions mature over time; the longer they're kept, the stronger they will be
Characteristics: distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen + spiral steams; aroma is different for everyone and reminds each person of the things that they find most attractive
Smell of Amortentia can change as you see new things and people
Potion Ingredients
8 flower heads of sneezewort (separate the petals beforehand)
8 berries of atropa belladonna
8 chopped leaves of alihotsy (prepared beforehand)
One frozen ashwinder egg broken in 8
8 teaspoons of powdered moonstone
All the thorns of 8 roses
8 drops of salamander blood
8 tablespoons of peppermint
Brewing Instructions
Prepare the sneezewort, alihotsy and moonstone.
Fill the cauldron with purified water and add the sneezewort petals
Light a fire under the cauldron and set it to maximum
Add the heads of the sneezewort
Stir 8 times clockwise with a metal stick
Dooo doooo doooooooooooo. Moving on, and David hadn't even messed up yet! Good thing he hadn't fully cleaned up his station and tossed the heads of the sneezewort away. One never knew what all they were going to do in the later steps of Potions. It was a challenging subject because the professor only revealed a few steps at a time, plus they had to follow everything EXACTLY, with great precision, and all trying to keep up with his expert pace.
But, Davie liked the challenge, so he moved on quickly, eagerly lighting a fire under his cauldron. "Incendio!" he cast confidently (his second-favorite spell he'd learned this year), and turned his wand so the fire would get big and bright. Now he added the heads of the sneezewort, no petals there, and got his metal stick out to carefully stir.
One... two... three ............ and eight! Eight times clockwise, and Davie set his stick off to the side to wait on more instructions. He was SO FOCUSED TODAY on these yucky love potions he was definitely never ever EVER going to use.
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Wrinkling her nose at Culloden, Soph shook her head in displeasure. "No, that doesn't make sense, 'cause this isn't REAL love. It only gives off the appearance of love, but it's INFATUATION, not love, so it's not infinite or anything like that. So if anything, going by that kinda logic, it shouldn't be an 8 'cause this stuff ISN'T infinite, y'know? So I don't like that." That explanation. "S'gotta be somethin' else." Like her arithmancy idea. THAT had more logic to it than the infinity thing did.
...She was fine. EverYTHING WAS FINE.
"Incendio," she shot a flame under her cauldron, then twisted her wand clockwise, turning up the flame to a maximum. Putting on her clean gloves, she scooped up all the heads of the sneezewort and added them to her cauldron, then plucked her clean metal stick from her potions kit and stirred once, twice.... up until eight total times clockwise.
"Sneezewort's a weird name." Anyone else feel that? "I know y'can, like, make it powder or somethin' and use it as sneezing powder as a prank or somethin', and it does make people's brains go weird, inflaming it 'n stuff, so it makes sense in a potion like this where it's pretty much altering someone's brain chemistry, and I guess sneezing makes people's brains feel weird, too." Lalalalala. Totally fine. Just gonna keep spouting off one thing after another over here.
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Wait, wait. Things were moving too fast for Oliver to keep up. He was still working on separating the petals of his sneezewort. Speaking of which, that was a funny name for a plant. It sounded like it would make somebody sneeze or something. He didn't pause to dwell on that fact for too long, because he had to hurry to catch up. He had to chop the leaves of his alihotzy and grind the moonstone. He hoped he'd gotten enough because it would just waste time later if he had to grind more. But as soon as he thought it was probably the right amount he moved onto the next step. He did not want to get even more behind.
The start of the actual potion making was easy. It was just filling the cauldron with water. Olly knew how to do that. He cast Aguamenti, of course. Was that purified water? He certainly hoped so because that was the only water spell he knew. He didn't have time to ask though, and honestly did he really care? The answer was no. He just wanted to move on to the more interesting parts of making the potion.
Like fire, yes that would do. He knew that spell too, and it was a lot more interesting than just conjuring water. "Incendio." Oliver lit the fire under his cauldron and set it to the highest setting possible. Apparently Amortentia needed a lot of heat. Did he have to wait for the water to boil or anything? Olly glanced up at the board, but all it said was to add the sneezewort. He had that all ready since it had to be prepared earlier, so he simply picked it up and plopped it into his cauldron. Yes, it made a noise that sounded like plop but he didn't add it from a very high height so it didn't splash or anything. Because that was bad, right?
Stirring. Oliver wanted to do something more interesting. Or see the potion turn different colors. Something that was not just menial labor. He held his wand toward the metal stick and cast "Scourgify." Then he stirred the potion. One, two....eight times.
Now this was usually the point where Dante fell behind and start to phone it in and do whatever he wanted and of course at the end he would have a giant explosion and he and Zahra would be given the death look by Culloden.
Dante kind of missed the extremely talkative Gryffindor. Though if he remembered right. She graduated last term. Anyway back to the potion.
"Incendio"
He lit a fire under the cauldron and made sure to set it to max. Go big or go home. Next he added all the heads of the sneezewort at once and he was with the Head Girl in that it was a weird name. Oh does someone even come up with that name. Probably were not in their right mind at the time. He stirred eight times clockwise with his metal stick.
No idea why a metal stick.
But he was following directions and focusing.
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After completing the first couple of steps, he noticed the Professor put up a couple more. He saw them clearly since there wasn't so much smoke in the air. Now he needed to light a fire to maximum? He shrugged and got out his wand and said the incantation, "Incendio!" and the fire poofed up and heated his cauldron rather quickly. Once it was at maximum he began to add the heads of the sneezewort. He now needed a metal stick? Typical the one thing he forgot out of his potion bag. Bloody merlin he thought he had it. Well then again he did hear something drop onto the floor in his common room. He saw his neighbor didn't use his yet so he took theirs. He would only need it for 8 stirs anyways.
He cleaned it off with Scourgify and began to stir with his metal rod. He knew the clockwise rotation and counted off,
1....2....3....4....5....6....7.....8
Once he was done, he cleaned it off again and gave it back. There no harm done. His partner came back just in time anyways. He grinned with delight and waited for the next set of instructions.
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Blaise used to be nervous about all this actual brewing stuff--and not even because he thought he would do it wrong but because there was always that need to find some non-magical way of getting it done before he fell behind. Luckily, by now he'd adapted to his own little methods in potions class and pulled out a piece of parchment as was his usual custom. The young Gryffindor ripped and rolled a piece of it then stuck the tip of it in the fire of his closet neighbour. Once lit, he moved it to under his own cauldron and ta-da! A lit cauldron.
Maximum right? Blaise adjusted the flames before turning to the board again. By the looks of it, he would be adding the heads of the sneezewort. Shouldn't be too hard. Didn't even require him to lift his wand. This was why Potions was so tolerable. It wasn't overly dependent on magic.
After adding them, Blaise reached for the metal stick he'd washed while he was at the sink and, after checking the direction again, began stirring.
8 flower heads of sneezewort (seperate the petals beforehand)
8 berries of atropa belladonna
8 chopped leaves of Alihotsy (prepared beforehand)
One frozen ashwinder egg broken in 8
8 tea spoons of powdered moonstone
All the thorns of 8 roses
8 drops of salamander blood
8 table spoons of peppermint
Instructions
Prepare the sneezewort, alihotsy and moonstone.
Fill the cauldron with purified water and add the sneezewort petals
Light a fire under the cauldron and set it to maximum
Add the heads of the sneezewort
Stir 8 times clockwise with a metal stick
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At least they’d moved on rather quickly. Brooklyn had been half tempted to just start doodling in her notebook if they’d had to sit there doing nothing for too much longer. It wasn’t as if there was flames to watch or anything yet, just petals floating in the water filling her cauldron. Since she hardly believed in Divination, she got absolutely nothing out of watching that. She’d retrieved her notes almost gratefully as the next few steps were put up on the board, although the first thing she did was point her wand under her cauldron. “Incendio!” A quick adjustment and the flame was set at maximum, at which point she sat back to write down the steps. At the very least, she wrote down what she’d just done. The rest could wait until the next period of time they were expected to wait.
She reached for her metal stirrer, and then Scourgified it carefully before she collected the heads off the sneezewort blossoms she’d previously taken the petals from. The note about the number eight was mentally tacked on to what she knew, and she added the heads to her cauldron, followed by sliding the clean stirrer carefully into the water without splashing anything. She didn’t want to burn herself with boiling water, anyway. Time to stir, and she reminded herself to go clockwise. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Now she sat back again with her notebook, adding the last two steps to her notes. She was going to take her time, too. Just in case.
SPOILER!!: notes
Amortentia/Love Potion
Love potions cause infatuation or obsession for the brewer or the first person seen. Amortentia is the most powerful of them.
The duration of the effects (usually up to 24 hours) vary depending on factors such as the weight of the person drinking the potion and the attractiveness of the person with whom the potion is supposed to make the drinker obsessed. The effects wear off naturally over time, but can be renewed by administering further doses of potion. Therefore, there is no overdose.
The effect is near instantaneous: the drinker appears "pale and sickly" and becomes obsessed with the brewer or the first person seen and excited or dangerously unstable towards others.
A hate potion can cancel out love potions and vice versa. There is also a proper antidote.
The brewer doesn't have to be present for the effect if it's that sort of love potion.
The drinker does not forget what he or she did while under its influence.
Love potions mature over time; so the longer it is kept, the stronger it will be.
Amortentia's characteristics are a distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen and spiral steams. Its aroma is different for everyone and reminds each person of the things that they find most attractive, even if they don't acknowledge or are unaware of their fondness themselves.
The smell of Amortentia can change as you see new things and people.
8 flower heads of sneezewort (separate the petals beforehand)
8 berries of atropa belladonna
8 chopped leaves of Alihotsy (prepared beforehand)
One frozen ashwinder egg broken in 8
8 tea spoons of powdered moonstone
All the thorns of 8 roses
8 drops of salamander blood
8 table spoons of peppermint
1. Prepare the sneezewort, alihotsy and moonstone.
2. Fill the cauldron with purified water and add the sneezewort petals
3. Light a fire under the cauldron and set it to maximum
4. Add the heads of the sneezewort
5. Stir 8 times clockwise with a metal stick
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Benzi had decided earlier on this week that he'd only do spells nonverbally from now until his NEWTs. It will definitely look more impressive if he brews up the potion of the decade while simultaneously doing it all without muttering a word, especially if the potion they'd need to make had some sort of special incantation that went along with it. He saw that Outstanding, he wanted that Oustanding and he would definitely be getting that Oustanding.
Just in case anyone had doubts.
After nonverbally cleaning his cauldron, he nonverbally added water and set about to prepare his ingredients as accurately as possible. He'd realised that had been his mistake all these years, and the reason his potions had sometimes gone wrong. If he was exact with his ingredients and precise with his chopping all will be well. Too bad he couldn't nonverbally chop either. That would have been even more impressive.
As it were, Benzi followed the recipe to a T and tried to memorise it as they moved along to save him the trouble of studying it later. After having added the sneezewort petals, he nonverbally lit up the fire, which he always felt like when the potion making process actually started. Anything before that was preparation. He turned it up to maximum then added the sneezewort heads, stirring clockwise eight times with his metal stick. Sneezewort, latin name Achillea ptarmica, leaves can be eaten both cooked and uncooked, and can be used as an insect repellent. It's poisonous to some animals. Look, he studied!
... Would this kill the animals then? What would happen if you gave a cow amorentia? Would it become infatuated with you? What would happen if you gave to ANYTHING that wasn't human? What if you dropped it in a lake, would the fish be affected? What about kneazles? A specific one that liked to lurk around these parts of the castle specifically. Important questions, these were. He'd look them up later. Speaking of questions, Sophie Brown was acting funny. Benzi had been avoiding her as much as possible since the break up since she was Evie's best friend and all that, but today something was up and he was curious. By the looks on their faces, Zander and Culloden seemed slightly perturbed too.
Hmm. Thinking cap on.
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Ugh he hated when he did that. Walking around between the desks to check on their work. It happened each lesson but Yoongi felt uncomfortable with it. What if he made a mistake and he saw it? He always made mistakes in potions and it was a miracle he hadn't yet. Oh how he wished he was in Charms class... in his element...
Also, anyone noticed how weird Sophie was being? Something was up. And it strangely happened when he had seen her and Zander leave the Defence class...he glanced towards Zander and mentally GAAAAASPED! were they breaking up?! Should he corner the Head Boy later for a piece of information? Hmmm...
The Gryffindor pointed his wand and said "Incendio" the flame appeared and he put it on maximum. Next he put in the sneezewort heads in to the cauldron and looked up at the blackboard to read the final step.
Stir 8 times with metal stirrer. Alright 8 times...8 8 8
.. He grabbed the right stirrer this time woohoo even remembered to clean it woohoo and began to stir the cauldron 8 times.
Maggie took the time to update her notes before Professor Culloden added the next few steps to the board. Trying hard to focus solely on finishing this potion she set aside her parchment again and reached for her wand. "Incendio." The incantation was only muttered as she directed the spell under her cauldron.
Fire. Fire was nice.
Simply looking at it for a brief second, she eventually placed her wand on the desk again and adjusted the temperature until it was set to maximum. Carefully brushing the pedals to the side, Maggie picked up the sneezewort heads and dropped them all into her cauldron.
Now it was time to stir. And while that was probably the best time to watch the others work, Maggie kept her eyes on the contents of her cauldron as she stirred the water eight times in clockwise direction. Eight times. Did that mean anything? The separating the pedals from the heads had reminded her of the whole 'he loves me, he loves me not' thing girls did when they were crushing on someone. Hmm.
Wrinkling her nose at Culloden, Soph shook her head in displeasure. "No, that doesn't make sense, 'cause this isn't REAL love. It only gives off the appearance of love, but it's INFATUATION, not love, so it's not infinite or anything like that. So if anything, going by that kinda logic, it shouldn't be an 8 'cause this stuff ISN'T infinite, y'know? So I don't like that." That explanation. "S'gotta be somethin' else." Like her arithmancy idea. THAT had more logic to it than the infinity thing did.
...She was fine. EverYTHING WAS FINE.
"Incendio," she shot a flame under her cauldron, then twisted her wand clockwise, turning up the flame to a maximum. Putting on her clean gloves, she scooped up all the heads of the sneezewort and added them to her cauldron, then plucked her clean metal stick from her potions kit and stirred once, twice.... up until eight total times clockwise.
"Sneezewort's a weird name." Anyone else feel that? "I know y'can, like, make it powder or somethin' and use it as sneezing powder as a prank or somethin', and it does make people's brains go weird, inflaming it 'n stuff, so it makes sense in a potion like this where it's pretty much altering someone's brain chemistry, and I guess sneezing makes people's brains feel weird, too." Lalalalala. Totally fine. Just gonna keep spouting off one thing after another over here.
Cosgrach frowned lightly at her. He debated whether arguing with her would be better - but decided against it in the end. He didn't want to distract her in her favourite class at Hogwarts. Besides, this wasn't the usual Sophie. He doubted she was even open to any kind of discussion at this point. So, he just shrugged. "If you say so." And she said so.
...
Well... at least no one else commented on what she said. So, he nodded, even though he was at the back of the class then and she wouldn't see. "You're right. It does make people's brain go weird, which is why it's an ingredient."
Would she... analyse every ingredient? Did she want to get out? Would she tell him if she did?
He had to find a way to ask her without letting the whole class know.
NONE of them made a mistake. None. Which meant, his sugar policy was working and - Merlin, he should have thought of this five terms ago. How calm the classes would have been then!
Well, no time to regret. He waved his wand from the back of the class and the next set of instructions appeared.
"Add the berries one by one, draw a circle over the cauldron in clockwise direction while sprinkling alihotsy leaves and wave your wand. If you did all right, the potion should turn dark red."
The hour of truth. Heh.
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6. Add the berries of atropa bellandonna one by one
7. Sprinkle Alihotsy in a circle motion in clockwise direction
8. Wave your wand. The colour should turn to dark red
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Text Cut: Notes
Love Potions
cause an infatuation/obsession for the brewer or the first person seen.
Amortentia = most powerful
Duration varies on: weight of the drinker, attractiveness the brewer, etc.
Effects wear off naturally over time, but can be renewed by more doses
There is no overdose
Effect = instantaneous
Drinker appears "pale and sickly" and becomes obsessed with the brewer or the first person seen; excited or dangerously unstable towards others
A hate potion can cancel out love potions and vice versa. There is also a proper antidote.
Brewer doesn't have to be present for the effect
Drinker does not forget what he or she did while under its influence
Love potions mature over time; the longer they're kept, the stronger they will be
Characteristics: distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen + spiral steams; aroma is different for everyone and reminds each person of the things that they find most attractive
Smell of Amortentia can change as you see new things and people
Potion Ingredients
8 flower heads of sneezewort (separate the petals beforehand)
8 berries of atropa belladonna
8 chopped leaves of alihotsy (prepared beforehand)
One frozen ashwinder egg broken in 8
8 teaspoons of powdered moonstone
All the thorns of 8 roses
8 drops of salamander blood
8 tablespoons of peppermint
Brewing Instructions
Prepare the sneezewort, alihotsy and moonstone.
Fill the cauldron with purified water and add the sneezewort petals.
Light a fire under the cauldron and set it to maximum.
Add the heads of the sneezewort.
Stir 8 times clockwise with a metal stick.
Add the berries of atropa bellandonna one by one.
Sprinkle alihotsy leaves while drawing a clockwise circle.
Wave your wand. The color should turn to dark red.
....Ms. Head Girl Sophie Brown was acting kinda weird this lesson, did anyone notice that? Davie didn't question her analysis of all the ingredients because Sophie Brown was SUPER good at Potions and Herbology, but had anyone else found this behavior of hers a little... erm, out of ordinary? Anyone? No? Going back to his potion-making then.... he'd leave the anxious Head Ladies to the professor.
Davie double checked that he had exactly eight berries of atropa bellandonna, then proceeded to carefully add them one at a time, waiting until each berry had sunk before adding the next one. Next, he gathered the chopped alihotsy leaves he'd prepared in his left hand and got ready to draw the circle over the top of the cauldron with his right. Gently, Davie sprinkled them in while doing the clockwise circle. He dusted off his hands and confidently waved his wand, waiting intently for the color of the potion to change.
Davie peeked up from the cauldron to the professor, his eyebrows communicating that he was just waiting to be told that he had done this ALL WRONG somehow.
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Add the berries. That, he could do. How many, though? Olly peered up at the board so he would not get the number wrong. Eight, right, he should have remembered that. Everything was eight. That Sophie Brown girl was talking about something related to eight and arithmancy and infinity and whatever, but Olly was definitely not paying attention to her. Because he did not care. But he did add the eight berries, that was easy enough.
He grabbed his wand again and drew one large circle over the top of his cauldron clockwise. While he did so, he sprinkled alihotsy leaves onto the surface of the potion. What good did using his wand do without an incantion? Did it even do anything? He was too curious not to raise his hand. "Professor, why don't we have to say anything when we wave our wand? Or draw a circle?"
There was even more silent wand waving next. So Olly did. He waved his wand back and forth over the top of the cauldron. Why would that too anything? His potion did darken, but it looked more pink than red to him. Hopefully it was fine.
Maggie reached for eight of the atropa belladonna berries and dropped into her cauldron, one after the other. Plop...plop...simply focusing on her own potion....plop...plop....plop....not looking up....plop...plop....plop. She brushed off her gloved hands in case there was any berry residue on them before reaching for her quill and quickly adding the last few steps to her notes.
In case they needed to recreate the potion again.
Setting down her quill again, Maggie then reached for the previously chopped up leaves and – leaning forward –*she sprinkled them into her potion while moving her hand in clockwise circle. After that was done she waved her wand. Looking good so far. She blew at a strand of her hair that had gotten loose from her braid and was now tickling her nose.
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