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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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Still just kind of watching her potion, the colors subtly changing across the surface, Brooklyn had looked up as Professor Culloden had spoken, giving the last steps and then verifying that the lesson was basically over. That all she had to do was finish, and then she could leave. She felt safer knowing that anyone who tried to sneak a vial out would be punished if they got caught, too. It made her intent to avoid anyone trying to use the potion on her that much easier, especially since she was fairly sure that no one was smart enough to actually manage to sneak a vial out. The professor was way too observant for that. For that matter, she was too observant for that, but then there was only a few people she could think of that might have even wanted to play a trick on her like that. Most of them didn’t seem to be in the class, either.
Since it was the end of the lesson, she even wrote down the last few steps before she looked for a spoon to add the peppermint. Scourgifying the spoon happened first, of course, before she measured out the first tablespoon. Adding that to her potion, she steadily continued, one tablespoon after another until she’d done that eight times. At that point, she had to switch the spoon for her metal stick, quickly cleaning that again before sliding it into the potion and stirring slowly until all of the peppermint had disappeared into the pearly liquid, taking that to mean that it had all dissolved.
Removing the stick, she cleaned it again before setting it down and waving her wand over the potion. It still bothered her that no incantations were being given, but her intent was still there. She refused to fail this far in, and soon enough the steam had shifted into lazy spirals. Leaning forward, she gave a hesitant sniff, as if she was testing a perfume or something, before she extinguished the flame under the cauldron. The unmistakable scent of rosin hit her, however subtle, and a sweet lemony scent like the lemon drops she’d brought to class, not the peppermint she expected after just having added it. She couldn’t tell what the smell that was behind the other two was, but she decided that they weren’t going to be tested on that so it didn’t matter. It wasn’t as if she was planning on smelling the potion again anytime soon.
Locating a clean vial, she carefully filled it before labeling it just as deliberately. Nobody was claiming her work but herself, and she cleaned everything else up before packing it away, vanishing the rest of her potion afterward and cleaning her cauldron as well. That got packed up too, and left at her workstation as she went up to give the professor her vial. “Have a nice day, professor,” she said politely, giving him a smile before she went back to collect her things and head back out into the corridor.
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
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
9. Wait for 25 minutes for pewter cauldrons, 13 for brass and 8 for copper
10. In the meantime, break the egg into 8. If you break it into more pieces accidentally, get another egg.
11. When the time is up, add the egg parts
12. Stir vigorously clockwise with a metal stick until the colour is purple
13. Sprinkle the moonstone in the middle of the cauldron
14. Throw all the thorns in quickly
15. Add the drops of salamander blood one by one: with each drop, observe that the potion turns to its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen
16. Add the peppermint spoon by spoon. Stir clockwise with a metal stick slowly until it dissolves.
17. Wave your wand again
18. Put off the fire when you see the spiral steams and smell its aroma
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All done! Oh yeaah... "Do you need help with anything, Professor?''
Cosgrach looked up momentarily from Sophie's cauldron when Adi approached him. He smiled at the boy.
"Not this time, thank you," he said, "but 3 points to Hufflepuff for being so kind." The boy never failed to ask it at every end of the class. How considerate.
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When he was done, the Gryffindor cleaned his working station and poured a sample of his love potion in to a vial and wrote his name on it. “Thanks for the lesson, Sir” he said as he hang his bag over his shoulder. “I didn’t explode anything today, I’m a miracle” yes him, not it. Ahem…
Actually... yes, come to think about it. No oneSophie None of the cauldrons exploded. Not Yoongi's, nor Dante's. A big miracle, indeed!
"Hope you continue the trend!" he said in a little joking tone. One could hope.
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"Professor?" he asked, approaching the Potions Master. "Could you please send this to my dad? I think he'd really love it," he asked, smiling casually at his pun. He held up the two labeled vials - one for submission and the other hopefully to be sent to Gavin. Please? Help a kid impress his potioneer dad?
Cosgrach's heart momentarily sank as he saw the second vial in Zeke's hand - he was going to ask to keep it-- oh, oh. Hehe. The professor chuckled at the pun too. He remembered the letter he had written to the boy's mum, and, heh, this made sense. Sure.
"Of course." He took the vial and after checking that it was completely sealed, placed it in his pocket not to forget it. "Who wouldn't love such a gift?" HEHE.
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Her eyes swimming with tears, Sophie tried to blink them away to no avail as she turned her gaze up to meet the professor's own. Through blurred vision, she shook her head, and took a moment to swallow back the choking feeling in her throat before speaking, "My dropper."
There was hesitation, as if she wasn't going to say anything more, but then she nodded her head toward the cauldron, her gaze falling back down to it as her lip wibbled and a few tears overflowed. "It fell in. It was clean so it didn't contaminate anything 'n I was usin' gloves while I was handlin' it b-but is it gonna... did I ruin it? Is it ruined? It's gotta be vanished, doesn't it? It's an ingredient that shouldn't have been added. S'just glass 'n rubber but that doesn't matter. It's ruined."
For the first time ever, Sophie Brown had messed up a potion in class.
Then, quite dramatically, she buried her head in her arms on the table and out came a muffled, "I quit."
She quit amortentia, she quit potions, she quit life.
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Er…. Assuming his potion went terribly wrong too because this smelled absolutely vile. Uh.
He wanted to ask Culloden, but seeing as he was with Soph, Zander decided to wait. This would also give him a good excuse to stick around and grab Sophie after class. Solid.
So uh, maybe a love potion gone terribly wrong was actually a good thing? Eh.
Once everyone was out, his attention was on her at last completely. Well, everyone minus Zander, who he was glad stayed back. This looked serious. First thing first, he got his wand out and swiftly summoned the dropper back from the potion. He carefully held it with the sleeve of his robe. It wasn't poisonous or anything, but you never knew. He went over to the sink to wash it as she explained and - ew, what was that smell?! - then beckoned Zander to come to Sophie.
"Depends on how much salamander blood you had sucked in it," he said calmly to show her it was OKAY as he cleaned his sleeve, dried the dropper and cleaned it with magic too. "You don't quit. Everyone does mistakes all the time. Sure, your potion will probably drive the drinker mad with how strong the effect will be, but..." He sighed. Zander, say something. Including the terrible smell that was getting stronger?
He saw Yoongi looking over again. Sweet Merlin, what!? If this was about Soph, yeah Zander noticed too. He knew why she was acting the way she was… But he was really worried, okay? Sophie Brown was normally really good about hiding how not okay she was. Well, she was really good at doing it around everyone else. Always knew how to put on a show. But clearly, everyone else knew something was up too. Which meant she was definitely broken.
He was hardly even paying attention to his own potion now, adding in the peppermint very lazily. Once the peppermint was all in, he grabbed his metal stick (not cleaning it from the last time it was used) and began stirring slowly. Was he stirring clockwise or counterclockwise?? Did it really even matter anymore?
Again he waved his wand. And lastly, he put out the fire.
And Sophie’s head was down. Something had gone terribly wrong, hadn’t it?
Er…. Assuming his potion went terribly wrong too because this smelled absolutely vile. Uh.
He wanted to ask Culloden, but seeing as he was with Soph, Zander decided to wait. This would also give him a good excuse to stick around and grab Sophie after class. Solid.
So uh, maybe a love potion gone terribly wrong was actually a good thing? Eh.
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Once everyone was out, his attention was on her at last completely. Well, everyone minus Zander, who he was glad stayed back. This looked serious. First thing first, he got his wand out and swiftly summoned the dropper back from the potion. He carefully held it with the sleeve of his robe. It wasn't poisonous or anything, but you never knew. He went over to the sink to wash it as she explained and - ew, what was that smell?! - then beckoned Zander to come to Sophie.
"Depends on how much salamander blood you had sucked in it," he said calmly to show her it was OKAY as he cleaned his sleeve, dried the dropper and cleaned it with magic too. "You don't quit. Everyone does mistakes all the time. Sure, your potion will probably drive the drinker mad with how strong the effect will be, but..." He sighed. Zander, say something. Including the terrible smell that was getting stronger?
Her head still in her arms, Soph made a grumpy noise at Culloden's words. "I didn't suck up much in there at all 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna need a whole lot." Eight drops was very little salamander blood, and Soph knew better than to take more than she needed. She was pretty good at gauging how many drops she could get out of a certain amount extracted into the dropper by now, but... she turned her head to face him, still using his arms as a pillow under her head as she shrugged, "Couldn't've been more than a few more drops left in there."
...Her potion would drive the drinker mad? SO IT WAS RUINED. The tears continued to pool in her eyes as she looked from Culloden to Zander, then back at the professor, then she let out a soft whimper of despair and buried her head back in her arms.
"I don't do mistakes. M'supposed to be your best student." And now he probably hated her and wouldn't write her letters of recommendation and wouldn't want to invent potions together some day. SHE HAD RUINED E V E R Y T H I N G.
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SPOILER!!: Professor C and Sophie Brown
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[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Once everyone was out, his attention was on her at last completely. Well, everyone minus Zander, who he was glad stayed back. This looked serious. First thing first, he got his wand out and swiftly summoned the dropper back from the potion. He carefully held it with the sleeve of his robe. It wasn't poisonous or anything, but you never knew. He went over to the sink to wash it as she explained and - ew, what was that smell?! - then beckoned Zander to come to Sophie.
"Depends on how much salamander blood you had sucked in it," he said calmly to show her it was OKAY as he cleaned his sleeve, dried the dropper and cleaned it with magic too. "You don't quit. Everyone does mistakes all the time. Sure, your potion will probably drive the drinker mad with how strong the effect will be, but..." He sighed. Zander, say something. Including the terrible smell that was getting stronger?
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Her head still in her arms, Soph made a grumpy noise at Culloden's words. "I didn't suck up much in there at all 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna need a whole lot." Eight drops was very little salamander blood, and Soph knew better than to take more than she needed. She was pretty good at gauging how many drops she could get out of a certain amount extracted into the dropper by now, but... she turned her head to face him, still using his arms as a pillow under her head as she shrugged, "Couldn't've been more than a few more drops left in there."
...Her potion would drive the drinker mad? SO IT WAS RUINED. The tears continued to pool in her eyes as she looked from Culloden to Zander, then back at the professor, then she let out a soft whimper of despair and buried her head back in her arms.
"I don't do mistakes. M'supposed to be your best student." And now he probably hated her and wouldn't write her letters of recommendation and wouldn't want to invent potions together some day. SHE HAD RUINED E V E R Y T H I N G.
Now that the rest of the class was starting to trickle out, the Gryffindor made his way to the front where Sophie Brown was sitting, mostly because he was going to anyways... But also because Culloden was no beckoning him over. So er, was it just him or was his potion's stench following him over to the front too? Uh. Hopefully no one else had noticed. Ahem. Zander wasn't really sure what all Professor C was willing to put up with... Seeing as the mistletoe situation during Christmas almost caused the man to throw a detention at them... But Zander took the risk, letting his hand sit on Sophie's shoulder. "See, only a few extra drops." He smiled a bit, trying to be somewhat reassuring and looking like he knew what he was talking about.
"Everything's okay," he gave her shoulder a light squeeze. "Can't be too much damage, right sir?" RIGHT SIR? Because now would be the perfect time to lie if that was false. Ahem. RIGHT, SIR?
And uh, as for his own potion though... "Also er.... This may be a bad time.... But I think my potion went terribly wrong..." He may have muddled a few steps along the way... Or five.
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Oh... well, Cosgrach still had to vanish it because it any case, it had been boiling for too long now. So he put out the fire and vanished the potion without saying anything, and looked at her in a serious tone.
"If you had summoned the dropper out quickly and continued with your potion," he said in a patient tone that suggested he wasn't just consoling her, "the drops would mean that the person's feelings with you would be very strong. Salamander bloodstrengthens the effects in Amortentia." Okay? "But it's not a permanent mindset and just that. A very strong obsession, but it's still better than Zander's potion out there." Which... needed to be vanished too, because it looked like Zander missed more than a few steps.
"Could you vanish that?" he asked the boy calmly (one would think all Sophie had to do was to ruin a potion at class for them to cooperate).
"So you're still my favourite student. How else will you learn? Did you know that I had to start Felix Felicis 5 times till I got it right? And without any family problems. You had every right to make mistakes today. So wipe your eyes, collect your stuff and get out to enjoy the Sun with your boyfriend. If it'll make you feel better, we can try to brew it together some other time, okay?" He even reached for her bag to handle it to her.
Now that the rest of the class was starting to trickle out, the Gryffindor made his way to the front where Sophie Brown was sitting, mostly because he was going to anyways... But also because Culloden was no beckoning him over. So er, was it just him or was his potion's stench following him over to the front too? Uh. Hopefully no one else had noticed. Ahem. Zander wasn't really sure what all Professor C was willing to put up with... Seeing as the mistletoe situation during Christmas almost caused the man to throw a detention at them... But Zander took the risk, letting his hand sit on Sophie's shoulder. "See, only a few extra drops." He smiled a bit, trying to be somewhat reassuring and looking like he knew what he was talking about.
"Everything's okay," he gave her shoulder a light squeeze. "Can't be too much damage, right sir?" RIGHT SIR? Because now would be the perfect time to lie if that was false. Ahem. RIGHT, SIR?
And uh, as for his own potion though... "Also er.... This may be a bad time.... But I think my potion went terribly wrong..." He may have muddled a few steps along the way... Or five.
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Oh... well, Cosgrach still had to vanish it because it any case, it had been boiling for too long now. So he put out the fire and vanished the potion without saying anything, and looked at her in a serious tone.
"If you had summoned the dropper out quickly and continued with your potion," he said in a patient tone that suggested he wasn't just consoling her, "the drops would mean that the person's feelings with you would be very strong. Salamander bloodstrengthens the effects in Amortentia." Okay? "But it's not a permanent mindset and just that. A very strong obsession, but it's still better than Zander's potion out there." Which... needed to be vanished too, because it looked like Zander missed more than a few steps.
"Could you vanish that?" he asked the boy calmly (one would think all Sophie had to do was to ruin a potion at class for them to cooperate).
"So you're still my favourite student. How else will you learn? Did you know that I had to start Felix Felicis 5 times till I got it right? And without any family problems. You had every right to make mistakes today. So wipe your eyes, collect your stuff and get out to enjoy the Sun with your boyfriend. If it'll make you feel better, we can try to brew it together some other time, okay?" He even reached for her bag to handle it to her.
When Zander's hand rested upon her shoulder, Soph looked up at him with watery eyes, not even so much as smiling at his encouragement before looking back at Culloden.
Everything was okay, he said. Couldn't be too much damage, he said. THEN WHY WAS CULLODEN VANISHING HER POTION, ZANDER ADAIR?
Cue all the tears.
She buried her face in her hands as the professor went on to tell her what she did wrong in not summoning the dropper out and what would've been the only consequences if she'd done so, all of which made her feel loads worse. If she'd been in a right mindset, she WOULD have summoned it out quickly and tried to fix her mistake. Though, more importantly, if she'd been in a right mindset, she wouldn't have even DROPPED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
More tears. But very briefly, there was a choke of laughter at Culloden pointing out that Zander's potion was even worse and HIS had to be vanished, too. The laughter was gone just as soon as it came, however, and she wiped her eyes on her sleeve to first glance over at Zander's potion before he vanished it, then up at Culloden when he reassured her she was still his favorite. She didn't know that about the Felix Felicis - she only knew they had brewed it together perfectly, with him letting her do the bulk of the work and only offering advice when needed. Surely that didn't mean she was any better than he was, of course, since she'd still gotten his help. Didn't make her feel much better at all. But. Sniffle.
"Are y'gonna have to fail me, though?" she asked, a heartbroken tone accompanying her bleary, puffy eyes. "Could you not? Can I try again later? I don't need help with it, I j-just... need..." another sniffle, "I wanna do-over. I'll make up the points. Can I get the points back if I make it over and have it be the best in the whole class? Please? I've gotta reputation to protect 'n've gotta be the top of your class. I can't... I can't let anyone pass me up. I needa keep my perfect record. Please."
She took the bag from him, letting it fall into her lap, and wiped the fresh tears from her pleading eyes.
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… Okay. Didn’t Professor Culloden just say that adding extra drops of the blood would only make the potion stronger? When did he say anything about the potion being screwy and needing to vanish it? ‘Cause Zander’s words of encouragement had the same fate as the dropper now. Fell straight into a hole of nothingness.
#THANKSCOSGROACH.
And now she was crying. Oh man, oh man, oh man.
DID HE SEE WHAT HE DID?
Sweet Merlin. Zander didn’t really know what to do at this point, so he just stood there still with his hand on her shoulder. Uh. And keeping his mouth shut incase Culloden decided to falsify his words again. Maybe keeping his mouth shut would be best for everyone, yeah?
He didn’t even mind when Culloden threw shade at his own potion. Would ya look at that, Soph? Zander Adair managed to make an even WORSE potion. And thank Merlin that that managed to get a small chuckle out of her. He’d mess up his potions every day if it meant she’d feel better about herself.
Uh also, speaking of which.... he’d better vanish his potion before this entire room smelled like essence of… smelly gym socks or WHATEVER that stench was. Ew. He quickly walked over to his own workstation and took out his wand to get rid of the cauldron’s contents. He did hear the bit about ‘favorite’ student though. Weren’t Professor’s banned from having favorites? HM? Though uh, it was quite obvious that Sophie Brown was every Professor’s favorite…. And he just happened to be boyfriend of the always favorite. A lousy title, some would say, but Zander didn’t mind not being a favorite, honestly. There was less pressure that way anyways.
Aheeeeem.
He lingered by his own workstation a little longer, letting Culloden finish all that sentimental stuff of his before walking back to stand next to the Head Girl. Didn’t want to interrupt or whatever, y’know?
Also, Sophie pls.
As if he’d ever fail her.
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Oh, she chuckled! So it wasn't terrible, was it? Cosgrach smiled a little too, and was thankful at Zander for being quick about vanishing that... thing. His nose had begun to hurt significantly.
He looked at her. "I won't fail you completely," he said, "but you can try again, of course." He even smiled softly. The best potion in the whole class. He didn't doubt that.
"I'm afraid you can't get full points, but you can get a good amount. Deal? C'mon. The house elves will come soon to clean here." He looked at Zander too. Were they coming?
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