Madge Always liked to arrive in class early. She still wasn't quite sure how she felt about the Potions professor, although she had been to the class every time she had it scheduled. It took her a lot time to really get a feel for people. She popped into the classroom and made her way to the seat she usually sat at, about the middle of the classroom, not too far front and not too far back either.

She laid down her tattered first year potions book, her quill and ink, as well as her note parchment.Then she set the small wooden crate that read "Potions" on he side onto her desk. These were the equipment she had bought in Diagon Alley in the second-hand shops, or from her grandmothers basement. Everything she owned was second hand... except for her shiny black buckle shoes. once everything was on her desk she whipped off her school cloak and folded it neatly over her chair and then went to the overcrowded wall of lab coats and retrieved hers, and pulled it on.

She returned to her desk and began to unload her potions crate just so - her cauldron (standard size 2 Pewter, of course), her scales, and everything else they used for most lessons. And once everything was set up neatly and in an intuitive working set-up, she slid the crate under her desk.

She looked up tot he desk and saw that the professors rat was there. Madge loved animals, so she smiled at her and said "Good Day, madame Curie." she gave a small giggle, the joke never seemed to get old for her. Or was her name a pun? Madge wasn't quite sure on the definition of pun... so possibly.

Time for another Potions class.

At some point, Ava still hoped that she could stay home a little bit longer. But she couldn't, Christmas break was over and now it's time to back to school again. But at least this class was Potions, which she enjoyed (not as much as Defense Against the Dark Arts though). So far she didn't really mind with this new Professor. Well, he was no Culloden (and nobody could replace him) but he was alright (but still less cool than Culloden).

After she had some food, the young lioness headed out to the potions classroom. Getting her lab coat, she noticed that the Professor was there. Only Madame Curry the rat was on his place. Oh, maybe he needed to go to the bathroom first, or still having his meal. That's okay. She took a seat at the front row and... Wait.

It was time for Potions and Janelle was looking forward to the class, as usual. She still hadn't quite gotten used to the fact that Professor Cullodeen was gone, but seeing that the year was half over...........she would have to get over that. Entering the room, Janelle noticed that there was no Professor in sight. Spotting the rat, she wondered for a second if he was an Animagus. It was possible. It had happened before. "Bonjour Madame Curie", Janelle said cheerfully.

After grabbing her lab coat, Janelle put it on and then headed for the sink to wash her hands. Old habits died hard. Then it was on to her work station, where she prepared her things for the lesson. She wondered what they would be brewing today.

Suri hated studying. It was boring, long, and always seemed annoyingly pointless. She liked knowing things, and if she didn't know something then she wanted to be the one who got to decide if it was worth learning about. No offense to all the adults - or maybe a little offense - but they didn't always know what was best for her. Even her mother didn't. Especially not now when she was super fat and busy with growing a baby inside her stomach.

Suri shuddered at the thought.

Potions, in contrast, was one of the few classes the twelve year old actually enjoyed. It reminded her of cooking but it involved magic instead of flour and consisted of very little wandwork, for which she was grateful. Lightning was the best wand, but they weren't the best of friends yet and he still wouldn't listen to her at times (most of the time). Potions didn't require Lightning to do much of anything, so today she bounced into the classroom with an amicable upturn of her lips and a will to learn something new.

Doing her quick customary Daxton search - he wasn't here yet - Suri grabbed her lab coat from the wall and moved to take her seat on the second row. She eyed the Professor's pet rat for a few long moments, then shrugged and began to set up her station. Wasn't it strange to keep a pet rat if you used rat bits in potions all the time? Seemed odd to her.

Potions time again.

Noting she was early, Bonnie considered sneaking out and heading back to the common room. The thought of curling up on a chair with her book was very tempting but her conscience wouldn't allow it.

Instead she would spend her time in the dungeons struggling to stay awake. Bonnie took her seat and began to take out her potions book, parchment and quill. She grabbed her lab coat and returned to her workstation.

Madge noticed a Gryffindor girl about her age, she seemed quiet too... Madge hadn't made any friends in the first term of hogwarts, so maybe that meant she had to be a bit more outgoing, if that was possible.

"Ehm, hi there..." she said to the girl close by. "My name's Madge." She blushed, okay maybe being outgoing wasn't her thing... but she had made herself noticed now so what can you do?

Mmm curled up in her favourite chair by the fire, head in a book. She could hear the chatter of her fellow lions, ahh bliss.

"Wh-what?" Something was pulling her out of her daydream. Ahh it was a girl trying to speak to her. Bonnie was so used to being in her own little world she'd hardly spoken to anyone.

"Oh hi there! Sorry I was miles away, Madge was it?" Maybe if she spent more time in the here and now she wouldn't appear so rude, which just wasn't her.

"I'm Bonnie" she smiled and extended her hand.

Madge's blush disapated and she took the hand Bonnie had extended to her. "Bonnie, pleasure to make your aquaintance. Yes, Madge, Madge O'Donnelly." she said with a small smile. Yes, the girl was definitely an introspective type, she could tell, which meant maybe they could sit together and read in silence. The perfect acquaintanceship, if you asked her.

"Are you a first year too?" Madge asked.

Mason walked into the Potions Classroom, giddy to be back in her favourite subject ever. She passed where Professor Newton always sat and noticed that little rat of his. "Animagus. . ." she whispered before giving the rat a salute. "Good Evening, Madame Curie. I hope you don't die from radiation-poising like your namesake."

Mason strode towards where their lab coats hung and snatched the one that had her name written on in her overly-girly script.


She made her way towards one of the tables and pulled on the lab coat, wishing that Professor Newton would just reveal himself as the rat, (again, ANIMAGUS) and start the lesson.

Brian was pretty much still half-asleep when he walked into the potions laboratory. But there was no real surprise there, really. The Hufflepuff was usually found either sleeping or close to sleep or eating or being hungry. There was very rarely anything else on his mind than music, food and sleep. Sleep.

He was so sleepy he barely had the presence of mind to acknowledge the professor person as he went to get his lab coat off the hook, but when he turned around, there was no professor to be found. Strange.

So coat on, the boy shuffled towards a workstation and started setting up. And tried to wake himself up a little before the lesson started. Where was Timmy? She was usually earlier than him to these things, the last time he checked. Today was such a strange day.

It was a lovely day for potions, was it not?

Zeke had arrived with time to spare, adjusting his tie and absently running a hand through his hair to correct it. No professor yet? He was cool with that. After grabbing his lab coat, he took a seat in his usual spot near the front. And with that Zeke began unpacking his essentials from his bag and lay them out in front of him.

After titling his notes page with the date, Zeke exchanged smiles with some of his peers before shooting a look at the glorified rat. Madam whatever-its-name-was.

In her nervousness to face yet another Potions lesson and not cause disaster, Rachel had not examined her face when she had risen from sleep. If she had, she would have noticed the drawings on her face which included an elephant and an eagle complements, unknowingly, of Hadddie the night before! Poor Rachel simply worriedly combed her hair into her plaits after her morning shower and departed for class after dressing.

At the classroom, she peeked into the room. There was no Professor Art around but there was Madam Curie. "Good morning, Madam Curie. Will you be teaching us today?'' Rachel dearly wanted to pet the rat but knew better. She put on her lab coat then hurried off to take a seat, her face still lively animated with Haddie's handiwork. She smiled at Ava and Janelle as she took up position next to Mason. "Hello, Mason.'' The Snake received a smile as Rachel went about preparing her workstation for today's lesson.

Ilia walked into the classroom rather nonchalantly and took her inscribed lab coat off of the wall. She decided to be informal about it and wrote Ilia F. Valke. She felt like using her preferred name rather than her actual first name.

She walked deeper into the classroom and smiled at the rat. "Hello, Madame Marie Curie. I trust that you are having a good day?" Yes she knew that the rat was not going to respond to her in English, but she greeted everyone's pets. Even Pebbles the rock got a hello from her.

She did not yet see the professor though....what was it with Hogwarts and disappearing professors? Oh well he'd show up. She looked the classroom over and the moment she saw Zeke Browne , decided on the complete opposite end of the room. She still, couldn't stand that kid.

Carl walked into the classroom, forcing a smile onto his face. Potions was not his strongest subject - as a matter of fact, it was his worst. He always thought he did everything as instructed, only to end up with a bad result. Hopefully he would do better in this lesson. But ... where was Professor Newton? He liked the Professor and was disappointed to not see him at his usual place.

"Hello, Madame Curie." The Hufflepuff said instead at the rat. He made his way to the hooks along the side of the wall and retrieved his white lab coat. It made him feel like a scientist! Having a Professor Newton and a Madame Curie also added to the effect. With a real smile, he made his way to his seat at the back of the classroom. He then began setting up his Potions materials for the lesson.

Mason had been setting up her scales when she heard someone sit next to her. She gave said someone a quick sideways-glance and decided from the braids that it was Rachel even before she had greeted her. "Hey, Rachie-Ru!" she lifted her head and focused on her instead of the scales, "You ready to mash up some Acro----------"

Mason gawked at Rachel. I am not going to laugh, I am not going to laugh. Merlin I need to laugh.

She raised her finger to Rach's freckled, and sharpied, face. She traced the elephant with her finger before smirking, "That elephant looks a little disfigured to me." she told Rachel with a slight smirk, "Who decided to use your face as a canvas?"

She gave her friend a sympathetic smile and tried wiping some of the ink off. Nothing.

This reeked of revenge. And there was only one person bold enough to do something like this. . .

Potions!!

The now twelve year old little girl bounced carefully into class with a smile on her face! No creepy doll or missing of best friends or confusion over boys was going to bring her down today! She smiled as she looked around and moved to get her lab coat. She didn't see the Potions professor, but she was assured he would be here soon!!

She blinked as she saw Rachel with drawings on her face! Had Haddie struck again? She saw her talking to Mason and moved over to join them.

"Uhh Rachel, what happened to your face?" She asked concerned as she turned her purple eyes to look over at Mason. "Hi!"

Sam dumped her bag on what had become her usual desk, pulling out her quill and parchment absent-mindedly as she looked around the room for the Professor. The Professor who wasn't here, but had left his rat in his place.

She shrugged, now used to the concept of an absent teacher, and went to pick up her lab coat from the hooks. Spotting her dorm mates as she returned, she gave Rachel and Azura a friendly wave and hi. Did the former know her face was covered in pen? Of course there was only one person in their dorm she could see doing such a thing. Sam rubbed her own face subconsciously, glad she'd had time to look in the mirror this morning. If Haddie ever did such a thing to her...

There'd be trouble, for sure.

Errr, where was rat man?

Walking to the classroom, Esme was a little confused, but it didn't really matter; he would be there soon enough. As it was, his little pet was with them. She would just... keep her distance and head over to a workstation. Yeah. Instead she focused on getting her lab coat.

Seeing Rachel and Azura sitting with a girl she wasn't familiar with (Mason) she decided to join them. "Hey, guys! What's with your face, Rachel? Do you like animals so much that you had to draw them on your face?" A little weird, but she would respect her friend's decision.

Matt had to resist the urge to take his blaster with him to the lesson.

Actually, he didn't resist the urge at all. He had brought it with him and had placed it under the lab coat with MATT SOLO written on it. Nice and tucked away along with his wand because obviously one was as important as the other.

The Gryffindor took his seat just in time to hear some people asking what was wrong with Rachel's face. Without blinking, the boy turned to see it too, because curiosity got the best of him. "HAHAHA, COOL! Who did that??"

Haddie entered, looking as unhappy to be in potions as ever. Brewing a potion was exactly like cooking, and there was a reason she was banned from helping in the kitchen at home. She should probably be banned from the potions lab too, but it was a required subject.

Seriously.

There were other things contributing to her mood that no one knew about yet. Not that she had anyone to talk about it with anymore. Rachel still hadn't bothered to apologize or show any sign that she cared at all about how much she'd hurt Haddie. Ailsa couldn't be bothered to pry her nose out of a book for two seconds let alone long enough to have a conversation. Everyone else seemed to constantly flock around Rachel. Haddie only had herself, and she was learning to be fine with that. Really. Not like it will matter after this year, anyway.

Still the sight of Rachel's face cheered her up immensely. So much so Haddie had to chew on her lip to keep from laughing. She grabbed her lab coat, making a small detour that forced her to pass next to Rachel. She waved to Mase and Azzy and Sammy as she approached.

"Nice make-up," she said. They were the first words she'd said to Rach in weeks and her voice still held a lot of frost to it, renewed all the more now that she'd given up on waiting for Rachel to even try to mend their friendship. She hadn't done or said anything to Rachel this whole time, being exceptionally patient with the freckle-faced eagle. But the time of waiting was over.

Haddie kept walking, not waiting to hear anything Rach said back. She made her way to the far side of the room and pulled out her quill, a notebook and her partially melted cauldron. A mishap during a lesson back in October. At least it hadn't melted so much she couldn't use it.

SPOILER!!: Azy!

Potions!!

The now twelve year old little girl bounced carefully into class with a smile on her face! No creepy doll or missing of best friends or confusion over boys was going to bring her down today! She smiled as she looked around and moved to get her lab coat. She didn't see the Potions professor, but she was assured he would be here soon!!

She blinked as she saw Rachel with drawings on her face! Had Haddie struck again? She saw her talking to Mason and moved over to join them.

"Uhh Rachel, what happened to your face?" She asked concerned as she turned her purple eyes to look over at Mason. "Hi!"

Mason looked from Haddie's artwork and smiled as Azura joined them, "Azy!" Mason said and beckoned the Ravenclaw closer, "I was just asking her that! Haddie did a fine job though. She really has an eye for this type of thing!" She poked the eyeball on Rachel's cheek and gave her a little pat on the shoulder.

It wasn't like everybody didn't know that this was Haddle-Pop's work and Mason made a metal not to mess with the girl, ever.

SPOILER!!: Esme!

Errr, where was rat man?

Walking to the classroom, Esme was a little confused, but it didn't really matter; he would be there soon enough. As it was, his little pet was with them. She would just... keep her distance and head over to a workstation. Yeah. Instead she focused on getting her lab coat.

Seeing Rachel and Azura sitting with a girl she wasn't familiar with (Mason) she decided to join them. "Hey, guys! What's with your face, Rachel? Do you like animals so much that you had to draw them on your face?" A little weird, but she would respect her friend's decision.

Merlin, their little table sure was popular.

This time an older-looking girl joined them. And one that Mason did in fact, not know. So she put on her best Slytherin-smile and stuck her hand out to the girl, "Hi! I'm Mason."

Mason laughed at her comment, before pretending to cough. She didn't want to offend Rachel (more than she already had). "Her ex-best friend got revenge on her. That's what we all think anyway." she told the still unknown girl, before turning back to Rach.

"I never heard the full story, though. WHAT exactly did you do that was so horrible?"

Text Cut: Haddle-Pop

Still the sight of Rachel's face cheered her up immensely. So much so Haddie had to chew on her lip to keep from laughing. She grabbed her lab coat, making a small detour that forced her to pass next to Rachel. She waved to Mase and Azzy and Sammy as she approached.

Mason didn't want to get in between this fight. She wasn't going to choose a side. She was friends with both Haddie and Rachel. She wasn't going to let their stupid little feud ruin that.

So when Haddie waved to her, she felt obligated (as her friend), to wave back. And she did it with a huge grin, since she found the prank hilarious,

She hoped that Haddie wasn't mad at her too, and she hoped that the Ravenclaw didn't think that Mason hated her now.

Uggggh, why were girls so difficult?!

Another Potions class. Blaise was still getting used to not having Professor Culloden being around the place but this one wasn't so bad he supposed.

It wasn't until he'd shrugged on his coat and turned that he realized the Professor was nowhere to be found.

Huh.

The first thought was that he was pulling a Professor Primeaux and skipping out on his teaching duties but how many people like that could Professor Moxley really have hired? There was just no way. Surely the Professor had a good enough reason and would actually be here when the lesson started.

All he had to do was sit tight and that was exactly what he did. Just waiting.

POTIONS!

This was the subject Ariadne was RAISED to excel at! Now if she could just love up to that expectation, it would be AWESOME. So far, she'd done well. Her cauldron was still in place and not exploded, at least. She was nowhere near the expert level her mom and sister were at, but she was only a first year. She had time.

After grabbing the white lab coat with her signature etched inside, Ariadne headed to her station, which was somewhere in the vicinity of Rachel, Haddie, Mason, and Azura. "Hey, girls!" she said, taking her seat. Something was going on with Rachel's face, but it seemed to be getting enough attention for now, so Ariadne didn't make a move to add to that.

Instead, she started setting up her station, so that everything would be in place when the lesson began. The professor's pet rat was nearby, so Ariadne gave him a hello just in case he was super magical and could understand what she was saying. "Hiii, Madame Curie!" she said.

Aaand its time to cook!

.... Well if feels like cooking. Not everything that comes out of a pot is edible innit? That’s curly top logic for yah.

And in one fluid motion Tenacius swung by the lab coat rack, took his coat and slid behind his assigned Potions table, even managing a smooth "W'zup Furry Curry." as he greeted the tater tot fur ball.

Matt was going about something... Tenacius turned to look at the commotion and..... ?

His blue-green gaze fell on the Ravenclaw girl (Rachel) "Nice face tatoos!" thumbs up yup yup