Still listening to Hugo ramble, Janelle turned her attention back to the potion. It was almost finished. Quickly grabbing two Mistletoe Berries, she dropped them into the cauldron. Plop, plop they went and Janelle was ready to wrap this up. With the stirrer still in her hand, she put it back into the potion. This time, she gave it two counterclockwise stirs. Janelle set the timer on her watch to let her know when two minutes had passed.

"Hugo, two more minutes and the antidote will be done." Janelle hoped against hope that she had done everything right. It had to be right so Hugo could feel well again. "I guess we have to wait for the Professor to give us the ok, once the potion is done. Don't worry. You'll be as good as new soon." When her watch beeped, Janelle knew that the potion was ready. She assumed that the professor needed to check the potions before anyone tried them. She was really hoping that everyone would get their antidote soon. Janelle was not looking forward to drinking the potion herself. "How're you doing there partner?", she asked.

Kaycee laughed light. "A little bit is better than all the way." True story. Although, now she wished she didn't laugh. It kind of made the dizziness a little worse. But, nothing too bad. Just, unpleasant. Which made her start to worry what would happen if she failed at making the antidote when they switched places.

Oh. "Good idea." she said laying her head on the table. This was a little better. "Too bad there isn't a bed around." That also sounded really good.

Kaycee then sat when Dot asked the question to the Professor.

WHOA... she sat up a little TOO quickly. She took a second to gather her senses before peeking at the cauldron. Was it supposed to do something? Professor?

Going back to his potion, Jace slowly dropped two mistletoe berries inside his cauldron, and stirred it twice, anti-clockwise. He got his timer, and set it to two minutes.

The Ravenclaw checked on his patient, but didn't stand too close in case she needed to dump more stuff inside the cauldron. Jace could already smell her puke, and it made his stomach turn. The young boy wanted to gag, but he thought it would be rude. The Ravenclaw tried his best not to look at her cauldron, and gently tapped her shoulder. "The potion is done. We just have to wait two more minutes for it to settle, and it's ready to go." Merlin, his partner really didn't look so good. Jace took one of his beakers, filled it with water, "Aguamenti." and filled it half-way, "Finite." Is the two minute waiting time over? Nope. It's not even close to half a minute. "Here, you should drink some water." he said offering the beaker to Elsa. Tea would be better, but alas, he didn't have any in his person.

If he had to describe what the potion tasted like, he would have said it was ... liquid-y. Like water, but colder and smoother. He giggled and licked his lips. Funny, he never giggled. That was too girly. But he could not stop himself. "Nice to meet you too, Ilia." He replied, covering his mouth with his hand to stifle the giggle.

Carl turned his attention to the potion-making going on. He had to watch and learn so that he succeeded when it was his turn. However, everything was blurry. He blinked several times, but he could not see the Slytherin's hand clearly. He tried to concentrate as much as he could. Crushing the Bezoar, adding the powder into the cauldron ... oooh, her cauldron was pretty. Copper was pretty.

"Hmmm?" Did Ilia ask him something? "Oh, I like Hoggy-warts. Yeah, I am an irst fear - I mean, a First Year. Are you?" Carl blinked some more. He flinched a bit as his partner used Aguamenti to shoot water out of her wand. He felt like he needed to do something to help her, she was doing so much work and he was just sitting around. The best thing he could do was to keep her company. "Do you like unicorns, Ilia? I didn't know they existed until last summer. And now we are using unicorn horns in classes!" He gestured wildly to express his amazement.

No matter how much mixing, crushing and measuring....

...no matter how precise the method is followed...

Elliot checked the time. Two minutes was up! The instructions had said to let it brew for at least two minutes. He blinked sputtering a little as Jay stumbled and sunk down. "Hey! Jaemin are you ok? It's ready we just need to wait on the professor. Stay with me." The first year looked in bad shape and Elliot could only hope he lasted long enough to drink the antidote.

With her cloudy-noodle arms, Amur reeeaaaccchhheeed up and folded them on the desk. She was sure she was grinning, but she couldn't really feel her face. Fuzzy face. Puffy face.

Like.

A.

CLOUD.

GIIIIIIGGGGLLLLEEE.

It took her three times before she could get her chin nestled on the desk properly, but once there she had a great vantage point. A great look-out, to pull up her hand, squint her eye and bring her forefinger and thumb together in a pinching motion. Right between her fingers, was the Professor's head.

Heh........ Giggle. Giggle-SNORT.

See this is what adds to the pressure, its not just to get the potion right because hello grades, but the fact that the longer Haddie isnt taking the antidote the worse her delirium gets. Which swings the entire convo spectrum between soar like an eagle and wrecking ball.

But hey, this is the first time a girl actually calls him dreamy eyes. Even if she's not herself. He's taking it.

"Who's Kira?" he asked. Is Haddie making like Supergirl's bossy boss? Oi this is getting bad....

.... And she named her wand. Should he name his wand? Don’t answer that. Dirty jokes are against SS rules.

"Yeah that is a very pretty wand. Very embellished." woohoo big word ftw. "She got pretty for Christmas? So like... Is that new wood casing for your core then or?..."

And 3, 2, 1.... 2 minutes is up! He turned the flame off and peeked over his steamy cauldron. Should they ladle some out now?

2 minutes later...

.........

Alright, now the antidote has fully brewed! Ava poured some of the potions to a small vial. Then she handed it to her partner. "Here's for you." And now she just hoped that the antidote worked very well.

Okayyyyy...

Azura eyed the bottle holding the elixir and she looked over at Mason who was brewing the potion! She better do a good job, she really didn't want to die! She took a deep breath and sighed before she drank what was in the bottle and blinked a little..

Okay so where was the...

.........

Oh holy night!!

There were the side effects!!

The room suddenly spun around Azura and she grabbed onto the desk and tried to maintain her balance, which wasn't an easy task for her in a good day! Her head felt warm and then...

Her stomach felt like it had several Fwoopers fighting in it..

"Merlin I'm going to be sick." she groaned out as she sank into a chair and lay her head on the desk!

Hurry Mason!

She nearly fell off her chair again, this time requiring a bit more of a struggle to keep from going over. When she was finally stable again, Haddie put her head down for a moment.

Eventually she turned her head to look at Tenacius without lifting it off the desk. It was safer that way. Tenacius and the room were still sways and spinning, and the light was still being annoyingly streaky, but at least she felt more steady. She shook her head, or tried to since it was still firmly laid on the desk. "No... Just the silver and gold design. It's pretty, right?" She had placed the wand down in front of her, so she could see it and Tenacius. "The wood's ebony. Likes people who aren't afraid to be themselves... or something. Do you know a spell that'll make the room stop spinning? It's really annoying."

Haddie closed her eyes... but then couldn't see Tenacius anymore, which was terrible and opened them again. "That smells really good," she told him, gesturing at the cauldron. "Like caramelized cherries." Nope, definitely needed to keep her eyes closed. The spinning and swaying was too much. So Haddie compromised. She reached over and laid her hand on top of Tenacius' hand and shut her eyes. That's better.

Art heard Miss. O'Donnelly and Miss. Darcy asking about the Unicorn horns. It wasn't surprising that both young women were Hufflepuffs. "Err well I uhh, I get them from the apothecary," he said simply. But Miss. Darcy's question made him shake his head. "No, they weren't. There are some places that kill unicorns and breed them to harvest their horns, but those are illegal. I uhh, I get my stock from the apothecary. They remove about... oh, about three-quarters of the uhh, the horn, and the uhh, the remaining stump regenerates." He had made sure. He loved creatures. He didn't want harm to come to them.

Oop and it looked like someone did need his help with a vanishing charm. He looked around his desk, and in some drawers before finally finding his wand. He brushed off a few specs of dust and walked over to Miss. Pinkerton-Oliveira. "Evanesco," he said, pointing at the vomit. Gone. Hey presto! "Clean for more vomit," he said with a chuckle. It brought him back to his healer days.

Mr. Meriwether seemed to be having quite a fun time, and Art found himself chuckling to himself. "Well at least he's not got his head in a cauldron," he said to Madam Curie. He noticed that Miss. Neverwinter had taken the potion and she seemed to be tolerating it okay...

Art looked up at Miss. Wojack-Gusey, "It will turn a teal colour. There uhh some-sometimes it can be a bit-a bit darker, or lighter depending on the quality of ingredients." He continued with his own potion. But there was more ot her question. "Err.. well I... I don't really need magic. I didn't use it when I was a chemist, and, well... I suppose I don't need it now." He gave her a smile. Though it was much better to use magic to vanish vomit. He didn't fancy rinsing the chunky stomach contents down the sink. The smell. Ugh, no.

He finished off his potion, adding a pinch of unicorn horn, stirring, adding the mistletoe berries, stirring again, and waiting a further 2 minutes for the potion to sit. He looked into his cauldron and noticed that it was quite a bit darker than it usually was. But that was okay. He put it down to the Standard Ingredient. Perhaps it hadn't been prepared all that long ago. "Well it looks like the potion is a little bit darker than it usually is. Don't worry though, I think the Standard Ingredient is quite fresh. When it's fresh, the leaves are fresher and seep more colour out." He scooped the potion into a large vial, and cleaned up his area.

"Okay," he said with a clap. "N-now that we have all b-brewed our potions, your can give your partner a cup of it." That would be about half of their potion. "And then store the remainder in one of your vials." Just in case they wanted to use it again. He went about pouring more of the fakePoison elixir into some small glasses and lined them along his desk. "Those who have brewed the potion, come and get a sample of the elixir," he said with wide, excited eyes. "Then... uhh then those who have already had the poison can drink the antidote." He handed out the samples of poison. "It might take a few minutes to uhh, to work," he added.

OOC: OH NO, that pesky Narrator!

Brewers: Hand your potion to your partner! Then come and get a sample, and become the drinker!
Drinkers: Drink up! Remember that the potion WILL NOT WORK. So you get to brew the potion under the effects of the poison. Keep brewing, and RPing the effects of the poison.

Catching up: Keep going, if you haven't finished your posts, and then move on to the next stage. The class will end in about 2 days, so you have plenty of time.
Remember that you DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR YOUR PARTNER TO POST. I'm aware that timezones and real life don't always match up.

5 posts for the brewer, and 3 for the drinker at least.

If you have any questions, flag it in the title and we will get to it.

With her head still resting on her knees, Norah watched and watched blurry Yoongi go about his brewing. Blurry Yoongi was almost as wonderful to look at as non-blurry Yoongi was, but her eyes didn't seem to want to stay very open and probably weighed a million bazillion pounds. But who was counting. She considered holding them open with her fingers, but that would mean taking her hands off her stomach and at that moment it felt like her hands were the only things holding her insides in. Who KNEW what'd happen if she moved even the teeny weeniest bit. It FELT like she'd break in half, what with the weirdness in her tummy and the throbbing in her head and tickles in her throat that made her want to cough except she COULDN'T, because that would mean MOVING. Gross. The entire thing was gross. Except for the Yoongi part, that wasn't gross, but if she threw up on him it'd be kind of gross. Okay, really gross. But hopefully that wouldn't happen.

She opened her mouth again, this time to offer some encouragement, but all that came out was a drawn-out groan. And a cough. And then some more silence from her. Merlin, this couldn't go on for much longer, could it? Letting her feet back onto the floor, she lurched forward to lay her head on the table, her face on its side so she could keep watching him as he saved her life. Or tried to, anyways. Professor Newton had promised it wouldn't be like dying but all the moaning and the groaning and the bleh sure FELT like dying. Or something like that. Hopefully she'd never have to find out.

Now she had finished brewing the potions... Time to get poisoned. Seriously, Ava thought this wasn't a good idea thought it was for educational purpose. She walked to the Professor's table and took the poisone.

Ready? One, two, three!!

GULP!!!

Eeeeeek!!! It didn't taste good! Of course it didn't silly. There's no poison that taste good, unless the Professor had put some cherry flavor on it.It didn't take a long time for the poison to work. A moment after she drank it, she felt her stomach was in pain.

Bella continued to giggle, especially when Zeke asked if he was growing antlers. She shook her head swaying more each way her head turned that she had to grip her stool tighter so she didn't tip over. "Nope not antlers, just distorted. I feel like I'm in a fun house filled with mirrors." She wasn't sure if he knew what a fun house was, but when she swayed it made the effects more fun.

Despite his warning to be careful she still continued to sway, but on purpose. Once or twice she actually came close to tipping out of her seat, but she caught herself and laughed even more. "You... you really should try this." She wasn't sure how other drinkers were fairing, but this was fun. Well at least it was up until now because what she didn't expect was the dizziness that quickly followed all of the swaying she was doing. It didn't take long before her smile turned upside down.

Jace turned to his cauldron for the time being, checked out the content of his cauldron, and just in time, saw the solution turn teal. Hmm. It looks like he succeeded! After two minutes was up, Jace scooped half a cup of his potion into a clean vessel, and lined it alongside the cup of water for Elsa to drink. "Here, it should cure you now." he said, smiling at his partner. "Go on." He then turned to get a smaller sample into his vial, labelled it properly, and settled the small bottle down on his workstation.

More information was being revealed to them, and Jace took down more notes on his parchment. So far, he didn't have any questions so he obediently put down his quill, put his notes aside, and came up to the table to choose his elixir. While he did so, he was still wary about the Professor's rat. How can that thing sit on a table, right? Merlin.

Jace snatched a cup, returned to his workstation, and smiled back to his partner. "Well, here I go..." The Ravenclaw slowly raised the cup to his mouth...smelled it, and without second thoughts...drank everything. Little did he know that he was doomed...for the rest of the school year at least.

...

Well?

She knew Hady had said two minutes, but those two minutes seemed like they had gone on forever to Brooklyn. Not that she’d really moved much in those two minutes, seeing as she was still trying to tamp down the symptoms as much as possible. Of course, she was thankful that the poison hadn’t made her act crazy, like a few people it had been hard not to notice even with her face still hidden in her knees. While her eyesight was still foggy, her hearing was excellent, and she’d identified that song the Gryffindor she’d been paired off with for the portrait lesson quite easily. Having a sister who liked the Beatles helped. She wasn’t about to let anyone know she’d recognized it though. She didn’t sing, even when she wasn’t feeling horrible.

She hadn’t even looked up as Professor Newton had spoken, instructing them to take the antidotes and then to switch places. Part of her was still concerned that something was going to go wrong, just because it was Hogwarts and things always seemed to go sideways at some point. The hag couldn’t be the only weird thing this term. She still trusted Hady, she just didn’t trust everything else. She’d drunk the antidote once her housemate had given it to her, getting a bit frustrated when it didn’t seem to act right away.

No, she’d had to find her way up to the front to collect her ingredients while still feeling like everything was spinning. Feeling actual sympathy for Hady as she knew she would be expected to drink the poison now. That and feeling like the professor’s career wasn’t going to last long if he ended up poisoning an entire classroom of students, if the antidote didn’t start working soon. She just had to hope that the glimpse she’d gotten of the instructions once she’d gotten close enough to the blackboard would be good enough, since she’d given up on her vision clearing. She’d just have to trust her skills. Thankfully, she didn’t have to cut anything.

"Urgh.... I don't feel so good," Bella groaned, wrapping her arms around her stomach. At this point she had completely stopped swaying as she waited for Zeke to finish the antidote because she was really starting to feel very nauseous. “How much longer?” She didn’t want to seem impatient, but this was no longer fun and she was ready to put this experience behind her. She was starting to get a little worried and it showed in her blue eyes. What if the potion didn’t work?

Elsa smiled with struggle at Jace's joke and leaned into his cool hand as he searched for horn tips. She was feeling SO HOT and cold at the same time, which meant she had a fever as well. Peachy!

Professor Art cleaned her cauldron, and she was quick to fill it again.

She blinked a few times trying to keep concentrated on Jace and making a conversation, but time seemed to be stretching and speeding like a rubber band. She couldn’t distinguish what he was saying to her but she understood it was almost ready so Elsa kept nodding, seeing him work full speed to provide her with the antidote. As she spotted Jace’s beaker being offered to her, she took it gladly and drank in big gulps. At least the water seemed to cool her throat a little, allowing her to see clearer for a few moments.

It's done! Apparently. Relief filled Elsa's lungs as she took a deep breath and picked up the vessel eagerly. No more poison to her, ever. This was not as fun as she would have hopped. By now she had removed jumper and cloak, wearing only her sweat drenched shirt underneath her lab coat. Her hair was in a tight know on the top of her head but sweat beads kept falling from her temples and she kept brushing them back with her sleeve. She had a faint green undertone and blinked way too many times to be natural. Plus the swaying. All the swaying was making her crazy.

ENOUGH WITH THE ROCKING BOAT PLEASE, she wanted to scream. So she gulped the potion quickly, anticipating the relief it would bring her. Her head snapped to the side “This will t-take some time?” she asked Jace, confirming what the teacher had said. Merlin, she had no time now, Jace downed his potion like a pro, and in no time he would be feeling like something a troll dragged in, like she did. She had to start working on the antidote now. After all she owned him that, he did everything he could to keep her comfortable, now it was her turn. Plus, soon she would feel much better. It was only a matter of minutes really.

She pulled her sleeves up, rubbed her eyes hard and looked at the blackboard for confirmation.

Ok, you can do this.

She threw her bezoar into her mortar, grabbed the pestle as strongly as she could, keeping the mortar close to her body and began crushing it into what she hoped would be a very, very fine powder. Her hand kept slipping from the pestle, and this was looking harder than Jace had made it seem, but she had to, for Jace’s sake. “Crush, crush, crush away..” she tried saying with humor, but it came out rather sinister instead. She was sure Professor Art wouldn’t let them all die.. would he?

The Potions classroom began to spin around him. Carl gripped his desk tightly. He was going to fall off and drop into ... into nothingness! With a sigh, he closed his eyes. This made him feel better - at least he was not as dizzy.

He tried to open his eyes again but this time, sleep overcame him. Yaaawn. Could he sleep? He was comfy enough here. "Uh, Ilia? Can you - can you poke me if I fall asleep?" He asked while yawning again. Rubbing his eyes, he rested his head on the desk. He was not going to sleep ... he was not going to sleep ... he was not going to ... *yawn*.

The two minutes were up and Hady carefully filled a cup with the antidote before gently pressing it into Brookly's hand. "There you go," she whispered quietly hoping it worked quickly. Every single step was followed exactly so there shouldn't be a problem. Therefore her partner would feel better really soon and they could continue on.

Watching her fellow snake drink from the cup Hady held her breath willing it to work. Honestly she didn't want to be the reason her friend was still poisoned. Not a good way to keep friends at all! Please work...pleeeaaassssse work!

Getting to her feet she made her way to the front of the room along Brooklyn frowning slightly to herself that so far it didn't appear that the girl was feeling better. It was hard to tell since she wasn't complaining but she just didn't look like herself and Hady knew something was still off about this. Maybe it took a few minutes to kick in? She sure hoped so.

Collecting the small cup of the diluted down poison for herself Hady turned and went back to their work station. Sitting down her eyes traveled to the cup as she swirled the liquid around inside tipping the cup back and forth. Taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly she raised the cup to her lips and drank quickly before she could change her mind about it. The stuff was gross and the quick look on her face were she may have wrinkled her nose a little was the proof of that.

Glancing around the room at everyone she let her eyes roam to her partner briefly before looking away, covering her mouth as she yawned. Sleepiness she could cope with. Maybe she would get lucky and nothing more would happen.

Rachel raised her head in annoyance. Why was Professor Art talking so much? Why was the room so noisy? It was all starting to give her a headache. It took her a while to register that the Professor was telling them to take the antidote. Finally! Thank goodness by the grace of King Triton's mighty, shiny trident!

The Eagle waited impatiently and crankily for Esme to hand her some of the antidote. "Hurry up,'' she muttered. When she was supplied with it, she drank it up. "This had better work otherwise I am never partnering with you ever again, Esme.'' She got to her feet unsteadily so she had to hold onto the workstation to steady herself. She wished that the antidote would kick in quickly. "It's your turn to be sick. In the meanwhile, I'll show you how to brew a potion in a timely manner."

Rachel gathered all the necessarily ingredients then cleaned and cured her cauldron, all the while hanging onto the workstation for support. She was starting to fell annoyed at Professor Art too. How dare he put his students to work under these terrible conditions?

Grumbling to herself, she added a bezoar to her mortar so she could begin crushing it.

Merlin, all that singing was making his head worse, it seemed. But Matt couldn't HELP it. It was FUUUNNN!! ...Kind of. Not really, but singing was good. "That's okay." Matt told Ariadne when she apologised for laughing. "It's alright, I'm having a blast." He managed a grin as he looked at her with just one eye. The other was still shut because all that LIGHT, MUN. His heaaaadddddd!

"Okay, I'll sit here." He basically repeated what the girl had said and followed her instructions, sitting down. "Goooooooooood!" He exclaimed sluggishly as he looked around the room. "Professor Newt won't mind if I take a nap, right?" Y'know, just as he waited for Ariadne to finish the last four steps she said she needed to do. He leaned his head on his arms again as soon as he finished speaking.

Haddie lifted her head finally, her hands using the table and Tenacius' hand to steady herself. "Moment of truth..." She grabbed the cup of antidote and downed it quickly. Relief settled in her. Relief that is a few minutes she'd be feeling better. "Don't drink the poison yet... wait... until I'm ready to brew the antidote."

Even through all of the general not-feeling-well etched on her face, the look of worry was noticeable. She was gonna fail at making the antidote and leave Tenacius poisoned... or worse. "Maybe... save some of your antidote, just in case mine's a failure, okay?" With that, Haddie put her head down and waited for the effects of the antidote to kick in and counter the faux-poison.

A minute went by.

Two minutes.

This day was crummy. Of all the days to finally team-up with Tenacius, it had to be the day the Professor Newton decided to poison them and let her embarrass herself uncontrollably in front of the Gryffindor boy. Ugh. Haddie made a mental note to despise Newton as soon as she was up for despising anyone. She simply didn't have the energy to despise anyone at thee moment. Not even Rachel. Not even Davie-freaking-Truebridge...

RACHEL! Haddie lifted her head a little too fast, and had to close her eyes to steady herself. She looked over at her Ex-bestie... this day was awful enough with out dealing with Haddie's prank. Sigh. "Be right back," she said, patting Tenacius' hand.

She stood up, supporting herself against the desk. Taking Kira with her, Haddie stumbled and staggered, using other workstations and desks to keep from falling over, over to Rachel and Esme. When she finally made it the other girls' workstation, colliding with it more than anything, her skin was clammy with the effort. Haddie raised her wand and aimed it, somewhat shakily, at Rachel's face. "Finite Incantatem!" Black spots clouded her vision. Casting even that spell in her state took to much out of her, nearly causing her to pass out entirely. There was no way she'd be able to scourgify it off... "You can cast scourgify now," she told Esme and stumbled her way, slower than before, back to her desk.

Haddie collapsed into her chair, gripping the desk so hard to keep from tumbling off that her knuckles and fingers were white. Or maybe it was just that all of her was white. "Professor, I don't think the antidote works. Don't drink it, T..." How was she gonna brew an antidote if she couldn't stand?

Madge's timer dinged and she scooped some of her antidote into a cup for Mel. "Mel! I got the antidote! Here drink up!" She knelt down beside the girl and gave her the cup.

She then turned on her heel and went to grab the sample of the poison. Greeeeat. Just great. She was NOT prepared for this. Her grandmother NEVER told her they would poison her at this school. Very uncool. She grabbed the phial with a shaking hand and returned to her seat.

She uncorked the phial, looked down at Mel, and said "Bottoms up!"