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Art was standing behind his desk with Madame Curie perched on his left shoulder. He was organising all of the ingredients into an order which would allow his students to easily come to the desk when it was time and collect them. His white lab coat was on, and all of his personal equipment was set up ready to be used, to brew the potion today.
As it was nearing 10:30, he opened the door to allow the students to come in and get ready for class.
Ingredients
• 6 cups water
• 15 fresh Belladonna leaves
• 3 dried Fluxweed sprigs, roughly crushed in mortar and pestle (picked during a full moon, and dried over one week)
• 0.5mL Wormwood essence
• 2Tbsp Lacewing flies
• 1tsp honey
• 1tsp water
• 0.1mL Boomslang venom
• 1 crushed Unicorn Horn
• 1 measure of your animal
Method
1. Add 6 cups of water to you cauldron, and light a small flame. Simmer the water for 5 minutes to slowly heat to an appropriate temperature
2. Pluck the 15 leaves of Belladonna from the sprigs, will need approximately 2 sprigs, and add them to the cauldron once five minutes is up
3. Gather the 3 sprigs of dried Fluxweed, and roughly crush in mortar and pestle. Only enough to increase the surface area, then add to the cauldron
4. Simmer for a further 3 minutes
5. Stir with a wooden stirrer, three times, clockwise
6. Measure, with a 1ml syringe, your Wormwood essence, and add to the cauldron.
7. Measure 0.1mL Boomslang venom in a different syringe and place to the side for a moment
8. Clean the mortar and pestle, add one unicorn horn, and crush it to a fine powder, then add the Boomslang venom. Mix together (it will not make a paste) and set aside for three minutes, then add to the cauldron.
9. Simmer the cauldron for three minutes, then stir three times, clockwise
10. Clean the mortar and pestle, and add two tablespoons of Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey, and one teaspoon of water, and crush until it makes a smooth paste. Carefully add the paste to the cauldron
OOC: Hi everyone, welcome to lesson two! I hope you remembered to bring your characters pets in their cages, and put on their lab coats, which are lining the wall, ready for class.
OOC: Class has officially began! Just pretend you've been here all along.
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While waiting the potions to simmer, Ava started cleaning her workstation and packing her stuffs. Once she had finished packing, it's already six minutes which means.... Her potions was ready!
With the clean scooper, the young lioness carefully scoop the potions and tried not to take the stewed ingredients. It's a little bit disgusting to see there were some solid materials inside the cauldron. She measured 10 ml of the potion and pour them to her phial. There, done finally. "Professor, what happened if we drink more than 10 ml?" She asked curiously. "And how long the effect will last for?" Because he only mentioned that they're gonna have an ability to understand the pet.
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The next step had the unicorn horn. Fiiiiiinally. Jaemin always liked using the mortar and pestle because he got to squish and grind things all the way up. Sure, it was hard work sometimes, but it was fun, especially when the thing he was grinding up was a challenge. He picked up the horn after having set aside the syringe OF VENOMMMMMM and carefully placed it into the mortar...
...and then smash. He hit down on it with the pestle, rather violently, a few times. Just to get the process going, you know? He hummed contentedly to himself and went about the whole 'grinding it up' process, looking between it and the small hedgehog watching him from the cage. This was all for you, Sniffler! All for you. All this hard potioneering work. Did he see? Did he care??? Probably not.
It took a lot of his little boy energy to get the unicorn horn all nice and ground up, but when it was finally ready, he set the pestle aside and reached for the boomslang venom again. The potion wouldn't be getting this shot! He squirted it carefully into the unicorn horn dust and mixed it all up. It didn't seem like it was really doing anything, but... the professor's hadn't either, so surely it was fine.
This waiting business was for the Ravenclaws. Jaemin was getting really tired of just sitting here watching things. He had to sit there for another three minutes before he could add it to the cauldron as well; in those three minutes, he attempted to psychically communicate with Sniffler ahead of time, just in case. What was the small, spiny creature thinking, hmm????
...
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....................?????
It was either nothing, or he was just not psychic. That was fine with him though, because that wasn't a part of magic he particularly felt drawn to... Jaemin picked up his mortar full of unicorn dust after the three minutes of silence were up and dumped it into the cauldron.
Kitty wondered a little nervously if the potion would work and what would happen when it did. While she waited she got the feeling that Olaf wanted to be let out of his cage. It was such a small cage and really wasn't fair that he had to be in there all the time. Kitty remembered how many months ago she had had a dream of floating through the sky in a cage with a giant clock in front of the sun, and of how confined she had felt. Olaf probably felt the same way and he couldn't wake up. So she opened the cage and watched as he hopped out. At once she felt a surge of joy, of freedom of finally being let out of that cage.
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In the last couple of minutes of the ten minute wait, Olivia moved on to gather what she needed from her cat. She followed Professor Newton’s advice to a t. First wetting her hand from some excess water from the sink. Then she opened her cage slightly to allow her hand inside, giving her familiar a few nice strokes that started a purr going. Voila! Cat hairs on her palm. The Ravenclaw collected two and wiped away the rest, awaiting the timer to go off to add them into the cauldron of brewing potion as the man did his own.
With that done, she stirred her potion three more times clockwise. One…two…three. Then she removed the stirrer since the final task was complete on her part and cleaned it off with a “Scourgify,” before putting it with the rest of her supplies. And as the final wait, six minutes this time, Olivia finished cleaning up the rest of her work area, leaving out only a ladle and vial for the next and final step before taking the potion.
Simmer... Simmer... Simmer... Jaemin was starting to wonder if there were spells to bypass all of this sitting around. He rocked back and forth in his seat a bit, counting the seconds as they ticked by until finally reaching the correct second; with a soft mutter of 'finallyyyyy', he picked up a clean stirrer and dipped it into the concoction, carefully moving it around so he wouldn't splash.
And done. The last of the sand for minute six ran out and Hadley extinguished the flame on the burner. She was actually surprised that her potion looked really close to everyone else's. More than just close actually. It looked just like everyone else's.
She'd done it. Actually brewed a potion correctly for the first time ever! Eagerly, the young Eagle scooped the potion into her phials, each and every phial she had. Haddie wasn't going to let her first success go to waste. "Bottoms up," she said to Rachel, excited. Hadley downed one of the phials, and quickly scooped more potion into it to replace what she'd just drank. None of the potion was going to waste, okay? None!
While she waited for the affects of the potion to kick in, Hads started to clean up her work station: getting rid of the mess she made, scourgifying her mortar, pestle and cauldron, adding the syringes to her kit, etc. By the time she was finished, the potion still hadn't kicked in, so she sat down and waited, playing with Asher through the cage bars. A few more minutes passed. Then a few more. Then a few more. Class was getting close to being over and...Haddie realized her potion was a dud. It might have looked like it was supposed to, but clearly it wasn't working.
"I don't get it," she said, dejectedly. "What did I do wrong?" It was the venom wasn't it? She didn't get it exactly on 0.1ml and so it didn't work. That was probably it.
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After letting it simmer for the required three minutes, Tia glanced at the board before picking up her wooden stirrer and gave her potion a stir - thrice, clockwise. Not too difficult still.
She had to admit though the precise measurements involved made this particular potion they were brewing seem more like baking rather than cooking. If she made one wrong measurement, it could screw everything up. Studying the bottles remaining on her desk that she'd not yet drawn from, the seventh year picked up the wormwood essence as she tried to recall what this was used for in potions. Everything - like with baking - had its purpose. Taking the 1ML syringe, she filled it with the wormwood essence and eased it into the cauldron.
She was totally making progress. As others were somehow finishing up. Weren't they curious about purposes of the individual ingredients or did they just want to get done and out?
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Since she’d cleaned her tools already, Brooklyn only had to measure out the lacewing flies, honey and water into her mortar. After she’d double checked her notes to make sure that was the next step. Actually, it seemed like she was close to finishing, if she ignored waiting periods and all that. Thankfully, for the moment she was choosing to just focus on mixing up the ingredients in her mortar. She’d rather not frustrate herself overly much by looking ahead, aside from the glance at how many more steps she had left. If only this was like the potions they’d done before, where the cauldron made a difference as to the simmer times.
Adding the paste to her cauldron, she slipped her cleaned stirrer back inside and began to stir, once she’d checked the clock to know when three minutes were up. She wasn’t about to stir for longer than she had to, nor was she about to fail when it came to brewing this potion. Once three minutes were up, she stopped, pulling the stirrer back out so as to not accidentally contaminate anything and cleaning it before setting it aside. Back to waiting, which was the part she disliked. Anything that meant she couldn’t do something irritated her, although at least this time there was a goal. She could rationalize it that way.
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Animal Whisperer Potion
a potion allowing the user to get a glimpse into an animal’s mind. More likely to work with a familiar rather than a common animal, but still useful either way.
6 cups water
15 fresh Belladonna leaves
3 dried Fluxweed sprigs, roughly crushed in mortar and pestle (picked during a full moon, and dried over one week)
0.5mL Wormwood essence
2Tbsp Lacewing flies
1tsp honey
1tsp water
0.1mL Boomslang venom
1 crushed Unicorn Horn
1 cup of Armadillo Bile
15g Ginger, crushed
1 Shrivelfig, scooped out seeds
1 measure of your animal
1. Add 6 cups of water to you cauldron, and light a small flame. Simmer the water for 5 minutes to slowly heat to an appropriate temperature
2. Pluck the 15 leaves of Belladonna from the sprigs, will need approximately 2 sprigs, and add them to the cauldron once five minutes is up
3. Gather the 3 sprigs of dried Fluxweed, and roughly crush in mortar and pestle. Only enough to increase the surface area, then add to the cauldron
4. Simmer for a further 3 minutes
5. Stir with a wooden stirrer, three times, clockwise
6. Measure, with a 1ml syringe, your Wormwood essence, and add to the cauldron.
7. Measure 0.1mL Boomslang venom in a different syringe and place to the side for a moment
8. Clean the mortar and pestle, add one unicorn horn, and crush it to a fine powder, then add the Boomslang venom. Mix together (it will not make a paste) and set aside for three minutes, then add to the cauldron.
9. Simmer the cauldron for three minutes, then stir three times, clockwise
10. Clean the mortar and pestle, and add two tablespoons of Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey, and one teaspoon of water, and crush until it makes a smooth paste. Carefully add the paste to the cauldron
11. Stir slowly for three minutes, clockwise, and then leave the potion to simmer for ten minutes.
12. Add one measure of your animal’s fur or, if a toad, a gentle scraping from head, down the body with your metal stirrer, then stir three times into the cauldron. Only two individual hairs needed for a rat or a cat, and for an owl, cut the tip of one feather, OR stroke your owl until a small feather separates from the owl (do NOT pluck the feather). Stir with wooden stirrer three times clockwise, and leave for six minutes to simmer.
13. Scoop out the liquid into your phials and discard the stewed ingredients.
14. Drink one 10ml phial of potion and let the potion set in until you start to sense your animal speaking to you.
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Wormwood essence added. She was almost halfway done, but not quite. This was definitely interesting though using syringes to add the various liquids to her cauldron. Picking up a clean syringe, she drew it filled with 0.1 mL Boomslang venom and was about to inject it into the cauldron when she finished reading the instructions.
Just place it to the side a moment? Well that was strange. What if it got contaminated before she got the chance to inject it into her potion? Then her potion would be ruined and wouldn't work. Of course there was the chance her potion wouldn't work anyway because it wasn't her own personal pet, but one that belonged to the school. But Tia was optimistic that it was a minor detail that wouldn't make a difference. Sighing, she put down the venom-filled-syringe a moment to wait.
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It didn't seem like her potion had worked.
Esme was starting to feel as if it had been a dud. Maybe it had been pointless coming here because not only had she failed to face her fear but she couldn't even talk to Sparkle. Ugggh. She shouldn't have even bothered. It would have been more productive if she had practiced dueling spells or went to visit the magical creatures.
In frustration she brought her head down to her desk... before immediately sitting up straight again. Sparkle had just told her that she wanted out of the cage.
HER PYGMY PUFF WAS TALKING TO HER.
So surprised and pleased by this revelation, Esme forgot all about the owls and set about opening up the cage. She had made her little Puff happy and smiled as she bounced along the desk.
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Still unsure why she was pre-measuring the boomslang venom only to set it to the side, Tia shrugged it off and moved onto the next step into the process. Clean the mortar and pestle. Easy enough. The seventh year used her wand for this, casting a firm non-verbal scourgify on the mortar and pestle and watch it clean itself from the remnants of fluxweed that may have clung to its pores. Adding one unicorn horn, Tia decided to not think about the rest of the unicorn and the ethics involved in using unicorn horns for potions. Thinking about that just made her sad and want to promote ethical care of magical creatures more and more. Perhaps that was her calling for what to do post-Hogwarts? She couldn't see herself merely entering the magical creature reservation as an entry-level worker though; she still wanted to learn more. See more. Which meant the only option was University.
Thoughts of future faded though as she realized she was still on step eight and hadn't done any of it. Sighing, she added the unicorn horn to her mortar and crushed it firmly into a fine powder. She then eased the Boomslang venom from her syringe into the mortar as well and mixed the two items together before setting the whole thing aside, and the timer for another three minutes.
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Other people were finishing and Jaemin was still getting his ready! Oh no. He was so sloooooow. The small boy frowned a bit and, after cleaning his mortar and pestle again, started measuring out the ingredients for his next step. Two tablespoons of lacewing flies. Which were... weird looking. He made a face at them and dumped them into the mortar, then moved to the next. One teaspoon of honey... it stuck to the inside of the teaspoon measurer, and he sorta had to scrape it out with his fingertip to make sure it all got in there.
*surreptitious licking of honey off fingertip*
And one teaspoon of water... for this one, he decided, he would use the sink. Cause he wasn't sure he could stop the spell fast enough to only get one teaspoon and not have a bunch more overflowing all over himself and the table. The firstie bounced himself over to the tap, then back over to his cauldron as carefully as possible so he didn't spill.
Aaaaaaaaand smash smash smush jab grind grind griiiiiiiiiind. It probably got pasteish because of the honey, right? Jaemin went to work on it, trying to make sure the lacewing flies ended up all mooshed up and there weren't any fly chunks floating about. That would be gross and then he wouldn't want to take the potion.
The paste was tipped into the cauldron then, too, but less easily than other things had been tipped. He kinda had to scrape it with his mixer to make sure it all got in there, but eventually... it did.
Now... TO STIR. For three whole minutes. His arm was sooooo gonna get tired. Jaemin cleaned off the mixer, even though anything that was lingering on it was probably supposed to go in the cauldron anyway (safety first!!!) and then went about mixing. Clockwise. For three minutes.
His stirs probably clocked in at six seconds each, or less, but he was doing his best with it.
Minutes ticked by, and continued to tick by. It was really close to the end of class, and she still hadn't heard Asher. That all but confirmed it for her. She'd failed once again. This time stung though. Because she really wanted to succeed at this potion. And because she'd thought she had succeeded. And had felt excited and proud about doing so. All the while she hadn't. Her potion was a dud.
With a loud sigh, Hadley emptied each of her phials out, pouring them into her cauldron so she could scourgify her failure away, just like every other class. She scourgified any remaining residue in the phials too, erasing any evidence that she had actually brewed the dud. Then she packed everything up and sat down again, waiting for the class to be formally dismissed. "It doesn't matter we can't understand each other yet," she assured Asher. "Still love you. And still gonna cuddle with you after classes." The ferret watched her intently as she talked, but he didn't understand her. And she didn't understand him.
She glanced over at how Rachel was doing. "Did yours work?"
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Once the three minutes was up for letting the Boomslang venom and unicorn horn set, Tia added the mixture to her cauldron. Time to wait another three minutes and let that simmer. It seemed three minutes was the magic number here. Reading ahead, the seventh year noted she would need a clean mortar and pestle again, so she went ahead and cast another non-verbal scourgify on her mortar and pestle to clean it once more in preparation for the next step.
And the cleaning the mortar was enough time for the three minutes of letting her potion simmer to pass. To which she stirred the potion three times clockwise, before setting her stirrer to the side and reading ahead to determine what needed to be done next. More precise measurements, no doubt, given the nature of this potion.
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MUST.
FINISH.
POTION.
Ariadne's brain was telling her that it was on strike and that she absolutely couldn't brew anymore of this potion. She had to, though! She'd worked so hard and completed ten full steps so far! She just couldn't STOP. Her mother would disown her for life!
Ariadne began stirring in a clockwise direction, all the while keeping a careful watch on the time to make sure she didn't stop before three minutes was up. In the back of her mind, she wondered what would happen if she stirred for only TWO minutes. Would the potion know? ... She didn't want to take her chances. When the full three minutes was up, she stopped stirring and just let it simmer.
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Perhaps it was senioritis or the use of innocent creatures in this potion, but Tia just felt herself sluggishly moving through the steps. It was definitely senioritis. But she was ALMOST done; like she was more than halfway done and to make it this far and quit would almost be sinful.
Taking her cleaned mortar and pestle, the seventh year added two tablespoons of the Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey to which she was TEMPTED to eat a teaspoon of plain but decided against given how unsanitary that might be and improper. She should have totally learned by now to eat BEFORE potions and one teaspoon of water. Lots of precise measuring as she figured. Crushing the three ingredients together with her pestle, she worked it into a smooth mostly paste.
Carefully, she worked the paste into the cauldron using the pestle to scrape the mortar clean....
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So now Jaemin was getting really excited. Because this was getting closer and closer to the end. He finished his stirring and set the rod aside carefully, checking the time to make sure he didn't leave it simmer for too long or too short. Ten minutes... he'd use that time to get Sniffler fur. The small Slytherin opened the cage and carefully scooped out the small creature, cradling him carefully in both hands. There were lots of things around here that might try to eat him, and he did not want that happening. He already hadn't gotten a niffler when they had invaded the kitchens... the last thing he needed was to lose the pet he did have.
The professor had said something about the hairs on Sniffler's tummy. He did indeed have a fuzzy tummy, and Jaemin scrunched his nose up as he considered it. It wasn't hairy like a cat was... but maybe he'd be able to get something. Nothing he could lose by trying. Sniffler poked his nose around in the air as Jaemin reached one hand to get it wet under the tap, and the small boy could feel the way he was squirming unhappily.
"Don't worry," he whispered, squishing the hedgehog gently against the front of his coat. "Nobody is gonna get you. If they try, you got lots of spikes to make them stay away."
The hedgehog did not seem convinced. It pressed itself into the jacket firmly, because when it came to fight or flight it was much more inclined toward flight, and Jaemin sighed.
"Here. I'll rub your belly and that'll make everything okay. Right?" He rolled Sniffler into the crook of his arm, spiny side down, and gently rubbed his soft little belly with his damp hand. The hedgehog looked at him defiantly, as if he would not allow himself to enjoy it, and held his little paws up in the air. Like he was playing dead or something. The first year snorted in amusement and kept gently scratching, because Sniffler did really like to have his belly scratched.
He did this for all the time remaining until he was supposed to add a Hedgehog Part to the potion; holding up his hand, he examined it for little fuzzhairs. There were a few, thank Merlin... short and fine and teeny tiny, but they were there, on his fingertips. Careful not to tip his little friend out of his arms, he leaned forward and flicked them off into the potion. Hopefully it was enough... Sniffler's hairs were much, much smaller than a cat's fur or an owl's feather.
"Do you wanna go back in your thing?" he asked the hedgehog softly as he picked up his stirrer again. Three times, clockwise. He could do that without putting Sniffler down. The hedgehog seemed rather content after the extended bellyrubbing, so he'd just hold him.
And wait for another six minutes. After which, he'd be able to understand just what the looks he was getting meant.
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Ariadne looked around the room to see how she was coming along compared to the others. It looked like most everybody was still working, which made her feel like she wasn't in such a big hurry to finish up. She only had three more steps remaining, and as soon as she finished letting things simmer for ten minutes, she could start on one of those last three steps.
The minutes ticked by, and soon the ten full minutes had passed.
Oh, great. Now she had to steal a feather from her unnamed owl, which didn't exactly seem like an easy task. If she opened its cage, it'd fly away. She could tell it really didn't want to be caged in this classroom anyway. So...how was she going to do this? As if on cue, the owl ruffled its feathers, and lo and behold, a feather fell out and landed on the bottom of the cage.
"Uhh...thanks?" Ariadne replied. IT WAS A SIGN!
She somehow managed to pull the feather from the bottom of the cage. Ariadne snipped the tip of the feather then dropped it into the cauldron. She quickly cleaned her wooden stirrer again, then stuck it into the pot, stirring it three times in a clockwise direction.
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Glancing around the classroom a moment, Tia noted that she wasn't the last one still working. Didn't those who rushed through the potion realize that potion brewing was an art and took time and being careful. Honestly though, it wasn't really her problem. What she wanted was perfection for own potion and it didn't particularly matter to her if other people succeeded or not; she wanted to succeed herself.
Slowly, Tia picked up her stirrer and stirred her potion clockwise. Slowly, as the Professor had emphasized, for three minutes. It turned out when one stirred slowly, the minutes seemed to tick A LOT longer, but before she knew it, the three minutes was up and it was time to let the potion simmer for ten minutes. Which during that time, she cleaned up her used ingredients, bringing things back to the front of the room that she didn't need. Once her area was clean again, she peered at her potion to make sure it was still doing alright and noted she had another four minutes to go. Just enough time to get the brown feather from her the school's brown owl. No plucking owl feathers. Got it. Only they used a whole unicorn horn and was Newton worried about cruelty to creatures with plucking a feather? It was merely like plucking a strand of hair off the head; it wasn't unethical like a unicorn horn.
Shrugging though and figuring maybe it something to do with the end result, Tia following the instructions and stroked the brown owl, hoping its feather would just fall off. Nothing. She stroked it again. Nothing.
Sighing, she thought desperately, trying to get the bird to read her thoughts, hoping, praying, for that feather. Because she could have used the scissors, but no. If he said no plucking, she wasn't going to snip the feather tip either. Closing her eyes, the seventh year absently stroked the brown owl again.... repeatedly running her hand over its backside. And the next thing she knew, she opened her hand and smiled at sight of a small brown feather clinging to her palm.
"Thank you," she whispered to the school owl.
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Ariadne's eyes grew wide as she read the thirteenth item on the list of directions. Scooping out the liquid meant she was DONE! There was nothing else to brew and basically, the potion was ready to be put to use! Ariadne's heart skipped a beat, causing her to look at her owl.
The potion being ready meant she was about to hear her owl's thoughts. Uh oh. Like she thought in the beginning of the lesson, this could go really, really well or really, really badly.
Ariadne cleaned her phials then began scooping the liquid out the cauldron and putting it in the phials. When all the liquid was put into phials, Ariadne began discarding all the stewed ingredients. It was all coming together now! She'd done this! The next step was LITERALLY drinking the potion!
Speaking of which, Ariadne picked up a phial filled with 10mL of the potion, tilted it toward her mouth, and drank.
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Ten minutes had never seemed longer. There were only so many different ways Brooklyn could distract herself before she found herself continually checking the time. Boredom was definitely not something she liked, and this potion seemed determined to make her have to deal with it. She just hoped it was worth it in the end. As it was, she still felt like all she was going to learn was that Tywin’s thoughts were a lot like her own. He seemed too much like her to think otherwise.
Thinking about that reminded her that she needed to collect some of Tywin’s fur, and thankfully she had remembered to slip a brush into her bag before she’d headed to class. That would be the easiest way of getting the fur, and it also would help her pass the time until the ten minutes were up. Opening the cage, she gathered Tywin up and let him curl up in her lap, taking the brush out and beginning to gently brush his fur.
Several minutes later, the Bengal started getting fidgety, so she let him go back into the cage. That seemed like a better idea than letting him go after the rat. That or ending up with scratches all over her arms, and it was easy enough to collect some fur from the brush. She tipped a few hairs into the cauldron once she’d glanced up at the clock again to notice the ten minute wait was up. Scourgifying her wooden stirrer again just to make sure it was clean, she slid that into the cauldron after the fur and stirred the potion again, three times clockwise. After that, unfortunately, she was going to have to wait again.
SPOILER!!: notes
Animal Whisperer Potion
a potion allowing the user to get a glimpse into an animal’s mind. More likely to work with a familiar rather than a common animal, but still useful either way.
6 cups water
15 fresh Belladonna leaves
3 dried Fluxweed sprigs, roughly crushed in mortar and pestle (picked during a full moon, and dried over one week)
0.5mL Wormwood essence
2Tbsp Lacewing flies
1tsp honey
1tsp water
0.1mL Boomslang venom
1 crushed Unicorn Horn
1 cup of Armadillo Bile
15g Ginger, crushed
1 Shrivelfig, scooped out seeds
1 measure of your animal
1. Add 6 cups of water to you cauldron, and light a small flame. Simmer the water for 5 minutes to slowly heat to an appropriate temperature
2. Pluck the 15 leaves of Belladonna from the sprigs, will need approximately 2 sprigs, and add them to the cauldron once five minutes is up
3. Gather the 3 sprigs of dried Fluxweed, and roughly crush in mortar and pestle. Only enough to increase the surface area, then add to the cauldron
4. Simmer for a further 3 minutes
5. Stir with a wooden stirrer, three times, clockwise
6. Measure, with a 1ml syringe, your Wormwood essence, and add to the cauldron.
7. Measure 0.1mL Boomslang venom in a different syringe and place to the side for a moment
8. Clean the mortar and pestle, add one unicorn horn, and crush it to a fine powder, then add the Boomslang venom. Mix together (it will not make a paste) and set aside for three minutes, then add to the cauldron.
9. Simmer the cauldron for three minutes, then stir three times, clockwise
10. Clean the mortar and pestle, and add two tablespoons of Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey, and one teaspoon of water, and crush until it makes a smooth paste. Carefully add the paste to the cauldron
11. Stir slowly for three minutes, clockwise, and then leave the potion to simmer for ten minutes.
12. Add one measure of your animal’s fur or, if a toad, a gentle scraping from head, down the body with your metal stirrer, then stir three times into the cauldron. Only two individual hairs needed for a rat or a cat, and for an owl, cut the tip of one feather, OR stroke your owl until a small feather separates from the owl (do NOT pluck the feather). Stir with wooden stirrer three times clockwise, and leave for six minutes to simmer.
13. Scoop out the liquid into your phials and discard the stewed ingredients.
14. Drink one 10ml phial of potion and let the potion set in until you start to sense your animal speaking to you.
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♥♥♥♥ It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me, at tea time, everybody agrees
...It must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero ♥♥♥
Cleaning with one hand was a little more difficult than the small Slytherin had thought it would be. He had to keep setting down his wand, then picking it back up, then setting it down to move other things. But Sniffler seemed happy to be snuggled up all warm, so he couldn't just... put him down or anything.
After six minutes though, it was time to scoop out all the liquidy parts, and that sorta required him to be able to hold more than one thing at a time. Jaemin gave the hedgehog a warning look and set him down on the tabletop.
"Stay right there, okay?" he murmured, rubbing one of the hedgehog's long ears before reaching for a phial to pour the potion into. He scooped it up carefully, and several times he had to dump out a scoop because he'd caught something solid, but he managed to get a good majority of it out of the cauldron's belly. Most of the phials got nice little stoppers in them, but one of them remained open and waiting; Jaemin stared at it for a good long moment, chewing on his bottom lip, before he picked up his scoop to get the big gunk out of his cauldron. He really needed to learn that vanishing spell... he followed it up with a cleaning charm or two, just to make sure that it was good and effective- he was, after all, still relatively new to those, and who knew if his first one might leave behind some sort of residue that would taint future potions?!
With all of that done... it came time to actually test the potion. Which meant drinking it. He set his wand aside again and scooped up the hedgehog just as he started to wander a bit on the tabletop - bad Sniffler! -, then picked up the open phial with his free hand.
"Well... let's see..." he whispered, looking around the class and gently cuddling the hedgehog against the front of his lab coat before tilting his head back and downing the potion in one gulp.
How long was this supposed to take, he wondered as he set the phial aside. Was it supposed to be instantaneous? How was it supposed to work?! He still wasn't quite sure, and he hadn't really gotten around to asking-
squishing me, squishing me, always squishing
-about the particu-
The small Slytherin's eyes went wide when he realised what had just happened, and he looked down at Sniffler in surprise. He had HEARD THAT. What did he mean, always squishing?! Jaemin did not squish! He cuddled and he did it well, thank you very much Sniffler!
Still, the boy relaxed his grip a little and tipped the little hog onto its back again, fingertips scratching at Sniffler's belly as he watched him curiously. Maybe it had been a fluke... maybe his mind was playing tricks on him or something. Maybe it-
good, good. like this. yes.
His fingers stuttered a little, and he looked up at the professor before looking back down at the hedgehog again. This was so cool.
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