Protein powder... Protein powder... Aha. Feirgrund had been looking under the table in the boxes of supplies. "Ah, yes, here we are," Putting next to the other ingredients. "Have Hemp seed, whey, regular protein, and many more here," Pretty much any usual ingredient for Smoothie making was here for the borrowing.

"Alright now everyone," One of the few times Ean used his wand in class, in order to levitate the Blendjets to each desk. "You're free to get more ingredients in between in case your batch doesn't turn out alright in the end." Then levitating fresh clean jars and edible straws. There were more on the table as well with plenty of supply. "First things, first. While the fruits and vegetables are edible for getting the best taste out of the ingredients you'll need to refreeze them. Firstly, slice the fruit and/or vegetables with Diffindo into clean pieces. You won't have to slice the berries, " He took a banana for this moment to first unpeel and then Diffindo'ed them into many pieces, "Also noting, I did rinse out these vegetables and fruits so you won't find any surprises in them," Just in case any had the thought he would provide uncleaned food to eat. "Next, you can use Glacius to freeze the ingredients." Then aiming his wand on the banana slices to freeze. He would be making a nice healthy green smoothie, with the banana added for flavor. "You're free ask anyone if you need help with casting the charm," The perks of partnering, but he would not have a problem casting it if a younger student asked him to.


OOC: This is where you're getting your Blendjet and prepping the ingredients. You will be slicing and or freeze your ingredients, if you have any questions feel free to ask. We'll continue to next step in 24-48 hours.

Alfie was getting a better understanding of why this was a muggle studies lesson. While wizards knew about smoothies, blenders were definitely a muggle tool. While Alfie had a blender in his home, and had seen his parents using it growing up and now knew how to use one himself, he was sure that his classmates who had grown up in wizard households might not have ever seen one before. Did wizards use magic to blend things? Was there a blending spell? He was getting distracted.

It was smoothie time! Well, gathering ingredients time. Which was one step closer to smoothie time. Alfie made his way to the table to select his ingredients. He started with a glass of milk, selected some bananas as his fruit, and decided to get a glob of peanut butter to go with it. A peanut butter banana smoothie sounded delicious, if he did say so himself. Satisfied with his ingredients, he took them back to his desk to prep. Step one was cutting his banana into pieces. It seemed strange that they were using a spell to do that instead of doing it the muggle way in muggle studies class. But maybe Professor Feirgrund thought setting a class full of children loose with sharp objects was a liability. Either way, Alfie felt pretty comfortable with casting diffindo. He peeled the banana and then did so, cutting it into several small pieces. Next was freezing them. It made sense that they had to use a spell for that, it would take much too long to do it the muggle way. He pointed his wand at the banana slices and cast "Glacius." There, ready to be made into a delicious smoothie.

Char was shooketh. Sure, he knew there were a lot of smoothie combos out there but there were a few that he hadn’t heard of before. Quick jottings were made in his book as he subtly polished off the pineapple slice. He rather liked the sound of a smoothie bowl; it was something that he was yet to try.

Blenders, juicers and all the things, yes. Char was familiar with the Muggle equipment having used one or two on a few occasions. When the time came to grab those ingredients, he shuffled up to collect his choice of them in the cups as indicated: skim milk, dark chocolate, tablespoons of peanut butter, a huge chunk of pineapple, blueberries and bananas. Like Fynley, Charlie wasn’t keen on having vegetables in his smoothies. Did he want protein powder? Hmmm… nope.

With the Blendjet on his desk, Charlie got to work. After using magic to slice away the skin, the Severing Charm was used to cut the fruit into smaller chunks. “Diffindo. Diffindo.” And so he went along, pausing only to peel the banana. “Diffindo!’’ he added with gusto, effectively slicing the last banana into quarters.

Freezing the fruits was even more fun, as Char discovered a short while later. With a Glacius here and a Glacius there, there were frozen goodies ready for smoothie-making!

Maybe her and Solomon and Brandon could open up their own smoothie shack here at Hogwarts! SAB, using the initial of their first names but it was actually for Smoothies and Biscuits. Which meant maybe sne needed Aurora to join too...and Yukie...and Nadia and...the list went on and on and on so maybe the entirety of Hogwarts should just retire from being a school and become a smoothie shack-castle instead so she could include everyone in another business adventure! OH, meant she needed to rope in Daniel as well since he was sort of her manager and head shark in the shark tank, so to speak

In any case, she was back to beaming at Brandon and giggling at his surprise. "I think so...though I guess ripe blueberries are sort of more a dark blue and yours are much more vibrant...maybe more like a giant blueberry made from blue topaz. OH...imagine a whole fruit collection made from gemstones...that sounds like a pirate's booty worth finding!" Her dad was away doing that right now, she decided. Though she kept the thought to herself since they were clearly moving on.

She mostly nodded along to the professor's explanation of the difference between a smoothie and juice - and now she was also wondering where milk shakes fell into everything - but rather than linger there the Hufflepuffle quickly shifted her attention to Brandon once again. "The three of us are different people so I think it seems fitting that we all make different smoothies BUT on theme," she concluded with a pensive tap tap tap of her index finger on her cheek. "Oh, I know! Mangos are tropical...so how about we each make our version of a tropical smoothie! A Trio for the Tropics," she chirped as her hand traced the air as though looking at a giant marque with the name written upon it. "We can use a common base of coconut milk or coconut water for a base so that's the thread tying them all together. I think I'm going to do something with...lychee and raspberry...with one more flavor profile that I am not certain of yet." Honestly she was probably going to grab a few things before she properly figured out the third ingredient, but that was the whole point of school anyway...right? Experimentation in an controlled and safe environment...and what was life without a lot of playful risks?!

Also, BLENDER. Thank you, professor. Anna would try to commit that to memory for longer than this afternoon.

Hurrying along to gather her things, the third year found herself a tiny bit confused when the use of magic was mentioned. "We're allowed to use magic?" she asked while rocking on her heels a bit. "Can we...skip over the wizarding cheat code and do all of it by hand instead, professor? I kind of really want to have the full experience, you know?" Which meant...shoving her fruit and things in the freezer for a little? Maybe?

She still needed to pick out her Blendjet too - there were so many colors to choose from though! How was she to decided?! she saw one that had neon rainbow coloring on it so the decision was not difficult at all, actually.

Brandon thought it was smart that they could all make different smoothies, because then they could each make their smoothies their own way. And Brandon was very particular about everything, so it was probably for the best. He wondered if Solomon and Anna also were very particular about smoothies.

While Anna decided on her blendjet, Brandon picked the closest one to him, which was grey. He did like the color, though. "A trio for the tropics has a nice ring to it," he commented. "I was thinking of making something like a mango lassi but I suppose I could make it like a kid's mango colada. That would be good too, right?" But he'd have to get the coconut and pineapple juice, so he added that to his mental list of ingredients and got rid of the yogurt. For this chopping stage, he only needed the mango, as the pineapple was already juice and the coconut was a cream. "Diffindo, diffindo, diffindo..." He sliced carefully through the mango, which was no problem because he'd mastered diffindo already. He made neat little chunks of fruit. Hearing Anna's question, he looked up. He wanted to do it the no-magic way! He kept freezing his fruit, just in case they had to use magic. "Glacius, Glacius..." Buuuut he was listening carefully to see if an alternative was being offered.

If there wasn't, he decided he could always invite Anna to make smoothies with him in the kitchens.

Solomon chuckled at Anna, although was barely listening as he was more focused on his disgust of making SMOOTHIES. Saying that, he couldn’t say he had ever actually tried one before, but he had definitely tried a milkshake. Could he make one of those instead? “Oh,” he started, after Brandon’s suggestion that the three of them work together, also noticing that Anna had linked arms with Brandon as well. He had wanted to just do partner work with Anna but okay. “Sure we can.” No problem. Perhaps no one would then notice his lack of skill and he could blend into the background.

See what we did there?

Despite his attitude, Solly agreed with Anna about using methods other than magic to prepare the ingredients. Mostly because he wasn’t confident with those kind of spells. Oranyspellsreally.

How does one create a tropical chocolate milkshake smoothie? “Funnily enough, I was reading all about tropics,” ??????? “… and I read about this chocolate flavoured smoothie, and since the professor said there’s chocolate here too, I think I’ll try and create that.” He was lying, but knew that at least Anna would believe him. “AND, I can break the chocolate with my hand.” It felt a bit extra to use diffindo to break something so easy.

He went to go and get some.

Vegetables and protein powder in a smoothie nope, none of that was going to come near Will's smoothie no siree. Turning to Fyn he nodded in unison with the snake's thoughts mumbling to his partner. "Same here, I don't want any vegetables or protein powder in my smoothie. It should just be fruits, milk, and maybe some chocolate sprinkled on top." A snack could be healthy and green, but today this eagle boy just wanted to drink something cold and sweet. After Fyn he got up from his desk to collect his own ingredients up front which included strawberries, banana, guava and some chocolate because why shouldn't Will take some when it was offered? Back at his desk Will asked Fyn "Shall we blend/mix the berries, and fruits together into one big smoothie that we share or take turns with the blender, and make two different smoothies? One for each of us?"

Waiting for an answer he began prepping his ingredients starting with first peeling off his banana skin, and then he unholstered his wand to cast "Diffindo! Diffindo!" as he sliced up his banana into smaller bits. Then he proceeded to slice up the strawberries into smaller pieces by casting "Diffindo! Diffindo!". The guava fruit Will struggled a little with to get out of it's peel, but eventually he won over the peel and could also slice up the guava into smaller bits. Will stopped to observe how his friends were faring with their ingredients prepping before he turned back to his own collection casting "Glacius! Glacius! Glacius!" over all the fruit and berry pieces to make sure that everything was nicely freezed up for the next step.

Oh, there was the protein powder! Desiree gave the professor a grateful nod as a thank you. Now which kind of powder should she use? Nothing wrong with keeping it simple, she thought. Regular it is! She measured out a small amount of the plain protein powder - enough to give her smoothie a healthy boost but not enough to affect the taste - and looked back at the ingredients. Was there anything she was forgetting? Noticing that she didn’t have any fruits except berries, she picked the smallest banana she saw for variety’s sake and headed back to her seat.

Desiree neatly arranged her blendjet and ingredients on the desk. Oh, they got to use magic on their ingredients? That came as a surprise, but she was so here for it! Thank Merlin she decided to pick up that banana! Otherwise she would’ve had nothing to practice Diffindo on, and she never turned down an opportunity to practice spells. She quickly peeled the banana and aimed her wand. “Diffindo! Diffindo! Diffindo!” She had about half the banana sliced when the thought occurred to her to practice doing the spell nonverbally. Diffindo!, she thought, a look of intense concentration on her face as she pointed her wand. Diffindo!

The banana slices she produced nonverbally were not quite as neat as the others, but she was still calling it a win. Now she just needed to freeze all her fruit, starting with the berries. “Glacius!” she cast, aiming her wand at the strawberries. “Glacius! Glacius!” She repeated the process with the raspberries and blueberries until they were all frozen. For the banana, she decided once again to practice the spell nonverbally. That was the least important ingredient in her smoothie, so it wouldn’t ruin it if she did the spell wrong. Glacius! She thought as she aimed her wand. Glacius! Did it work? She gently poked a banana slice to see if it felt frozen. Yes!

With her spellwork finished, Desiree glanced around the room in search of anyone who might be struggling with the two spells. “Does anybody need help?” she asked.

Despite being an avid sportsman there was no way that Fynn was about to spoil his smoothie with protein powder and kale. Maybe if he had been training that morning he might’ve been convinced but this was a fun lesson where they had the opportunity to do what they liked and he was going to make the tastiest drink imaginable. If Charlie had voiced his thoughts out loud, the Slytherin would’ve definitely given him an approving fist bump for thinking alike. Cheat days all round for the boys.

“Exactly,” the fifth year replied to Will. “Fruits are good enough to constitute it as being healthy, right? It’s a shame there’s no ice cream instead of the milk.” As well as making it tastier, the ice cream would thicken the whole drink up. He eyed the two sets of ingredients they had both selected. “Seems like we have pretty much the same idea. Let’s just shove it all in and see what happens” he chuckled. It wasn’t like the blender was going to explode, was it? And even if it did, causing a little bit of chaos sounded like fun. They might be washing fruit out of their hair for the next week but at least they would smell great.

There was something a little ironic that they were about to use magic in a muggle studies lesson, not that he was complaining about using the cheat code as it meant less effort on his part. He supposed it was because the Professor didn’t trust them all with sharp equipment and judging by how crazy some of these younger students appeared he couldn’t blame him.

Will got on with his chopping and freezing and so the fifteen year old followed suit picking up his banana to peel. “Diffindo” he spoke, taking his wand out of his holster and pointing it at the banana which quickly fell into neat slices. The berries didn’t need chopping so he quickly cast the freezing spell over his selection. “Glacius”. The table was starting to look like a winter wonderland. “Is there a spell for grating this chocolate?” he asked his mate. The smoothie would look great with a dusting of chocolate on top.

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Hurrying along to gather her things, the third year found herself a tiny bit confused when the use of magic was mentioned. "We're allowed to use magic?" she asked while rocking on her heels a bit. "Can we...skip over the wizarding cheat code and do all of it by hand instead, professor? I kind of really want to have the full experience, you know?" Which meant...shoving her fruit and things in the freezer for a little? Maybe?

She still needed to pick out her Blendjet too - there were so many colors to choose from though! How was she to decided?! she saw one that had neon rainbow coloring on it so the decision was not difficult at all, actually.

Though it wasn't the first time magic was used with certain activities, the question was considerate and appreciated. "Understandable, Miss Walles. You're welcome to not use your wand in the process if you choose to break your assorted items by hand." There are certain fruits that didn't need slicing as well "The proper use of knives to cut up fruit and vegetables will be reserved for another time." A possible cooking lesson in the works? Anything was possible. "As for freezing, it can take hours using a muggle freezer to freeze them to the appropriate temperature for this activity. Much too long of a wait for enjoying a good Smoothie." But it made sense as well for wanting to fully experience it. If she needed more clarification, he would happily provide it.

Looking throughout the room, so far everyone was progressing nicely. Even some offering help. Just a few needed a bit more time to prep the ingredients.


OOC: Giving an extra day for those needing to prep their ingredients, if you have any questions feel free to ask. We'll continue to next step tomorrow.

Making smoothies in a class was rather unorthodox seeming, but you weren't going to hear her complain about it. And while it wasn't a picnic... it did include consumables so that was good enough. Once they were free to pick their ingredients, and Professor Feirgrund so graciously distributed out all of their blenders, she'd gone up and peered through everything before selecting some choices. She found a bright pink fruit and was instantly drawn to it's color, dragonfruit she thought it was called, and then went for some oatmilk, strawberries and a bit of mango just to add some extra. Was it going to be tasty? She had no idea. But she DID think it was going to look pretty so.. trade offs.

Dropping her ingredients onto the table next to her blender, she sat down before pulling her wand out to begin casting and prepping her fruit. The berries didn't need to be cut, so she set those aside for freezing and instead started on mango first. "Diffindo, diffindo, diffindo!" She only cut about half of her mango, pushing those pieces aside with the berries after peeling the skin of her fresh slices. From there... the dragonfruit, which she stared at for a minute because she didn't know HOW to cut this one. Not from lack of spellwork but... lack of kitchen work.

Deciding to just go for it, she used a similar approach to the mango. Cut first, get the flesh after. "Diffindo, diffindo, diffindo!" With those all down, it was time to move on. She gathered all her fruits into a bowl together post cutting and cast a simple Glacius once over it and dumping everything into the blendjet thing. Would they get to just press buttons now???

Anna had no idea what a mango lassi or mango colada was, but she really wasn't too worried about it because whichever one it was Brandon made she would get to try it and then she would know what it was. So she just beamed and smiled at her fellow Hufflepuffle before her attention turned easily over to Solomon. "Oooooh, you know I hear people sometimes add a bit of spice into chocolate things sometimes in the tropics...that could be interesting...maybe..." she contemplated while suddenly wondering which came first, the phoenix or the flame. It was a very brief period of contemplation however since the professor was soon speaking to her and her armful of ingredients for her own tropical smoothie - official name pending.

Speaking of breaking things by hand! The professor was literally giving them permission to time travel without a timeturner and harvest their ingredients the way their ancestors had before the invention of tools! Then they got to use their metaphorical timeturner again and jump to the now...or whenever the blender had been invented...to use the tools of the now. "Thanks, professor!" she chirped and jumped forward to offer a hug of appreciation before remembering she was in class and the professor was not family and so she ought not hug him. "Why does the fruit need to be frozen to use? What's wrong with fresh fruit not frozen and more room temperature fruit? And when was the blender...blendjet...the blendy things invented?"

She would get to her actual smoothie making...eventually...she promised. She at least had all of her ingredients and would be starting things off with her can of coconut milk. She had also picked the BEST blendjet in a rainbow leopard print and she could not WAIT to plug it in!

But first...opening this can of coconut milk...which she turned over and over in her hand trying to see where the top twisted off or where the little handle thingy was that you pulled to open it...and it wasn't there. Conveniently forgetting that things like can openers existed, Anna did the first thing that came to mind and started SLAMMING the side of the can on the edge of the table.

*THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP*

She heard an older student offer to help out and since Anna did not want to inconvenience her teammates who were busy with their own prep...Anna ceased her slamming of the can on the table by holding the dented can above her head. "Could you please help me?" she called out to, hopefully, soon to be Ice Princess of Ravenclaw Tower. "I'm trying not to use magic for the full experience but it magic were to somehow befall my bananas and lychee, and ginger so they ended up frozen then that would be nice since the professor said the freezer is going to take too long!"

SPOILER!!: Question

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Anna had no idea what a mango lassi or mango colada was, but she really wasn't too worried about it because whichever one it was Brandon made she would get to try it and then she would know what it was. So she just beamed and smiled at her fellow Hufflepuffle before her attention turned easily over to Solomon. "Oooooh, you know I hear people sometimes add a bit of spice into chocolate things sometimes in the tropics...that could be interesting...maybe..." she contemplated while suddenly wondering which came first, the phoenix or the flame. It was a very brief period of contemplation however since the professor was soon speaking to her and her armful of ingredients for her own tropical smoothie - official name pending.

Speaking of breaking things by hand! The professor was literally giving them permission to time travel without a timeturner and harvest their ingredients the way their ancestors had before the invention of tools! Then they got to use their metaphorical timeturner again and jump to the now...or whenever the blender had been invented...to use the tools of the now. "Thanks, professor!" she chirped and jumped forward to offer a hug of appreciation before remembering she was in class and the professor was not family and so she ought not hug him. "Why does the fruit need to be frozen to use? What's wrong with fresh fruit not frozen and more room temperature fruit? And when was the blender...blendjet...the blendy things invented?"

She would get to her actual smoothie making...eventually...she promised. She at least had all of her ingredients and would be starting things off with her can of coconut milk. She had also picked the BEST blendjet in a rainbow leopard print and she could not WAIT to plug it in!

But first...opening this can of coconut milk...which she turned over and over in her hand trying to see where the top twisted off or where the little handle thingy was that you pulled to open it...and it wasn't there. Conveniently forgetting that things like can openers existed, Anna did the first thing that came to mind and started SLAMMING the side of the can on the edge of the table.

*THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP*

She heard an older student offer to help out and since Anna did not want to inconvenience her teammates who were busy with their own prep...Anna ceased her slamming of the can on the table by holding the dented can above her head. "Could you please help me?" she called out to, hopefully, soon to be Ice Princess of Ravenclaw Tower. "I'm trying not to use magic for the full experience but it magic were to somehow befall my bananas and lychee, and ginger so they ended up frozen then that would be nice since the professor said the freezer is going to take too long!"

From Feirgrund's perspective did notice Miss Waddles lean over as if she lost her balance momentarily. Looked like she stumbled on something but recovered quickly. Perhaps it was her distraction that led to her missing the aforementioned reason she was asking for, "The fruits are frozen to preserve the flavor and makes it more intense. Typically, when you drop in something in a liquid, especially orange juice or milk, that liquid's flavor overtakes and minimizes that flavor.. I'll explain the rest of the Blendjet's functions in due time," Giving a reassuring smile before it was time to move on.

In-between checking the class' status, Feirgrund begun slicing and freezing pineapples and mangos for the next set of sweetness with his Green Smoothie. The extra flavor would be just enough to disguise the spinach and kale inside. "Next step everyone," Those who were still needing to slice and freeze, he went on ahead to tap his wand on the board to keep Step 1's instructions up for guidance. "The Blendjet came about early in the 21st century, nearly 100 years ago founded in 2017. Now you may lift the lid of your Blendjet, and then you may pour your choice of liquid in first to the fourth line indicated." Pointing to where it was below half the size of the bottle portion, before he poured in his choice of Coconut water to that mark.

"Next is pouring your sliced ingredients inside. Pour them in one at a time to reduce splashing. If you're using yogurt or other food items, you can also add them in. Make sure to leave abut 2 lines worth of space at the top before you close the lid back on." Feirgrund then added the frozen spinach, chopped kale, bananas, mango, and pineapple chunks in to the appropriate level.


OOC: This is where you're now adding the ingredients, and free to catch up if you haven't prepped them yet. If you have any questions feel free to ask. We'll continue to next step in 24-48 hours.

Well then… Anna seemed to be having the time of her life with that can of milk. Charlie winced with each thwap, feeling more sorry for the can with each zealous hit. Desiree would be able to help her though, he was sure of this. Zoning back in on the professor now, Charlie made some notes, marvelling at the fact that this Muggle entrapment had been around for such a long time.

The Puff set down his pen and eyed the fourth line on the Blendjet. That was a decent amount of milk for his smoothie, he decided. The selected milk {skim} was poured in with the liquid accidentally going a little above the fourth line. Woops. No big deal, right?

Pineapples were added next {because pineapples!} followed by the bananas, blueberries, chocolate and peanut butter. In the end, there were about two and a half lines of space so that meant less chance of an overflow happening, yes? Finally, Char closed the lid.

Also, Char decided to invest in a Blendjet while on Christmas break.

SPOILER!!: Anna ^_^

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Anna had no idea what a mango lassi or mango colada was, but she really wasn't too worried about it because whichever one it was Brandon made she would get to try it and then she would know what it was. So she just beamed and smiled at her fellow Hufflepuffle before her attention turned easily over to Solomon. "Oooooh, you know I hear people sometimes add a bit of spice into chocolate things sometimes in the tropics...that could be interesting...maybe..." she contemplated while suddenly wondering which came first, the phoenix or the flame. It was a very brief period of contemplation however since the professor was soon speaking to her and her armful of ingredients for her own tropical smoothie - official name pending.

Speaking of breaking things by hand! The professor was literally giving them permission to time travel without a timeturner and harvest their ingredients the way their ancestors had before the invention of tools! Then they got to use their metaphorical timeturner again and jump to the now...or whenever the blender had been invented...to use the tools of the now. "Thanks, professor!" she chirped and jumped forward to offer a hug of appreciation before remembering she was in class and the professor was not family and so she ought not hug him. "Why does the fruit need to be frozen to use? What's wrong with fresh fruit not frozen and more room temperature fruit? And when was the blender...blendjet...the blendy things invented?"

She would get to her actual smoothie making...eventually...she promised. She at least had all of her ingredients and would be starting things off with her can of coconut milk. She had also picked the BEST blendjet in a rainbow leopard print and she could not WAIT to plug it in!

But first...opening this can of coconut milk...which she turned over and over in her hand trying to see where the top twisted off or where the little handle thingy was that you pulled to open it...and it wasn't there. Conveniently forgetting that things like can openers existed, Anna did the first thing that came to mind and started SLAMMING the side of the can on the edge of the table.

*THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP*

She heard an older student offer to help out and since Anna did not want to inconvenience her teammates who were busy with their own prep...Anna ceased her slamming of the can on the table by holding the dented can above her head. "Could you please help me?" she called out to, hopefully, soon to be Ice Princess of Ravenclaw Tower. "I'm trying not to use magic for the full experience but it magic were to somehow befall my bananas and lychee, and ginger so they ended up frozen then that would be nice since the professor said the freezer is going to take too long!"

Desiree waited patiently for the next steps. As she did, she heard a younger student (Anna) call out to her. So her plan was to magically freeze her fruit without technically using magic… nice! “Of course,” she said with a smile, sidling over to the younger girl’s table. She set to work freezing the fruit, starting with the banana. This time, she did the spell verbally since it wasn’t her fruit she was using. She wouldn’t want someone else to have to start over if her nonverbal spell went awry! “Glacius!”

She quickly moved on to the lychee and then the ginger. “Interesting flavor combination,” she mused out loud between spells. She wouldn’t have thought to combine ginger with banana and lychee! “Is it good?” Maybe she’d find a new smoothie flavor to try!



Desiree finished freezing Anna’s fruit and returned to her desk just in time to hear the next set of instructions. She watched intently as the professor added his own ingredients. Talk about interesting flavors! She wondered how the fruit would taste with spinach and kale. Probably not great. She wasn’t a fan of green vegetables, but who knows? Maybe the banana, pineapple, and mango flavors would be strong enough to mask the veggie taste.

Turning her attention to her own blendjet, she lifted the lid. She carefully poured the almond milk, eyeing the lines all the while until the level reached the fourth one. The bananas went in next. Plop, plop, plop! That part was easy. Now she just had to add the berries. She blinked, glancing at the cup of strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. So many berries! And she had to drop them in one at a time?! Merlin, this was going to take forever!

Desiree dropped each berry into her blendjet one by one until they all were added. Now all that was left was the chocolate and the protein powder. The powder counted as a food item, right? She hoped so! As she added the final two ingredients, she hoped she hadn’t messed up her smoothie by adding the wrong thing at the wrong time. She’d hate to have to start over now!

Step 2 time!

Hearing the instructions, Vera reached for her pomegranate juice, pouring it into the blender as instructed after having removed the lid. She left a little more space than had been instructed because she was hoping for a thicker drink, and that seemed to make sense to her that less liquid would cause that. Was she right? Well, she'd find out wouldn't she?

Once the liquid was in, it was time to add her prepared fruits. She'd heard the instructions to add in one at a time clear as day and yet... she picked up two handfuls and dropped them in to the blender, one hand at a time, and enjoyed the sploosh sound as they hit the juice. Once she was satisfied it was full enough, she put the lid back on and eyed all the button options while waiting for the next instructions. She reaaaally wanted to just press something but figured it was best to wait.

Even if that was not her strength.

]Brandon nudged Anna. "We can make smoothies in the kitchens the nonmagical way. Over the weekend or something." He was slightly disappointed to not do everything the non-magical way in class, but at the same time he didn't trust his classmates around sharp, deadly objects. Or wands, really. Or anything at all... he didn't really trust people in general. He visibly flinched as Anna slammed her can of coconut milk into the table. It made him anxious to hear loud hitting sounds all of a sudden like that. Also, that was no way to open a liquid container! He was relieved for an older student to help, and turned his attention to his own smoothie.

First, he put in pineapple juice and cream of coconut. Then he slowly added in pineapple and mango chunks (with absolutely no splashing because he didn't want to spill anything!). He put in some ice. Then he shut the lid again and waited for the blending part.

Hope liked preparing food, and though some of the ingredients were unfamiliar to her, she was always game to try anything edible. After some consideration, she had assembled her ingredients--first, oat milk (this was strange to her, but she decided it was probably something like the liquid you got when you soaked oats in water or something). Then some spinach and carrots, and finally the fruit--an apple, a peach, and a strange, fuzzy green fruit she'd never seen before [a kiwi]. And finally, some protein powder, whatever that was (Hope didn't think it smelled very nice).

She'd gotten them all neatly sliced up using Diffindo, a charm she'd become familar with by now. She'd had some trouble getting the Glacius right, but with some help from other students, she'd finally gotten her ingredients frozen and ready for the next step.

All right. First the oat milk, up to the fourth line, right? And then the other ingredients, one by one--spinach, sliced carrots, diced apple and peach, sliced green thing, and lastly, the rather nasty looking powder. And finally, shut the lid. Hope did this all neatly and firmly, and then stood back in excitement, wondering what was going to happen next.

Some might think that muggle studies was too easy for a muggleborn. In some ways, that definitely did make it easier. Alfie already knew about a lot of the muggle inventions introduced in class. But he still definitely learned new things. Like he definitely hadn't known when the Blendjet was invented, so that was pretty interesting. He turned to the one that had been given to him. It was pretty plain, just a sleek silver, but it looked nice. He watched Professor Feirgrund carefully, then poured his milk in to the same line as the professor had. Next, he used a spoon to add his glob of peanut butter. That splashed a little, but he hadn't seen a better way to do it. He just wiped the drop of milk off his cheek and grabbed his now frozen banana slices. He dropped those in one by one until all his ingredients had been added. Okay, he was ready!

Feirgrund checked around the students progress before he tapped the board to add Step 2's instructions. Was Miss Walles still working on opening the can? He was tempted to assist right away, but students thrive on figuring things out on their own or at least exhausting all options. Her partner seemed willing to assist, but he would as well if he were asked. Seeing others add their ingredients and now sitting ready for the next step, perhaps he could progress now.

"Now that the ingredients are in, we can now mix it." Feirgrund continued, "It's a much shorter process than the other steps. Muggles have fine-tuned this product to blend with just the press of a button, like so." Feirgrund held his product up, "Now before you blend, I would like each of you who have gotten their ingredients inside to stand and present your expected Smoothie. Share the ingredients you used, and why you're making this smoothie, and then press this button here and wait 20 seconds before pouring the contents into your glass jar to drink and enjoy." Keeping his own held up, "I'm making a Green Smoothie, there's certain vegetables I do not enjoy even today such as Kale and Spinach alone. But with the blend of Pineapples, Mangos, and Banana chunks the fruits completely mask it and easier to intake them outside of regular meals." Then he pressed the swirl button in the middle where it made a mixture of buzzing and whirling noise as the contents spun into the desired drink. After the 20 seconds, he poured it into a glass with the straw and... it was refreshing. "Now, your turn. One at a time, please."


OOC: Finally, you can mix! But first, do stand (can present your post as if it is your character's turn) and share what Smoothie you're making before mixing and enjoying. If you have any questions feel free to ask. You have around 48 hours to catch up and do so.

Oh, they were going to have to talk first...All right.....
Hope wasn't particularly shy, but she wasn't used to talking to quite so many people at once. Also, she realized she didn't have very good reasons for the things she picked. She hoped she didn't sound too stupid when it came her turn, which it did, all too fast.

"Uh, well I...I'm not sure what to call my...Smoothie you call them, right? But I used oat milk--I'm not quite sure what that is, but I like oats and I like milk, so I thought I'd give it a try. And then I used some vegetables and some fruit--spinach and carrots, apples and peaches, because I like all of them. And then this small, fuzzy, green fruit--I have no idea what that is, really, but it's pretty when you slice it and I thought I ought to try new things. And then finally, some of that protein powder--I've never heard of that either, and quite frankly, it smelled a little nasty to me, but I heard several people mention that it was supposed to be healthy, so I thought I'd better. And that's about it. Hope it tastes all right. Here goes!"

And she pressed the button while holding down on the lid, which she was a bit afraid might fly off. She really did hope it tasted all right, because either way, she was going to have to drink it. She could still hear her grandmother saying, "It's a sin to waste food." She wasn't about to go against Gran, even if she was an ocean away right now.

At Fynley's question he shook his head "I don't know. I suppose we have to ask Prof Feirgrund how to prep our chocolate bits or we just chuck them into the blender with the rest, and see what happens." he giggled. "Chocolate can't make anything explode sadly." As far as Will knew at least. But if it did explode that'd be wicked for sure. Seeing as Fyn had also finished prepping his part of the ingredients Will got up from his seat, and fetched a blendjet for them to use for the last part. As per the prof's instruction he got the lid open to the can on the blender and poured in the milk first up to the fourth line, and then the other frozen ingredients eg strawberries, banana and guava fruit followed suit. He then waited for Fyn to pour in his part of the ingredients as well as the chocolate bits. "It's your turn bud!" he mumbled before looking up to listen to Prof Feirgrund. They had to present their smoothie to the class before pressing the magic blender button? Okay why not. With a quick look sideways at Fyn he said with a charming smile "We present the FynWillie super smoothie! It's made out of fresh cold milk, strawberries, bananas, guava and something more sprinkled on top that I'll let Fyn present. This is our version of a healthy smoothie since fruits can be as healthy as veggies." Now could Fyn do his bit of the presentation so they could get to press the button and taste their finished smoothie already?

Charlie was itching to present his smoothie and the ingredients. He listened patiently to a few classmates before him; the most interesting aspects of this being the ingredients they had chosen for their respective smoothies. Then it was his turn. He stood and began his short presentation: “I like to refer to my smoothie as a pineapple-blueberry-banana smoothie.” Hmm. Kind of a long name, don’t you think? “But it’s mainly pineapple that’s in here. There’s also some dark chocolate and peanut butter. The base is skim milk. I chose these ingredients because they are some of the healthiest foodstuff that I enjoy.” Again… especially pineapple. With that, Char tossed his classmate a grin and got to mixing his smoothie.

The appropriate button was pressed and he watched the contents of the Blendjet get swirled and tumbled and mixed. It was quite mesmerising. When the twenty seconds were up, the process was stopped and the semi-liquid was poured from the Jet. Char did not hesitate to take a gulp of the mixture and… yum-0! It was delicious!

Ooh, so she was correct about the fruits masking the veggie taste? And Professor Feirgrund didn't like kale and spinach too?! Desiree thought all healers were supposed to love healthy foods. Maybe there was hope for her yet! Who knows? Maybe she'd try a green smoothie someday when she was feeling adventurous.

Desiree was only half listening to her classmates' presentations. Not that she wasn't interested. The combinations she heard sounded tasty! She was just distracted trying to come up with a name for her own smoothie. She wasn't great at naming things!

When her turn came, Desiree stood and took a deep breath. "I made a berry boost smoothie. It's made with strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, dark chocolate and a small amount of banana. The boost part comes from a tiny bit of protein powder. I was going for a combination of healthy and decadent because the two shouldn't have to be mutually exclusive."

With that, she pressed the button on her blendjet and mentally counted one hippogriff, two hippogriffs… When the 20 seconds were up, her smoothie had turned a lovely purple color. She switched off the blendjet and poured the smoothie into her glass. She took a dainty sip, and… that tasted just as good as it looked! Could use a bit more chocolate though.

Will seemed to be doing a pretty good job at keeping this partnership in check and so the fifth year basically only contributed when it was necessary. His ingredients piled into the blender after Will had filled up the milk. Then the Professor interrupted again and Fynn sat there staring at the blender waiting for that opportunity to shove the drink in his hungry stomach.

Hmm.. what?

If Fynn was going to be completely honest he had zoned out for the past couple of minutes that the other students were presenting their smoothie ideas and it took him a second to realise it was Will stood up next to him waiting for the Slytherins input to their project. Usually, Fynley would try his best to put the least amount of effort into his work but this time his mate was relying on him too and he wasn’t about to let him down. He stood up ready to continue with what Will was saying.

“But let’s be honest, no one actively prefers healthy food to unhealthy food. So we’ve added a sprinkle of chocolate to add a bit of sweetness and to make it overall more palatable.” In his not so expert opinion anyway.

Cool. Can they blend it now? As Will had taken over a lot of the responsibility, Fynn had decided it was now his turn to play his part. The button was pressed with enthusiasm as the contents were chopped and swirled and shaken until a thick liquid was formed. “Wanna do the honours?” he asked the Ravenclaw, holding out his glass ready to taste.