Lesson #3: Shrinking Solution
 

The usual sign hangs outside the locked potions classroom:

Serena took her things to her desk and got ready for class. She was excited about making a shrinking solution which would make things shrink in size.
From her book she saw the ingredients were: chopped daisy roots, skinned shrivelfig, sliced caterpillar, one rat spleen, and a dash of leech juice. "I wonder if we will be shrinking something organic, like an iguana, or maybe something solid, like our chairs."

Megan entered and said hi to serena.
she sat down in the same place she did last lesson and got out anything she might need for the lesson.

"Hi Megan!" said Serena making a face. "I hope we don't have to cut up our rat spleen today! I prefer handling plants and herbs over animal parts!"

The shrinking solution is used to make things shrink in size.

The ingredients are:

Chopped daisy roots
Skinned shrivelfig
Sliced caterpillar
One rat spleen
Dash of leech juice

"It causes thinks to shrink, and is the antidote to the Swelling solution."

Serena raised her hand, "Actually, the swelling solution is the antidote to the Deflating Draft. Professor, will it also work with the shrinking solution?"

Writtes down notes about everything her teacher says then thinks

If its not done right it can poisen the thing or person ur trying to shrink


::Raises her hand::
"Professor umm can it be dangerous if its brude up incorrectly?"

Shannon raises her hand. "If used on a frog, the potion will shrink it to a tadpole."

ooc: Please refrain posting multiple times in row and be patient. Try and edit your original post to include information you may have forgotten to include. Also, take note that most of my classes run over the course of several days.

"I'll give 6 points to Gryffindor and 1 to Slytherin. serenasnape is absolutely correct with her list of ingredients and in her correction of Jaren's statement. Though, true to it's name, the shrinking solution does shrink an object.

"Is there anything else you can tell me about this potion?"

There's a difference between the Shrinking Solution and the Deflating Draft, which makes it not be the antidote of the Swelling Solution. The most important being the state of the object once the potion is administrated. In contrast, the swelling solution will cause and irritation and swelling of an area in particular (make is larger, yes, but not as important), and which doesn't make much difference in size of the whole object, while the shrinking solution make the target get to a miniature version of itself, completely respecting the dimensions of object in question.

We can think of the Shrinking Solution as the potion-version of the spell "Reducio" (attention, "reducio", NOT "reducto") - the same the Confusing potion and Confusing Spell are.

When brewed properly it is bright, acid green

Daisy roots stunt growth

Jaren frowned in thought. The properties of potion ingredients had always been his vice--his policy had aways been 'give me the list of ingredients and the instructions and I will brew this right, nevermind what the ingredients do.' Of course, he knew that wasn't going to get him very far in this subject. He decided to try anyway.

"Shrivelfig," he said at last. "Since this is a shrinking solution, I presume that the shrivelfig is the key ingredient that causes the shrinking to occur..."

Jan sits quietly and writes down everything.

*Kirstie smiles at Jenn from the bench next to her and makes notes*

-continues taking notes while thinking. . . . . . .-

Emmy enters the room late and sits down in the back of the class,"Sorry, I didn't mean it i was talkin to the headmaster."

:dragon: :oops: what were you talking about agin i need to take my notes

ooc: Emmy, don't mention you are late and pretend you were there all along.

Kali whispers to the Slytherin girl, "We're discussing the Shrinking Solution."

She then turned to the professor, "The leech juice might be used in getting rid of the actul swelling because that's what leeches do to their prey. Also, if you add the wrong amount of ingredients (like too much leech juice), then your potion would turn an orange color instead of the green it's supposed to be."

Jill listens and jots down notes on a roll of parchment.