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Post by Elsbeth Pierce on Dec 31, 2007 17:30:14 GMT -5
{2.1 means Second Term, First Class}
It was the first week of school after Christmas Holidays, and Elsbeth sat behind her desk awaiting the arrival of her 6th year Potions Class.
They had covered the first half of the course already, and and the rest to do this term, obviously. The boring things out of the way, they were ready to start researching the finer side of Potions and their effects.
Some students trickled in as time passed, leaving five minutes before class started. In mere moments they would begin the second term of 6th year Potions.
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Post by Isabelle Wesker on Jan 1, 2008 19:37:22 GMT -5
[OOC: Did you erase the previous threads? I look back to my past threads all the time to remember what happened and stuff... I would have liked it better if they had been left somewhere...]
Isabelle walked in with her friend Sera, babbling together as usual. She apparently still had a lot of catching up to do with her friends, as they had been separated during the break.
After a long break spent lazying around, Isabelle wasn't quite in the proper set of mind to be back to class. At least they were supposed to move on to practical work, which would be far more interesting than theory.
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Post by Elsbeth Pierce on Jan 2, 2008 17:58:02 GMT -5
{OOC: Yup, the posts were moved to a vault for old posts. But you don't really need them, you only RPd in one class, and there wasn't much in it, anyway.}
Her class full, and ready to learn (Or so she hoped) Elsbeth began their first lesson of the new term.
"Hello, students," she said with a bright smile. "Welcome back to the real world. Holidays are over, and it's time to get back into the school way of things."
She walked around her desk, to lean back on the front of it. She spoke casually, not wanting to frighten the students. "We're getting close to the NEWT year, people. Sixth year potions and Seventh year potions are extremely crucial in your NEWTs, you know."
She muttered a few words under her breath as she pulled her wand out of her sleeve with a swish and flick. A piece of parchment appeared on each desk. It had instructions for one of Elsbeth's favorite elixirs, on a sixth year level, of course.
"If you'll take a look at the parchment in front of you, you'll find that we'll actually be brewing a potion today."
Euphoria Inducing Elixir
Ingredients
- Fluxweed, steeped
- Daisy roots, crushed
- Moonstone, powdered
- Flobberworm mucus
- Essence of Dittany
- Scurvygrass, powdered
- Peppermint sprig
Directions:
1. Prepare your ingredients as directed.
2. Steep the Fluxweed for five minutes.
3. Add Crushed Daisy Roots and Powdered Moonstone within one minute of each other.
4. Mix in Flobberworm Mucus and stir clockwise for two minutes.
5. Take cauldron off of the fire before ading the Essence of Dittany.
6. Back on the fire, add powdered Scurvygrass.
7. Let sit on flame for ten minutes.
8. Raise flame and let sit for thre minutes.
9. Add sprig of Peppermint.
10. Stir counter-clockwise ten times.
"Come up to the front to collect your ingredients, as usual, please."
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Post by Isabelle Wesker on Jan 2, 2008 19:26:26 GMT -5
Isabelle glanced over at the parchment, then leaned towards Sera.
"Euphoria Inducing? Now that should be interesting..."
Sera simply nodded absentmindedly, frowning in concentration while going through the instructions.
Isabelle went up to the front with her list, collecting the needed ingredients, then she headed back to her desk, taking out her tools to set to work crushing and powdering them as instructed.
Potion-making was a bit like cooking, only with far less room for guess-taking and improvising. She actually enjoyed the meticulous work, when she could actually manage to remain focused on the task long enough...
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Post by Elsbeth Pierce on Jan 2, 2008 21:34:03 GMT -5
The students came up one by one to collect their ingredients from the storage cupboard. Elsbeth smiled at them as they passed by her desk. She also had her materials and ingredients set up at her own desk, already brewing. She had started before the students arrived to her classroom. It would make for a fun and interesting class, for sure.
She watched over her brewing potion like a mother hen. Elsbeth was in her element and moved with the skill of a surgeon as she mixed and stirred in her last ingredients in the right order with the right properties.
Leaving her potion for a moment while it sat on the flame for the ten minutes, she went around the class to see if any of her students needed any assistance.
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Post by Isabelle Wesker on Jan 2, 2008 22:21:11 GMT -5
After preparing all the ingredients, Isabelle moved on to steeping the fluxweed, using her watch to time herself to exactly five minutes.
Double checking her instructions on each step, she then added the crushed daisy roots, and held the mortar containing the moonstone over her cauldron, ready to tip it as she looked at her watch.
However, a laugh from the small group of Gryffindors behind her made her jump slightly and turn her head over to see what was going on, until she remembered her task.
"...uhoh..."
Turning back to her cauldron, Isabelle saw that her hand had twisted as she had looked around, and some of the moonstone might have fallen into the cauldron. Maybe. She couldn't be sure. She looked at her watch. Was it too early, or too late?
I think I was supposed to add it when the second hand reached the 6... there. I'm pretty sure this is right. If I did tip some over too early, it couldn't have been that much... Maybe it won't make a difference...
Bitting her lip, she tipped in her flubberworm mucus and started stirring the mix clockwise, staring at her watch intentfully, to make sure she really counted the two minutes right this time.
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Post by Elsbeth Pierce on Jan 3, 2008 7:16:32 GMT -5
Elsbeth weaved through the desks, checking on the potions, and came up on Isabelle Wesker in the midst of her brewing. She took a look inside the girl's cauldron, and sighed. "Isabelle, at this pint the brew should be a light mustard color, on it's way to a bright sunshine yellow... Why is yours pink?"
Elsbeth wasn't upset, merely a tad bit disappointed. She knew Isabelle was a bright witch and only if she hadn't been paying attention to her potion would this have happened to it. Something must have been overlooked.
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Post by Isabelle Wesker on Jan 3, 2008 12:23:49 GMT -5
Isabelle looked at the color of her potion, and let out a grunt of frustration.
"Ah, Merlin! I guess I timed the moonstone wrong? This looks bad, if it's that far from the right color... Can I fix it, or do I have to start over?"
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Post by Elsbeth Pierce on Jan 3, 2008 15:20:50 GMT -5
"It's fixable; simply add in an extra sprig of peppermint and then after your ten counter clockwise stirs, add two pinches of crushed Lovage." she said, and began to finish her round of the classroom.
She turned around, as if remembering something. "The Lovage is in the storage cupboard on the second shelf."
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Post by Isabelle Wesker on Jan 3, 2008 17:44:44 GMT -5
"Oh. Okay then, thank you."
Isabelle had taken the cauldron off the fire to add essence of Dittany. She put it back on the fire, and added the scurvygrass. She now had to let it sit for 10 minutes, so after checking her watch for the proper time, she made for the cupboard to get her extra sprig of peppermint, and the lovage. She would have plenty of time during that step to prepare the extra ingredients to fix her mistake.
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Post by Elsbeth Pierce on Jan 3, 2008 20:13:04 GMT -5
Elsbeth turned from the student she was helping, and smiled, watching the Ravenclaw student continue with her potion. Pleased with the way things were going, she returned to her desk to finish her own brewing process. Her potion came out a bright sunshine yellow, and she bottled it in a few vials; as an example for the class, and some for her private stores. With a quick "Scourgify" her materials were cleaned, and then a muttered spell later and her things were banished to their proper places in her office, which was adjacent to her classroom.
A few moments later she inquired of the class, "Is anyone finished their potion?" She held up her own vial and waved it in the air as she asked her question.
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Post by Isabelle Wesker on Jan 3, 2008 21:26:32 GMT -5
"Hum, I'm almost done!"
Isabelle was now adding the 2 sprigs of peppermint, and stirred counterclockwise, counting 10 turns.
She the threw in the two pinches of crushed lovage, then looked over at the result, glancing over at Sera's cauldron to compare, hoping that she had managed to fix her mistake, as annoyed as she was to be lagging behind the others...
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Post by Elsbeth Pierce on Jan 3, 2008 23:53:58 GMT -5
Looking around the room from her seat at the head of the class, Elsbeth observed her students as they finished brewing their elixirs.
Most had already bottled their potons in their labelled vials, and a few were still in the last stage of the brewing process.
She would give the class a few more minutes to finish up and bottle their brew before letting them each take one sip each of their potions, if they were made correctly.
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Post by Isabelle Wesker on Jan 4, 2008 12:01:19 GMT -5
Isabelle bottled her potion, and glanced around at everyone else. Her potion looked enough like everyone else's who seemed to have suceeded in theirs. Some students looked very unsure of their success. One Hufflepuff's cauldron was releasing a lot of blue smoke.
Isabelle smiled to herself, seeing that her mistake would probably go unnoticed by the class as a whole.
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Post by Elsbeth Pierce on Jan 4, 2008 12:06:15 GMT -5
"Well done, class. I see most of you managed to produce a bright sunshine yellow elixir, that's wonderful!"
She held up her vial and said, "For a job well done, those of you who've made proper potions will be allowed one sip of your elixir; you'll have a great day after that, I'm sure."
"no more than one sip, children. That's dangerous, and you'll recieve a week's worth of detentions if you do so."
To show the students there was nothing wrong wit taking one sip, she herelf took one, as well. Her mood instantly shifted, and a bright smile shone on her face.
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