Marian Connell
December 03, 2004 5:40 PM
First Lesson by Marian Connell
Professor Connell sat in her desk, tapping a quill as the first year students filed in. Once the last had sat down, she stood, and began to talk.“Welcome to First-Year Potions. My name is Professor Connell, and, for the record, I am not one to be crossed.
“Now, Potions is the only combination of magic and muggle talents. It does not matter here how pure your blood is, or how well you can do other types of magic. Potion-making is an art of its own.”
She looked around. “In some classes, mistakes do not matter. If in Charms, for example, you pronounce an incantation wrong, at worst the spell will not work. Here, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life. Therefore, if I see any horseplay whatsoever, that person could be asked to leave, and perhaps never to come back. Consider yourself warned.”
She walked around the classroom, meeting the eyes of every student. “Today we’re going to be making one of the simplest potions, a relaxing one. Judging by the facial expressions of some students, you lot need it.” Nervous giggles were emitted, but were quickly followed by more silence. Connell continued, “The ingredients and instructions are in your book on page 12 in your copy of Potions, Level 1. You may chose your own partners, and you may chat, as long as you attempt to work.
“Also, it is a tradition in my class for one student to come up and make a potion at the front of the classroom. Every student has to do it at least once per term. When you do it, your potion is graded particularly closely, and house points are given accordingly. Who would like to be the first victim…sorry, volunteer.” She finished with a wolfish grin.
(OOC- points for how well you do depend on how well you write your post, the details, the logic, and all those other fun stuff.)
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Subthreads: Would love to by Mathilda with Rose Withal, Sally
In need of a partner by Zack Dill with Sally
Brewing up trouble by Sorrel and Ash Craven (Picari)
Lookin' for a partner... by Kaylie Brockert (Teppenpaw) with Dillon
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Zack Dill
December 06, 2004 3:35 PM
In need of a partner by Zack Dill
Zack Dill listened to the teacher intently, his red 69 cent spiral notebook open in front of him. He took careful notes that anybody looking over his should would have a very difficult time reading - unless they understood both Klingon and Elvish as well as English. The other two languages didn't make the notes any less precise and perfect a study guide than if it had been entirely in human languages, but he'd had his notebooks stolen before by people who would rather read his concise notes than the dry text book.From what he heard so far, this seemed to be the subject most like a normal class, so old habits kicked in. He wasn't too worried about the 'costing you your life' bit; his reading teacher had given equally dire threats for the people who refused to improve their literacy. He did not horseplay and he did his work. The threats did not apply to him.
He turned to page twelve when instructed and was somewhat dismayed by the types of ingredients listed. Otherwise, it looked a lot like the lab procedures he'd had to write about for his oldest customers in his homework selling ring. As he read the steps again, he was more and more certain that this was wizardly chemistry - which meant that by going from mundane school to magic school, he skipped at least three grades in the sciences. That was excellent.
Feeling very smug for his further academic superiority over his brother, he looked around for a partner, as it sounded like they were required. "Hey," he asked the student sitting next to him, so as not to require either of them to move, "You got a partner yet?"\n\n
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Sally
December 07, 2004 7:07 PM
Re: In need of a partner by Sally
Sally shook her head. "No, I don't. I asked a few other people, but they already had partners. Can I work with you?"As she looked over the ingrediants, she whistled to herself softly. "Well, this one should be fun. I fail to see how anyone could get confused. It's like getting confused in chemistry or biology, it's damn near impossible."\n\n
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Zack Dill
December 08, 2004 9:27 AM
Re: In need of a partner by Zack Dill
OOC: you're only 11. You should be somewhere around sixth or seventh grade depending on how your birthday falls. So your last muggle school year was, at most, 6th (for sept and oct births), more likely 5th. Unless school curriculums whereever you live are vastly different than New York, you don't see biology or chemistry as individual subjects until high school. BIC:Zack shrugged indifferently, as if working with her hadn't been what he'd been aiming for when he asked if she had a partner. "Yeah, sure." He paused a second, trying to remember her name from their breif conversation before Miss Jinx started talking about House rules. "You're Sally, right?"
Just in case she wasn't, he added, "I haven't met so many people all at once in a long time." If ever. And in his old school, he never so much as looked at the girls, nevermind introduced himself to them or worked with them. Girls were a foreign species. Like wizards and witches were.
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Sally
December 08, 2004 5:54 PM
Re: In need of a partner by Sally
OOC- At my school, we actually do start really early. Like chemistry/physics in 6th grade.BIC"Yeah, I know. It's really weird, isn't it? And it is Sally." Sally responded. Then she looked down at page twelve. There were so many ingrediants. It looked like fun, but Sally knew from experience that things like these, if they weren't done perfectly, would retaliate violently.
Twirling a strand of hair around her finger, she looked over at her partner, Zach. "So, do you want to do the slicing, dicing, and measuring, or do you want to mix everything up? I'm up for either."
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Zack Dill
December 17, 2004 1:26 PM
Re: In need of a partner by Zack Dill
As fun as slicing, dicing, and measuring sounded, especially with such . . . um . . . interesting ingredients as 'frog eyes' and 'newt tails', he decided that Sally could have the honors. "Uh, I'll mix." While he didn't think he'd throw up if the frog eyes and newt tails proved to actually be real frog eyes and newt tails, he wasn't sure he wanted to test that hypothesis.Oh, he had no problem with frogs or newts themselves. He just thought they should have their eyes and tails attached rather than under a scapel he was weilding himself. \n\n
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December 19, 2004 10:56 PM
Re: In need of a partner by Sally
Sally began to slice the newt tails into small, evenly sized pieces. It was weird, but oddly relaxing. She felt very much in control, which was a feeling she didn't often have. She found that she liked it, a lot.She looked over at Zack, to pass him the tails, and saw that he had a slightly squeamish look oh his face. "Is slicing up tails not really your cup of tea?" she asked, kindly.
OOC I didn't mean to write for your character with teh whole 'squeamish look' thing, but from what your wrote of your thoughts, it sounded like taht was what would be your expression. Sorry if I'm wrong.\n\n
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