Professor Connell
January 09, 2005 3:29 PM
Second Lesson by Professor Connell
Marian looked around at her students. She had gotten to know them well in the several weeks they had been at school, and they looked a bit bored. She herself was a bit bored, actually. There really is only so much that one can do with making potions. Which meant it was time to mix things up."Class, today we will be doing something different. You will be divided into pairs as usual, but, using only your textbooks, you will be forced to figure out what potion involves certain ingredients that I will be writing on the board, and you must properly create that potion. First pair to get it right will win 20 points each for their respective houses.
"However, you must partner with someone outside your house, and you must partner with someone you have never partnered with, and whom you would never pair with normally.
"Also, since I know there will be complaints, there is only one right answer. The ingredients are Wolfsbane, essence of slug, shredded frog skin, and diced scarab. You may begin."
Marian grinned to herself. Those were all common potion ingredients, and there was one in almost every potion. There were multitudes of potions with two or three, but only one with all four. Edadcambiar, a relatively easy but rather obscure aging potion. This class should be interesting.
OOC- the points will be awarded on the writings of both partners, since I already gave you the potion name. So, the pair with the most detail, the most original ideas, etc. will get 20 points each for their houses. Have fun.\n\n
Subthreads: step one: find partner by Jenna H with Jake
A partner would be a lovely idea by Mia
always in partners... by Tally with Jennifer, Tally (Teppenpaw)
Partners, you say? by Elizabeth with Chrissy
OOC by Professor Connell
Time to split up the dream team (TY and one other!) by Ash and Sorrel Craven with Sally, Sorrel
Oi! Leann!! Over here! by Stephen Baxter
Need a partner by Zack Dill (Alderaan, er, Aladren) with Mia, Mia K.
Loner by TJ O'Riley
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Jenna H
January 09, 2005 6:03 PM
step one: find partner by Jenna H
A smile formed on her face and her whole face lit up. Potions was her element, and she had remember reading something in the Howard library that jogged her memory. She figured that if she looked through the textbook she would most likely recognize it as soon as she saw the name. The only problem would be finding a partner who wasn't in Crotalus or Tally and Mia, who she had worked with before."Would anyone not in Crotalus house and isn't Tally or Mia like to work with me?" she asked loudly over the crowd.\n\n
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Jenna H
step one: find partner
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Jake
January 10, 2005 5:27 PM
I'm a qualified candidate by Jake
Jake looked around at the person who shouted. He even chuckled a little at her outburst. Jake didn't know very many people personally here, though he knew a few faces from the parties.He had met Elizabeth during flying and Jennifer in the library, who...had witnessed his fight with the bookbag. He knew the twins, Sally, and Tally, but he figured that it was probably best to make more friends. He stood up and made his way over to where she was sitting. Smiling, he held out his hand to her,
"Hi, I'm Jake Santoro. I am in Teppenpaw and I am neither Tally or Mia. So, can I be your partner?"\n\n
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Jenna H
January 10, 2005 8:55 PM
Then let's begin by Jenna H
Jenna smiled at Jake, shaking his hand, "Jenna Howard, Crotalus house, but that was kind of obvious, wasn't it?"Jenna looked around her and saw that a desk next to her was vacant, "You can sit at that desk, and I'll move mine over to it," offered Jenna. Without waiting for a response, she got up and started to push her desk
As she moved her desk over to where Jake would sit, she explained, "You see, last summer I was big on pranking my older brothers by putting potions in their goblets. I think I remember brewing a potion with these ingredients, but I don't remember what the name was. Do you have any ideas as to what it's called?" asked Jenna hopefully, sitting back down in her desk.\n\n
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Then let's begin
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Jake
January 11, 2005 12:30 AM
I'm stumped by Jake
Jake sat down in the desk that Jenna indicated with ease. Potions was a difficult and very anal class to have to take. Everything had to be just right. If you pour too much, you could cause death, if you pour too little, you could cause death. The whole thing gave Jake a headache, but he did everything with such precision that he would have you believe he actually enjoyed doing.That wasn't usually the case. Failure just wasn't in the cards for Jake. He hated the idea of such things. And so, he did everything he could to avoid it. Now turning to Jenna, squinting slightly as he looked at her.
"All I know is that three of those ingredients are easy to come by and all are used sparatically within many potions. Wolfsbane is the most difficult because it is a potion itself. Plus, I think it is difficult to make and such, which is why it's usually brewed in large cauldrons and sold in stores. Anyway, I have no idea what potion all four are in together." Jake added with an apologetic smile and a shrug of his shoulders. He was still eyeing Jenna. He couldn't help the feeling of de ja vu. Although, he got that a lot in Sonora, but he didn't like it all the same.
"You pranked your brothers?" Jake held the note of skepticism as well as being impressed by the idea. He came from an extremely large family, pranking was inevitable. "Well, what did you want to happen to them after you put the stuff in the potion? Did they change into something, or maybe changed colors, or fell asleep? I mean, what were the effects that you had wanted to occur?"\n\n
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I'm stumped
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Jenna H
January 11, 2005 8:03 PM
when in doubt- to the index! by Jenna H
Ah, her brothers. Josh and Joey, Joey and Josh, no matter how you said it, the thought of those two always got Jenna angry. And she remembered quite well all the circumstances of that particular prank. How could she ever forget the retribution she had sought from them after she caught them cutting the tail off that poor stray cat. And for poor amusement alone. Her little sister looked to be as if she would turn out the same way."Well," she said, trying to remain calm and to keep down her anger, "They had told me something about 'growing up' so I decided to teach them a lesson about growing up. Actually, I decided to show them what it was like to be old by putting an aging potion in their goblets- that's it! It's aging potion," she grinned, apparently rambling did have its benefits.
She opened her book and tried to search for a name in the table of contents, only to find she still couldn't recognize the name of the potion.
"I don't know, I can't remember the name, but I know that it is for aging, if that helps," she muttered, fingering quickly through the pages of the book, when she stopped on one of the last pages. She mentally slapped herself, why hadn't she thought of it before? It was so simple, really she must have forgotten about it.
She figured she best clue in Jake on why she was looking so triumphant, "The index. We can look up potions that affect age in the index."\n\n
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when in doubt- to the index!
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Jake
January 11, 2005 9:14 PM
It's a start, a rather good start by Jake
Jake started laughing as Jenna worked her way through all of this. He was surprised how quickly she actually sorted it all out with just a mere suggestion by him."Alright, well that shouldn't be so hard." Jake said when he recovered himself from laughing, "All we have to do is look though the many aging potions, cross out the ones that are far to advanced for firsties like us, which will be most. Then with what we have left over, it's just a simple process of elimination."
Jake sat straight in his chair and flipped through his book to the index, taking out a peice of paper and a quill. Turning to Jenna with a smirk,
"You ready?"\n\n
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It's a start, a rather good start
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Jenna H
January 12, 2005 8:43 PM
potions geek by Jenna H
Jenna raised an eyebrow at Jake's smirk, "Don't forget, you're working with the year's biggest potions geek. There are some benefits to that, you know." Going into her schoolbag, she unearthed her potions magazine. She carried the magazine everywhere, she loved it so much the pages were worn and tattered. The way she had dropped it in Transfiguration hadn't helped its condition either."This is pretty close to being my bible. The 2000 new millenium edition of Potions Monthly. It is a bit outdated, but it has catalogued almost every potion item there is, which is why it's so thick. But we can probably use it later on," she carefully put the magazine on her desk, "but back to the index. I figure we could split up the ingredients. They all must have one page in common, and that is where our potion will be. What do you think?"\n\n
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Jenna H
potions geek
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Jake
January 13, 2005 7:32 PM
well that's an understatement by Jake
Jake couldn't help the look of surprise that overcame his dark face. The magazine she placed in front of them was huge, beyond huge. And it was out of date, which meant the newest one was even larger than the one she had with her now. Shaking his head slightly and smiling lopsidedly to Jenna,"Sounds like a plan. Which ones do you want to cover?"
OOC: Which page do you want them all to be on, that way when they cross-check, we'll have a match?\n\n
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well that's an understatement
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Jenna H
January 14, 2005 9:38 PM
beginning the search by Jenna H
OOC: pg 333! I don't know, it was the first number that came to my head.IC: Jenna looked at the ingredients, then back at Jake, "I'll take the essence of slug, and the wolfsbane. You can take the shredded frog skin and diced scarab," answered Jenna.
Going through the pages, she went first for the essence of slug. She found it under slug, then went to essence, which was on pages 57, 68, 234, 333, 457, and 667. Next she went for wolfsbane. Looking at it, she frowned; there was only one page of reference, and that would have to be the potion for Wolfsbane. But how could that be if it was also in the potion they were searching for? She looked at the page again to make sure she had seen in correctly. She smiled as she saw that the page said for wolfsbane, look for aconite and monkshood. How dense had she been to forget that wolfsbane was not just a potion, but an ingredient in itself.
Laughing at herself, she went to look under aconite, and found pages 4, 56, 333, 456, 572, and 583. Then she went to monkshood and found pages 32, 68, 455, 678, and 700. Looking at her paper she searched for any similarities, and found in her list pages 68 and 333 were both mentioned twice.
Circling them Jenna turned to Jake, "I've got pages sixty-eight and three-hundred-thirty-three. Do you have either of them?\n\n
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beginning the search
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Jake
January 15, 2005 12:51 AM
we have a match! by Jake
Jake began searching the index for shredded frog skin and diced scarab. He wasn't at all surprised that there had been many pages each were on because they were such overly used ingredients.Shredded frog skin ended up being on pages 15, 23, 28, 34, 40, 49, 57, 68, 82, 95, 100, 108, 115, 127, 139, 145, 152, 168, 171, 177, 185, 196, 208, 229, 254, 280, 300, 333, 391, 410, 420, 467, 500, 555, 598, 635, 667, and 700.
Diced scarab was on almost as much, but matched the frog skin on pages 15, 40, 95, 115, 139, 177, 229, 300, 333, 420, 500, 598, 667, and 700.
Jake looked over at Jenna's list of numbers when she had finshed and made her anouncement. Jake looked over his matching list to see if there were any matches with her two numbers. He smiled brightly when his eyes landed on 333 and looked over at hers to see that 333 was a match for her as well.
"Jenna, you're brillant! Three-hundred-and-thirty-three it is!"\n\n
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we have a match!
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Jenna H
January 15, 2005 7:42 PM
edad cambiar- it's spanish! by Jenna H
OOC: All hail me and my knowledge of spanish- heheBIC: Eagerly Jenna turned to page 333, and she could have died when she saw the name of the potion, "Edadcambiar! How stupid am I to forget the name? My favorite alchemist discovered it, Eduardo Del Alquima! He had a tendency to name his potions in Spanish, so this must be in Spanish too! I know a little Spanish, just from his other works. Cambiar is common in them, so Cambiar means to change. Edad most probably means age. So it's the "Age Change" potion," ranted Jenna, then blushed. She never told anyone how much she really loved and knew of potions before.
"But now, you see the beauty of the magazine. They only came out with five copies of this exact volume, and I went through a lot to get it. Watch and you'll see why there are only five," taking out her wand, she tapped the magazine three times, then made a more complicated pattern on the cover of the magazine, whispering an old chant over and over again, until the cover glowed, "Shredded frog skin, please."
The pages began to turn themselves, until finally they got to the desired page. But instead of text, there was a jar of shredded frog skin, sitting on the page. She pulled out a white handkerchief with her initials in silver, sewn by house elves. With the handkerchief she picked up the jar and set it on the table, turning back to Jake, "It only lasts for one month, then it disappears. But by then it will be graded. So, let's get the other three ingredients and we can get the potion started. Be careful though, you can't touch the jar with bare hands."\n\n
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edad cambiar- it's spanish!
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Jake
January 15, 2005 9:37 PM
Really? I know spanish! by Jake
Jake couldn't help the feeling of awe as he watched Jenna. She was a brilliant little witch, but he would never tell her that. She was a girl after all."Yes, I know spanish fluently. I lived in Spain as well as Mexico for part of my life. Though, I don't know who that alchemist was, but I was never interested in potions like you." He took out his own handkerchief of his own, every respectable male would carry one. His was a dark navy blue with silver letters of his last name, Santoro. It was his favorite color. His mother allowed each of her children to choose the color they wanted, but they all had their last name embroided into it with their family emblem. He opened the jar and shook some of the shredded frog skins from it.
"So, do you want to do that weird chanting to get the rest of the ingredients or would you rather have me go to the supply cupboard and get them?" Jake asked with his lopsided smile and a slight chuckle.\n\n
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Really? I know spanish!
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Jenna H
January 15, 2005 10:22 PM
you can get them if you say "please" by Jenna H
Jenna was shocked that anyone could not know Eduardo Del Aquima! Well, her siblings didn't know of him, but Jenna had always assumed that it was because they were stupid, ignorant fools."You lived in Spain and Mexico? Now that's really interesting. I lived my whole life in northern California, which is quite boring, at least to me," exclaimed Jenna, "and I don't need to say the chant again. You can just tap the book with your wand once, and ask for it. But remember to say please, or it might get moody," she warned, then answered what he was probably thinking, and what she also agreed on, "Yes, it sounds very stupid, but you don't want to see the magazine when it gets moody. It's quite creepy."\n\n
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Jenna H
you can get them if you say "please"
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Jake
January 16, 2005 5:57 PM
alright then, Please! by Jake
Jake laughed as Jenna explained her magazine. He understood where she was coming from, he had a garbage can in his room back at home that, if you weren't nice to him, he would spit all the garbage back in your face. It really did make quite a mess of things."No, I don't think I would like to see a magazine such as this upset or moody." He commented, "You're from California? I'm from L.A. It's rather exciting though. I mean, for me it is. And yeah, Spain and Mexico were nice. We were visiting relatives that live there. The Wizarding communites there are amazing!" Jake said with a note of awe in his voice as he remembered them. "Anyway, how do I do it? Tap my wand and say please?"\n\n
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alright then, Please!
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Jenna H
January 16, 2005 8:48 PM
you're welcome by Jenna H
"I don't live in a town, really, I live with my family; which is to say my immediate family, cousins, second cousins, grandparents, great aunts and great uncles on a large estate. I harldy ever saw anyone but them before Sonora. That is why I found living there so boring," explained Jenna, "and you get the ingredients just like this. Diced scarab, please," said Jenna, tapping her wand.Another jar appeared, this one with diced scarab in it. Picking it up with her handkerchief, she set it on the table and turned to Jake, "Now you try."\n\n
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you're welcome
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Jake
January 17, 2005 3:18 AM
Alright, I will by Jake
Jake reached his wand over to her magazine and tapped it lightly,"Wolfsbane please." He watched as it opened to the page where Wolfsbane was located and picked up the jar with his handkerchief and placing it on the table.
"That's really cool." He commented politely, "You didn't live in town? That's rather boring. We lived in downtown LA. Cities of the Angels. Although, from what I saw, it wasn't very angelic if you know what I mean." Jake said, his voice held a somewhat note of pity when he said that.
"Usually the muggles would amuse us or we would go to the magical park and see other witches and wizards, but sometimes it was chaos and destruction and our parents wouldn't let us out of our manor. It was never pretty to witness death. Even smell it." Jake sighed at his memories of living in the presence of muggles, though they had been unaware of it. He shook his head of those thoughts and smiled over at Jenna, "Anyway, it's good to get away from that. So, what's our next step Miss Potions-know-it-all?" He said teasingly.\n\n
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Alright, I will
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Jenna H
January 18, 2005 7:04 PM
Thinking out of the box by Jenna H
Jenna raised her eyebrows at his name for her, "You think I'm a know-it-all? Obviously you've never met my cousin Cornelia, she memorizes books for fun, and is quite arrogant about it besides that. Her family also lives on the estate- it's pretty large, so I'm going to have to put up with her over Christmas," Jenna rolled her eyes.You would think that the two would be the best of friends, but these two cousins were definitely far from it.Jenna looked over the potion instructions, making a tut-tu sound with her tongue as she read over it, "Del Alquima was well-known for making basic potions harder than they seemed. For instance, following these instructions word-for-word would get you a decent potion. But if you prepare the scarab and slug in cauldron A than the frog skin and wolfsbane in cauldron B, doing steps 1 & 3 in cauldron A synchronized with steps 2 & 4 in cauldron B- and put them together before step five you will get a much better outcome. What do you think?"\n\n
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Thinking out of the box
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Jake
January 20, 2005 12:17 AM
Obviously, I'm still in the box... by Jake
Jake sat there blinking at Jenna before shaking his head with a laugh."We'll do whatever you want to do because that was a total foreign language for me. I didn't understand a single thing you said. A + B = C or something like that." Jake said with a shrug.
"Don't like your family, eh?" He said sympathetically, "My immediate family is really cool. We're close and I can't wait to see my sister, Bella and the twins. As for the rest of my family, well, they're a whole different matter of opinion. I'm not looking forward to seeing them during the holidays." Jake said with an expression to show exactly how he felt about them.
"So, is Cornelia our age or older or younger? And as a potions geek, I would assume you'd make allies where ever you could. Er-no offense." Jake added with a sheepish smile.\n\n
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Obviously, I'm still in the box...
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Jenna H
January 22, 2005 8:23 PM
step 1 by Jenna H
"Cornelia is a year older than us, however, her parents held her back a year because she was born in late December and she's very... delicate. And in my family, allies are very apt to sell you out, it's better I don't have them. Although one cousin of mine was very nice before she moved out and was disowned..." Jenna thought aloud. Yes, Raven had been very nice, it was a pity nice people weren't very well-like in the family."Okay, back to the potion, it's easier done than explained. My cauldron will be cauldron A, and yours will be B. I'll do steps 1& 3 using the scarab and slug, and in your cauldron you can do steps 2 & 4 using the wolfsbane and frog skin."
She looked at step one. It stated 'Take seven scarabs and slice them thinly. Put all of them in the cauldron.' She opened the jar, and put on her dragon hide gloves on. She didn't want to touch the insects, as much as she loved potions. She took off a small knife and began to cut.
"When you're ready with step two, we'll put them in the cauldrons at the same time," said Jenna, after cutting up one bug.\n\n
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step 1
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Jake
January 30, 2005 10:52 PM
Alright then... by Jake
Jake just stared at Jenna for a moment. He didn't hide his surprise. Even after she explained her self, he still had no idea to what she was talking about. Shaking his head, Jake pulled open his book to the page where the potion was located and read what he was suppose to do.Take frog skin and shred as thinly as one is allowed. The end result should give you exactly one cup of shredded skin
Alright, seems simple enough. Jake, using his handkerchief, tapped out some of the skin on the cuttingboard he had placed beside him. He then picked up his knife and gently cut the skins as thinly as he could. He surprised himself by not cutting any of his fingers. He placed the shredded skin into the measuring cup and measured out exactly one cup.
Once that was done, he read the next line of the potion, When using the Wolfsbane in this complex concotion, be sure to cru... into a fine powder. Otherwise, the potion will be useless to the potionmaker.
Jake pulled the Wolfsbane closer to him and began to crush the Wolfsbane. Jake was lucky to be in such good shape, otherwise he might have been at this for hours. It had only taken him about 10 minutes before the wolfsbane was nothing more than a soft fine powder. Feeling rather proud of himself, Jake looked over at Jenna,
"Okay, my ingredients are prepared. What are we suppose to do now?"\n\n
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Alright then...
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