Professor Fawcett
December 10, 2012 10:43 PM
Lesson II for Beginners (1st and 2nd Years) by Professor Fawcett
All in all, John thought – giving it the highest compliment he tended to privately award to anything – the year could have been worse, even though exams had yet to be completed. He had confidence in his students’ abilities enough to feel comfortable making that judgment ahead of time, even with the Beginners’ class, which normally was a source of stress for him just because of the chance that some of the first years might panic under the new stress of their first major school exams. He did not much agree with many of the ways in which the purebloods got on with their business, but one thing he did have to say for them, they tended to send their children off with either impressive discipline or an impressive fear of the consequences of too much misbehavior or inattention in classes, and the first year class was mostly made up of that sort this year.That, or he was merely commanded such respect among the student body that even the first years did not think of misbehaving on his watch, but he suspected that was a very self-indulgent line of thinking, and the important thing, after all, up to a certain point, of course, was that they behaved and paid attention and did not do too much grievous injury to themselves or him or school property. Whatever brought that about was working, and it was probably best not to question it too closely.
“Welcome, class,” he said loudly a few seconds before the bell rang, giving them the cue to begin to settle down. “If you’ll go ahead and start opening your books to page 31….”
He waited until there were not quite so many rustling pages to continue. “As you all know, final exams will soon be with us,” he told them. “Try to think of them as a chance to celebrate all the knowledge you have obtained this year.” That advice very seldom worked, but it was worth a try, he supposed. “We have made good progress together in this class, and so have some time now for review, going back through the levels of potion-making we have covered since you arrived here in September, which is why we’re back in the early chapters of your textbook, if with a potion we did not cover the first time around due to time. It’s a simple cheering draught, which I must remind you all that you are not to consume recreationally, or any time when you are not supervised and it is not brewed by a qualified potioneer.”
He strongly suspected (perhaps, only perhaps, inspired by memories of personal experience from his own school days) this was a prohibition, among many others, than many students, particularly those who had their dorm rooms entirely to themselves, would break at some point during their Sonora careers, but he was careful to offer such orders from time to time anyway. “For this potion, you will require asphodel root, daisy root, fluxweed, and ginger. If, by this time, you are running low on an item, there are reserve supplies in the cupboard, as usual. Your homework is a foot on the use of ginger in potion-making. Since you should have extra time after you bottle your samples, I suggest you begin working on it in class, or else reviewing other Potions topics. The first and second year shelves – “ he gestured toward the bookshelves in his room filled with books pertaining to that age group – “are open to you for that, and I am willing to provide you with additional study materials as well. Split into partners, and you may begin.”
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