Third years, Class Three

[Professor Carina Erikson]

Term was well underway now and everyone should know where all the classrooms where and their own schedules. That should help cut down on people being late. It was a thought Carina had as she entered her room. Dropping her bag on the floor, Carina was extremely glad the curse she had been hit with in the forest a while back had hit her left arm and not her right.

She had gone to the hospitial wing like she had promised but Sessy had not been there, so Carina had gone back to her room and bandaged it the best she could. She had simply not had the time to go back and find Sessy again. Holding her left arm close to her body, as it still hurt to move it, Carina began writing today's potion on the board.

Sleeping Draught

Asphodel
valerian roots
sopohorous beans

As Carina sat at her desk, waiting for the students to arrive, she wished she had put her robes on this morning. The bandages could be seen peeking out from under the sleeve of her t-shirt, but alas, she couldn't get them on this morning without hurting herself, so she had left them off.

[Kamy Shindana]

.x. Ooh, her first class as a third year! How exciting terrifying. Sure, all the people she knew were third years as well, but this meant stuff would be harder. Man, she was hardly passing as it was, she was sure. Walking into Potions, Kami sat near the front of the room, shocked she was first into the class.

.x. She pulled out her parchment and wrote down the Potion. Sleeping Draught; Asphodel, Valerian Roots, Sophorous Beans. Raising her eyebrow, she didn't even know what half of this was. Pathetic, hm? "Morning, Professor."

[jess]

She pushed open the door to the potions class and walked inside. It was pretty much deserted except for the Professor and a girl, who she hadn't met before. Wow, for the second time this year, Jessica was one of the first people in class. It was a miracle. "Good Morning, Professor."

She sat down next to the girl and said, "Hullo. I'm Jessica, and you are?" She asked with a smile on her face. She really needed to meet new people, because lately she seemed to be hanging out with the same ones only and that wasn't too good.

Placing her notebook on her desk, she quickly wrote down what was on the board.

Sleeping Draught
-asphodel
-valerian roots
-sopohorous beans

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[chloiewhite]

The door seemed really heavy to Chloie today, or maybe she was just tired. As she entered the room and read the board, the third year chuckled to herself.

Sleeping Draught. How ironic.

She skimmed the room and found a random seat by herself.

None of my friends here, as usual. I wonder if they are never in class, or if I can just never find them...oh well. Maybe I'll actually finish the potion this period. Seems like I never do.

Chloie sighed sleepily and watched the door for people she knew.

[Illusion Avery Rayne]

Illusion carried her books to her chest. Walking into the potions class room. She found herself amongst none of her friends. She didn't have a clue who these people we're even if they were her year mates. Looking around she found an open desk and skimmed over what the board wrote. Writing it down on a peice of parchment. She just hummed silently to herself as she waited for class to begin.

[ma]

As usual, Melissa limped through the doorway and into the classroom. It happened to be her third Potions class of the term. She had been fairly good with completing the potions so far this term, finishing well before class was called to dismiss. So hopefully the streak could continue.

Her eyes scanned the room. She only recognized Chloie in the room, so she took a seat next to her. "Hey," she said, placing her bag down on the ground next to her. "What's been going on lately?" It was nice to see Chloie again, and to at least share some quality time with the girl she had met through Sammi. Speaking of Sammi, where was she...?

[xxbrokenheartxx]

Aaryn entered the room. She had just made it on time. She hurried and found a seat all alone. Because Melissa was already talking with someone else and she didn't feel like interrupting her. So she was all alone in the middle of the class. She pulled out her notebook, her quill, and her green ink. She opened up her notebook and jotted down the following:

Sleeping Draught

Asphodel
valerian roots
sopohorous beans

With that down, she set her book down and looked at the big black cauldron in front of her. She didn't bother getting out the ingredients yet. She didn't feel like it, quite yet. She was being kind of lazy right now.

[nicolev]

Potions. A favourite of the weary Ravenclaw, and yet, she couldn't get her enthusiasm quite right. Perhaps she was getting ill? Adriana smiled briefly at Professor Erikson as she entered the classroom, not missing the sliver of white bandage but not dwelling on it.

Sitting down at a bench quickly as her eyes glanced around the room, and to the board, Adriana unpacked for the lesson, her quill in her hand and scribbling on the parchment in record time. She'd missed one lesson, and the girl was going to catch up.

Sleeping Draught. Not too hard, then. Adriana flicked her hair over her shoulder, tying the black tresses up into a ponytail. It wouldn't do to catch alight.

[giannine]

Potions....why is it Gia was almost never late for this class? Horrible with measuring and timing things as it was, it was a miracle she hadn't already blown something up. But, there's a first time for everything

She entered the class and saw Aaryn. Frowning slightly, she took a seat next to her gossip-worthy bestie and said, "We need to talk. After class." Then she turned to the board and wrote down on the parchment what they were going to do.

Sleeping Draught

Asphodel
valerian roots
sopohorous beans

A quick glance at Professor Erikson surprised Gia, seeing the unmistakable white of bandages peeking out from her collar. But, remaining polite, the Gryffie stayed silent and looked back at her notes.[/color]

[Professor Carina Erikson]

Class was filling up nicely, but it wasn't a surprise as her third years, normally always showed up for class. It didn't take long for her watch to let her know that it was time to get started. Standing up from her desk, Carina held her arm close to her body. "Alright, boys and girls, we're doing a simple sleeping potions today. So I'm sure you don't need me to explain what it's used for."

Turning towards the board, Carina tapped her wand against it. The directions appeared, a bit slow at first but finally completed themselves.

1. Preheat cauldron for two minutes.
2. Add three ounces of asphodel.
3. Add one valerian root.
4. Stir clockwise six times.
5. Add sopohorous bean.
6. Stir counter clockwise four times.
7. Wait three minutes to allow potion to swell.
8. Remove from fire and allow to sit for ten minutes.

"Alright, you may begin."

[Kamy Shindana]

.x. When a girl sat next to her, she returned her smile. "Kami. Nice to meet you." Finally, someone else in her year she could talk to. [: Looking up to see the instructions on the board, she scribbled them down on a scrap piece of parchment. She gathered her ingredients and materials, returning to her seat and sighing. Preheat cauldron for two minutes...

.x. Done. Add three ounces of asphodel; Done. Add one valerian root; Done. Stirring clockwise six times, Kami sighed. These things never smelled very good. x.x Add sopohourous bean; Done. Stir counter-clockwise four times; Done. The potion was going to SWELL?! What the heck did that mean?

.x. Waiting three minutes, the Mihael realized what it meant. It was, quite literally, swelling. Hmph, silly potion. She removed it from the heat, letting it sit. Ten minutes went by all too slow as she waited; sketching little hearts on her spare piece of parchment.

[jess]

one. Preheat cauldron for two minutes.
2. add three ounces of asphodel.
three. add one valerian root.
4. Stir clockwise six times.
five. add sopohorous bean.
6. Stir counter clockwise four times.
seven. Wait three minutes to allow potion to swell.
8. Remove from fire and allow to sit for ten minutes.

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She wrote down all the steps to making the potion on her parchment and then she began. The first step was to preheat the cauldron for two minutes. Two minutes passed and then she was on to the next step. Add three ounces of asphodel. She popped the three ounces of aspholdel in the potion. Then she did the next step which was to add one valerian root.

One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Okay, she mixed it six times and she was about to add the sopohorous bean. Once she did that she stirred the potion counter clockwise four times. The next step was to wait three minutes to allow the potion to swell.

Allow the potion to swell? Hmm..what did that mean? Maybe it was supposed to grow bigger like your finger did after it got slammed in a door. Once three minutes were up she removed the potion from the fire and since she had to wait for ten minutes, she began to write all over her hands while she waited. [/size]

[xxbrokenheartxx]

She felt Gia sit next to her. She turned her head. We need to talk after class. She grunted and agreed. Then the teacher began. Aaryn fixed her attention on her. Okay then, time to start the potion. She watched the words appear on the board and she stared at them a minute or two before talking.

Preheat cauldron for two minutes.

Aaryn turned on the cauldron and let it sit she checked the clock and then turned to Gia. "Why don't we talk now, I think I know why you want to talk," she said, "but you tell me, what do you want know?" Of course she knew what Missus Frogs wanted to talk about. It was Dezi. Of course she had read the gossip section. And she was going to tell Gia whatever she wanted to hear.

Add three ounces of asphodel.

She stared out the asphodel. She didn't really feel like being precise, she hated being precise, it was boring. She added a couple handfuls of asphodel in there. If she got it wrong and Gia noticed, Gia would probably figure out a way to fix it. She was all smart like that. Gia was teh bomb.

Add one valerian root.

She pulled out a root and dropped it in, watching it fizzle. She turned to Gia, waiting.

[brady]

Brady was late for class. He walked into Potions. The class had already started. He wondered what they were doing but he would soon find out. He slipped into the seat nearest to hi and looked up. He sighed. He soon got up and gathered his ingrediants and sat back down. He looked up at the boarded at step on and started to occomplish it.

He began to preheat it than after waiting to two minutes he began to pour two ounces of asphodel inside. He looked around him at other students. He than looked back at his cauldron and dumped in one valerian root and began to stir cloackwise six times.

[ma]

The Ravenclaw girl watched as the list of steps towards making this Sleeping Draught were magically placed up onto the board behind the professor. Melissa didn't bother to write this all down; she would decently make the potion without the use of notes next to her and what would happen in end would be remarkable regardless. She got to work by reaching out to preheat the cauldron that had been sitting in front of her since she walked into the room, then setting the timer for two minutes so that the potion could look like a potion and not like a block of ice.

While the cauldron was being preheated, Melissa had set a couple of cups in front of said cauldron: One of them contained three ounces of asphodel, while a second cup of hers had the valerian root. There was a third cup which held a sophorous bean, but that wasn't going to be used until later on in the potion. That was set off to the side a little bit, because she didn't want to add it too early or else she would screw everything up.

Finally, the timer went off and Miss Atherton started to add the three ounces of asphodel and the valerian root that was requested per the directions on the board. Once she did that, she stirred the ingredients a grand total of six times in a clockwise motion. Like always, she made sure that she didn't stir too quickly, only because she feared that the potion would fly everywhere and out of the cauldron. In her mind, that wouldn't be too good. After stirring, Melissa added the sophorous bean and stirred the cauldron once again, this time going in a counter clockwise motion for four revolutions.

She set her timer once again upon completion of the second stirring, this time for three full minutes. Melissa sat back and started to doodle on a blank piece of parchment, waiting for the timer on her table to go off once again.

[chloiewhite]

Chloie smiled as Melissa came up and greeted her. After Prof. Erikson put the directions on the board, she turned to her friend to respond.

"I haven't been doing too much lately. Keeping up with school, going for a few walks...How about you?"

Reading the potion instructions, she began to preheat her cauldron and gather ingredients as she waited for her fellow Ravenclaw to answer.

[robotboy]

Late for Potions. Great. Slipping into the classroom, he took a quick glance of who was inside. Some random people he didn't know. Then Melissa was sitting with a girl he didn't know. And Aaryn was sitting with... her best friend. The girl who had glared at him before. Not wanting to sit with someone who probably hated his guts, Dezi sat at a desk towards the back by himself. Looking up at the board, he read the instructions and got to work.

Setting the fire under his cauldron, he waited for two minutes before adding three ounces of asphodel. Then he added one valerian root and stirred clockwise six times. Next, he added a sopohorous bean and stirred again counter clockwise four times. Then, he waited three minutes for the potion to "swell". While he waited, he looked down at his parchment, scribbling out the ingredients and all that. Once three minutes was up, he took his cauldron off the fire and put the fire out, waiting ten minutes.

Finally, after singing songs in his head, ten minutes was up. Bottling his potion, he put his name and the name of the potion on the bottle and got up, walking to the Professor's desk and giving it to her. Sitting back in his desk, he avoided the look of everyone in the room. He felt bad, and wanted to leave. Waiting for the Professor to dismiss them, he doodled on his parchment.

[ma]

"I've been pretty busy lately," Melissa said, sighing. She waited for the timer on her table to ring so she could continue on with her potion. As it rang, she removed the cauldron from the fire and set it on top of a pot holder. "I've had too much stuff to do. If I could manage my time better, I wouldn't feel so forced. You know what I mean?"

Hopefully Chloie did indeed know what Melissa was talking about.

Now with the cauldron on the pot holder, the Ravenclaw girl set her timer for a full ten minutes, forced with waiting and hoping Chloie would answer her. Honestly, ten minutes seemed like forever. If Miss Atherton didn't feel so swamped with things that were that important, this time wouldn't feel like an eternity.

[chloiewhite]

Measuring three ounces of asphodel, Chloie added it to her cauldron, throwing in a valerian root as well. She stirred it clockwise and nodded in response to Melissa's statement.

"I know exactly what you mean. It is really easy to get overwhelmed by everything."

I wonder if there are any tips I can give on dealing with that...hm...just walking, I guess.

She glanced up from the cauldron to see her friend watching her.

"I guess whenever I feel like it's just way too much, I go for a walk. Just me, no one else, to think everything over and clear my head...in a peaceful setting. Do you go for walks much?"

The third year suddenly realized she had just been stirring, distracted, as she talked. She hadn't been counting, but she had probably stirred it way too many times. It was starting to change colors.

Well, nothing I can do about it now...

She sighed and added the sopohorous bean.

[nicolev]

Adriana carefully added the three ounces of asphodel, her cauldron nicely bubbling as it heated. The valerian root went in after that, and Adriana grasped the large spoon poking out over the rim, stirring the mixture clockwise six times.

That done, the Ravenclaw's face slightly flushed from the steam issuing out of her own cauldron as well as the classes, the sopohorous beans were carefully lowered in. She stirred the mix again, this time anti-clockwise four times, watching as it began to swell after three minutes.

Adriana extinguished the fire from underneath the cauldron, scribbling down the ingredients and the process she took to make it as she waited for the potion to cool. That done, the Ravenclaw carefully bottled the Sleeping Draught, placing it on Carina's desk with her name written on the side. Adriana carefully cleaned up her area, waiting for the rest of the class to finish up.