Second years, Class Three

[taylormendez]

Taylor quickly gathers her materials she needed for the potion, the young girl then put them in the potion, adding the three ounces of fluxweed, one frog liver. The Slytherin then turned to start stirring the ingredients together six times clockwise, then she adds three billywig stings, and stirrs the potion again this time four times counter clockwise. Taylor picks up the six tubeworms and throws them in the cauldron as well, grossed out but at least they weren't insects. She waits three minutes to allow the potion to swell and then removes the fire and lets it sit ten minutes like her notes read.

[grobanitexd]

"Oh, God... oh, God... oh, God..." Aaliyah moaned as she slowly added the fluxweed and the [bleh] frog liver. She began to stir her potion and glanced at Avery. "Do you like this class?" she asked. "'Cause I definately do not."

Sadly, talking had caused a slight distraction and Aaliyah could not remember exactly how many times she had stirred. Though she did not know it, she had actually stirred eight times instead of six and counterclockwise. Her potion was a slightly different color from Avery's but she figured that no potion could be perfect, especially coming from a second year.

[aquat1cf1sh]

Avery went to the ingredients cabinet and got some fluxwood, one frog liver, three billywig stings, and six tubeworms. He came back to the table and laid his ingredients out in the order that he would use them in. He looked at his cauldron and noticed that it looked quite hot. He immediately weighed out three ounces of fluxwood and dumped them into the cauldron.

He reached over for his frog liver, reading the directions carefully, when he heard Aaliyah talk to him. "Ummm," he thought out loud, dropping the frog liver into the cauldron. Truth be told, he actually did like Potions quite a lot. He got to actually work on something during class, as opposed to just listening to the teacher ramble on and on and take notes. He also liked doing things like this that had crystal clear directions. "It's definitely a unique class!" he said honestly. As he stirred his cauldron clockwise six times, he felt bad inside for Aaliyah; Avery didn't know how he would make it through this class if he disliked touching the ingredients to the potions.

"...Five... Six!" He muttered, and reached over for a billywig sting. He looked over at Aaliyah's potion and the expression on her face. "But yeah, some of these things are definitely creepy to touch. It's practically worse than Herbology, with the dirt and soil in that class and all."

[trini]

Finally zoning back in on the real world, due to a minor distraction, she realized Avery and Liyah were talking. "Oh, dudes. I'm sorry. I just zoned out for a moment. Now let's see. Let me copy these directions down," she thought out loud as she did just that. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but you guys were talking something about liking potions right? Either way, I'll answer. I really like this class actually. I don't know. It's kind of weird, but it's a good weird I think. It's like cooking. With strange ingredients," she commented as she let the cauldron preheat for two minutes then added the fluxweed.

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[Brayden Christiansen]

As the ingredients for the potion were wiped from the board and the instructions were added, Brayden got the ingredients and pre-heated his cauldron for two minutes. He added the three ounces of fluxwing and one frog liver. He began stirring 6 times.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6." he thought to himself. Brayden added the three Billywig stings and stirred the potion 4 times, counting in his head once more. He then added the last ingredient, six tubeworms and waited for three minutes for it to swell.

[selkie]

When the instructions were added to the board, Sadie's quill twitched across her notes as she copied them down. The girl sighed softly, vowing to find a spell that would charm her quill to take notes for her. Reviewing what she had written quickly, the second year sat up a bit straighter, reaching for her wand. She pointed into the cauldron, casting "Scourgify" as she had gotten into the habit of doing. This, of course, was to prevent cross-contamination from the last potion that had been made. She then gathered what ingredients were necessary and tapped the bottom, preheating the cauldron as was indicated.

Sadie measured the three ounces of fluxweed, and after two minutes had passed she added it to her cauldron along with the frog liver. Once this was done, she leaned closer to the concoction, counting in her head as she stirred six times in the clockwise direction. Three billywig stings were next to be included, and then again she would stir, this time only four revolutions and in the opposite direction. This potion seemed to be a bit more demanding than Sadie was used to and as this was the case, the girl took extreme care to pay attention to the proper directions.

After stirring, she added the tubeworms, then sat back with an eye to the clock. Three minutes felt like quite a long time when all she had to do was wait. The Gryffindor leaned once more against her hand, staring glassy-eyed at the clock. When the third minute finally passed Sadie's gaze fell to the swelling mass in her cauldron. She waved her wand with a swish and flick, levitating her cauldron from the heat source. The girl directed it to rest where it could cool for another ten minutes... great...

She yawned, stretching her arms above her head, back arching lazily. Glancing around, Sadie noticed Brayden at a nearby table. She leaned back on her stool, whispering,

"Hey!"

[Brayden Christiansen]

As the three minutes passed, Brayden took his cauldron from heat and set it down, allowing it to cool before he bottled it and sent it to the teacher. As he sat back down onto the chair, someone whispered a 'Hey' so he spun around to see who it was. It was Sadie Radcliffe, a fellow Gryffindor, who was also done with her potion.
"Hey, do you think you'll ever need to use this potion?" he asked, nodding his head toward his cooling cauldron.

[selkie]

As Sadie waited for her ten minutes to be up, she thought for a moment about Brayden's question before responding.

"Would I ever need to use it? I really hope not. Why, were you planning to stab me or something?"

She giggled quietly, obviously joking. Sadie really hoped she'd never have to replenish her own blood, however she was sure there were probably plenty of other uses for the potion that she may someday find.

[Brayden Christiansen]

"Would I ever need to use it? I really hope not. Why, were you planning to stab me or something?"

"Hmm...let me think." he said, jokingly.
"Yeah, I don't think so. I'm not the homicidal type." he said, laughing softly, so he didn't interrupt the rest of the class.

[kerajonson]

Kera read over the instructions, after they appeared on the board, and quickly wrote them down. After writing everything down, she immediately began working on her potion. She pre-heated her cauldron, and went to fetch the ingredients during the two minutes it would take.

After the cauldron was heated, she once again read over the instructions she had written down. She then added in the three onces of fluxweed, and after that the frog liver. As she stirred the mixture clockwise, she silently counted how many times she had stirred. '1-2-3-4-5-6' she had been saying in her head during the stirring process. After she was done stirring, she added the three billywig strings. "1-2-3-4" she said silently, as she once again stirred the mixture. Kera finished stirring and added in the six tubeworms. As she waited the three minutes to allow the potion to swell, she drew little random drawings on a piece of parchment.

After the three minutes were up, she removed her cauldron from the heat source, and also put out the fire. Looking at the swelling substance that was now in her cauldron, she hoped she had done a decent job on it. She soon began drawing her random doodles again, as she waited the ten minutes for the potion to cool.

[filmodirectii]

When the professor said that it was time to begin Gyminee had to take a little while to process everything since today wasn't her day and her brain wasn't working properly/not processing well. When it finally processed,she started right away.

1. Preheat cauldron for two minutes.
2. Add three ounces of fluxweed.
3. Add one frong liver.
4. Stir clockwise six times.
5. Add three billywig stings.
6. Stir counter clockwise four times.
7. Add six tubeworms.
8. Wait three minutes to allow potion to swell.
9. Remove from fire and allow to sit for ten minutes.

[grobanitexd]

"Welcome back, Miss Moore," Aaliyah smirked.

She continued making her potion by adding billywig stings and began stirring again. "You actually like this class?" she asked, grimacing. Aaliyah remembered when she first came into this class, excited because this was what she first imagined when she found out she was a witch magical. However, she had come to really dislike this class. It was definately the ingredients in the potions that made her nauseous.

"I don't mind getting into the dirt and stuff," she muttered as she added the tubeworms, trying hard not to look at them.

[trini]

Laughing she managed to get out, "Shush woman. Anyway, yes. I love this class. The ingredients are kind of, erm...odd but to me that's all the fun in it," she explained adding the frog liver, then stirring clockwise six times. "The one thing that bothers me about it is the whole stirring clockwise and counter clockwise stiring. I just think it's sooo annoying. And it complicates things, but I guess with practice it'll get easier remembering."

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[Ashaunta Williams]

*Ashaunta was so far on time to, a few of her other classes.Now she made her way to the, next one.Potions.She walked down the hall quickly, hoping to be on time.Once she reached the classroom, and walked in.She saw the lesson already started.Ashaunta took a open seat, y the door.Then she got out her items for class.When she was all set, she started taking down some notes, for the class lesson.*

Blood Replenishing Potion

~fluxweed
~tubeworms
~dried billywig stings
~frog livers

*Once she was done writing down her notes, Ashaunta then looked up to the board.She studied the toes to make sure, she got everything written down. After Ashaunta did, she then paid close attention, to the lesson.first thing was to, go get her supplies for, the potion.She got up then walked over to the, supply cabinet.She gathered all the items she need, then she returned back to her seat.Then Ashaunta started on her potion.*

[grobanitexd]

"Oh, yes," Aaliyah said sarcastically, "The fun waiting part. This is the only part of potions I like. 'Cause we can just chat while we wait for our potions to do whatever they need to do. Hmmm... I wonder what waiting for the potion to swell means."

Well, the answer was obvious as the almost solid looking potion began to grow larger and take over more space in the cauldron. Aaliyah nodded. "Oh..."

[troyzoton]

Troy walked into the potions classroom, he saw that most of the students were hard at work so as he moved to a seat at the back of the room he shot Liyah and Sabra a wave and a nod as he sat down at his desk.

He pulled out a piece of parchment and a quill and scribbled down what was on the board.

Blood Replenishing Potion

fluxweed
tubeworms
dried billywig stings
frog livers

[aquat1cf1sh]

Avery laughed out loud as Sabra talked about the potion ingredients being used like cooking; he wouldn't want to eat any of the things that were put into this potion. "People actually drink this stuff?" he said outloud, dropping in the three billywig stings. Avery always knew that the ingredients for potions were rather odd, and he always knew that people drank them, but he had never made the connection between the two.

He stirred clockwise four times, and then sat down to gaze at his potion for a minute; he began daydreaming, but shook his head briskly as soon as he did. He needed to pay attention. 'I'll just get a better night's sleep tomorrow,' he thought in his head, looking over at the instructions he had written down. "Six tubeworms..." he muttered. He dropped them in and was happy to see his next bit of instructions: let the potion swell for three minutes. He looked at the clock on his wrist and waited patiently for the three minutes to be over with.

[trini]

Sabra laughed. Apparently everyone was making a connection. Ave and the fact that people actually drink this stuff, Liyah and the swelling part, and herself realizing how much fun this class truly is for her. "Yup. I figured this much. If someone says something in the wizarding world, the best bet is to take it literally. And yup. People drink this stuff, though I'm sure they only drink it if they have too. Then again the every flavor jelly beans could prove me wrong."

Adding the three billywig sticks, she concentrated on her next move. She stirred counter clockwise four times though she almost made a mistake and nearly stirred clockwise again. This was the interesting part for her, the tubeworms. As she pulled the tubeworms out of the container and put them in the cauldron, she was careful. She didn't want them latching onto her.

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[grobanitexd]

Looking at the way Sabra was handling the tubeworms as she put them in her potion, Aaliyah nodded. "I rest my case. Potions is absolutely gross and I don't like it."

With a nod and a smirk, Aaliyah took her cauldron off the fire and set it. She glanced at the clock. Ten minutes. She turned back to her friends. "What class do you guys have next?" she asked to make some random conversation.

[trini]

Shaking her head, waiting for the three minutes to end, she tried to indicate that she didn't have another class next."Gah, I don't have one right after this one, but I have one after that. What about you guys?" Once the three minutes were up and the potion had swollen, she took it off the fire and let the cauldron sit.

"I actually like having this free time. It kinda helps me relax and stuff and lets me start on any homework. But most times I just wander around."

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