Third Years: Class Four.

[Cello Evans]

Cello walked into the classroom and strode up to her desk. Her third years should be arriving soon so she sat down and waited. This was her first lesson with the third years and she was quite nervous what the students would think of her but hopefully they would all get on ok. Deciding to put the lesson on the board she stood up and pulled out her wand. With a simple flick, the instructions appeared on the board:

Babbling Beverage:
Bulbadox powder
Flobberworm
Hiyena tounge
Horned slugs
Aconite

Happy with this, she sat back at her desk and waited for the students to arrive.

[Professor Sebastiania Bouvier]

Sebastiania walked into the Potions room. She hadn't felt like going to her classes for the past couple weeks. There was no one to talk to anyway. Lysander was gone and Brendon wasn't even in her year anymore. Tragic really.

She looked down as she walked to a desk in the back. The Gryffindor pulled out her Potions book, parchment, and a quill that wrote in hot pink ink. Sebby wrote down the ingredience and waited for other students to walk in.[/size][/color]

[sweetjen51]

I walked in quickly setting up my thing for class to begin.

[ma]

Melissa entered the classroom, eager to begin her fourth Potions lesson of the term. Last class didn't fare too well, as she wasn't able to finish the potion before the class had finished. But she was still batting over .500, and that felt good. Hopefully she could break a cursed streak and complete the potion that the new teacher had up on the board.

She limped over to a table in the middle of the room, and quietly pulled out some parchment and her quill once she sat down at the table of her choice.

[giannine]

Gia was making remarkable progress with her classes this term. So far, all she had missed was a DADA class, a History of Magic class, and a Dueling Tactics class. Okay, so maybe it wasn't that great, but it was much better than missing six classes, one for each subject. She really needed a copy of that schedule in the Great Hall. It would do wonders for her attendance.

There was new T.A. in Potions, and she looked nice enough as Gia entered the room, smiling at her in greeting. The girl she had sat next to in another class was there, along with Alex and Melissa, from that DADA partner thing. Being bold , she sat down next to Melissa and smiled. "Hi Melissa." Pulling out her quill and some parchment, she smiled at Melissa again and began writing down what was on the board.

[Cello Evans]

Cello smiled at each student individually as they walked into the room. A few more should be arriving soon but she thought she might aswell get the instructions on the board and the ones that were here could get to work.

Babbling Beverage:
-Light a fire beneath a size 2 pewter cauldron
-Fill with water and add 4 ounces of Bulbadox Powder.
-Bring to the boil and add one flobberworm.
-Stir clockwise three times and one counter clockwise.
-Drop in one Hyena tounge and two horned slugs.
-Leave to swell for five minutes
-Add roots of Aconite and stir fice times clockwise.
-Pour into a glass phial and bring to my desk.

"The instructions are on the board. You can find all of the Ingredients in the store cupboard. You may start" she said with a smile.

[chloiewhite]

As Chloie walked in she heard the words, "You may start."

Am I late to another class? I thought I was doing better this term.

She sighed, dropping her backpack on a seat and sitting down next to it. Unzipping the bag and digging for a piece of parchment, she pulled it out, jotting down the instructions on the board.

Maybe I will actually finish a potion this class. That would be nice. What does this even do? Wait...who is this new T.A.? Seems like all of my teachers are changing.

Stopping at the T.A.'s desk on her way to get ingredients, Chloie smiled at the new teacher.

"Hi, Ms...um...I'm sorry, I didn't hear your name. But I was just curious, what does this potion do? Does it make you talk a lot or something?"

[Cello Evans]

Cello smiled back at Chloie and gave her answer.

"The Babbling Beverage makes a person talk utter nonsense on and on until it wears off. Its handy if you dont want someone to give information away because the drinker wont answer questions that you ask. They will just keep on and on with nonsense until the effects go away. Go and fetch your ingredients dear. Maybe you will earn some house points" she said with a bigger grin on her face.

[ma]

Melissa wasn't too happy as she just recieved the instructions to make whatever the heck the Babbling Beverage was, but she decided that she would just suck it up and start working on it, anyway. She got up out of her seat and went over to the cupboard, where she found all of the ingredients. Taking the five ingredients out of said cupboard, she moved back to her seat where she organized her materials so she could work on the potion and not fumble for things that were strewn all over the place.

She began by lighting a fire underneath her cauldron as requested, then she filled the cauldron with water and four ounces of something called bulbadox powder. Thankfully, the jars were marked with the names of all of the ingredients, because Melissa didn't know which ingredients were which. She let the cauldron come to a boil before adding one flobberworm. After that, she picked up her stirring spoon and began to stir the potion; three times in a clockwise motion and once more in a counterclockwise motion.

Once she was done stirring the potion around, she removed the stirring spoon from the cauldron and added one tongue of a hyena and two horned slugs. Now that she was done with all of that, she set the timer on her table to ring in five minutes, which was how long the potion was supposed to swell for before she could continue to work on it.

[chloiewhite]

How would I earn house points? Just for doing the assignment?

Chloie didn't know if the T.A. meant extra house points or that everyone who did the potion got them, but she shrugged and went on to gather her ingredients.

She still did not tell me her name.

The third year wondered about this secretive new T.A. as she lit a fire under her cauldron, adding water and Bulbadox Powder and waiting for it to boil.

[Cello Evans]

Cello saw the confused look on Chloies face. Quickly realising why she looked like that Cello spoke.

"Sorry, ive been dreadfully rude. My names Cello Evans. And i will be asking some potions related questions when people have finished their potions. Thats how you earn the house points" she said with a smile.

"Also the best potion brewed at the end of lesson will earn ten house points! Ten minutes left everyone!"

[OOC: Lesson will end on September tenth. I will post homework then which will last up until september 17th when the next lesson will start. The potion must be finished in the next 24 hours and then i will start posting questions for you to answer until Homework is up]

[giannine]

Babbling Beverage:
-Light a fire beneath a size 2 pewter cauldron
-Fill with water and add 4 ounces of Bulbadox Powder.
-Bring to the boil and add one flobberworm.
-Stir clockwise three times and one counter clockwise.
-Drop in one Hyena tounge and two horned slugs.
-Leave to swell for five minutes
-Add roots of Aconite and stir fice times clockwise.
-Pour into a glass phial and bring to my desk.

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The directions for the Babbling Beverage were a little more than confusing to Gia, who was realizing more and more why she wasn't a Ravenclaw instead. It hadn't occurred to her that there were different sizes of cauldrons. And what was fice? Five, dummy. Oh.

A quickly whispered Incendio, Gia lit the fire beneath the cauldron and began working. Adding water, she carefully measured four ounces of Bulbadox Powder and dumped it in. Minutes passed and bubbles formed on the once calm surface of the water. Gia wrinkled her nose and lifted up a flimsy flobberworm, dropping it in [more like she chucked it, really], and lifted up the huge stirring spoon, three times counterclockwise and one turn clockwise.

Hyena tongue? What kind of potion maker would want to get that ingredient? An expression that can only be described as 'Ick' formed on Gia's face as she dropped in the tongue [Ew!] and the horned slugs.

Five minutes passed and the roots of Aconite were ready. Dropping them in one by one, Gia stirred fice [teehee] times clockwise and pulled out a phial, filling it with ladled Babbling Beverage. With an accomplished smile on her face, Gia brought the phial to Ms. Evans's desk and set it down carefully, walking back to her station and waiting.[/color][/size][/font]

[Cello Evans]

Cello looked at Miss Lancaster who didnt look very impressed at the potion ingredients.

"Well im sorry Miss Lancaster but we cant choose which ingredients to use. And cheer up anyway! You have just earned five house points!" she said with a smile. Five minutes left everyone!"

[OOC: Until tomorrow to compleet potions!]

[xxbrokenheartxx]

Aaryn rushed into class. Late. -.- How wonderful. She found a seat next to Gia and looked at the board. They were creating a potion. She heard the teacher say Five minutes left!. Oh. Great. How wonderful. She wouldn't have enough time to beat the clock. She would just have to rush everything. Her potion would be crummy, but whatever. Who cared. Not her.

Babbling Beverage:
-Light a fire beneath a size 2 pewter cauldron
-Fill with water and add 4 ounces of Bulbadox Powder.
-Bring to the boil and add one flobberworm.
-Stir clockwise three times and one counter clockwise.
-Drop in one Hyena tounge and two horned slugs.
-Leave to swell for five minutes
-Add roots of Aconite and stir fice times clockwise.
-Pour into a glass phial and bring to my desk.

She lit a fire underneath her cauldren. She then filled it with water and the strange powder from her potions kit. She didn't have time to bring the water to a boil so she just went ahead and put a flobberworm in. She stirred it clockwise three times and add a stir, she wasn't really paying attention which direction. She stared at the hyena tongue. There was no way she was going to do that. She was against killing animals. The teacher hadn't even bothered to spell tongue right. -.- She looked at the slugs. Once again, she wasn't using them. They were still living the poor things. She caged them with an empty jar from her bag. It was Larry and Sue! Maybe they'd mate. She looked at the potions. She didn't have five minutes, so she added the aconite. What was fice? She had no idea. She stuck her spoon in and stirred a few times. Then she turned off the flame. She then scooped some of the jello like substance up and stuffed it in the jar. She looked at Gia's potion and charmed her potion to have Gia's color.

She set the jar on the teachers table, not bothering to hide her glare.

[Cello Evans]

Cello looked at the girl approaching her desk and she had clearly seen her charm the potion and stuff the two slugs into a jar. She also saw the glare she got off her.

"Excuse me miss but i do not appreciate being looked at like that. I am your professor, you should have more respect. You would of been able to complete the potion correctly if you had of been on time. 5 Points from slytherin for your rudeness and lateness." she said with her face in a angry expression. With a wave of her wand, Cello vanished the potion inside the glass phial before speaking again.

"The potion is worthless, the Hyena tounge is the main ingredient and i totally understand you are against animal cruelty but im afraid sometimes it is unavoidable in Potions"

[OOC: I live in Britain and here we spell it TOUNGE! Lol.]

[ma]

As Melissa remained focused on what the other students in the room were doing, she jumped at the noise of the timer ringing, signaling that the five minute wait had expired. She shot a look towards the board, moving them from left to right and downward as she read what the next step was. It didn't take her long to see that she was supposed to add some aconite root to the potion. But how many she was to add was a mystery within itself.

The Ravenclaw added three roots, not knowing exactly how many she was supposed to add as the teacher didn't specify that. Then she followed up by stirring the potion five times in a clockwise motion. At this time, the potion looked like a potion. But she wasn't quite sure. Oh, well. If the potion looks like crap, then it's crap. No worries. Melissa poured the potion into one of those vials sitting on her desk and stopped it before she marked the vial.

Melissa Atherton
Third Year Ravenclaw
Babbling Beverage

Once she marked the vial, she got up out of her seat and limped up to the teacher's desk. It was a silent trip up as she carefully placed the vial onto the desk. Once done, she turned around and made her way back to her table, so she could clean up any mess she could have left while making the potion.

[Cello Evans]

"Five points for participation Miss Atherton!" said Cello

Cello looked at the class. Some had finished their potions and some had not but she decided to end it anyway.

"Class bring your potion to my desk and listen up for homework instructions!."

Cello flicked her wand and the homework appeared on the board.


Third Years Class four Homework:

It's time for a trip out to the greenhouse to collect an ingredient/ingredients for your next potion. Write a short story dealing with your experience in the greenhouse. Which ingredient(s) are you going there for, which potion are you intending to make? How do you identify these ingredients (since we don't, of course, want to pick the wrong ones), how do you know your ingredient is fully mature and ready to be picked. Does anything else (humorous or otherwise) happen to you while your on your hunt for ingredients? After you have your ingredient, is there anything you must be sure of when brewing your potion?

This is how i want homework to look when its owled to me:
In subject line put Third Years Class four [hw]

Your name:
Your house:
Your year:
Homework Title:

"Now, this is a little fun homework for you all! I want you to be as imaginitive as possible! I like creativity so dont be afraid to go all out on it! You have 8 days to complete it and owl it to me. Good Luck"

And on this note she strode out of the dungeon door.

[OOC: Lesson is now over until the 14th when Homework is due in and then we will pick up by a question/answer session. If you have not returned your potion to my desk be sure to put *Potion return* in your homework owl and i will give the five points for participation. But ONLY if i see you have contributed to the class! I am locking this thread for now just so it isnt spammed while im not here as the first half of the lesson is over.Good Luck!]

[Cello Evans]

[OOC: I am back a day early than i thought i would be so i guess lesson is open again =] This is second half where i ask questions which you answer for house points =]

Cello walked back into the classroom for the second half of the lesson.
"Hello again class, this part of the lesson i will be asking a number of questions which you answer for house points. Some may be short questions, others may be longer. The first person to answer will earn 5 house points and no-one else will be awarded any unless they give additional information." she said with a smile.

"Before we start i have a little announcement. Homework will have to be owled to me by the sixteenth of September or it will not be marked and house points wont be given. Now lets start! Why do you think a Hyena tounge is used in the Babbling Beverage. It has got a specific use. Think of the animal it comes from"

[ma]

It had become question and answer time. The first question had something to do about why hyena tongues were used in the potion. A hand went up into the air. That hand belonged to Melissa, who upon putting her hand up cleared her throat.

"Hyenas are known to have laughing fits," she stated. "So I would assume that the tongue of a hyena would be fittingly useful in something like the Babbling Beverage."

[Meh. It's short, yet it works.]

[Cello Evans]

Cello looked up at Melissa and smiled

"That is correct Miss Atherton! Hyena's are known for their laughing fits so therefore their tounge would be a perfect ingredient in the babbling beverage. Five points to you Melissa. Now next question. In your own words, describe two of the ingredients to me." said Cello