Hogwarts RPG story thread

[Jessimyre]

Xanthia flushed with pleasure as she scribbled her note, smallest to largest and then hurried to begin.

Dorjan was excited to be doing his first class in Potions and was determined to do it well. He began to follow the instructions written on the board, he drew out his mole grass and began to chop it up. Deciding thorough was better, he chopped them into tiny pieces very carefully shredding them before mixing them into his cauldron with the water and a hefty pinch of salt.

Watching the teacher out of the corner of his eye, he began to stir the mixture, noting how she'd corrected the Slytherin boy and copying the correct way. He then left the potion to get up and select his Gryphon feathers and returned with four tiny ones, the smallest he could find.

He lined them up and stared at them carefully. They all looked the same size to him. Xanthia was actually measuring hers but Dorjan trusted his eye which had always been pretty good and began putting them in, one at a time.

The first turned the potion orange, the second turned it a blood red, the third was supposed to be yellow according to the instructions but it looked gold and then the fourth feather turned the potion a pale cream. He stirred it again hopefully but nothing changed. He used his vial and carefully scooped some potion into it. Writing his name on the lable which he attached to the vial and stood to return it to his teacher.

He handed her the sample with a worried smile and then returned to his desk. He was one of the first that had finished and he glanced over to where Xanthia was just adding her first feather after scrutinising their size for a full ten minutes.

Predictably her potion turned the correct colours and with a look of relief she too handed in her own potion sample.

Now, they wondered. What do they do with the remainder in their cauldrons?

[Blossom]

Izzy had been looking forward to her first potions lesson. Looking through her spell book it had seemed very like cooking or baking, something she had often spent Saturdays doing with her mother; carefully following a recipe, measuring out ingredients and relishing in the end result.

Having listened carefully to Professor Holland, and read the instructions on the board, she pulled salt and molegrass from her box of ingredients, as well as a small knife to chop up the grass. Her mother had never let her handle a knife by herself, so Izzy was a little nervous, carefully shredding and slicing the molegrass.

As she finished with the grass she added it to the mixture in her cauldron along with a pinch of salt. She stirred it for a while before going to the cupboard to fetch the gryphon feathers, dashing there and back so as not to leave the mixture very long.

Smallest to largest, the Professor had said. Izzy laid the four feathers out on the table, arranging them accordingly in order of size and then adding them one by one. She delighted in watching the changing colours, as magic to her as the sparks outside at been earlier.

Grinning at Dorjan and Xanthia, who had already finished, she bottled a sample and scrawled her name on a label. As she walked up to the teacher’s desk she kept watching the potion in the vial, but it didn’t change. Izzy hoped she’d done it right.

[Renos Babe]

Alexis looked at the instructions and nodded slowly, she carefully went through her ingreadients box and picked out the salt and mole grass. She'd never cooked at home so she was a little nervous as she added the salt and mole grass. She smiled slightly as it did as it was supposed too. She looked up and watched as both Dojan and Xanthia took there pointions up.

She walked over to the potions cabnet and found the smallest feathers she could. Lining them up on the desk she measured them quickly and added them watching carefully as the potion changed colour in the order the teacher had said. Smiling she poured it into the vial and took it up, just as Izzy sat back down from taking her potion up. Smiling she sat back down next to Izzy.

[Earthy Greendragon]

Abbitha was a little surprised at just how quickly the class was moving along. Several of the Slytherin student's had also turned in their potions with names and she had to move them all to the desk to look over them as the rest of the class advanced on her.

Smiling she looked them all over, nearly all where white, a few where a little off the mark and she'd have to take a closer look to see just what had happened. There was only one vary odd one, some child had turned in a vial of blue potion with no name. How had she missed that when they handed it to her?

Letting it go she looked back up at the class, "Lovely, this will be a good year I think." Once all potions where turned in she put them neatly into a container and looked over her students, "Now then, a basic skill that you may or may not have taken into consideration is how to clean out your cauldron when you're done with it." She came around the desk again, "All you have used today are your knife and your cauldron so it will be simple but doing it right will take up the rest of class."

She waved a hand around the room. Nothing happened and she cleared her through as she pulled out her wand and waved that instead. Sinks pulled themselves from hidden places in the walls immediately looking silver and deep.

"Take your cauldrons to a sink and rinse them in water, do not touch the potion until you've deluded it somewhat. With many potions you'll find that even contact with the skin can cause a reaction of some kind so make it a habit to avoid that happening." She watched a few get up and smiled, "Don't forget your knives but don't worry about how to wash them. After you are done you will be free to go and next time I'll tell you exactly what you made today." She eyed the container and the blue vial it held with something between exasperation and amusement.

[Jessimyre]

Dorjan followed his teacher's directions and before long he was finished cleaning up and packed his equipment away again. It was the lunch break next and he was famished. He looked over at his friends. Teddy was finishing up too and the two boys sat and waited for their friends, fidgeting in impatience.

[Blossom]

With a little reluctance Izzy diluted her potion with water and poured it away down the sink. It seemed a waste to her to just throw it away like that. But, those were the teacher’s orders, so Izzy set to scrubbing out her cauldron until it positively shone.

When she done she dried it off and then collapsed it to put it back in her bag, along with her wand, spellbook and ingredients. Dorjan and Teddy were already finished and waiting, so Izzy made her way over to sit on the desk beside them while Xanthia and Alexis finished up.

“Lunch now!” she smiled, “What do we have after, again?”

[Renos Babe]

Alexis smiled as she washed her couldron out and collapsed it, Turning to Izzy she shrugged,
"I can't remember" She spoke softly, as the slytherine girl walked past.

[Jessimyre]

"We have 'erbology with Professor Longbottom after lunch, and then double Transfiguration with Professor Murdock." Xanthia supplied, checking her timetable again.

Some of the students who had finished were leaving and Xanthia stood up to follow, ignoring Victoria the Syltherin student as she left with her friends.

"Come on, lets get some lunch and have it down by ze lake." she suggested, the soft breeze and warm sunshine outside beckoning after what seemed like a long morning of learning.

"Oh yeah! I want to practise that 'cineras' spell." Teddy agreed, getting up. Dorjan certainly felt he needed plenty of practise so nodded his ascent. Plus he was dying to get back out of the big classroom.