Chapter 18: Brewing trouble in potions
[Okay so I made a mistake, replaced Bertha jorkin's surname, she was from the squid bloodline, Jorkins and I wrote Jenkins, the one who was Minister of magic in 1968 From now on it will be Jorkins]
"You have all been taught nothing about potion making for a month, but what was the significance of your work till now anyone?"
One hand among the Gryffindors was raised straight up, Professor Slughorn ignored to look for anyone else to answer, but as easy as it was no one was motivated enough after the History lesson to answer.
"Yes, miss Jorkins." The professor addressed Bertha, who was ecstatic to catch the teacher's attention for some reason.
"Yes sir, we have to get to know about the equipment handling in the potion class before studying the art of potion making as it may hurt us if we don't take proper precautions while making potions and by knowing the functions of all the equipment we can shorten our time and make better potions here in the class," Bertha answered in one breath and then looked at the professor for a response?
"Man she is literally begging for points," Mike said
"That was a long-ass answer," I responded. [narrator Pov- A month of companionship had made a bond between the two roommates to not at least shy away from talking their mind to each other, Benedict also had started acting his age, but it was difficult to know if he was pretending or living as an eleven-year-old here]
"They do know that the House cup is a hoax to bud rivalries in houses and we don't get anything out of it?"
"It's still a competition, while we don't get anything materialistic out of it I enjoy earning points for my house for the win." I smiled
"Now pay attention here, this is one of the easiest ones." Professor Slughorn continued having the attention of most if not all of the students in the classroom of Gryffindors and Slytherins.
"This is the Cure of the Boils potion as I call it or the Boil's cure you read in the book, it matters not what you call it it matters if you can make it. Now if anyone can tell me the ingredients it may require?" the professor asked the students.
One hand among the Gryffindors was raised straight ninety degrees and waving as if to ask for attention, there were another three on the Slytherin side.
"That's ADHD bro" Mike whispered to me. He was sitting beside me and living with me, he had been reading muggle books at large while maintaining focus on his studies at the same time.
In Slytherin, Mike and I had our hands raised, with another boy in behind also knowing the answer I guess.
"Yes, Mr. Selwyn"
"Dried Nettles, snake fangs, stewed horned slugs, porcupine quills, and Flobberworm Mucus," Mike answered to which he was rewarded with 5 points for the house. This was not well received by miss Jorkins as the frown on her face signified.
The professor after praising him continued. " Indeed This potion consists of dried Nettles, snake fangs, stewed horned slugs, porcupine quills, and Flobberworm Mucus."
"Now keep your attention here at all times, as not knowing the steps can waste a cauldron of the students or worse, pour boiling liquid on students."
"For the first step add the ingredients in the order I just mentioned, written in the book." He followed his steps while adding the first three ingredients of the mix in the on-fire cauldron.
He then continued. "For the second step, remove the cauldron from the fire before adding Porcupine quills, this is important otherwise the cauldron melts away. After that add the remaining two ingredients and the rest is already taught to you of how to extract the final product from the cauldron-made potion."
The professor made the potion before us, step by step. "Now for homework, you have to write a 15-inch paper on the precautions you should take while making this potion, along with the necessary and optional steps, with that we can start practical option making from tomorrow."
(A/N- do you need chapters of the whole class curriculum or I skip these to move on to the plot itself? otherwise, I can add funny heartwarming chapters of classes)
(POV-third)
Mike and Benedict were coming out of the potion class to join their fellow house-mates for the feast, today was Halloween feast in the hall, which was an obligatory compulsion for the students to join, naturally most would join a grand feast like this.
At the teachers' table Headmaster Dumbledore and prof. Minerva was absent, and after a minute or two, professor Slughorn came forward to announce that the two professors would join us late in the evening during the feast, starting the feast without them as a senior house head.
The student's tables had food conjured out of nowhere, and it looked as magical as its conjuration was.
Benedict was still practicing with his charms class spells, he had taken a liking to do magic with his want. Wandless magic was all good for duels and other things, but wand gives a feeling of awesomeness.
His words, quote "Wandless magic is practical while Wandfull magic is shit ass awesome." And it was true, given he had nothing to fear as he had a fragment of Death inside, higher regeneration due to high magicka concentration and high stamina regeneration which he blamed on the Mark of the Draugr, a soul bind curse which was actually a blessing in disguise in his mind.
He also said, quote, "When you are an OP character, you don't need to get stronger, you need to look cooler."
But all in all the new wand was not just working for him. While most wands gave an efficiency of 85-95%, his was just channeling 40-70-% potential of his magic to te charms and curses he channeled through it.
This was partially, no, wholly due to the skirmish he had with Ollivander wand makers, due to which he left before taking a wand specifically for him and took a temporary one given by Ollivandert to just test.
The skirmish was upon the fact that every dragon-based core was begging to be in his wand, so much so that they literally were close to him. But he felt repulsed when he discovered the dragons of this world.
Unlike the dragons who would reside in the Dragonborn like him (Dragonborn were common in 2nd era Skyrim, given that from then to the end of 3rd era all rulers were Dragonborn, so naturally a cousin of Tiber septim is dovahkiin, it just is that the Skyrim player is the last Dragonborn)
In this world, Dragons were mere wyrms, with lower intelligence and incapable of speaking the Dovah-tongue, so how could he take suck lower beings and use the name of mighty and fearless dragons.
But a wand that was not compatible with him was hampering his studies so he was thinking of taking a more compatible wand for him, even though it would hurt him to mud the honored name of the Dragons.
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