***Mixed Potions Class***
You enter the classroom and look around. They are students both in the fourth year and first year. You sit down next to someone else in your house and year; then you wait for Professor Swan to begin.

   A teacher of about twenty-two walks into the potion dungeons. When she turns around her, black hair you can see is in a bun. As she turns around she calls role and begins to take in her class. Then she says, “I am so sorry about my absence for the last week. I had some family matters I had to take care of at home. My name is Professor Swan. We are going to start out by me teaching some of the required classes. All the required classes are, ‘Safety When Around the Cauldron’, ‘The Proper Way to Dice Ingredients’, ‘The Proper Way to Powder Ingredients,’ ‘Where to Find Herbs,’ and ‘How to Dissect a Mandrake.’ I will start out by teaching you how to be safe when around the cauldron.”
    She turns around and when she turns back around, she places two cauldrons on stands. Then she begins, “The cauldron on my left has two outer defects. The first one is that there are no handles. Secondly, it has not been cleaned from the last time it was used. The one on my right has handles, has been cleaned, and has the proper stand. The biggest rule of cauldron safety is to follow my directions every second. Therefore, you do not want to talk. I will start you on potions next week for the different levels. Now from what I know the second thing I will teach you is the proper way to chop herbs. First, you want to make your hand an upside-down U. Next make sure your thumb is behind the other for fingers. Now take your blade and put it about an eight of an inch away from your fingers. Now slice the herb into the size that you need it. Now since you have cut up your ingredients or herbs you can start to powder them. What you do is take you wand if the ingredient is not already dry and say, ‘Arefacio.’ Then take you pestle and mill the herb until it is a fine powder.” After everyone had stopped taking notes, Professor Swan turns around to the chalkboard and writes out your homework assignment.


ASSIGNMENT
1.    What is the main rule for being safe around the cauldron?
2.    What shape does your hand form when you are properly cutting your ingredients?
3.    When you say ‘Arefacio’ what are you doing?
4.    Where would you find your homework assignment?
EXTRA    CREDIT
In what book in the library would I find the ‘Thother Potion?’
 


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