I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Well

I hope the Order is planning on giving me some Potions tutoring in addition to the Apparation lessons.

The Headmistress caught me giving Stephen Capper his tea (which is just TISANE, mind you, not anything I'm not supposed to have, though I was trying to get him to think it was a sleeping potion -- so much for THAT) and now she's forbidden me to make potions EVEN IN POTIONS CLASS.

I assume I'm still allowed to make them WHILE I'M TAKING MY OWL EXAM but I didn't ask because I didn't want to give her any ideas.

AND she told Capper that his brother died in the camps, after they snapped his wand and sent him there (because he wasn't nervous enough! I mean I HAVE BEEN MAKING HIM THESE TEAS BECAUSE HE CAN'T SLEEP FOR WORRYING ABOUT THAT HAPPENING TO HIM) and I'm hoping that really means the Order got him out, since they faked my mum's death maybe they also faked Thomas Capper's?

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[alt_terry]

If you come to the review sessions being held at the Burrow, I promise you'll have a tutor for potions, at least for the Easter holidays. A very good one. It's all arranged.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well that's something.

Even just a potions lab so I can practise would be something. I mean all the potions I might have to brew for the Potions OWL, I HAVE brewed successfully at least once. It's just that I've also muffed all of them completely on other occasions.

I was planning to take advantage of any open potions lab time Professor Slughorn offered, when we got back from hols, to practise the ones I haven't mastered.

[alt_hermione]

There's another lab at Hogwarts, too. Well, there's the Room of course, the secret room, but there are other places.

We can talk about it at Grimm the place where we'll be revising. There's a place I go to practise.


She's evil, that woman. And that's from someone who has to live near Him a lot of the times.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, in theory all I really need is a cauldron and privacy, right? And ingredients.

It may be the 'privacy' and 'time' that are in shortest supply. I could start skipping the YPL Exercise sessions, those are theoretically optional.

[alt_pansy]

And it's not like it'd make her hate you less if you kept going.

Hermione, does it have enough supplies for what she'd need?

And you know I'm going to drill you until you are sick of it whenever we get the chance.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well drilling is all well and good but I can TELL you how to make a Draught of Peace. I know the exact ingredients, I can recite the precise instructions in the textbook, it's just that when I make it I've never (on my own) got the timing just right that it turns out properly.

[alt_pansy]

Maybe we could do a mock version and time it?

[alt_sally_anne]

Well in theory it's seven minutes you simmer it before you add the hellebore but actually that doesn't work consistently. You have to watch it, and add the hellebore when it turns just the right shade of pink. Sometimes I get the wrong shade. Other times I think I did that part right but didn't pick quite the right moment to add the unicorn horn...

[alt_sally_anne]

Also, the one that might be on the OWL that I still have the most trouble with is the Draught of Peace -- I brewed that correctly once but Slughorn walked by and told me when to add the syrup of hellebore. It's never turned out any other time.

My wit-sharpening potion is also still a bit unpredictable even though we covered those last year and I did fine on the exam (that was one of the times it turned out). My Befuddlement potion is also a bit unpredictable -- I mean it USUALLY turns out but not consistently.