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_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...