Welcome to Charming, where swirling petticoats, the language of flowers, and old-fashioned duels are only the beginning of what is lying underneath…
After a magical attempt on her life in 1877, Queen Victoria launched a crusade against magic that, while tidied up by the Ministry of Magic, saw the Wizarding community exiled to Hogsmeade, previously little more than a crossroad near the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the years that have passed since, Hogsmeade has suffered plagues, fires, and Victorian hypocrisy but is still standing firm.
Thethe year is now 1894. It’s time to join us and immerse yourself in scandal and drama interlaced with magic both light and dark.
Potions Professor, Slytherin Head of House & Deputy Headmaster
143 year old Pureblood
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September 11th, 1892 — Location
Another year! Another job of work. Another lot of NEWT students to drag kicking and screaming through their exams.
Miss Frasers last year, did also rather mean he was in the market for a new protege - even if she would be a hard act to follow.
'Alright my bright young scholars. Today we will be working on the Everlasting Elixirs. The ingredients cupboard is open for you to utilise anything you think appropriate' he instructed. Archimedes was sitting in there, to gaurd against pilfering. He indicated that they should begin with a smart clap of his hands, which also caused the flames under the cauldrons to catch fire.
Meserimus will move through the desks and 'grade' the potion every time you post, and there will be a weighted final score for the final potion. If you post 3 times you 'completed' the potion.
1-5 -potion backfires
6-10 - doesnt work
10-20 - Fine potion
25 + Great potion
30+ exceptional
Code:
[b]Owl grade:[/b] letter grade
[b]Skill:[/b]1-5
[b]Member of potion club:[/b] yes/no
Potions was one of his best classes along with Transfiguration. He supposed that was why those were the two classes he tended to tutor others in. It helped that their professor was such a kindly man, too, he felt. As they were bid to begin, he gathered up the ingredients he would need and set about doing the first steps of the potion after having finished ingredient preperation.
Owl grade: O Skill: 5 Member of potion club: Yes
Admire all of you
But fire burns me too
Can't stop that disco getting through
Can't stop that disco wanting you.
Alcyone had just barely managed to get an Outstanding on her OWL exams for this class. She was glad for that since you needed an Outstanding or professor permission to even continue on to the NEWT level. The Slytherin head of house had always been very kind to her so she had not doubted he might give permission if she had gotten an E - it had been more a matter of personal pride for her.
As they were bid to begin, Alcyone began getting to work.
NEWT-level classes. This was truly where education began—not about a subject, but about one's own abilities to sink or swim as the tides of academia rose ever higher.
For Iphigenia Adebayo, only the latter could be permitted.
Once given permission to begin, the sixth year made her way to the supply cupboard, gathering everything she would need on the front end so that she would not need to abandon her cauldron to fetch ingredients later. As a result, she was far from the first student back to the work benches, but potions were an art, not some sort of athletic pursuit.
The Head Boy—Elijah had grown prone to working that into conversation since the badge had arrived, even his internal narrative—deftly began preparing his ingredients. Loath to admit it as he was, he did not think he could best his female counterpart in this particular arena (ugh, Fraser), but damned if he would let anyone else be better than him.
Owl grade: O Skill: 4 Member of potion club: Yes
— Elijah has heterochromia. His right eye is green and his left is blue. —
— MJ is a graphics goddess ❤ —
A professional nod and smile at Professor Valenduris as she had entered the room was all the attention Idunn Fraser had spared from her work. Everlasting Elixirs were not unfamiliar to the seventh year, but they were tricky, and deserved her utmost attention has she prepped her ingredients and began to heat her cauldron.
Owl grade: O Skill: 5 Member of potion club: #YasQueen
Potions Professor, Slytherin Head of House & Deputy Headmaster
143 year old Pureblood
6 ft. 4 in.
❤ Married
Played by Dante
181 Posts
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'Some excellent work' he mused passing through the desks - he chose not to point out the less than steller results of some. He looked over Mister Urquarts potions with some measure of surprise. 'Well done Mister Urqaurt, an excellent potion, truely a text book example of what we are looking for at this stage - and I should know, I wrote the textbook. 5 points to slytherin.'
He went back to his meander around the room, as they continued with their brewings.
Hmm, her potion wasn't looking quite like the textbook said it should look like at this point. Well, even so she continued on with the next steps of her brewing.
Elijah could not have (metaphorically) preened more at the praise if he were (literally) a peacock. Still, the Slytherin was too smart to rest upon his laurels, and redoubled his efforts at his brew.
Owl grade: O Skill: 4 Member of potion club: Yes
— Elijah has heterochromia. His right eye is green and his left is blue. —
— MJ is a graphics goddess ❤ —
Idunn simply pursed her lips as Urquart, of all people, was issued praise, and continued to work on her potion. Damned if she let that toad-for-brains prove a distraction to her.
Potions Professor, Slytherin Head of House & Deputy Headmaster
143 year old Pureblood
6 ft. 4 in.
❤ Married
Played by Dante
181 Posts
39 Likes
Meserimus consulted the potions again as he did his rounds, Miss Slughorn had redeemed her potion as she worked through the instructions, the recovery was admirable.
Miss Fraser and Mister Urqaurt were both doing well. He assessed a few of the others they were all reasonable approximations of the final creation.
She hadn't needed the graded tests back to know she'd barely scrapped her way through to an O in this class last year. She'd scrambled the last year and a half to make up for her lack of attention the earlier years (and having to rely on someone elses notes when she arrived to late to get a sest in the front certainly hadn't helped - bless Alice). But still, she'd been thrilled to see the letters prented on her results in July. She'd made it. Barely but it counted. Thank gosh for herbology. One could improvise far better when they had an understanding of some of the ingredients.
As she worked she glanced around, watching everyone else. The higher requirements easily made this one of her smallest class (which was a pro, she never sat to far away where she struggled to hear the professor now) but she found it a bit odd. It was nice to have classes with Ned and Cam but some of the other seventh years were odd. She was back to classes with Urquart - who she hadn't forgotten his slightly too gleeful attempts to set her on fire after the professor had scolded the second years. He made her weary.
Potions Professor, Slytherin Head of House & Deputy Headmaster
143 year old Pureblood
6 ft. 4 in.
❤ Married
Played by Dante
181 Posts
39 Likes
Meserimus took another tour of the room, appraisign adn correcting as he went. Some of the potions were looking rathe impressive. He stopped to make one last assessment of Miss Potts, a hard working, if uninspired potioner, but he still out hope for her. She might never reach the heights of Miss Fraser, but he had hope that she would manage a respectable enough NEWT grade if she applied herself this year.
She frowned into the cauldron, nose pinched up. Was it supposed to be this color? Looking back at the instructions, she found it stated the potion should have been a darker shade, but she was at least in the right color family. Maybe she had miss weighed something? The only issue was she wasn't sure what, or else she might have been able to counter for it. She'd just have to push on. It couldn't have been too off. After all, the color was close and it did still smell like it was supposed to.
Owl grade: O Skill:4 Member of potion club:no nichole tells lies. i looked at the spreadsheet, calla is in potions club and has been.
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