First Year Potions 101 Closed

Ava's appearance was like that of an angel, like muggles would say, or so Joanne thought. While they were trying to make sense of the words on paper, she reassured her that she wasn't doing as horrible as Joanne thought she was doing. "Thank you.." she muttered as she watched the girl grab the ingredients for her. She thought that people from house Slytherin would be cruel, like she had been warned by so many people, but she was being so very kind to her. Joanne really appreciated the help. 
"How do you know so much about potions?" The liquid was slowly turning color to a darker shade, more towards a brown. No.. Red. It was turning red, Joanne saw. Sure, she had watched what the girl had done, but most of it had already slipped her mind. The help had came quite abrupt after all. 

"My name is Joanne. And yours?" 

Caitlin smiled at Arceus. "I am fine dear. Have you been checked for the potion?" She went into mother hen mode and patted him down to make sure he was okay. "You are good. Nothing got on you so you should be fine." She smiled and sighs as she bottled the potions each one a bright silver that matched her eyes in the moonlight.  She handed one to Marcus and gave him the instructions on what to do. She gripped the edge of the table in preparation for the pain that was sure to come. "Hey, Arceus. Talk to me. Keep me distracted." She stood on her good leg and basically leaned over the desk to keep from falling. "So I was born in the fall, my star sign is a Libra, my favourite colour is Silver with a hint of a gold dusting. I love the fall season the best because of all the warm colours. Dark chocolate is my favourite chocolate because of the taste and I find it romantic and... " She trailed off with a loud curse word as the potion was poured onto her skin. Caitlin's grip on the desk increased and she squeezed her eyes closed.

When he saw Caitlin in that much pain he went up to her she told me to talk to her what do I say i don't want to be stupid but she's in pain I have to say something now! "Umm ok Caitlin you're ok, well my favorite color is orange red and yellow too, I like all chocolate it's all delicious and umm.." I don't know what my star sign is!? He didn't know what to say so he just did the first thing he could think of and gave her his hand to hold at first she held it really tight because of all the pain she was going through but then she stopped and held it normally. "Are you ok now? Do you want to sit down?" What do I do now? Should I keep holding her i mean I don't want her to lose her balance and fall so he kept holding on to her. "Umm.." He said with his face as red as a tomato "Ok.. I', going to slowly put you down on this chair.." He wanted to run from class but at the same time didn't want to get detention so he just stood there like an idiot.

Caitlin let out a tired giggle and sat back down on the stool. "I will be fine in a few minutes. No pain, no gain am I right?" She smiled softly at Arceus and sighed as she ran her fingers through her frizzy hair. "You are super cute you know that? Just like the little brother I always wanted." She said as she ruffled his blond hair. "I would adopt you if I could," Caitlin said as she picked up a rag and wiped the excess potion off of her now healed leg. She stood up and grabbed her bag and put her books and the rest of her equipment away. "Want to help me take these to Madam Pomfrey? I don't want them to just go to waste now that we have them." She chuckled as she slung her bag over her shoulder and picked up three of the six remaining potions. "Come on, the class is almost over anyway." She turned to her potions partner and said, "Do you mind bottling that and turning it in for us? I'll make it up to you later. Thank you!" She giggles again and hummed a tune as she walked out.

'Ava Silver, at your service.' The girl giggled a little. 'Great to meet you, Joanne.' Now... three turns to the left and five to the right. Still focused on the potion, she replied. 'My mum was working in the St. Mungo's Hospital. After watching her do it for a thousand times, you can make it pretty easily.' She shrugged it off as the potion was turning out well. 'Turn it every nine seconds...' She mumbled under her breath. The potion was looking good. Ava started humming a joyful melody of a  song her mother always sang to her. She continued making the potion until it was ready. She poured some of it into small phials and corked them. 'Should be enough.' Ava said and turned to Joanne. 'As I said, great to meet you.' She smiled and looked around. Some drama was going on. She shrugged it off and continued to talk with Joanne. 'What house are you in? Do you have a partner yet?' She looked at her curiously. She actually would not mind partnering with this girl. She did not judge her for being a Slytherin and actually been nice to her. 'Sorry, if I'm asking too many questions... I'd just want to get to know you better since it seems like we'll have to be partners for a while.' She smiled and looked at the girl, waiting for an answer

Arceus surprised of her ruffling his hair picks up the things and heads out after her while they're walking there he still has to slow his normal pace because she's a bit slower than usual. "Hey Caitlin..you know I'm probably older than you right?" He grins "Even if you could adopt me you wouldn't be able to.. FACE MY WRATH!" He laughs at his own "joke" and continues walking besides her in silence to let her speak a bit. "By the way are you ok? My heart stopped when I saw you jump in front of those people and when I saw what happened to the cloak. I- I should have been there..Things could have been a lot worse if you didn't know what to do and if I lost you... I don't know what I would have done.. I mean you're my best friend here" Lightly punches shoulder in a friendly kind of way. "Well after you leave Madam Pomfrey want to go hang out somewhere.. I was thinking the lakes but if you want to go somewhere else I'm fine with that It's your decision for surviving" He gives two thumbs up in a joking kind of way.

Caitlin rolls her eyes and laughs quietly. "Even if you are older then me I still would do it. And face your wrath? I guess you haven't seen me before my coffee in the mornings have you?" Caitlin joked and smiles as she hums. "I'm fine, don't worry about me. It could have been a lot worse if it had fully gotten onto my skin. Don't blame yourself. You couldn't have known what was going to happen, and my father made sure to drill into my head what to do in those kinds of situations. Trust me, you can not get rid of me that easily!" Caitlin bumps her hip into yours with a smile and a laugh. "I would love to hang out with my little bro. The lakes sound amazing right about now. Maybe we will see the giant squid. Or a mermaid! That would be so cool! Don't you think?" She smiles brightly and gets a dreamy look in her eyes. "I'm glad my mother let me come to Hogwarts. She wanted to homeschool me but I convinced her to let me come because it would be too dangerous to practice magic around muggles. They could have seen."

Vera scrunched her nose as Marcus accused her of wanting him to go away. "I didn't say that, I just wanted to make sure she got the help she needed... whatever," she muttered. She was pleased that Caitlin's leg hadn't melted off or anything and that the girl still had enough control over her faculties to concoct a solution to fix her ailment. Her eyes widened a bit at Caitlin's explanation of her expertise and Vera felt a twinge of jealousy at how capable she seemed. It was too bad the circumstances were so sad, though. "Well, that's impressive... sorry to hear about your dad, though," she offered kindly.

 Her fellow Hufflepuff's plea for assistance drew her attention away from Marcus and Caitlin, but she was relieved to see a dark haired Slytherin girl had come to Joanne's aid, as Vera certainly didn't have the experience to fix a potion. She was barely getting by the first lesson just trying to make one... and most of that success had to be attributed to Marcus. She flipped over the hourglass again at their station, keeping track of the time. 

"Our potion, you mean," she corrected Marcus with a smirk. "I helped." True, he was the reason it was outstanding, but she didn't intend to let his head get too big if they were going to be partners in future.  As time ticked down, Vera slipped out her wand and extinguished the flames beneath the cauldron. The potion was the perfect hue of a red for the marks her partner desired... though, they'd have to wait and see grades next class. 

Ava seemed like a really kind person to Joanne, the way she giggled and had come to her aid. She also seemed very intelligent as she skilfully brew the potion. “St. Mungo’s Hospital? - That sounds quite impressive. You’re lucky that you already know how most of this works. It’s hard when you do it for the first time. I’ve never heard of these ingredients before. I’m just really glad that you came swooping in to help me,” Joanne laughed as she studied the potion Ava was helping her with. When the other girl started humming some melody, which was vaguely familiar to Joanne, she asked; “What is that song you’re humming, if I may ask?” Finally she looked up to eye her for a while, waiting for an answer.

“Should be enough,” Ava said as she turned to her and continued talking. “I’m Hufflepuff,” Joanne said proudly. “You’re Slytherin, right? I think I saw you at the ceremony. And, of course! I’d love to be partners. At least my grades will be good then,” she laughed. She thought that it would be really nice to team up with her. They clicked.

A thunderous noise is heard from outside. Followed by a distant "AHH!"In a few seconds, a young boy with blonde hair and blue eyes bursts through the door."A-Am I late?" He struggles to spit these words out."D-didn't know where class was. R-ran all around castle." Rian sat in a random spot, to catch his breath.

Rian took a look around and saw people in groups making potions. Potions were Rian's strongest skill. He was extremely knowledgeable about herbs and other ingredients. Though all of this was self-taught, his own wisdom augmented by what he could understand from books. So he may be a bit rusty.

After catching his breath, Rian loudly asks "So what are we are doing?"While placing down his book and cauldron."I do also apologize for disrupting, and my being late. As I did not pay attention, and do not know where many places are in this castle." Rian was overly polite and honest. He did not think anyone had bad intentions towards him, unless it was extremely straightforward.

While he was waiting to be told what was going on, Rian studied the classrooms and the different potions. They all looked decent. Rian did not genuinely care for showing off, so he would most likely just make what he'd consider passable.