Post by Morgan Pendragon on Jan 30, 2008 16:57:48 GMT -5
Morgan trudged across the school grounds trying to find some place suitable to set up her cauldron. She need this to be quick, and she needed somewhere with few eyes. Finding a location that was friendly to her purpose near the school gates and the road to Drakborough. No one was using the gates today, since it was not an off-day, and no one was traveling to the wizarding town. She set up her cauldron carefully, ignited the flame, which took three tries in the sharp wind that'd risen up today.
She was in the last stage of making Veritaserum. It was a very tricky process, and the prefect was unsure she'd gotten it exactly right, despite the fact that it looked exactly how it was supposed to at this stage. She readied the final ingredients, and poured the proto-potion into her cauldron. It bubbled and steamed properly, and the wind whisked away the fumes. As she fiddled with her potion making paraphernalia, she reminded herself again why this was necessary.
She needed something besides intense curiosity and cleverness if she was going to be pumping Ministry officials. She planned on making this, as well as a retro-active memory changing draught. She flipped through the potion book that had the instructions in it. "Studying for O.W.L.s," she'd cheerfully lied to the librarian when he'd asked why she wanted such an advanced volume. As she flipped, the book lay open to a page she hadn't noticed before. It was entitled, 'For Changing the Mind'. Yes! This was what she needed. She'd make that next, and since she still had a few minutes before she had to do anything with her potion, she read the entry.
It was prepared much in the same way as the potion she was currently making. Only a few altered steps in the last phase. And, she supposed that A mind-changing potion would be more useful to her operation than a truth-telling one. That way, the reaction, 'I'm not going to tell you anything, and I'm going to rat you out', would become, 'I'd be delighted to tell you everything, and I wouldn't tell a soul what you're doing'. Much better.
She chopped, measured, and stirred as she struggled to follow the directions. However, when the text said that throwing in a pinch of powdered onyx should produce a cloud of blue steam, she did so, but no steam appeared. she threw in a little more, and still nothing. Obviously, she'd have to scrap this effort and start over, but as she cleaned her experiment up, she knocked the whole of her supply of powdered onyx into the brew on accident. Suddenly, a eruption of blue fumes issued from her cauldron. They spread over the grounds, and drifted towards Drakborough as the wind whipped them about.
Morgan's eyes grew wide. That had been the last step. But, there was too much steam, the potion would be unquestionably altered. She tried to resist breathing in the stuff, but she'd never been good at holding her breath. She inhaled. Luckily, the text indicated that the effects would be temporary.
She was in the last stage of making Veritaserum. It was a very tricky process, and the prefect was unsure she'd gotten it exactly right, despite the fact that it looked exactly how it was supposed to at this stage. She readied the final ingredients, and poured the proto-potion into her cauldron. It bubbled and steamed properly, and the wind whisked away the fumes. As she fiddled with her potion making paraphernalia, she reminded herself again why this was necessary.
She needed something besides intense curiosity and cleverness if she was going to be pumping Ministry officials. She planned on making this, as well as a retro-active memory changing draught. She flipped through the potion book that had the instructions in it. "Studying for O.W.L.s," she'd cheerfully lied to the librarian when he'd asked why she wanted such an advanced volume. As she flipped, the book lay open to a page she hadn't noticed before. It was entitled, 'For Changing the Mind'. Yes! This was what she needed. She'd make that next, and since she still had a few minutes before she had to do anything with her potion, she read the entry.
It was prepared much in the same way as the potion she was currently making. Only a few altered steps in the last phase. And, she supposed that A mind-changing potion would be more useful to her operation than a truth-telling one. That way, the reaction, 'I'm not going to tell you anything, and I'm going to rat you out', would become, 'I'd be delighted to tell you everything, and I wouldn't tell a soul what you're doing'. Much better.
She chopped, measured, and stirred as she struggled to follow the directions. However, when the text said that throwing in a pinch of powdered onyx should produce a cloud of blue steam, she did so, but no steam appeared. she threw in a little more, and still nothing. Obviously, she'd have to scrap this effort and start over, but as she cleaned her experiment up, she knocked the whole of her supply of powdered onyx into the brew on accident. Suddenly, a eruption of blue fumes issued from her cauldron. They spread over the grounds, and drifted towards Drakborough as the wind whipped them about.
Morgan's eyes grew wide. That had been the last step. But, there was too much steam, the potion would be unquestionably altered. She tried to resist breathing in the stuff, but she'd never been good at holding her breath. She inhaled. Luckily, the text indicated that the effects would be temporary.