Potions: First Year: Week 1: Friday

Professor Severus Snape
Friday
Gryffindor Time: 11:00
Ravenclaw Time: 1:00
Hufflepuff Time: 1:00
Slytherin Time: 11:00

Today we will be doing the warming potion. The process is the same as last time. Instructions are, of course, on the black board. You should have your potion finished by the time class is up.


Potions Black Board
Warming Potion
Ingredients:
1 Phoenix Feather
Fire Crab
Firemint
Petrified Fairy Tears
4 Gnome teeth
1 Ginger Root
Instructions
From the tap get three cups of warm water. Keep this water simmering. Add 1/4 of a teaspoon of firemint and two fire crab shells to your potion. Stir 7 times. Add another cup of warm water. Chop up the gnomes teeth. Add to your potion. Next drop in a tablespoon of fairy's tears. Bring to a rolling boil, then back to a low simmer. After simmering for 70 seconds, freeze it immediatly. Rub all over with the ginger root. Melt over high heat. To apply, dip the phoenix feather in the potion and brush along all exposed areas. When that area is warm, rinse off the potion with cold water. The warming effect will linger.


Class time is now up. Bring your bottled potion forward for grading.


Homework
Write a paragraph on your theory about why you are meant to freeze, then thaw the potion.

Herbology: First Year: Week 1: Friday

Professor Pomona Sprout
Friday
Gryffindor Time: 10:00
Ravenclaw Time: 11:00
Hufflepuff Time: 10:00
Slytherin Time: 1:00
Now that I have seen that you can at least handle researching plants and learning how to handle them, I want you to learn how to care for them. Again, we will be working with muggle plants, but if you show that you are capable of handling plants, next week we will move onto magical ones. I will give you each your own plant to take with you back to your dorm. You will need to do these things:

Put your plants as near to sunny windows as possible for optimum growth. If you notice your plant becoming thin and reaching toward the light, it needs to be closer to the sunshine. Now there are some exceptions to this. Not all plants need a lot of sunlight. But most do. I think all the plants we will be working with need plenty of sun

Water correctly. Here's how to tell when and how much to water. Stick your finger in the dirt about an inch or so. In most cases, water your plant when the soil is slightly dry and give it enough water so that it comes out the holes at the bottom of your container somewhat.

This is really all you will need to know. It will only be for the weekend, so you will not need to worry about long term things like fertilizing. Please step up to the table and choose your plant. I will also give you a watering can. Mark both with your name so that you can tell whose is whose.

We only have about ten minutes, so I ask that you consult with your neighbors and any books you might have with you. Try to figure out what your plant is called. If you still haven't figured it out by the time that the bell rings, bring your plant up to me and I will tell you what it is called.

That is the bell, chaps! Anyone who doesn't know what their plant is called should come up to me. Everyone else is dismissed. Your Homework is to care for your plant.

History of Magic: First Year: Week 1: Friday

Professor Cuthbert Binns
Friday
Gryffindor Time: 1:00
Ravenclaw Time: 10:00
Hufflepuff Time: 11:00
Slytherin Time: 10:00

Gaspard Shingleton was born in 1959 and is still living. He invented the Self-Stirring Cauldon after losing patience with his wife, who notoriously forgot to stir his many potions while he was away. As he had a potion-making business , this was disastrous to business and profit. The Self-Stirring Cauldron has ten long spoons that rotate continually.

Ignatia Wildsmith, 1227-1320, was a witch that got air-sick very easily and, as the cushioning charm was not invented until 1820, she preferred to walk, rather than ride a broom. Also, she was claustrophobic and "would not Apperate to save my life, no I wouldn't!". So after a very long walk from her home to London, which was 142 mile away, she declared that she would stay until she had come up with a better way to travel. So Floo Powder was invented.

Homework is to find Gaspard Shingleton and Ignatia Wildsmith on JKRowling.com (Hint: try Wizard of the Month Archives). Class is dismissed.