Herbology: First Year: Week 3: Friday

Professor Pomona Sprout
Friday
Gryffindor Time: 10:00
Ravenclaw Time: 11:00
Hufflepuff Time: 10:00
Slytherin Time: 1:00

Today we will be first learning about, then working with, dittany. First off, I must warn you that dittany is highly flammable. There will be no fooling around or off you go! Please take out your quills and parchement and take notes.

Dittany is mainly used to prevent scarring after a magical injury. It must be applied within 3 hours of the injury. Dittany itself is a plant that can grow to over two feet high. It has white/purple blossoms and spiky leaves. The scienitific name for dittany is Dictamnus albus. Dittany produces a sap that is highly flammable and has been known to burst into flames during the summer months. Today we will be collecting this sap for it is valued in scar healing like mentioned before as well as a perfume. Take out your dragon hide gloves now and take a box of these bottles.

We are now going to a special section in greenhouse 2 which is flame proof and has several buckets of water in case of emergencies. Using your gloves, scrape the sap into the bottles. Since these plants are very ripe, you shouldn't have any trouble.


Class time is up. Please bring your bottles to me. Keep your gloves on and wash them before taking them off. Your Homework is to write a paper on your experience with collecting the sap. Also, please draw a picture of the plant. Class is dismissed.

Potions: First Year: Week 3: Friday

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

Potions Blackboard
Concentrating Potion
Ingredients:
Fire mint
Colloid of silver
1 Sickle
Water
Flobberworm slime
3 Gnome teeth, crushed
Dragon's blood

Instructions: Fill your cauldron with 5 1/4 cups of water. Next add a tablespoon of fire mint. Stir once. Add the gnome teeth and let sit for 5 minutes. Crush five grains of dragon's blood and rub it on the sickle. Pour two 1/2 teaspoons of the colloid into a bowl and dip the sickle in it. Put your cauldron over the fire and bring it to a simmer without boiling it. Pour in the colloid and drop in the sickle. When a light green steam rises from your cauldron, bring it off the heat. Pour half the mixture into your alembic. Set the alembic over a low flame, put a bowl below the spout of the alembic and wait while it distills.

Class is now over. I want you to bottle the mixture in your bowl and give it to me for grading. Your homework to write ten inches on why you use a sickle, dragon's blood, and colloid of silver.

History of Magic: First Year: Week 3: Friday

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

We will be continuing on the exersise of taking a picture drawn by a muggle of a witch or wizard and trying to descibe what is happening. Today I also want you to describe why this is an impossible photo and why you think that the muggle drew it in this way.


Your Homework is to compare this drawing's description with last class's and see how they are alike.