Herbology: First Year: Week 5: Friday

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

Today we are going to have a quick test on the three orchids that you have learned about this year. The questions are below. Do NOT look over past notes, do this from your memory only.

1. Why has removal of Tingo remotio from Hogwarts grounds failed?
2. What are the effects of ingesting Tingo remotio?
3. Describe the effects of the Cheer Orchid
4. What is the difference of absorbing the Cheer Orchid compared to ingesting it?
5. What does a Timor Orchid look like?
6. How are the flowers normally used?

Once you have completed the quiz, bring it up to me to grade. You are then dismissed. Your homework is to look over your notes on orchids and see what questions you may have missed.

Potions: First Year: Week 5: Friday

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

It has been suggested to me that I teach you a Fright Solution, as some of your marks are exceptionally poor due to an absurd fright of my class. Very well, I will. Ingredients and instructions are on the board. I do hope that you have not forgotten to bring the bottle of Timor Orchid sap that Professor Sprout gave you.

Potions Blackboard
Fright Solution
Ingredients
Timor Orchid sap
Dragon's blood
Flobberworm mucus
Fig juice
3 porcupine quills
Spiders, dead and dried
Essence of Lionfish

Instructions
Bring 1 pint of fig juice to a boil. Add 1 gram dragon's blood and let simmer for 5 minutes. While it simmers, grind an addition gram of dragon's blood with 10 dried spiders in your mortar and pestle. Add this to the fig juice after five minutes. Stir five times clockwise. Simmer for three minutes, then add 1 ounce flobberworm mucus. The potion should immediately turn a brilliant purple. Add five drops Essence of Lionfish. This should cause the potion to return to a dull green. Bring back to a fierce boil and add 3 porcupine quills. The potion should go several shades lighter in color and thicken considerably. Lastly, add 20 drops of Timor Orchid sap. Let it continue to boil fiercely until it has turned to the color and thickness of glue. Remove from heat and bottle.

Your time is up. Bottle your effort and bring it up to me. I will keep it for grading. You may keep the remainder of your Timor Orchid sap as it will lose it's potency tomorrow. Class dismissed.

History of Magic: First Year: Week 5: Friday

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

I hope that you enjoyed the guest lecture last class. We will be having more of them in the future.

Today we will study two famous wizards and their accomplishments.

Gregory the Smarmy was unliked during his school days for being over bearing and a know-it-all. He later seemed to find this depressing as he invented Gregory's Unctuous Unction which causes the drinker to think that the one who gave the unction to them is their best friend. He died with an exclusive society surrounding him. Those who were in it couldn't believe their good luck at getting in it while those who weren't thought that all those who were in it were a bit desperate. You can find a statue of Gregory the Smarmy with in this castle.

Fulbert the Fearful lived from 1014 - 1092. He was, as his name suggests, afraid of everything. He died when his roof collapsed from a defective Defensive Charm. It is thought that he developed such fear at a very young age when he was forced to go through a magical haunted house by his older brother. Fulbert only just made it out alive due to the lack of safety spells on several of the creatures. For the rest of his life he would check behind his shoulder every minute just to make sure that no one was sneaking up on him. This led to his classmates teasing him and booby-trapping his book bag with stink bombs.

Your homework is to read through all your past work. Class is dismissed.

Divination: First Year: Week 5: Thursday

Professor Sibyll Trelawny
Thursday
Gryffindor Time: 10:00
Ravenclaw Time: 2:00
Hufflepuff Time: 1:00
Slytherin Time: 2:00

More symbol studying today. Quills out please, and copy down this list. You should have it memorized by the time class is up.

Sheep: Good luck
Skeleton: Illness
Lizard: Hidden Enemies
Crab: An enemy near by
Dragon: changes
Fish: News from abroad
Goose: invitation

You have twenty minutes to memorize these signs.


Twenty minutes are up. I would like you to pair up. You will pretend that you have seen these signs in the other person's tea cup. First, decide who is person A and who is person B. Now, person A will read person B's list and visa versa.

Person A's teacup has:
A Crab
A Fish
and A Key

Person B's teacup has
A Goose
A Skeleton
and A Shoe

Tell each other what you predict for the future and then copy it down onto a piece of parchment. After giving me the parchment, you are free to go.

Defense Against the Dark Arts: First Year: Week 5: Thursday

Professor Quirrell
Thursday
Gryffindor Time: 11:00
Ravenclaw Time: 1:00
Hufflepuff Time: 9:00
Slytherin Time: 1:00

Hello class. If you remember, last time we were beginning to learn about the Curse of the Bogies. I had you research a demonic creature so that you would have a better understanding of what we were about to study. Hopefully you still remember the results of your research.

The Curse of the Bogies causes a certain demon to become highly attracted to the person the curse was cast upon. The effects can be very nasty because once the demon has been attached to a person it will then attack that person relentlessly using whatever powers it has. Generally the person is not prepared to defend him or her self and succumbs to the demon quickly. You can not be picky about which demon will answer the Curse of the Bogies. It will be a native of the area, generally, but other than that there is no way of knowing. No one knows exactly why this curse will attach a demon to a person. Most theories involve a spell attaching to the victim. The spell seems to have a promise of easy meat. Not all demonic creatures will answer the call. The more intelligent ones will ignore it, or as some people think, not hear it at all. This is a bit unlikely (creating a spell that only stupid demons can sense), but possible perhaps.

I hope that you got that all down in your notes. Your homework is to write a paragraph on your own theory on how the Curse of the Bogies. Make sure that it is convincing! Class is dismissed.

Transfiguration: First Year: Week 5: Thursday

Professor Minerva McGonagall
Thursday
Gryffindor Time: 9:00
Ravenclaw Time: 10:00
Hufflepuff Time: 11:00
Slytherin Time: 10:00

Today you will be continuing to try to turn a beetle into a button. Now, can all of you remember the spell? How about you there in the back row? No, not scaraga. ScaraBYga. Make sure to pronounce the whole correct spell. Now if you would each take one of these beetles... You may begin. I hope that at least one of you will have transformed a beetle into a button by the end of the class.

I am going to come around now and collect your beetles. Five points will be given to each student who turns in a button instead. After I take your beetle - or button - you are free to go. I want you to practice over the weekend so that when you return on Tuesday we can move onto turning a button into a beetle.

Arithmancy: First Year: Week 5: Thursday

Professor Vector
Thursday
Gryffindor Time: 1:00
Ravenclaw Time: 11:00
Hufflepuff Time: 2:00
Slytherin Time: 9:00

Today we will continue to study the personality traits, moving onto 5 and 6.

Five is the number of instability and imbalance. Fives are prone to change and will frequently commit to many projects and do none. They are energetic, adventurous, and very willing to take risks to achieve their goals. They do not remain in one place long, instead preferring a more nomadic life of wandering and travel.
The downside of fives is that they can be conceited, irresponsible, quick-tempered, and flighty.

Sixes are the opposite. They are reliable, loyal, and keep their friends. They are family oriented and do well in the arts, but have a lousy business sense. They can be prone to gossiping and laziness.
Six is considered one of the most auspicious numbers of arthimancy. If you add 1+2+3 you get 6 and if you multiply 1x2x3 you will also get six.

All right. Put your quills away. Your homework is to study the numbers we have learned so far. Class is dismissed.

Care of Magical Creatures: First Year: Week 5: Wednesday

Professor Kettleburn
Wednesday
Gryffindor Time: 11:00
Ravenclaw Time: 10:00
Hufflepuff Time: 10:00
Slytherin Time: 9:00

First, I would like everyone to step up and report their findings on gruagach sightings. Tell with as much detail as you can.

Second, I would like you to start a chart. Take out a piece of parchment and put these titles on it: Human-like, half-human, fully animal. Then figure out where each of the creatures we have studied so far fit in on this chart. I've included a list on the blackboard.

Care of Magical Creatures Blackboard
List of Creatures Studied So Far
Augurey
Hippocampus
Khamador Serpens
Fairies
Gruagach

I want you to keep track of this list for each new creature you study will be added to it. But for now the creatures should be put under the following columns:

Augurey - Fully-Animal
Hippocampus - Fully-Animal
Khamador Serpens - Fully-Animal
Fairies - Human-Like
Gruagach - Human-Like

That is it for today. Your homework is to research half-human creatures and write one that you would like to study under that column. You are dismissed.

Muggle Studies: First Year: Week 5: Wednesday

Professor Charity Burbage
Wednesday
Gryffindor Time: 10:00
Ravenclaw Time: 11:00
Hufflepuff Time: 9:00
Slytherin Time: 11:00

Hello again, everyone. For today's class I would like you to all think back to the trip we took to London. Take out a piece of paper and a pen while we brainstorm.

I will give you two minutes to list every muggle thing you saw in London. When you are finished, please hand them up here (post in the comments).

Thank you. Now I would like you to choose one experience from your trip and to write a report on it. Make it a personal report, like how it felt to be there and what you thought as you were doing it.

There is the bell. Continue on your report and turn it in next week.

Charms: First Year: Week 5: Wednesday

Professor Filius Flitwick
Wednesday
Gryffindor Time: 9:00
Ravenclaw Time: 9:00
Hufflepuff Time: 11:00
Slytherin Time: 10:00

Good morning! Today we are going to repeat what we did last class, only with an object of your choice. I expect by the end of the class, everyone will be able to walk well carrying an object with Wingardium Leviosa and to be able to lift something at least half their weight. Begin, and try to not drop anything on another person's head.

All right, there is the bell. You are to practice, practice, and practice! Off you go, then.

Astronomy: First Year: Week 5: Wednesday

Professor Sinistra
Wednesday
Gryffindor Time: Midnight
Ravenclaw Time: Midnight
Hufflepuff Time: Midnight
Slytherin Time: Midnight

Welcome back to Hogwarts, everyone! I hope that you had a wonderful winter break. I thought that I would test your memory on the vocabulary we have learned. For this, I'm going to give you a list of terms and a list of definitions. You must match the two together. To make it extra tricky, I'm going to throw in one extra term and one extra definition that don't match. You will have to tell me which these are!

You have half an hour.

List of Vocabulary Words:

1. Azimuth
2. Declination
3. Meridian
4. Sidereal
5. Zenith
6. Constellation
7. Latitude
8. Orbit

List of Vocabulary Definitions:
A. Point on the sky directly overhead.
B. Related to the stars. Thus sidereal day, month, period, year: lengths of time intervals specified by motion of some object relative to the stars, as opposed to apparent lengths of those time intervals that will depend on the Earth’s own movements.
C. Path traced out by one object around another
D. Coordinate used to specify the position of a point or direction around (or parallel to) an equator.
E. Angle measured clockwise around the horizon, from 0* towards the north, through 90* to the east, 180* to the south, 270* to the west, and to 360* due north
F. A group of stars that seemed to suggest the shape of some god, person, animal or object. Now a term used to designate a region of the sky. There are 88 constellations.
G. Coordinate used to measure (in degrees) the angular distance of a point or celestial objects above or below an equator.
H. Angular distance of an object north or south of the celestial equator, measured in degrees. Thus the north celestial pole has a declination of +90 degrees.

Half an hour is now up! Please bring me your papers and then go outside. I want you to try to name all the constellations you can find out there. Write down a list and bring it back to me before going off to bed. Good night!

Defense Against the Dark Arts: First Year: Week 5: Tuesday

Professor Cadmus Quirrell
Tuesday
Gryffindor Time: 11:00
Ravenclaw Time: 10:00
Hufflepuff Time: 1:00
Slytherin Time: 1:00

Welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. For the remainder of the year, I will be teaching you more about spells, rather than creatures as we have been doing, though some, like this one, also include study of creatures. For the start, we will begin with the Curse of the Bogies.

First, let me tell you that what you are most likely imagining is a bat-bogey hex. This is NOT the same thing. The Curse of the Bogies attracts creatures called bogeymen or, when more evolved and developed, demons. They are a group of creatures instead of one particular one. These range from Boggarts to Kelpies.

Before you learn about the effects of this curse, I would like each of you to peruse your copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to choose a demonic creature and research it. Use what ever resources you wish. You will be expected to give a short report at the end of class. So that leaves you about twenty minutes. Off you go!

Twenty minutes are well up. I would like you to all come up here and line up, alphabetical by last name. You will each have one minute to summarize what you have learned about the creature you chose. When you are finished, get back in line to hear what others have learned.

There is the bell. For homework, write down a summary of your creature, to be turned in next class. Class is dismissed.

Divination: First Year: Week 5: Tuesday

Professor Sibyll Trelawny
Tuesday
Gryffindor Time: 2:00
Ravenclaw Time: 11:00
Hufflepuff Time: 2:00
Slytherin Time: 10:00

Today I thought that I would teach you some more symbols of divination. Please take out a quill and a piece of paper.

The Drum - Gossip
The Feather - Requires more effort
The Hat - A new work situation
The House - Stability
The Noose - Danger ahead
The Ox - Arguments with associates
The Scepter - More responsibilities

If you have finished with that, I would like you to take out a fresh piece of paper.

For this exercise, I want you to translate, from memory, three symbols that I have chosen. Do so as if you were tea-leaf reading for a friend. The symbols are below-

The Book
The Coin
The Fish

Time is up class. Your homework is to finish your translation and turn it in on Thursday. You are dismissed.

Transfiguration: First Year: Week 5: Tuesday

Professor Minerva McGonagall
Tuesday
Gryffindor Time: 10:00
Ravenclaw Time: 9:00
Hufflepuff Time: 11:00
Slytherin Time: 9:00

Presuming that you haven't forgotten much over Winter Break, I believe that you are ready to start transforming animals into inanimate objects. One of the challenges of working with animals is that they move around quite a bit.

For beginning, I thought that you should try turning beetles into buttons. Before I pass out the beetles though, I would like you to practice saying the spell. Repeat after me: Scarabyga! Say it clearly: Scare-ab-ee-ga! Good. Twice more.

Now if you would each come up here and take a beetle, you may begin trying to turn it into a beetle.

Class, your time is up. Return all beetles up to me and remember to practice on another one that you find. You are dismissed.

Arithmancy: First Year: Week 5: Tuesday

Professor Vector
Tuesday
Gryffindor Time: 9:00
Ravenclaw Time: 1:00
Hufflepuff Time: 10:00
Slytherin Time: 11:00

Hello class, and welcome back. I hope that you had a good winter break and didn't forget everything while you were gone! To help you remember, I would like you to take out your notes about last class and review the traits of ones and twos.

Is that done? Very well then. Now I would like you to copy down the traits of threes and fours.

Three
Keywords: Completeness, wholeness
Threes are likely to be talented, energetic, artistic and to have a good sense of humor
They are often rich and highly successful, but also unfocused, superfial and easily offended.

Four
Keywords: Stability, firmness, hard working, practical
Fours are organizers and predictable, and prefer logic and reason to being spontaneous.
On the flip side, fours can be suspicious and stubborn. All conflicts possible with twos are doubled with fours

Your homework is the same as last class, only this time with a three or a four. Class is dismissed.

Runes: First Year: Week 5: Tuesday

Professor Babbling
Tuesday
Gryffindor Time: 1:00
Ravenclaw Time: 2:00
Hufflepuff Time: 9:00
Slytherin Time: 2:00

To refresh your memory on the runes we have been studying, I would like you to select one and write a report on it. Use your notes and any other sources you can find. You may begin.

Time is up. If you haven't finished your report, please keep it for homework, otherwise turn it in to me for review and correction. Thank you and class is dismissed.

Care of Magical Creatures: First Year: Week 5: Monday

Professor Kettleburn
Monday
Gryffindor Time: 2:00
Ravenclaw Time: 1:00
Hufflepuff Time: 2:00
Slytherin Time: 1:00

Welcome back, class. I'm sorry that you missed Wednesday's class, but it certainly sounded like fun to explore London!

Today I am going to tell you about a creature called the Gruagach. You probably won't get to meet one as they are quite difficult to find and capture, having the intelligence of humans and the ability to shapeshift. They are peculiar in their habits, prefering to be left alone most of the time but feeling sociable during certian seasons, such as during the Harvest. Mostly they only show themselves to wizarding folk, but occasionally appear to muggles, much to the dismay of the Ministry of Magic. Many people believe them to be brownies, but they are not. On the contrary, they live in nature and don't serve any house or manor. It is true that they belong to the 'Hob' family, which is the same as brownies, but there the resemblance ends. Gruagaches can only be found in rural England, Scotland and in some very rare cases, Ireland.
Grugaches can - and will - take on any form. These can range in size from slightly taller than six feet to small enough to ride astride a shrew. The only time a gruagach must take on his or her true form is during the annual meeting, where every gruagach must come to. No one has been able to find this meeting since 1639 and the wizard who did had his eyes gored out in a most painful way. He was found wandering days later missing his tongue and covered in scratches. This is one of the few recorded cases of gruagach violence. All of them were the human's fault, not the creature's.

Your homework is to look up a case of gruagach sighting, if possible, your own. Class is dismissed.

Herbology: First Year: Week 5: Monday

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

Welcome back from your winter break! You arrived just in time to help me harvest the flowers of this orchid, the Timor Orchid. I'll tell you more about it as you work, but first I need everyone to come up here to get a step stool. You won't be to reach without one. Everyone ready? Good. Let's begin. First, don't worry about this orchid hurting you. It is mainly safe, unless you try to touch its roots. You won't try to do that, obviously, because it is attached to the ceiling. So whatever noises it makes, don't worry. It won't bite. To harvest the flowers and sap properly, take a gold knife and slice off the flower, a few inches down the stem. Save the flower here and immediately take a bottle and collect the dripping sap. Do you all have that? Any questions? Then you may begin while I tell you about this plant.

Timor Orchid
Orchis metis
The Timor Orchid's main property is inducing fear. It is, in fact, realitively harmless. The plant is a 'groundless plant' and gets its nutrients from the air while attaching to the ceiling and the walls. It can be recognized by this, as well as by its yellow and navy blue velvety flowers and reddish leaves. When the plant senses a person near it, it will begin growling and snarling, as well as releasing a light mist that can cause absolute terror for whomever it falls upon.
The Timor Orchid's sap and flowers are used in both potions that induce fear as well as reduce it. The flowers are normally used dried and crushed while the sap must be used as soon as possible.

Do you have all the flowers you can get from your plant? Ok. Then please give them to me and I'll send you along with a small bottle of Timor Sap. You will need it during Potions on Friday, so don't lose it! Your homework is to watch the sap during the week and observe the colors it turns. Class is dismissed.

Potions: First Year: Week 5: Monday

Professor Severus Snape
Monday
Gryffindor Time: 10:00
Ravenclaw Time: 2:00
Hufflepuff Time: 10:00
Slytherin Time: 2:00

Right, class. Straighten up and pay attention. Today I am going to set you to learn a potion that is the base of many advanced potions. You will need to learn it by heart, so pay attention to every step and Remember It! Instructions are on the board. You will have half an hour.

Potions Blackboard
Basic Brew

Ingredients
Water
Peppermint, dried
Spearmint, dried
Caterpillar Pods
Moon Flowers
Ice

Instructions
Pour 1 1/6 cups water into your cauldron and boil. Add 1/2 a teaspoon each of peppermint and spearmint. Simmer for three minutes
Next, add 1 gram moonflower and 1 caterpillar pod. Stir seven times clockwise. The air should start to smell like hot rubber.
Let simmer for five minutes. Add in 1/3 cup water with 1/4 cup crushed ice. The potion should be a golden green.
Take off of heat and set in a cold enviroment. Bottle when entirely chilled.

Half an hour is up. No matter how far you got, bring up your cauldrons and set them in this freezing charm I have set up. Clean up your messes and then listen to your homework. Your homework is to practice this potion and remember it!

History of Magic: First Year: Week 5: Monday

Professor Cuthbert Binns
Monday
Gryffindor Time: 1:00
Ravenclaw Time: 11:00
Hufflepuff Time: 9:00
Slytherin Time: 9:00

Today I have a guest speaker who will tell you a bit of the history of Hogwarts Castle and the world of the time when it was built. Please follow me to Classroom 11. Your homework when you are dismissed will be to write a brief essay on the lecture. Thank you and follow me.

Charms: First Year: Week 5: Monday

Professor Filius Flitwick
Monday
Gryffindor Time: 9:00
Ravenclaw Time: 9:00
Hufflepuff Time: 10:00
Slytherin Time: 11:00

Welcome back, class, welcome back. As we are now in the second half of the school year, things will have to progress a little quicker. This means that you will need to concentrate a bit harder to get spells mastered faster. First, altogether, I want you to demonstrate that you remember lumos and nox. Ready? Lumos. Good. Now hold that for a bit. Now Nox. Very good, very good!

For all the times I have had you practice the Levitation Charm, you have done it with feathers. So today I thought we would try to lift something a bit heavier. No, not ink bottles. Those would be a bit messy! I was thinking of these wooden balls. Here, catch. Now set it down, on the desk. Try to stop them from rolling! Everyone ready? Here we go. Wingardium leviosa! All right, everyone who has their ball in the air, keep it there. Those of you who don't, let's try again. Wingardium leviosa! Very good. I'll give you ten minutes to practice that, then we will add a bit more.

Is everyone ready to try the next step? I want everyone to please get out from behind the desks and come over set your wooden ball on my desk. Now point your wands at your balls - not at me, please!- and say the charm. Wingardium leviosa! With your ball levitated, I want you to try walking around, carrying it in the air. This is a good deal more difficult than it sounds!

The bell is about to ring, so please bring your balls up to me and stow your wands. I must press the importance of practicing walking and levitating! You simply must master it before moving on to the next spell. There is the bell. Class is dismissed.