potions and ak

[alt_padma]

I would have thought that someone who'd melt someone else's cauldron and then not even admit it for days would've been disqualified to win the potions exam. But I suppose that's too much to expect as he's a Slytherin.

So I only came in second. I'll do much better next time.

I'm at Pansy's music party but it's hard to enjoy it knowing Ravenclaw didn't get those points. At least no one's allowed to hex each other here. That's something.

Comments

[alt_lavender]

Congratulations Padma! You were quite Brilliant and you didn't even have to melt anyone's cauldron.

I'm glad that I won't need Potions in the World of Fashion.

[alt_sally_anne]

How Fortunate!

What sorts of skills does one need in the World of Fashion anyway? Also, do you know any spells that change the colours of clothing?

[alt_lavender]

I think so! In the would of Fashion, You need to know what kinds of things make people look Pretty! I suppose that the people who make cosmetics and perfume might need to know Potions, but I'll have someone else to do that, I'm sure.

Parvati says there is one near the end of the Standard Book of Spells for our year. We haven't tried it yet but we're going to. She says it doesn't last very long though.

I think there are other spells (maybe using Transfiguration?) that can do it for longer but they are hard.

[alt_draco]

Oh god, only a ravenclaw would be disgruntled about coming in second.

[alt_harry]

I was going to say how can you do "much" better than second? Second is second and the only better you can do is first.

I could do much better than 21 though.

[alt_padma]

Well, precisely!

[alt_megan]

I thought so too. When it happened. But he didn't melt your cauldron. So if it was on purpose, he melted the wrong one. I thought it turned out it wasn't on purpose.

[alt_sally_anne]

It did turn out to have been an accident. And Teddy let Smith use his cauldron and used a school one. And he still did better than everyone else even with a school cauldron, and I saw the cauldron he used and it's not as if he found a really nice one, it was all dented and chipped.

[alt_megan]

Oh, I didn't notice that. I was only paying attention to my own potions. He must be really good at potions. If he's that good, it'll be hard for anyone to beat him ever. But we might not get points for it next time anyway.

[alt_sally_anne]

Padma would you really have wanted to win those 50 points because the person who really came in first was disqualified? I would think you'd want to come in first because you did best on the exam.

[alt_padma]

Well, of course I would rather have done, but I also would have expected there to be some penalty for Nott as well. And not just the school cauldron. Who cares about the cauldron, anyway?

But it doesn't matter. As I said, I'll do better next time. Perhaps I'll even revise.