Potion

knew every spell and could recite the ingredients of half the potions in the textbook backwards without thinking. Newt on the other hand could hardly mix a potion in the right direction without exploding his cauldron spectacularly over the rest of the room. In fact the only class he was good at was Care of Magical Creatures. Having grown up in a household where that particular subject was the dinnertime table talk, his fascination with all kinds of beasts had begun at a young age. Besides, Leta was a Slytherin. They had nothing in common except their isolation from the rest of the school. So when Lestrange came up to him toting an over filled bag and a scowl, his first instinct was to knock his quill off the desk so he could duck beneath the table and deflect any unwanted conversation by disappearing to retrieve it, but then she looked right at him and said, "You're Newton Scamander, correct?" "Um, yes, Newton Scamander, that's me," he said, blinking, and peering up at her through a gap in his ginger hair, confusion mounting. His shoulders hunched closer into his body. "Right... The Professor told me you'd be in here." "The Profess-- Professor Bellwether?" The Professor Bellwether who had pulled him aside after potions that day and told him he really needed to work on not sending half the class to the hospital wing in a single period. That he should spend a good long time working on the especially difficult potions homework tonight in the library. "That's the one!"…

withdraw, although James didn’t want to the moment he considered it--he needed to know how magic worked, and if that required questioning the newt, then so be it. He plunged ahead. “I’ve seen this before, the ingredients, the heat, the violent color. Does all magic work through potion?” “No, not all,” Edmund said, passing his eyes over James. After a second scan, Edmund adopted the formal posture of a teacher. Whatever he saw, the draw to discuss magic was too strong. He signaled for James to…

Grinding the herbs up together as she placed them into the bubbling potion. The potion turning blue. “Almost done.” Using the Nightborne techniques, she had extracted leyline energy. She let the ley energy float into the potion. When finished, the potion, shimmered. The water now white and purple. She capped the potion and put in the aging shelf. The shelf was chronologically altered. The potion rapidly aged as the unstable energies calmed down allowing it to be drinkable. Lilith pulled the Ley…

old and my friend introduced me to the online game World of Warcraft. At first I was skeptical that I would enjoy it, but my buddy insisted I give it a try. I chose to become a shaman, master of the elements, specializing in their restorative powers to aid my teammates in battle. I also began to study herbalism and alchemy, allowing me to search for and collect various herbs to convert them into potions. These potions could provide players with extra strength for a limited time, the ability to…

“The Chaser” shows the struggle that some men go through when looking for love. We start our story in an old man’s potion shop. He talks to our male lead character about his many potions for sale. He mentions a “life cleaner” potion that his older customers purchase for a great sum of money. Our lead man however does not want that and cannot afford that anyways. He is looking for a love potion. The old man tells him all these great things this love potion can do but when he asked the price, he…

of a potion that will make his girlfriend love him. Before Alan buys the potion, the seller shows him another of his products, the “Glove Cleaner,” which is an untraceable poison which Alan has no interest in buying at this point in his life. In the poem “Be Careful What You Wish for” by Dave Holmstrom, the writer explains the danger in hoping for certain things to happen. The poem similarly to the short story explains the danger of fulfilled dreams. As the story begins Alan is entering a…

Miguel wanted to tell her more but he didn’t want to distract her from her mission and coronation. Miguel wanted to tell her he loves her and he wants to marry her. When Rosita arrived she arrived perfect timing she got to the door and left a note to the castel. The magic of El Rio de La Vida wore off and she was back to spirit self. One of the guards brought the potion and note to Antonio, he told the guards no to tell Martha and to make sure Martha is out of Rosita’s room. Antonio ran…

Even in the title of the short story foreshadowing can be found. A chaser is “a drink drunk after another of a different kind”. It is implied that after attaining the love potion sometime in the future the idea of murder will not seem so dreadful and Alan will return to finish his business with the old man. The old man knows the irony of his potions; one cheap for love, the other expensive poison, both undetectable. As Alan leaves with his love potion the old man bids him a "Au revoir" in french…

Extended Response - Shakespeare INTRO William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are plays that share similar ideologies and representations despite them being a tragedy and a comedy respectively. The similarities are predominantly that of the father daughter relationship, as well as love, marriage and rebellion. Romeo and Juliet is a story about star crossed lovers whose families are feuding, with a plot line that focuses on Juliet and her father Capulet. A Midsummer…

“Hi Frankenstein”, I exclaim. I am standing in my yard watering my scare flowers. Frankenstein is working in his potion garden outside of his house. “Hi Monster”, replies Frankenstein with a wave. “Ineed help scaring people on Halloween, could you help me?”, I ask. Frankenstein grins and replies, “ I have a potion for you, it makes you super scary!”. “Cool”, I exclaim with a grin. “I will bring it tomorrow”, Frankenstein promises me. THE NEXT DAY “Here are the rules: 1. this potion only…