Into the Dungeons

Adelaide O'Connor Potions Mistress Head of Gryffindor House

[michaelstarkey]

Potential Success - Open

Everything seemed in order, more or less. The students weren’t all happy—though some, he’d noticed, were freakishly elated—but all in all the experiment seemed to be working. From what he could tell, all the groups were well on their way to getting out.

Of course, he and some of the other teachers were standing by to ensure nothing went wrong. There was magic, yes, but nothing the students controlled, and there was so little that the professors had generated that “wrong” was largely reduced to punches and arguments.

He hoped very much they could avoid that, because this was designed to avoid exactly that.

He pulled out his wand and began conjuring statues—chosen for no particular reason—when a voice broke his focus.

[adelaideoconnor]

"Statues, again? Mikey, can't you conjure anything else?" 

Adelaide sauntered down the hall towards the Transfiguration professor, a smirk playing on her lips.

"I really hope this idea of yours works. So far, it looks like some of the students are having fun. I also hope they don't ruin all those precious potions ingredients."

She gave Mikey a pointed look for emphasis.

[adelaideoconnor]

A Stroll Around the Grounds- Adelaide and Lachlan

Humming quietly to herself, Adelaide strolled down the front steps of the castle and off towards the lake. The ground was a bit muddy, but she had worn her rain boots, and besides, she needed to restock some of her ingredients.

As she walked along, Addie thought about her earlier conversation with Sarah. Mikey's idea had been a good one. Now they just had to come up with more activities for the students.

Her mind wandered to when she had been in school. As a Gryffindor, she had thought herself better than students from the other houses- something she had learned from older Gryffindors. The Slytherins, however, had constantly tormented everyone who was not of their house, especially the Hufflepuffs, and many times sending a student dashing off with tears in their eyes.

Adelaide reached the lake and turned to walk alongside it, still deep in thought. For a moment, a small bit of gillyweed caught her attention, and she stopped to gather it, only half paying attention to what she was doing.

[sarah-wilkinson]

Visiting the Lioness - Sarah and Adelaide

[sarah-wilkinson]

"Oh my gosh! Adelaide! She’s going to hear you! That woman has ears like a bat." Sarah responded as she laughed. "But yeah, I think it could work really well."

"We just need to figure out different tasks that the students can preform. They need to be to be exciting enough for the kids but not too dangerous, but also stuff that is going to require them to work together?"

[adelaideoconnor]

"Oh, Sarah, she can't hear us all the way up here on the seventh floor. Besides, I sound-proofed my office ages ago, mostly because I was tired of people barging in whenever they heard an explosion."

Adelaide laughed also, and strode over to lean against the wall beside where Sarah sat on the window ledge.

"Hmm, something exciting but not too dangerous, and requires them to work together...."

She pursed her lips and brooded for a few moments.

"What about doing some sort of scavenger hunt towards the beginning of term, something to get the new students acquainted with the castle and to reacquaint the old students?"

Adelaide shook her head and sighed.

"I don't know, just thinking out loud. And I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to come up with ideas."

[sarah-wilkinson]

Visiting the Lioness - Sarah and Adelaide

[sarah-wilkinson]

Sarah chuckled and said, “I definitely know how he can be, but this one is actually well thought out.” She smiled at Adelaide as she started staring out the window.

"The idea is simple enough. We split the new students into groups of three or four, and everyone in each group has to be from a separate house." Sarah walked back toward the window and jumped up to sit on the window sill. "We’ll set up obstetrical for the groups to over come together, but they’ll have to do it without magic. If they succeed, they don’t die."

"What do you think?"

[adelaideoconnor]

Adelaide sighed inwardly and made a face as Sarah blocked her view out the window. She knew the other woman did it on purpose. 

Shaking her head, she grimaced. What was she, five?

Instead, she focused on what the other woman had said.

"Wait, so now we're killing our students? I thought only Bianca did that. Except for that, it sounds like it could work out. Plus, we need to get the houses to work together and be friendly, get back to the way this school is supposed to be."

[sarah-wilkinson]

Visiting the Lioness - Sarah and Adelaide

[adelaideoconnor]

sarah-wilkinson:

As soon as the door swung open, Sarah could smell a potions master. That weird mixture of of smells that could either put you in a trance or kill you on the spot. She spotted the pink potion and tried to guess what it might be before Adelaide started speaking to her. She shook her head back into focus before she responded.

"Something Mikey wanted me to talk to you about, my dear, but more importantly…" she said as she sauntered past the disaster of a potion. "I think there may be an issue with your window… I think I should check it out." After darting to the window, she starred down at the muddy grounds and immediately spotted what she was looking for.

"Well, I guess not… I seem to be able to see everything just fine.”

"Anyways, back to the point, Adelaide. Geez… But Mikey had this plan for a way to get the houses to coexist a bit more peacefully. However, it will take away from school work for a bit, and he’ll need the help of all the heads if he’s going to pull it off. He’s talking to Nathan right now.

Adelaide turned and let her gaze follow Sarah to the window. She already knew why the other woman wanted to check it out, but decided to play dumb.

"What's wrong with my window?" She asked as she absently pulled out her wand to begin cleaning up the mess of potion.

As Sarah answered that everything was fine, Addie filled the crystal vial she had been holding with some of the pink... stuff; there was no other way to put it. Later she would analyze it and see if there was anything that could be done. Then she waved her wand and both bubbles and liquid disappeared. 

Listening to Sarah, she scooped the blue flames into a jar and placed it in an empty spot on a shelf. Then she turned to the deputy headmistress and frowned, her dark red lips turning down slightly at the corners.

"Hmm.... Well, I suppose.... As long as none of my students fall behind in their work. What, exactly, did Mikey have in mind? You know how some of his plans can get..." 

Adelaide trailed off as her gaze once again sought the window, only half listening as she waited for Sarah's reply.

[sarah-wilkinson]

Walking up the the seventh floor, Sarah couldn’t help but wish Adelaide hadn’t moved her office. She hated having to walk up this far just to see her. But remembering the answer she had received from from Adelaide over why she had moved, Sarah couldn’t help but chuckle to herself.

The castle was...

[adelaideoconnor]

Adelaide stood at the window and looked out on the grounds, idly twirling a crystal vial between her fingers. She had been working on a new potion idea, but the window had called tantalizingly to her, and she had absently made her way over to it.

Behind her, the new potion bubbled and gurgled over a small, blue fire. The walls were lined in shelves filled to overflowing with books, vials of potions, bottles, jars, and boxes of ingredients, and cauldrons of all sizes and materials. In one corner, a desk was crammed in between the shelves. It was covered with notes and parchment, quills and books. A few odds and ends were also littered about, including a framed picture of herself and Lachlan, taken when she had been in school. Both smiled and waved at her, but Adelaide took no notice.

In fact, Adelaide took no notice of anything that was going on behind her. She was staring down at the grounds towards one space-or rather, one person- in particular.

Suddenly, the sound of someone knocking on her door shook her out of her reverie, just as a mass of bright pink bubbles began floating over the edges of the cauldron.

Muttering to herself, Adelaide ignored the failed potion and pulled the door open.

"Sarah," she greeted the other woman, "what brings you up to the seventh floor on this beautiful day?"

[adelaideoconnor]

Welcome!

Welcome, everyone! I look forward to the new school year and teaching all of you everything I know about potions.Once you have arrived at the castle and are settled, feel free to stop by and introduce yourself, as well as ask any questions you might have about potions or the new school year. During the year, my door will be open if you need any help on assignments. My office is on the seventh floor, near Gryffindor tower. Again, welcome, and I look forward to filling your bright young minds with everything I know!

[adelaideoconnor]

Test

Want to see what this looks like