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Ebele Miranda Swan ༐ "Raven" ([personal profile] chanuphis) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia2016-03-22 05:54 pm

hatchery

The next alchemy class of their second year, they arrive to the lab to discover that each of them has an ordinary chicken's egg (brown) and another box of miscellanea.

Slughorn explains, when everyone is assembled, that alchemy with an egg is actually where phoenixes are speculated to originate; but no one has the recipe any more and there haven't been new phoenixes for centuries. They will not be making living things today. But the eggshell is a good base from which to appear lots of possible objects; alchemy doesn't like to conjure things into existence in plain sight but is quite willing that new things appear inside eggshells, cocoons, geodes, and similar. Their eggs have been pre-drained of their interiors for this purpose, although some recipes use full eggs.

As last week, they are invited to come up with recipes on paper for review by the professor before trying anything. Known possible results available with this set of ingredients include wooden, decorated eggs nested inside the shell; a shellful of small sharp teeth (the commonest source of hens' teeth, as they have encountered once or twice in potions); successively smaller eggshells the smallest of which holds a blob of mercury; and a perfectly hardboiled egg which can be arbitrarily flavored by exact details of the process. But they are welcome to aim at another result as long as their procedure looks safe.
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[personal profile] pleating 2016-03-29 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't think there's actually a rule against it, just, you know, it'll break so why would you."
mswoods: ((i) wondering)

[personal profile] mswoods 2016-03-29 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hmm, we should probably make a list of gadgets to ask for."
mswoods: ((d) curious)

[personal profile] mswoods 2016-03-29 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"I suppose so. I'm wondering if small things like electronic watches are affected or if it's only more sophisticated tech."
msmaxwell: ((h) confused)

[personal profile] msmaxwell 2016-03-29 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"And, um, being expensive really really isn't a problem for my family."
msmaxwell: ((b) manic)

[personal profile] msmaxwell 2016-03-29 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"There probably is but we won't reach it. He'd be the last to say no to experimentation."
msmaxwell: ((a) laughter)

[personal profile] msmaxwell 2016-03-29 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, he says that the only difference between being a 'real scientist' and not is that real scientists need peer review."
msmaxwell: ((e) talking)

[personal profile] msmaxwell 2016-03-29 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I'll ask."
mswoods: ((e) point out)

[personal profile] mswoods 2016-03-30 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Tell him to include different types of gadgets. Like, calculators and electronic watches and torches and stuff."
msmaxwell: ((f) point out)

[personal profile] msmaxwell 2016-03-30 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Mmhm. A mobile phone, too."
Edited 2016-03-30 03:47 (UTC)
mswoods: ((g) coy)

[personal profile] mswoods 2016-03-30 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Er, yes, sure."
mswoods: ((a) laughter)

[personal profile] mswoods 2016-03-30 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadde produces:

fog! Bright fog, with a sort of almost-shape, small and longish.

"Ooh!"
mswoods: ((g) coy)

[personal profile] mswoods 2016-03-30 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay, lemme see, if I do concentrated stuff like last time... Expecto Patronum!" Now the shape is significantly more identifiable, and the blob is almost solid. Sadde squints at it. "Is that a weasel...?"
mswoods: ((a) laughter)

[personal profile] mswoods 2016-03-30 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay, this time it'll work." She stretches, cracks her knuckles, closes her eyes, does circles with the tip of her wand, and then: "Expecto Patronum!" And from the tip of her wand the light leaps in the form of a ferret, trotting in the air until it reaches the floor. It looks up at them and its nose twitches. "Omigod I have the cutest Patronus!"

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