#alo:task

Memory Charms

“This assignment is for students in years 6 and 7 who are taking Charms. Each question is to be answered in full sentence, essay form. Point form answers will not be accepted, no matter how correct. Each correct answer will earn 15 points, with a total of 105 points. Please turn in your assignments in exactly one week from the current date.”

What is the incantation? (please check your spelling)

Memory charms are also commonly referred to as…?

What is the difference between a memory charm and a false memory charm?

What are three famous cases of someone using a memory charm?

What can happen if a memory charm is used improperly?

How can a memory charm be broken, if at all?

What is the number one reason for a witch or wizard to have to use a memory charm?

“Bonus points! This will not be on your final mark, just a good way to grab an extra 20 house points!”

TOPIC:  Antidote to Common Poisons

ABOUT: The Antidote to Common Poisons (or Antidote for Common Poisons) is a potion which counteracts ordinary poisons, such as creature bites and stings. The recipe for this potion can be found in Magical Drafts and Potions.

INGREDIENTS: Bezoar, Ground Unicorn Horn, Mistletoe Berries, Powdered Beetles

INSTRUCTIONS:

Part 1

Add 1 Bezoar to the mortar

Crush into a very fine powder using the pestle

Add 4 measures of the crushed Bezoar to your cauldron

Add 2 measures of Powdered Beetles to your cauldron

Heat to a medium temperature for 5 seconds

Wave your wand

Leave to brew for 40 minutes.

Part 2

Add 1 pinch of Unicorn Horns to your cauldron

Stir 2 times, clockwise

Add 2 Mistletoe Berries to your cauldron

Stir 2 times, counter-clockwise

Wave your wand to complete the potion

YOUR TASK IS AS FOLLOWS:

Topic:  Antidote to Veritaserum

About: Veritaserum is a potion that forces one to divulge the truth. The antidote counters its effects and allows the drinker to resist the urge to speak their mind and tell the truth. 

Ingredients: Butterscotch, bubotuber pus, goosegrass, leech juice, rose thorns

Instructions:

Crush the rose thorns into a very fine powder with your mortar and pestle. 

Chop your goosegrass into fine pieces no larger than a nail clipping.

Add the chopped goosegrass and powdered rose thorns into your cauldron and let them sit over a low heat.

Wearing protective gloves, harvest the pus from 3 bubotubers at your table. It is essential that the pus is fresh and added immediately into your cauldron.

Turn the heat up to medium for three minutes exactly before adding 4 drops of leech juice and one sprinkle of butterscotch powder.

Allow the solution to simmer for 17 minutes.

YOUR TASK IS AS FOLLOWS:

Write a solo of your character creating the Antidote to Veritaserum. Upon completion, Professor So Jisub will test everyone’s concoctions by giving them Veritaserum and then their own antidote of their creation. If their own antidote doesn't work immediately, they will be given the real antidote straight afterwards.

Remember, not everyone will create the potion perfectly! Be realistic based on your characters potion level. Will they still spill their guts? Will they fight it? Will they succeed?

Solos should be at least 200 words.

Please post them on your blog with the tag ‘alo:potions' then submit a link HERE.

This task is worth 120 house points.

“Could I have your attention please? Right, now, today, we will be transforming animals into water goblets. Like so. One, two, three. Vera Verto.”

About: Vera Verto is the incantation of a spell used to transform an animal into a water goblet. 

This spell is moderately difficult to perform, and disastrous if done wrong. Wand movement and posture are both very important for this charm.

To perform the spell, one must tap the targeted animal three times sharply with their wand, and then point their wand directly at the animal, incanting, “Vera Verto”.

Once performed, a jet of nearly indiscernible, crystal-clear mist, almost like a spray, will shoot from the caster’s wand, engulfing the animal and quickly morphing it into a goblet.

YOUR TASK IS AS FOLLOWS:

You must write a solo of your character practicing the Vera Verto spell on any of the animals that Professor Baek has provided. She has several rats, a handful of small birds, a few toads, and a lizard on which you can practice on.

Even if your character does not perform the spell correctly, no harm is done to the animal! Professor Baek will make sure they are restored to their proper state.

Feel free to use Professor Baek in your solo!

All solos must be at least 200 words.

Please post them on your blog with the tag ‘alo:transfiguration' then submit a link HERE.

This task is worth 110 house points.

Topic:  Wit-Sharpening Potion

About: The Wit-Sharpening Potion is a tricky little concoction that will allow a drinker’s senses to be heightened. As such, it acts as a counter-agent to a Confundus Charm.

Ingredients: Scarab beetles, ginger root, armadillo bile

Instructions:

Use knife to cut off two pieces of ginger root, 3 inches in length and slice horizontally down the middle, and add to cauldron. Potion should turn to green.

Add armadillo bile until potion turns blue.

Grind scarab beetles in mortar, sprinkle in cauldron until potion turns red.

Add more armadillo bile until potion turns yellow.

Chop four more pieces of ginger root, again 3 inches in length, and add to cauldron. Potion should turn green.

Stir clockwise until potion turns yellow.

Allow the potion to simmer for 10 minutes on low heat.

Add more armadillo bile until the potion turns dark orange.

YOUR TASK IS AS FOLLOWS:

Write a solo of your character creating this potion in their potions class. You can write about gathering the ingredients from the store cupboard, your character following the instructions. Feel free to use Professor So Jisub in your solo as well. 

Remember, not everyone will create the potion perfectly! Be realistic based on your characters potion level.

Solos should be at least 250 words.

Please post them on your blog with the tag ‘alo:potions' then submit a link here.

This task is worth 100 house points.

The correct incantation to the Banishing Charm is Depulso (de-PUHL-so)

The counter charm to the banishing charm is the Summoning Charm, Accio (AK-eee-oh)

The Banishing Charm banishes or dismisses whatever item the wand is aimed at.

To perform the Banishing Charm, the wand is pointed at the object the witch or wizard wishes to banish. By flicking the object while chanting 'Depulso', the witch or wizard is sending away the object.

The Banishing Charm's purpose is to send an object away. Ideally, it is more trickier than the summoning charm because one is tasked to move away an object to a certain place or back to where it was originally from.

'Depulsio' is derived from the Latin depulsio which means to send/drive away. It could have also been derived from the English word 'pulse' (energy) and the prefix 'de-' which would result to the meaning 'a negative pulse of energy'

Antipodean Opaleye is native to New Zealand.

Chinese Fireball is native to China.

Common Welsh Green (or just Welsh Green) is native to Wales.

Hebridean Black is native to Scotland (Hebrides Islands).

Hungarian Horntail is native to Hungary.

Norwegian Ridgeback is native to Norway.

Peruvian Vipertooth is native to Peru.

Romanian Longhorn is native to Romania.

Swedish Short-Snout is native to Sweden.

Ukrainian Ironbelly is native to Ukraine.

a) blood purity, regardless of the assumption that the idea has died throughout the next generation of the wizarding world, is an obsolete view that has transitioned over time. the concept of pureblood supremacy, while still accepted, is antiquated, practiced only in pureblood families that have been going on for centuries. consequentially, those who have been raised in a culture that stands strongly against muggleborns view them as a different community due to their upbringing and norms passed down through the decades.

b.) a child of the age of five in the arms of his mother, heat scorching inside the manor as beads of sweat trail down his temple. she’s holding him close, arms wrapped around his lithe waist as she blows into his ears, bubbled laughter escaping out of his lips tugged into a lazy smile. a hand is placed along the small of his back, checking whether her sweet child is drenched into sweat, kissing his temple as she scoops him off the floor. the child is suddenly sixteen, standing in the middle of a social gathering, tall and lean of about 182cm. he has his mother in his arms for a dance, smiling as she speaks of desires for his future. grandchildren and a wife, along the rich land of mersailles, possibly canes as well too.