open RP: office hours for Potions

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The Calming Draught having worn off, Stephen resumed his normal routine, which largely involves researching potions, testing potions, and dissecting things.

However, he did feel a bit negligent of his professorial duties. Perhaps holding office hours would be helpful, as Crowley had done before. Some of Stephen's students did not have as easy a time making bruise balm in the most recently held class as he had hoped. Also, there were new students who had arrived at the school since the class had been held.

So he directed his house-elf to post a notice in the Great Hall and the common rooms, and posted it on his office door himself:

Office hours for Potions are being held. Current and potential students are welcome to drop by Professor Maturin's office to discuss any issue of interest to them.

He thought that putting it in the way Crowley had ("Come by to chat if you have a question about class, your homework assignment, or if you're just really fucking bored, too") was perhaps less than professional, but he did want to make it clear that he was available to discuss anything that a student felt it necessary to discuss, even if it were not related to potions. After all, the recent owl from Dib concerning the Gryffindor boy's run-in with Ichimaru Gin suggested to him that more attention to extracurricular problems might be a good thing.

(( OOC: Whoever stops by Stephen's office will be offered tea, as is his habit. This does not need to be problematic -- so far everyone who's drunk tea in his office has done so without incident. But the potential exists for the clumsy house-elf to have spilled something in your tea, and you're welcome to take advantage of that fact. Available potions include anything in the HP Lexicon that isn't overly perilous, as well as mpreg potion, virility potion, gender-change potion, and a potion that can turn you into a fish or turn a fish into a human.))

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"Just a little more," Gin said vaguely. "I think I may return to my room for a nap shortly. I seem to be a little sleepy." It was a bit early to be heading to bed, surely.

But the potion's end effect was slowly creeping up on Gin, and he was ever so very slowly sliding down into the chair further.

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"I felt the same way when I first moved to this office," said Stephen, disingenuously. "It is the utter lack of sunlight. I really have no idea why all things to do with potions should be sequestered in the dungeons, but there you have it."

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"Likely due to the upper levels being saved for far more useful activies," Gin said disparagingly. He yawned. "Ah... I think I may in fact have to decline your offer of tea. Otherwise I may fall asleep in your office."

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"Or perhaps because potions could be considered a punishment by many students, and the dungeon the most suitable place for such a thing. Tell me, Mr Ichimaru, what should you consider the most distasteful sort of punishment possible at Hogwarts for one such as yourself?"

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Gin pryed himself out of the chair and stood, appearing to consider the question thoughtfully. "Hmmm. Well, I really couldn't say. If it were one such as myself, and here at Hogwarts... I'm sure there would be a way to get out of it somehow."

Normally, Gin would have wished Stephen a good evening before he left, not that he ever really meant it. So, with complete certainty that he had, he simply wandered out of the office, and drowsily headed down the hallways back towards Hufflepuff.

He even forgot to squeak the duck he had hidden in his robes before he left.