open RP: office hours for Potions

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

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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[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

Stephen thought of River's suggestion that he experiment further with Lupin. He had the grace not to blush -- barely. "That could be. A research protocol would not be easy to devise, however. If you have any ideas I should very much like to hear them."

(( Fear not, gentle readers. Stephen is not going to try to plant one on Teatime. It's ... Teatime, after all. ))

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"Forcing people who dislike each other into the bodies of those that they love, and vice versa, could easily bring interesting results. Now, in regards to how to achieve this end, I do have a few ideas..."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"I am all ears, as they say, Mr Teatime."

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"First, and perhaps easiest, would be getting the god that did this to work for us. That in and of itself would surely be no real challenge, were it not for the fact that that god is apparently popcorn."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"The god Loki, yes, so I have heard."

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"I've considered setting fire to his kernel. The rules say we can't kill people, but they don't say anything about immolation, do they?"

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"I believe the cases in which the popcorn kernels are kept have some sort of magical protection, but there must be a way around that," mused Stephen.

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"And I'm ever so good at finding ways."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

It seemed better not to comment on that. "As satisfying as such an immolation would be, of course, it would not further research, would it?"

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"Not necessarily. On the other hand, it would be fun."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"Now that I will not dispute."

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"We could do it without hurting anything at all, you know."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"Except for the kernel, of course. A pity the same cannot be managed for Eros."

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"We could surely still do some damage to him."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"How so?"

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"You might not approve if I said."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"Sure one may say many things when speaking of hypotheticals."

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"They aren't necessarily hypotheticals, though, sir."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"Speaking of things which may be put into practice, one may suspend judgment with the understanding that they are not necessarily going to be put into practice."

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"That is entirely possible, sir. But even then I'd rather not say. Not until I've worked through all the kinks."

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"Fair enough." Stephen sipped at his cooling tea. Thus far Teatime had raised the possibility of further research, veered off onto the topic of taking vengeance against gods, and now appeared to be closing that avenue of discussion as well. Stephen wondered what Teatime did intend to say.

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

He nodded, and smiled, and didn't say anything.

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"Yet you spoke of research methodology?"

[teatimeassassin.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yes." A touch wary.

[estebanmd.livejournal.com]

"I take it you had a reason for bringing up the subject?"