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The teacher is (kind of) in

Potions (Any year)

[Aidou had been a teacher since the start of the term. He still didn't quite get it why he had been sent to this world, but he had managed to adapt and make up a background story for himself. The biggest problem was that he still hadn't made his bloodtablets good enough... which he would have liked to focus on instead of classes.

Well, nothing says he needed to be in the classroom...]

The rest of the lesson is now going to be self-taught. I stayed up all night working on these classes, so I need to take a quick nap... I'll be back by the end of it to see how you did.

[In other words: figure things out yourselves. Of course he can be called from the backroom, where he is either napping or really working on those bloodtablet recipes. Especially any explosions would alert him.

And yes, he intends to leave even the 6th-7th year students by themselves with the advanced potions.]

Outside classes (wild card option)

[Aidou is usually seen patrolling around the dungeons whenever he needs to be. Sometimes, he does leave the dungeons (to eat and to visit the teachers' lounge) but mostly he's very secretive and not very visible in any way.]

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[ ... It really shouldn't feel like a step down from the last professor, should it?

Adela just watches as he goes to the back room, frowning a bit before sighing and working with her partner in the lab. Invigoration Draught... It doesn't seem too hard, but Adela has to stop her partner from proceeding while frowning over the instructions.

It doesn't take long for a knock to tap on the door, along with her voice sounding. ]

Professor? I have a question about the instructions, if you don't mind...

[This time, Aidou was about to take a nap when the knock effectively woke him up. Ah, of course someone would need him at some point. Quietly he walks over to the door and opens it.

Oh, at least it's the cute girl.]

What is it?

It's this passage, about how you're supposed to brew it -- I want to make sure I'm not misreading it, since potions can be really finicky about how they're prepared.

[ Better to be careful than to let it blow up on them, right?

She's holding up the instructions in question, indicating where she's having trouble understanding since it just seems worded poorly for her. Hopefully he can at least clear up that much so that she can brew the potion well... ]

[Aidou looks down at the text, nodding to himself a few times before sighing.]

Looks like it's a misprint on authors' part. If you change the wording a bit around... like this. [He uses a spell on the book and the words go into another position.] That is how it should be done.

I will make a note of it for the whole class so we avoid catastrophes. A good discoveri, Miss Milani.

You'd think someone would work on these more carefully.

[ Adela frowns, feeling one of her eyes twitching before she sighs and shakes her head. ]

Thanks... I mean, you have to be careful with potions right? I pride myself over it being one of the few things that won't blow up in my face.

[ And she doesn't intend to give him the chance to ask, instead going back to her workstation and pointing out the text fix to her partner so that they can get on with brewing. It should turn out okay from this point, with finely prepared ingredients thanks to steady hands.

By the time class is done, Adela ends up bottling the potion from her own cauldron as well as her partner's, labelling them accordingly so that they know whose is whose. It's about time to grade them for the day too, and their potions should be perfect, but that's really up to the professor isn't it? And she doesn't know how he grades things yet... Hopefully it'll be at least an E, if not an O. ]

Edited (wording) 2016-11-12 04:41 (UTC)

[The result of Adela's is definitely O. Aidou smiles at her, as he hands her the grade.]

Observant, and skilled. You truly are a fantastic student, miss Milani.

I... Not really, it's just easier than other subjects.

[ Ack. She has to look away, a little embarrassed before shaking it off. It's true though, she's never really had problems with potions even when she fell behind... ]

There's still a lot to learn about them, too. So, uh, right. Bye.

[ She's going to leave the class in a real hurry now eep ]

[Chisa hadn't been here long, but she had been asked to come and teach and it was something she enjoyed doing. Next to doing something she is very good at and that was cleaning. So as she was in the middle of checking thing out, making a mental note of what needed doing she stopped when she saw the other teacher.]

Hello there. I don't see you around much, even though you are a teacher.

[If there's one thing he does appreciate about this place, it's the beauty of the girls and women he sees. It makes being stuck in the place less horrible.]

Hello. Ah, yes, I keep drowning in extra work. Surprisingly many students picked Potions for their extra lessons.

Potions is one of the most popular, Charms is usually the next because of some factors such as Aurors look at it as a hard subject. A lot of students here want to go into that field.

[Logical really. But she rubs her shoulders for a moment.]

However you'd still have a lot of work reguardless of if it is or not. You need to be the one who inspires the children to do there best.

That's true. I could have not pursued that career myself.

[Just the sound of Aurors sounds like a lot of work.]

Well, of course. All teachers are role models.

[Aidou happened to be the role model of laziness.]

Well what would you have pursued if you didn't become a professor?

[She new she became an Auror for reasons, not what would have normally been her first choice, but she didn't regret what she did either. She was actually happy about it.]

[Yuna knew she should focus on her subject, but she couldn't help but give a small pout as the teacher had gone to take a nap. She hoped that he didn't do this with the younger years because that could have only spelt trouble.

But she focused on making the Volubilis Potion and had managed to do it without help, but once she had done she looked over to the door and simply wondered what to do next. Taking a small breath she moved to stand up before making her way over and lightly knocked on the door.]

[Aidou took his time to come to the door, to make it seem like he hadn't been awake. He hadn't been napping this time, he had been making formulas for the tablet recipes.]

Yes, what it is?

[Yuna took a small breath for the most part, making sure she had what she wanted to say clearly in her head.]

Some people have finished what we were meant to and...

[Just as she was about to continue she was sure she could hear one calderon exploding. Turning her head she sighed, at least it wasn't hers, but when again hers had been bottled up already.]

I guess some people might be getting a few things wrong.

[Oh for Kaname's sake.]

I can't leave even the 7th years for one lesson.

[Though since Yuna did say some had finished-]

The ones who have finished should help the ones failing clean up and try again. I will be with you in ten minutes to help.

[Yuna knew that sometimes they could, but this was one of them where she wasn't sure that the books were even right with how it was made. She had noticed sometimes it wasn't always correct. But she nods, she knew she could at least help whoever just caused the problem.]

Okay, I can do that.

[She turned on her heels and headed to help clean up the mess.]

[The nerve! After only a few classes, RIn cal already tell he can't stand this guy. It's like the dude has zero interest in teaching them anything, leaving classes, showing absolutely no enthusiasm. Doesn't he realize they need the NEWTs?! Thank Merlin Rin is good enough with Potions, but some of these are pretty advanced and it's just plain irresponsible to leave them alone on the first try. Rin is half tempted to make his go explode just to prove his point.

But then again, it's just antidotes. What could possibly go wrong with antidotes?! Rin growls as he cuts the Wolfsbane viciously, his knife sinking into the cutting board below, leaving thin cuts all over it, mumbling under his breath.]

Asshole.

[Vampire happen to have a pretty good hearing, so just before he's about to exit the room, he looks back at where Rin is standing.]

If you have complaints, Matsuoka, you can say them out loud.

[Rin grits his teeth, when he realizes the professor heard him. Damn the jerk has some really good ears, ain't he. He's tempted. He's very tempted to tell him how irresponsible it is for a teacher to just up and leave class, but he bites his tongue.

You don't need another detention. Or scoring bad points on the subject you need for NEWTs, Matsuoka, he tells himself and takes a deep breath.]

Nothing professor. My thoughts must have trailed.

[Which is something the previous professor would have kicked him out of class for, but if this one insists not even being here, he has no right to kick him out either. If Rin really had been distracted -which he never is, not since last year and the professor would have been gone, it could have ended ugly. And it would have been the professor's fault, because he had been too lazy to supervise. So there. Deal with that.

A sprinkle of Wolfsbane flies off the board, from how viciously Rin cuts it.]

[He has a feeling this student in particular would be negative against him... but it's not like he cares. He's not here to make friends or anything. He's just waiting for a solution that lets him go home.

He glances at the wolfsbane flying.]

You will remain in the classroom and clean all the stations, after the lessons, since you seem to be so keen on messing the floor.

[He's about to leave when one of the cauldrons makes a beautiful firey breathe upwards that it wasn't supposed.]

... make sure Yamazaki helps you out. I'll be back to grade your potions by the end of the class.

[He doesn't even need to look who it was to be right so he just marches into the backroom.]

[Rin experiences a sudden rush of fiery heat. A heat that he's pretty sure everyone can see, by it's intensity. A heat that tells him that turning around and throwing the knife he's holding would be so very easy. The urge to kill is a strong, burning need inside of him.]

That's. it.

[He seethes and clutches the knife hard enough for his hand to spasm.]

We'll need a new potions master. Azkaban is totally worth it.

[Sousuke hurries to hold the hand Rin holds the knife in - leaving his cauldron burn brightly and covering the scene of Rin's murderous intent.]

Easy there. It's definitely not worth it.

It's 100% worth it. I'll be doing it for the future generations.

[He's trembling in his anger. How dare that half assed wannabe barely teacher make HIM clean the class like a 3rd rate student?!]

Let me go. I'm killing him. I mean it.

No you don't, idiot.

[Let him try to disarm Rin, at least.]

Calm the fuck down or I'll have to knock you out.

[It's a tragedy, but no matter how strong Rin's determination is, in terms of muscle power, Sousuke outmatches him. So eventually the knife lands in the safety of Sousuke's hands, but not without a scalding hot look from Rin, after Sousuke threatens to knock him out. Et tu, Sousuke?]

Fine. But don't complain when you mop the floor.

[Rin grumbles and throws the Wolfsbane into the Potion, barely resisting the urge to just swipe all of it in in one go. But that would get him a bad grade. He doesn't want a bad grade, he reminds himself. Or more life chants it like a mantra in his head.]

Seriously, what's his problem? Not like anyone forced him to teach Potions.

I wouldn't, when I know I deserve it.

[Sousuke turns back to actually... deal with the fire. How did he manage to make such a spectacle, even he's not sure, but at least it's drawing attention to him and not Rin.]

He may have his reasons. All we need to do is hang in there and deal with his quirks... I'm sure there are a lot of guys like him in the Aurors too.

[Rin sighs as he watches Sousuke put out the fire. Seriously, how by Merlin's beard does his best friend even do this? He shakes his head, expression darkening, when the topic is back at Aidou. And yes, Rin gets there are assholes everywhere and that not every auror he'll train with will be a hero, or a saint. But that's not his point.]

Well, they don't have to teach Potions. H picked this job, he's supposed to do it properly.

Who knows, maybe he didn't have a choice either. World works in weird ways. [Sure, the headmistress didn't force anyone to do a job, but there might be other factors.] Doesn't make it okay for him to act like that, of course but--

[In the middle of putting out the fire, somehow Sousuke manages to make the fire blue.]

Uhh...

Edited 2016-11-15 22:18 (UTC)

Yeah exactly, it doesn't justify him being a lazy bag of...

[Rin's rant gets interrupted by the sudden development in th cauldron next to his.]

Oh for Merlin's sake! How?

[Rin will never stop wondering that. Meanwhile the part of his brain that's not busy asking himself that question, is trying to desperately remember what blue fire means, how it's caused and more importantly how to put it out. He doesn't remember anything froom what he's read.]

Okay, just forget the potion and empty your cauldron, because this is not supposed to be even possible.

[Luckily it's just different colored fire that's easy to put out and not some weird magical fire that needed strict procedures.]

What can I say. I'm a genius in a way.

[Genius of messing up in ways he shouldn't be able to, to be precise... but he does go empty the cauldron and clean it up. Better to start all over again, if he has time.]

Yeah, too bad you won't get an award for it.

[Rin sighs for what feels like the thousandth time and watches as Sousuke preps to start anew. Rin's is halfway done and it's mostly stirring and waiting for now.]

Come on, you hopeless case. I'll help you out.

[At least he didn't make his cauldron explode. That's what happened last year, so it's an improvement...??]

... thanks. I wouldn't want to be told to do extra lessons with this teacher.

[A tiny one.]

Yeah, no shit.

[Rin agrees in an instant. No one needs that kind of special hell. Rin wouldn't wish it to Jean. ...Okay, maybe just Jean then.]

We can at least get you to a good halfway state, that will give you at least some points.

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