Doppelganger [Taryn]

[Kisten Hayes]

Kisten wandered awkwardly a short ways away from the potions classroom, truth be told he wasn't feeling at all comfortable looking the way he did it was WEIRD to say the very least. However he had an assignment to complete and he was hoping that it wouldn't take him long to find Taryn, he really didn't want to be aimlessly wandering around the school for ages looking like her, people might start asking him things he couldn't answer.

However deciding to take a quick peek down in the kitchens, she was head of Hufflepuff after all and wasn't their common room down this way somewhere? And sure enough there was a familiar blonde haired person that Kisten knew to be his COMC professor.

He cleared his throat, starting a little at the feminine sound it made from Taryns vocal chords and wandered up to her. She was bound to start a little a seeing herself standing in front of her but Kist was sure it wouldn't take her long to realise it was a polyjuice potion incident.

"Right now I'm here because I'm supposed to tell you the answers to a few question about potions for my final exam. I made polyjuice potion in case you couldn't have already guessed." He grinned,

"So...
1. Name two potions which appearance, taste and/or smell varies, and in what way. Well one is polyjuice potion obviously, it changes depending on the persons DNA that has been added to it. And the other one was that love potion Amortentia or something like that. That had a different smell for each person depending on what attracted them.

2. Name a potion which may have a side effect of singing - what is the other side effect? That was the Elixer to induce euphoria, and the other side effect I think was nose tweaking.

3. What are the first ingredients put in the cauldron when making Shrinking Solution? The first ingredient added is the leech juice, followed by the daisy roots

4. What makes potions different to an ordinary drink? Well potions cause some kind of magical effect and unlike a drink you wouldn't be exactly the same after drinking it!

5. What do love potions cause? Well they don't create love they cause powerful obsession and infatuation

6. In terms of noise, what makes the jobberknoll different to other creatures? A jobberknoll is completely silent until it's very last moments where it screams making every single noise it has ever heard in its life.

7. What has twelve uses? Um I think that is dragons blood.

"Okay and another three random facts, um a shrinking solution doesn't only make something smaller but younger as well, like a frog would turn back into a tadpole. Felix Felicis is a potion that is liquid luck aaannd um oh the most powerful truth potion is veritaserum which is kinda scary because it looks just like water and you really wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two."

Finally finished with his little ramble, he figured he should just keep talking and get it all over with in one go then see what Taryn's reaction was following.

[Annalisse Childs]

Fresh from the dungeons Anna began her quest to find her Care of Magical Creatures professor, and what do you know she spotted her heading towards the kitchens. With the Draught of Peace finally worn off she was getting nervous now, taking a deep breath as she slowly followed along the path she'd seen the other Taryn go. Gosh, she hoped no one came and mistook her for the real Taryn and got her off track. She wanted to get in, answer her questions, and then go back to her dorm and sleep for a couple days. Upon entering the kitchen she was taken aback, seeing two Taryns standing there, one of which was just finishing up speaking about veritaserum. Darn, this was going to be so redundant.

"Ahem," she spoke, walking through the portrait over to the two Taryns with a smile. "Well um, this is weird, huh?" she said in a voice much unlike her own. "I assume that uh.. this other Taryn and I.. are on the same mission. So you've probably already heard all of this, but just in case you forgot in the past few minutes, here's a little reminder!" She wasn't exactly sure which Taryn she was supposed to be speaking to anymore, but she placed her hands on her hips and took a deep breath before addressing both of the women in front of her. "Two potions in which appearance, taste, or smell varies are Amortentia, which is the strongest love potion there is and it smells different to every person, depending on what attracts them. Another is er.." Wrinkling her nose, she stared down at the paper she was reading as if the answer would appear. Of course it didn't.. but when the answer finally came to her she almost smacked herself. "Polyjuice potion! Yea, it changes it appearance and smell and taste and all based on the person you're changing into.. yours was lovely, by the way." With a small grin she gave Taryn a thumbs up before reading the next question off of her paper.

"Singing.. that one was er, it was... I just read this. It had to do with, um, well the other side effect was nose twitching, I believe. Or tweaking, is that the same?" she rambled as she tried to land on the name of the potion. What had she told herself back when she was studying? She'd be so depressed if she failed this she wouldn't be singing for days.. "Elixer to Induce Euphoria!" she shouted a little louder than was necessary. Hoping that her troubles were behind her now, she moved hurriedly to the next question. "Shrinking Solution..." she mumbled, wrinkling her nose. She had a mnemonic for this too, she just had to... hmm. Watch Larry Do Ridiculous Stunts Correctly. "W... water, leech juice, daisy roots.." she listed off, assuming that was enough since it'd only asked for the first.

"Now, how are potions different from normal drinks, you may ask?" This one too stumped her. "Erm, well potions take a great deal longer to make, I'd say, and they taste a lot worse," she began, wrinkling her nose. "But um, potions are also used for things such as curing poisons, making you lucky, turning you into someone else, as you can see.. whereas drinks are just used to make you less thirsty?" She raised an eyebrow, hoping against hope that she didn't sound as dumb as she felt. "So, onto love potions.. they don't create real love, only a really strong infatuation. Andd, the jobberknoll! Those things are neat, I think.. they don't make a sound their entire lives, that is until their last moments, in which they scream every single sound they ever heard... in reverse. So cool, right?" It wasn't like Taryn didn't already know this, she was the Care of Magical Creatures professor after all.. plus she'd just been told the very same thing. "Lastly, dragons blood has twelve uses."

With a nod of her head she began folding her paper, but suddenly stopped as she remembered she had to give three more facts. "Oh! Not lastly, sorry. The memory potion, which uses jobberknoll feathers as the main ingredient, allows the person drinking it to have better access to their memories. And the Draught of Living Death puts the drinker into a sleep so deep it seems that the drinker is dead, hence the name.. it's also believed that this is the potion that Juliet took to fake her death in Romeo and Juliet. And uhh.. inaccurate brewing of an aging potion can cause unnatural growths, so your measurements have to be perrrfect." She finally finished, stuffing the folded up piece of paper with her questions into her pocket. "So um, thank you for listening?"


((Kistennn, I hope you don't mind my crashing >_> But I figured that since they're both Taryn.. yea.))

[Kisten Hayes]

[[Nah I don't mind, makes sense really ]]

Kisten rolled up his sheet of parchment on which he had written down the questions he needed to answer and slipped it back inside the pocket on his robes when he heard a noise behind them in the kitchen doorway. Turning around he saw yet another Taryn entering the room and making her way towards them, seemed that she was not just Kisten's victim in the polyjuice potion making.

It was however highly confusing to see all three of them standing there looking the same, but it best be even more so for the real Taryn. Kisten waited silently as the new Taryn recounted the answers to the questions as was required and then he grinned waiting to see what the reaction of the real Taryn may be, it could only happen at Hogwarts.