August 9, 2015 - Cooking (FR-13)
August 9, 2015 - Cooking (FR-13)
Alt Title: Day 9 - Cooking
Author: mmooch
Chapter Summary: A change to the schedule has McGonagall seeking Buffy out for answers.
Crossover: Harry Potter, Leverage, Facts of Life, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Rating: FR-13.
Word count: 1070
Challenge: for the livejournal 2015 August Fic-a-Day Challenge.
Timeline: Storywise - Just before Christmas break
Disclaimer: BtVS/AtS characters belong to Joss Whedon/Mutant Enemy. HP characters belong to JK Rowling. The Facts of Life characters belong to Dick Clair, Jenna McMahon, Columbia Pictures Television and Sony Pictures Television. Leverage characters belong to John Rogers, Chris Downey, and TNT. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch character belongs to Nell Scovell and Viacom Productions. I claim no rights to any copyrighted material. Please do not copy or take this story without my permission.
Great Hall
Those that were watching the Summers sisters have a spirited discussion wondered if they should be concerned about the Potionmaster’s physical well-being when Buffy suddenly stood up and demanded that he follow her to her office immediately. Did he make an unwanted advance towards Dawn in his first week of teaching her? Was he that suicidal?
Nobody noticed when an elf came to deliver a note to Professor Zelda Spellman fifteen minutes later; they were too busy taking bets on how soon Snape would be thrown out of the castle - and in what condition he’d be in when it happened.
When Dawn began her apprenticeship with Snape, she was caught off-guard by the lack of instructions and/or demonstrations from him. She, of course, called him on it, and he shot back that maybe muggles held their students’ hands, but this was how potions were taught in the Wizarding World.
Dawn could understand that attitude at a university level, like her apprenticeship would be considered, but if the same were true for all levels of Potions, that was just…wrong!
So she told Buffy, who was just as outraged as she was and Dawn couldn’t help but smile a little as Snape followed her sister out of the Great Hall. She didn’t mind snark, but this guy had a major wand up his butt the size of a Redwood tree.
~~~~~~
Buffy’s office
The stress ball that Buffy picked up and began squeezing the minute she sat behind her desk lasted for about five squeezes before she had it completely flattened. What the hell were these wizards and witches thinking?
Since the school year had already started by the time she took over, Buffy didn’t know how first year Potions classes began. She had made the mistake of thinking that it started like chemistry classes - explaining the rules of the lab and stressing safety above all things.
Then Dawn dropped her little bombshell on her. “My sister just shared something rather disturbing with me, Potionsmaster Snape. I really hope she misunderstood you, though. Did you really just put a potions’ recipe on the blackboard in your room in the first class of your first year students without explaining lab safety to them or demonstrating how to prepare their ingredients?
“Those topics are covered in the books. It is up to the students to make sure they understand them before coming to class,” he sniffed in disdain. Whiny brat just had to go and complain to her big sister, didn’t she?
“And that’s what happened in your first class?” Buffy pushed, not sure which answer would make her feel better.
“Well, no,” Snape admitted. “Slughorn tended to coddle his students, though,” he added in his defense.
“Twain!” Buffy yelled. When the elf appeared, she wrote out a note and asked him to deliver it to Zelda Spellman. Hopefully her new professor had a different take on teaching methods.
~~~~~~
July 1982
McGonagall read the booklet which was going to be sent out to all the students and stopped when she read the prerequisite for Potions. Since when did the classes have prerequisites? And why would that prerequisite be Cooking, Muggle-style? She decided to find out by asking Buffy.
Since the school was renovating itself, they were staying in Wizarding tents on the grounds. McGonagall walked over to the day tent, where the staff got together to talk and prepare for the upcoming year. She located Buffy and sat down beside her. “How can cooking be a prerequisite for Potions?” she asked.
“Good morning, Minerva,” Buffy replied. “I’m fine, thanks for asking. To answer your question, let’s go visit Eliot and Edna. Actually, I think this would be good for everyone to see since there’s bound to be some questions about our plans.”
“Our?” McGonagall asked.
“Zelda, Eliot, Edna and me,” Buffy replied.
She made an announcement to the tent and everyone walked down to the mock teaching kitchen.
When everyone was seated at the stations, Buffy asked Eliot and Edna to practice their first class with the teachers as their first years.
“Okay, students!” Mrs. Garrett sang out, “Settle down! At each of your stations, there is a sheet of paper that has the rules of conduct for this class. Please read them carefully and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Once you understand them, you need to sign and date the page at the bottom.”
A glare from Buffy had the teachers pretending to go along with the rehearsal.
“Now that that’s taken care of, I’ll explain the reason for these rules. When working in a kitchen, there are many opportunities to injure yourself. To minimize the risks, we ask you to be careful around the stove and oven, to take special care when using dangerous tools such as knives and to not mess around with each other’s work.
McGonagall raised her hand, unable to contain her curiosity any longer. “I still don’t understand what this has to do with potions. Can you explain that to me?”
Eliot took over by tossing her a bag of carrots. “Julienne those carrots for me,” he ordered. “Without magic,” he added.
Still confused, McGonagall nevertheless followed his instructions. When she was done, she handed the bowl of julienned carrots back to him.
He glanced at them and declared, “They’re acceptable for forgiving recipes, but for the touchier ones, the strips need to be more uniform. Does anyone know why I had her do that?”
Tara raised her hand and answered when he nodded at her, “Because the same thing is true when preparing potion ingredients. Some recipes aren’t as picky about measurements or the way ingredients are prepared, but some recipes can be dangerous if done haphazardly. Until you learn which are which, it’s better to err on the side of caution.”
“Very good, Miss Maclay,” Eliot praised her, causing her to blush. “You must have had an excellent teacher.”
“My mother,” Tara said softly.
Mrs. Garrett smiled kindly and moved on in the lesson plan, “The purpose of this class is two-fold. First, we will teach you how to cook without magic in case you ever find yourself in a situation where your magic doesn’t work. Second, when you pass the class, you will be able to prepare ingredients properly and will understand the different tasks involved with creating a potion…only in here, the end result will be something that’s edible.
A/N: Nothing I can think of, unless you have suggestions for tomorrow’s.
Alt Title: Day 9 - Cooking
Author: mmooch
Chapter Summary: A change to the schedule has McGonagall seeking Buffy out for answers.
Crossover: Harry Potter, Leverage, Facts of Life, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Rating: FR-13.
Word count: 1070
Challenge: for the livejournal 2015 August Fic-a-Day Challenge.
Timeline: Storywise - Just before Christmas break
Disclaimer: BtVS/AtS characters belong to Joss Whedon/Mutant Enemy. HP characters belong to JK Rowling. The Facts of Life characters belong to Dick Clair, Jenna McMahon, Columbia Pictures Television and Sony Pictures Television. Leverage characters belong to John Rogers, Chris Downey, and TNT. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch character belongs to Nell Scovell and Viacom Productions. I claim no rights to any copyrighted material. Please do not copy or take this story without my permission.
Great Hall
Those that were watching the Summers sisters have a spirited discussion wondered if they should be concerned about the Potionmaster’s physical well-being when Buffy suddenly stood up and demanded that he follow her to her office immediately. Did he make an unwanted advance towards Dawn in his first week of teaching her? Was he that suicidal?
Nobody noticed when an elf came to deliver a note to Professor Zelda Spellman fifteen minutes later; they were too busy taking bets on how soon Snape would be thrown out of the castle - and in what condition he’d be in when it happened.
When Dawn began her apprenticeship with Snape, she was caught off-guard by the lack of instructions and/or demonstrations from him. She, of course, called him on it, and he shot back that maybe muggles held their students’ hands, but this was how potions were taught in the Wizarding World.
Dawn could understand that attitude at a university level, like her apprenticeship would be considered, but if the same were true for all levels of Potions, that was just…wrong!
So she told Buffy, who was just as outraged as she was and Dawn couldn’t help but smile a little as Snape followed her sister out of the Great Hall. She didn’t mind snark, but this guy had a major wand up his butt the size of a Redwood tree.
~~~~~~
Buffy’s office
The stress ball that Buffy picked up and began squeezing the minute she sat behind her desk lasted for about five squeezes before she had it completely flattened. What the hell were these wizards and witches thinking?
Since the school year had already started by the time she took over, Buffy didn’t know how first year Potions classes began. She had made the mistake of thinking that it started like chemistry classes - explaining the rules of the lab and stressing safety above all things.
Then Dawn dropped her little bombshell on her. “My sister just shared something rather disturbing with me, Potionsmaster Snape. I really hope she misunderstood you, though. Did you really just put a potions’ recipe on the blackboard in your room in the first class of your first year students without explaining lab safety to them or demonstrating how to prepare their ingredients?
“Those topics are covered in the books. It is up to the students to make sure they understand them before coming to class,” he sniffed in disdain. Whiny brat just had to go and complain to her big sister, didn’t she?
“And that’s what happened in your first class?” Buffy pushed, not sure which answer would make her feel better.
“Well, no,” Snape admitted. “Slughorn tended to coddle his students, though,” he added in his defense.
“Twain!” Buffy yelled. When the elf appeared, she wrote out a note and asked him to deliver it to Zelda Spellman. Hopefully her new professor had a different take on teaching methods.
~~~~~~
July 1982
McGonagall read the booklet which was going to be sent out to all the students and stopped when she read the prerequisite for Potions. Since when did the classes have prerequisites? And why would that prerequisite be Cooking, Muggle-style? She decided to find out by asking Buffy.
Since the school was renovating itself, they were staying in Wizarding tents on the grounds. McGonagall walked over to the day tent, where the staff got together to talk and prepare for the upcoming year. She located Buffy and sat down beside her. “How can cooking be a prerequisite for Potions?” she asked.
“Good morning, Minerva,” Buffy replied. “I’m fine, thanks for asking. To answer your question, let’s go visit Eliot and Edna. Actually, I think this would be good for everyone to see since there’s bound to be some questions about our plans.”
“Our?” McGonagall asked.
“Zelda, Eliot, Edna and me,” Buffy replied.
She made an announcement to the tent and everyone walked down to the mock teaching kitchen.
When everyone was seated at the stations, Buffy asked Eliot and Edna to practice their first class with the teachers as their first years.
“Okay, students!” Mrs. Garrett sang out, “Settle down! At each of your stations, there is a sheet of paper that has the rules of conduct for this class. Please read them carefully and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Once you understand them, you need to sign and date the page at the bottom.”
A glare from Buffy had the teachers pretending to go along with the rehearsal.
“Now that that’s taken care of, I’ll explain the reason for these rules. When working in a kitchen, there are many opportunities to injure yourself. To minimize the risks, we ask you to be careful around the stove and oven, to take special care when using dangerous tools such as knives and to not mess around with each other’s work.
McGonagall raised her hand, unable to contain her curiosity any longer. “I still don’t understand what this has to do with potions. Can you explain that to me?”
Eliot took over by tossing her a bag of carrots. “Julienne those carrots for me,” he ordered. “Without magic,” he added.
Still confused, McGonagall nevertheless followed his instructions. When she was done, she handed the bowl of julienned carrots back to him.
He glanced at them and declared, “They’re acceptable for forgiving recipes, but for the touchier ones, the strips need to be more uniform. Does anyone know why I had her do that?”
Tara raised her hand and answered when he nodded at her, “Because the same thing is true when preparing potion ingredients. Some recipes aren’t as picky about measurements or the way ingredients are prepared, but some recipes can be dangerous if done haphazardly. Until you learn which are which, it’s better to err on the side of caution.”
“Very good, Miss Maclay,” Eliot praised her, causing her to blush. “You must have had an excellent teacher.”
“My mother,” Tara said softly.
Mrs. Garrett smiled kindly and moved on in the lesson plan, “The purpose of this class is two-fold. First, we will teach you how to cook without magic in case you ever find yourself in a situation where your magic doesn’t work. Second, when you pass the class, you will be able to prepare ingredients properly and will understand the different tasks involved with creating a potion…only in here, the end result will be something that’s edible.
A/N: Nothing I can think of, unless you have suggestions for tomorrow’s.