Sorting Hat: AU--Supplementary Lessons

[psiignlanguage]

[Cyrus hadn't been very good at potions. Or anything involving mixing things together. Cooking, cocktails, cleaning products. It wasn't his forte. It never had been, and it never would be. He'd always been a straight A student, always perfect marks. In everything.

So when he started to get Cs and Ds in potions, he figured he might need to say something to his teacher.

And for the most part, his teacher had been responsive towards him. For the most part, Cyrus was going to the classroom later in the evening for extra lessons, and for the chance to make-up potions he might had messed up. He didn't want anything like last time to happen...A simple energy boost potion made improperly to turn it into an arousal one. He didn't want that to happen this time.]

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[grandhighwizard]

I do. [Rhys flicked his wand, setting the little burner beneath one of his cauldrons alight, something apparently unrelated to the tutoring session, at least for now.]

Now take out your text. I wish to see exactly how you would make a Scintillating Solution. I've already noticed that you're sloppy with your ladle work, but you're a bit better with your wand. We shall have to identify your weakest points if these lessons are to be effective.

[psiignlanguage]

[Cyrus bit down on his lip lightly and opened his book, flipping through the contents and the index first to try and locate the appropriate section before flipping to a page with a very obvious little stain on the corner--most likely from his previous attempt.]

Thir?

[Cyrus said as he started to fumble with getting the ingredients needed from his case.]

Why did you have uth make thith one in the firtht plath? Thouldn't thith be thomething that older thudenth make?

[grandhighwizard]

Don't you appreciate a challenge? [The professor asks, with an amused lilt to his words.] I find I get the measure of my students far better when I occasionally give them an assignment that's just a bit out of reach. How a child fails can tell you just as much as how one succeeds.

[The big man watches Cy with an unabashedly intense expression, a smile hovering around his lips.] How do you feel you did?

[psiignlanguage]

[Cyrus goes a bit quiet as he starts the potion, nervously double, triple and quadruple checking his steps. He paused, looking up at the man, his cheeks flush with embarrassment as he pushes his glasses up.]

I-I don't think I did tho well, thir...

[grandhighwizard]

10 points to your House if you can tell me why.