[img align=left]https://i.imgur.com/ZH0N4un.png[/img]Ah, about time! I expect you to be punctual when the reason I have to wait is your detention. Your punishment is to clean out the dirty cauldrons, no magic whatsoever. Be sure to wear protective gloves, there are remnants of all sorts of things like horned toad bowels, pickled rats' brains, and rotten Flobberworms in there. I want these cauldrons clean enough to serve pumpkin juice out of!

This week's theme is Potions Detention.

Your challenge this week is to create a Human Avatar depicting your student serving a detention for Professor Mathers.

Some rules for this challenge: 1.) NO SCHOOL UNIFORMS. You're not in class and you wouldn't want to dirty it. 2.) Please include a cauldron in your HA. 3.) Please depict your HA wearing gloves. (I was inspired by this list of detentions students have served at Hogwarts. Mathers isn't as harsh as Snape!) 4.) Bonus points may be awarded to particularly creative entries.

Each member may only submit one avatar, and each avatar to successfully adhere to the challenge rules and theme shall be awarded 10 House Points!

This is provided that you include your house, as no points will be awarded without it.

This challenge will end on Tuesday December 19th at 11:59PM!

Ezekiel even tied his hair in a high ponytail to avoid it touching that disgusting cauldron - he liked Potions class, but cleaning the mess was a different matter. Outfit Not Found Ezekiel Wingslade - Hufflepuff

Outfit Not Found Millie was in a foul mood. She had grown tired of a certain Gryffindor bully when he continued picking on her friends. Unfortunately for Millie, Professor Mathers caught Millie using a few choice words telling the bully about himself and those words landed her in detention. She knew she had broken the cardinal rule: she made a scene. Rather than complain, she pushed her sleeves up and got to work. "I should have used the Langlock jinx on him" she bitterly thought as she scrubbed the cauldron.

Amelia Tudor, Hufflepuff

Private Outfit Marcia was onto her last cauldron, thank the heavens, but this one of course had to be the worst. She already felt disgusting and was covered in things she didn't want to question, but this cauldron had her fighting to hold back her lunch. If the heart shaped bubbles floating around once she started scrubbing were any indication, she could wager a guess that someone had failed horribly at making a love potion in this cauldron. "Whoever it was better be in detention too for stinking up the whole place," Marcia muttered angrily to herself before choking back another gag. The last thing she needed was to be cleaning up a mess of her own creation.

Marcia Rainer // Slytherin

Private Outfit The fumes were getting to be too much for Dory and so she had to don a mask too. This soap might not be enough.

Ravenclaw :D

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Keet was mortified. As a prefect, how could she have let this happen? She should be setting a better example for her fellow Ravenclaws. Keet had been given detention for talking while the professor was talking, but she was only doing so because she was trying to answer a classmate's question about the day's potion instructions. She sighed, putting on her gloves, goggles, and mask. The smell was awful, but she scrubbed until the cauldrons were sparkly clean and she was completely covered in dirt.

Keet Arlie, Ravenclaw

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Keliora was not a fan of manual cleaning. After the second time she slipped on all the soapy bubbles and fell head first into the cauldron she was cleaning, she wished she was brave enough to push the "no magic" rule and put a bubble-head charm on herself. Alas, scared to break even more rules, she went out to search the castle for protective headgear and found a real bubble helmet tucked into a supply closet.

-Keliora, Ravenclaw

Luck just didn't understand how the cauldrons could get so filthy. Some cauldrons were so large and deep that she had to shove her arm in up to her armpit to even reach the bottom. Feeling like she practically had to dive into one to clean it, it's no wonder she ended up just as dirty as the cauldrons. She hoped that whatever was on her now wasn't dangerous.

Luck Bee, Hufflepuff

Aderyn was used to helping her father scrub out cauldrons, so she didn't think detention would be too big a deal. She was very quickly proven wrong, however, when the last few drops remaining in one of the cauldrons she was set to clean exploded upon contact with whatever was already soaked into her sponge, clouding the air in the dungeon and covering her in soot. She was coughing and hacking up a storm as she continued to clean, her lungs irritated by the thick smoke hanging in the air. Eventually, the professor let her off, sending her straight to the infirmary in case whatever had exploded out of the cauldron was somehow damaging.

Aderyn Jones // Ravenclaw

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As Magnus scrubbed the filthy cauldrons he imagined himself in a prison movie. The dungeons were very apt for the setting and furthered to spur on his imagination. Yes that skeleton in the corner was he last chap who had been sentenced by Warden Mathers. The chap had scrubbed and scrubbed until he breathed his last breath and just keeled over. As Magnus' arms began to ache as he cleaned off the untold bile from the walls of the cauldrons, he wondered when he too would keel over and join his skeletal friend. Surely at the very least he would need to go see the Matron and have his arms repaired.

Magnus Lee/ Ravenclaw

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Lysandra sighed. It was no wonder she got a detention from Professor Mathers after she tried to cast a counterspell for the confinement spell her teacher had put her under to keep her from leaving her dormitory during her sickness some days ago.

Some other students had gotten a similar detention like it seems yet her cauldron seemed to be the most grimy one. And the stench! What did they even brew in there? And were these …. boogers? Certainly a bit of monster snot. Eeek!

Cautiously, Lys looked around yet Professor Mathers seemed to be gone. Would it be allowed to use some teleportation magic? Not for cleaning yet to improve the conditions? Certainly not, she thought. So she snatched a sponge and a bucket with cleaning utensils and dragged the heavy metal cauldron over to an enchanted portal on the balcony. It looked pretty and was bathed in some light so she was able to observe her doings better. Free breathing again, the air was sweet and clear here.

Lysandra took a deep breath and reached for her paraphernalia. Perhaps, she should have donned an apron instead of only taking a single towel for protection yet it couldn´t be helped now.

(Lysandra, Ravenclaw)

Outfit Not Found Kat soo did not deserve this punishment. It wasn’t her fault that the potion exploded in class. She followed the directions to a t! She was shocked when it went all over her other classmates and the teacher. That was the real issue. She made it again later and everything went fine. Someone must have tampered with it. She sighed, this was not how she planned on spending the afternoon.

Kat - Gryf

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Nathaniel scowled. When it came to potions, he was less than skilled. He usually relied on the help of a classmate and, when left to his own devices, his potions were usually disastrous. Cleaning a cauldron, without the help of magic, was an unappealing prospect.

He grabbed a sponge, pulled on a pair of gloves, and got straight to it. It wasn't that he was positive about the matter, but rather that he was being pragmatic: it had to be done. Besides, he hadn't exactly meant to hex the caretaker but he'd clean out a hundred cauldrons if it meant he could do it again!

-- Nathaniel Pitt, Slytherin

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• Ellie Wilding, Gryffindor

Jona Fletch / Hufflepuff

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oopale, Ravenclaw

Four sponges, two liters of soap, and several bad jokes later, her cauldrons were sparkling clean, and she learned a valuable lesson: costumes even make detention fun.

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Merlin is used to clean cauldrons since his mother is a potioneer so this isn’t as bad as the professor thinks, not that it’s an exciting job.

Slytherin.

It's totally not her fault that Mallowsweet was late for potions class. Those stairs down to the dungeon classroom are nearly impossible for a centaur to negotiate! Outfit Not Found

Outfit Not Found Honestly Fade was quite accustomed to detention for tardiness. Not messing around this time, he tied his hair back and covered his eyes, nose, and mouth. But this time there was something about the bubbles the cleaning solution produced that made him slightly nervous. The way they lifted from the cauldron and seemingly winked at him as they made their way off into the upper reaches of the room was a bit unsettling.

Fade, Ravenclaw