My eldest daughter came up to me the other day, with her plaintive, I’m-about-to-ask-for-something expression firmly affixed on her face. I braced myself.
“Mum, do you think I could get one of those science potions kits?”
Science potions!
I’m 98% sure she means a chemistry set, but I’m not going to correct her just yet. She starts kindergarten in a few weeks, so we’ve still got time. We can have fun with science potions for a solid three years before she needs to know the proper name, and by then the wonder should have settled in for good.
P.S. I won the Writer Unboxed Flog-A-Wu first pages contest! If you’d like to read my winning entry and check out my prize (which I am so excited about I can’t stop giggling), click here
Jennifer Shelby 
And congratulations on the win!
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thank you!
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I remember at some point realizing that Snape was, in a sense, the only teacher at Hogwarts who taught an actual real life subject. Potions class was just chemistry by another name.
Also congratulations on winning! Yay!
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Thanks James!
I might have gotten better grades in organic chem if it was called potions, my brain would have latched onto that and ran with it.
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Same here!
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2 cute! Congrats! ^.^
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