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- You have until the due date and time (central time) to submit answers to the current challenge.
- One answer per partnership may be submitted.
- At least one correct answer by the due date is necessary for the entire group to receive the challenge's clue.
- You may interact with the enviornment in any way you like. You may also speak to as many people in the environment as you want. Chat, ask them questions, etc. Once you post your end of the conversation, I'll submit their responses to you.
- If a partnership is eliminated, any answer they submit will not be considered.
Good luck.
submitted by Ruby M.
(June 2, 2016 - 11:14 pm)
(June 2, 2016 - 11:14 pm)
Oh, alright. If you think so. I haven't read HP in four years, so I wouldn't really know.
So should our answer be Valine and Draught of Living Death? I approve it if you do.
(June 6, 2016 - 6:18 pm)
(June 6, 2016 - 2:45 pm)
I don't think so. As far as I can tell, Moly is named after Molybdenum, which is an element, not an acid. I'm still working on the research for another possible answer, though.
(June 6, 2016 - 7:34 pm)
Okay, here we go. After much Googling, I think the answer is Valine, as in Valerian for the ingredient. But that means there are a few answers for the potion-- the Draught of Living Death and the Forgetfulness Potion. Your thoughts, Mei?
(June 6, 2016 - 7:58 pm)
C'mon, guys, you got this! I've been doing perhaps too-extensive Googling.
(June 6, 2016 - 5:43 pm)
I'm so stupid! I forgot I joined this! Am I with Athena? Sorry Guys!
(June 6, 2016 - 7:35 pm)
Yup, you're working with Athena.
(June 6, 2016 - 9:14 pm)
As a general notice: failing to complete a challenge correctly does not eliminate your partnership. If you can't get one challenge, go ahead and try for the next one.
(June 6, 2016 - 8:33 pm)
Yup. Approved. HAB and I's answer: Valine, and the Draught of Living Death.
(June 6, 2016 - 9:01 pm)
Hmm, original guess after some googling: aconine, Wolfsbane Potion
I couldn't seem to find anything mentioning valerian as an ingredient, though, and I never got a different answer if aconine was an amino acid . . .
*pokes Savvy
(June 6, 2016 - 9:51 pm)
Oh, thanks, Ruby! Okay, here's what I've got, Cho.
Here are the amino acids in casein:
Glutamic Acid, Proline, Leucine, Lysine, Valine, Aspartic Acid, Serine, Tyrosine, Isoleucine, Phenlalanine, Threoline, Arginine, Histadine, Alinine, Mehionine, Glicine, Tryptophan, and Cystine. (quoted from Science Toys)
Valine seems like the obvious one there. More research shows me that it was named after the plant Valerian, of which it is a component.
Now for the tricky part. Valerian is canonically present in the Draught of Living Death, the Draught of Peace, and the forgetfulness potion. The challenge gives us only that "One such amino acid is named after a plant that is used in a potion at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
Valerian isn't actually in the book recipe (Half-Blood Prince) for the Draught of Living Death, but it's in the movie. I can't find an specific reference to it in the wikipedia page for the Draught of Peace either, but I'll check the book (Order of the Phoenix) just in case). And it's definitely in the (former) Pottermore version of the Forgetfulness potion.
More research forthcoming.
(June 6, 2016 - 10:09 pm)
I'll read lots of HP! (I have books 1-3, and 5)
(June 7, 2016 - 9:41 am)
As people talk to the boy, I walk over to the soccer goals to examine them. I wonder what material they're made of.
(June 6, 2016 - 10:13 pm)
The soccer goals are heavy and seem to be made out of metal. You don't think you could move them.
They've been painted white.
(June 6, 2016 - 10:55 pm)
I leave the goals and walk over into the trees, looking up through the branches for nests or anything else unusual. I shuffle my feet through the ground.
(June 6, 2016 - 11:54 pm)