Potions - Classroom Description

It's a dungeon.

No, there's not much else to say. You come in through the double doors and all you have are dungeon-like qualities. There are potions, cauldrons, sure. Those are things you typically expect to find in a dungeon-like classroom. It's chthonic, sepulchral, cavernous, gothic. Those are words that the thesaurus told me mean 'dungeon-like'.

There is, however, one alteration I have made.

As you all should probably realized by now, dungeons are dark. My Slytherin students will know this, but for the rest of you, I abhor not being able to see well. Text, details, my own fingers in front of my hands. It seems to be a casualty of the war against the eyesight of all Slytherin-bound students and teachers. So I've cast moonlit lanterns above each station. They are much less flammable than candlelight, and please don't ask me if it's happened before because I think you can all guess the answer. A student once asked me, "...But professor, why not sunlight or a skylight?"

To that I answer, no.

Do libraries guard their most valuable tomes under a skylight? Do people trust banks who leave their shiny galleons to bask in the sun's rays? Would you like to make experimental, volitile liquids and subject them to unknown factors of one of the most powerful celesital bodies known to man and see how that affects you when you drink it?

Because that sounds like a lot of paperwork for me.

Moonlight is only beneficial to certain potions and at worst, neutral. Many wizards have experimented with it and as of yet there have been no complications or alterations made by the light of the moon.

If you doubt my words, well, I don't care what you have to say. Go take another class if my aesthetics displease you.

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*This has been written IC