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Old 06-29-2012, 03:33 AM   #169 (permalink)
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The Harpy of Hogwarts | Dungeon Mistress | Bimba di Serpeverde

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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88 View Post
Alyssa watched as the Professor demonstrated the last two steps...'Or so she says' Alyssa thought to herself...where she showed how to remove first the poor creature's mouth and then later on how to 'demolish' the rest of the plimpy's body.

Alyssa picked up her quill, hopefully for the last time in this lesson and wrote down the steps in her journal.

Text Cut: Alyssa's Potion Journal

Harvesting a Plimpy
1. Untie the legs
2. Put on gloves
3. Clean scalpel and tray
4. Take scalpel and make incision under the scales of the fish
5. Remove fins from body and place on tray.
6. Rotate legs one at a time.
7. Spread them widely until I hear them pop out of the sockets.
8. Use scalpel and cut along the lose skin.
9. Pull the legs off and put them in tray.
10. Cut from the bottom of the tail, down the stomach, all around the top, slicing it in half
11. Poke the eyes out of the socket by using thumbs.
12. Place eyes in harvesting tray.
13. Take dish and clean it.
14. Fill it with water using Aguamenti charm
15. Feel around in the chest for heart using hands.
16. Place heart in tray filled with water.
17. Remove the gills and place in tray.
18. Remove heart and place on harvesting tray.
19. Remove spine from Plimpy and all the other organs will follow.
20. Remove the organs one by one and place in tray filled with water to clean.
21. Take gills and place them on harvesting tray.
22. Take body of plimpy and gently squeeze blood and slime from it over into the harvesting tray. Blood and slime will separate on their own.
23. Need to be careful not to damage scales.
24. Scrape off as much slime as you can from your hands and flick it into harvesting tray.
25. Turn the body of plimpy around so that the meat side is down.
26. Peal off the skin of the creature, slowly and gently and toss it into harvesting tray

27. Hook finger into it's mouth and pull until it rips off.
28. Drop it in the water to clean and then put it on the harvesting tray.
29. Start ripping the plimpy's meat up into at least two inch pieces
30. Put the meat in the harvesting tray and the excess blood and meat will separate and disappear.


Alyssa was so glad when she heard what the Professor had told them to do next because that meant that they were done with the lesson. She picked up the handful of meat, all 2 inches in length, that she had ripped apart and placed them in the harvesting tray and watched as the blood and meat seemed to separate from themselves before disappearing. They were FINALLY DONE!!

Alyssa wiped her hands on her robe to clean off as much blood that she could before she picked up her wand and cleaned her hands by using the cleaning spell, "Scourgify". Then she picked up her quill with her fingertips and tossed it into her robe pocket. That was one quill that wouldn't be used again.

Looking down at her robes, she was glad that she had another pair because this one really needed some major cleaning before she would wear them again. Picking up her wand, Alyssa pointed it at her work desk and said, "Scourgify" to clean it up. Once it was her workspace was clean, she packed up her journal into her bag and all the writing materials.

Then she remembered something and raised her hand to ask the Professor. "Professor why didn't this Plimpy have any bones? I mean most fish like creatures do except for Sharks"
"What do you mean, Potter? Were you not paying attention? You removed the spine from the creatures." Seriously?

"I want you to find a creature, on the grounds, and tell me in 3 paragraphs, how you would go about harvesting it. Two week from right now. is the deadline."

Finally she opened the classroom door and added "Dismissed."
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