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lazykitty 
Sky decided to add peppermint to her potion, not necessarily to make it more potent, but to make it taste better. Because who wanted to swallow a nasty tasting potion when they didn't have to? So, she added three sprigs of the breath freshening herb. Then she stirred. But she could not have predicted what happened next. The potion started sparking and sizzling. Uh oh. "Everybody DUCK!" she cried, diving under her own table just as....
*BOOM*
Her cauldron exploded, sending potion everywhere. Hecate turned around and was able to cast a shielding potion protecting herself and some of the students from the exploding liquid... some, but not all. "
Miss Carter-Hope. I'm not sure why something as simple as peppermint would make your potion explode... you must have done something wrong in your brewing. Sit down and watch someone."
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TakemetotheBurrow Consulting her notes, Ella saw that next she'd need to add one measure of doxy eggs. That meant 3, yeah? The blonde nodded to herself in confirmation and set out counting the three eggs, thinking all the while that doxy were nasty little creatures. She didn't fancy being bit by one of those, nope.
1...2...3... added.
Now for the hard part, the waiting. Ella held her breath and watched as the potion continued to heat up, waiting for the pink color to appear. Just as it was turning pink, the blonde heard someone announce that everyone needed to duck and for one odd second, she smiled. Alec loved ducks.
Blink!Flinch
O__O
WhatinMerlin'sbeard?
She looked over to the girl and said "
You have potion in your hair..." She pointed out. Her hair would become stronger, but she was sure she didn't want goo in her hair the whole day...
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Riverlynn Nell stood there for a few moments trying to decide what to do first. They were getting to brew this potion without a whole lot of guidance. Awesome! Even more amazing they got to pick an ingredient of their own to add to it. So the red head was torn between doing a little happy dance and getting started. Since the room was full she decided on the latter.
Walking up to the cabinets containing all the ingredients Nell grabbed everything she would need and a little something extra. Smiling she sauntered back to her work station and sorted everything out across the table. Using her wand she filled the cauldron with water and set it over the heat.
A small explosion across the room had her ducking behind her table.
o.o
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You're ok, get back to brewing..." she said.
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Silver Ninja
She really didn't have patience for potions, and was tired of sitting and waiting for it to heat up enough to change colour. What colour was it supposed to be...silver? Oh...no it was silver, it was supposed to be red. Sighing she tapped her fingers on her worktop waiting as it heated.
FINALLY!
Taking the doxy eggs, she put the three groups of three eggs into the cauldron three at a time. No sooner had she put the the last of the doxy eggs in the potion she heard a boom and felt potion dripping off her hair and onto her robes. Pulling a face she looked behind her and saw the cauldron right behind her had exploded "EW!" she squealed disgustedly.
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Yeah, you have it on your back..." she said pointing it out. "
Harmless really, it'll just make it hard for you to cut your robes... not that you would..."
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Riverlynn Peeking up from her table she made sure none of her things weren't damaged. Everything seemed in tact and unaffected which was good news. Unfortunately a first year hadn't been so lucky. Turning down the heat on her water so that it wouldn't over boil she walked over to the little Slytherin.
"Hold still for a sec..Scourgify." She waved her wand over the 11 year old and carefully removed the potion that had gotten all over her. When she was satisfied that she had gotten everything she smiled. "There you are. Right as rain. I'm Nell by the way." She point at the work station across the aisle. "I'll be over here if you need any help." She winked at the little Slytherin before returning to her own work.
Rubbing her hands together she looked over the instructions. Turning the heat back up on her water Nell added the fairy wings and then watched carefully. When the liquid turned turquoise she added 3 doxy eggs and then there was more waiting.
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Silver Ninja Pulling another face as more dripped down onto her robes and ran down her face, she looked up as an older student came over to help and stood still so she could help clean off the potion. "Thank you." she murmured. "I'm Zoe." she said nodding looking over to where she was pointing. "Okay."
Sighing as she turned back to her potion and looked down at it. O_________O it was like really dark red. Glancing towards the professor, she wondered if it was going to be bad now. Taking the ten non toasted dragonfly thoraxes she started plopping them into the cauldron one at a time.
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Lovely, now that everyone is better acquainted GET BACK TO BREWING!" Sometimes children just weren't her thing...
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Silver Ninja
Chewing on her lip the potion was taking a long time to turn blue. "I think...I waited too long to put in the nontoasted dragonfly thoraxes. It's like a really dark red...." Peering down into the cauldron she pulled a face "And now it's brown." Looking at the instructions, "It's supposed to be blue not brown....Professor?"
Did she ruin it? She hoped not! It was all the exploding cauldron behind her's fault!
She looked over and to the girl and said, "
Evanesco it, and start over. Might have been contaminated by the potion."
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Fira Since he had started the fire, it was the time to start the potion now. First of all, carefully, Richard put the ingredients in an order on his working station according to the exact order he was going to add them into the potion as instructed. When he was satisfied with the order, the Slytherin eyed them for a last check and grinned. This looked good. While brewing a potion one had to be very careful otherwise everything could go wrong so it was good to be well organized.
Acting with intense care, he put on his gloves before picking up the set of fairy wings. He dropped the two wings into the water in the cauldron and looked at the instructions. Hmm...it was not said there that he needed to stir after adding the fairy wings. So not bothering to stir at all, as it was not required, he just watched the wings dissolve into the water and left the potion to heating. He poked the burner a little so it could heat properly. He waited patiently until the liquid turned turquoise and the very moment he saw the colour, he poked the burner again making the fire smaller under the cauldron.
Mmmm... Turner was doing well... odd.... She didn't take him for someone who seemed talented with potions, maybe she was wrong about the boy.