Mordred looked from his Head of House to the buckets at the back of the classroom. He smirked as he eyed his classmates who most of them were all about to throw up. He wondered why they were so grossed out about the Plimpy? Most if not all of the Potions ingredients somehow came from magical creatures anyway, and they didn’t show signs of throwing up...or yes, fainting.

He got his notebook again and quickly drew the Plimpy and its parts, and how to harvest the eye and heart. After writing everything down, he closed his notebook and rubbed his hands together. Now, for the eyes, he used his right thumb and placed it over the eye and pushed it. A small popping sound was heard, and the Plimpy eye came out. He got hold of it using his thumb and index finger and placed it on his other work tray. Came next was the heart. He got his dish from the tool box and cleaned it first. Nothing beats clean tools and all that—ingredients must come in pure form around here. No contamination whatsoever. He got his wand out once more and tapped the dish and muttered “scourgify.” Inspecting that it was clean, he tapped it again, and muttered “aguamenti”. He waited until the dish was half filled with water and lifted the spell. He turned his attention back to his Plimpy and eyed the heart. He placed his index finger and thumb and got hold of the heart. Slimy stuff surrounded it and Mordred must admit that it was a bit hard to get it. A few moments later, he successfully got it and held it up and examined it. “A tiny part can do so many wonders...” he thought to himself and his thoughts were broken when someone dashed to the back of the room. He saw that it was his house mate gagging, and it made Mordred chuckle.

He turned his attention back to the professor still holding the Plimpy’s heart. She didn’t say to put it on the dish, yet and he guessed that the water needs another ingredient perhaps to clean the heart?

Alyssa couldn't believe her eyes and ears when she heard the Professor tell them they now needed to remove the internal organs for real. She watched as the Professor demonstrated and took another gulp wanting to close her eyes when she saw the Professor dig in with her thumbs and remove the Plimpy's eyes. Then her eyes opened wide when the Professor told them that there were going to be removing the heart as well. ''Oh Merlin, I'm glad that I didn't eat much today.' Alyssa thought to herself, rubbing her head where her headache was starting to develop again.

Once the Professor was done with the demonstration, Alyssa quickly picked up her quill and wrote down the next steps in her potions journal. Scratching off what she had already completed.



She then put down her quill and took another deep breath before reaching out with her hands and inserted her thumbs into the socket. The moment she felt the softness of the eyes, she felt queasy again and immediately pulled her thumbs out. Alyssa waited for another minute or two before she reached back into the eye sockets and this time with determination, poked her thumbs into plimpy's eye sockets and dug in poking the eyes out. She gently picked them up and placed them in the harvesting tray.

Then she picked up the tray, tried to clean off the gunk off one hand by wiping it against her robes before picking up her wand and cleaning the tray by using the "Scourgify" spell. Then she inspected the tray to make sure that it was clean before she pointed her wand inside it and said, "Aguamenti" filling up the tray with water. Once it was filled, she ended the spell by saying, "FINITE".

'Now for the yuckiest part so far.' Alyssa thought to herself. She first looked at the chart that Professor Lafay had shown them, located where the heart was and then reached into the Plimpy's chest with both her hands. She felt around for the heart, tracing the Plimpy's veins and arteries back to where it lay. Once she located the heart, she held it in her hands. Now what were they supposed to do next? The Professor hadn't told them.

So Alyssa looked around and when she saw that some of the other students were removing the heart and placing in the tray, she lifted up the heart and pulled it out using as much strength as she could to separate it from the blood vessels while being careful not to damage the organ.

Once she had the heart safely in her hands, she gently placed it in the tray filled with water. Then she sat back and waited for further instructions.

Now they are going to study the insides of the plimpy, which is of course disgusting but important in the subject proper right now. Jonathan stared at the illustrations on the board and then back on the dead plimpy on his table. Trying to move parts of it just to see which areas the professor is trying to point to them.

For the eyes, the professor did suggest they would pop it out. Still gross, but Jonathan did as what the professor had demonstrated and tried pressing his thumb into the eye area then saw it just suddenly pop out. Ohhhh, cooooool!!!! Jonathan grinned, this is fun. He did the same procedure again with the other eye. Then placed them both into the harvesting tray like so.

Then the professor explained about these organs to be cleaned. Something Jonathan can totally do right now. He took out a dish and filled it with water with and aguamenti spell. He's trying to keep pace with the professor's instructions. Jonathan's eyes widened when the professor is now suggesting to get the heart.... not with a scalpel but with their hands.

Jonathan stared at his right hand and back at the plimpy. Glancing a few times before slowly reaching into it. It's a bit slimy and gross but Jonathan did managed to take the heart out and he then placed it into the harvesting tray as well..

Phew!

Buckets? Don't get what on the plimpies...oh...

Kurumi wrinkled her nose and covered her mouth for a moment. Hearing the word was almost enough to make her want to do it, but she was somehow able to keep it all down.

Did the woman really have to enlarge the creature? Couldn't they have just used a diagram or something instead of a larger than life size sliced in half plimpy? Kurumi definitely kept her hand over her mouth as Professor Lafay continued with her explanation.

Just take your thumbs? Kurumi swallowed hard and tugged on her gloves for a moment to sort of make sure that they were still on properly and then bit down on her lip as she slowly pushed her thumb under the plimpy's eye and... *POP*

Okay, that was sort of gross.

Repeating this with the second eye, Kurumi quickly placed both of them on the tray without giving them a second glance. But...wait...wash the items?! Hadn't some of them vanished earlier after being placed on the trays? Well, that had been last lesson so perhaps that didn't matter? But then she went on to explain about the organs requiring the cleaning. Well, that made sense and, surprisingly, Kurumi wasn't entirely freaked out by this. She had helped her mother clean fish before and this really wasn't all that different...ish.

Grabbing a dish, Kurumi caught the glance from Daichi and gave him a small but encouraging smile before casting Aguamenti herself and filling her dish with water. Again, Kurumi checked her gloves before pulling aside the skin over the chest cavity and swallowed again. Okay, never mind, this was nothing like cleaning a fish. With her left hand Kurumi moved things aside until she found the heart. Swallowing nervously yet again, Kurumi reached timidly with her right hand until she had it cupped in the palm of it and sort of tested its weight absently before giving it a small tug. She was rather surprised at how easily it came out and Kurumi gently set it in the water-filled dish.

Sierra smirked when Lafay warned them about throwing up. Was someone really sick? Or looking like they might be? Wimps...

She turned her attention to the enlarged plimpy in the front of the room. Her eyes flickered from the plimpy in the front to her own plimpy, as she studied the eyes. She smirked again when Lafay instructed them to pop the eyes out of the sockets. Poor Puffers. They were probably like fish out of water in this lesson. Ha.

She pressed her thumbs against the plimpy's eyes and popped them out. She dropped them into the harvesting tray then filled a dish with water. With that done, she cleaned her hands then reached in and grabbed a hold of the heart. She twisted it one way and then the other, trying to pry it loose yet not shred it to pieces at the same time. Finally, it popped out.

Oh, hey, look. A whole heart. Interesting.

Nice little segway between the greetings and the filleting of the plimpy...not.

Gideon went about following Professor Lafay's instructions on bisecting the creature anyway. First with a quick "Scourgify," he cleaned off his knife to be sure it was good and clean. He then proceeded to make a deep incision down the middle. From tail to head just as directed, the prefect doing his best to keep it smooth.

And then Lafay had to enlarge the plimpy to show them the insides. Not a pretty sight.

Gideon had to admit that even he was getting a little uncomfortable as the various tasks at hand were fully described to them. Poke out the eyes...complete with weird sound...take out the organs one by one by hand. Alright...this was gonna be interesting, he mused to himself as he took a container. "Aquamenti," he cast aiming the water inside, adding a quiet "finite" to stop the flow when he had enough within the dish. Then with a deep breath and a push aside of any unpleasant thoughts, the Gryffindor went to work on the task at hand, removing the organs one by one, thankful for his gloves.

Jory took a deep breath.Sure, he was feeling a bit sick but he was sure he won't need the bucket. He studied the diagram of the plimpy and listened to what Professor Lafay said.

"Poke the eyes out with our thumbs?'' he thought. "No instruments?'' He shrugged and did as was instructed. With a squelching sound they were soon out and he placed them on the harvesting tray.

The badger then found a dish and filled it with water, "Aguamenti!''.

"Now for the heart,'' he thought. Jory got his hand into the plimpy and began to feel around until he located the heart. Carefully, he pulled it out. "Fascinating.''

Erin would never throw up. She was a big girl now and a strong, clever and a brave Ravenclaw, Alice herself told her that. And those buckets should be kept away from Erin and any other students who would throw up. She would never stand seeing someone throw up. With food. Eeeeew!

Erin gave her full attention to Professor Lafay as she discussed what they would be doing next. The eyes. Erin held the Plimpy's opened head and poke its eyeballs out. She deposited her harvests to the tray. She then took a dish and filled it with water using the Aguamenti spell. She riveted her attention back to the Plimpy, cleaned her hands and used it to get the creature's heart. Slowly and carefully, she removed it from the Plimpy's opened body.

Well, getting sick by looking at the innards of the poor Plimpy wasnt something this Ravenclaw would have to worry about, its when other people getting sick and him seeing them getting sick thats the problem.

So yeah, dont nobody get sick near Vickers now ya hear?

Studying the innards up on the board wasnt so bad, it gave his mind something to focus on instead of wallowing on what the Plimpy's spiriti might be thinking. Adding a few more on his parchment, he sketched the anatomy and its labels as best he could.

But then his lips pressed to an even thinner line when the Potions Mistress mentioned about POPPING the eyeball out. He wasnt even sure if his gloved pinky finger would even fit the socket for popping. So instead he used the tip of the handle of the scalpel to assist with said popping, trying to remain focused on the task at hand, and keeping his sympathies for the creature in check.

After getting both eyeballs out he set them aside in the tray where the fins and the legs where. But his head turned sharply when the Professor said that they will be taking the heart next. There was like a death knell that went off in his head. Yes he knew the Plimpy was already very dead, but taking the heart out of the body gave some kind of finality to what he sees was already a very sad procedure. He waited until most people got their bowls before standing up to get his own, making a real slow process of going back to his table and filling the bowl up. When he has finally done so he sighed deeply as he stared at the innards of his own Plimpy once again. Wouldnt they need to take the organs away first before getting to the heart nestled within? He tried to gently push the organs aside, careful as not to tear or pierce them as he reached in for the delicate, grape-ish organ. Guh feeling soooo bad now. With a few tugs he managed to pull it out, but with these delicate fan-like structure coming along. He winced and gulped before raising a gloved hand "Uhm Professor.... should we leave the gills behind?"

So far, so good. Stella hadn't lost her focus as the plimpy had fallen open in front of herself, although she was still trying not to look at it as much as possible. It was highly possible that was the only thing keeping her from gagging, but then, as Professor Lafay actually pointed out that she'd prefer they keep the vomiting to the buckets in the back as opposed to on the plimpies, she became even more determined to show that she could handle this. Besides, oddly enough, this wasn't the worst thing she'd had to survive when it came to Potions classes here at Hogwarts, not in the least. She still made sure to copy the new steps down in her notes before dealing with even more plimpy goop on her hands, however. Avoiding actual physical evidence in her notes seemed like the best idea for not having problems later on, and seeing as they were being told to use their hands for the next few steps meant notes first.

Text Cut: Stella's Potions journal

Plimpy harvesting

Step 1: Untangle the plimpy's legs. (They commonly get tied together by merpeople to keep them from being able to damage their property.)

Step 2: Remember to put gloves on.

Step 3: Clean scalpel.

Step 4: Make an incision under the scales near the plimpy's fins, then carefully remove the fins and place them in the collection tray.

Step 5: Rotate legs widely one at a time until the joint pops out, audibly.

Step 6: Carefully cut at the loose skin around the dislocated joint, removing the leg and placing it into the collection tray as well.

Step 7: Cut the plimpy open/in half, starting at the tail and running scalpel straight up around the stomach to the head.

Step 8:Once the plimpy is opened, use thumbs to carefully pop the eyes out of their sockets, placing them in collection tray.

Step 9:Clean a separate dish carefully, and fill with water using Aguamenti, to clean the organs in

Step 10:Still using hands, carefully locate and remove the heart, cleaning it before placing in collection tray.

Once that was caught up, she took another deep breath as she risked a glance at her plimpy, luckily not staring at her as the professor was right in saying the eyes had turned inward. Actually, it looked rather pathetic, and she almost apologized to the plimpy again before reaching out to hesitantly press down on the eye socket. She shut her eyes as she heard the popping noise, even as she shifted her free hand to catch the now loose eyeball so she could place it in the tray as directed. Then she repeated the process on the other eye, just using her sense of touch to locate it and remove it with the same disgusting noise. Her eyes didn't open until both eyes were safely in the collection tray, at which point she glanced at her notes to double-check on the next step.

More hands-on steps, of course, but first she located the dish in the tools supplied to her and set it down by her notes carefully. Peeling a glove off, she flicked her wand into her hand and Scourgified both her gloves and the dish before casting Aguamenti to fill the now-clean dish with water. Returning her wand to its holster, she pulled her other glove back on then turned to the plimpy. Time to go for the heart, which brought on another silent apology, both for removing the organ and for unceremoniously sticking her hands into the body. It felt wrong, somehow, even if she understood that they needed to organs for potions ingredients, and after another moment she gently shifted another organ or two aside to locate the tiny little heart. Cupping a gloved hand around it, she gently pulled, making sure that she didn't make the same mistake it seemed Vickers had done and taken the gills at the same time by holding them aside with her free hand. Once the heart was free, she just looked at it in the palm of her hand for a second, before delicately placing it in the dish to get cleaned. She was going to assume that was the next step, at least until they got other instructions.

POP ,went the eyes as Sarah groped them. She had handled fish before, when her brothers got back from the stream during the summer after fishing, so plimpies were similar. Yet back home there was no need to pop out the eyes, as her brothers liked eating them, never mind that they fought over them... She placed the yes on the harvesting tray.
Aguamenti she casted on the dish and water jetted out out of her wand. Once the dih was fill, Sarah started with the heart. She felt for Peter the Plimpy's heart, which had not beaten since before the previous lesson. SHould she put it in the water or not?

They had buckets to...

Blehhhh. Even more shivers ran down Nora's spine only at the thought of it. No, she wasn't going to show her weak side... which happened to be very weak. She was going to be a good Slytherin and -

SHE SAID WHAT?! TAKE THE EYES OUT WITH THEIR FINGERS?!

Now, Nora really felt sick. Like... not about to... blehhh, but about to faint. She didn't know it, but every bit of colour drained from her face as she stared blankly at her now opened plimpy. But... she could do. She NEEDED to.

With her eyes closed, she did as she was told and took the eyes out and put them into the harvesting tray after cleaning them. When that was done, the girl took a dish and pointed her wand at it, mumbling "Aguamenti," and now... the heart. Hmmm. Maybe this wasn't as disgusting as popping the eyes out, so... with her hands, she gently held it and took it out to be cleaned as well.

Please, class, please end soon.

Seeing as the class was starting right of the bat, Oakey reached into his bag and slipped on his gloves.
Oakey picked up his scalpel and looked down at the creature that caused him a lot of trouble last class. He had a small smile on his face, to him this was partial revenge for slapping slime on the previously frozen Sierra. He turned his head to make sure she was still behind him in case anything else should occur that she'd blame him on.

He placed the scalpel into the bottom of his plimpy and cut upwards towards it's stomach. As he finished he placed his scalpel down and lifted the plimpy so that he could see it's organs. He wasn't going to get sick from it but it was still immensely gross and he stuck his tongue out at the sight of it's innards.

Scourgifying his scalpel he placed it down beside him and looked at the plimpy's eyes. It was disturbing looking at a dead creatures eyes. They were lifeless but it seemed like they were staring right back at him. placing his fingers into the plimpy he gently plucked out the eyes and placed them into the harvesting tray.

Taking a dish from one of the cupboards he set it down beside him and cast the water charm into it until it was partially full. Now for the heart, Oakey sneaked his hands through some of the other organs until his fingers rested on what he believed was the heart. The diagram said it was, so with a quick tug he picked the heart right out of the plimpy.

Nate did what the professor said to cut the plimpy in half. So he did that using his scalpel. He looked inside in the plimpy to see all the organs which he thought was kind of disgusting. After he looked in he popped out the eyes by poking them with his thumb. He got a bowl and filled up with water by saying "Auquamenti." Then he grabbed the heart and placed t inside the bowl of water to wash it off.

Isla quickly got to work taking the heart out of her plimpy. She was still taken aback by the fact that she had just popped the eyes out of the creature but she digressed. She quickly extracted the spongy heart from the plimpy and placed it to the side. Even being placed down with the smallest force the heart still make a squelching sound. "Yuck!" she said quietly to herself. She then quickly cleaned her hands with a quick spell and waited for the Professor to give the class then next instruction.

"If the gills stay attached to the heart, go ahead and pull them off. Drop them in the water." she said to the boy.

"Drop the heart in the water. This will allow it to wash off the blood and the plimpy slime." She dropped her plimpy heart in the water. "Now you should proceed to removing the gills. This should be quite easy now that the heart is out. Once they are out, drop them into the water as well. Take the clean heart and place it in your harvesting tray... and it will disappear." She demonstrated.

"Once that's done, remove the spine... all the other organs should be attached to it, and easy to remove."

Sarah placed the heart in the water dish to clean it off and wash off blood and slime. Next she removed the gills and dropped them too in the water. She then picked up the now clean heart from the water and placed it on a tray, where it immidiately disappeared from. She then reached for the spine and all its paraphernalia (the other organs).

Still examining the little heart, Mordred looked down to see where the gills were and back to the professor. Mordred nodded and placed the heart in the dish with water and turned it over and over with his fingers to make sure that the excess blood and slime were removed. The dish with water turned into a shade of pink fast as he cleaned the heart. He got the heart out of the water and examined it again to see if he got all the blood and slime off before he placed it on the other work tray.

Poof.

Now that he was done with the heart, he proceeded to take out the gills. It was surprising that that part was easy to take out because it seems that it was anchored to the heart. He raised it up again and examined it making sure that he didn’t leave anything behind. Satisfied, he placed it again in the water and removed the excess slime. Convinced that he cleaned it well, he placed it again in his now empty work tray and that too vanished.

He now turned his attention to the spine. Everything should come off now, she said. Thinking that this was the crucial stage, he rolled up his sleeves with his clean fingers as he examined the structure of the creature. With eyebrows furrowed, he slipped both his index and middle finger underneath the spine and clipped it with his thumbs. Slowly, he pulled it out of the Plimpy halfway, making sure that every organ was attached to it.

Alyssa watched and listened as the Professor demonstrated the next steps. Then she picked up her quill and entered those steps into her journal.



Alyssa finishing writing and then put down her quill. Since she had already placed the heart in the tray filled with water, she leaned over the plimpy's body and slowly but gently pulled on the gills with her hands until they separated from the body. She laid them in the tray and removed the heart that had been soaking in the tray and placed it in the harvesting tray. She watched as it disappeared in front of her eyes.

Finally for the spine. Alyssa reached inside with both hands and felt inside until she found a longish organ. 'That has to be the spine.' Alyssa thought to herself. With both hands, she held on to the spine and pulled on it lifting it out of the carcass. As she slowly lifted it out, she noticed that the other remaining organs were attached to it.

Nigel was ready, so right after Lafay said it, He took his thumbs and poke the plimpies eyes out. Then he placed them in his harvesting tray. He then used Aguamenti to fill a bowl with water. Then he grabbed of the plimpies heart.

The gills were still attached to the heart, so Nigel pulled them off an dropped them in the water. Next he dropped the heart in the water. Then Nigel took the clean heart and placed it in your harvesting tray. It was still amazing to Nigel that it disappeared.

Nigel then removed the spine and all the other organs attached to it. Nigel now waited for more instruction

Ok so it wasnt that bad of a mistake-- he was nervous, and he didnt really want to do this, who can blame him. He nodded his head at the Professor then proceeded to gently pull the heart out of the body, cradling with it the delicate gill structure then dropping them into the water, swirling the bowl a bit to make sure it gets as much of the blood and other body fluids out. After a while Vickers started to fish the heart-gill structure out of the water and held it over the darkened water for a while, allowing the rest of the liquid to drip out. He then lay them onto the organ tray and vanished as soon as it hit the surface.

He gulped-winced on the next step. The spine?.... just the spine? Not the skull too? This was going to be as bad as the legs extraction, maybe even worse.

He started to lift the tail and saw the spine rise along with it, bending somewhat as it neared the remaining organs still attached. Carefully he slipped his gloved fingers at the base of the Plimpy's head and bent his fingers upward-- there was a barely audible snapping of spine separating from skull.

He felt like someone just separated his own spine from his skull.

Slouching visibly he cradled the spine and the organs into his palm. His eyes fell momentarily at the Plimpy and a nearly let out a strangled yelp-- the Plimpy... doesnt look like a Plimpy anymore. It looked totally gutted and ready to be tossed into some boiling pot of broth and veggies....

... Oy seriously, he did NOT just think about food.

After putting her gloves on, Silvia picked up her scalpel and cleaned it with a scourgify. Alright, it was time for the disgusting part. Slowly and carefully, she pressed the scalpel to the icky fish plimpy and cut into it from the bottom to the top. Ewww, fishy insides. She set the scalpel aside after casting the cleaning charm on it once more.



Popping out the eyes? Those creepy looking, always staring, eyes that all fish had? That did not sound fun at all. But at least they were getting rid of them first so that she didn't have to look at them any longer; they were probably the parts of fish she couldn't stand the most. Making sure not to lean too close over the dead plimpy, she reached her hand over it and slowly plucked the eyes out with her thumbs. Couldn't they use tweezers or some other tool to do this rather than having to touch them directly? She dropped them into the harvesting tray.

Then she retrieved a dish and used the aguamenti charm to fill it, setting the dish next to the harvesting tray. Then once again reaching for the plimpy, she shifted a few of the icky insides slightly aside with one hand, and used the other to grasp the heart carefully. Silvia gave it a few tugs until it finally came out. She quickly placed it in the water-filled dish.



Silvia removed the gills and then placed them into the dish next to the heart. Then she picked up the heart again and set it in the harvesting tray, glad when it disappeared and became one less thing she had to touch. Next was the spine, which she slowly extracted. Hopefully they didn't have much left to do before she could clean up and leave the plimpy behind for good.

Ella's eyes did travel to the buckets at the back of the room as her mouth began to water uncomfortably. The sensation one usually gets right before they are about to vomit. She closed her eyes for a moment, willing her stomach to calm down, before charging onward. She was not going to be known as the potions puker...she just wouldn't. Nope.

Copying down the diagram of the internal structure of the plimpy, Ella gagged at the side the eyeballs made as Professor Lafay poked them out. YUCK. Like seriously, YUCK. At least they weren't really messy though, that was a plus. Apparently the rest of the harvesting wouldn't be quite so...clean. *GULP*. Alright, now to focus.

Ella used her thumbs to pop out the eyes and gagged once again when the made that noise. ICK! She then placed them on the harvesting tray as instructed. Next she reached for the bowl, pulling it towards her before pointing her wand at it. "Aguamenti!" Once the bowl was filled, Ella placed her wand back to the side and looked down at the plimpy, locating the heart. Oh no. Okay...here we go...and Ella plunged her hands into the disgusting plimpy's insides and removed the heart, trying desperately not to throw up.


Luckily for Ella, no gills stayed attached to the heart so she didn't have to worry about pulling them off. With a sigh of relief, she dropped the heart carefully in the water, wrinkling her nose as she looked at her hands. Blood and plimpy goo...gross!

Next Ella did her best to remove the gills. It was actually quite easy work as Lafay had said it would be. Plus the gills weren't as gross...luckily. The second year dropped the gills into the water to join the heart and nodded her head, satisfied with her work. After a moment, she picked up the now clean heart and placed it in the tray, watching with a small smile as it disappeared. That really was cool.

Now for the spine...this shouldn't be hard or anything...nope. *Gulp*. Leaning forward to examine the inners of the plimpy more closely, Ella located the spine and used her hands to get under it, wanting to get a good grip on it so she could get it out easily and without damaging anything. Then she slowly and very carefully began to lift the spine up and out of the body...continuing to make sure that the other organs were attached. She was doing it! ...even though it was horrible. AND she wasn't puking. Score one for Ms. Ella Bishop.

Nessie cringed as she popped the eye out of the pimply making a terrible squelch. As she turned the slimy eye she couldn't help but to think that this whole lesson went against what her mother had taught her.

'Treat animals with respect Nessie,'

'Animals deserve the right to live just as much as you.' Her mother's voice floated about her head making her feel that much more guilty. She shuddered slightly and set the eye down on her tray.

Pushing the tray aside she filled her dish using a aguamenti charm and reached into the plimpy carefully taking out its heart and putting it into the water to wash off all the blood and slime. Nessie's face was considerably paler than the beginning of the lesson. She took the clean heart out and put it on the tray and took the gills out and put that in the water that was previously occupied by the heart.

With wide eyes Nessie located the spine. She wiggled her hands under it and scooped out the rest of the plimpy's innards. She held onto it with both hands waiting for the next directions.

Annabelle noticed the eye was rotated inward, she took her thumb and put it into the plimpy's eye socket. It felt gross but the eye popped out. It made the wet popping noise and it made her shiver. She placed them in the harvesting tray that she was provided. Then she got another bowl like the professor did and used the charm "Aquamenti!" and the bowl filled with water. She started cleaning up the other organs such as the legs, fins and eyes. She saw all the residue floating at the top. It was very revolting. But she needed the get the job done. She put the clean organs onto the harvesting tray and was ready for the next set of instructions.

Annabelle heard the next set of instructions from the Professor. She felt for the heart in her plimpy and did not use her scalpel. She found it and took it out and put in into the water. Then she found the gills and removed them and put them into the water as well. She took the clean heart out of the water and put it into the harvesting tray. Then she found the spine and saw all the other organs are attached and it was easy. She knew she was following the instructions right.