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"Well, you all seem to be following directions well." Good... she was impressed. Or maybe her good mood was clouding her judgement... maybe...
"Next steps... Pull your wooden spoon, and add 3 spoonfulls of raw honey..." She looked over to the Gryffindor prefect. "It doesn't have to be perfectly measured... you just add it by eye." She showed the students how to do it, letting the hot liquid melt off all the honey from the spoon. "Take 5 basil leaves and slice them thin, as thin as you can, with your silver knife." And she did what she said to the letter. "Now what you want to do is take a papaya, whole and with the same silver knife, stab the fruit and stuff some of the basil in the wound. Keep stabbing until you make enough holes for all of the basil. Then add it to the mixure. Whole."
1 whole Papaya
Auggie's potion was on the right track of actually turning out as planned. All he had to do was keep it up now.
After resisting the urge to taste a bit of the honey, the Gryffindor added one spoonful and then two additional ones to the potion and each time left the spoon in long enough for the honey to melt off. Done. Next August took the basil leaves and layed them out and began to slice each of them up really thin and then made a small pile of the finished product.
Now for the papaya. The Muggleborn couldn't help but see the resemblance in this task with the stabbing of a potato before you baked it. This was obviously slightly different. The forth year finally stuffed all of the basil leaves into each of the holes and then dropped the thing into the cauldren.