Vickers took hold of the honey bottle and lifted the wooden spoon out of the mixture, pausing for a moment if he should bother to scourgify it prior to measuring out the honey. But it didnt look like the Professor needed it clean, so he leveled the spoon and poured honey into it, then dipped the spoon into the hot mixture to take all the honey off. He repeated this process a couple more times until he got the three spoonfuls of honey needed.

He took his silver knife and scourgified it, then glanced down at the slicing board and scourgified that as well. It was then that he stacked the basil leaves onto it then sliced them thinly, just as the Potions Mistress demonstrated. He took extra care to make them extra thin, so much so that by the time he was done, he saw Mo has taken to happily stabbing his papaya. The bespectacled Ravenclaw had to chuckle. Someone sure was enjoying this.

He took the papaya in his hand and with his knife, created small incisions into its meat. Still using the knife he picked up the basil slivers and used it to insert a few leaf slices into the incisions. He repeated this process all over the papaya until all basil slivers has been tucked into the fruit.

He angled his head as he peered into the mixture then carefully dipped the papaya into the side of the cauldron before releasing it completely into the mixture.