After checking her parchment slip and confirming that the next step was cleaning the handle, Elise bounced over to retrieve a sponge before soaking it into the sudsy water. She pulled it out and almost brought it over towards one of the school brooms. Nonono. Squeezing the excess water out, Elise brought the non-dripping sponge back to her workstation.

Now, for the hard part. Cleaning. Elise was a rather petite person, and really barely had enough strength to do it, but she tried anyway. Scrub. Scrub. Scrub. Come off, already, silly grime.

Scrub. Scrub. Scrubbing, and more scrubbing. Joy.

Then she sensed rather than felt the grime coming off the handle. Yay, it worked! Running over to the front, she picked a nice RAVENCLAW! blue towel before bouncing back to her broom. Patting it gently, she allowed the cloth to absorb all the moisture.

Once that was over and done with, Elise checked off her parchment slip. Now, what was next?