After having already retrieved the listed ingredients, Zhenya had pulled her cauldron up and set it up on her bench. She pulled out her wand, muttered Scourgify to clean the cauldron, then waited briefly to hear the rest of Professor Lafay's instructions.

She was quite frightened of fire and hesitated a minute before she lit a flame. It was small, really small, so she had to increase it. She did it extremely slowly so that she wouldn't explode the classroom because that was what she was afraid of.