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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Giselle Barrington
Slytherin Seventh Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Teagan Kensington
Slytherin Second Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Arienne Morgenstern
Hufflepuff Fifth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Simone Wild
Slytherin Third Year  x5  x3
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Originally Posted by Droo  "Last two steps." She said and she hooked one finger in it's mouth. "With your finger, pull on it's mouth, it'll rip off." And as it did the sound was disgusting. "Don't worry about how it rips..." she dropped it in the water and then the harvesting tray. "Now just start ripping the meat up in pieces, oh and the sound is something plimpies make." She began ripping. The sound was loud, wet, gross and almost like a cry. "You need to make them into small two inch pieces. Try to ignore the sound of the flesh ripping." As Professor Lafay started to speak, all Stella's hopes that they were finished and going to be able to leave without having to do anything else to the plimpy carcass went out the metaphorical window. In fact, she wasn't even convinced that these were going to be the last two
steps, as she'd thought they were finished several times before and more steps had just appeared. Either way, she decided to copy down the instructions into her journal before she attempted to add even more shrieking to the room. It had been hard enough listening to the professor's dead plimpy protesting being torn to bits, and seeing as some of the other students had decided to get the process over with as soon as possible had only added to the din.
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 (after step 11).
Step 11: Remove gills next, placing in the water for cleaning as well before moving to the collection tray (after step 12/13).
Step 12: Remove spine, taking all remaining organs with it.
Step 13: Pluck the remaining organs from the spine, placing them into the dish of water for cleaning.
Step 14: Harvest the plimpy slime and blood; squeeze empty plimpy remains over collection tray gently (to retain the scales) so the fluids pool up and separate on their own.
Step 15: Make sure to get remaining slime off gloves and into the collection tray so it's not wasted
Step 16: Invert cleaned out plimpy carcass and carefully peel skin off the meat, placing skin into collection tray.
Step 17: Hooking a finger into the plimpy's mouth, pull to remove it, then clean and place in collection tray.
Step 18: By hand, rip the meat into small, two-inch pieces.
A distraction was definitely going to be needed, so as she put her gloves back on to finish harvesting her own plimpy, she racked her brain for ideas. She quickly dismissed the idea of using "Blackbird" again, like she'd done before, but eventually settled on quietly humming one of the pieces Matt had played for her over the holidays. If anything, that might help her learn it when he tried teaching her to play again, and it worked to calm her down at least as she hooked a finger into the mouth. Pulling, she tried to focus on the music in her head to drown out the noise of the jaw snapping free. then quickly dropped the loose mouth into the water and then moved it to the harvesting tray. Now all that was left was dealing with the remaining meat, and she really wasn't looking forward to that.
How is meat making so much noise?, she wondered, momentarily breaking her focus on the music in her head but snapping back to it before she picked up the remaining plimpy carcass. There was no way she'd retain her sanity while doing what she needed to without the distraction. After another moment, she eyed the meat in her hand and then ripped. letting the silent musical distraction get louder as the shriek happened. At least the piece that ripped off looked about two inches, so she continued. Trying desperately to ignore the protests of the dead plimpy who it seemed didn't realize it was just a fish fillet by now, and she continued ripping until she ran out of plimpy carcass. That seemed like all she could do. At least if there wasn't any plimpy left, there shouldn't be too much left of the lesson.
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