Looking down at her ingredients list, Ella frowned. Sheesh! She still had quite a lot to do! The second year was a bit freaked out by this, especially because a certain giggling Hufflepuff man kept stealing her attention with his hyena laughter. If it wasn't a final, she would have attempted to help her fellow badger, even if he was the most annoying human being on the planet. Unfortunately for him and for her, it was a final. Meaning Ella just had to make the best of it and continue on. Besides, she couldn't exactly ask Professor Lafay to help! What if she like...tried to EAT Ella or something! MEEP! That would be horrifying! OR WORSE...she could take away house points! O___O THAT WOULD BE THE WORST! Nope. She was going to keep her mouth shut and concentrate. She could TOTALLY do this. Mhm!

Quill in hand, Ella underlined the next ingredient she needed to add which was...blood. EWWW! FLAIL. WHY did it have to be blood? The second year gagged a bit as she unstoppered the container and began to carefully add it to the potion. Five drops, yeah? Five drops of blood...CRINGE...no big deal. GAG. Nope. "1...2...this is horrible...3" Yup. Just adding some blood. BLOOD. Frown. "4...What am I, a vampire or something?...5." And then she was done with the BLOOD. Thank Merlin! And she placed the stopper back on before placing it to the side.

After crossing off the blood, Ella moved her quill down and found that next she'd be adding the...5 BURSTING mushrooms? Bursting, really? Who came up with this stuff, anyway? Everything they were using was pretty much disgusting or harmful in some way...well at least before it had been erm...disarmed. Save a few, of course. Like water...that stuff was just plain awesome! Mhm. And beneficial! And Professor Lafay had disarmed them, right? Wait. Of course she had! Ella had brought them back to the table without a problem. ...PHEW. As she began adding them, the second year couldn't help but imagine what would happen if one just like EXPLODED in your face. "1....2..." You're just walking a long in the forest one day, minding your own business when BAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! O___O You've been attacked...BY A MUSHROOM. "3...4..." Imagine! And then you'd be all HORRIBLY disfigured and people would ask what happened and it wouldn't even be a remotely awesome story...like if a bear attacked you or something! Nope...you'd have to admit that you'd been taking out by a MUSHROOM. A full on fungi attack. Bahahah! It was ridiculous! "5." Crazy exploding mushrooms!

Right. Crossing out the crazy mushrooms and moving on...Next was Asphodel root. Hm. 5 inches to be precise. Double checking her measurement with her fingers, the second year was pretty satisfied. Besides, asphodel root could only help this INSANE Essence of Insanity potion anyway, yeah? Yeah. And in it went. "Voila!" Lovely. And the Asphodel root was crossssed off.

Looking down, Ella felt her stomach do a serious flip-flop. Oh no! No.No.No. She didn't want to add this particular ingredient AT ALL. It was like...SO yucky. Like...eep! The ONLY place a voice box belonged was in the throat! Mhm! Using ....bits of it was just...ewwwwwie! Gag. And Ella had to see these erm...parts... 5 times? O_o Oh Merlin help her. She grabbed the spoon and cleaned it before...GAG...scooping out the first spoonful. "I'm sorry that your erm..voice box is perfect for this potion, dead fwooper." She whispered as she added the first tablespoon. "Please don't like erm...haunt me or anything because I'm taking part in this...inhumane practice..." And two more spoonfuls were added. "I um...I'm sorry you are no longer around to erm...drive people insane with your erm...song." One more spoonful was added. "I um...well just feel good knowing that your voice box...well bits of it...carry on your work while you rest...in pieces. Literally." And in went the last spoonful. 5...gag...fwooper voice box bits in all. Ick.

The five flowers of brugmansia went in without too much fuss. Ella simply added them while counting aloud, still feeling pretty upset about the whole...voice box bits thing. "1...2...3..4..5" And another item crossed off the list.

Right. 5 snake fangs came next. Ella could do this part without much trouble. Mhm. Fangs were just like...really sharp teeth. Mhm! She was practically being a snake dentist right now. Besides, wasn't using these fangs a form of recycling! It totally was! BEAM. "1..2..3...4...5." In went the fangs. Bing.Bang.Boom. And then on to the oz of wormwood...heh. Not the WIZARD OF OZ, though! BAHAHHAHA!

"Okay you erm...wormwood. In you go..." And in went the wormwood, carefully added of course. And now only one thing left to add! FLAILS!

5 sneezewort petals. That was the only thing standing in the way of Ella and a finished potion. Heh. Not even a laughing Elijah could stop her now! MWAHAHAH! Anyway, the second year counted out five petals and added them one by one. "1...2...3.." Wait. WHY was her nose starting to feel quite itchy? "4..." Oh no...Not in the potion! No. "AAAAAA...." NOOO. "CHOOOO!" Ick. And right on her last petal, too. Um...maybe germs would just like...enhance the potion? Squirm. Here's hoping.

And she was done! She had finished! HOORAY! Flail! And now she really needed to clean while she waited for any other possible instructions. And so the badger took out her wand and began to clean the surface of like...everything. Especially her hands...which she'd just sneezed ALL over...EEP. SO disgusting!...but NOT as disgusting as Fwooper voice box bits...just saying.