Wow, Professor Culloden could be a right grouchy gills when it came to Potions class. It was actually kinda funny, because Toby knew that he was actually just a big ol' pussycat. Still, some of the littler kids seemed a bit sad, like that one Ravenclaw, but Culloden had it covered. Seeeeee? If he was REALLY mean, he wouldn't console everyone so quickly. Professor Culloden just liked people to THINK he was a big scary ogre.

The heat on Toby's cauldron was lowered to medium and he tugged back his left sleeve so he could keep an eye on his watch.

"Scourgify," Tobias cast at a bowl, effectively cleaning it, before repeating the spell on a cup and metal spoon, as per Culloden's instructions. He moved to the front of the room again and filled his clean cup with re'em blood (ew ew ew ew ew oh no) before returning to his desk. Toby poured the re'em blood and salamander blood into the bowl before stirring. Five times clockwise, and five times anti-clockwise. There, done.

Now for the crushing.

Tobias reached for his mortar and pestle and cleaned them both with the scouring charm. Then he got to work crushing the griffin claw. The use of the griffin claw made Toby smile; his wand was made up of griffin claw, something he'd always found pretty cruel.

As Toby worked on crushing the claw, he glanced at his watch again. Had it been five minutes yet?