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|  Post #2; Potions Activity, Steps 5-9 urine trouble | Pat's Strong Confident Other Half | Pees Like a Champion Unicorn Racehorse
You know what he had spent the past two hours doing?
Studying, that's what.
He'd also done more important things like grab himself a snack and signed back in in the log book and possibly tried to find someone to annoy. Boredom had snuck in and he didn't want to be away from the cauldron from too long. Not when there was a potion brewing. What if someone came and messed it all up? People were freaking insane and he wasn't gonna take that risk. So, for the majority of the two hours, Grayson had stayed right where he was and made some notes that he was sure he was gonna forget before long.
Once the time struck two hours -- FINALLY -- the Slytherin was more than happy to snap his book shut and turn his attention back to his cauldron. The heat was turned off and, while he waited for it to cool down, he moved onto the next step. He pulled the mortar and pestle closer towards him and gave them a magical clean -- important, that was -- before placing the Bicorn horn into it. And so the crushing process began, a tedious process if the horn was going to be stubborn and not crush itself properly. He needed to wait for the potion to cool down but did he want to be waiting here all day? Nah!
At long last, the horn had been crushed down into a fine powder, which gave Whitty the chance to smirk to himself. How long had that been? Not fifteen minutes, right? Surely not! Crushing a horn didn't take THAT long, SURELY. He checked the temperature of the potion with his hands every now and then, since it had to be cool enough to touch and all. Once it was -- a little under fifteen minutes, too! -- Grayson added it into the cauldron. THERE! His wooden stick got a magical clean before he dipped it into the potion and went forth with the complicated stirring. It WAS complicated, especially when he first read it. One... two... three... four... five stirs clockwise. Then that was followed by one... two... three... four stirs counter clockwise.
See? Complicated.
One... two.. three stirs clockwise, and then one... two stirs counter clockwise and FINALLY one stir clockwise. MAN. Talk about confusing. The next step was MUCH simpler -- thank Merlin! -- so he was more than happy to light a fire beneath his cauldron and turn it up to maximum.
And it had to stay like that for a week? Brilliant. He was gonna leave that there and come back in a week's time, then.
Text Cut: Notebook Un-Felix Un-Felicis Potion
(Opposite of Felix Felicis)
Grayson Whitlock
Ingredients:
- a litre of goat milk
- 1 strand of thestral mane
- bicorn horn
- full, undamaged mussel shell
- one black cat's fur
- caterpillar
- 13 rose thorns from 13 different roses (plucked ripe from the branches)
Instructions:
1) Pre-heat the cauldron to 150 celcius degrees
2) Put one litre of goat milk
3) Add the thestral mane
4) Wait for two hours
[S5) Put out the fire and wait for it to cool down[/S]
6) Crush the bicorn horn into a fine powder in the meantime and add it once the potion is cool enough for you to touch
7) Check point: it should be cool in maximum 15 minutes
8) With a wooden stick, stir it five times clockwise, four times counter clockwise, three times clockwise, two times counter clockwise and once clockwise.
9) Light a fire and bring it to maximum. Let it burn for a full week. Make sure the fire is always at maximum.
10) Clean the mussel shell gently, make sure there is no moss on it. open it, remove the mussel itself and clean its inside too, then add into the cauldron after a week is up.
11) Put out the fire and wait for one Moon cycle
12) Check point: the colour should be silver
13) Sprinkle half of the fur
14) With a metal stick, stir vigorously 13 times counter clockwise
15) Sprinkle the other half of the fur
16) Stir slowly 13 times counter clockwise
17) Check point: it should smell like your least favourite flower
18) Wait for a week
19) Slice the caterpillar into five equal pieces and add the one by one
20) Swirl your wand slowly over the cauldron while telling an event you think is unfortunate (the number of swirls doesn't matter, just don't stop until the end of the story)
21) Light a low fire and wait for 13 days
22) Get 13 rose thorns from 13 different roses in the gardens and add them all at once
23) With a metal stick, stir once clockwise
24) Wait until it changes colour from green to brown
25) Label it and leave a vial it on the desk
Do NOT! try it without my consent.
If you have done everything correctly, it shouldn't smell or smoke. Its taste should not spoil the substances it is added.
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