Note taking was going on here. Her quill flew across her parchment as she copied the ingredients and the first couple of steps down.

"Scourgify," Leah said after giving her hand a short rest, waving her wand around her cauldron and thermometer. What else did she have to clean? Nothing else for now, but she would need a lot more scouring in future steps. Placing her wand back into her pocket, she looked up at the blackboard and took it out again. Of course, the first step would be to fill water. "Aguamenti." A jet of clear water shot out from the tip of her wand. She waited and waited until the water was filled halfway. This was SLOW, you know? Finally, when she thought it was about time, she used Finite to stop the water.

Next step: Apto pressura. As always, she began with the pronounciation. "Ap-toh press-soo-rah. Ap-toh press-soo-rah," the Hufflepuff whispered, "Ap-toh press-soo-rah. Apto pressura. Apto pressura." That sounded about right. Leah then followed the Professor's demonstration at the wand movement. She slooowly drew an imaginary straight, vertical line with her wand. Nope, that was not smooth enough. Again, she lowered her wand, this time staring at her wand movement to make sure it was good. Some more tries made it even better. Time to put the two TOGETHER. "Apto pressura!" she said with the wand movement that she practiced.

Did it work? Leah waited for any special effects. Jets of light even. But no, she had to actually heat the cauldron to find out. "Incendio." With that, she produced fire at the bottom of her cauldron. She did not forget to stick her thermometer into the water as it started to heat. This waiting thing again. She eyed the thermometer as the temperature rised... to a hundred. And stopped there. Yay!

She bent over her desk to copy down more steps that appeared on the board. These sounded pretty easy. Except uh, where was her lovage? The Fifth Year frowned, but soon found it hiding behind her cauldron. Baaad ingredient. She picked it up and was ready to get chopping when oops. "Scourgify," she cleaned her knife because hygiene was an important issue. And chopping she did. She almost cut her finger once but it missed. Thank Merlin. When both sprigs were cut well, she added them into her really hot water.

5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

0. She had looked for the berries during her five seconds of waiting. They went straaaight into the cauldron. Plop!