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Old 05-20-2015, 08:46 AM   #227 (permalink)
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Right, so her potion was actually clear like water. Check. CHECKCHECKCHECK. Professor Culloden spoke the final few steps, and she made notes of how to add the final ingredients. She had a think about what one she wanted to make...

SPOILER!!: Parchment

Emotional Change Potion
Ingredients
Two sprigs of lovage
4 mistletoe berries
4 measures of fluxweed
2 measures of boomslang skin
Ten newt larvae
Happiness: 3 Alihotsy leaves
Sadness: A teaspoon of glumbumble treacle
Excitement: Half a handful of ferret fur
Fear: A scoop of black flies
Tenderness: 2 teaspoons of dog saliva
Anger: 7 hippogrif feathers

Steps
1. Fill halfway with pure water
2. Slowly lower your wand as if you're drawing a straight, vertical line with your wand and say Apto pressura. ("Ap-toh press-soo-rah")
3. Heat to 100 degree celcius and keep the heat at 100 and ONLY 100 AT ALL TIMES
4. Chop the lovage well and add it
5. Wait for 5 seconds
6. Add the berries right after 5 seconds
7. Cut the fluxweed leaves in three pieces and add
8. With a wooden stick, stir once clockwise, once counter clockwise and alternate like that for 7 times: so the total number of stirs is 14
Checkpoint: It should be muddy, but not smelly.
9. Add boomslang skin and wait for 5 minutes
10. Add the larvae
CHECKPOINT: It should be completely clear like clean water
Happiness: Add 3 Alihotsy leaves and laugh as loudly as you can at a happy memory
Sadness: Think of the saddest moment in your life while adding a teaspoon of glumbumble treacle
Excitement: Sprinkle half a handful of ferret fur and stir it as quickly as you can in the clockwise direction until the fur completely dissipates (usually takes 30-45 seconds)
Fear: Squish a scoop of flies well in the mortar and add it
Tenderness: Gently add 2 teaspoons of dog saliva without any splashes
Anger: Throw 7 hippogrif feathers in as if you're angry at something and they are your relief


But first, she needed to get a sample of the base. She took a glass vial out, already clean anyway, and filled it with one sample of the base. For later. Then, she decided to try the Excitement potion. So she went to grab the ferret fur, and put it into the potion. Exactly half a handful. Well, half of one of Zhenya's hands. The fur was sprinkled in, and she got her stirrer, cleaned it "Scourgify," and stirred it clockwise, quickly quickly QUICKLYQUICKLYQUIGLEY! What? Quickly. after about 45 seconds, the fur had completely COMPLETELY dissipated. She smiled to herself, removed the wooden stirrer, "Scourgify"-ed it, and retrieved two more glass vials. She scooped some of the Excitement potion into it, got out a marker and wrote 'Excitement' on two of them, the correct two, and 'Base Potion' on the other one. Needed to be labeled.

Now they needed to get rid of their potion, for obvious reasons. "Evanesco," she said, pointing her wand into the cauldron. One second it was almost full of Excitement potion, and the next it was empty. She pointed her wand inside it again and said "Scourgify," to make sure it was clean, and turned off the flame underneath it.

Oh but there was an antidote. That was good. What if someone had slipped her the angry or fear potion? She didn't want to be angry or scared. How might it be? Zhenya raised her hand, "Sir would there have to be different antidotes to all of the potions?" She was sure that was an obvious answer, but perhaps it was just one antidote. "Could you try to give them the opposite potion of what they had used to counteract the effect? For example if someone is given a sadness potion, could you give them a happiness one to neutralise the effect of the sadness one?" She realised, too late, that she was answering his question with more questions, but somewhere in there was her suggestion.
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