Pokers... where were the pokers? Adi took his eyes off of the totally fascinating red substance for a moment to locate the poker.Finding it, he pointed his wand. "Incendio!'' This wasn't going to take too long to heat, right? Not if the poker was metal... Nah. The heating didn't take long and soon after, Adi was repeating Professor Cassie's step, placing the heated poker ends into the shell.

Oh, hey! Cracks were happening! Well, he was certainly seeing them. He gave this process a minute or so. Now the poker could be removed now, right? There didn't seem to be more cracking happening now, anyway. In went the poker into the bucket of water next to the table he was seated at with a fierce hiiisssssssssing sound that hot objects make when they came in contact with water.

The Hufflepuff examined the shell. Yup. It looked like the Professor's all right.