Friday 31st January, exactly seven days after she had added the Jobberknoll feathers, Zhenya went back to the Potions Lab to do the rest of the potion. The week had been the same as last, the constant knot of tension in her stomach, the dreams... she had come a few times a day to check the flame, and there hadn't been any problems. It had kept constant.

Zhenya walked over to her bench space, cleaned the table with the cleaning charm, before putting her potions kit and other bits and pieces over the other side of the bench. She went to the sink and gave her hands, wrists and arms a nice scrub, all the way up to her elbow, then rinsed and dried. Coming back to the desk, with her glasses and protective gown on, she took out the remaining seven Jobberknoll feathers and added them to her potion. Then she increased the flame slightly, so that it was now on a medium heat.

Now, 7 teaspoons of Armadillo bile. Zhenya got out her measuring spoons, found the teaspoon measure. "Scourgify," she said, pointing to her teaspoon and performing the 's' shaped wand movement. No way was she going to let it become contaminated. She read her instructions which said to add one teaspoon at a time. She scooped out one levelled teaspoon of the Armadillo Bile and added it to her potion. "One teaspoon." She measured another one.. "Two teaspoons," and another one, "Three teaspoons... Four teaspoons, Five teaspoons, Six teaspoons, SEVEN teaspoons," she said, carefully measuring a levelled teaspoon during every step, until seven teaspoons of Armadillo Bile had been added to the cauldron.