| Abraxan
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Perth, AU (GMT +8)
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Jasper Hart
First Year
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|  *catches up* ½ EagleBrain ♥ Creeperdoodle ♥ Raven Dor ♥ Berry ♥ ½ Team House Elf
SPOILER!!: Culloden Quote:
Originally Posted by StarShine  NONE of them made a mistake. None. Which meant, his sugar policy was working and - Merlin, he should have thought of this five terms ago. How calm the classes would have been then!
Well, no time to regret. He waved his wand from the back of the class and the next set of instructions appeared.
"Add the berries one by one, draw a circle over the cauldron in clockwise direction while sprinkling alihotsy leaves and wave your wand. If you did all right, the potion should turn dark red."
The hour of truth. Heh. The belladonna berries, all eight of them went into his cauldron, one by one. Following the next instruction, Zeke took his chopped alihotsy leaves and sprinkled those into his cauldron too as he moved his hand in a circular clockwise motion above it. The leaves fell softly into his brew. Larch wand in hand, Zeke performed the wave over his cauldron... wondering exactly what kind effect that had. In his mind it would help to combine the ingredients, but that was a guess, he could be wrong.
Peering over the brim, he examined the contents, smiling to himself at the delightful shade of dark red. It almost reminded him of cranberry juice. SPOILER!!: more Culloden Quote:
Originally Posted by StarShine Moving on, then. Still no explosions. HEHE. Merlin, this was proving to be one of the easiest classes.
He walked up to the front and tapped his wand on the blackboard.
"Now the part you hate the most: Waiting. For pewter, 25 minutes. For brass, 13 and for copper, 8. You'll have a task in the meantime, however. Break the frozen egg into 8. If you break it into more, just get another egg. They will... be on my desk, hold on." He quickly walked in the storeroom to get the tray of eggs and put it on his desk.
"Once the time is up, add these pieces and stir vigorously with a metal stick until the colour is purple."
All clear?
And bleh, really truly he did hate waiting. Patience was still something he hadn't quite developed. For once though, he was thankful not to have brought his pewter cauldron, instead in its play he was using his brass one. Thirteen minutes. After setting his timer, Zeke took down the notes from the board that he needed to catch up on... though occasionally, every so often, he continued to peer into his cauldron.
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With his notes done, and time still to go, he collected his frozen ash winder egg and very carefully went about breaking it into bits. Or more precisely, into eight bits.
He was careful with his movements, not wanting to crush it, or flake it or break it into too many pieces. At least though, they didn't have to be EQUALLY sized pieces, so it was easy enough to do... when exercising some control.
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At the thirteen minute mark, his timer went off, and he added the frozen bits of ashwinder egg. The second they were in, he took his clean metal stirrer and stirred the contents of his cauldron vigorously. There had been no instructions regarding direction, so he went with what felt natural, and as it so happened that was anti-clockwise. Stir... stir.... stir.... STIR....
The fourth year Gryffindor watched closely as his potion turned from that red to purple. Success.
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