 Post 7 part 2 Fluttery Pegasi
Okay, clean the mortar and pestle again. "Scourgify and... scourgify. Check." Next up is... Lacewing flies. Ew. The young Californian made a face as she scooped a tablespoon of flies and added them to the mortar. Then a second spoonful. Oh, honey. Much better. One teaspoon, and two teaspoons and a teaspoon of... water? Haddie looked at the teaspoon and decided it would be a bad idea to try and aguamenti the water onto the spoon.
So she would need a cup. Like that measuring cup over there. She had to lean across the workstation to reach it. Seriously, how did it even get over there? No matter. "Aguamenti!" No chances. Not this close to being finished, with possibly the first decent attempt at a potion she's done. "Finite!" The water stopped as it neared the top of the cup. Perfect. She didn't know what she was going to do with the water she didn't need, but it was perfect. Haddie dipped the teaspoon into the water and added it to her mortar. Then she went to mashing it all into a paste, refusing to look at it for a whole minute as she did. She wasn't really in the mood to watch fly guts spill out. Asher was apparently, his eyes never left the mortar. Such a boy.
There, that was pasty enough, don't you think, Asher? Of course he did. And now add it... carefully? To the cauldron. Why? Why carefully? And Carefully how? See, vague instructions were too vague. What if she didn't add it carefully enough, would the potion turn into acid and melt her stomach or something? Would it explode? All these questions and more played out on Haddie's face.
She decided that adding it carefully meant holding it at arms length away from her and scraping it into the cauldron without actually looking at it. She scourgified her mortar and pestle again as soon as she was done, just in case it decided it wasn't lying around on the table carefully enough. You never know when fly guts were involved. Oh, that was the last step. So she was done then?
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