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Err...exactly HOW much was a measure when it came to Pygmy Puffs?

Esme was slightly confused and then figured that maybe it was two individual hairs because that was the amount needed for rats and cats. She wasn't even going to begin being amused by that rhyme because she was too busy shuddering at the thought of cutting the tip off of an owl feather. Even if that owl was Barnaby. MOVING ON.

Feeling a litttle bad, she collected two hairs from Sparkle. "Sorry," she said apologetically to the little Pygmy Puff as she squeaked. A few pats followed along with a promise of treats later. It wasn't Sparkle's fault that she was terrified of birds and didn't own a cat. She was a great pet anyway and got a small smile as the hairs were added to the cauldron. Now to do some more stirring...

Another 1... 2... 3... times clockwise with the wooden stirrer and Esme let it simmer for six minutes. Finally she was almost done with the potion. To pass the time she gave Sparkle some attention but she couldn't wait to be out of here and back to the common room where she could finally stop feeling scared.

SPOILER!!: Esme's Notes
ANIMAL WHISPERER POTION

Ingredients
6 cups water
15 fresh Belladonna leaves
3 dried Fluxweed sprigs, roughly crushed in mortar and pestle (picked during a full moon, and dried over one week)
0.5mL Wormwood essence
2Tbsp Lacewing flies
1tsp honey
1tsp water
0.1mL Boomslang venom
1 crushed Unicorn Horn

1 cup of Armadillo Bile
15g Ginger, crushed
1 Shrivelfig, scooped out seeds
1 measure of your animal

Method
1. Add 6 cups of water to you cauldron, and light a small flame. Simmer the water for 5 minutes to slowly heat to an appropriate temperature
2. Pluck the 15 leaves of Belladonna from the sprigs, will need approximately 2 sprigs, and add them to the cauldron once five minutes is up
3. Gather the 3 sprigs of dried Fluxweed, and roughly crush in mortar and pestle. Only enough to increase the surface area, then add to the cauldron
4. Simmer for a further 3 minutes
5. Stir with a wooden stirrer, three times, clockwise
6. Measure, with a 1ml syringe, your Wormwood essence, and add to the cauldron.
7. Measure 0.1mL Boomslang venom in a different syringe and place to the side for a moment
8. Clean the mortar and pestle, add one unicorn horn, and crush it to a fine powder, then add the Boomslang venom. Mix together (it will not make a paste) and set aside for three minutes, then add to the cauldron.
9. Simmer the cauldron for three minutes, then stir three times, clockwise
10. Clean the mortar and pestle, and add two tablespoons of Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey, and one teaspoon of water, and crush until it makes a smooth paste. Carefully add the paste to the cauldron
11. Stir slowly for three minutes, clockwise, and then leave the potion to simmer for ten minutes.
12. Add one measure of your animal’s fur or, if a toad, a gentle scraping from head, down the body with your metal stirrer, then stir three times into the cauldron. Only two individual hairs needed for a rat or a cat, and for an owl, cut the tip of one feather, OR stroke your owl until a small feather separates from the owl (do NOT pluck the feather). Stir with wooden stirrer three times clockwise, and leave for six minutes to simmer.

13. Scoop out the liquid into your phials and discard the stewed ingredients.
14. Drink one 10ml phial of potion and let the potion set in until you start to sense your animal speaking to you.
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