Er... everyone was pairing up. Kye looked around, but felt a bit of relief that some people seemed to want to do this on their own. Well, at least that way no one could mess up her Potion except for herself, right? Yea.
Kye practiced cleaning her cauldron, as the professor had instructed. Her first attempt was rather meek, but she got it better the second time around. Her cauldron was clean! Hooray!... Now for the actual work.
Kye spread her things out on her table, since she could, and started measuring everything. She was sticking her tongue out a little in concentration as she poured the wine and prune juice. Ugh, slicing a caterpillar? Quite disgusting to be honest... the best part of this so far had been crushing the turtle shell since it was hard to tell what it was. Everything else, Kye could have done without. Kye barely looked up as she worked on her ingredients. She did once, to see what everyone looked like whilst preparing, but then she was overcome by her want to have a good outcome with her potion.
After she had finally finished preparing everything, she started pouring in the liquids and stirring. No! She had gone half a turn counter-clockwise on accident! She looked back at the instructions and started going clockwise. Had she ruined it already? Was she setting herself up for a T in Potions?? Terrible. Terrible Troll. Ugh!
Kye was wary of her Potion, expecting it to blow up any minute. She got through to the bubbling... even though her Potion was much more purple than brown. She added the Hairy Fungus and stirred for ten more looooong minutes. She was glad to see it was at least a lighter shade of purple now.. She dumped her powdered tortoise shell in the mixture and tried to lean back a bit in case the potion decided now was a good time to explode. Oh now it was brown? How did it go from light purple to brown? It seemed to be fading in color a bit which Kye could only guess was either okay or she was doomed fifteen minutes ago.
She let it cook for the eight minutes notated, before taking it off heat and practically throwing the bat tongues and caterpillars... Blech. She was glad to see them gone, frankly. She stirred occasionally and now she started observing others.
When time was up, her potion looked a forest green in color... I wouldn't feed this to the professor... she commented. Once her Potion was dry, it was not emerald green it was more... neutral green?
She knew she had messed up though. How many points would this old man take away from Slytherin based on her so far terrible Potions skills?? |