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Callie · 05-11-2016, 01:04 AM

SPOILER!!: ❤Mossy

Hadley raised her eyebrows, questioningly at Mossy. She had to be kidding right? Surely, that was just her personality than actually doing anything for the potions. But since when did Mossy kid? Even though Hads knew it probably didn't make a difference, she did take Moss up on her offer and she was trying to get the girl to warm to her.

If Katherine Moss and/or Jacen Reed accepted her as a Ravenclaw, Hadley Denaker might just believe she had a place in that house. Those two were the most Ravenclaw Ravenclaws possible.

She nodded quietly, and grabbed her googles. Once they were uncomfortably secure of her eyes, Haddie set about organizing her equipment and ingredients the way Mossy suggested. Which soon evolved into simply looking over at Mossy's workstation and copying, as best she could, how the girl set hers up. "There. Done." She smiled, a bit proud. This was the neatest anything of hers ever looked. It...didn't feel right.

Now for the aging potion. Hadley took the 2 gram weigh and placed it on the scale. On the other side she piled the hairy fungus...ew, by the way. A few small adjustments and that was basically balanced. Basically. Last term she had obsessed about getting the measurements exact, but according to her Mom, the five star, award winning chef, it didn't have to be exact, exact. Just as close and possible. And so, Hadley scooped the fungus off the scale and into her mortar.

Mash, mash, mash. Mashing was a fun part of potions. You really didn't get to mash things beyond potatoes in cooking, and not like this. Mash, mash, mash. There that looked somewhat uniform. She was going to nail this potion, or go to Healer Murdoch trying. A quick glance to how Mossy's looked gave her pause though. Hadley's clearly wasn't somewhat uniform enough. She shrugged and went back to mash, mash, mash.

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Callie DMC Snidget Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Never Never Land Posts: 2,717 Hogwarts RPG Name: Andromeda Renzler-Denaker Gryffindor First Year	Post 3 - prep the hair fungus Fluttery Pegasi SPOILER!!: ❤Mossy Quote: Originally Posted by StarShine YES! Katherine SMILED at Haddie. A genuine smile like hers, though they were clearly smiling for VERY different reasons. For Katherine, it was simply because she was going to ace not one but TWO potions during this lesson and earn the Professor's respect for being so PERFECT and ATTENTIVE and CLEVER for managing TWO advanced potions. And the nickname Mossy? Nothing had ever sounded sweeter! If this was the way Haddie listened to her PLUS she earned a professor's blessing, she was willing to sell her soul. "Of course," she told sweeeetly, of course she wasn't going to do anything for her... as long as Haddie did all as she instructed. She got her black googles on and turned to look at what Haddie was doing, which... wasn't what she was supposed to be doing. "You should wear your googles," she said as she pointed at hers, "and then line the ingredients according to their order. It'll be much easier this way, you won't mess up. You can order them as I did." Did the Professor hear? She was literally helping one of his worst students, she deserved at least ten points. Heheh, (semi) joke aside, she got her scales and put 2 grams on one side. Then, she got a clean spoon and got a tiny bit of fungus. Putting it on the other handle, she slid her stool backwards to be level at the scale's middle point where she would see whether the ends met. She needed a bit less fungus... now it was too little... added more... AH, GOT IT! The ends of both of the arms met, and she added it to the mortar and pestle to mash as she side-eyed Haddie. She was watching and helping, mhm. Once she was done with mashing (OF COURSE her fungus was THOROUGHLY mashed, not somewhat like the Professor told them to), she got it on a clean plate and cleaned the mortar&pestle with a "Scourgify". Now was the time for tortoise shell... Hadley raised her eyebrows, questioningly at Mossy. She had to be kidding right? Surely, that was just her personality than actually doing anything for the potions. But since when did Mossy kid? Even though Hads knew it probably didn't make a difference, she did take Moss up on her offer and she was trying to get the girl to warm to her. If Katherine Moss and/or Jacen Reed accepted her as a Ravenclaw, Hadley Denaker might just believe she had a place in that house. Those two were the most Ravenclaw Ravenclaws possible. She nodded quietly, and grabbed her googles. Once they were uncomfortably secure of her eyes, Haddie set about organizing her equipment and ingredients the way Mossy suggested. Which soon evolved into simply looking over at Mossy's workstation and copying, as best she could, how the girl set hers up. "There. Done." She smiled, a bit proud. This was the neatest anything of hers ever looked. It...didn't feel right. Now for the aging potion. Hadley took the 2 gram weigh and placed it on the scale. On the other side she piled the hairy fungus...ew, by the way. A few small adjustments and that was basically balanced. Basically. Last term she had obsessed about getting the measurements exact, but according to her Mom, the five star, award winning chef, it didn't have to be exact, exact. Just as close and possible. And so, Hadley scooped the fungus off the scale and into her mortar. Mash, mash, mash. Mashing was a fun part of potions. You really didn't get to mash things beyond potatoes in cooking, and not like this. Mash, mash, mash. There that looked somewhat uniform. She was going to nail this potion, or go to Healer Murdoch trying. A quick glance to how Mossy's looked gave her pause though. Hadley's clearly wasn't somewhat uniform enough. She shrugged and went back to mash, mash, mash. __________________