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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Giselle Barrington
Slytherin Sixth Year
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Teagan Kensington
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Checking on her potion again, Brooklyn was relieved to see that it was boiling. Waiting was still not her strong suit, and she doubted it ever would be even if she did choose to go into potions as a career after graduation. She’d always just find ways to occupy herself to distract her from waiting. In any case, since her potion was boiling, she dropped the lovage leaf into the cauldron, watching nearly intently as the liquid started changing colors rapidly. It was almost hypnotizing, but she forced herself to look away in order to start shredding the bouncing bulb she had earlier brought to her station. She didn’t have time to waste, after all, especially as she heard Professor Newton announce there were only twenty minutes left.
Once she’d shredded the whole bulb, she collected the bits together into a bowl and started adding them to the cauldron, using her free hand to stir with her stirrer until every last bit was dissolved into the liquid. She quickly withdrew her hand, though, as droplets started to bounce up. There wasn’t any way she was going to risk burning herself, even given the fact she had put gloves on before she had started. She wasn’t planning on making stupid mistakes now, not when she’d prided herself on making very few mistakes up until now, over the past six terms. Not that Professor Newton would know that.
Dropping the sprig of peppermint into the cauldron carefully, she quickly covered the cauldron before using her wand to cancel out her earlier flame charm. Now came the disgusting part of the procedure, since she didn’t exactly have anyone e4lse to scrape frog slime for her this time. Instead, she had to do it herself, using a small wooden stick to scrape the belly of the frog and depositing the slime into two little tablespoon measuring spoons. Preferably she was going to avoid dealing with the slime as much as possible, and that meant she wasn’t planning on separating the two tablespoons of slime now that it was collected. She set the frog in a container though, to keep it from hopping around and disturbing her workspace.
Adding one tablespoon to the potion, she used her stirrer again to stir it exactly three times clockwise before adding the other tablespoon of slime and the billywig sting. Once that was complete, she turned her attention to the remaining ingredients and cleaned an eyedropper again to collect her glumbumble fluid. Picking up the alihotsy leaf in one hand, she held the eyedropper in the other as she dropped the leaf into the cauldron. Immediately afterward, she followed it with a drop of glumbumble liquid, setting the eyedropper down again to exchange it for her wand as she cast Incendio again. Once the flame was lit again under her cauldron, she Scourgified the eyedropper again quickly before checking on her infusion and her cauldron to see if the potion was boiling again. It would have to do, and she squeezed a small amount of the wahoo bark infusion into the eyedropper seconds before a minute was up.
Extinguishing the flame again, she set her wand aside and let her potion start cooling, holding the eyedropper over it and letting three drops fall into the liquid while the cooling continued. Cleaning the eyedropper yet again, she peeked over the edge of her cauldron. It looked iridescent to her. She just had to hope that Professor Newton agreed. Once it was completely cool, she carefully gathered some of the potion into a vial and labeled it with her name, house, and everything else necessary, turning it in to the professor before returning to her workstation and cleaning up.
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