Oh. So she wasn't right. But that was okay. It was what they came to lessons for. But listening to the Professor, Hattie decided she wasn't exactly wrong either. It just wasn't the answer he was looking for. Hattie smiled though.
"I would really like to help you find out if it's right..." She nodded. But they were getting to brew now. So she quickly forgot about her questions, and turned her attention to brewing. She loved this part of potions! First of all she wrote down on her notes, so that she knew how to follow.
SPOILER!!: Hattie's notes
Babbling Beverage
Ingredients
500ml Water
5g Fresh Alihotsy leaves
2 dried Billywig Stings
Pinch of powdered Erumpent tongue
5ml Armadillo bile
2 drops Leech Juice
1 tablespoon Activated Charcoal
Pinch of ground Bezoar
Method
Clean equipment
Add water to cauldron, and bring to a simmer
Stew alihotsy leaves in simmering water for 20 minutes [prepare other ingredients whilst waiting]
Remove all traces of leaves, and return water to a boil
Add dried billywig stings and erumpent tongue, boil for 10 minutes, continuously stiring counter-clockwise
Allow to cool to room temperature (22 °C/72 °F)
Add armadillo bile, stir five (5) times counter-clockwise
Add leech juice, stir twenty (20) times counter-clockwise, and the potion should be light brown in colour
Bring back to a boil
Circle wand counter-clockwise over cauldron whilst saying the incantation ‘garrula lingua’ and bring down to a simmer
Add 1 levelled tablespoon of activated charcoal
Stir counter-clockwise three (3) times slowly
Add a pinch of ground bezoar
Stir once counter clockwise and remove from heat
As it cools, it will turn from a light brown colour to a fluorescent yellow
When the colour stops lightening, you may bottle your potion. It will be approximately ten serves, if stored in 20mL vials.
Label one vial for the Professor to analyse, and ingest another vial. Save the others for your own use, or dispose of.
And now she could begin. Standing up, she took her parchment and went and collected all of her ingredients. She was careful, and made sure that she could them all. She didn't want to mess her potion up just because she couldn't read. That would be silly. Carefully she headed back to her bench. She placed all the ingredients onto the bench, and arranged them in the order that she needed them.
"Perfect" She murmured with a smile.
She re-read her instructions, before beginning to clean her equipment. She wiped down her knife, and the stirrer. All nice clean. And now onto her cauldron. Pointing her wand she said
"Scourgify." She'd had a lot of practice at this spell, and she knew she could do it. And now the cauldron was nice and clean.
Now to begin. Carefully she picked up her measuring jug, and said
"aguamenti" and filled the jug up, to the correct level. Placing her wand down, she carefully poured the water into her cauldron. Smiling, she pointed her wand underneath her cauldron, and lit a small flame.
Hattie then peered into the cauldron, and waited for her potion to start simmering.