Olivia chuckled at Melbourne’s comment concerning the Amortentia she was working on. “Aw, Merlin. That’d be awful. Imagine if it was your favourite dish.” Or if it tasted like caramel or chocolate or worse SALTED CARAMEL. The two girls would have an emergency on their hands. Meanwhile back to waiting for her potion to thicken… If it would ever do so. Three minutes down…. O.o …… ONLY THREE MINUTES….?!

While she waited for the potion to thicken up, she glanced up at Melbourne who had made a comment about the leeches. "Yeah... They're not fun. I'm not the biggest fan." She chuckled a little before going on to explain. "I had an unfortunate run in with Peeves and Miffy last year which ended up with me getting three of these stuck to me." Shiver. Ugh. It had sucked. Fortunately no cute guys had seen her rushed off to the Hospital Wing... Only Healer Reed saw her in such a state. "It sucked." But fortunately Professor Greyvson had been there to escort her and Carlton to the Hospital Wing. Nice lady indeed.

Olivia continued to stir and could feel the potion thickening up nicely and it seemed like it was ready! Though it didn't smell like anything... which was good because it wasn't supposed to smell. She poured the mixture into a vial, labeled the vial, and then set about cleaning her work station. Once it was all nice and tidy, she pointed her wand at the cauldron, casting a non-verbal Augmenti before heating the water to a nice boil. While waiting for the water to boil, she set about finding the ingredients necessary to create the antidote. First, she got two jobberknoll feathers, galangal, and a dried leech. Measuring out each of the ingredients to the specified amount, she returned to her station to check if the water was boiling.

And the water was boiling! Awesome. With the water boiling, it was now time to make the antidote. She glanced down at her textbook. Now Olivia needed to once again separate the jobberknoll barb from shaft. Carefully with her knife, she did so and then glanced at the textbook. She added the two jobberknoll shafts and then set a timer for ten minutes. Every so often she would stir the mixture in the clockwise direction. Soon enough, she got in the rhythm and then set her spoon to stir on its own with a simple charm. In the meantime, she placed the five grams of the powdered galangal in the mortar and set it on fire. She watched as the powder slowly started to turn light golden then golden and then a deep brown. When it reached the deep brown colour, she emptied the powder into the cauldron, set a timer for five minutes, and then almost whisked the mixture counterclockwise. Her arms became tired every so often so she paused to take a quick break. Merlin. It was rough having zero upper body strength but hopefully this would work. It felt like a good workout anyway.

When the timer went off, Olivia most happily removed the spoon and checked her instructions. Fifteen minutes for the mixture to simmer… and for Olivia to regain feeling in her arms. She set a timer once more and then shook her arms out. Ahh… After doing so, she decided to turn her attention to trying to crush the dried leech. Scrunching up her nose, she grabbed the knife and pressed down on the leech as if the leech was a clove of garlic that she was trying to crush. It did the trick; however, the crushed leech wasn’t in equal parts. Ah well. It was close enough. The less she had to touch it, the better she would be.

BRRIIIING! chirped the timer and it was time to add the somewhat neatly crushed leech into the cauldron. Good riddance, thought the Gryffindor as she watched it plop into the mixture. Then she set another time and continued stirring. Five minutes to go and then she would be free! Free to try the mixture out and time to give her arms a rest. Oh yes, she looked forward to that very much.

And the timer chirped again! It was time. That two minutes had felt longer than the fifteen minutes that she had just experienced. She supposed that’s what happened when your arms got really tired. Merlin. She should have practiced another spell or charm non-verbally but had opted to do it the good old-fashioned Muggle way because… well- because it was reliable. Yet her arm was aching. Taking the mixture off of the heat, Olivia placed the spoon beside her cauldron and sighed. Now she would just have to let it cool before she could put that in a vial.

As she waited for the concoction to cool, she wondered if perhaps a cooling charm could be used on it. Hmm… That seemed like a good idea; however, she didn’t risk it as she felt a bit nervous about what would happen if something went wrong. So instead she waited and listened to the hands on her watch tick with the passing seconds. When ten minutes had passed, Olivia figured that it was cool enough and so she decided to bottle up the mixture into a vial. She also made sure to label this vial because if she didn’t…. Then well. Bad things could happen.

With both vials labeled and resting on the bench, she set about cleaning her cauldron and work station. It needed to be super clean. Two scourgify’s would do the trick, she figured and went to work. As she cleaned, she hummed to herself. She couldn’t wait to give the potion a try (though she was also terrified if she messed it up). Perhaps it would be wise to ask for another student’s help to help make sure she took the right potion in the right order. Olivia nodded. Mm… That would be wise.