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Sydney was on the verge of being sleepy again, what with all the note taking she was doing. She really hoped to do well on her Potions NEWTs this year, so she pinched herself slightly on the arm to stay awake...
And now, they got to the best part of the lesson. Potion-brewing!
When she had finished copying the procedure and notes from the blackboard, the girl got up from her seat and went to collect the ingredients, apart from the ones she already had. She arranged her ingredients neatly on one side of her workstation, her equipments on the other side, ready to be used. Directing her wand at her cauldron, scales, stirrers, phials and silver dagger, she said, "Scourgify!" There! All clean.
Glancing at her notes for the next step, Sydney poured 50ml of Distilled Water into her copper cauldron. "Incendio," she said softly, tapping the bottom of her cauldron and conjuring a medium-sized flame. It would take some time for the water to boil, so she could either a) take a nap, or b) chop her Stargrass while she waited.
Obviously, being the good student she was, she did the latter. She grabbed her silver dagger and began chopping up her 32 grams of Stargrass. By the time the ingredient was finely chopped, the water in the cauldron started boiling. Perfect timing! Using her silver dagger, she pushed the Stargrass into her cauldron.
Next up was Boom Berry Juice. This was going to be an easy step since all she had to do was add it into the water + Stargrass mixture. No chopping, no heating, no measuring either, since the quantity she had was already precisely 302 ml. Sydney added this into her cauldron - being careful not to let it splash anywhere else - and picked up her glass stirrer. Stirring was quite boring, but she focused on her work, as she knew one wrong move could ruin the whole potion. When the three minutes were up, she counted five seconds under her breath, then continued stirring counter-clockwise for two more minutes.
Her arm aching slightly from stirring for five whole minutes, the badger put down her stirrer and held up her supply of Essence of Dittany. She added 23 drops of this into the solution she had, hoping everything was going well so far.
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