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Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: California, USA
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Addison Ayers
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Originally Posted by Professor “If you’ve looked ahead in the ingredients list,” which he knew several already had, going by their questions, “you’ll notice it says fresh foxglove flowers. To that end, you’ll need to come pick some from the plants here.” He gestured towards the potted plants on the front desk, covered in purple flowers. No, they weren’t just there for decoration. “You’ll be needing 4 grams of the petals only, which should be a couple of the medium size ones, or one big and one small.” He picked a couple from the middle of the stem and held them up so they could see what he meant. No need for waste, nor killing the plant.
“Now you need to pluck your petals away from the green sepal, and once you have 4 grams, crush them gently with your fingers.” Once he’d plucked the petals, he discarded the green stuff and held them up to show his technique for crushing them. Not too different from screwing up a ball of paper, just on a much smaller and more delicate scale. “Finally give them a rough chop before adding to your cauldron and stirring counter-clockwise until it turns a deep purple.” For his rough chop, he rocked his knife back and forth over the petals a couple of times, much like a chef might chop some herbs, and then he lifted up the chopping board and used the knife to slide them all in. Three counter-clockwise stirs, and the contents had turned a dark purple.
“Foxglove can be toxic, so please wash your hands once you’re done handling it.” No need for the Healer to have any more attendees to the Hospital Wing from this class.
Well apparently Kye had gotten that all wrong, but hey, now she knew right?
She was still proud of herself for saying anything at all. She listened to Professor Noble's response, and made a note for herself to look up the differences between the two spells.
When he finished explaining the next course of action, Kye headed for the front desk. He had been clear that they only needed a few, so Kye tried to go by his reference. With furrowed brow, Kye examined here and there, and picked out three small to medium sized ones. She didn't want to have extra!
She measured them out as 4, but realized she had forgotten to take off the green stuff. Ah, 3.7g. So it was time to head back up to the table to find the smaller petals. She took one that looked small near the bottom, took off the green, and measured out at 4.03g. She took a tiny bit off the top until it had pushed the number back down to a solid 4. Unsure what to do with the rest, she offered to the class at large, "I have an extra .03 if anyone needs just a little more..."
She put it off to the side in case anyone wanted to claim it. She took her 4 g and started crushing, trying to follow Professor Noble's instruction. After a bit of this, Kye chopped her little clump, added it to her cauldron, and began stirring... (what did he say? Oh!) counter clockwise. She waited for the proper looking purple to appear and stopped. Oh goodie, thank you for leaving out the part that they were dealing with toxic items until now, Sir... Couldn't they have worn gloves or something?
Kye dared not even mutter this under her breath, as she went to the sink to wash her hands... vigorously. Yes, no thank you to going to the Hospital Wing.
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