Now that her finger no longer burned, she was much more excited to get on with the class. That was, until Professor Noble said spark and flame. She hadn’t had the best luck with flames and she quickly looked towards Derf, making sure he was at a safe distance. No need burning him again.

Before continuing, she made sure to take exact notes and that her ethanol was safely away in the cupboard. After both were double checked on, she placed her cauldron firmly on the tripod, giving it a little wiggle to test the stability, then performed scourgify to clean it as thoroughly as possible. Next was the part she was most worried about. Not only did she need to make the flame, she had to precisely direct the flame around the inside of the cauldron.

She eyed her neighbors, hoping they were far enough away to stay out of danger, and started the incendio tria around the inside of the cauldron. Much to her surprise, it was working. The hot blue flame circled the inside, burning up all pathogens in its path as it circled to the center. The fire part was over and she had not set anything or anyone on fire that wasn’t supposed to be.

With a lighter step, she went to collect her syringe and added the 500 ml of water and 500 ml of horklump juice to her freshly cleaned cauldron then brought it to a boil before adding the five drops of flobberworm mucus then ten blue-bottle fly larvae, one at a time. She cringed a bit at each blue-bottle larvae addition and was very happy once the last one had been added to the cauldron.