Toothless - Napoleon of Crime - Gryffinclaw - Owl Emissary - Pirate Auror - DoctorDonna Again, with the sterilizing. At least Septimus felt a little less fearful of the action, sterilizing his stirring rod once more as directed by the professor before moving to do the actual stirring. Once clockwise followed by another counterclockwise. Then watching the liquid, the second year was relieved at its green color. He supposed it could be considered murky green. At least he figured it was good enough to feel confident as he moved on.
Three leeches went into his mortar and he took up the pestle to begin grinding. Crush…crush…crush. Crush…crush…crush. Crush…crush…crush. When he was satisfied with the consistency of the crushed leeches, Septimus followed the directions and sprinkled it all into his cauldron. Then his knife went back into the flame to repeat its sterilization as Professor Noble had demonstrated without mentioning before shredding his dittany as directed. Next, the three inches of wiggentree were marked before grating it all and saving his knuckles. Finally he picked up the shredded dittany in one hand and the bowl of collected grated wiggentree bark and added them in order, immediately after themselves.
First dittany…then bark.
And onto the salamander blood. Septimus but the inside of his cheek as he tried to concentrate. Just because so far all had gone well. Didn’t mean it would stay that way.250 ml of the blood were measured out and the Ravenclaw carefully poured the liquid in the desired figure eight design, letting out a breath he hadn’t been aware of holding when it was done fairly evenly. The silver powder went next, into the point where the figure 8 crossed itself before he picked up his stirring rod once more. Tracing the figure 8 three times in its movements within the brewing potion.
In the end, he was greeted with the silvery grey. It was still holding. The second year turned off his heat as directed and returned to stirring clockwise until it was more white and more solid than liquid in a creamy state. Whew…he was done.
And class was over.
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