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There was considerably MORE than a simply glint in this Slytherin's eye, professor. While Eiji was already familiar with the harvesting process, he had mostly had to do it on his own and on his own time since it was expected that they use ingredients from their potions kits. But...there was a reason why his brews tended to be more potent than the majority of his peers - and it wasn't just because of the subtle modifications he made to some of the recipes. Eiji Rasting's ingredients were fresh and, partly in thanks to the techniques taught by Professor Sissay, of entirely organic origin. Some exceptions had to be made in the rarer ingredients, but whenever he could...he collected himself.
There was a lot he could say in response to the next question posed. Things went beyond catching or finding a creature worthy of harvest, but sometimes the quality left much to be desired. He recalled once harvesting from a newt that had died of natural causes, only to find that the creature had been diseased and his time wasted in the careful extraction of its organs. The skin, once dried, had been useful though. Though everything internal a complete waste of his time.
The whole 'cute' argument was entirely subjective and dumb too, so perhaps it was a good thing that the sixth year was sufficient distracted and only came to when Professor Noble was instructing on a preservation charm. Well...THIS would have been something useful to know back when he was a first year. Why hadn't dad taught him this one? Surely he used it in his own stores back home in his alchemy lab...
No matter. Keener than he had been in any other lesson this term, Eiji armed himself with his wand to practice the simple movement a few times before setting it down and working on the incantation. "Conserve condio...Conserve condio..." It seemed simply enough and he felt he had done all that he could without an actual sample to work with. But what he really wanted was to know what they would be working wi---
Oh. Frogs. Of course.
He was already laying out the necessary supplies from his own kit - purchased with his own allowance money - and was out of his desk the first sign that they were permitted to do so. His lab coat buttoned up and goggles on, Eiji carefully selected his frog and levitated it on to his tray before hurrying back to his station.
Then...everything else faded into the background.
Some became engrossed in the piano. Others while flying. This was Eiji's. It steamed not from some morbid fascination with death and dismembering, but it was seeing how things were put together, like doing a puzzle in reverse, and then using those components into something else that was fascinating.
The lack of an enlarged thumb pad told him that his specimen was a girl, which meant that he had even more precious elements to extract. He considered himself lucky in this regard. He had something he was working on that could benefit from the female reproductive organs of a frog. Eiji nearly snorted when Professor Noble suggested they attempt to identify the MOUTH of the creature. Was there anyone here inept enough not to know where that was? He certainly hoped not.
But his impatience was showing. He wanted to just get to work. NOW.
Feet tapping against the floor, Professor Noble had hardly finished his first series of instructions before he was lifting the preservation spell with and swift swish and flick of the wrist and he was pleased to see the body of his frog fall in line precisely as described. He had been around thawed meat well enough thanks to his mum and her dragon biscuits she made at home for all those winged beasts at the reserve. Even, unwillingly, helped make them a few dozen times. Mum called it family bonding. Eiji called it pleasing mum.
His frog was quickly rolled over on to her back and legs pinned out of the way before, with obviously practiced hands, he made his first cut and pinned those flaps aside as well. And there they were. Whistling a little under his breath, Eiji began the delicate process of removing the egg filled ovaries and oviducts since there was very little else he COULD see at the moment and he imagined that professor Noble would want them identifying more of the internal organs....
...wait, what?!
No sooner had he successfully removed the right side (his right, not the frog's) and carefully set that on his tray was Professor Noble dismissing them. But...but...they had only JUST got to the GOOD stuff! He didn't even bother masking his disappointment as he reached for his wand once again to reapply the preservation charm to the frog and, now, the portion of the frog that he had just extracted. Ugh, this sucked.
Scribbling his name as instructed, Eiji brought his dissection tray back to Professor Noble and the side bench while muttering a halfhearted apology for already skillfully removing something from his specimen without instruction. Surely the Potions Master of all people could understand how easily he got caught up in the process.
Returning to his station, and rolling his eyes towards Nina for all of THAT, Eiji quickly packed up his things and left the classroom.
Next lesson could not come soon enough, honestly.
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