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Terry finds Professor Braxton's nervous habit of constantly cleaning his glasses fascinating. Professor Fox does the same thing. Funny two people from different backgrounds would have the same nervous habit. Terry knows she finds the oddest things intersting, but it helps to understand people better by understanding their weird habits. After Professor Braxton finishes explaining today's lesson, Terry gets her cauldron and other supplies out, and then proceeds to get some water out of the tap. Since the directions did not call for special water, she assumes the tap water will be okay. She place her caudron over the open fire and proceeds to pour the water in. While it is boiling, she goes up front and gets her 4 horned slugs. They are resting in a large cauldron on the professor's desk. Using a laddle, Terry captures four of these slippery creatures. Stewing the slugs really causes them to fall apart making it difficult to get a whole one. Terry hurries back to her desk seeing has her water is about to boil over. She takes out her wand and performs a cooling spell to prevent this from happening. Terry then pours her stewed, horned slugs into the water and brings it back to a boil. While the mixture is boiling for ten minutes, she measures out her dried nettles two grams to be exact. Exact measurements are important in potion making. Too much dried nettles and the potion is liable to explode or some other terrible thing occur. Seeing as this is Terry seventh year at Hogwarts, she is an old hand at potion making. She shouldn't have any trouble making such a simple potion. With the ten minutes up, Terry adds her dried nettles and stirs the mixture clockwise for five minutes. After the five minutes is up, she removes the potion from the flame and crushes her snake fangs. The professor said to add .2 grams. Terry isn't exactly sure how to measure .2 grams, so she does the best she can. She adds the snake fang to the mixture and stirs it counter-clockwise for 7 minutes. Nothing too serious happens, so Terry assumes she measured the snake fangs right. After the mixture has boiled for ten minutes, Terry removes it from the fire, stirs it clockwise for two minutes, and adds the three porcupine quills. After this she stirs the mixture five times clockwise, the five times counter clockwise. After this the potion is suppose to cool and then she needs to laddle a sample into a vial for grading. Terry turns her back to the cauldron to get a vial and her laddles when the mixture starts to explode sending potion oozing out of the cauldron onto the floor and the table. "Oh dear, I was afraid I had put too much snake fangs into it. Terry whips out her wand and says evanesco over and over in her mind. That makes the potion on the floor and table disappear, but what to do about the potion that is still erupting out of the cauldron. "Professor Braxton, could you come here, please, now! I'm in desperate need of your help." Terry continues to use the evanesco spell to make the potion that is falling out of her cauldron disappeared, but the extra snake fangs seems to be encouraging the potion to multipy at an alarming rate.
Last edited by Mrs. Weasley; 10-06-2005 at 11:10 PM.
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