Originally Posted by Celandine

Cela grinned back at the professor a little bit nervously even though Nico had been making her study all this stuff alot lately. Though if there was peanut butter then maybe it wasn't all bad. Not explosions though, Cela wasn't keen on those. Cela collected her ingredients, shooting grins at some of her classmates as she checked and double checked that she had everything. She measured 200ml of water into her cauldron and while it boiled she julienned the rat tails like Nico had told her was effective and placed them aside.

As the water hit boiling, Cela carefully crushed the billywig stings and added those and the spiderlegs to her potion. 20...21...23...24... wait a second had she counted that right? Celandine took the cauldron off the boil and gave the contents a quick stir since the legs and stings had stuck to the side in a clump. While she waited for the 15 minutes written in the instructions, Cela took down notes of what they discussed in class and wondered what would happen to her hair if she put peanut butter in it. Once the time was up Cela added the julienned rat tail slices and was pleased to see there was no clumping with the way she had cut them.

With 30 minutes more to spare, Celandine thought for a second; why had the hair raising potion been invented? What was it's purpose? She opened her bag and pulled out one of her favourite History of Magic textbooks on the topic.

Interesting...

After she had taken copious notes and provided many pointless doodles on the subject, Celandine's wand blinked at her as a reminder that the 30 minutes was up. She removed the cauldron completely from the heat and stirred it to help it cool; another tip courtesy of her potions-obsessed brother.

Now... Cela looked around for something to 'spritz' it with. Seeing other students testing it on their arms Celandine decided to do something similar, but more in line with what she had just picked up in her reading. She cautiously dipped the end of her wand in the solution and swept her hair completely off her neck before flicking her wand over the base of the exposed skin on the back of her neck.

EeeeeEeeeeeeK!

Cela's eyes widened and she let her hair fall in a curtain around her face as she experienced the sensation of a thousand spiders crawling up her spine. After a minute she realised she quite liked spiders and relaxed, almost enjoying the sensation. She wondered what would happen if she drunk the potion and was curious to see how it might effected her whole body from the inside but realised that would leave nothing left to mark and possibly cause a scene... and there was nothing in her books about what effect that might have.

Using one of the flask in her potions kit, Cela emptied the liquid into it and stoppered it up. Labelling it carefully with her name, her house, the contents and the date brewed. Nico always said to label it with the date incase it contains ingredients that expire or change over time.