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XanaSnape
He turned his attention to Upstead. "Very good, Upstead. It seems it was a tad weak, but allowing it to mature on the shelf would likely resolve that. You have done well, as I knew you could." He nodded, pleased, at the boy. "I suggest you bottle the rest of it and test it in a week's time; you will find it has strengthened signficantly."
Jake positively BEAMED. He had done a potion okay, and he was getting more and more praise from Kazi.
He could soooooo get used to this.
Not replying just yet, Jake began to quickly but efficiently ladle the rest of the cauldron's contents into a bigger phial, being sure not to spill any and that the phial was totally empty.
He had a roll of muggle sticky labels, and he clumsily wrote his name and year and the name of the potion on one of them (well, in the end it was two... his handwriting was so large and clumsy) and stuck them on the phial, corked it, and went to put it up on the shelf, making sure the outside of it was clean, too.
Returning to his cauldron, Jake stared at it for a moment, massaging his left hand, his wand hand, which was aching. He bit his lip and looked at Kazi.
"Is thuhh-there a wwway I can ccclean the potion ssssafely without mmmagic? Like, bbbecause the ssssink isn't very suhh-safe for cccleaning in pppotions, usually..."
Because he was tired, and he had homework to do, and didn't have time to perfect another spell.