The girl, first off, used her wand to 'scourgify' the wooden spoon and the silver knife. She didn't want to start all over again when she's reached this point successfully.

Taking the wooden spoon, Louisa followed instructions. She scooped three spoonfuls of the raw honey and slowly dropped it onto the boiling cauldron enjoying the view of honey melting and falling. Hehe. Down with the wooden spoon and grabbing her silver knife, the girl grabbed five basil leaves and laid them on the table. She caught the bunch with her left hand, her fingers clumsily holding it and leaving small room for the knife to cut. It wasn't as an easy task as a girl would think since she'd never sliced or worked in kitchen. The only slicing experience she had was from Potions over the previous years- and even this wasn't enough.

She'd sliced the basil leaves, as thin as she could go without slicing her hand with them. Now came the fun part, Louisa thought. She grabbed a papaya and dragged-rolled it closer to herself. Still holding the silver knife, she started stabbing the fruit; three cuts were made before she stuffed the sliced basil leaves into them. Another few cuts to fill the remaining of the leaves and then the Ravenclaw caaaaarefully put it whole in the cauldron.

This potion was interesting so far.

Harvey watched as the professor demonstrated the next part of the potion making.. once the demonstration was over he then proceeded to follow these instructions. He went and got his two dock leaves and picking up his wand he pointed it at his mortar "Scourgify!" he then put in his dock leaves.. he then got his pestle and started crushing those leaves.. once that was done he went to the refrigerated section and removed an Ashwinder Egg... he brought it back to his table and he proceeded to break the egg.. once he had done this he added it to the mortar and quickly added the 4 sprigs Fluxweed. He then added this mixture to his cauldron

He then proceeded to cross this off on his ingredients list





Harvey then watched as the professor demonstrated the next part.. he watched closely as she added the drops and stirred counter-clockwise. She then added Parsley to the cauldron.. once she was done demonstrating he went onto to do what she had just shown them. He added 10 drops of Murtlap Essence 1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10 he then picked up his wooden stirrer "Scourgify!" he cleaned the stirrer and as was demonstrated stirred the mixture 8 times counter-clockwise 1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8. He the picked up two sprigs of Parsley and began to loosely crush them in his hands over his cauldrom making sure that he added all the flakes as they fell. He then crossed this off his ingredients list





Harvey then watched as she demonstrated the next part adding the honey and the basil leaves in Papaya. He then turned to his own cauldron and started this next part. He took his wooden spoon "Scourgify!" and added 3 spoonfuls of honey 1..2..3 making sure that all of the honey went into the cauldron. He then picked up his silver knife "Scourgify" he then took 3 basil leaves and sliced them up thinly. He then picked up his papaya and started stabbing holes into it and filling them holes with basil leave.. he made sure to stab and the stuff so that he had the right amount of holes so that all of the basil was in the papaya. He then added the whole papaya to the mixture. He then crossed this off his list

Ten drops of Murtlap Essence added, Jezzabelle stirred the cauldrons mixture with her cleaned wooden stirrer, eight times counter-clockwise. She then crushed the two springs of Parsley gently in her hand over her cauldron like instructed watching as a mini snow fell from her hands.

Okay now to move on. She cleaned her wooden spoon and added the honey, three spoonfuls as instructed. She then pulled out her knife and cleaned that then cut her 5 basil leaves as thing as she could manage without them being too thin. Did she have to clean her knife again?

To be on the safe side she did and then proceeded stabbing her Papaya. Stab. Stuff in some pieces if leaves. Stab. Stuff in some pieces of leaves. Stab. Stuff in some pieces of leaves. One whole Papaya all stuffed and ready to be added, which she did very carefully.

Bending over her notes she scribbled in it the steps she needed to.

Elise blinked. Had she heard right? Did Professor Lafay really give them a compliment? Maybe it was just a statement of fact... Or Elise was hallucinating. Probably the latter.

Pulling out her wooden spoon, she cleaned it before looking back up to see what Professor Lafay was saying. Three spoonfuls. Dipping her spoon into the jar, she scooped up one spoonful of the liquid. It looked delicious, Elise mused as she watched it slide off the spoon. Taking another spoonful, she allowed that to slide into the cauldron as well. Last one. Scoop and let it slide into the cauldron and off the spoon.

Five basil leaves, thinly sliced. It actually reminded Elise of things her mother used to help her cook. Plucking five leaves, she set them on her previously scourgified cutting board. Taking the cleanest silver knife she had and scourgifying it again, she sliced them thinly using the tip of the knife. Some of the slices were actually so thin that Elise could barely see them.

Now for the papaya. Wait. One whole papaya?! Shrugging, she followed the instructions. Raising the knife, she trust it into the soft skin of the papaya. Pulling the knife out, she eyed the wound for a moment, trying to decide how much basil to stuff in. Taking just about enough, she pushed the slices into the hole and turned the papaya around slightly.

Stabbing some more, she added the basil until there was none left to be added. Satisfied, Elise picked up the papaya and added the whole holey thing to the mixture. This was one strange potion indeed.

After the previous steps, Hades pressed his hands onto the counter and loosened his knees as he listened to Lafay's next instructions as well as watching her demonstration. When the Potion Mistress instructed them to stab a whole papaya, his blue eyes widened. A whole papaya??!!! Seriously?! With nothing but a silver knife?! Was it possible to transfigure the silver knife into a silver sledgehammer instead?

Hades sighed and lazily grabbed a wooden spoon and added three spoons of raw honey into the mixture. Next, he flipped out his silver knife (which he already cleaned prior the lesson) and began slicing a basil leaf as this as possible like a boss which he repeated on another four leaves. Leaving his work station temporarily, Hades returned soon with a papaya. Cunning he was, he picked the smallest one. Then, he picked up his silver knife and began stabbing the papaya which he stuffed the sliced basil leaves after stabbing each hole. After that, he poured the content into the mixture.

LuLu looked up at Lafay once again, for her next step ''Scourgify,' she pointed to her mortar, yeah it looked clean but she didn't want to be told to do it all again since she didn't clean it... She picked up her Ashwinder Egg and broke it and then added it to the mortar, then shortly after wards she added the 4 sprigs Fluxweed then she added the mixture into the cauldron



Once she was done with the whole mortar thing she looked at Lafay again for... further instructions, she always took notes but since she was to busy catching up with the rest of class she decided it would not be the appropriate nor wise thing to do! So she added the 10 drops of Murtlap Essence and stirred eight times, counter-clockwise, then she picked up the two sprigs Parsley and crushed them in her hands over the cauldron carefully



W-WHAT? Lafay actually seemed.. IMPRESSED? O_____________o this crazy world... She blinked to retrieve herself! Weird....

She decided to shake it off and get on with the potion making process, so she picked up her spoon and added the 3 spoonfuls of raw honey, with the temptation to look at the prefects face... Well if Lafay wasn't going to be cranky and mean and junk she was happy to take her place! But sadly she wasn't going to!

She took the 5 basil leaves and sliced them as thin as she could with the knife she picked up a whole Papaya and stabbed at it then stuffed in the basil then she made another whole and did the same! Once she was done she added the whole Papaya into the mixture

Silvia picked up the wooden spoon and said "Scourgify," then used it to scoop up some raw honey from the jar. She let it fall from the spoon and into the cauldron, then did this two more times. Now for the basil and papaya.

They had to stuff the basil into the papaya? That seemed like a strange thing to do. Maybe the basil causes some sort of chemical reaction that isn't as effective if you just throw it into the cauldron, she thought. She picked up her silver knife and, after cleaning it, began to carefully slice the basil leaves very slowly, as she had almost no experience with real knives, only butter knives. Once she had them as thin as she thought she could get them, Silvia picked up the papaya and slowly stabbed it, careful to keep her fingers away from the knife blade. As she made each hole, she set the knife down and stuffed a piece of basil into each. Then she added the basil-filled papaya to the mixture in the cauldron.

Kimalia was definitely on a roll today so far. Taking the wooden spoon and the raw honey, added three spoonfuls into the cauldron.

Okay, now the slicing. Taking the knife "Scourgify" now it was clean! Taking the five basil leaves, began slicing it slowly since she wanted it as thin as possible. Oo papaya! Taking it now, so wait now she can stab it? *Grin* Being careful not to be too vicious stabbed enough holes to add all the basil inside and then proceeded to *drop* the whole papaya into the cauldron.

Tayla gave a sigh of relief. Professor Lafay seemed to be in a good mood today. She wondered why. But whatever the reason was, she decided to enjoy the professor's good mood while it lasted.

Tayla focused on her potion again and added three spoonfulls of raw honey to the mixture, letting the hot liquid melt off all the honey from the spoon, just like Professor Lafay demonstrated. When that was done, she took five basil leaves and sliced them as thinly as she could with her silver knife.

"What would happen if the knife wasn't a silver one, Professor?" Tayla asked, too curious to let it pass.

She then took a papaya and stabbed it with the silver knife. She stuffed basil into the wounds until all of the basil was in, and then carefully added the whole thing to the mixture.

Violet watched the professor again for the next steps. Then, she took her wooden spoon, cleaned with a scourgify spell again and scooped 3 spoonful of raw honey and added it to the cauldron, making all the honey had been melted off the spoon. It looked so good to taste, but Violet controlled herself. You can never be sure about eating things in Potions class. Next, Violet carefully took her silver knife from the table. She was so nervous about stabbing someone by accident, scourgified it again, and began sliding the 5 basil leaves. How thin was thin? Violet kept slicing the leaves until they turned to shreds, but not to pulp. That would definitely get her into trouble.

Viole then took her papaya and grunted as hard as she can to get her silver knife through. It just wouldn't budge, until..plunk! Her knife went straight through! The aroma of the fruit filled her nose with a sweet smell and Violet had a panic attack again, but she quickly stuffed the sliced basil leaves into the several holes she made and plopped the whole papaya into the mixture.

Violet scourgified her silver knife once more until it was sparkling clean.

Amelia actually gasped as Lafay gave the class praise. She was sure that she didn't remember the Professor ever saying anything like that before, so it made her feel good to be told that. Even if it was directed at the entire class.

Watching Lafay demonstrate the next steps, she quickly wrote down the instructions. This seemed pretty easy, and she saw that the potion should be done soon as there weren't too many more ingredients needing to be added. Though, of course she had no idea about the stewing time this potion needed.

Picking up her spoon again, she scooped three spoonfuls of Raw honey and placed them into the potion, letting the hot liquid melt off the sticky substance.

When she was done, she placed the spoon down again and grabbed her silver knife. She started slicing the five Basil leaves as thinly as possible, and when she was done she picked up the Papaya.

Stabbing it with the same knife, she started stuffing the hole with the Basil, making more holes as needed until all of the Basil was inside the Papaya.

Then she placed the whole fruit into the cauldron.

Aurora scourgified her spoon and carefully added three wooden spoonfuls of the honey one at a time. Then she picked up five of her basil leaves and, with her newly cleaned silver knife, sliced them as thinly as she could. Now... what? Cool. She picked up her papaya and stabbed her knife into it, filling the hole with basil, she did the same thing until she had used all of the basil and then added the papaya to her cauldron.

Ella listened as the Professor showed them what to do next. She took notes, wanting to make sure she had everything written down correctly. Glancing at her spoon, she decided it was best to clean it as that was one of the Cs she was supposed to remember! She picked it up and pointing her wand at it carefully said, "Scourgify." She nodded, satisfied with the result and grabbed the raw honey. Leaning down a little so she could see the spoon better, she began to pour the honey. "Okay 1 spoonful...2...3 spoonfuls." She made sure all of the honey got into the cauldron and let whatever was left on the spoon be melted off just like the professor showed them. She then took the 5 basil leaves and began to slice them, hoping they were thin enough. Next, Ella picked up the silver knife and the papaya. She started stabbing it, thinking it must look pretty barbaric to any passerby's. Stabbing was definitely not something she enjoyed doing. After a few stabs, Ella began stuffing the basil into the wounds, making sure each had enough space to fit. She then added the whole papaya into the cauldron. When she had done that, she lined up her spoon, wooden stirrer, and knife and cleaned them all, not wanting to forget to do so.

Jordan lifted up his spoon, ladling out the 3 spoonfuls of raw honey to the potion. He listened to the next instructions, adding them to his notes as usual, ticking off the ingrediants. He then sliced up his basil leaves, all 5 of them, he cut them as fine as he could before picking up his papaya to begin stabbing it. After a few stabs, he began stuffing the basil leaves into the gaps before adding the whole papaya to the potion. He was doing good! Yay!

After the Valerian root and the Salamander blood, Selena waited patiently for the professor to continue, trying her hardest not to twitch or something. Selena wondered if the professor would allow her to take a quick chocolate break between the steps. Probably not since CLEANLINESS was one of the five C's. Well, Selena would like to add a sixth - Chocolate. Right. Next step... Dock leaves. Selena retrieved the two leaves, put them in a mortar and started to crush it under the pestal.

Selena quickly walked over to the refrigerated section and retrieved one Ashwinder Egg, cracking it on the side and allow the insides to fall in with the crushed dock leaves. Like the professor had said, Selena added in the 4 sprigs of Fluxweed, waiting for AMAZINGness to happen. No. Just pour it into the cauldron apparently. Selena tried not to pout as she tipped the mixture from her mortar into her cauldron. She had been expecting an EXPLOSION or something epic of that nature. She recorded her steps into her notes before proceeding with the next steps.

Selena put into the cauldron the 10 drops of Murtlap Essence, before picking up her wooden stirrer. Selena inspected the wooden thing, to make sure it was clean. For good measure, Selena cast scourgify on it, just to be safe and stirred the contents of the cauldron 8 times counterclockwise. Selena then picked up the 2 sprigs of parsley with her hand, crushing them above the cauldron, and watching the little green flakes sprinkle down and fall. They were like green snowflakes. It was cool.

She took her wooden spoon and used it to get three spoonfuls of raw honey. She wondered if the raw honey tasted good as she added the honey to the cauldron. Selena watched as the honey melted off of the spoon from the heat and liquid. Oooh... shiny... FOCUS. She didn't need her head bitten off after all. Selena picked up her silver knife and started to cut up the five basil leaves thinly, or as thin as she possibly could. It looked pretty decent, so she looked at the papaya. Stab it? Selena was pretty sure she could do that. Selena pushed her knife into the papaya, watching the fruit easily give way to the silver blade. She then started to stuff the basil leaves into the hole thingy that her knife had created. When Selena allowed the papaya stuffed with basil fall into the cauldron, it let out a quiet plop. She wondered what the next step was... eat chocolate?

That was good to know... Lily thought as she looked up toward the professor to see the next step. Oh boy... this one is going to be interesting. she pondered as she took her wooden spoon, cleaned it and decanted 3 spoonfuls of raw honey into her cauldron, allowing the honey to be melted off. Ok, next part. Lily thought moving on, pulling out her silver knife and cleaning it. She took her basil leaves out and tried to slice them thinly, without cutting her fingers. She wants us to what??? Lily thought as she picked up her papaya. She took her knife and stabbed the fruit a few times before taking the basil and sticking it in the 'wounds'. Lily's eyebrows when up as she added the papaya-basil mixture into the cauldron.

Auggie's potion was on the right track of actually turning out as planned. All he had to do was keep it up now.

After resisting the urge to taste a bit of the honey, the Gryffindor added one spoonful and then two additional ones to the potion and each time left the spoon in long enough for the honey to melt off. Done. Next August took the basil leaves and layed them out and began to slice each of them up really thin and then made a small pile of the finished product.

Now for the papaya. The Muggleborn couldn't help but see the resemblance in this task with the stabbing of a potato before you baked it. This was obviously slightly different. The forth year finally stuffed all of the basil leaves into each of the holes and then dropped the thing into the cauldren.

Once again Vashti multi-tasked with writing down the instructions and watching Professor Lafay demonstrate what they were supposed to do. When that was done, she picked up the dropper in one hand and the wooden spoon in the other and carefully added the ten drops of Murtlap Essence into her cauldron. She set down the dropper and grabbed her wand, casting a quick Scourgify on the spoon to ensure it was clean. Then she began stirring eight times counter-clockwise and, once that was done, she took the two sprigs of parsley and crushed them in her hands over the cauldron, letting the flakes fall and continuing to do so until it was all in.

She again scribbled down the notes quickly, glancing up frequently to pay attention to the demonstration. Then she grabbed her wand and cast Scourgify on her wooden spoon before carefully adding it the three spoonfuls of raw honey. She set the spoon aside, picking up her silver knife which she promptly Scourgify-ied as well. She then sliced the five basil leaves as thinly as she possibly could before she grabbed the papaya and stabbed it with the knife until she had enough holes to stuff the basil into. Vashti then added it to her cauldron.

Vickers took hold of the honey bottle and lifted the wooden spoon out of the mixture, pausing for a moment if he should bother to scourgify it prior to measuring out the honey. But it didnt look like the Professor needed it clean, so he leveled the spoon and poured honey into it, then dipped the spoon into the hot mixture to take all the honey off. He repeated this process a couple more times until he got the three spoonfuls of honey needed.

He took his silver knife and scourgified it, then glanced down at the slicing board and scourgified that as well. It was then that he stacked the basil leaves onto it then sliced them thinly, just as the Potions Mistress demonstrated. He took extra care to make them extra thin, so much so that by the time he was done, he saw Mo has taken to happily stabbing his papaya. The bespectacled Ravenclaw had to chuckle. Someone sure was enjoying this.

He took the papaya in his hand and with his knife, created small incisions into its meat. Still using the knife he picked up the basil slivers and used it to insert a few leaf slices into the incisions. He repeated this process all over the papaya until all basil slivers has been tucked into the fruit.

He angled his head as he peered into the mixture then carefully dipped the papaya into the side of the cauldron before releasing it completely into the mixture.

Selina was certain that her hair was at growing with each step in the process of potions. She hated this class, it was a lot of unnecessary stress that she did not need in her daily classes. However, some brilliant oaf at the Ministry decided a long time ago that all students were required to take Potions until they got past the OWL exams. So Selina had one more year of this class and then she was free. And by the way the rest of the class was looking at her and her now crazy frizzed hair and disgusting potion, they would be glad to be rid of her.

But she did as she was told and followed the directions of the task. At first she added three spoonfulls of raw honey with the wooden spoon. It was sticky and did not want to leave the spoon until she shook it free. Darn honey. Then she took the five basil leaves and sliced them as thinly as she could with the silver knife. As she was wrapping up that portion she nicked herself with the knife and gave herself a small cut. Bullocks, but she was fine. It was not anything serious. And then she stabbed the papaya and filled it with the basil. This was the weirdest potion she had even taken part in and to be honest, she felt it would only get weirder. Once it was done she dropped it into the cauldron.....

Jory took out is wooden spoon from the potion and measured out the three spoons of raw honey as instructed. He watched as the last spoonful melted off before starting on the next step.

With his silver knife, Jory sliced the five basil leaves as thinly as he could. Then, thinking the next step they were given was weird, he stabbed the papaya occasionally pausing to cram some of the chopped basil leaves in. he repeated this step until all his leaves were gone.

Finished, Jory gently dropped the fruit into the Cauldron.

Taylor pulled her wooden spoon and added 3 spoonfuls of raw honey. She then took 5 basiel leaves and sliced them as thin as she could get them. Tay picked up a papaya and stabbed it. She quickly stuffed basil in the hole and kept doing it until all the basil was inside the holes in the papaya. Taylor dropped the fruit whole inside the cauldron careful not to have it splashed up.

Glenn took her wooden spoon out of her portion and lifted the honey bottle so that it dribbled out onto her spoon. Once it was full, she put it in her cauldron and watched it melt off then did the same with another two spoonfuls. The smell of honey reminded her of when she was sick and her mum would make her warm milk and honey.

She had her silver knife and sliced the basil leaves as thinly as she could possibly do. Her hand was shaking as she did do, but she managed to do the task without destroying the basil leaves.

Glenn bit her lip and shifted her ponytail to rest over her shoulder, it was still straight from Hogsmeade but was becoming increasingly frizzy from the fumes from the various potions in the room. Glenn had been reading her book a little later than she probably should of last night along with her unfinished Muggle Studies homework that she had tried to complete. She yawned, she was exhausted. Maybe she could catch a nap after this lesson.

She picked up her silver knife that she had put down after chopping her basil leaves, it still looked reasonably clean so she didn't Scrougify it just yet. Glenn stabbed the papaya once then stuffed some of the basil leaves that she had just sliced then stabbed it again and again until it was filled with her basil leaves.

Glenn set down her knife and gently plopped it into her cauldron gently, a little frightened of making the mixture splash up at her. Luckily, that didn't happen. Glenn waited for the next instruction.

Kennedy pulled out the wooden spoon and scooped three spoonfulls of raw honey. This was making him hungry, but he wasn't about to allow his stomach to reign over him. Snapping back to the present, he caught what Professor Lafay was saying.

He took the silver knife and began slicing the basil leaves as thin as he could without injuring himself. The prefect's head turned to the side at the next bit of instructions. They...were going to stab the papaya. M'kay. After he made the insition, Kennedy stuffed some basil in it and repeated the procedure until he was done. Then he added the entire papaya to the solution.

Interesting.

Amethyst pulled the spoon out of the cauldron and pointed her wand at it. "Scourgify." The spoon was clean. She took up the honey and began to pour.

1 spoonful of raw honey; 2 spoonfuls of raw honey; 3 spoonfuls of raw honey.

When she was done with that, she took the 5 basil leaves and took up her silver knife. She sliced them thin enough to fit through the papaya. After cleaning the knife, she stabbed the papaya until there was enough holes for all of the leaves. She gently placed the leaves in the holes. After doing so, she added the basil leaved papaya in the mixture.