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Lily-Luna 
now..the lavender!
While adding the drops Kate raised her hand and answered Professor Lafay's question "We have to take care NOT to smell the potion because if we do we will smell lavender for 2 days"
"Correct." She said.
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individual Putting the wooden spoon back down, Evelyn looked up as the Professor passed their table, listening to the question about the lavender. "Hold your breath?" she asked more than said after raising her hand, unsure if that was the right thing to do. But, it was...right? They did that last lesson... In fact, didn't Destiny get into trouble with something having to do with the lavender? Meh, didn't matter now did it.
"Yes." She agreed.
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HaRoHeGiNeLu Hehe. Found it.
"Well professor. I would hold my breath, because lavender is very strong. Especially when it's heated. Then I would take a dropper of some sort and fill it with lavender by squeezing the little squeezable part and once it was inside the lavender, I'd release the squeezy thing. But still hold onto the dropper. Then I would hold it over the cauldron and squeeze that part again, but only a little, so it doesn't all come out, and make sure only one drop drips at a time. And in this case, I'd repeat that 7 more times, eight total." That seemed thorough enough, yes?
"What do you have to do?" Who knows? Maybe she was different. Being mean and all could make people quite different.
"Correct, and talk to me like that one more time and you will lose 5 points." She was not going to let a child talk to her that way.
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TSnitch Tori relaxed a bit as the potion seemed to going well. She raised her free hand and answered,
"Don't inhale it. You'll be smelling and tasting lavender for a few days to come."
She picked up the lavender and turned away and inhaled clean air and held it. She carefully dropped eight drops into the hot cauldron.
"Correct." She said.
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phoenixfirex12 Alice made sure to clean the cauldron then added the pumpkin juice. She turned on the fire and made sure she brought it to a low simmer. Even though she loved the way fire looked she new starting one by accident in class would not be a good thing. Mmmm, she thought, The pumpkin juice does smell good.
My hair won't grow back?!! Alice made absolutley sure that her hands came no where near to touching the mucus. She mixed it in, "Who would even want to touch this stuff?" she said to herself.
Alice found the lavender, "Don't you want to make sure you don't inhale it?"
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Mrs. Weasley Sidney goes through her notes from the last class. "Professor, you said we should hold our breath while using the lavender oil, or we will smell nothing but lavender for two days. Does the same rule apply for lavender essence? We also had to put on our dragonhide gloves before adding the lavender oil. Should we do the same with this ingredient?" Professor Lefay is being entirely too nice today. Someone needs to irritate her a litte. Sidney smiles. Back to potion making
Sidney has all her ingredients together. Now time to get to work on brewing this potion. Even the bandana isn't keeping her head warm. She really misses her hair.
Sidney takes her cauldron to the sink and washes it out good, then dries it. She takes it back to her work station and places it on the stand. Sidney builds a fire under her cauldron. She does not set it yet. Next Sidney pours the galleon of pumkin juice in. "Incendio Medium Estus!" Her fire starts at a medium rate perfect for simmering pumkin juice. While the juice heats up, Sidney finds her wooden spoon in her Potions Kit. She places it to one side and takes out her scales. I'm going to need 4 onces of flobberworm muccus. Let's see, I will need to use a bowl that's wide enough that I can remove the mucus with my wooden spoon. I'll have to measure the bowl first, so I can add its weight to the four ounces. I think that sound right. Mom does it that way all the time in her lab, so it must be the right way to do it. Sidney goes over to the work table and gets a clear bowl. She places it on her scale, measure it, and rights the information down. Sidney puts on her dragonhide gloves since Professor Lefay said flobberworm mucus does awful things when it comes in contact with skin. I don't want to have to parade around Hogwarts to the Hospital wing with no hair no way! Sidney removes the mucus and places it in the bowl. Four ounces exactly! Now I put it into the pumpkin juice using my wooden spoon. What to do next? Sidney checks her notes. She stirs the flobberworm mucus in. Then Sidney holds her breath and adds the lavender essence one drop at a time. Sidney stares down at the potion in the making to see what kind of reaction the flobberworm, pumpking juice, and lavender essence will have on each other.
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Kris Alexandrie raised her hand to answer, "I would hold my breath and drop one at a time leaning back as anything tends to Splash when hitting liquid. You also may want to wear protective gloves to do this part?" Alex said remembering the last class with Lavender as well. She held her breath leaning away from the Cauldron adding the drops slowly and carefully.
"Right." She said, "Gloves and goggles," and added her lavender to her own potion placing the goggles on herself.
"Step four." she said "This needs to be times perfectly, so watch me before you do it. You will add the Gotu Kola and set the stirrer to magically stir 9 times clockwise, once counter, but before you do, you will place one of the Mandrake leaves in the mortar and crush it with the pestle in the same motion and at the same time of the 9 stirring, pouring the herb in with the 10th counter stir."
She put a leaf in her mortar, poured the Gotu Kola and charmed the stirrer in cauldron.
As the stirrer began turning, Hecate matched the turns and speed of the stirred while crushing the leaf. When the stirrer turned the other way, she added the contents of her mortar and started with another leaf. She repeated the motion the five times she needed to add her five Mandrake leaves. "There. Do you all understand?"