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Droo 
Most of the class had it right.
"Yes, to make it simple... muggles process the negatives through some chemicals, then enlarge them onto photographic paper, then pass it through more chemical and then pass it through water. They then hang them until they are dry. And they do all this in a room void of all light, but a red one." She said and dimmed the lights, creating a red hue.
"There are two ways of making a wizard photo, taking a muggle one and animating it with a charm or, using the devomotion potion to pull the actual animation onto the picture." She walked to the front of her desk and sat on it. "When you take a muggle picture the negative captures the exactly split second you take it. So animating it with a charm will only make it do what you want it to, not what actually had happened at the time the picture was taken."
She called up the bags in the corner. "Wizard cameras capture the few seconds leading to the moment the picture is taken, and the few seconds after... only the devomotion potion can put that on photo paper. Now..." she said casting an aguamenti in her cauldron, and then lit a fire under it. "Start with water on a low flame."
Sierra listened intently as Lafay explained the process of developing photographs. It was a process Sierra was only slightly familiar with, so it was good to have a better background before brewing the potion they were about to make. She nodded as she listened to the differences between charming a picture and using the potion on it.
Right. The potion was much better it seemed.
After she got everything good and situated, Sierra aimed her wand toward her cauldron and gave it a good
"Scourgify!" She'd been in enough of Lafay's classes to know that you'd just have to start all over again if she caught you not cleaning your cauldron first. Once it was clean, she aimed her wand into her cauldron and said,
"Aguamenti!" As the water filled the cauldron, she lit a low flame under it.