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Hecate flipped the cauldrons over for everyone who hadn't cleaned their cauldron. "I do not care if you looked to see if your cauldron was cleaned, you MUST clean it right before you do anything with it. If there is a speck of dust, that isn't visible to the naked eye, you can compromise your whole potion." She said angrily. "Now clean up your area, scourgify your cauldrons, repeat the five C's of potion making and then start over!"
That ruined her mood.
Violet sighed in frustration. She
had cleaned her cauldron! Right when she got to class--it was the first thing she did there. But it never did any good to argue with Professor Lafay. Next time, she would be sure to do it when the Professor was looking at her! Violet hated to get in trouble in Potions, it was her favourite subject.
Resolutely she turned her cauldron back over, pointed her wand at it, muttered
"Scourgify!", pointed her wand at the surrounding table, muttered [B]"Scourgify!" again and watched the last puddles of water disappear, leaned back in her seat and droned out
"CleanlinessContentConcentrationCareColour," and prepared to begin again.
"Aguamenti." she said, pointing her wand again at her now empty (and really, really clean!) cauldron.
"Incendio." she said, pointing her wand beneath the cauldron and watching the low flame begin to flicker. She sat staring at the opposite wall for a few minutes while she waited for the water to come to a low boil, then finally was ready to go onto the next step. Fortunately she was pretty efficient at potion-making, thanks to all those years of drilling by her governess, so she wasn't too far behind the class.