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Droo 
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.
"Next step will be to add two cups of Elf-made wine vinegar." She said and motioned to the door of the potions cupboard. "There is a barrel in there with enough for the whole class." She took the vinegar, burgundy in color and poured it slowly in with the water.
Whaaa?
August's jaw dropped as the Professor flipped his cauldren of hot water over all over the work station, close to landing on him. She almost burned him!!! A scowl formed on his face as she said they didn't clean their cauldrens and they needed to start over, AFTER cleaning up HER mess.
"You didn't clean your cauldren Professor..." the Gryffindor mumbled bitterly, in what he thought was a quiet tone, as he used a towel to sop up the water all over the table. How dare she? His hatred of Potions had just set in another peg.
Now that his cauldren was empty he performed the cleaning spell with a wave of his wand,
"Scorgify." and then recited the 5 C's of potion making, after re-reading them from his notes.
"Cleanliness, Content, Concentration, Care, and Color." Such a stupid rule. Then he redid the water spell filling his cauldren to the amount it was before, and setting the flame alight once more.
Now onto the next step, Elf Wine vinegar...HE DIDN'T HAVE TO GET THIS FROM AN ELF DID HE?!?! His face drained of color but then she said it was int he Potions storeroom. Whew. August got his share and then added the two cups of the deep colored liquid slowly to his water.