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"Alright, if you are quite finished having your fun... let's return to the plimpies." She put on her gloves. "Gloves on. Take your scalpel, clean it, and cut an incision under the scales by the fins." She demonstrated on the floating creature. "You then remove all the fins from the body, and place them in your tray. Don't worry when they disappear, they are being placed in the ingredients storage." She said waving a slimey gloved hand.
"Now, you will want to rotate the legs one at a time, widely, until you hear them pop out of the sockets, then you may cut along the lose skin, pull the legs off and put them in your tray." As she did so, she looked at the class. "You try now."
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Nora felt... sick. Really, really sick... and she felt even worse as professor Lafay kept telling them what to do. The thing was... she wanted to stay at this lesson, but also didn't want to, if that made any bit of sense. She didn't want to earn a glare from her Head of House, but could she really help it if she felt that way? The poor plimpies... even though they were dead.
Putting her gloves on, she pointed her wand at the scalpel and muttered "
Scourgify" to clean it. And now... uh... the... cutting part...
Deep breath. She could do it. She really could. All she had to do was imagine that she would be cutting into a... cake? As much as she tried to think about that, she couldn't. All she could think about was the poor plimpy! Okay... so... cut under the scales by the fins... she could do it. She NEEDED to do it.
Holding her scalpel with a now trembling hand, Nora cut where she was supposed to with her eyes almost completely closed, and even holding her breath. She was afraid to breathe! What if there was a smell that would actually make her... faint? She was SO close to fainting... but she COULDN'T do that! No!
As she started removing the fins from the dead plimpy's body, she put them into the tray and was sort of surprised when they started to disappear. Ah, professor Lafay mentioned them being placed into the ingredient storage. When she was finally done with that, she carefully rotated the legs, widely and one at a time, just as they were told, until they popped out of their sockets, making the girl gasp... maybe a bit too loud.
More deep breaths followed, and she didn't even care about any smell. She needed the air, and that was the moment she needed it the most. Cutting along the skin, Nora was more than glad to be done with that part as she put them into the tray. The best thing about it was that she was still alive, and not lying on the floor. She had a feeling she'd have lots of nightmares after this lesson.