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Droo 
"Anyway..." She took her lemon and handed it to Skylar with her mortar. "Juice it." She told her. "You will juice your lemon," she said to the rest of the class, "Into your mortar, then toss a handful of poppy seeds into it and use your pestle to crush it all together." She turned back to the head girl and said "Get on with it!"
Anyway...?
Anyway, who threw up? Merlin. Her breakfast wanted to go up at the stinky smell too. It was a good thing she didn't eat too much. Actually her appetite this past few weeks altered drastically. It was weird. Had she mentioned her sympathy for the Head Girl, by the way? Gah. She can only imagine how it feels like brewing a potion and having Professor Lafay's piercing gaze right at your back. Must be close to torture, eh? Too much for her own thoughts. She watched as the demonstration carried on.
Okay, she had to juice the lemon.
Cutting it in half, the Ravenclaw got to squeezing out the juice from the fruit into the mortar. Squeeeeeeze! And then the other portion in which she purposely brought the lemon half near her nose to smell it instead of inhaling the horrid odor that was wafting throughout the dungeon. Juice into the mortar...followed by the poppy seeds. Beezus reached out for her pestle and began grinding the seeds with the juice mixed with it. Just like crushing herbs..yep.
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Droo "Alright, if you haven't already, add your lemon poppy seed to the mixture. Take your wand, and with a brisk jabbing motion, cast 'dilapsus' in the cauldron, WAIT!" she said stopping the kids, "The next step needs to be fast."
She made another basket go around the room containing small balloons.
"Use the baster in your potions kit to fill your balloons, and tie them shut. Fill Five. Then quickly cast Evanesco on your cauldrons cleaning up the rest, before it begins to give off gas."
She turned to the Head Girl and said "Go On... And be quick about it."
Merlin, they were moving fast. She barely finished crushing the lemon poppy seed mixture when Professor Lafay spoke again. This time they needed wand assistance, she said.
Wait, WHAT?
The next step needs to be fast. By fast, did she mean fast fast fast with carelessness or faaaaaaaast faaaaast faaaaaast being careful? Because Beezus wasn't too sure if she was capable of doing the succeeding steps
fast and
carefully.
UGH. She said, what? They were to fill five balloons? Why five? Can't it be just one? But as it was per Professor Lafay's instructions, it had to be followed and so when the basket that was distributing small balloons got to her work area, she promptly took five. Baster out too.
It was time to get started. Lemon and seeds mixture into the cauldron you go. She took a deep breath before pulling out her wand from its holster, biting her bottom lip as she pointed it towards the cauldron.
Okay...one, two, three. "Dilapsus!" Balloon, come here! With the basters aid, she quickly filled the first balloon, a few spillage here and there but she just couldn't be bothered by it. Second one. Gah, why were they transferring this to balloons? Were they going to have a balloon fight? Shot each other to find out if their brewing was correct? Third. ...Ouch! She had squirted the potion out of the baster and into the balloon but on the process, her elbow hit the cauldron. It stung. Dang it. She didn't have the chance to inspect the wound though. Painstakingly attempting to get through with this was SO DIFFICULT. Fourth balloon! Ugh. Hands...STOP...SHAKING.. And finally, finally...the last one! Beezus swallowed hard, filled the baster...into the balloon...tying it.
O.o She was done! Right, right?! She didn't break anything, did not spill too much, managed to.... Blink. Blink.
...What in Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem was that...? Gas? Smoke? Huh? ..OHCRAP. She forgot to clean up!
"Evane---!" Too late. Gas was issuing from her cauldron. *coughcoughcough*
Sorry, Professor Lafay!