SPOILER!!: McFeisty
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Mika nodded and moved over to where she had set up the mortar and pestle when Bee asked her to grind the feather and dilute the puss. Mika loved potions really – she loved every aspect of it. Grinding things, chopping things, even squeezing oozing goop out of things. Though that was her least favorite thing about potions.
The goop and the squeezing was just, gross sometimes.
She plucked the feather out of the jar it was sitting in and carefully placed it into the mortar and began to grind it. grind.scrape.grind.scrape.griiiiind. there, it was refined into a nice powder. She placed the powdered leaves by the cauldron and carefully sprinkled the it over the cauldron.
Glancing at the notes she just smiled. They were already heading onto the fourth step. This was great – yeah? Because that meant their potion wouldn’t take too long to be made…and well, maybe they could test it on people. If someone was hurt that is – have them smell it and feel better yeah, that sounded like a good idea to her.
For a while, Beezus watched as Mika worked with the jobberknoll feathers and once she was sure the younger girl could handle it, she went ahead and moved on to the next step which was actually a fairly important part of the whole brew.
The dilution of the bubotuber pus.
If it went undiluted, it can cause painful, large, yellow boils to form immediately on the skin so before she mixed it with the water and flobberworm mucus, she pulled out her own pair of dragonhide gloves from her bag and slipped them on. When it was secured, she pulled a cup in front of her, "
Aguamenti." She muttered and water spurted out from the tip of her wand. When it filled about half of the cup, she flicked her wand to stop and with a small grin, holstered it back in place. She poured the liquid into the basin to avoid spillage. Next, Beezus grabbed the vial of flobberworm mucus, shot Mika a quick glance to found out that she was still grinding. With a nod, she added in 7 drops of the mucus into the water.
Drop. Drop. Drop. Drop. Drop. Drop. Drop.
Grabbing a stirring rod, she wiped her forehead with the back of her other hand. Merlin, it was getting hot inside this classroom what with all her peers' cauldrons with fire as much as theirs. But that wasn't really the time to complain now, was it? She used the rod to stir the mixture on the basin, siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiix times in a clockwise direction.
Finally, the trickier part.
Beezus corked open the vial filled with bubotuber pus and scrunched her nose at the smell.
Petrol. Ugh.
With that, she carefully poured the contents of the vial into the water and flobberworm mucus mixture. VERY CAREFUUUUL. She didn't want boils. That'll mean more work. She'd have to work on a Boil Cure Potion if that happened. So...being a careful Ravenclaw here. Yep.
When the bubotuber pus met the mixture, it sizzled and smoked a bit which made her back away. See? It was dangerous if not handled painstakingly. She allowed it to sit for a while before stirring the mixture again. This time in a counterclockwise direction. The mixture turned into a color of thick yellowish green liquid. Ew?
Just as she had finished diluting the bubotuber pus, Mika had sprinkled in the jobberknoll feathers so she offered the girl a wink before pouring in the dilution she had finished doing. Once more, sizzling and a few wisps of smoke happened. Moreover, it smelled bad. Time to add in the aloe vera and peppermint, eh? So they'd get rid of that horrible smell.
Eurgghh.