It took several moments, but once water began boiling, Vesper dropped the shading pencil back down on the counter top and took a gander at her notes. According to the passage, it said that valerian root and Kava Kava would be added next. There wasn't any specific instructions about how they were meant to be added...So, after they were measured out, she casually dropped them in. There. Added.
Also, she needed to figure out a way to mark her progress without messing up her notes. Maybe a checkmark off to the side of each step would do? Ves tried this and nodded to herself in approval. It didn't disrupt her doodles or take away from the overall appearance of the notes. So, they could stay.
Looking to see what steps were next, she finally understood what the golden needle was for. Vesper had always wondered...but had never used it. Trying to carefully pull it out without poking herself, she put her focused face on, finally slipping it out of the holder.
Heh, gotcha.
Laying it in the palm of her gloved hand, she pointed her wand at it. After several cleaning spells, she felt sorta confident that it was clean. Clean and ready for whatever came next.
Heh. What
did come next....?
Nightshade berry, eh? Vesper eyed it, kinda fascinated by the blackness of it. Made sense that it was deadly or whatever. Evil berry was evil. Cue spooky sounds.
OoooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOooooooh.
Anyway, just so she understood...She was meant to poke the needle into the berry, get one drop of the juice on its point, and then toss the rest of the berry under the cauldron so that the magical fire could incinerate it and it's evil juice. Right?....And then she was to add the drop and then burn the remaining residue off of the needle...and then clean it...
This...was obviously going to require finesse. Finesse she might not of had...
Eep. SPOILER!!: Notebook!
Potions Lesson One
Vesper Bayliss
Ravenclaw Fifth Year THE DREAMER'S ELIXIR Ingredients
water ✔
1 cup of valerian root ✔
half a cup of Kava Kava ✔
1 deadly nightshade berry
8 leaves of devil's weed
1 cup of Poison Hemlock seeds
1 poppy flower → red poppies are the most potent
10 leaves of Calea Zacatechichi
Procedure
clean cauldron (Scourgify!) ✔
fill completely with water (Aguamenti!) ✔
turn on the burner and bring water to a boil. ✔
once the water boils, add the valerian and kava kava (mixes easier if in liquid form) ✔
clean 18 carat gold needle for next step (Scourgify!) ✔
pierce the nightshade berry, making sure to get a single drop of juice on the tip of the needle
set the berry on fire, using the magical burner under cauldron, burning it up entirely along with any remaining juice not on the needle
let the drop on the needle fall into the potion without touching anything other than the needle
burn any remaining juice from needle, clean it, and return to supplies
using silver knife, slice each leaf of devils weed carefully along the vein
place sliced leaves carefully into cauldron/potion
dip pestle into the liquid, shaking excess off so its just moist
place hemlock seeds into mortar, then crush with moist pestle until mushy (paste-like consistency)
spoon the hemlock seed paste into cauldron with a wooden spoon
put on goggles so fumes don't make you sleepy
place RED poppy flower on top of the liquid in cauldron, letting the heat from the potion wilt it and sink it to the bottom of the cauldron
if using potion to forget/not experience dreams, stop here
add Calea Zacatechichi leaves whole to potion, as they will disintegrate
(potion should be purple-colored) wave wand in a semi-circle motion over potion, thinking about a recent dream, then cast Sopororis
strain potion before using 