Everything seemed to be smoothed over now. Good. Only with calm, cool heads would they prevail with this task. "Sure." And he did, this time for an hour. Ugh, he hated waiting.

One Hour Later

Hearing his timer go off, Ström reached for a piece of the galangal large enough to add up to five grams once powdered and, casting Scourgify on a mortar, placed the piece inside. "And now it needs to be.... powdered," he said, beginning the process of mashing the plant into a powder. Once it was sufficiently powdered, he cast a "Incendio," into the mortar and let it burn off until it was nice and brown, then canceling the spell. "And into the cauldron it goes," dumping it in as he said it.