Following the second and third step, West put his cauldron on to a medium heat and left it for a minute. Once that time was up he conjured purified water himself, and measured three glasses full into his cauldron. This was followed by the fourth step, dropping in ten hippogriff feathers one at a time.

The next step, West listened carefully. Seemed straight forward enough. He cleaned his wooden stirrer again just to be sure, and then he counted to ten and stirred the potion anti-clockwise once. This was immediately followed by counting to twenty and stirring it clockwise once. Finally West counted to thirty and stirred anti-clockwise once again. West was pretty confident he'd done it right, given how focused he was. Just kind of keeping his mind on the task and trying not to be distracted by all the external things, and all the other things he could be thinking about right now. He ignored the drama going on around him. Shouting wasn't at him, or at one of his former team mates, so it didn't matter.

Step six and West added the grated unicorn horn to his cauldron... then following the given instruction, drew an arrow pointing to the right with his wand. Okay. He looked up at Culloden and waited to hear what was next. This was good. A good distraction. He was actually kind of enjoying it.