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StarShine 
"Once two minutes are up, please come here and get ten cubes of ice," he said as he put a big bucket of ice on his desk from under it, "and add them all at once. Wait until they completely melt and grate five of the carrots in the meantime. Add the ungrated ones at once, and sprinkle the grated ones over. If you have been correct all this time, it shouldn't take all the ice longer than five minutes. Then, tie the wormwood around knotgrass and add them as well."
He waved his wand and these steps appeared on the blackboard.
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The alarm on his watch went off after the two minutes were up and the Gryffindor pressed the button to stop the noise. He looked at
Zander for a second to see what his reaction to his previous words were and he then shrugged his shoulders. He was right, at least he had tried. See, he wasn't such a bad person like a LOT of people thought he was. He was just...manipulative ...sometimes. Anyways, Kevin stood up from his seat and walked to the front. He was not getting the ice cubes for his friend though.
Grabbing exactly 10 ice cubes from the bucket at the Professor's desk, Kevin went back and added them quickly in to the cauldrom before they melted. While he waited for the cubes to melt down , he grabbed the grate, cleaned it and grated the five carrots he needed for the next step.He looked up at the blackboard to see the instructions before looking back down to throw in the remaining carrots in his cauldron before sprinkling the grated carrots after.
What now? There were so many steps at the same time even Kevin who thought Potions was easy had a difficult time keeping up. But he managed it if he just kept his cool. So...how did one tie a wormwood around knotgrass? Just...like it says? The boy looked around for a moment, watching what the others did before grabbing a wormwood from the jar. He tied it around the grass which he thought was right and threw it in the cauldron.
He waited to see if something wrong happened but nothing did.
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StarShine Cosgrach walked to the front and tapped the blackboard with his wand again.
"If you have done everything right, the steam from your potion should be visible to the eye and it should make you only slightly nauseous. If you don't feel anything, then you might as well vanish it and start over."
Was that clear? He paused briefly and then continued with reading the next steps.
"Stir eleven times clockwise with wooden stick. Do clean it before using. Then add two crow feathers. Stir once clockwise with metal stick. Add another two feathers and stir clockwise with metal stick again. Go on like this until all feathers are added. Do not stir after the last couple of feathers. You don't have to remove metal every time to clean it - just keep it inside the cauldron until last feather is added."
All clear?
Now, who was vanishing their potions?
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OOC: Like Cosgrach has said, the nausea feeling isn't strong enough to make your character vomit. The steams only affect the brewer, so the wrong ones won't be affected by other vapours. Wrong potions do look as if they are all right, though (in case your characters want to fake it 
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This is a catch up point, as I'll post again probably more than 24 hours later. Steam started to rise up from his cauldron quickly after the last step and the thirteen year old waved his hand to see. The mistake was breathing in through his nose though as his stomach turned slightly at the smell. He pinched his nose with his fingers and listened to the Professor. So the aweful smell was good? Then he didn't have to vanish his potion.
Cleaning the wooden stick, Kevin used it to stir the potion clockwise while counting to eleven in his head. Then he reached over the desk and grabbed two crow feathers from the box and added them in as well. Then he grabbed the wooden stick again, dipped it in the cauldron, stirred once.............
..........and froze.
His eyes widened as he realised what he had done. He had accidentally used the wooden stick instead of the metal one... Cursing under his breath, the Gryffindor looked around. No one had seen that? Did it really matter if a wooden stick was used instead of a metal one? Maybe he discovered something new and the potion became more powerful? WHAAAAAAAT?!
Ah screw it , he was NOT starting over. He added two more feathers before grabbing the metal stick now. Cleaned it and stirred again. He went on after all the feathers were added but making sure to not stir after the last two feathers and looked at his potion............
..........He was doomed.