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Old 10-06-2014, 12:36 AM   #196 (permalink)
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Amelia "Mia" Adair
Slytherin
Sixth Year

Hogwarts RPG Name:
Leigh Upstead
Hufflepuff
Fifth Year
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Yep. All of them. Even Sophie Brown.

She gave up on her hunt to find what she had wanted her answer to be for the last question and closed her textbook when someone spoke up and basically answered it for her. But... it still... didn't make a TON of sense. Why, in their last potion, had they gone from a metal stirring stick to a wooden one, then back to metal? If the wooden one was okay to use in the middle, why wouldn't it also have been at the beginning? All the same ingredients were still there, so... did it just matter at the time of it being stirred? The specific combination of ingredients at the time of each stir and how they'd interact with a foreign object being lowered into the concoction?

...Maybe she was overthinking it a little.

Or MAYBE she was being thorough and posing the good questions, she wasn't sure about that either.

She sighed, though, and tuned back in soon enough to hear Culloden's next request of them. One tool? "A clean cutting knife?" she offered, her hand in the air. "Used to cut 'n slice certain ingredients in the preparation stage before y'add them." You could also do that with a wand, she knew, and she ALMOST added that, too, but... then that'd be more than one potions tool listed. So she held off on adding that extra tidbit of information. "S'important 'cause y'don't always need the whole part of the ingredient, or y'might have to gradually add a little bit at a time. Bits 'n pieces versus a whole ingredient can matter 'cause of surface area 'n such, so there can be a difference in how the potion reacts to the ingredient based upon whether it's one thing or a bunch of segments of it." Such a model student.
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