 Catching Up Napoleon of Crime - Gryffinclaw - ❄ Lunar Library Lurker ❄ - Owl Emissary - Pirate Auror
The green leaves went into the potion once more. Benny then counted out the ten seconds one by one and cautiously took them out again. Could they throw the soggy leaves out now that they were supposedly done with? He guessed they would have to wait as he added the cherry stalks before sitting back and watching for the potion to turn red.
Almost...almost...yes!
They were moving on...to very easy steps.
As in steps that could make you think higher of yourself and thus make stupid mistakes. Benny was just as cautious of these kind of steps as he was of the harder ones, not wanting to do anything wrong. And as Professor Culloden seemingly knew, the incantations could seriously mess things up. "Amittere...Ah-mittereh pon-doos...Amittere pondus," he repeated until he was echoing the man correctly. The same with the second incantation they would need in this set of steps. "Gracilis...Gracilis...Gracilis...Gracilis"
The incantations under his belt, it was time to proceed with the actual brewing steps. Ben slipped his wand out first and foremost and waved it once over his potion. He then let the tip of his wand trace the edge of the cauldron clockwise as directed while using the first incantation, "Amittere pondus." So far so good for him. Everything seemed to be going smoothly with no adverse reaction from his potion.
Wand waved twice over the cauldron now. Check and check. With a look to his notes to make sure of the last, Benny finished up the latest round. The fifth year tracing the edge of his cauldron once more, this time counterclockwise, as he pronounced the second incantation. "Gracilis."
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