So Janelle officially had a partner and a Prefect to boot. "It's nice to meet you Hugo. Thanks for agreeing to work with me."In her previous partnerings with Prefects, things had gone very well. Benzi and Zander had been great and she had no doubt that Hugo would be fantastic as well. However, once the professor began to describe what they would be doing, Janelle was a little worried. Just a little pressure to get it right. She didn't want to be the one to kill her partner with a botched antidote.

And Hugo volunteered to drink the elixer first........the pressure was on. "Ok, I'll brew the antidote. Don't worry, I got this." Janelle hoped she sounded more confident than she actually felt. She was pretty good at potions, but there was no room for error when you were dealing with another person. Turning to Hugo, she said, "I'll go ahead and get started then."

First and foremost, Janelle copied down the ingredients, double checking to make sure she got it right. Then she went up and grabbed all of the ingredients that were listed and returned to her workstation. As Professor Newton added to the instructions on the board, Janelle updated her notes. Then taking out her mortar, pestle, measuring instruments and stirrer, Janelle gave them good, "Scourgify". She was ready, well as ready as she could possibly be. Checking her notes again, Janelle got to work.

Janelle donned her gloves and then placed her bezoar into the mortar. Taking her pestle, she began to crush the bezoar. She put her weight into it, making sure that she would have a very fine powder in the end. Smiling, Janelle thought that crushing was very therapeutic. If you wanted to take out your frustrations, crushing something into tiny pieces was a good way to do it. Finally putting down the pestle, she checked to make sure that there were no chunks left in her powder. Nope, it looked pretty good. Satisfied, Janelle checked her notes for the next step.