05-12-2016, 08:44 PM
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| Mackled Malaclaw
Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Hazbin Hotel
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Sydney M. L. Masters
Slytherin Sixth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Maddox B. Buchanan
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Fiyero was a little unnerved when Professor Newton said they were doing an advanced potion, but he tried not to let on. That wouldn't be the Gryffindor thing to do! His eyes searched the room for an older student to work with, but they all seemed busy. It looked like he was on his own this time...
He whipped out his wand, pointing at the cauldron. "Scourgify!" He didn't see why he needed to clean a brand-new cauldron, but better safe than sorry, he supposed. He repeated the same spell with his mortar and pestle. So far so good... at least he hadn't messed up the wandwork! Fiyero consulted his notes:
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Ingredients
100ml Red Wine
10ml Prune Juice
2g Hairy fungus, mashed
2g Tortoise Shell, powdered
5g Caterpillar, sliced
1 Bat Tongue, diced
Instructions
Prepare all ingredients as listed in the ingredients list, weighing and measuring each carefully.
Slowly heat the red wine and prune juice and begin stirring clockwise until you can just see bubbles starting to form. (The mixture will be dark purple/brown)
Immediately add the Hairy Fungus and continue to stir clockwise for ten minutes. (The mixture will slowly fade to a lighter purple/brown)
Continuing to stir clockwise, add the tortoise shell. (The mixture will be a creamy color)
After eight minutes, remove the cauldron from the heat and add the caterpillar and bat tongue, making sure to continue to stir the solution in a clockwise motion for five minutes, until it changes to a creamy green colour.
As the potion cools, it will turn emerald green. Once it is completely cooled (about fifteen to twenty minutes), you may cease dispense the potion into appropriate vials for storage.
Characteristics: Emerald Green
Level: Advanced
Information: The effects are dosage based; the more ingested, the older one will age
Now came the hard part...
Fiyero carefully weighed the hairy fungus. Touching it sort of felt like petting his mother's cat... except it didn't go meow when he touched it. The instructions didn't really say how fine it needed to be ground, just mashed. Once he thought he had a fairly uniform consistency, he set the fungus aide and moved on to the tortoise shell.
This just got a lot harder! As soon as he brought the pestle down, the shell flipped out of the bowl and went under the table. Oops... nobody saw that, right? BANG! BANG! BANG! He had to whack the shell with all his might just to break it up into smaller pieces.
Fiyero's arm felt like it was going to fall off by the time he finally had enough powdered tortoise shell for the potion. He sighed. At least now he could move on to the chopping part. He'd helped Grandma Jones chop vegetables in the kitchen many times, so he was feeling a bit more confident about this part. He picked up a bat tongue, but all he could think of as he diced it was that now there was some poor bat flying around without its tongue. How was it going to eat?
As he weighed the caterpillars, his mind wandered back to Herbology class, and he laughed to himself. These caterpillars would've fit right in with Professor Myers's Alice in Wonderland reenactment! He sliced them as thinly as he could - they were supposed to be thin, right? - but they kept breaking apart. He groaned. Ugh, this was so frustrating!
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