SPOILER!!: Hattie's notes
Method
Clean equipment
Add water to cauldron, and bring to a simmer
Stew alihotsy leaves in simmering water for 20 minutes [prepare other ingredients whilst waiting]
Remove all traces of leaves, and return water to a boil
Add dried billywig stings and erumpent tongue, boil for 10 minutes, continuously stiring counter-clockwise
Allow to cool to room temperature (22 °C/72 °F)
Add armadillo bile, stir five (5) times counter-clockwise
Add leech juice, stir twenty (20) times counter-clockwise, and the potion should be light brown in colour
Bring back to a boil
Circle wand counter-clockwise over cauldron whilst saying the incantation ‘garrula lingua’ and bring down to a simmer
Add 1 levelled tablespoon of activated charcoal
Stir counter-clockwise three (3) times slowly
Add a pinch of ground bezoar
Stir once counter clockwise and remove from heat
As it cools, it will turn from a light brown colour to a fluorescent yellow
When the colour stops lightening, you may bottle your potion. It will be approximately ten serves, if stored in 20mL vials.
Label one vial for the Professor to analyse, and ingest another vial. Save the others for your own use, or dispose of.
andd twenty.
Oh wow. That had been effort. She really did need to learn how to get her stirrer to stir all on it's own. Harriet made a mental note to look at that after she finished class. She looked over the potion. It was a brown colour. Not overly light. But it looked okay. She was happy with it. She glanced back at her notes to look over the next lot of instruction.
She put the heat back onto her potion, and waited for it to boil again. Allt his changing temperatures was pretty complicated. Next she carefully moved her wand counter clockwise over the potion whilst saying
"‘garrula lingua’" She then turned the heat back down, so that the potion began to simmer. It looked okay. She didn't think it was perfect. But she was 12. It was okay to not be perfect at some things.
Picking up her tablespoon, she carefully added one levelled spoon of the activated charcoal into her potion. She wanted to be careful that she didn't add too much or not enough. She wanted to be as perfect as she could! Slowly, she stirred her potion three times counter clockwise. At least it was only 3 times this time! That was much easier to manage, and easier on her arm too.
She carefully added a pinch of the bezoar and and stirred the potion once more counter clockwise. And then she turned the heat off. She was nearly done yay. She sat on her chair, peering into the cauldron as she watched it cool down. She smiled as she watched her potion go from the earthy brown color to the bright yellow. It wasn't exactly fluorescent but it was okay.
"Oh wow... very hufflepuff..." She giggled with a smile.
After the potion had stopped changing colour, she carefully put one serving into a vial, and labelled it up. All done, and she was proud of herself. She was finally getting better at this.
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Harriet Paton
Second Year, Hufflepuff.