Shera's eyes widened as the Professor just vanished Jessa's work so far... wow, she really didn't want to get on his bad side. 'Remember to add water Shera, remember to add water,' she mentally repeated in her head over and over again.

"Um... and offsetting the balance of the potion would make it not work? Or would it lead to worse results?" she questioned, wondering about what it would actually do. Although, she was kind of regretting asking. She wasn't sure if he would actually respond with an answer to the question, or expect her to just know... but she was just a first year and she was trying to learn.

Checking her pumpkin innards one more time, just to make sure there weren't seeds in it even though she still didn't know what off balance meant. Then she let her hands move to pack the innards inside of her cup and added it to the cauldron. She repeated it again, getting to the 2 cups of densely packed pumpkin innards, before adding a cup of water.

She didn't forget the water. Good start. Now to set it over medium heat.

Incendio was a spell that she knew... but she did need to practice it and didn't want to set her entire table on fire. So she slowly pushed herself up, moving over to light a split so that she could use that to light her burner instead. Once she was satisfied that it was on medium heat she set her cauldron on that.

Please don't find any mistakes?