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Well, if it looked about right to Finn, who was now in his fifth year of Potions, Hanna decided it was right. She kept the heat at the level it was, and waited until it was time to move on. Which, it was now, apparently.
Hanna simultaneously watched Professor Noble up the front, and copied Finn, starting to write more on her parchment. She tried to pick up on everything he was saying, so as not to miss anything. She envisioned a folder with all of these notes in order of when they were brewed. Or perhaps alphabetically, she hadn't decided.
Hanna peeked over the top of her cauldron, and saw that nothing had happened yet. Not a bubble in sight. But Professor Noble did mention waiting for it to simmer, and of course things heated over a flame weren't instantly simmering. She sat back down just as Finn asked about moths. "Uh..." she looked through her potions ingredients and found them. "Yes, here." She REALLY appreciated him helping her. She pulled close her own mortar, BRAND NEW, never used before! And put three of the moths in it. She jumped a little as the Professor's pestle made the first bang in the mortar. By his words, this step wasn't going to be as easy as scooping out pumpkin guts. She added her pestle to the mortar, with more care than Professor Noble, and started to grind away at the moths. At first they seemed to SQUISH pretty quickly, but then the texture remained that way. Right, so she WAS going to have to put some muscle into it. Finn didn't seem to be having the best of times either. Standing up to put more weight onto the pestle, in hopes it would grind it into a nice fine powder, she said "D-does it usually... require this... much... work?" Getting a little breathless, because she didn't do muscle workouts, she stopped. But wasn't entirely happy with her powder. PLUS Professor Noble had said to pound it some more. Copying Finn, necessarily, she shook her own hand out. "Are you ambidexterous?" she asked. She wasn't, unfortunately. She went back using her sore hand.
After what felt like YEARS of grinding these moths, Hanna compared her powder to that which the Professor showed them, and Finn (such copying) and decided it was good.
Hanna had seen bouncing bulbs before, in her Gruncle's lab, but had never used one. They were all in jars and things, so she'd never SEEN one bounce. And, to prevent being in trouble, she wouldn't be tempting it today. Unless it just happened to occur. Hanna went off to the front to get TWO bouncing bulbs. "Here you go," she said, putting one in front of Finn, because he'd helped her SO much already. That was just a little thanks. But she wasn't about to attempt a stunning charm until she'd watched the fifth-year.
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