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Old 10-28-2021, 10:30 PM   #64 (permalink)
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Brandon Fox
Hufflepuff
Fourth Year

Hogwarts RPG Name:
Phoebe Calypso [s]Dupont[/s]
Slytherin
Second Year
Default Sorry this is so long! Question for the professor
Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

Ash agreed with Kinsay too. And Kale. If the government really cared about werewolves, they'd make the potion free. Sure it would cost lots of money, but that was far more preferable than having werewolves A. suffer(cruel) or B. kill people and break stuff(obviously bad too). They'd probably save money. And people wouldn't hate werewolves so much, probably. Money money money money money. She had lots and lots of money. Maybe she should pay for werewolves to get wolfsbane, because she cared, but also to make a point.

Hm. She jotted down a note on the back of her hand, then turned to her potion ingredients.

Step one... Ash grabbed a syringe and very very carefully emptied it into a beaker with her hand as steady as she could manage. It was not a lot of milk... who knew what would happen if she was off by even a little bit! She triple-checked that all of the milk had made it into the beaker, then started heating it(ooh fire! No Ashley, don't get distracted by the pretty fire).

Step two... Ash filled half(EXACTLY half) of her cauldron with water... it was very scary and her hand was shaking a little bit. Thankfully, it was hard to miss the cauldron, and she added both the water and the milk without incident.

Step three... Ash set the cauldron on low flame(ooh fire. NO).

Step four... Ash added the fluxweed, making extra extra sure she had every tiny little bit in the cauldron. It didn't matter that nobody would be drinking the potion. Ash didn't want to make a mistake! And this was really hard. The potion masters who made the real version of this potion correctly were like... wow. She was in awe!!!

Step five... she turned seven times clockwise with a metal stirrer.

Step six... she sprinkled in the dog fur as evenly as she could. Thankfully, the potion turned green. Moss green. Ash could say quite certainly the the potion was moss green. She was relieved.

Step seven... Ash waited, checking the seconds so that she could add the feather things at the exact right time. This was scary and wayyy above her pay grade. She nearly dropped the feathers in the cauldron a couple times because her hands were shaking a little bit and she had her hand ready to drop the feathers because she didn't want to be even a little bit late.

She checked the ingredients list and did a double take, committing the recipe to memory before turning back to the clock. "Professor Hernandez..." Ash didn't look away from her very important task of watching the clock. "why is the number seven so important to this? You said the real thing takes seven days to brew, right? Is that like... an arithmancy thing or...?" Because the number seven appeared too many times to be random.

Four minutes and forty- nine seconds left.
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