So there wasn’t an antidote BUT the potion wasn’t permanent? That was … somewhat… good news, she thought, as she listened to the Professor discuss the other answers presented. Once the class had shared their thoughts, she watched as the Professor moved on to explain how to create the Jawbind Potion. She took her quill, jotting down the ingredients first in her notebook before readying her ingredients.

Lisa went to gather the ingredients that the Professor had already laid out. “Thanks,” she said. He was saving them the very first step she would have done which was measure and inspect all of her ingredients. So with that step done, she cast a cleaning spell with her wand at the cauldron. Cauldron cleanliness was the first step in making the perfect potion. That was the critical first step of potion making that she had learned in her first year here.

Next she set the flame to high heat and promptly added the five cups of distilled water to the cauldron. While she waited for that to boil, she began prepping the next ingredients. Gently pinching the Snakeweed leaves, she picked them up and added five punches to the mortar. With her pestle, she began grinding them down. She found that she had to think of a song in her head to keep herself going until the leaves were a fine mixture.

Glancing over the check her cauldron, she noticed that very fine bubbles were about to appear. Lisa waited a minute longer until the bubbles were harder and then she added the fine mixture of leaves and then lowered the heat to a small flame.

After consulting her notebook, she grabbed the pipette. Ah. 10 drops of dragon claw ooze… She crinkled her nose as she examined this ingredient. Yum… appetizing… Not. She took a pipette and added ten drops. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Done. Lisa set a timer for a minute and then proceeded to stir the mixture six times counterclockwise. As she got to the fifth stir, she noticed the liquid turn colour and gain a light yellow hue. After the sixth stir, she then reset her timer for three minutes for it to simmer. Then she went to clean up her ingredients that she had used prior.

The timer went off and she then added the next ingredient. One Adder’s fork. She promptly dropped it into her cauldron and watched it dissolve. At least it was interesting to watch the slight change in hue from yellow to more and more orange as the fork dissolved. It was a slow transition so she began prepping the next ingredient. She took the Wiggentree bark and proceeds to cut it into smaller stripes. She produced four strips. Putting the strips to the side, she checked the colour of the potion. Now that the potion was fully orange, she moved on to the next task at hand. Stir ten times clockwise. And so she did.

Then she added one strip at a time and stirred four times clockwise. She tried not to let her mind be distracted by previous thoughts but she couldn’t help and look up from her station to watch Serena. This was not the time to get distracted, she told herself. Then she refocused on adding the strips and stirring until her potion was a lime green.

The next two steps she moved quickly through. Two teaspoons of lip fish spine were added promptly followed by the addition of two Snakeweed leaves. Then she stirred the potion clockwise five times. Placing her wand over the potion, she waved it and said, “Clausum.” At first, she didn’t see a change so she readied herself to do it again but before she could pronounce the words, she noticed that the potion had changed colours. It was now a lovely smokey , dark blue, and was actively smoking.