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The1HBIC 
Marie stared at the mess that was at her station. 'Well I guess I need to get rid of this left over potion first' she thought. Taking out her wand she pointed it in the cauldron and said "Evanesco". The potion vanished leaving nothing but a dirty cauldron. 'Dang, now to clean this thing out.' She sat there a minute trying to remember the spell to clean things. She did not want to have to clean any of the cauldrons by hand.
Just then she heard another student say 'scourgify' while cleaning her station. 'Oooh, that's it' she thought. Pointing her wand at her cauldron again Marie said "scourgify". To her delight the cauldron was clean as new. Pointing her wand at her desk and repeating the spell Marie quickly had her work station cleaned and ready for the next class.
She looked around to see if any of the older students needed her help. "Does anyone need me to help them clean their cauldron?"
"Well it looks like we did it wrong. Ready for some hard work?" Kay said to Marie with a little nudge.
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Originally Posted by
XanaSnape
"A nice attempt, but a simple evanesco and scourgify are not sufficient to clean and cure a cauldron for future use in this class. This will require manual labor, I am afraid. For five points, who among my upperclassmen can demonstrate the proper way to clean and cure a cauldron for our younger students, drawing of course upon what you learned in our lesson from last term?" Kazimeriz's eyes scanned the room, looking for a volunteer.
"Sorry Professor. I'll get start right away." Kay said looking into her cauldron. It sure looked clean. It was new and all.
"So, who can tell me how to start. I know its like washing dishes in the muggle world, but I'm not sure what to clean with." Kay said still looking in her cauldron.
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Celandine "I can!" Celandine volunteered quite cheerfully, glad for the chance to actually do some of it herself and not just tell others how to do it. She pulled on some long gloves. and then addressed Destiny and Evelyn.
"Mrs Scower's Magical Mess Remover." Celandine answered with a nod.
"See its important to do it by hand first because there can be traces still left behind, often absorbed by the cauldron you are using, especially if there are hairline cracks in its surface that aren't visible to the eye. It actually doesn't take as long as you'd think. I think its kind of fun."
She did NOW anyway, the first time, while she hadn't minded tooooo much, she hadn't really seen it as fun.
"Soooo like I said before, You use Mrs. Scower's Magical Mess Remover or clabbert elbow grease depending on what is in your cauldron, or rottenstone as well if the potion is acidic and that is particularly when you use a pewter cauldron because that kind of alloy reacts most to acidic potions, or if its really acidy then you can use powdered chalk and crushed chinese chomping cabbage in water and let it sit for a while to absorb it, but we don't have to worry about that because the Quintessence isn't super acidic, right?" She peeked at Professor Kazimeriz to check.
She had her cauldron in front of her and was totally ready to demonstrate, and ridiculously cheerful about it.
Kay took off her robe and rolled up her sleeves. She grabbed her gloves an put them on.
'by hand.' Kay thought
'this will be fun.' Kay went to get some of the Mrs. Scower's mess remover as she listened to Celandine. She told everyone how it was done. Kay kind of smiled at Celandine, she looked like she was really happy about cleaning the cauldrons.
"Well, thanks Celandine. I didn't know what to use on them." Kay said with a smile.
"Well Marie here we go again." Kay laughed and started cleaning her cauldron. She even smiled at some upper classmen and took their cauldrons to clean.