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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.
"Excellent! Five points -- Ravenclaw thanks you, Miss Toussaint." Kazimeriz nodded with approval.
"Go on now, get busy- we need this class cleaned up and closed up, many of you have the long trek out to the magical creatures' compound for class next..." Quote:
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The1HBIC Marie was not happy when she heard they had to manually clean all the cauldrons. They were in a school where magic was used for everything so why not for cleaning nasty cauldrons. "This is going to take forever, we will never get out of here now." Marie went with Kay to get the needed cleaning supplies so she could get this mess over with and hopefully get out of this class soon.
Back at the table Marie put on her gloves, pointed her wand at her cauldron and said "aguamenti" filling her cauldron with water. She then put in some of the nasty cleanser and started scrubbing. "Why do we have to clean up after the older kids? They should have to clean their own mess just like we do. This is so unfair!" Marie did NOT like doing manual labor of any kind, she was perfectly happy using magic for everything.
Kazimeriz smirked at the whining little girl.
"Oh, princess." His voice dripped sarcasm and he brought an exceptionally filthy, sticky, smelly cauldron over to her.
"Life is not fair, nor is it easy- even for those of us with magic. Accept this, and you shall lead a much happier life. And five points for complaining. Does anyone else have an objection to this lesson? Speak up now; I feel like taking points from whiny students today." Kazimeriz eyes his pupils, as though daring anyone to speak up.