SPOILER!!: Droo
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Originally Posted by Droo
"NEXT INGREDIENT." She said and moved on. "You don't have to squeeze the juice out of the leeches, that's been done for you... but in case you ever have to." She took a leech in her bare hands, laid it on a cloth and rolled over it with a small rolling pin. She then pulled up the cloth and wrung it from top to bottom in a beaker. "That's how you do it. If you wish to try it... the leeches are in the jar behind me, the leech juice is over here, and you can take some with your dropper." She dropped the drop of leech juice in the cauldron... and then she dropped a crimson liquid in after it. "After the leech juice you add the five drops of pomegranate juice." The steam was now purple. "Notice the distinctive steam..."
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Originally Posted by Droo
SPOILER!!: Where you were supposed to add the Knotgrass
The students seemed even more distracted. Their potions would suffer. She took a breath to try to be less irritated, summoned the shrivelfigs and said. "Lay the knotgrass to the side, so the juices from the cutting come to the surface. We aren't adding them yet. The next ingredient. Shrivelfigs are messy, so dawn your gloves," she said putting her gloves on. "Squish them in your hands and try and get as much into the cauldron and off your gloves as you can." She said as she demonstrated. "After you are done with the figs, take the knotgrass and run it gently over your gloves. This will, one, help get the excess fig off and two, coat the knotgrass so it won't wilt too quickly in the potion." She then took off her gloves and cleaned them.
ooc: Sorry, my fault, I guess I assumed you'd all READ MY MIND and knew that after running the knotgrass on your gloves you were supposed to drop it in the potion, cause it wasn't going to wilt too quickly. Sorry.
She summoned the next ingredient and placed it in her clean mortar. "Crush the bicorn horn, withdraw a tbs and add place it in a spoon. Come to me with the spoon and I will drop a phoenix tear on it, then go back to your cauldron and stir them in 15 times clockwise." She said and demonstrated.
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Originally Posted by Droo
"Alright. After you add the daisy root. You will take the sprigs of Fluxweed." She put on her gloves and her goggles and stirred the mixture with the sprigs both counter and clockwise 3 times. "After putting on your gloves and goggles. Stir the mixture with the sprigs one going counter and the other going clockwise 3 times. You will notice the sprigs are both disintegrating into the potion... Then take the peppermint toads, and chocolate frog and put them in the mixture, using the liquorish wand to stir it." She said demonstrating. "And... the liquorish wand will melt inside. Lower the flame." She said and sent a bottle at each table. "Today I want to see you funnel your potion in a bottle and cork it. You should have a funnel in your potions kit. MAKE SURE IT IS CLEAN!" She said.
Not only does Lafay find it fit to ignore questions but she also doesn't seem to know what her ingredients list is either.
"Why are we adding the knotgrass in only sliced when the list of ingredients calls for 2 Tbsp of Chopped knotgrass?" Yep, fair enough question and Marie still wasn't going to continue with the potion until she got her answer about this ingredient.
Oh, and now she was onto the phoenix tears. Riiiight, lets just continue on with wasting something as valuable as phoenix tears for a stupid, meaningless lesson. Well Marie wasn't going to do it.
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Originally Posted by
Deniiz 
Evan halted for a while as he thought on the answer. If without it this potion wouldn't work without a tear... then, he had to make a decision. He was either going to waste one more tear for such a stupid potion, or he would simply leave. Although staying would be better for his well-being, he just didn't want to waste phoenix tear on his behalf. It wasn't hard to guess the correct choice here. His heart started to beat faster with the decision he made: he'd leave, as he'd agreed to do before. Cleaning his working area, he returned the unused stuff and "Evanesco!"ed his half-potion. Then, packing his stuff, he simply and calmly said "I don't want to waste that tear, then," to the professor and walked through the open-door. The consequences he didn't want to think about, but he felt quite nice, actually, although his knees were shaky a little with the fear of Lafay.
As he got out of the door, it dawned on him that with this rather rebellious action he could get a detention. Oh well. There were more important things than detention, and if he got lucky, he could always study the potion from books.
And apparently neither was Evan. Watching him walk out the door after he cleaned up his work station Marie did the same. First she evenescoed what was in her cauldron, then scourgified it and put it in her bag. She then cleaned all her other items and packed them away. Once that was done she put the remaining ingredients back where she got them.
"I will not take part in wasting something as important as phoenix tears just so you can make us drink a useless potion." she said as she walked back to her work station, grabbed her bag and walked out the door.
Holy Merlin, what had she just done? Walked out of a class that she was now protesting that's what she did. A class that was taught by her Head of House. A woman that could make her life miserable.
Oh well, no turning back now. What was done was done and that's all there was to it.
SPOILER!!: Marie's Journal
Marie J. Salazar
Slytherin/4th Year
Potions 2
De-Aging Potion: Makes the person taking the potion appear to be younger physically but does not alter mental age.
Ingredients:
1 Gallon of goat's milk
1 Tsp of crushed Yellow Moonstone
2 Lacewing flies
10 Shrivelfigs
2 Tbsp of chopped knotgrass
1 Drop of Leech juice
5 Drops Pomegranite juice
1 Tsp bicorn horn, crushed
1 Phoenix tear
1 Daisy root, finely chopped
2 Sprigs of Fluxweed
2 Peppermint toads
1 Chocolate frog
1 Liquorish wand
Procedure:
-Inspect and clean cauldron and work area
-Add 1 gallon of goat's milk
-Add crushed Yellow Moonstone, stir goats milk while doing this
-Add 2 lacewig flies
-Stir twice clockwise and five times counter clockwise
-Slice knotgrass from top to bottom being careful not to slice the same spot twice then set aside to let the juices from the cutting come to the surface.
-Add shrivelfigs by squishing them in gloved hands (this will be messy)
-Roll knotgrass in gloved hands to get remaining shrivelfigs off and to coat the knotgrass so it won't wilt in the cauldron
-Add knotgrass
-Add leech juice
-Add Pomegranite juice (Steam should be purple)
-Crush the bicorn horn
-Add 1 phoenix tear to crushed bicorn horn then add to cauldron and stir 15 times
-Add 1 Daisy root, finely chopped
-Add 2 Sprigs of Fluxweed, stir once counter clockwise, 2 times clockwise
-Add 2 Peppermint toads and 1 Chocolate frog using Liquorish wand to stir (it too will melt)
-Lower flame
-Funnel potion into bottle and cork it
Steps Taken:
-Cleaned cauldron and work area with "Scourgify"
-Added 1 gallon of goat's milk
-Gathered remaining ingredients (except for phoenix/Lafay tear)
-Used mortar and pestle to crush the yellow moonstone to a powder
-Added powdered moonstone to mixture while stirring.
-Updated journal
-Dropped 2 lacewig flies in the cauldron
-Made sure stirrer was clean (since it was sitting on the table) then stirred potion twice clockwise and five times counter clockwise
-Updated journal and listened to Raiden question Lafay... GO RAIDEN!
-Sliced knotgrass with silver knife (that had been cleaned at beginning of class)
-Squished shrivelfigs in gloves pretending they were Lafays head and dropped them into cauldron
-Rolled knotgrass in gloved hands, then set to side again
-Updated journal
-Questioned Lafay for hissing at Raiden
-Got told I could leave if I didn't like the way she talked to Raiden
-Questioned Lafay about the knotgrass
-Got ignored by Lafay
-Sat and refused to work anymore on the potion until she answered me
-Questioned Lafay again about the knotgrass. Ingredient list says 'Chopped', not 'sliced'
-Didn't wait for answer about knotgrass, instead packed up and left when it came time to add phoenix tears. What a waste of a precious, hard to come by ingredient.