Chazz groaned Christmas break had just ended and he already had six essays to write. Six! And now he had potions which he rather liked, he had watched food network a lot while growing up and the skills necessary for cooking carried over too potion making. The dungeon was, as ever, dreary and damp a multitude of small glass vials filled the shelves that lined the room contained dangerous, rare, and mystical ingredients for potions. Chazz sat down at the lab table he shared with Hermione, they had, had to pick partners and so Ron and Harry and Chazz and Hermione had paired up. This was much to the ire of Snape and Draco who were both flummoxed and angered by the fact that two muggle borns were the top of the potions class. For today's lessor they were brewing a simple burn healing salve. Chazz glanced at the ingredients
Burn Healing Salve:
13 Camellia petals chopped fine.
7 crushed holly berries
3tsp Snowdrop nectar
4 dried chokeberries
3oz essence of witch hazel
Chazz mentally added dittany to the ingredients list. They were supposed to use a silver knife to slice the Camellia and crush the holly. Chaz stopped before he made the first cut and pulled out of his potion kit a Titanium scalpel from his parents. It was perfect titanium was inert so no properties would be passed into the potion none could be. He quickly began to slice the small petals, upon completion he added them to the potion which went from clear to solid white where the petals landed, the white spread through out the clear water like tendrils of smoke. Chazz then crushed the holly berries directly above the potion in order to ensure that most of the juice would fall inside the cauldron and then dropped them in, this caused the water to seem to crystalize the white smoke drifting took on a look more akin to a quarts crystal than smoke. Stirring twice counter clockwise caused the tendrils to retreat to the cauldrons center looking almost like a giant ice cube next to go in were the snowdrop, witch hazel, and dittany. The addition of witch made the white core more transparent and spread it and the crystallization to almost the whole cauldron. Finally he was to put it over a cold flame this meant a red flame not blue but Chazz had an idea a cold flame, he'd seen a fire freezing charm before so he tried it the flames were a pale blue under the cauldron as he dropped the choke berries in. The potion looked like ice but with a very pale blue core. Chazz had brewed a perfect potion and then had improved upon it.
Sorry for a chapter so dedicated to one aspect I'm just trying out some new writing tricks tell me if you like them or not. Also see my new story The Necromancer Chronicles Hadrian and look on LightsPast's profile for The Necromancer Chronicles Willow thanks- Azreal out
P.S. free cookies for the first person to guess why I chose the plants I did.