Taking on the Magical World 41 Chapter 40: Making a Potion

I roll up my sleeves and look up at Adrian, "so we have already done this plenty have times, so what is the first thing we should be doing, when we will be brewing a potion?"

"That one is easy, boss, the first thing we need to do is to make sure that you have all of your ingredients up to the standard, or else, as you have said, you are setting yourself up for failure," he quickly answered me and I can see that he is feeling a bit smug with the way he puffed up his chest, if he hadn't caught my questioning look I guess he would have already started to beat his chest like a gorilla.

I internally shake my head, you look away from them for one second and they are already starting to act like a curly haired baboon. Anyways the point he made is correct, without ingredients that are up to the standard your potion is bound to fail. For example, these Wiggentree bark need to be fresh and not old or wilted or else potion will not be as effective, another one is these Moly which has to come with a black stem and white flowers.

"I will be weighing and measuring the things that need to be, crush the spines, and stewed Mandrake so all you have to do is blending the ingredients that need to be turned into a juice, can you do that?" I ask him but it's not really a question, more of an order, but he nods his head and adds "Yeah, I will get right to it, boss," in confirmation and we both get to work setting up our ingredients before we start brewing the potion.

As we are working on preparing our ingredients, Professor Snape slowly strode around the dungeon classroom, watching every student working on their potion with his black soul devouring pairs of eyes.

"Okay, are you done with the task I gave you, Adrian?" He nods his head, "Alright, now then let's get started on brewing the potion."

"So, the first step is to add salamander blood until our potion turns red. Then we shall stir it until the potion becomes orange." I look up from the book to see if he had followed those two instructions correctly, but I see that he has not even moved, I sigh. "What are you waiting for Adrian, do you expect me to do a grunt's work?"

"It is just that I fear I might mess this up, you know, big explosion."

"Do not worry about that, what did I say just a few minutes ago, if you follow my instructions, nothing will go wrong, I promise, okay!"

He nods his head, I look at him and say "okay, now get started on the two steps that I have just mentioned to you."

He added the salamander blood then stirred the potion with a cauldron spoon, I would have just used my wand to do it, but everyone cannot be as good as me I think to myself narcissistically. Adrian gaze takes me away from my thoughts as he waits for me to give him the next step, I put on a show of nodding my head to him, for his correctness in following my instruction, just so he does not catch on my mussing then I continued on.

"Add more salamander blood, this time make sure it turns yellow. Then stir it again until the potion turns green. Then add more salamander blood, one final time until the potion turns turquoise." I look from the corner of my eye and see that he is doing good, so I read on

"Next we need to heat the potion until it becomes indigo." Once I say that step, I look back at him to see if he might have gotten started on an explosion and my eyes nearly pop out when I see what the idiot is doing, "Are you trying to start a fire with a matchstick? Aren't you a goddam wizard, use your wand, you imbecile."

"I do not know that spell very well, so I thought that I might as well make it on my own, the muggle way, you know with matchsticks."

"Give me that," I snatch away the box of matchsticks he has in his hands and put it into my pocket. "First of all, you are an embracement to all wizard-kind and especially me, how do you not know the Fire-Making spell, it's first-year material? You know what, I do not want to know, here let me do it." I wave my wand in the shape of a crude flame and say the Incantation 'Incendio' then a flame appears under the cauldron.

I wave my arm to him and say, "okay let's get back to making our potion."

He doesn't even know a first-year spell 'that well', so how the hell does he have the gall of shamelessness boast about his pure-blood.

"Alright let's hurry it up here, we got few more steps then we are done. Next we will be adding five lionfish spines..."

As time went by we move along on the process of finishing up our potion, I would give out the instructions and some times do a few spells to speed along things and make the process easier. Adrian would do the grunt's work as I like to call it, he would stir the potion when the need would come and add the ingredients I tell him to.

"Okay, add a few drops of boom berry juice then just stir the potion again, after that let it simmer for thirty minutes and then we are done."

We finish letting the potion cooldown, I ask Adrian to clean our station then I go up to Professor Snape, who is sitting at his desk.

Chapter end