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Fiona stood in front of her cauldron in potions class. They had been charged with making a Bulgeye Potion. Fiona, who was good at potions, loved the challenge. It wasn’t the most complicated of potions, but it did involve using gross ingredients that most students made a fuss about having to buy in the first place, let alone touch and cut up to add to the potion. Once the mixture she had already concocted was steaming correctly and after the exact number of clockwise stirs necessary, Fiona opened her jar of Eel eyes and tossed one in. She continued to stir that mixture, seeing it turn the toxic green color. Once the ideal color was reached, the added the beetle eye in. A girl behind her began to cry from having to touch the eyes. Fiona rolled her eyes a little with a smile. They were just ingredients if you thought of it in the right way. The trick with touching gross things was to forget that you were even doing so. Fiona looked around, wondering if any of her classmates were getting the same effect. According to her textbook, she had gotten the right, bubbling, green potion.

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Saphira had never been the best at potions. She often equated it to cooking, which she was rather good at. But she had learned to eyeball ingredients from a young age, sampling her work along the way to make sure it was right. Brewing potions was much different. Every single step had to be done precisely and without error. She had to carefully measure out and weigh each ingredient to ensure accuracy or she would end up with a completely different potion. This potion in particular was particularly disgusting with all of the ingredients appearing to come straight out of the deepest pits of hell. But Saph trucked on, digging her hands around in the mess of gross ingredients and adding them to her potion. She looked over at the student next to her, one of her housemates, Fiona. The girl's potion was the exact shade of green that the textbook described, while Saph's was a thick, murky blue. Sighing, she turned to Fiona and asked, "Can you help me? I'm not really sure what I did wrong."

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Fiona had been good at potions since her very first year. The Muggleborn girl didn’t have any experience with potions before her first year, but she came in already somewhat of a natural. She wasn’t like that in all of her classes. Her adeptness in Potions was a rarity and was only seen in again in her Herbology lessons where she also excelled. Those two subjects led the way well to her future career as a healer, which she had decided upon just earlier this year. She felt so young to de deciding to be a healer, but if she wanted to do so, she had to start early.

While Fiona was turning her head to look around her at the rest of her classmates, a girl next to her actually spoke up. Saphira was in her year and house and they had a lot of classes together. It wasn’t uncommon at all that they would work near each other. The girl asked for help, Fiona craned her neck to look at the girls cauldron. It didn’t look right, in fact, it looked very obviously not right. “Oh uh… It looks like maybe you stirred wrong, maybe? How many times did you stir it and in what direction?” Fiona asked, not trying to take the place of the teacher by helping the girl, but since she had asked for help, Fiona could do her best to comply.

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While waiting for Fiona to respond, Saphy looked down at her sad little potion. It bubbled lazily, one of the larger bubbles popping and splattering on her robes. She sighed again, not knowing where she went wrong or how to fix it. When Fiona finally answered, Saphira stared blankly at the other blonde then back at her potion. "I...have no idea. Five? Clockwise? I...I don't know," she said worriedly, leaning over her cauldron as if staring into its murky depths would give her the answers the needed. This kind of thing wasn't needed for cooking. She could just add a splash of this and a dash of that and have a perfect recipe. But her Bulgeye Potion looked more like some kind of poison, and she couldn't exactly taste it to make sure it was right. She sat back in her seat dejectedly. "I give up. I suck at this," she said miserably.

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Fiona felt bad for the girl next to her. Looking over her potion, it didn’t seem like there was a good way to salvage it without knowing exactly what had gone wrong, and since the girl didn’t seem to know what she had done wrong, Fiona couldn’t help her fix it. “I hate to say it, but it might be best to just start over or see if the professor will let you do it again another time.” The Hufflepuff told her roommate, regretfully. Potions was one of the very few subjects that Fiona was actually good at. She always overachieved in their lessons and fully decided to continue to take the subject for NEWT level credit. She wanted to be a healer and if she wanted to do that, she knew that she had to have a great knowledge of potions. She understood, however, why a lot of people were so perplexed and frustrated by the subject. “It’s one of the potions that requires a lot of specific motions.” she admitted.

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