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Severus Snape (snivellus_snape) wrote in incanesco_rpg,
@ 2011-06-04 22:38:00

Entry tags:

!incomplete, laura baines, severus snape

Who: Laura and Severus
What: Potions experiments
When: An hour or so after the memorial service
Where: The Potions dungeons
Rating: SFW
Status: Incomplete

Severus considered the workbench in front of him; the ingredients laid out neatly in piles, his cauldron (generally noted for being the cleanest thing in his possession) next to them. On the next bench, twenty little pots of earth were lined up, each one with five seeds pressed into the soil. The book he'd been reading over the summer lay open on the correct page, and there was a little rack of empty potion vials beside it.

Good. Everything they needed, by his count.

He'd come down here almost as soon as the memorial was over. The cool air of the dungeons cleared his head; the solitude gave him time to relax a little. He'd given Laura a time an hour or so later than he himself had arrived, the better to enjoy the rare solitude. And he did feel better for it. Now all that was missing was a partner to help with his experiments.

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snivellus_snape
2011-06-07 03:20 pm UTC (link)

"I haven't," Severus admitted, after a moment, "but I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find out. Let's see what this rate was first, though. Could you pass me that parchment and my quill?" He leant over, pulling his wand out, and started to measure the plants. As he worked, he said thoughtfully, "I suspect that the Flobberworms are key. Perhaps if they're chopped finer..."

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brainylbaines
2011-06-07 03:43 pm UTC (link)

It pleased Laura that she managed to come up with an idea Severus had not covered yet and she immediately stopped having any doubts about herself, her smile growing confident once again. With a nod, she reached for the items Severus requested and handed them over. Maybe she should be uncomfortable with it, the slight shift in her role from a partner to an assistant, but she did not consider it to be alarming thing.

“We can try that,” she said, watching him measure the plants. She almost wanted to double-check his work, just to make sure their results were really precise, but he was a precise person and also rather sure of this precision and she wasn´t quite certain how he´d react to a suggestion like that. “I will look the plants up today, right after we finish here. It shouldn´t take long to find the rate and I really want to know it.”

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snivellus_snape
2011-06-09 02:15 pm UTC (link)

Severus noted down the heights, and, after a moment of silently contemplating the numbers, jotted down an average at the bottom of the page. "On average, ten and three-quarters inches in four minutes fifty-two, which gives us an average growth rate of roughly two point two inches per minute. I think we shouldn't aim for anything about three inches a minute; there comes a point when enough is enough."

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