Order Only: Private Message to Sirius Black

[alt_severus]

Whilst I was working this afternoon, and thinking aloud, Miss Granger said something that prompted a realisation. I cannot call the page we were working from to mind closely enough: when speaking of the verbena, does the receipt call for "1⅓ʒ" leaf of verbena, or "1⅓fʒ" leaf of verbena?

If it is the latter, or could possibly be read as such: the author may intend for you to pulverise the leaf, and add only the juices.

Comments

[alt_severus]

Bother. That was ... explosive.

On the bright side, the potion did remain liquid through the crucial stage we were unable to shepherd it past.

[alt_sirius]

Small progress is still progress, I suppose.

I wonder .... You said you and Hermione were talking about notations through the centuries.

Are you using standard Imperial measures?

[alt_severus]

We are both idiots of the highest order

Yes. Of course we have been.

I take it you are suggesting we should switch to the apothecaries' weights.

[alt_sirius]

Well, it was developed in about 1625 or something similar.

It's been copied so many times, though, I was sure somewhere along the line it had been updated for modern units of measure.

There's a set of apothecaries' weights in the shop. I'll pop down for them before I come back.

[alt_severus]

You needn't bring them, I know the conversions.