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Black: So that you are aware for future reference — and to prevent future disasters much like the disaster avoided this morning — the ingredient dumped into Miss Turpin's cauldron to circumvent the chain-storm before it could take hold was cascarilla bark. I learnt exceptionally quickly during my abortive foray into teaching that keeping a good quantity of diced cascarilla bark on hand and easily reachable was vital whenever the students were brewing anything with mint and mandrake leaf, as inevitably someone will mismeasure the mandrake or stir improperly.
The use of cascarilla bark to break the chaining before it proceeds to explosion is not a well known remedy, but cascarilla's low specific thaumaticity makes it suitable for deployment to avert nearly every emergency in the brewing of that genus of potions. It works significantly better than the commonly-accepted method of vanishing the cauldron, and saves the cauldron as well.
If you inform me of your planned curriculum for the next several months I shall provide you with a list of the most likely disasters each will entail, and what measures a responsible teacher ought to be prepared to take to avert each disaster. It is incumbent upon the teacher of potions to be ready to prevent such significant mistakes at a moment's notice lest they spiral out of control; had Miss Turpin's cauldron been allowed to proceed in its reaction we would have lost the building at minimum, and likely the majority of its occupants.
Alice: As I spent the early morning going through the last of Stephen's papers, I will take this opportunity to write you as well: Do not let me forget to discuss the state of the Sleeper research with you. If I am to spend the summer engaged in attempting to move it forward — which I believe I may be prepared to do — we ought to discuss the question of human trials now, to allow time to address the logistics.
The use of cascarilla bark to break the chaining before it proceeds to explosion is not a well known remedy, but cascarilla's low specific thaumaticity makes it suitable for deployment to avert nearly every emergency in the brewing of that genus of potions. It works significantly better than the commonly-accepted method of vanishing the cauldron, and saves the cauldron as well.
If you inform me of your planned curriculum for the next several months I shall provide you with a list of the most likely disasters each will entail, and what measures a responsible teacher ought to be prepared to take to avert each disaster. It is incumbent upon the teacher of potions to be ready to prevent such significant mistakes at a moment's notice lest they spiral out of control; had Miss Turpin's cauldron been allowed to proceed in its reaction we would have lost the building at minimum, and likely the majority of its occupants.
Alice: As I spent the early morning going through the last of Stephen's papers, I will take this opportunity to write you as well: Do not let me forget to discuss the state of the Sleeper research with you. If I am to spend the summer engaged in attempting to move it forward — which I believe I may be prepared to do — we ought to discuss the question of human trials now, to allow time to address the logistics.
