She showed up early to Potions the next day, and adjusted her desk’s layout so it was appropriate for a practical lesson. She shook off her robes, laying it over her bag under the desk and pulling out the ingredients, her textbook, workbook, and selection of stirring wands. Professor- Narcissa was late to the lesson, and after she called the class's attention to the front she wrote out clearly the expectations for the lesson. Hermione started immediately, writing the page number for the potion in her textbook, and starting a list for any notes below it. She was skilled at ingredient preparation, something cooking with her parents and Mrs Weasley had inadvertently prepared for her, and thus was done before most students. She added a litre of water to her cauldron, adding the rose-petals and setting it to boil until the colour had leached out of the petals. She then shredded them using a charm as it wasn’t necessary to the potion for the chopping to be accurate and adding a rare type of turmeric that transformed the potion into a simmering gold liquid. The moonstone shifted the colour to a greenish-shimmer, which was intensified by the peppermint juice. When she added the ground mother-of-pearl, the potion took on it’s light pearlescent appearance and shifted to smell like something unknown to Hermione. As Narcissa had her back turned she took a sample for the Professor and a sample for herself, performing a scent-diagnostic charm on it and noting down the results.