7:05pm December 4, 2013

I’m having so much trouble with Sleeping Draughts for some reason.

I think I only actually lost Hufflepuff points once.  Which was the time a seemingly minor mistake melted the cauldron.  Which was impressive.  And extremely irritating.

But I still haven't gained us any points.  Or more importantly, at the moment, gained the satisfaction of brewing it at least once, correctly.  Which is all I’m trying to do.  I’ve brewed everything else correctly except that and Polyjuice.  And I haven’t tried Polyjuice yet because I figure if I can’t even get this right, then that will be a serious mess.

And it’s always something ridiculous.  Like my finger swiped the wrong herb, when they’re placed so close that they’re physically overlapping each other.  Or I couldn’t get a good handle on the spoon we’re supposed to be stirring it with.  Or something else like that.

Or one time I actually slept through a potion I was trying to make, although that one was one I eventually succeeded at.

This reminds me of old Nintendo games, where often you failed not because you did something horribly wrong, but because the rules for getting things right are horribly strict and the controls are horribly imprecise.  Although the controls have gotten better since they adapted it for iPad-compatibility.  But there’s still a lot of things that could be better.

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