Yeah, I mean, I guess because it was his first one? D'you reckon maybe they were more formal about it all? Like when you make a potion or follow a recipe for the first time, you're always looking at the instructions and measuring it all out really, really carefully. With some potions you have to do that all the time, but sometimes you can make your own changes to it, or not be as precise, and it comes out okay. Like when we make naan or papadams. We don't always use exactly the same amount of flour. Maybe when they started it was really important to follow the rules exactly, but as he got more practised he didn't need to every time.

Or maybe he did!