“oh no, oh no, oh no.” they muttered to themselves, scurrying through the castle desperately looking around the hallways as they searched for a missing potted plant. “this is the problem with plants that can walk,” he grumbled, ducking down to the ground and checking under a bench. sighing, he accepted that he would need help to find the darned thing. sliding up to the first person he recognized, he started off with an offer, “ i will give you ten galleons. ”
they paused, as if giving the other time to process that. “to find a plant, or to help me look for a plant actually, see i was helping professor sprout by taking the socratea exorrhiza for a walk but it started running and i lost it. it’s only a seedling, you see, so it’s about two feet talk, a dark red colour and it walks using its roots.” he had not actually been helping professor sprout, given that it was his plant that he had snuck into the school but that was a story for another day.
Flossie knew she should be working on Charms because it was truly horrific how she was retaking fifth year in the subject and was already behind the rest of her class but then she had got distracted by a failed transfiguration experiment abandoned in the corridors. Though she would never be the type of person to study it and work out what exactly had gone wrong, she was the type to attempt to get a good enough picture for her mirrormirror account or maybe even quilledt. She could put it on both, of course, but she didn’t like to have all the same posts everywhere. There had to be a little variety.
So focused was she on her photograph-taking that she didn’t notice Tilden’s approach and jumped a foot when they spoke, blinking when they offered her money. “Oh, thank you. What for?” She tilted her head to the side as he explained, most of the words going over her head. “Wow, a running plant. That’s the second one of those today, who knew they were so common! Sure, I’ll help you find your secretia exotica. Where did you last see it?”