Fourth Years, Lesson Five

"We collected enough pus to fill St. Mungo's and the school nurse's stores! You did a great job! I am impressed." she said happily, proud of their efforts. "Now, we will be pruning Abyssinian Shrivelfigs. It is for St. Mungo's and the school nurse, once again."

"Abyssinian Shrivelfigs are plants composed of withered stalks. They are used in the Shrinking Solution, anti-aging and aging potions." Professor Adelia pointed at the wall to the right of her, "There are potted Abyssinian Shrivelfigs lined up along that wall. Go get one now and bring it back to your tables." Trina already had one sitting on his desk in front of her that she was going to use to demonstrate with. SHe slipped on his leather gloves and grabbed a pair of pruning shears from the inside of her robe.

"Watch what I do as I speak. Cautiously pick through the limbs, stalks, and leaves, looking for the dead areas to trim off." Trina clipped off a dead area and held it up. "The dead areas are brown. And now, you will twist off the figs, like so." Hers fingers barely twisted and it popped off the stem. He dropped in into a basket on the table. "Collect those and fill the baskets you have next to you."

Trina put his perfectly trimmed plant to the side and watched the students, to see whether they followed his directions correctly and to answer any questions they had. SHe was always willing to help anyone that needed it and smiled brightly at some of the students who may have been finding it hard for find dead areas on their plant. After they were done, the man put the baskets to the side and watched them file out after dismissing them.

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Homework: RP the lesson. Write a small paragraph about the uses for the Abyssinian Shrivelfigs for extra credit. [/font]

 

[Apolline Fontaine]

Apolline was trying to manage her brother while having her own things, but she knew that she was losing the battle with it. And she had her own classes to think about. She had to remember to do all of her homework and to get to her revision ahead of the exams that she had. She couldn’t make Henri work. Though she was certainly trying it. It was just a lot. She grabbed her different pieces of completed homework and then her books and then headed out of the dorm room.

Apolline walked into the herbology classroom and took her usual spot in the room. She glanced towards the professor at the front of the room as the woman got started. She showed them the shrivelfigs and then how they were to trim them, Apolline paid close attention not wanting to miss any of it, and then was nodding as they were allowed to get started. She got started immediately, doing it as the professor had instructed, slowly managing to get all of the bits she needed to trim off, off. Eventually she was done and Apolline was able to pack up and head out of the room.

 

[Kyousuke Kurosawa]

Kyousuke entered the greenhouse, glad that the bubotubers were solidly in the past. Today, it turned out, was shrivelfigs, which he remembered using in potions class. He retrieved a potted one and took his spot again, carefully watching the professor demonstrate how to harvest the figs. It looked a bit fiddly, but Kyousuke was confident he could do it. Once given the opportunity, Kyousuke began to clip the dead parts of the plant away. He then twisted the fig delicately, before realising he had to apply a bit more pressure than that, and plucked the fig off the plant. He put the fig in the bucket and the lesson soon ended, Kyousuke going back to the castle to study more.