William walked to one of the workstations and confronted his Fanged Geranium. He didn't want to hurt the poor plant, and he remembered the spell he had learned in class. "Viro Torpeo," he said, pointing his wand at each of the three clusters of flowers. The plant would be much more cooperative with him if it was properly numbed. Just like having a bad tooth pulled, William thought to himself.

William put his dragon hide gloves on. The plant was behaving in kind of a sleepy manner, which was good. It was time for him to harvest the fangs. He approached the first cluster carefully, took out his pliers and pulled one of the fangs loose quickly. That was one down! He dropped the fang into the jar he had been given and proceeded on to the next one, which was in the same cluster. He obtained that fang easily and then moved to the other two clusters, taking the remaining four fangs easily. Now he had all six fangs in the jar and screwed the lid on tightly.

Now William had to perform maintenance on the geranium plant. He began to trim the leaves with the pruning shears, making them neater in appearance. Fortunately, the plant was still numb enough that it wasn't resisting his efforts. He made sure to get rid of all the dead stuff like twigs and leaves and the plant was looking much nicer now. "You look good," he told it. "Much prettier than before."

William then proceeded to add fertilizer to the plant's base. He noticed that one of the plant's branches seemed loose, so he used a bit of twine to tie it back into place so that it could grow properly with the rest of the plant.

"You've done very well," William said to the plant. "Here's a treat for you."

He offered the plant the bag of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. He watched as the plant began to feast on the candy, noticing that it was eating an earwax bean. Definitely not his favorite, but the plant seemed to disagree.

To each his own, William thought as he finished up at the workstation. Or perhaps in this case, its own.