Cris smiled in greeting when a young Gryffindor came over to join their group. "Hi Lucy. Sure the more the merrier. This here is Adi, Bay, Jasmine, Lux, Sophie and Toby," Cris introduced the rest of the team to her.

Ah yes, Professor Culloden was here to share his ideas with them? So Cris listened intently, interested in knowing what would best suit the Groundskeeper.

Wait! What? No roof? Cris couldn't fathom why not. What was a porch without a roof? Cris tried to visualize it. Hmmm...maybe a balcony except it was on the ground floor, with no railings.

Cris looked suspiciously at his Potions master wondering whether he had been serious about the no roof thing.

He looked over at his friends and mouthed no walls? to them. He listened as Sophie voiced her own concerns and he looked at her, with the same expression of doubt on his face.

Then Cris shrugged, they could always start making the wooden floors and hopefully by the time they were done, the Professor would have changed his mind about that.

"One wooden floor coming up. Bay could you stick your design somewhere so that we can refer to it?" Cris asked Bay, figuring that they'd work on the porch using his design....for now....sans roof and railings...

"Some those in the other group are doing that and dropping it here for us to use, but I think we can help carry some ourselves, since we can't really start until we have those," Cris replied to her other question.

So that was what he did. Cris first picked up one plank, and then another, stacking that one on top of the first, and then another. Cris couldn't believe it. Three planks of wood and they weren't even heavy!!

Cris hefted the planks over his shoulder, and dealt them out like playing cards, placing them side by side, right up against one side of the existing hut.

"Wow! This potion really works. 3 planks of wood in one go. Who wants to try carrying four?" Cris turned around to grin at his friends.

Yes, he was challenging anyone.