Professor Bentley had mentioned that the spell would only work on flora and that they could practice it on any weeds they should find. But the plants were, for having been carted about in an emergency cold front, in remarkably good shape. He'd be hard pressed to find...hang on!

Sticking out from behind a pointy sort of fern was a little white fluff ball headed dandelion. NOBODY MOVE! HE SAW IT FIRST!

His wand whipped around in small even anti-clockwise circles as he passed a bummed-out looking Agatha Hapgood. He did not seem to notice her as he kept his eyes fixed on the dandelion, but he did see her. She did not like Herbology OR Herbology did not like her. Cutty saw this as a challenge to the house cup, which he only cared about in terms of what else it could get him. But he liked challenges and he could work with Happygoody.

He flicked his wand at the dandelion and said, "Geminio!" Immediately after his wrist wound into three anti-clockwise circular motion as his mouth wrapped around, "Parveus Minori Minimus!". After one of the duplicated dandelions diminished, the other was plucked out by his hand and placed before Agatha Hapgood. She knew what to do.

With the confidence brought on by having seen the spell work first-hand, Cutty wound his wrist in the circular anti-clockwise direction whilst speaking the incantation once more. "Parveus Minori Minimus!" He said casting directly at his alder tree. At around the same speed at which it had grown, the elder tree retreated to a much smaller size.