Text Cut: Katy!
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Cassirin 
Oh, ugh. Headgirl Evil-entine was here. Katy stuck out her tongue at the back of the other girl as she entered the library with her young charge in tow. Based on the sheer number of students milling around, this looked like the right place. They'd tried some other fireplaces along the way, but Katy was thankful that the Healer-Potions Master had picked a spot relatively close to the Potions classroom. Climbing all the way to the towers and making it back to the dungeons in half an hour was no fun.
"This is the spot. You see those branchy things in the fireplace there? They look like they're on fire? Those are fire seed bushes. They don't actually have leaves, but they do have seeds, and those are what we need. Got it?" The hard part was the harvesting, though. "Fire seeds are a pain, because they're little sensitive babies who don't travel well, so we need to warm up our bucket first." Katy raised the bucket they'd brought along. "I'll do that. You get on your gloves, and we'll start plucking as soon as the bucket is warm."
Katy pointed her wand at the bucket and repeated the charm, nice and loud and clear just for Maddie to hear it and remember it. "Chaudensis. Does the bucket feel warm to the touch?"
Okay. It was official. Maddie had the BEST PARTNER EVERRR in this whole Potions scavenger hunt. Katy was amazing at this kind of thing, and Maddie had a feeling she was really gifted in this kind of thing. She followed the girl into the library and toward the fireplace, all the while catching the look the Slytherin gave the Head Girl.
"What was that for?" she whispered, genuinely curious. Truth be told, she was fighting the urge to laugh, just because it was kind of funny to see the interactions between the two older girls.
Her attention was diverted back to their task at hand, when Katy pointed out what they'd need for their next part of the assignment.
"KATY," Maddie said, her voice in a loud whisper.
"That is the coolest thing I have ever seen!" There was a whole bush on fire right here in the middle of the library! Well, it probably wasn't really
on fire, but that was how Maddie saw things. She nodded at Katy's question, but most of her attention was now on the fire seed bushes.
"Got it," she finally said, she slipped on her gloves. She watched the older student heat up the bucket, realizing that she had a lot to learn before she got to that point.
She eyed the bucket. Katy wanted her to touch it?! But... Maddie eyed her gloved hand then slowly raised it toward the bucket. She could feel the heat even before her glove touched the bucket.
"It is!" she said, her voice lingering in between a loud whisper and a little too much excitement.
"This I can't wait to see!"