Mr. Healer should assign them scavenger hunts waaay more often. This was more interesting than sitting around brewing the things anyway. Emmeline trudged along behind her classmates as they went in search of their last two ingredients; they had already collected fireseeds from the library. The rest of the mystery was super easy, 'cause all she had to do was follow the biiig crowd of students to the indoor garden by the hospital wing. Thank Merlin! Emmeline had been a little worried that they'd have to go outside to the greenhouses or something annoying like that to find the missing ingredients; she hadn't really paid that much attention to the instructions.

But maybe this scavenger hunt wouldn't be so easy after all, 'cause none of the plants had normal names; they all had weird, long, scientific name on their labels. The second year heaved a biiiig sigh and pulled her Potions textbook out of her bag. An older student had taught her how to use indexes in books last term, so it she hoped it wouldn't be too hard to look up betony leaves and Stargrass in her textbook. Sure enough, she was able to find information on and a picture of betony leaves pretty easily in the Potions book. So now it was just time to search, mhm.

It took Emmeline like ten minutes to weave in and out of the crowd of students searching for their own ingredients and staring intently at every green, leafy plant she came across before she finally found the betony leaves she was looking for. The Gryffindor withdrew some tools and stuff from her bag and managed to collect and store the required amount of leaves -- times three, 'cause she was getting some for Mr. Henry and Stasya too.

Then it was time to open up her Potions textbook again to look up Stargrass. Finding it in the book was easy, but finding it in real life was wayyy harder. There were just too many plants in this garden that looked like they could be what she was looking for, but then turned out NOT to be 'cause they had the wrong scientific names or something. 'Cept by now, she was almost out of time before she had to be back in the dungeons. Emmeline shuffled from plant to plant in the garden for like ever before she finally was able to find and collect the Stargrass. Clutching her ingredients, she turned to grin at her classmates and walk caaaarefully back to the dungeons. She really didn't want to drop any of this stuff and have to come back after all.