Originally Posted by littledhampir

This fruit was kind of interesting, if not a bit scary. It made you addicted to it so you would only want to eat it and do nothing else? He certainly did not want to fall under the spell of something like that. Olly did have a question though, so he raised his hand. "How much of the fruit is needed to have an effect? Is just one bite enough to put you under its spell? What if I just lick a drop of the juice?" He was also in that potion Professor Myers had mentioned? Did it only work as an antidote to this fruit? Could it or something similar work against an addiction to or obsession with something else? That wasn't really relevant to the lesson at hand so he just made a mental note to look that up on his own later.

They were being observed again, of course. Why were their lessons always being observed nowadays. Wait, did he say Vanessa Patton? As in Hattie Patton? Olly leaned toward Hattie. "Psst. Hattie. Is that your mom?"

Oh, they were doing a spell now. Well they weren't doing the actual spell yet but they were practicing saying it. The wand movement was just a flick so he didn't even bother practicing something as simple as that. The incantation, though, sounded kind of like a tongue twister. "Naturaba Revelio." He said it slowly, making sure to get all of the syllables of each word. When he felt more confident he said it faster until it sounded like a real incantation.

Originally Posted by NifflerFan

Anyway, back to this spell. This lotus fruit stuff didn't sound good at ALL; Emmeline was almost positive that it was another name for the "goblin fruit" that her family had told her about when she was reallllly little. And that her big brother had reminded her to stay away from in the greenhouses at Hogwarts before he went off to Durmstrang and she came here last year. Which meant that it was SUPER dangerous and stuff, mhm. She shot her friends a skeptical look and went on softly, "Luna's free for cuddles too if you want. I don't like the sound of this fruit at ALL..."

It just seemed all too easy to use this sort of thing for evil. It didn't even have to be Professor Myers who used it that way, though after her detention Emmeline thought that he was definitely scary enough to do something like that. Just the fact that there were loads of it HERE and it came from allll of these flowers, if she'd heard that right -- well, that was a biiiiig supply of scary fruit that could be used for alll sorts of bad things, mhm.

That just meant that learning this spell was a realllly good idea, though. Emmeline figured that it could be super important some day -- like life and death important, maybe. So she pulled her wand out and practiced the flicking movement that Professor Myers had shown them several times, 'till she was comfortable with it. Then she moved on to sounding out the incantation, saying "NATE-UR-AH-BAH REVELIO, NATE-UR-AH-BAH REVELIO," under her breath several times until it rolled off her time like any other spell that she'd known for a long time. 'Cept Emmeline had spotted a bit of a flaw in learning this spell, mhm. She raised her hand and asked Professor Myers tentatively: "Uhhh, Professor... But if we're just LEARNING this new spell, how do we know if it's doing nothing 'cause the fruit isn't magical or if it's doing nothing 'cause we don't have the spell down yet?" She hoped her question made sense. 'Cause her new spells almost never did anything anyway the first time she tried them for real and stuff. Sometimes it even took her multiple attempts to get the spell to do anything at all -- and that seemed like possibly a dangerous gamble, depending on what activities the professor had planned.