She had juuust been about to break out the chocolate when Professor Myers started talking again. Not wanting to give him annnny excuse to take more points off her, Emmeline quickly shoved the food farther into her bag and out of sight. And what she heard was sooo NOT good! He wanted them to collect the magic, dangerously addictive fruit for him...

Potion antidotes. Right. Clearly, the fruits were just another element of whatever evil plan the professor had in mind for this term. Between addictive fruit and killer sand, he could do loooads of damage all sneakily. She was totally onto him, mhm. But it wasn't like she was going to risk saying anything here; she even made sure that she didn't give the professor any weird looks or anything to give her thoughts away. And of course she'd do the activity -- she wanted to know if the spell worked for one thing, and she was totally on her best behavior in Myers's lessons for another. The last thing in the whoole world that she needed was another detention with the Herbology professor.

Emmeline was only half-listening to all of the professor's talking, really. She'd heard the bit about the 4 magical fruits and tuned the rest of it out. Soo the events that followed in the greenhouse were totally a surprise and NOT in a good way.

One of the huge, pretty flowers scattered around the room had bounced a first year boy off it and stuff. Which was...weird and made no sense. Before she had time to do more than turn towards Stasya to ask what her friend thought about the whole thing, Derf was up and sprinting for a tree.

....That started sprinting back!!! Her eyes super wide, Emmeline jumped to her feet and stared at the tree chasing Derf around the greenhouse. She shot Stasya a panicked look, and asked her -- way more loudly than she'd meant to, oops-- "He has KILLER TREES too?!?!"

Miss Etta had gone over to Derf and was saying something that Emmeline couldn't hear to him. The Gryffindor held out a hand to help Stasya up, if she wanted, and then was taking off in the direction of the two Hufflepuffs before more than a few seconds had passed. She wasn't going to abandon her friend before the killer trees, nope.

'Cept she had forgotten that the flowers were also totally messed up. In her urgency to reach Derf and Miss Etta, Emmeline accidentally stepped on one of the biiiig pink flowers -- and was naturally bounced backward. She'd been going fast, though, soo the bounce landed her flat on her back on the ground a foot away or so. Owww...

Hopefully Miss Etta had stopped the killer tree by now.