Her plan had failed epically, so Emmeline was forced to throw the totally normal fruit away and lower the basket of magical fruit back down into place. She was now sort of worried that Derf would hurt himself running alll around the room and trying to get the fruits off the moving trees, though she still didn't like the idea of having so much of the magic fruit so easily accessible. Still, she needed to be helpful and stuff and clearly levitating the basket hadn't done much to even slow Derf's efforts down. Miss Etta had followed him and Emmeline hurried after the two Hufflepuffs, planting herself next to Derf once again.

She frowned as she heard Mr. Ronan chanting in encouragement, but she was too busy worrying about Derf to really say anything to him. She looked around frantically for any more inspiration, but couldn't come up with any new bright ideas. Soo, the second year scurried around the small area near Derf, scooping up each fruit that had fallen to the ground -- and was therefore wayyy too close to Derf -- and holding it up for testing. She discarded the normal fruits as soon as they failed the test, rolling them sneakily in the Hufflepuff boy's direction. Hopefully he'd pick one of them up next instead of an actually magical one. After testing four fruits and finding them alll to be normal, Emmeline held up the fifth fruit she'd found on the floor, flicked her wand in its direction and cast, "Naturaba Revelio!" once again. Only this time, the fruit turned all shiny and stuff; eyes super wide, Emmeline slipped the fruit into her robe pocket quickly to get it out of Derf's line of sight. She made a beeline for the magical fruits basket that was back in position on the floor and deposited the magical fruit into the basket before hurrying back to Derf's side. The four normal fruit that she'd rolled in his direction were now scattered on the floor near his shoes, and Emmeline breathed a little easier for now. She shot Miss Etta a look that was half-grateful for her help, and half-panicked 'cause Derf had eaten the EVIL fruit, as she waited super impatiently for their professor to notice that something was WRONG.