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Ooooh, they were going to learn how to extract the oils from the plants. That was pretty cool. Now that she was thinking of it, Natalie supposed that that was how her grandmother did it. She had a little greenhouse herself with lots of plants and she also had a collection of those oils in little vials. Now she knew! Fascinating.
Natalie listened very carefully, since this activity was something she was actually fairly interested in. Natatraho. Natatraho... And the wand movement, yes, that seemed very tricky. Wandwork was not Natalie's specialty, but she was sure going to try for this one. Watching Professor Myers, she copied his wand movements with her hand, but without her wand yet.
"Natatratoh... Natatra..ho?" She had forgotten it already, that was, until she heard a student nearby saying it right. "Natatraho," she said more confidently. Then she got off of her pillow and went to grab a vial and to look for a plant. When she settled on one (sandalwood, which she knew nothing about), Natalie found an empty work space and stared down at her plant. It WOULD cooperate.
Natalie extracted her wand from her robes and focused on the plant veeeeery closely, the vial in her other hand. She muttered the incantation to herself a few times before standing tall and giving it a go.
"Natatraho," she said as she... well, she sort of forgot the wand movement already. Her wand went down and then she paused... and then she brought it back up. She did it wrong, so naturally her spell didn't work, so she looked over and watched another student who had done it successfully and watched their wand movement. Riiiiight, a fishing pole, which she was fairly sure that no one in the classroom had used before.
Natalie took a deep breath and tried again. And again. AND AGAIN. Several tries had gone by and she was starting to get frustrated. She just wanted some SANDALWOOD OIL. For WHATEVER purpose it was supposed to serve. Feeling her frustration bubble, Natalie took another deep breath and calmed down. Okay. One more try. One more try and if it didn't work she was gonna give up and make her brother do it.
"Natatraho," she said fiercely, her wand moving in her hand like a swift fishing pole. Very much to her pleasant surprise, a little pale yellow string of oil came out of the plant and up to the tip of her wand. Natalie squeaked in excitement and then hurriedly grabbed her vial and put the tip of her wand inside, filling it up with that yellow oil.
SUCCESS. |