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Wow. So when Sutton meant rapid growth, she meant rapid growth. Hanna got to work, filling her mind with the possibility of a world where trees took over. If people planted rapid growth trees without stopping their progress once they got so big. What would the world be like?
Still favouring manual work than wand work, Hanna went to get a watering can, filling it up and carefully poured half a litre into each of her two holes. With the dropper and fertiliser, she squeezed slowly until one drop fell from the tip and into the hole, repeating for the second hole. The seeds were retrieved, and pressed into the soil of her two holes, before she used her shovel to scrape the soil back into the holes, without pressing it down.
With that done, the yardstick at the ready to measure, and the watering gan primed and in her hand, she got to it. Watching the growth. Actually watching a tree grow in real life was rather fascinating. That she could have the fertiliser ready in her hands, too, was rather unfortunate, but she would manage. At just past the 2 minute mark, Hanna went to get two drops of fertiliser. By the time she was back, the trees measured six inches, and she placed one drop onto each of the trees. After another two and a half minutes, as the tree reached twelve inches, she watered both trees with a litre of water, and a drop of fertiliser each. She repeated this until both trees were five feet tall, as measured as best she could by the yardstick. As it reached five feet, she went to get the red liquid, and dropped one dropper full onto one of the trees, before repeating it on the other tree, standing a little over five feet. And miraculously, there was no more growth.
Deciding to decorate it in Christmas and Ravenclaw colours, Hanna picked out enough decorations to fill her tree without being greedy, and without overdoing the decorating. For this, as the trees were about the same size as she was, it was easy. There was no need to charm the decorations up to the top. By the end of the class, she had two decorated, fully grown trees.
Once Sutton called the class back to attention, she was rather pleased with how it all looked. And chose to donate both trees to St. Mungo's, because she was sure Hogwarts would have plenty of trees without one of hers. Deciding this, she attached two bright green tags to the trees, one for each of them. Then she cleaned up her area, returning everything to its place. "Bye Professor! That was fun," Hanna added on her way out, knowing she certainly would be back within the two weeks to make sure her trees looked okay before going to St. Mungo's.
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