 <3 Yeahhh, Mr White! Yeah science!
Ezra's gaze left the older girl and settled on the squashed pumpkin. Oh. Well—Nope. No. He would NOT laugh. Even if he kind of wanted to. That would be cruel when the poor girl was so distraught. She looked so sad and Ezra hated it when people were sad.
He joined her at ground level, crouching down to get a good look at the pumpkin. “Well. It's a bit squashed.” He said very helpfully. He lightly brushed the leaves out of the way so that he could study it more closely. “But it's still attached to the vine, so I think it might be able to recover. It needs to be protected from the damp ground.”--with something waterproof like a plastic bag. But alas, the Ravenclaw had nothing like that on him--“Then it'll need nurturing and will take a while to heal given the damage.”
His eyes left the tiny wounded pumpkin to look at Aurora and he pondered whether or not to voice the other option given how down the girl looked, but decided it was worth suggesting. “Or it could just be used as fertilizer for the other pumpkins. It's noble sacrifice can help the others to thrive” This was certainly the easier route and the one Ezra would take, but had an inkling the older girl would want to attempt to save the little plant if she could.
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