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"Here I am!" she chirped with a little TADA pose, arms raised and hip slightly jetted out, before reciprocating Aurora's friendship squish. "I'm not sure I remember this place ever being here," Anna agreed as she looked around at the scope of the work ahead and offer the present house elves big smiles and waves. Then again with lessons for Astronomy usually being in the evening and that not being the best time to wander around, the seventh year really hadn't had a particular reason to wander THIS high up in the castle even during her wanderings and when she had wandered this way she had mostly been migrating towards the Gryffindor common room on a subconscious yearning or otherwise was on her way to Ravenclaw Tower to meet up with Aurora. "But I think I read in a novel that nature can start to overcome that which humanity has created in as short a time as a few years when left to its own whims...so you combine the tenacity that is nature with the fact that seeds can be carried on the wind for long distances and animals have their ways as well...though some messier than others...suppose it isn't TOO surprising that there is so much overgrowth like this...especially if the groundskeeper was never asked to tend it too...though IS this still part of a groundskeeper's duties since its outside but technically in the castle? And since it is in the castle but also technically outside...does that mean that the house elves were always meant to do it...you know...maybe there was just a lot of presumptions and assumptions going on which would also explain...all this foliage." Hogwarts was HUGE, after all and she struggled to keep her section of the dorm clean and tidy.
In any case, the point was that it was like this now and she was more than happy to give it her best shot at restoring it to its former glory. Granted, she had no real idea what that LOOKED like per say, but she had read the Secret Garden a couple of times so she had a decent idea of what could be!
"It would be our honor, Toddles, to work alongside you!" she chirped, hand over her heart as she offered the elf a soft little bow. "If I were even half as capable at magic as you are I'm sure I would be using magic as well." So there really was nothing he needed to apologize for - but there WOULD be if she were to attempt a Severing Charm anywhere around here. Oh and she REALLY ought to have grabbed a muffin from Tinka before getting too excited about putting her not-so-green thumb to use.
OH WELL! Weeding it was! Skipping ahead, Anna slipped on her gloves and tugged them so they stretched beyond her elbow before kneeling down and starting to dig up weeds covering what looked like it used to be a path of some sort. "For some of these bigger bushes that are still green...it would be nice to replant them instead of sacrificing them to the compost," she noted as she started dismantling a bush that was very much not alive - but some of the twigs would make for perfect marshmallow roasting apparatuses! Another couple of loud snaps and Anna's pile had grown substantially, perhaps time to carry it over to the box Nimma had brought up if Nimma wasn't already on her way to pick up the pile for the compost herself...which is why, as the Hufflepuffle looked for the house elf, she saw her leap into bushes in the pursuit of...something? Titling her head to the side, it was then that Anna heard another snap behind her...only she had certainly not been the one to make the snapping! "PSSSSSSST, AURORA!" she stage whispered while beckoning the Ravenclaw over - and Toddles too incase he wasn't too engrossed in his current task. "I think there is something IN here," she explained gleefully before pushing some more branches out of the way to try and get a better look at the movement behind the foliage. "Purple? I spy with my little eye...something purple?"
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