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This time, Clifford had a very hard time keeping the unhappy scowl from masking his features. That had been a perfectly legitimate question! What did Professor Bunbury have against him!? Or was he being paranoid? No... definately NOT paranoid. He might be a little on the slow side, but even he could tell when he was getting on someones nerves... GRRR.
"I just wondered if it ... was y'know.. nutritious in anyway, ma'am," the seventh year mumbled, willing his cheeks to cool down. He wanted to ask why anyone would want to eat a parasite.. but thought better against it. He knew why.. so they could breathe underwater.. but he didn't understand why anyone would wish to do that either...
It was probably best to keep quiet now. Right.
"Active gillyweed has a nutritional value similar to that of bean sprouts or reeds, Mr. Carden. Inactive gillyweed has a denser fiber content and is similar nutritionally to alfalfa." Kazimeriz said. Odd boy, worrying about nutritional values.
"Of course, few people consume gillyweed as a food source-- though I have heard of one healer who was a proponent of a diet program that consisted of nothing but active gillyweed, gillywater and daily exercise of, naturally, swimming after every meal. The diet never caught on as that much time spent in the water caused dieters' skin to become shrivelled and pruny, which never caught on as a 'look'." Kazimeriz shruggled a little, smirking.
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Whitterz Torin continued to watch the Professors and take note on Gillyweed. But he had no questions of his own at the time. He realized that there was something about Kazi that made him uneasy.
Kazimeriz's eyes fell on the boy who was taking notes, and something about him made him ...uneasy. Wary. He narrowed his eyes as he looked at the boy for a moment, and then continued.
"But Professor Bunbury would like me to speak a little on the most famous use of gillyweed in the history of the last century. I am sure that every student in here is familiar with the legendary wizard Harry Potter, and as most of you probably have read, while he was participating in the Triwizard Tournament he did in fact utilize gillyweed to accomplish the second task. The task took the champions under water for a long period of time, and while the other students used other means of accomplishing this Potter turned to gillyweed to assist him in this task."
Ah, sharing anecdotes. Like most people who have lived a very long time, he had a wealth of them and enjoyed recanting them; it was disappointing to him that he was rarely called upon to do so. Impetuous youth rarely had time or patience to draw from the experience of the elderly. It was one of the things that he liked about time with Reynard: he always listened and valued his experience.
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"However, what is rarely written about is the fact that Potter very nearly failed in his task because of his own lack of knowledge about the very substance he was relying on. It was an exciting time, but also a quite dangerous time... This was during the second rise of the Dark Lord, remember, and so ministry security was tight for the event. I happened to be at the Triwizard Tournament, as I was helping to provide event security for the ministry along with many other Aurors. I witnessed Harry Potter very nearly drown during this task; we wanted to step in and rescue him, but Dumbledore and that dunderhead Bagman would not allow it. Potter's folly was that he simply did not do enough research on the plant, and did not know its potential limitations."
"Does anyone here know what the most controversial aspect of the use of gillyweed is? What information about gillyweed Potter lacked that might have helped him in his quest?"