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SenoritaMaxie 
Fyo hesitated, not sure whether he was allowed to speak up in real. With Professor Bunbury, you never knew - she was an awesome teacher and all, but she also had something of the she-devil about her.
He would risk it, he decided.
"Professor, could we study about muggle plants?" he asked, hand in air. "I mean, I would love to attend a lesson where you can give us a little knowledge of muggle plants; how they can be - or how we think they can be - used for magical purposes, such as in potions; and their similarities to various magical plants."
There. He had said it. Know what?
YAY!
Fyodor Balouch. Like the Buninzator she was, Anastasia's red head slowwwwly (...creak... DUNDUNDUN ...creak... DUNDUNDUN ...creak...) turned to stare down the Gryffindor Who Dare To Ask a Question.
*insert long, awkward pause here*
"When have you ever NOT learned about mundane plants, Mr. Balouch?" Anastasia answered in a hollow voice. Honestly. CHILDREN. Did they ever think before they spoke?
"I think you'll want to be more specific with your phrasing there. Almost every magical plant has a similar mundane version or relative - just look at gillyweed and cuscuta, flutterbies and flutterby bushes, and so on and so forth. Likewise, not every potion requires magical-only ingredients." She waved a hand at the boy like his question was so silly it could be dismissed. Really though, it was so broad that she wondered what Fyo was really asking....
Unless....
GASP! Was the boy insinuating that she didn't cover boring Muggle plants thoroughly enough? OH. Well she could easily do a lesson on that... like... grass, and the different varieties of grass, and why it was found everywhere and just how weedy it is and why Muggles like to mow it. Would THAT work?!
"Perhaps a lesson with Professor Dumont is in order..." Bunbury mused to herself, her eyes losing focus of Fyo now as she over-complicated his question. And this was why the woman would never ask for constructive criticism and open questions again.
She shook her head to get back on focus and gave Fyo another penetrating glare. Odd boy, that one. A wizard who like Muggle plants. Shifty.
"You may start on your exams, now, and are welcome to leave when finished," Bunz remembered to announce a minute later as she continued staring at Fyo. What if that boy had MORE questions?!