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[mswoods]

The following day, Sadde has Transfiguration in the morning.

She is all over it at lunch.

"Okay, so, Transfig is just about the coolest thing," she says first thing to the Ravenclaws as soon as she sits at the table.

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[chanuphis]

Singing mustard seeds are small and round and yellow and make musical tinkling sounds when dropped into their containers. Professor Sprout demonstrates that if you pick a leaf and roll it up you can use it like a flute.

"Did you think of something bizarre to do with singing mustard, Sadde?"

[mswoods]

"Not as such, no," she says. "I'm just thinking about whether plants that can move hate me as much as most animals do."

[chanuphis]

"Why do animals hate you?"

[mswoods]

"I have absolutely no idea!" she says brightly. "They just do. I have no scars to prove it because those I know I can morph away, but if I couldn't I'd have lots! I think the only reason Richard doesn't hate me is because all the other owls in the shop seemed to want to pick on me as much as they picked on him. We're kindred sooouuulllssss."

[chanuphis]

"Well, then I guess it depends, whether the plants will hate you too, but if you smell weird or you're loud or something then plants which can't smell or hear might like you fine."

[mswoods]

"I don't think noise level is as constant a part of me as the number of incidents with animals in my life would imply. Scent might be it." She steals a glance at the corner where she saw movement from. All seems quiet. "I think I wanna test that," she whispers.

[msmaxwell]

"What are you gonna do?"

[chanuphis]

"Maybe you should just ask Professor Sprout..."

[mswoods]

Sadde looks at the Professor, who seems to be busy showing something or other to another student and isn't paying attention to them. "Where's your experimental spirit?" she asks, winking, and drops into stealth mode.

...basically, she crouches so the Professor can't easily spot her and starts slowly approaching the corner where she saw movement.

[alicornucopia]

The moving plant rustles. It is hard to impute communicative intent to a plant's rustling.

[mswoods]

Sadde, naturally, takes the rustling as encouragement. It likes her!

"Hello, you little cutie pie," she coos, looking over her shoulder every now and then to make sure she's still out of Professor's Sprout sight.

[alicornucopia]

Well, if she wasn't out of Sprout's sight before, she sure is after the plant seizes her around the waist and yoinks her towards itself in a way that might seem huggy were it not so thorny. ...And poisonous, that feels poisonous.

[mswoods]

"Aaaahh!" Sadde cries out, certainly loudly enough for other people to hear.

[msmaxwell]

"Sadde!"

[alicornucopia]

Sprout whirls around and fires a spell at the plant. It drops Sadde, who she flicks her wand at to summon her out of the thing's reach. "Do not approach the Venomous Tentacula! You - Miss Swan - bring her to the Hospital Wing at once," Sprout says.

[chanuphis]

"Yes Professor," says Miranda, setting down her jar of seeds and carefully helping Sadde get up.

[mswoods]

Sadde is not looking well. And it looks like several things are competing in her mind to be said.

Eventually she settles on "Ow."

[chanuphis]

"I'm not sure if this is even a useful result, because apparently nobody else is supposed to approach it either," Miranda remarks as they depart the greenhouses for the castle.

[mswoods]

"Yeah," she says, looking greener by the second. "Should prolly try to look for friendlier sorts." She makes a mental note to look into plants that tend to not be openly hostile, at some point in the future.

[chanuphis]

"Maybe ask Sprout. If plants hate you she probably needs to know that anyway."

[mswoods]

She nods weakly but doesn't actually say anything.

[chanuphis]

"Madam Pomfrey will fix you up."

They reach Madam Pomfrey, who on hearing the words 'venomous tentacula' makes Sadde drink a potion and then casts three spells on her in quick succession, each of which is much improving.

[mswoods]

Sadde feels much improved! And, given that she's in the company of someone who might know, asks: "Madam, can I ask a question?"

[alicornucopia]

"Of course, Miss Woods."

[mswoods]

"Can Transfiguration help with healing? Like, if I break a bone, can I Transfigure it better? Or, say, would a metamorphmagus be able to morph bruises away?"