An active, character-driven Hogwarts experience set in the early 2000s. Unique items, plots, and features. Non-canon; this isn't Harry Potter's story, it's ours.
The sun filtered through wisps of cloud, casting shadows over the lawn that ran ahead of Orla's determined stride. She had her robes tied around her waist, her hair tied up in a ponytail; it wasn't warm exactly, but she would heat up soon enough. There was work to do!
"Flooxy...fluck...fluxy?"
She muttered to herself, her arms swinging as she headed to the longer grass areas towards the edges of the lawn. It was fluxygrass that she was hunting today, and she bent almost double as she came to a stop, staring into the grass.
It looked...like grass.
Orla puffed her fringe irritably and straightened, fists on her hips as she squinted at the grass. She would not be defeated - she just needed to look closer!
With a determined nod, Orla pushed her sleeves up to her elbows and squatted, head turning back and forth as she scanned the grass for her prize.
The ingredient really did resemble grass, making it as tricky to spot as she'd anticipated. However, having squatted and taken a closer look, she gradually began to notice darker shades of grass and differing thickness.
She came across a patch of Fluxygrass -- enough for two ingredients. Now she'd inspected them closely, the difference between it and actual grass was much more apparent.
Orla scuttled, crab-like, over the lawn, pausing now and then to comb through the grass with her fingers.
After what seemed like an age, she was considering walking to the other end of the lawn when her fingers brushed something different and she knelt closer to inspect.
It seemed obvious now! There, growing among the regular grass, was dark and thick Fluxygrass - and a plentiful patch of it too!
Despite the damp cold on her knees, Orla wanted to be careful, so she began digging her fingers in the soil around the plant, hoping to preserve the base of the roots if possible.
She considered leaving some as she only needed perhaps half of the total growing there, but then remembered that it was probably a good idea to have a back-up...just in case.
Straightening with fistfuls of fluxygrass, Orla wished she had brought a satchel with her before she stored the grass in a pocket her Aunt Fionna had sewn into the inside of her robes. She dusted off her knees, not paying much mind to the grass stains and dirt under her finger nails, and made her way to the next ingredient location.