#2 - Lovely Smell of Food

Kwame Achebe was trying to complete his Potions kit. He had a long list of potion ingredients to choose from. He only needed five to bring back to Professor Snape.

Kwame tried to focus on ingredients that did not require him to leave the castle. He reckoned this would be a quicker use of his time. He noticed that tarrow was an acceptable ingredient, and that tarrow could likely be found in the kitchens.

It was after his Divination class that Kwame made his way to the kitchens. He noticed another student there also. Kwame recognized the Hufflepuff boy from the train. He nodded politely to Joshua and added his voice to the request.

"Yes, some tarrow would be lovely, thanks."

He had been lost in the most recent daydream before he saw the others getting up to leave. Prying his hand from his hand he remained silent as Joshua left him, heading to wherever it was he was going. Really, maybe he should pay more attention.

Working his bottom lip with his teeth he stuffed everything from classes into his bags and stood, running full speed to catch up to them while earning some odd looks in the process. He had to catch up because, well, what else did he have to do?

He caught them at the kitchens, skidding to a halt behind a Ravenclaw of the same year, hearing Josh ask for Tarrow and he arched his brows upward.

Potions kits. Oh yeah. He hadn’t asked for one but he could do that later and get the Tarrow now, he supposed. He moved around the Ravenclaws and ended up next to Josh with a glance over at Amber, a smile at Kwame, then a glare to his best friend.

”You left me in that dungeon to rot.” he whined in a whisper, but, shaking his head, turned his attention back to the House Elves as they did their work.

'Hello. I is Dippy.' A house elf shyly approached them.

He scrutinised the students for a moment, trying to work out if it meant something that he was faced with a pair of Hufflepuffs and a pair of Ravenclaws. Dippy had an important job to do, of helping the students who were kind enough to ask, but he fidgeted nervously as there were quite a few of them. He mustn't disappoint!

'You is needing Tarrow?' Dippy nodded, relieved that it was a simple request. That was a Potions Kit item! He'd studied the list carefully over the summer, so now he knew exactly what to expect. 'I is getting that now.'

He rushed over to a table of fresh vegetables. Knowing they were most commonly for use in Potions by students, Dippy took his time to carefully select the best ones so they were most viable. He hugged them close, as they weren't small and he needed three of them.

The others elves rushed around, adding the final touches for lunch preparation. A few glanced in the direction of the group of students, as they didn't normally have so many visiting at once, but it didn't look like Dippy needed any help. Ravenclaws often had very strange requests, but it seemed it was a simple one today. Hufflepuffs typically sought food, and were most often wonderfully polite about it.

'Is you needing anything?' Dippy asked the most recent Hufflepuff, unsure. He handed off a Tarrow each to the others. 'Is you having a Potions Kit too?'

Amber was a little surprised that Caine came in after them. She smiled at him. Was he here because he was hungry? She could really imagine that, as she was hungry herself.

At Joshuas idea, dressing Caine up as a spider, she grinned, but also shook her head.

"Don't give him such an idea! He would definitely do it." Amber paused for a moment and then waved aside what she said earlier. "Nevermind, you would do it too."

She tried to hold back a laugher, as she noticed the house elf approaching and didn't want him to shoo away with that.

"Hi, I'm Amber", she automatically answered Dibby and nodded to his question about Tarrow.

Then she waited for him to get them. Seeing the house elf with three big ones coming back, struggling a little bit with them, she really wanted to take one off of him as soon as possible.

"Thank you, Dibby", she said with a smile and took the one he gave her.

As Kwame smiled at them with a question, Amber smiled brightly back. Although, she had seen Kwame more often as the others, as they were fellow Ravenclaws, she also didn't quite had the chance to get closer to him. But surely that could change!

"Actually, this one is our first ingredient! So, we still have four to go. And sure, we can search together." She glanced at Caine. "Although, he should get his potions kit before that."

"Hm, with the hair could actually work", she considered. "But right now I don't really wanna try a duel to find out. We actually could get another ingredient rather easy. On the list is also Blessed Stage. If I remember correctly, it looks a lot like the plant you find in our common room near the fireplace."