Chapter 80: Sprout Is a Good Professor
Regulus stood rooted, fingers absently rubbing against one another. He was thinking.
Professor Sprout's words echoed. 'Emotion' isn't accurate. What's accurate is attribute. Magic itself carries tendency.
He suddenly realized something.
After obtaining the Nature Magic legacy over the holiday — guiding Dittany's magic to heal a wound, observing a plant's withering process — he had indeed sensed a vague tendency within magic.
Some gentle as spring water. Some violent as flame.
But that wasn't the same as the tendency Sprout described. His understanding was closer to what the professor called magical attribute.
At the time he'd assumed it was hidden knowledge conferred by the family legacy — a secret only a few possessed.
Now he understood. Professor Sprout had taught Herbology here for twenty years. She had personally tended hundreds of magical plant species.
She'd watched the Venomous Tentacula paralyze animals whole. Watched Devil's Snare extend its vines in the dark to drain life force. Watched Mandrakes grow from seedling to mature specimen.