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So...the thing was that Eiji Rasting was not only an opportunist but he was also a believer in letting nothing go to waste. He was also a particular snob when it came to the ingredients he used for his Potions brews, anything store bought and not collect by his own hand usually going to his little sister or utilized in procedures he knew he would fail due to their complexity. A bit of an ingredients purist, if you will, along with favoring organic over generic and over the counter phials found in Diagon Alley and the like.
So it was that Eiji was making his rounds around the Hogwarts grounds during his usual collection periods. Something he enjoyed all the more considering the advantages the new Arithmancy professor had gifted him with this new numer...whatever that terribly long-winded term had been. Being able to see and distinguish higher quality ingredients before picking and collecting? It was like Christmas morning every time his phials ran empty.
But nothing could have prepared him for today's find: the smushed remains of an acromantula. Just HOW often could one just so happen to stumble upon fresh ingredients like this?!
Eiji had only seen the Whomping Willow move from a distance - he had been on the other side of the grounds collecting some bark and wild flowers - and seeing as there had been no human screeching he could only assume that a bird or some other unfortunate creature had fallen victim to the tree's trashing. Seeing acromantula legs sticking out at odd angles had not been what he had expected.
Nor had the flopped over appearance of the headmaster.
....was there a strange moss covered rock around here somewhere or something?
No matter...
....seeing as Headmaster Trent was, according to the rapid rising and falling of his chest, still very much alive and the acromantla clearly not going to be needing any of, well, that...the fourth year carefully crept closer and removed a few phials from his pocket to collect what bits he could. You know, for educational purposes. A phial of leg hairs...and...had this one been grown enough to produce venom? Eiji leaned a bit closer to see if there was anything to collect on that front as well.
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