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sweetpinkpixie 
Kurumi was going to say that the professor hadn't really startled her, but the truth of the matter was that she had, so Kurumi just skipped over that comment entirely. "I-I-I guess I just got too carried away admiring the flowers," she blushed looking down at her shoes for a moment. That was another habit that she was going to need to break soon. Looking at people's shoes when she was nervous.
Oh, so it was that simple. Kurumi had almost expected that there was some complicated process that involved throwing sugar over your shoulder and using a silver blade to make a small vertical incision...Her imagination was running away with her again. "I have," she nodded. Just not on something as delicate as a flower. Nervously taking out her wand, Kurumi pointed it at the stalk of the flower and closed her eyes to compose her nerves. There was no need to repeat the disaster that had happen in the greenhouses last term during one of Professor Vindictus' Herbology lessons. Opening her eyes, she focused on the flower. "Diffindo," she chirped and the white flower popped off the stalk and right into her arms.
Seren certainly agreed with the Gryffindor on that.
"Oh yes, I find myself distracted by them far too often, you'd think by now I'd be used to it... but they still catch me by surprise." She beamed at her flowers with affectionate eyes.
Watching as Kurumi nervously approached the tree to remove a flower specimen, Seren couldn't help but think that perhaps the girl needed some encouragement. She seemed very nervous and unsure of herself, but despite this she was a very good student with good grades. It didn't seem to make sense. But alas... she had done it.
"There you go, its as easy as that," said Seren brightly.
"So with this... potions assignment. How many ingredients do you need to gather?" aske Seren, partly out of curiosity and partly out of fear. She didn't wand a hundred students cleaning out her gardens after all.