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Kaos.Doodles 
Hollingberry had CLEARLY swallowed a dictionary will all the information about apples."You know why too much about apples." He sighed and squeezed the bridge of his nose. What person knew this much about apples?
When she spoke again he shook his head. "No. Miss Hufflepuff is not the one who coined the expression but I will explain who did later." He nodded. Good question.
Kurumi bit her lower lip to try and stop a squeak for escaping (which she was successful in doing). Here it comes...another few points for knowing too much about apples. Since when was knowing things against school rules? It wasn't like she was eating dictionaries or anything. As a baker and chef of sorts, it was her business to know about ingredients.
Kurumi blushed a bit and bowed her head at his comment before waiting to hear just who had coined the expression.
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Kaos.Doodles "So this expression, most of you have your own personal idea to what it means, many things having to do with staying healthy and not being sick, ect. But like I said before something small and something simple can still be important to history. This expression is one of the rare wizarding expressions which means EXACTLY what it is saying. And no, by that i do not mean that eating apples will keep you from being sick. I mean that apples will keep Healers away." And there was a BIG difference between the two.
He looked around."That idea that the expression was 19th century is completely wrong. In the 19th century was when Muggles heard the expression and coined it as their own, because as we all know, muggles steal a bunch of wizarding ideas.. This expression actually dates back to way before that to the 14th century. Muggles took it in the sense that apples had properties which would help them from getting sick. The expression was actually what let Muggles to continue research on apples." But the whole Muggle idea wasn't the point here. "In the 14th century. This expression was created by a wizard who rarely gets credited for it named Chauncey Oldridge." Poor old Chauncey. "He is actually famous for something else which ties into the creation of the expression." He nodded his head. " Who knows what that is?"
So, the expression WAS literally about apples. Interesting. While Kurumi had just rattled off fact after fact about apples, she still hadn't been entirely sure that the expression was going to be so literal.
Chauncey Oldridge? Kurumi thought she had heard that name before. Hadn't she seem him on a chocolate frog card? She remembered a wizarding with horrible green skin and pumps all over his body at least. The image of THAT on a chocolate frog card had been enough to make her lose her appetite, but she hadn't really read the description of he wizard on the back of the card for fear of losing her lunch. Still, Kurumi wanted to contribute something, so she slowly raised her hand. "
He died of an illness that turned his skin a greenish purple tinge with bumps all over his body. The illness also caused him to shoot sparks out of his nose...but I am afraid the name escapes me at the moment."