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The professor insisted that cutting the trees didn't hurt that, that they didn't feel pain or feel any sense of loss at being cut essentially in half, and so Dot continued. It was hard to imagine having her legs cut off and different legs attached and not feeling some sense of... not quite being herself, but trees and people were a little different. She didn't have any leaves, for one.
Dot touched the roots of her scion tree, a tender sort of farewell, since they were not the part of the tree that got to live on forever. Maybe no one got to pick which part of them lived on and which got thrown on compost. Okay, ugh, she was being all drama and Ravenclaw. This was just Herbology and no reason to have a major mental break.
Using her wand, Dot sliced the her scion at the appropriate angle, lining it up with the rootstock to make sure they would slide together perfectly. It looked likely, based on her eyeballing them, but only time would tell. Again, she rejected use of her wand in cutting the tongue, since it required such fine motor skills. Dot could sew lace with her wand, but she didn't trust the life of a tree to it. Just a little... nick... and the flap was cut.
Was there some concern that the exposed hearts of these trees might dry out? Shouldn't they put them in water or something until it was time to actually do the grafting?
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