Olly was going to try really hard in Herbology this term. He really was. He wanted to be able to get a good score on his OWL because he didn't want to disappoint Professor Myers. So he was going to do his best to pay attention and learn things. This particular lesson was already shaping up to be pretty exciting. They were going into the forest!

Though the lesson was not really starting out well. First question and Olly already did not know the answer. What plants grew in the shade? One of the things he had been most confident about was that plants like sunlight. Apparently not all of them. Devil's snare grew in dark, damp places. A lot of people were saying that so Olly made a mental note to remember that. But he wanted to be able to give his own answer. He stared blankly into the forest, trying to come up with something. "Uh, there are a lot of trees." He had said magical or mundane it wasn't necessarily a horrible answer.

With his eyes already fixed on the forest there was no way Olly would have missed the shape coming out and walking toward them. It was a centaur! A real live centaur! "You're a centaur!" That was probably unnecessary. He already knew he was a centaur. But it had come out before Olly had a chance to actually realize that he was speaking. "I mean, uh, hello. What's your name?"