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Greek mythology! Isa loved Greek mythology, though not quite as much as Penny and dad did. Collecting mythology books was one of dad’s specialties, so Isa had grown up reading Greek mythology. She was especially captivated by the myths relating to plants. One of her first books had been a children’s Greek mythology book. Dad had wanted to name her Antheia for the minor Greek goddess of flowers, but Mum hadn’t agreed to that as her first name so they had steeled on that being her middle name instead.
Isa had come to class dressed as a dryad, a tree nymph. Live plants were assisting her in her dryad transformation. She wore a crown of oak twigs with green leaves still on them woven together, charmed so that the plant would stay alive. Real moss clung to her flowing brown and green dress that was patterned to look like a tree trunk. Vines wrapped themselves up her legs, around her arms, and up through the branches on her head. Isa was quite gifted when it came to plant magic. Goddess of flowers, vegetation, and gardens was her middle name. Literally.
The small bird that had decided to take up residence on her head somewhere between the castle and the greenhouse, however, was entirely unintentional. Isa was just going to let it stay there for now though if that was what it wanted. Her tree headpiece did sort of look like a nest or at least a good perch after all.
The giant flowers were the first thing Isa noticed when she walked in. Those big ones must have been charmed to get so big, probably to make it easier to observe the parts of the flowers. Isa made a few quick flower sketches in her pocket notebook and got closer to the flowers for a better look.
Look at everyone else’s costumes! ”Are you Persephone, Dora?” Oh, what was Professor Myers dressed as? It wasn’t anything she recognized from Greek mythology. It made more sense once she heard his explanation of the costume mix-up. ”Hello Professor Myers! Sorry your costume didn’t work out. Could be modified to be a Greek god? The flowers look absolutely gorgeous though!” Those fake abs didn’t strike Isa as very robot-like. Honestly, Isa wasn’t even sure what the herbology professor’s costume was supposed to be.
Isa came up to Emmeline and wrapped her arms around the Gryffindor in a hug. ”You’ll be okay, I promise. Professor Myers wants you to succeed. I’m here to support you too.” Then, to try to make Emmeline a bit happier about this lesson, Isa conjured a flower crown around Emmeline’s head. ”Orchideous. You can be a flower goddess now!” Hopefully Emmeline would like that.
”Oooh, lotus flowers, like Odysseus and the blissfully forgetful lotus-eaters! ….Do lotus flowers have hallucinogenic properties when people eat them?” Isa didn’t want to test that. It was scary how in the lotus myth everyone who ate the lotuses forgot about everything else. There was a reason why you weren’t supposed to eat random plants, because you never knew which ones were poison or could mess up your brain or other parts of your body.
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