Patrick turned when when he heard a younger voice, and smiled at the boy. "Hi, I'm Patrick Pucey, and I sort of run the research there, yes. It's my clinic," he said, laughing.
"All right, so why are you making the Wolfsbane?" he asked. "You're what? Sixth, seventh year? I know for a fact that it's not a NEWT approved potion. Are you trying to get into the the Experimental Potions Division at the DoM or is this something you want to do on your own?" It was too easy to mishandle it and get people killed. It was also possible to make a fortune selling it to the wrong people, and he wanted to know why someone this young wanted to learn in the first place.