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Title: Rare Components, I
Challenge: Tulips
Word Count: 100
He never expected to find the flowers in a Muggle garden.
Tulips, yes; Lily's mother had been a gardener (no surprise, given what she named her children) and had taken great pride in her bulb plants every spring. But Rufus Glorificus Magica? In a grotty little front yard near Spinner's End?
Severus stared at the scarlet blooms, then shook himself. Surely he was wrong; not only was Rufus Glorificus very close in appearance to non-magical tulips, the variety had supposedly died out years ago thanks to overharvesting and disease. It was simply impossible -
But there it was.
Now what?
Challenge: Tulips
Word Count: 100
He never expected to find the flowers in a Muggle garden.
Tulips, yes; Lily's mother had been a gardener (no surprise, given what she named her children) and had taken great pride in her bulb plants every spring. But Rufus Glorificus Magica? In a grotty little front yard near Spinner's End?
Severus stared at the scarlet blooms, then shook himself. Surely he was wrong; not only was Rufus Glorificus very close in appearance to non-magical tulips, the variety had supposedly died out years ago thanks to overharvesting and disease. It was simply impossible -
But there it was.
Now what?