In Our Own Way!

The life of nature was wondrous. In order to reproduce, species had evolved their own unique forms, becoming one miraculous and beautiful scene after another in the natural world.

The most magical yet ordinary and common thing Anton had encountered in his previous life was the dandelion.

In the gentle morning breeze, a great cluster of dandelions released countless seeds, drifting through the wind and sunlight in an especially romantic sight.

There were also many astonishing magical plants in the Wizarding World.

Take Lantern Fruit, for example. It was a type of vine that bore fruit all year round and often climbed through sunlit crevices in cliffside rocks.

When passersby looked up, they could see dark green lanterns that had just formed, creamy apricot lanterns nurturing seeds, golden lanterns beginning to fill with cultivating fluid, and golden-red lanterns that had reached maturity. Lanterns at every stage of development filled the view, beautiful beyond compare.

Once these lanterns ripened, the cultivating fluid inside built up under high pressure and blew them apart, scattering the seeds everywhere.

To make animals carry those seeds elsewhere, the fluid was often thick with a cloying sweetness.

The Fruit-flavored Honeywater Lanterns that Hannah had improved and cultivated had just the right level of sweetness, with a fresh honey fragrance. Most importantly, there were no seeds inside.

Pick up one lantern the size of a soda can and gently snap off its stem. Juice burst forth with fizzy bubbles, sweet and tart, perfect for cutting through grease.

A bite of roasted meat, a sip of fizzy fruit juice. As the sun set, everyone lay sprawled on the grassy hillside with full stomachs, too lazy to move.

"So we aren't taking part in changing the world?" Neville stared blankly at the evening clouds, sounding a little disappointed, a