Harley had been looking forward to the Delacour sisters staying over, but she soon regretted her decision.
Gabrielle, who had just turned eight, was bursting with energy and absolutely impossible to keep still.
She was always asking questions. Even getting water in her mouth while bathing didn't stop her from talking afterward.
It wasn't until nearly midnight that Harley finally managed to fall asleep.
The next morning, Harley kept yawning over breakfast and looked utterly exhausted.
Pheobe apologized profusely and quickly dragged Gabrielle away.
The little girl tried hard to convince them to let her stay another night, but her pleas were mercilessly overruled.
Over the following week, Harley and the professors worked out a plan for the second round of the competition.
When gathering ingredients in the Magic Garden, the most important thing was to make sure she found enough to brew a Potion.
The Magic Garden contained no Fantastic Beasts, only the occasional ordinary insect or small animal, which greatly narrowed down the range of Potions she could make.
With those two factors in mind, Harley quickly settled on several Potions.
Her backup options were Shrinking Solution and Wit-Sharpening Potion. Neither of their main ingredients, Srivelfig and Wit-Sharpening Herb, was particularly rare.
Professor Slughorn had also told Harley that she could find both plants near the edge of a certain area in the Magic Garden.
Their supplementary ingredients were even more common. Some weren't even magical plants, but ordinary wildflowers found along the roadside, such as the daisies required for Shrinking Solution.
Shrinking Solution was a little more troublesome, though. It also required rat spleens and leech juice.
Those common creatures were sure to be found in the Magic Garden, but catching them would be tricky, and extracting their spleens or squeezing out their juice would be