After listening to Neville describe this method of study, a question that had puzzled Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom was finally answered;
Wizet must have built up such an astonishing store of magical knowledge through this very method.
But once that question was answered, another arose in Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom's minds:
Just which branches of magic did Wizet excel in to possess such an astonishing reserve of magical knowledge?
Considering that they had only just recovered and shaken off the effects of the Cruciatus Curse, Frank Longbottom and Alice Longbottom decided not to dwell on that question. Their child was what mattered most.
Frank Longbottom asked, "Neville, then do you think the Inferius Curse... um... is suited to Herbology?"
As he spoke, he felt something strangely subtle about it. Putting the Inferius Curse and Herbology in the same sentence... was a combination he had never tried before.
"It's quite suitable!" Neville nodded. "But I'll need to catch up on other magical subjects too... I just need a better understanding of the 'Kabbalah Tree of Life' to use it well."
"Some magical plants are actually pretty ferocious. Like Mandrakes—even Professor Sprout has to be extremely careful when tending them! And then there are Venomous Tentacula, Chomping Cabbages..."
He listed several highly aggressive magical plants. "If you want to study and improve those magical plants, you generally have to give them extra fertilizer to keep them settled down."
"But if you use too much fertilizer, it can easily burn the seedlings. So you have to fertilize them very carefully, and that takes quite a bit of time... Hannah hasn't found any good solution either."
"If I had the Inferius Curse, though, I could use Beauty Prima Materia as well, then set up a Ritual Magic formation and instill my emotions