The next evening, Muya spent another three hours finishing the dolls and copied two more, making three in total—one for each member of the prank squad.
She quickly gave them to Fred and George.
At dawn that day, Muya received a letter from Hagrid saying that all the fruits and vegetables she had planted were fully grown and that she could come pick them whenever she had time.
Muya woke right up. She thought today was perfect. She had plenty of time.
But she needed a few helpers. Forget it—she would drag along every friend who was free.
She first shouted in the dormitory, "Everyone, are you free today? There's some physical labor waiting for us. Are you in?"
You never knew until you asked. To her surprise, everyone was free, though Harry and Malfoy said they were busy in the afternoon. No matter—there were plenty of people without them.
Muya arrived at the vegetable garden first, then used the Copying Charm she had learned from Snape over the summer to make more than a dozen copies of the basket in her hand.
"Waiting for us?"
"I think so."
"Isn't that right, Ya Ya?" The Weasley twins had somehow learned that intimate nickname, but Muya let them call her that.
"Yes. One for each of you."
Behind them, a large group was heading their way.
"Oh, Mya Mu actually called so many people over!" Draco curled his lip and shot Harry's trio a glare.
"Malfoy, with that little body of yours, you probably can't even carry one basket!" Ron snapped at Malfoy without mercy.
Harry openly laughed beside him.
Draco's little face turned red with anger. Just as he was about to mock Ron again, Cedric behind them spoke up. "I don't think Ya Ya would want to see her friends arguing in front of her."
"Yeah, at least be a little nicer in front of Ya Ya." Sean agreed, patting Cedric on the shoulder.
"Wait, you call her Ya Ya?!" Everyone else was devastated.
Other than the few who had recently started calling Muya "Ya Ya," everyone looked at her resentfully. Unfortunately, Muya looked completely baffled. What had she done?
"What's wrong with you all?" Muya floated a basket in front of each person.
"You actually let them call you Ya Ya! I've never called you that!" Muya did not understand why Draco was always so easily upset.
"Then you can all call me Ya Ya." It was such a simple matter that Muya did not think much of it.
Cho Chang stepped forward with her basket, removed a leaf from Muya's hair, and smiled gently. "All right, Ya Ya."
Theodore walked to the entrance of the vegetable garden. "Where do we start?"
"Ah! Let's start with the fruit." Muya turned around and rubbed her face. Oh no, that pretty older girl had just charmed her.
"Great!"
"Then let's go!"
The Weasley twins wanted to pull Muya inside to pick strawberries. They reached out and grabbed nothing but air. When they turned around, they saw Vester pulling Muya away.
"Everyone, if there's anything you want to eat, you can wash it and eat it right away."
Draco carefully picked out the prettiest strawberries. By chance, he saw Ron across from him gnawing on a huge strawberry and looked utterly disgusted.
"Ya Ya, why are these fruits and vegetables so big?" Hermione, who had read countless books, could not help asking Muya as she looked at the unusually large produce.
Muya was actually surprised too. She had originally thought the soil near the Forbidden Forest was simply better, but it turned out the seeds had all been infused with magic.
For example, the jasmine she had planted at Snape's house had actually bloomed a few days before school started.
In the end, Snape discovered that she had secretly used his cauldron to grow flowers, and she was punished with a week of helping him process potion ingredients.
"Actually, it's because of my magical seeds." Seeing how interested Hermione was, Muya took out a few seeds and gave them to her.
Suddenly, Harry's voice came from the carrot patch. "Ron, those are carrot leaves! Don't put them in the basket!"
"Ah!" Over by the cucumber vines, Draco could not pull off a cucumber and fell on his backside.
"Oh, Draco!" Muya rushed over in alarm and helped him up.
Seeing Draco with his head lowered, Muya thought he was hurt. "Where are you hurt? Does it hurt badly?"
"I'm fine," Draco said quietly.
He was just embarrassed!
Muya nodded, then used Scourgify to clean the dirt off his trousers.
Cho Chang put down her basket and came over to ask, "How is he?"
"Oh, my, how careless." Fred and George's exaggerated acting made Muya rub her forehead. She quickly sent those tall boys off to pick grapes.
"I'm fine." Draco patted Muya's hand, signaling for her to let go.
Muya stroked Draco's hair and coaxed him, "Don't force yourself, Draco."
She handed Draco a pair of scissors, demonstrated how to use them, then pulled Cho Chang over to Harry's group.
Over there, half the carrot leaves had already been pulled off. Theodore, Ron, and Harry stood there helplessly.
"Um... two people should grab the leaves of one carrot and pull upward slowly. I'll dig up the ones with no leaves left." Harry and the others nodded. Theodore pursed his lips but did not refuse.
Hermione's side was nearly finished, and Cedric's group of taller students was doing the same.
After Muya pulled up the carrots, she washed them all before going to help Draco.
To her surprise, they finished everything in just one morning.
In the end, everyone carried a basket in their hands, while the extra baskets followed behind them with the Levitation Charm.
Muya told them to keep some for themselves, then transported the rest to the kitchen. The house-elves surrounded Muya in delight and spun around her in circles.
Muya: Hehe.
After lunch, Muya was taking a walk alone to aid digestion when an argument suddenly broke out.
"I booked the pitch for today!"
That voice sounds so familiar. I feel like I've heard it somewhere before.
"Flint, this is our training time. Please leave!"
Flint? He seemed to be the Slytherin Quidditch captain.
"This place is big enough, Wood."
Wood was the Gryffindor Quidditch captain. Why were they arguing?
Muya turned her head and looked. Well, she had wandered all the way to the pitch.
Were Gryffindor and Slytherin fighting over the field?
Muya decided to take a look. She moved closer, stood beside Hermione, and spoke softly. "Hi, Hermione, Ron."
"Hi, Ya Ya," the two said at the same time.
Behind a group of tall boys, Muya spotted another boy with platinum-blond hair.
"Oh, Draco." Muya took a few steps forward and recognized him. Smiling, she silently greeted him.
She saw Draco nod at her.
"But I have a note personally signed by Professor Snape."
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