Herbology Class part One
Kurama stood at the head of Greenhouse one, watching the students file in and directing each of them to a flowerbed - at least one person from each house at each bed, if he could help it. Once the last of the stragglers had made it in, he closed the greenhouse doors.
"These," he began, pointing out small machines that were attached to the end of each bed, "are the wizarding world equivalent of a polygraph. The purpose of them here is that we are going to recreate a testing process known as the
Backster Tests. These tests are, admittedly, pretty fourth-grade fringe science, but they have never, to my knowledge, been conducted on magical plants with charmed equipment, so that is our first task in class today. Before that - get comfortable, this may take a bit - I'm going to give you a little history on the tests, and what exactly we're trying to accomplish here.
( In which it is asserted that plants do indeed talk. )