Brazil Is A Long Way Away From England

Neville really wasn’t starting to get sick of this jungle in Brazil. He wasn’t getting anywhere on finding this stupid plant and Hannah was bugging the heck out of him by complaining about the humidity. He loved his wife to death but this was ridiculous. She wasn’t the climbing through a jungle getting suck in quicksand, getting bite by strange bugs, attacked by flesh eating plants or trying to walk through brush that’s so thick a machete won’t cut through it. He was about to give up when he found the plant.

The glowing scarlet red and orange peddles and bright yellow center, up this was the Ember Flower. The name was quite literal. He had spent two years researching this plant in England and now finally after three months he found the plant. What was so special about the Ember Flower? It is believed to possibly be a new heat source for wizarding families. It would be a lot better from using muggle heating sources which could lead to a muggle accidently finding out about magic while coming to fix a heater and coal is expensive. Without either of them it gets very cold.

He dug up a few inches of the soggy soil around the plant and then careful transferred into a jar. He was lucky to find a rather large population of the flower and was able to collect another flower as well for testing. He also took a soil sample so he could test the soil later as well. He made sure to take notes on the other plant life around it, amount of sunlight, number of the population of the Ember Flower and the location on a map. The last task took the longest since he had to use magic to figure out where we was in the jungle.

He stopped at a little pub on his way back to the hotel. He was glad he had picked up on Spanish on his last visit about two years ago when he heard of the Ember Flower from an elderly local. He planned on giving the elderly man partially credit even if he was dead. He tried to order a soft drink but ended up with a very heavy strong alcoholic one instead. He didn’t feel like trying to explain to the waiter it was the wrong drink so he just drank it. If Hannah asked it was a very insistent local who wanted him to try a concoction the local had made.