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The mound of furniture started to move forward.
The ‘Stinging nettles are always useful,’ said Modo, behind him. ‘They add iron. And comfrey, well, you can never get enough comfrey. For the minerals, you know. Myself, I’ve always reckoned that a small quantity of wild yarrow -‘ The wizards peered over the top of an overturned table. The heap had stopped moving.
‘Is it just me, or is it getting bigger?’ said the Senior Wrangler.
‘And looking happier,’ said the Dean.Archchancellor stared desperately around the hall, at a loss. Then his eyes were drawn to a familiar, heavy bottle on one of the sideboards. ‘Carbon,’ he said. ‘That’s like charcoal, isn’t it?’‘How should I know? I’m not an alchemist,’ sniffed the Dean.The compost heap emerged from the debris. Steam poured off it. The Archchancellor looked longingly at the bottle of Wow-Wow Sauce. He uncorked it. He took a deep sniff.‘The cooks here just can’t make it properly, you know,’ he said. It’ll be weeks before I can get any more from home.’He tossed the bottle towards the advancing heap.It vanished into the seething mass.