Mandrake Madness/Transcript

Mandrake Madness

## Repotting Mandrakes

*(The episode begins with an exterior shot of Solaris Academy's greenhouses, and cuts to Greenhouse 3, where Mrs. Rhoda Dendron is teaching her first-year Dragon and Gryphon students an Herbology lesson about mandrakes, which she writes with her left hand on the chalkboard.)*

**Mrs. Dendron:** Today, we will be repotting mandrakes. Can anyone tell me what a mandrake is? *(Carl and Lor raise their hands, and-surprisingly-so does Vivian.)* Vivian?

**Vivian:** Mandrake, or mandragora, is a sentient plant whose roots are a powerful restorative. They are used to return living beings who are transfigured, cursed, petrified, the list goes on, to their original state.

**Mrs. Dendron:** Very good, Vivian my dear! Take ten points for Gryphon. However, we must also be careful around them because of their danger. Carl, can you tell us why?

**Carl:** The cry of a mandrake is fatal to any who hear it. My Aunt Minerva works with preparing salves made of mandrake and using them for medicines.

**Mrs. Dendron:** Good boy, ten points to Dragon this time. Yes, I assumed that since your Auntie Minerva was in the medical business, she would know about mandrakes... Anyway, as you can see, everyone, I have provided you all with noise-cancelling earmuffs *(she gestures toward them with her left hand, and Carl picks up his purple pair while Tommy smiles at his orange ones)* that will protect against the mandrakes' cries. Only put them on when I tell you, and I will signal you to remove them when it's safe. Right...earmuffs on.

*(Everyone snaps on their earmuffs, including Mrs. Dendron, who rolls up her sleeves and pulls out the mandrake with her left hand. The mandrake's roots resemble a baby made of plant roots, and it is crying yet no one can hear its crying. Once Mrs. Dendron repots it, she flashes a thumbs-up with her right hand and everyone takes off their earmuffs.)*

**Mrs. Dendron:** As our mandrakes are still young, their cries won't kill yet. However, they *will* render you unconscious for a while, so make sure your earmuffs are on tightly. I will signal when it is time to pack up.

**Tommy:** Sounds like a plan, teach!

**Mrs. Dendron:** Excellent, Tommy! Alright, everyone, partner up! We'll be repotting these in groups of two.

*(To Carl's right, Lor scoots her desk next to Carl's, eager to be his partner.)*

**Lor:** So, Carl...partner?

**Evie:** *(scooting her desk to Carl from his left)* Not so fast, Lor! Carl's *my* partner!

**Lor:** Says who???

**Evie:** Says me!

**Carl:** *(aside to the audience)* Oh, boy...they're gonna argue over me again, aren't they?

**Lor:** Oh, yeah?

**Evie:** That's what I said!

**Lor:** What *you* say doesn't matter, Evie.

**Evie:** Oh, bite me! (UK dub: Oh, whatever!) *(Behind Carl, Tommy gets a hungry look on his face.)*

**Carl:** Lor's right, Evie. It's not what you say, it's what Mrs. Dendron says.

**Mrs. Dendron:** You got that right! (UK dub: Hey, you're not wrong there!) And since you girls are having such trouble picking partners, I'll do it! So Lor, you can be partners with...Evie.

**Evie:** Eh, I can live with that.

**Lor:** Me too. You are my BFF, after all.

**Mrs. Dendron:** Carl, you're going to be partners with... *(Carl looks anticipatingly as Mrs. Dendron stares around Greenhouse 3 before making her decision)* ...Vivian.

**Carl:** Nice! I don't think I ever spoke to Vivian that much; I mean, I know who she is, but I don't know her that well.

**Mrs. Dendron:** Then this will be a fine time to get to know each other better. She's at that desk with the pots over there.

*(Carl walks over to Vivian and takes a seat across from her. She weakly smiles at him.)*

**Vivian:** Mrs. Dendron sure is something, isn't she?

**Carl:** I'll say! You and her are both elves, I noticed, and she's your Head of House too.

**Vivian:** You're half-right about the elf part; she's a pureblooded elf, and I'm only half-elf. While we half-elves do age like anyone else, our bodies grow at half the rate of a normal human or elf.