Status Updates From Harry Potter and the Garden...

Now the author has decided to fully leave the majority of the world behind:

She frowned again. "Does the term '[…]' mean anything to you?"

"That's American, right?"

"It was," Tonks confirmed. "Bloody nonsense, too. Why mess about with fractions?"

No explanation of the term used. In a fic playing in a british universe. Sod this.

This is… certainly different from canon.

(Also, if victorian flower language is even a thing, Parkinson or whoever sat in the same class and also knew it could have told. Okay, Parkinson probably didn’t deign to have lessons in V.f.l…)