After Kamia cut her hair short, she looked more like a
She looked more like Jia Mei. This recognition made Harry a little absent-minded throughout the rehearsal process.
He would stare at Kamia's short hair in a daze and make frequent mistakes. The other actors were also clearly out of it.
Kamia shook her head and asked them to stop.
Tucking her bangs behind her ears, Kamia was puzzled. "What's wrong with you guys today?"
Drac's face was cold, and Pansy was expressionless.
Ron looked at Pansy and Harry, his ears red. Kamia didn't know what was going on, but she guessed that the kids were having a fight. She ended the rehearsal early. "… Let's call it a day.
If you have any private matters, you can deal with them in private.
Mr. Edwards still needs to familiarize himself with his lines. As for the others … Ginny, come with me. The rest of you are dismissed! "
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
They changed out of their clothes in silence.
Harry watched as Ginny left with Kamia. He couldn't help but frown. Then, he gently tugged at Hermione and whispered, "Hedwig is back." Hermione nodded in understanding, then slowed down her packing speed and fell behind the others. She was the last to leave the cabin with Harry.
"How was it? Did Mr. Cassandra reply? "
Harry saw someone in the corridor and didn't answer. Instead, he greeted, "Hey, Jean. Hey, Professor Trelawney!" Hermione hurriedly greeted.
Trelawney only smiled mysteriously. Jean blinked. "Harry? Hermione? "
Harry quickly explained, "We're rehearsing!"
"Oh …" The red-haired girl chuckled. "Rehearsing?"
Harry blushed when he thought of the Valentine's Day incident last year. He pulled Hermione upstairs and wondered, "When did Jean get together with Trelawney?" A mutant with the ability to foresee the future, and a mysterious old faker. They didn't match at all.
This was the first time that Hermione had ever stepped into an international student dormitory above the fourth floor. The Muggle atmosphere here made the little witch a little excited. Just the painting of Degas on the wall made her exclaim for a while. When she saw the bright light bulb, Hermione almost screamed, "You have electric lights here?"
Harry patted Hermione to calm her down. "No, it's just a small spell. The candle inside the light bulb is still the candle."
Hermione took a deep breath. When Harry opened the door, the door next door suddenly opened. Peter Parker came out with a cup of coffee and asked Harry, "Hey, Harry, the coffee machine in our room is broken. Can you help to fix it?"
"Uh … I'll fix it for you tomorrow. Why don't you borrow Demar's coffee machine first? I mean, he doesn't drink coffee anyway, right?"
Peter saw Hermione next to Harry and greeted her. He then went to borrow the coffee machine from the disciple a few rooms away. Hermione took a deep breath and said calmly, "Magic coffee machine, right?"
Harry smiled and made a "shh" gesture. "Let's keep a low profile. Don't let Mr. Weisles find us."
If the illegal items in this building were to be thoroughly investigated, it would probably be enough for Mr. Arthur Weisles to work overtime until the year Ginny graduated.
There were not many things in Harry's room. Although there were no socks scattered everywhere, at first glance, whether it was the clothes casually draped on the chair or the textbooks carelessly stacked on the table, it gave people the feeling that they were about to move at any time. But perhaps this was considered tidy and clean in the boys' dormitory? Hermione thought. She sat down on a chair that Harry pulled over and then saw the radio on the table.
"This is … can you get this?"
Harry looked up and said, "Sometimes I can get the signal. By the way, Hermione, this is Cassandra's reply to you. This is the 'Singing Different' he sent over. Sorry, I've already read it. "
"It's okay." Hermione put down the radio and took the letter and the magazine. "So, did you find the article?"
Harry tried to speak in a natural and calm tone. "Yes, I found it. It's the one on the top. I bookmarked it."
Hermione was just asking casually. She did not expect Harry to give a positive answer so quickly. After a moment of surprise, she immediately opened the magazine and read it.
The article was not long, only about 1,200 words. It was a story that had no beginning or end. Somewhere, a tower collapsed, and the residents in the tower were separated in the flood. Until this point, Hermione felt that this story had a religious meaning. But in the second half, the focus was on an old man who was determined to cross the river. He kept trekking and was washed back to the bank again and again. At some point, a heavy child appeared on his shoulder, and then …
"… He sighed and said to the child, 'We can't make it to the other side. Alas, child, who are you?' The child replied, 'Maya, I'm Maya.'" After reading the article, Hermione was deep in thought but did not understand. What she was more concerned about was, "Harry, this article was written by Pandora Lovegood?!"
Harry nodded.
Hermione stared at him. "Let's calculate the time … Luna was born in 1981. So, Mrs. Lovegood fell seriously ill not long after writing this article. She gave birth to Luna and died soon after." Hermione did not know whether to be shocked or scared. "Harry, if this is the last article she wrote, she must want to tell us — to tell the readers something!"
Harry rubbed his chin and did not speak for a moment. Hermione stared at the printed words and said with certainty, "No, Harry, we need more information! We need more information about Mrs. Lovegood! Harry, we are going to find Xenophilius Lovegood! "
"He won't say." Harry smiled and held the agitated Hermione down. "I guess he is the one who burned all the copies of 'Singing Devil'." Then, he told Hermione about what happened at Lovegood's house that day.
"Harry, I have to announce that our friendship is suffering from a crisis of trust." Hermione looked at Harry sternly until the boy began to bite his nails in embarrassment. "So, is there anything else you haven't told me?"
Harry thought for a moment and asked, "Did I tell you about the old ghoul?"
After going through their statements in detail, Hermione glared at Harry. She picked up an unused piece of parchment from the table and spread it horizontally between the two of them. Then, she used a quill to draw a triangle in the center and marked "Hexagon Library". "I think everything we are investigating is related to the Hexagon Library."
Seeing Harry nodding in agreement, Hermione continued to write the key words and said, "So far, we know that the Hexagon Library is related to Jean Grey's dream, Kamia Lovegood, Jia Mei, and … Maya?"
Harry did not comment. Hermione wrote the word "Maya" next to the library and continued, "However, Jean's original purpose is to investigate Jia Mei, so she is an arrow pointing to Jia Mei. As for Jia Mei, we currently have the following clues: she exists in legends and stories; she appeared at the same time as the Hexagon Library; and, 'Jia Mei's Blessing'." After a pause, the little witch frowned. "Harry, I don't know if this is my subjective assumption, but if 'Jia Mei's Blessing' is real, I think, perhaps, Jia Mei and the Hexagon Library also existed before."
Harry just held his head and nodded, but he had an indescribable feeling in his heart. She was right!
"And 'Jia Mei's Blessing'," Hermione drew a horizontal line under these words and then wrote another name next to it, "was proposed by Xenophilius Lovegood. His wife, Pandora Lovegood, is also someone who knows the existence of Maya." After pointing Pandora's name to Maya, Hermione frowned slightly. "But what do we know about Maya? From Pandora's article 'Collapse!' It seems that Maya must be related to the collapsed tower — I guess that means the Hexagon Library … "
Hermione thought hard for a while, but she still could not fill in more information behind Maya. She had to write other clues next to it first. "The mysterious Harry Potter, the old ghoul who ran away from home, the saint symbol … By the way, Harry, I remember another piece of information about Maya!" Hermione patted her head and filled in a line under "Maya": false, illusion, the shadow of God.
"I remember that in some myths and legends, 'Maya' means illusion," Hermione said.
However, it seemed that there was no logic that could integrate the messy clues on the paper. The smartest witch bit her lower lip and thought for a while. Looking at the time, she had to leave with a pile of magazines and Mr. Cassandra's reply. Harry did not say much. He just walked Hermione all the way to the gate of the castle, and then returned to the Union Building with peace of mind.
Back in the room, Harry closed the door and sat down on Hermione's seat. He picked up the pen and paper again and drew a diagram according to Hermione's method. With the Library of Babel as the core, the diagram pointed to Jia Mei on the left. Below Jia Mei were Kamia, Jean, and Ginny. The diagram pointed to Maya on the right, and below Maya were Pandora and the old ghoul. There was a dotted line between Kamia and Pandora, and below the dotted line were the names of Luna and Bart. Next to Maya's name was the word "false" in parentheses.
After staring at the diagram for a while, Harry drew the triangle, circle, and line symbol in the blank space next to it. At the same time, he felt that something that he had neglected was screaming in his mind, trying to attract his attention. However, Harry could not remember it. He could only draw the symbol again and again until the force penetrated the back of the parchment and pierced through the parchment.
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