On the last day of the holiday, Snape was merciful (?). He released Harry from his confinement. Then, he saw the kid and the wild dog (??) running towards the Union Building. They also rushed to the United Building — the international students had returned, and the building was filled with laughing students …
In fact, the students from Hogwarts had also returned. Harry and Ron went to the Union Building mainly because they heard that the international students had brought new students. They wanted to see what kind of new students had cool abilities.
When they arrived at the door, they saw an unshaven, cat-eared uncle leaning against the door frame and smoking.
Unshaven was not strange. Unshaven uncle was not strange. Unshaven cat-eared uncle was a little strange. Unshaven cat-eared uncle smoking … Harry turned his head and saw that Ron's mouth had turned into a standard "O".
The uncle was smoking and seemed to be explaining something to the person behind the door. Judging from the uncle's expression, the person inside did not seem to want to listen to his explanation. Then, he fired a laser.
Harry and Ron watched the uncle fly to the horizon before they dared to enter the Union Building. The expected scene did not happen. Some of the international students were unpacking their luggage, and some were chatting with the little wizards who came to watch the fun. Harry greeted them and then joined the gossip camp.
Or else? Would he help them pack their luggage?
The gossip group was surrounding Timeline, Angel, and Beast Boy to ask about the new students. "Who was that big guy smoking just now?"
Big guy … Harry was a little embarrassed, but this was the gossip he wanted to hear the most. He quickly pulled Ron over.
"A professor in our school." This was Kronos's answer.
"That's Laser's mouth." This was Warren's answer.
The former withdrew a dozen "Oh" s, while the latter received a dozen "Oh!" and an angry glare from Laser.
Scott made a threatening gesture to Warren. Before Warren could excitedly fight with Scott (but Harry had already seen the smoking Night Walker), Scott's expression changed. In Harry's eyes, he looked like he was wronged.
Scott saw Jean at the door and immediately ran over. "Jean! Logan … "
Jean patted Scott's shoulder and smiled. "I know Logan is here."
"Alex was supposed to come, but that old bastard insisted …" Scott frowned and kept complaining, but the "old bastard" he was talking about had already appeared at the door.
Although his face and body were still injured, Logan was still laughing like he was asking for a beating. He even laughed and stretched out his arms to hug Jean. "Long time no see, Jean …"
Jean raised her eyebrows. Scott put his hand on his glasses again, so Logan hugged Scott without hesitation …
Just as Harry held his breath and prepared to see the hooligan get shot away again, a black-clothed professor's cold voice sounded. "Excuse me, who here cut down half of a Whomping Willow in our school?"
… …
The chaotic meeting at the Union Building was over. The international students seemed to have an internal meeting, so the young wizards chatted for a while before returning to their respective dormitories.
Of course, Snape still asked Wolverine for compensation.
Hermione also came back on this day. Harry was surprised to find that Hermione actually brought a large box of books with her. Of course, she used a Shrinking Spell to bring it over.
"Min, are the Hogwarts Library and the Hexagon Library no longer enough to satisfy you?"
Hermione rolled her eyes at the two boys, then began to check their holiday homework. Harry's homework was, of course, done well under Snape's supervision. Ron also finished his homework two days ago, but Hermione found many problems with it, so they had to be corrected one by one.
While Ron was being corrected at the desk, Hermione was looking at Harry's literature homework.
Harry scratched his head. "Hey, this kind of homework isn't very interesting, is it?" The topic of the literature homework was to write a reflection on reading. The material given by Professor Kamia was Sukhomlinsky's short essay, "All Tombs Are Shared by Mankind." In fact, she had mentioned this essay in class before the holidays, and said, "There's only history under the tombstones."
Harry's reflection on reading was not very outstanding. At most, it could be praised that the rhetoric was appropriate and the writing was neat. However, in the second half of the essay, he mentioned an experience of sweeping a tomb. Although it was not very detailed, it attracted Hermione's attention. "Harry, when did you sweep a tomb?"
Harry glanced at the students coming and going in the lounge and whispered, "I'll tell you later tonight."
Hermione squinted at Harry, put down his homework, and continued to stare at Ron. "Harry, don't peek at my homework!"
In the evening, when there were fewer people in the lounge, Harry pulled Hermione and Ron to a corner and told them about the Eris Magic Mirror and Godrick Cemetery. Ron was very angry that Harry had kept the matter of sweeping a tomb a secret until now. Hermione's opinion was very different. "You guys went on a night trip again? Ron, forget about Harry, what if you get caught by Filch? Our School Championship this year is already very dangerous! "
Ron muttered, "We haven't won the School Championship for many years …"
Hermione glared at him angrily.
Harry, as usual, tried to smooth things over. "Hey, Hermione, do you want to see the Eris Magic Mirror?"
"Not interested." Hermione said firmly. "However, I also have something to tell you. I'm afraid it's not convenient here. Harry, let's go to the eighth floor."
Harry froze for a moment and then asked, "What kind of room do you want?"
"A room where we can talk."
In the end, they got an empty room with only a table and three chairs. Ron walked into the room and felt a chill on his back. "Why do I feel that something is wrong?"
Harry held his forehead helplessly. Ron might find it strange, but Harry had seen many such interrogation rooms in Muggle TV shows.
Fortunately, the Room of All Requests was to respond to the wizard's request. Under Harry's strong resentment, the room finally turned into a small living room with three large sofas and a large carpet. The three of them sat cross-legged on the carpet. Hermione took out the book box that she had cast a shrinking spell on from the pocket of her robe and then used a magnifying spell to change it back on the carpet.
Hermione had brought a lot of books. The boys took out the books one by one and stacked them on the carpet. They found that most of the books had been flipped through, and many of them had colorful cards as bookmarks.
Ron had never seen so many books in his life, except in the library. He was so surprised that he could not close his mouth. "Hermione, are you going to open a library?"
Harry picked up a book that looked like a fairy tale. "This book is in the hexagon library." It was in the cubicle where he met Professor Trelawney.
Hermione stroked her messy hair. "I couldn't wait to go back to school, so I bought it from a second-hand bookstore in London. Okay, now I'm going to talk about Professor Kamia. "
Professor Kamia? Harry sat up straight. "I thought you had forgotten about it." Before the holidays, Hermione did not mention much about the Forbidden Forest. Harry thought that Hermione had given up on investigating the Phantom's identity.
Hermione smiled bitterly. "I didn't want to spend time on it, but during the holidays, I received a letter from Jean Grey."
Harry and Ron looked at each other. They did not understand how an exchange student from Marvel Academy had anything to do with the Forbidden Forest incident.
"Jean and I used to run into each other in the library, so we exchanged contact information. We agreed that she would be pen pals when she returned to America. But during the holidays, Jean sent me a letter. I won't show you the details. More importantly, she asked me about the history of magic." Hermione opened a thick notebook and explained to her two friends while recalling.
"At first, I didn't understand why Jean was so interested in our history. But after a few letters, I found that she knew more about the history of magic than a Muggle should. I guessed that she was investigating something, but — you know, I don't know much about the history of wizards. Some of the things she asked about were not official history, but ancient songs and legends. So I sent a letter to Percy and asked him to introduce me to some related books —"
"You actually asked Percy?" Ron interrupted Hermione in surprise. Hermione rolled her eyes. "What else? Ask you? "
Well, Percy's grades were pretty good. Harry pressed Ron's head down and let Hermione continue.
"Percy gave me a list of books. I went to Diagon Alley and bought all these books. After reading them, I found out what Jean was investigating." Hermione glanced at the pile of books on the side. She looked tired but proud. "She was looking for the Hexagon Library."
"The Hexagon Library?" The boys said in unison.
"Not the one in the Union Building." Hermione spread out the notebook in front of them and motioned for them to read the notes. "It's the Hexagon Library that appeared in oral legends and historical records. Look at this paragraph, the bald mad wizard Pikra's travels in the Kingdom of Freaks. It says that Pikra reached Merlin's residence through 'a bookstore with six walls'. This is a record in 'The History of Freaks'. There are also more formal 'History of Magic' and 'Chronology of Important Wizards' that mention the wizard with the ability of prophecy, Kassandra, received guidance from the prophet in 'a mysterious place' and obtained a mysterious almanac. Although the name of the mysterious place is not mentioned in the book, the description mentions' countless books' and 'passing through the sixth wall' …"
Hermione spread out the records she found in front of Harry and Ron for them to read. The boys' faces gradually became serious, but Hermione was not done yet. "I'll continue to communicate with Jean. I want to know what she's looking for and what the Hexagon Library is." Hermione smiled. "I don't think she knows that I've also found the Hexagon Library. She just wants to know something about the magic world through me. After all, I'm so much younger than her."
Harry could not help but smile. Smart Hermione!
"I kept flipping through those magic books, but it was not enough. I felt that it was not enough, so I turned to the field I'm good at — Muggle books. I have a terrible hunch that the Hexagon Library must not only exist in the history of wizards." Hermione also smiled. "But there are more Muggle books than wizards. I could only stay in the library while asking a cousin to help me search for keywords on the Internet. Then I found it."
She raised a hand and pointed at the pile of Muggle books. "I don't have time to make a record. You can read it yourselves."
Harry took the fairy tale and flipped to the place where Hermione had made a mark. It said, "… Dodora plans to get the key back alone. It's not an easy task. She has to ask Kemal if she can get a stalk of Invisible Grass … Kemal, as usual, lives in a cave full of messy papers. The cave is a regular geometric shape …"
Ron also flipped through a few books and saw various variations of the Hexagon Library. His expression became more and more shocked, but he was also a little puzzled. "Hermione, these … Could it be that Muggles … No! Hermione, what does this have to do with Professor Kamia? "
"I'm about to get to the point. Don't rush." Hermione looked at Harry. "Harry, if I asked you directly what you think of these 'libraries', what would you say?"
Harry put down the book, pondered for a moment, and replied, "I'm very shocked, but these can also be explained as coincidences."
Ron opened his mouth but did not refute.
"Yes, these —" Hermione pointed at the small mountain of books. "The concept of a Hexagon Library is not explicitly mentioned at all. This is what we observed. We saw that the Hexagon Library exists in various places, at various times, and in various forms in the text. But — these can all be called coincidences. Until I noticed someone. "
Hermione picked out a dozen books from the pile and pointed them out to the boys. "I think Jean should have noticed this too, but she never mentioned it to me. I happened to find this person who always appeared near the Hexagon Library. Sometimes she was a little girl, sometimes she was an old lady, and sometimes she was not a human but a beast. She might be called Kamel, or Kamor, or Gamela, or Kamei … "
"Kamia." Harry looked at the string of names in a daze. "Maybe sometimes she is also called Kamia." With such a similar pronunciation and so many coincidences, Hermione naturally thought of Professor Kamia.
"Yes." Hermione sighed. "If Jean did not deliberately avoid it, I might not believe this coincidence. But she hid it, so this name — or this person — must be problematic."
"How could she …" Ron looked left and right, unable to understand this matter. "How could Professor Kamia appear in the Middle Ages and then in the 19th century?"
"This is her problem, Ron," Hermione said expressionlessly.
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