“…… Ron, this ...... Can you really lend it to her? ”

"Of course it's better not to."

"That's—"

"I know what you want to say, but now...... Well, let's give it to Hermione first! But we'll have to follow that...... So be it! When the time comes, I'll sneak up on Hermione, and you'll go to Maca's office to find him. After the lights go out, he seems to stay in the office and go to bed late......"

In one of the boys' bedrooms in the Gryffindor Tower, Harry and Ron were quietly discussing what to do for a moment.

It's just that Hermione today is obviously unchangeable by the two of them.

"Speaking of which, what's wrong with Hermione?"

When the two of them had somewhat made up their minds to continue looking for Maca for help, Harry expressed his doubts. Although Hermione has always liked to run to the library on weekdays, and her interest in books is far more than that of other classmates, Harry has never seen Hermione like today, who seems to bury herself with books.

"Didn't she say it herself?" Ron sighed and said, "Looking for clues to the Horcruxes." ”

"I know that......" Harry said, glaring at Ron in disgust, "Hey, you know what I'm asking, don't send me away with such innocuous answers." ”

"Oops-" Ron scratched his scalp when he saw this, "Harry, don't embarrass me. Of the three of us, Hermione thought the most, her mind ...... Yes, I have a little guess, but if I want to say that I guess correctly or something, I don't have it! If you guess wrong, you may not only not solve the problem, but also make the current situation worse......"

"Uh, then I'll have to go to Maca first?" Harry said helplessly.

Truth be told, he hated the feeling of powerlessness, especially when his best friend seemed to have a problem.

Still, Ron nodded affirmatively.

"If it were for Maca, he would have understood Hermione's current state very quickly and found the most suitable solution." He said, "Actually, if I had to say, Maca's best thing is not necessarily those powerful magic, don't you think?" ”

"Well," Harry said, then bowing his head, "then...... It's almost time to turn off the lights, and when everyone is asleep, we'll give the invisibility cloak to Hermione first, and-"

"Then, we'll split up according to the plan we just had." Ron continued.

About an hour later, the dormitory was completely darkened as usual, Neville, who was accustomed to going to bed early and waking up late, and Seamus and Dean, who were always energetic during the day, had already sunk into a sweet sleep.

Harry pulled out the cloak of invisibility that had been prepared from under the bed, and walked out of the room with Ron.

It's been their sixth year at Hogwarts, and the two of them have long been accustomed to night trips around the castle. It was dark all the way, and they walked smoothly up the stairs to the common room.

As for the fact that you have to wander around the castle without stealth for a while, it is naturally easy to capture. Even Hermione, if she wasn't going to be staying in the library for a long time, obviously didn't need an invisibility cloak or a disillusionment charm.

As the two approached the last flight of stairs leading to the common room in the boys' dormitory, they nodded to each other in the darkness before finally stepping into the lounge, which was lit only by a little moonlight.

Unsurprisingly, Hermione had come out a little earlier than they had been - she was already waiting there.

"Oh, Harry...... Did you take it out? ”

As soon as Harry and Ron appeared at the doorway, Hermione immediately stood up from the sofa chair by the window.

"Ahh......h......h You can use it......"

"Is it here?"

Since the Invisibility Cloak was completely invisible to her eyes, Hermione only grabbed it in her hands after touching the actual object that Harrito had in her hand.

"Thank you, Harry!"

Not to mention that Harry's invisibility cloak is very special, even if it is an ordinary invisibility cloak, it is now a very precious thing. Because the fur of the invisibility monsters used as materials for its crafting has never been mass-produced, its value has always been very high, and even the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic have to go to the warehouse to sign and receive it when they need to handle the case.

No matter what state of mind she was in now, she was very grateful for Harry's loan of the Invisibility Cloak.

"Then I'll go first......" After thanking Harry, Hermione said quickly, "Go back!" Don't worry, I'm just going to check again, and I'll go back to sleep in the dormitory in a while. ”

With that, she hurried around and walked towards the doorway that led to the hallway outside. Before leaving, she put on her invisibility cloak and disappeared from the two of them in a blink of an eye.

Seeing the portrait being gently closed again, and the faint sound of the fat lady's dream, Harry and Ron waited for a while in the common room before they got into action.

……

At night, the corridors of the castle are as dark as ever, especially in the interior porches with no window openings.

Hermione was going to the library, of course, so even if Ron couldn't see where Hermione was, he didn't have to worry about finding the wrong place. The office of the professor of the Ancient Magical Texts class that Harry was going to was also on the same level of the library.

Therefore, until they reached the entrance of the library, there was no need for the two to go separately.

Of course, on the way down, they also have to pay attention to the movement before and after. It's an hour after the lights out, and the professor in charge of the night patrol must have returned, but Filch and his cat are still hanging around. Moreover, Peeves, a spirit that always wanders around at night, is also the object of their attention.

However, Harry and Ron already knew all about it.

Filch's patrol routes and breaks don't change much, and Peeves usually spends his first floor playing ball against the wall or occupying the auditorium to live his "headmaster addiction", except for Filch's cat, which is not very predictable.

However, none of them expected that a figure was standing at the staircase on the second floor. As soon as the two of them spotted the figure, the other party beckoned directly to them, as if they were waiting for the two of them there.

Behind the man, the moonlight outside the window had become a special backdrop, and because of the backlight, Harry and Ron couldn't see who it was for a while.

It's just that, in the case of being discovered, it doesn't seem like a wise move to run away. The other party was obviously not Filch's stupidity, and if it were a professor, they would not have managed to slip away without being found out.

Harry had no choice but to make his way down the steps, still thinking about what kind of explanation to come up with for a while.

"Shh

Harry was about to say something, but he immediately put his index finger to his mouth, signaling him to silence. It wasn't until this moment that he and Ron realized that it was the Maca he was going to look for later.

After asking Harry to stop talking, Maca shook her hand casually in the corridor in the direction of the library, as if she had cast some kind of spell. And after that, he beckoned the two of them again, telling them to hurry over.

"Hermione is already in the library, and I put a silencer over there," Marka said after waiting for both of them to stand next to her, "Now, tell me what happened?" ”

Harry and Ron looked at each other again, and finally Harry reached out to Ron to signal that it was up to him to speak.

Ron nodded, turned to Maca and explained, "Actually...... We're not quite sure what that's going on. It's just that since that incident this morning, Hermione has said that she is going to the library......"

As soon as he said this, he suddenly realized one thing - there was nothing they couldn't say to Maca about the Horcruxes, but since they had made up their minds to do it themselves from the beginning, what they were going to say now felt a little "halfway".

It's just that this thought flashed through Ron's heart for a moment, after all, the most important thing now is Hermione's affairs, and everything else is secondary.

"Well, act......ually," Ron said helplessly, spreading his hands, "we've been investigating Horcruxes all this time......

When Ron said this, both he and Harry were ready to be blamed. Because they all know very well that terrible dark magic items such as horcruxes are absolutely forbidden to even look through the relevant books.

But they didn't expect that under the moonlight, Maca's expression didn't change much.

"You're looking into Horcruxes? Is it...... Forget it, let's not talk about this yet. He just raised an eyebrow, but then skipped the topic first, "So, Hermione went to the library to look things up?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Ron nodded, but quickly shook again, "But that's more than that, actually...... Hermione was very strange today, she had been in the library for too long, except for eating and going to the bathroom, she hadn't left once, and now ...... You see, she doesn't even plan to let go of the time to sleep at night! ”

"Hermione ......"

After listening to Ron's account, Maca sank into her heart and thought about it secretly.

Since the timing of Hermione's change was after resolving the misunderstanding with the African wizard in the morning, then most of the problem was there. However, other possibilities cannot be ruled out.

It didn't take long for Maca's expression to become a little complicated.