It's another morning, and the Great Hall of Hogwarts is filled with the smell of breakfast.

Speaking of which, since the beginning of this semester, everyone has been living in a down-to-earth study routine every day. From a delicious breakfast to wake up to a delicious breakfast, to returning to the dorm room to sleep after finishing homework, everything seems mundane but extraordinarily fulfilling.

As for the days when something strange happened almost every year, as it had been in the past few years, it seemed that it had suddenly become a memory for everyone.

Could it be because of Maca's temporary departure?

No, don't think of people as if they were born with a constitution that attracts trouble. After all, ever since he picked up the "Scroll of Truth" from Rowena's chamber, he was destined to be in trouble himself.

It's just that as a school that has already been branded too much by "Maca McLean", trouble will eventually come to its door...... Even if he's no longer there.

With a flapping of their wings, the owls flew in from outside with all sorts of parcels and letters, as they usually do, and threw their objects towards the recipients' positions.

And among the owls that came in one after another, one of them broke away from most of his companions who had fallen to the long table of the four major academies and flew straight to the faculty seat.

"Oh! Leah, you're here! ”

As soon as the gray-white owl flew in, Professor Sinista, who was sitting to the right of the faculty seat, immediately waved happily at it.

Seeing this, Slughorn, who was sitting in a seat next to her, seemed to be a little curious and said:

"Aurora, did you buy an owl as a pet? I think you used the school barn owl all along, right? ”

"Ah, yes." Sinista smiled as she took the envelope from under the owl's beak, "But not for myself, but for my family......"

"Oh, I see!"

Slughorn, the enthusiastic old bald man, nodded his head as if he had thought of something.

"You just got your family back, didn't you? Actually, I've heard about it too – congratulations so much! To be honest, you've been alone all these years, and as your former teacher, I can't help but feel distressed...... Did your father send you a letter? Or your Muggle brother who has only recently awakened his magic? ”

The old man had always been very thick-skinned, and he was chattering around Sinista. But Sinista had already pulled out the letter and looked at it intently, and he barely listened to a word of the nonsense he said.

After a few moments, Sinista, who had finished reading the letter, turned her head slightly. Slughorn thought she was talking to herself, but to his surprise, Sinista turned around and looked at the seat in the middle of the faculty chair.

"Professor McGonagall, please read this letter as well, my father has something to do with Maca."

With that, she took out her wand and let the refolded letter float gently over Slughorn's head towards McGonagall.

"Oh?"

McGonagall reached out and took the letter, unfolded it, read it silently, and then suddenly said:

"Okay, I got it—I'll deliver the letter after breakfast."

Seeing the letter floating in front of him again, Slughorn felt a little itchy, and couldn't help but tilt his neck and whisper:

"Aurora, what's the matter?"

For Slughorn, a bald and fat old man, the more honest Sinista is actually very respectful, after all, this old professor who is about the same age as Dumbledley for many years has always been very kind to his students...... Even, her Potions class grades have never been very good.

It's a pity......

"I'm sorry, Professor Slughorn," Sinista smiled and whispered back, "this is classified, and I don't know much...... Moreover, both Maca and the principal had instructed them to keep it secret. ”

"Oh! What is it? Hearing you say that, I want to know more and more! ”

However, until the end, the fat old man had not been able to get the slightest useful word from Sinista's mouth.

But the blessing that he had just turned back and forth between McGonagall and Sinista had caused Hermione, who was sitting below, to notice the thin piece of letter that had floated back and forth.

"A letter from old Mr. Victor to Professor Sinista?"

At the Gryffindor table, Hermione looked at Sinista who was smiling and rereading the letter from home on the other side of the faculty chair, secretly happy for the other party.

While at St. Mungo, she first learned about Sinista's sad family past from Sirius, and then witnessed the rebuilding of a broken family.

That is undoubtedly very touching for a child like Hermione, who has lived in a happy family since childhood.

It's just that while sincerely wishing Professor Sinista, she is used to thinking, but she subconsciously has some doubts about the scene she just saw.

"So...... Why did you hand the letter to Professor McGonagall? Do you want to share your happiness with others? ”

If that's the case, then it would be a bit deliberate to deliberately send Professor McGonagall, who is in the middle of the faculty chair, with a levitation charm.

It seems more normal than Professor McGonagall to share his joy with Slughorn, who is close to him, or Sprout, with whom he usually has a very good relationship.

Of course, at the end of the day, this was just Hermione's own speculation. Maybe from the beginning, it wasn't a letter from Professor Sinista's house?

Hermione, who didn't think all the way to Maca's side, quickly put her guesses behind her and continued to look down at today's Daily Prophet.

After a while, she folded the newspaper and put it aside, took a sip of juice before muttering:

"It's another empty piece of news...... Isn't there anything more specific about the situation in the African wizarding world? It's better to look at Rita Skeeter's manuscript, at least she can make up more content just by editing it......"

Ron, who was sitting across from her, glanced over in some surprise when he heard her say this—Hermione, who used to be extremely serious about everything, would not say such a thing.

“…… It turns out that everyone is changing little by little! ”

But Ron didn't realize that in terms of personality alone, he was the one who changed the most of all the people here.

……

This morning, Hermione's first and second classes were Potions class.

Slughorn's classes are still very interesting, and the lessons will be much easier under his teaching.

At the end of two consecutive periods, no one felt as tired as Snape's Defence Against the Dark Arts class, and they picked up their bags and headed to their next classroom.

"It's time to learn about variable deformation today, right? I'm fine with reducing the amount, but what should I do to increase it......"

Listening to Ron muttering vigorously next to him, Hermione could actually understand his headache - Charms had all the members of Charms because of Maca's information, and the members all had good grades, but it only included a small part of Transfiguration.

As a difficult subject that partially overlaps with Charms, everyone has already tasted the sweetness of having Maca for written instruction with the help of those materials.

But now in the sixth grade, there are fewer and fewer overlapping parts.

Hermione herself was fine, and with her comprehension, with the help of Professor McGonagall's lectures and books, she was soon able to find a theoretical direction for learning and improvement.

But for a student like Ron, who was already struggling to keep up, it was quite difficult to learn.

And even more unfortunately, nowadays, the theoretical content of the .level can no longer be learned with the help of others alone. Even if Hermione was willing to help, the complex theories and diagrams were not so easy to interpret in a simpler way.

Glancing at Ron with helpless eyes, Hermione stepped into the Transfiguration classroom on the first floor.

A few minutes later, Professor McGonagall arrived in front of the classroom and announced the start of the class with the bell ringing.

"Yesterday we finished talking about the deformation of the human body, so today we will talk about the deformation of variables."

"Variable Transfiguration, also known as 'Large Variable Transfiguration', refers to the use of advanced metamorphosis that allows smaller living or non-living organisms to achieve the purpose of making the whole larger or smaller by greatly increasing or decreasing the total amount of matter......

Professor McGonagall's classes, like her personality, always seem serious. The high theoretical literacy and meticulous academic attitude also make this already difficult course even more difficult to understand.

However, she has taught students for so many years, and naturally knows that the later theories are quite boring.

Therefore, she often uses a variety of practical means to let the young wizards experience the fun and changes.

The same is true today, after explaining the basic written theory, she plans to first cast a reduction transfiguration technique on a few students who usually have poor grades, so that they can feel the mystery.

But at this moment, an owl suddenly flew outside the window and landed on the windowsill outside, pecking the window glass twice.

"Huh?"

Turning her head to look, McGonagall immediately said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, please recall the theory of the Vanishing Spell we learned last semester, and read the analytical passages in the textbook several times by yourself."

With that, she hurried over and opened the window, and took out the note from the letter on the owl's feet.

However, just by opening it up slightly, her expression changed.

"What's going on? Is it a note from the Order of the Phoenix...... So what is written on it? ”

Even the slightest change in expression didn't escape Hermione's meticulous observation.

Because she knew that Professor McGonagall rarely received owl letters in class, and that they were usually sent directly to the principal's office and collected by Charlotte, who was an assistant.

Somehow, she suddenly remembered all the nonsense she had in the auditorium that morning.