Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 746
“Hermione, I’m telling you, this is absolutely not normal!” Harry rushed to Hermione and said, “Malfoy has been acting really strange lately!”

Hermione was studying in the library at that moment.

After being kicked out of the Philosopher's Stone research group by Tierra on some pretext, Hermione was depressed for a while, but she quickly cheered up and began to study several courses she hadn't taken that semester in the library, and even applied for the final exams for those courses—

This is a convenient path that Tierra has opened for students like Hermione who are both gifted and hardworking.

The final grade for a normal course consists of 60% participation grade and 40% exam grade. If you attend every class and submit every assignment, you can get a perfect score for participation grade.

However, if you don't attend classes and instead apply for the exam directly before exam week, then the final grade for that course will be 100% of the raw score.

In addition to the courses she took herself, Hermione also applied for exams in three courses: Introduction to Magical Experimentation, Advanced Transfiguration Principles, and Introduction to Extraterrestrial Magical Races.

So when Harry found Hermione while whispering in a voice that almost everyone could hear, Hermione couldn't help but sigh.

Hermione looked up and saw Harry's anxious expression. She put down her book, trying to suppress her own frustration, and asked with concern, "Harry, what's wrong? Is something wrong with Malfoy?"

“I’ve noticed that Malfoy has been behaving strangely lately. He always leaves the dormitory alone and often appears late at night.” Harry sighed heavily, sat down next to Hermione, and said in a low voice, “Also, he’s become increasingly silent. I feel like he’s plotting something, but I can’t be sure what it is yet.”

"How do you know he left the dormitory alone in the middle of the night?" Hermione asked, lowering her head again as Harry finished speaking, and began reciting the lecture notes for the course "Introduction to Extraterrestrial Magical Races".

She was memorizing the course material according to the division of galaxies. Hermione was currently memorizing the Ratfolk, who lived in the Centaurus system, and she had been stuck on this point for three days. The Ratfolk were very skilled in resurrection magic, and the names of their famous figures and some of their signature spells were direct transliterations of their native language, making them extremely difficult to memorize.

So Hermione was getting a little impatient with memorizing it.

“I…” Harry said somewhat embarrassedly, “I once got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and found on the Marauder’s Map that Malfoy had secretly come out of the dormitory alone.”

"Alone? He really slipped out? Where did he go in the middle of the night?" Hermione asked, head down.

“The eighth floor, and then the footsteps disappeared. They must have gone into the Room of Requirement,” Harry said.

"The Room of Requirement?" Hermione stopped what she was doing, looked up, and her expression turned serious. She knew Harry wouldn't easily get nervous about Malfoy's behavior, so his concerns this time must be well-founded.

“The Marauder’s Map? The Room of Requirement? Are you sure it’s Malfoy?” Hermione asked. She knew that the locations and names marked on the Marauder’s Map were very accurate, and even Polyjuice Potion couldn’t hide them from it.

“Yes, I, I’m quite sure,” Harry replied. “I’m quite familiar with Malfoy’s appearance, and I see his name clearly on the map. He sneaks out almost every day, and to different places each time.”

(End of this chapter)