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Harry looked at Hermione and asked, "Hermione, do you know what Zicomo's last words meant?"

Hermione replied with a frustrated look, "I don't know either."

She was also there when Lani was learning Chinese.

She also tried learning with Lani, and after half a month, Lani was already fluent in Chinese, while she had only just mastered some simple sentences.

Is this something a human could do?!

Hermione was so devastated by this that she stopped learning Chinese.

It can only be said that the physical constitution of humans and gods cannot be compared. Lani was able to master Chinese fluently in half a month, while some foreigners study Chinese for a lifetime and still cannot understand it.

If Hermione were to compare herself to Lani in everything, she would discover how cruel reality can be.

But now, she has decided not to think about it too much and to focus on learning Chinese first.

"Sigh, it seems we'll have to solve this ourselves."

Harry sighed and said disappointedly.

Because Zicomo helped him change his situation at his aunt's house during the summer vacation, he genuinely felt that Zicomo was a very reliable person.

With Zicomo gone, he felt uneasy.

…………

Despite feeling uncertain, the plan still had to be carried out at night.

Harry, wearing an invisibility cloak, left the dormitory with Ron.

His purpose in coming here was to prepare the ingredients for the 'compound decoction'.

As for why Ron was involved, one reason was to keep watch for him, and the other was that he felt somewhat unbalanced.

He took the book from the restricted section, and the recipe needed Hermione to make it. He couldn't just let Ron do nothing and reap the benefits, could he?

Ron was pulled out of bed and joined Harry for a nighttime stroll through Hogwarts.

The real reason was that Harry was going to Snape's office, and he was a little scared, so he brought someone along so that if he died, someone would be with him.

Little did they know, Snape was not far away.

"So, you dragged me here so late at night just to have me play with your new toy?"

Snape asked Zicomo beside him in a low voice.

That's right, Zicomo, who spent the whole day watching movies with Lani, is here too, and it was he who called Snape here.

He was adjusting a pair of glasses in his hand, and after confirming that they were correct, he handed them to Snape.

"Try it on."

Although Snape had no idea what he was up to, he still took the glasses.

Once he put it on, his entire field of vision turned green, while Zicomo in front of him appeared as an orange-red color.

This is a pair of reconnaissance glasses made by Zicomo based on night vision goggles and thermal imaging instruments from the technology side.

"What's so special about this? Is color-changing the only trick your toys can do?"

Snape clearly had no knowledge of Muggle technology in this area.

"Don't look at me, look over there."

Zicomo pointed in the direction Harry and Ron were.

At this moment, Harry and Ron were wearing invisibility cloaks, so they were completely invisible to the naked eye.

As for how Zicomo knew where they were, don't forget that he can project his mental energy outwards. Although the footsteps of these two young men were soft, they weren't silent, and he sensed them with ease.

Snape looked over and saw that two orange-red figures had appeared in the previously empty space.

He recognized one of the figures perfectly; it was Harry.

"Two little wizards who wander around at night, you didn't send me here to arrest them, did you?"

Snape thought that Zicomo wouldn't be that boring.

"Of course not, guess what they want to do?"

Snape remained silent, simply staring at Zicomo.

Seeing that Snape wasn't guessing, Zicomo simply gave him the answer.

"Okay, this is really boring. It's not a big deal. They're just planning to steal some ingredients for compound decoctions from you."

No sooner had Zicomo finished speaking than he saw Snape trying to rush over and grab Harry and the other two.

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't be in such a hurry. I called you out to watch a show."

"Nonsense, it wasn't you who got your things stolen! Of course you're not worried!"

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry yet."

Zicomo told Snape about Harry and his group's plan.

Finally, Zicomo revealed his thoughts: "Tell me, what do you think their expressions will be like when you reappear before them, catching them red-handed, once their compound decoction has worn off?"

After hearing Zicomo's plan, Snape's lips curled up.

"You're the Slytherin's bad seed, I really don't know how the Sorting Hat sorted you into Gryffindor."

Zicomo waved his hand, saying, "It doesn't matter which college I go to, it doesn't stop me from having fun. Besides, you can choose which college you want to go to, didn't you know that?"

Snape's lips twitched upon hearing this. He did know about it, but only after he became a teacher at Hogwarts.

Sometimes he wondered if things would have been different if he had been braver and asked the Sorting Hat to let him go to Gryphon.

He snapped out of his reverie, watched Harry and Ron rummaging through his office, and turned to say to Zicomo.

"You'll be responsible for the losses they caused."

This time it was Zicomo's turn to have his lips twitch.

He just hopes that Harry and Ron don't break anything valuable.

Although he was rich, he didn't want to waste his money.

Then he saw that the clever Harry, in order to prevent Snape from figuring out what kind of potion he was trying to concoct, had taken some ingredients that were not related to Polyjuice Potion.

Hermione had previously stated that Harry and Ron would have to pay the price for the points deducted from their Quidditch teams' fight between Slytherin and Gryffindor.

Zicomo felt he could get involved in this, but he didn't know how Hermione planned to do it.

For a moment, his and Snape's expressions switched.

Zicomo's expression turned extremely gloomy, while Snape was all smiles.

The materials Harry took were all quite valuable, and some of them had actually lost their medicinal value due to improper storage.

However, because these medicinal herbs were rare, Snape preserved them, primarily for their collectible value.

Now that's good, he can get the money from Zicomo to buy another copy, and Snape is all smiles for once.

…………

The next day, Harry pulled out a pile of materials and handed them to Hermione.

Zicomo's face darkened when he saw the pile of materials, and he left with Lani.

Harry was left looking puzzled.

“What’s wrong with him?” Harry asked.

"I don't know, it might be a boy's period."

This was a joke Zicomo once made with Hermione.

Hermione's period started during the summer vacation, and she complained to Zicomo about why boys didn't have this problem.

Zicomo joked with her, saying, "Actually, guys also have those days every month, but they usually just feel inexplicably irritable. When guys get really ruthless at this time, they'll even hit themselves."

This might not seem like much to modern people, but the Harry Potter world was still in the 90s, so he successfully made Hermione laugh, and Hermione remembered what Zicomo said.

However, the naive Harry didn't even know what his period was, so he couldn't understand Hermione's words at all.

Seeing Harry's confused look, Hermione felt embarrassed to explain and changed the subject.

"Okay, leave the rest to me."

"Well, I hope you succeed."

Harry wished Hermione well; he certainly didn't want to steal from Snape again.

But because he had stayed up late last night, he sounded a little listless.

This led Hermione to mistakenly believe that Harry did not trust her potion-making skills.

She silently added another note to Harry's name in her mind.

Poor Harry, he had no idea that some of his unintentional actions had made him the target of both cousins' attention.

Chapter 87 Hermione's Potions, Harley and Ronnie

That evening, Zicomo went to the 'House of Requirement'.