My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 195, Question 192: When will Lynn be back?

"Hermione, in the story of Death and the three brothers, who do you think wanted the best thing?"

Umaru lay on Hermione's bed, her two fair little legs swinging back and forth. In front of her was a book of fairy tales from the wizarding world, "The Tales of Peter the Bard." She had just finished reading the legend of the three brothers and turned to Hermione with great interest to ask a question.

Hermione was at her desk reading her fourth-year history of magic textbook. She was only going to start second year, and she was reading it purely as a storybook. Although Professor Binns's history of magic lectures were boring, the various characters and events in the textbook were very interesting and could be read as a storybook.

Hearing Umaru's question, Hermione tilted her head and thought for a moment.

"I think it should be the Resurrection Stone. It can bring the dead back to life. Isn't that even more powerful than the Grim Reaper?"

"No, I think it's an invisibility cloak!"

"Because only the person who obtained the invisibility cloak survived to the end?"

"Of course not!" Umaru jumped out of bed, bouncing on Hermione's soft mattress. "Because Lynn told me that the best superpowers in the world are invisibility and stopping time!"

Hermione, without blindly following Lynn's lead, seriously analyzed, "That doesn't seem wrong. Invisibility is indeed very convenient, but stopping time doesn't mean invincibility... wait a minute!"

Hermione seemed to have suddenly discovered something important, and she asked Umaru, "When did he tell you that invisibility is the best superpower in the world?"

The oblivious little girl, of course, didn't notice Hermione's emotional shift: "Just recently, Lynn had only been home for a few days when I wanted to eat beef jerky. He said I had to finish my math problems before I could eat it. When I was halfway through my math problems, I was afraid the mice had stolen the beef jerky, so I ran over to check, and found that the beef jerky was gone!"

You're the only mouse that steals food!

Hermione squinted at her, not uttering her inner complaints, but instead listening intently to what she was saying.

"Then I called Lynn over and told him that the beef jerky had been stolen by mice! He said that there were no other mice in the house besides me, and the beef jerky wouldn't have been stolen unless I had eaten it; he had just made it invisible with magic. I didn't believe him and said he was lying to a child, so he demonstrated it to me to prove he wasn't lying. Lynn actually knew how to become invisible, and that's when he proudly told me that invisibility and time stop were the best superpowers in the world."

"Lynn can become invisible," Hermione thought to herself.

She recalled that when she was at Hogwarts near the end of the semester, she was walking back to the Gryffindor common room from the library while reciting the history of magic. She mixed up the names of demons and monsters, and suddenly a voice that sounded exactly like Lynn's reminded her, but there was no one around.

So, Lynn was invisible at that time?

Hermione felt she had discovered Lynn's little secret, but her excitement didn't last long before she remembered something else.

That very evening, it was said that unseen evil spirits appeared in the Ravenclaw common room.

Putting the cause and effect together, Hermione, with her sharp mind, could certainly guess that Lynn was 100% behind this!

Her face immediately darkened again.

What was Lynn doing sneaking into Ravenclaw's lounge in the middle of the night?

With so many girls in Ravenclaw, what was he planning to do by sneaking in there?

"If I could turn invisible, I could eat whatever I wanted, then run away. Lynn and Kira would never be able to catch me."

Umaru was completely oblivious to Hermione's unpredictable expression, still lost in her own beautiful fantasy.

"You're just invisible, not gone. They won't steal food if there's something missing. Who else could it be but you?"

Hermione ruthlessly shattered Umaru's daydream, instantly extinguishing her happiness.

She hung her head and said sullenly, "Then invisibility isn't the best superpower in the world."

"Actually, you don't need superpowers to eat whatever you want," Hermione suddenly smiled at Umaru and said in a seductive voice.

Xiaomai shook her head and said, "No, Lynn and Kira are afraid I'll eat too much and become a fat girl."

"If they won't feed you, you can come to me. I can give you whatever you want to eat," Hermione said eagerly, like a loving mother concerned about her daughter's lack of food.

But instead of happily agreeing as she expected, Xiaomai cautiously shrank into the blankets, wrapped them tightly around herself, and said loudly.

"Lynn taught me a lesson! Unsolicited kindness is always suspicious!"

"I'm neither a scoundrel nor a thief." Hermione sat down on the bed and pulled Umaru out of the covers. "All I want is for you to pay attention to which girls Lynn interacts with most often when you're with him, and then come to me and tell me. Then I'll reward you with something to eat."

Umaru only poked her head out and asked curiously.

"Then why don't you just ask him directly?"

"There are some things you definitely can't ask face-to-face; it's only useful to know them secretly."

"So you're going to make me work as a secret agent for Lynn too?" Umaru gets excited whenever the word "secret agent" is mentioned.

Hermione's father loved watching 007, so of course she knew about the movie.

"That's right, you're the 007 lurking around Lynn. Every day you help me find out which girls he's been in contact with. Every time you report, I'll reward you with your favorite beef jerky."

"Are you only monitoring which girls he interacts with?" Umaru asked to confirm.

"That's right, that's all."

"Then, does this mean I betrayed Lynn?"

"Of course not! This is to prevent him from doing anything bad."

Just then, there was a knock on Hermione's bedroom door from the outside.

"Stop chatting, it's late, go to sleep."

Hermione turned off the room lights and responded.

"Okay, Mom."

Then she shrank into the blankets, and Umaru nestled next to her.

"So, shall we agree to this?"

Umaru had been playing wildly at Hermione's house all day and was exhausted. As soon as the lights were turned off, she became drowsy.

"Hmm...it's a deal..."

The two fell silent, and only the soft moonlight shone through the window into the quiet bedroom.

After a long while.

Umaru buried half her face in the blanket, it was hard to tell if she was talking in her sleep or muttering something before falling asleep.

"Lynn...when...are you coming back?"

Hermione gently tucked the blanket in a little more and answered softly.

"He might be back tomorrow."

Xiao Mai didn't answer her question; she had already curled up into a ball in bed and fallen into a deep sleep.

Hermione, on the other hand, was having trouble sleeping.

Recently, not only has Lynn been away from home, but Harry has also been acting strangely. Ron has written so many letters to her, yet he hasn't replied to a single one.

This made her worry that something might have happened.

(End of this chapter)