After the Christmas Holiday ended, everyone's studies and lives seemed to return to normal.
Now that they knew who Nicolas Flamel was, The Trio stopped causing trouble everywhere and threw themselves into the tense, exciting studies of the new term.
Tierra had convinced them of Dumbledore's power, and at the same time, he had convinced himself...
With the arrival of the new term, Tierra, Harry, and Hermione all became busy.
Harry went without saying. As Quidditch entered a new season, Wood, Gryffindor's fanatical Quidditch captain, intensified the training of the entire Gryffindor Quidditch team. Even Harry, a first-year wizard, was no exception.
Several team members, Harry included, often trained until they were covered in injuries. This invisibly increased Tierra's workload, because besides Calming Draughts, Tierra also had to brew Wound Healing Potions for all the Quidditch players.
Hermione, the little academic star, had long since previewed most of this term's courses and had now started borrowing next term's textbooks from the library.
The busiest of all was Tierra. Aside from brewing Wound Healing Potions for the Quidditch team, Snape had raised the difficulty of his first private lesson after Christmas Holiday by a huge margin. If Tierra had not also been an old hand who had spent years immersed in laboratories, he might not have been able to keep up with this knowledge.
Just like the Hyborian Pill Tierra had once fed Peter Pettigrew, the more advanced a potion was, the more it required spells and even curses to be added during brewing, in addition to ingredients.
Thus, Tierra had no choice but to borrow another book from the library: "Advanced Potion Spell Analysis."
After finishing his own coursework, Quidditch duties, and Snape's extra assignments, Tierra still had to deal with Tom Riddle, an exceptionally conscientious private tutor.
Tom Riddle