Besides affecting the people around him, Adam had discovered another ability of The Love that was somewhat fantastical...
How should he put it? He was not entirely sure what this ability did, but the somewhat illusory red-haired, green-eyed figure he could see beside Harry was unlikely to be the work of any other Clow Card. By process of elimination, it had to be The Love's ability.
Since this was the only anomaly so far, Adam had no way to test what exactly had happened or what this ability was. He could only set the question aside for now.
On the way back to the dormitory, Adam was asked countless times about the Chamber of Secrets. To that, he had only one answer:
"Professor Dumbledore told me to keep it secret. Maybe you could ask Professor Dumbledore?"
There was nothing the other young wizards could do about the little badger who intended to honor his promise. But there was no doubt that the Chamber of Secrets problem had been resolved—those extra House points Hufflepuff had suddenly received could hardly have been given by Professor Dumbledore to buy candy.
Back in the dormitory, Adam finally let out a sigh of relief, only to be met by the gazes of his four roommates.
How should he describe those looks? They were rather complicated, like Lin Daiyu looking at Jia Baoyu, making Adam's nonexistent conscience ache in phantom pangs.
"All right, all right, brothers, let me explain first..."
Under the stares of the four, Adam raised his hands in surrender.
The five of them sat down together on the little sofa, and Adam told them what had happened—although he had promised Professor Dumbledore to keep it secret, his roommates were clearly not covered by that agreement, and they were all tight-lipped people.
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