Sixth-year students were caught in that awkward in-between stage. They had just finished their O.W.L.s and had not even had time to relax before they had to start preparing for the N.E.W.T.s coming the following school year.
For Eli, Harry, and the rest of those unruly students always ready to save the world, the pressure they faced went far beyond school exams.
Those who saw more than others naturally had to bear greater pressure.
The Ministry of Magic kept stressing, "We are still strong." Most wizards who knew nothing of the truth habitually believed that the Ministry would quietly resolve everything, though there was no one else they could trust.
Eli and his friends had truly faced and fought Death Eaters. They understood better than anyone just how dangerous the Wizarding World currently was.
Before Voldemort, O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s were nothing but child's play.
Under the threat the dark forces posed to their lives, Hermione had more than once anxiously told Eli that she wanted to send her parents out of Britain.
She was prepared to live and die alongside Eli, but she did not want her parents to perish in retaliation from the Death Eaters as well.
This time, Eli did not think Hermione was worrying over nothing. Comforting words were weightless, because he himself had begun seriously considering a plan to send all the elders away.
The Hall couple and the Granger couple were ordinary people without any ability to resist. Even if they possessed some knowledge useful for making a living in the Muggle World, it was like trying to stop a chariot with a mantis's arms against magic.
In truth, Eli had always had an ideal plan in mind—send the elders to China.
Voldemort would not, at the very least, extend his reach there. The elders,