At the old Dumbledore house in Godric's Hollow, Jerry watched Hermione wandering through the house and garden, tapped his forehead, and felt a wave of bewilderment!
Over the past few days, Hermione had been appearing here through the fireplace so often that her visits finally reminded Jerry he was still a student! It was time to do some things a student ought to do! Like the Summer Vacation homework he had completely forgotten and had yet to write a single word of...
Harry, by contrast, could only do his homework in secret each night during the Summer Vacation, hiding under his covers with a torch, because as soon as the Summer Vacation began, the Dursleys confiscated and locked away everything Harry had related to Hogwarts and magic, including his homework!
Jerry, however, had genuinely forgotten that homework even existed. He had been so busy having friendly sparring matches and exchanges with the wizards of Knockturn Alley that his homework had long since slipped his mind!
It wasn't really Jerry's fault. Those Dark wizards had simply been too enthusiastic...
In the spacious sitting room, Jerry lay comfortably on his back on the soft sofa, holding a thick, leather-bound volume—Bathilda Bagshot's A History of Magic. Around him, books lay scattered across the floor or stacked on nearby shelves.
On the coffee table, a Quill hovered lightly above a smooth sheet of Parchment, flowing script spilling from its tip. Driven by Jerry's magic, it was writing his essay automatically, on the subject of "Witch-burning in the fourteenth century was completely pointless."
During the Middle Ages, people who knew nothing about magic, commonly known as Muggles, generally feared it deeply while having little real understanding of it. So, whenever they happened to catch a genuine witch or wizard, they chose burning as their punishment.