Hermione's Regret

You stand on the bridge admiring the scenery, while someone in a building admires you.

To Ryan, everyone in Hogwarts was like someone looking at the scenery from the bridge.

Even Riddle and Dumbledore, who considered themselves to be people enjoying the view from upstairs, were no exception.

Upon hearing Dumbledore's words, Ryan couldn't help but smile.

He never imagined that Snape would lie, or rather, not tell the whole story.

Snape did not mention his and Harry's mother's vampire identities in Harry's dream.

He also killed Harry once.

He told Dumbledore with a shy, girlish embarrassment that Harry had dreamt of him and Harry's mother, and that in the dream they were a couple.

To be honest, everything lately has been quite interesting to Ryan: Wood's desperate fight, Flint's self-analysis, Snape's inexplicable shyness, and even more interesting is the scene Ryan has been preparing to observe for a long time—how Dumbledore and Riddle will view Harry's changes.

Harry's magic was a closely guarded secret of the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Just as Harry guessed, the wizard who took it was a wizard killer.

However, because Harry himself contained mysteries not yet explored in the existing magical realm, Dumbledore and Riddle actually regarded this as a normal change in Harry Potter entering puberty.

The Potions he asked Sirius to buy were perfectly normal to them—which explains where Harry's superb Potion-Making skills came from.

While Ryan was secretly observing, in the Ravenclaw common room, next to Ryan, Luna, who usually seemed ethereal and otherworldly, was excitedly waving a newspaper!

Luna's face flushed, her chubby cheeks puffed out, and she looked smugly in Hermione's direction.

"The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? That obscure newspaper that's hardly published in a century—unless a new species is discovered!" Just as Hermione was puzzled, a short, fat wizard with thick glasses and surrounded by various obscure newspapers exclaimed in surprise.

Along with his exclamation, several other wizards around him, who knew this short, fat wizard was an expert on newspapers, also chimed in.

This is not surprising; Ravenclaw is full of eccentric characters like this.

Here, you can even find people curious about the magical uses of the Mountain Troll egg or egg divination—a method of Divination using eggs (which you probably already know).

If you're willing to sit in the corner of the common room all day and night cracking eggs and recording your predictions based on how the yolks land, it's not unusual among Ravenclaw students, and you might even find like-minded people who share the same interest.

There's no need to be surprised that researching and collecting different obscure newspapers is nothing out of the ordinary.

On January 12, 1993, the famously bored adventurer Peter began his daily routine again that morning: a seemingly fruitless quest to find new species. After finishing his third glass of pine nut liqueur, and prompted by his lover, he discovered a strange, never-before-seen creature—purple skin, horse-like hooves, a lion's tail, a rhinoceros-like body and head, and a curved horn occupying half of its head. Peter was about to name it, but after being reminded by an unknown person, he realized that this creature had actually been discovered thousands of miles away in Britain. A report in the newly famous newspaper "The Quibbler" mentioned it. The description of its appearance matched Peter's discovery, and it also recorded that it was found in Switzerland and named the Crumple-Horned Snorkack. This shows that Britain wizards completely lack the pioneering spirit of our Italy Britain —look, the discovery was clearly stated in the newspaper, yet no one bothered to verify it. "Reported by Ella Stan, reporter for the Swedish Magic Newspaper. Reprinted in 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.'" The short, stout wizard, taking the newspaper from Luna, stammered and read it aloud.

When the last word was read, the room erupted in a cacophony of voices.

All the Ravenclaw felt that it was talking about them.

In their view, the only wizards in Britain with a pioneering and exploratory spirit are those from Ravenclaw, and denying that Britain wizards possess such a spirit is undoubtedly an insult to them!

"How dare you!" X23

The catchphrase of Greta Thunberg, the so-called Sweden environmental princess from Ryan's previous life, appears in another world's Britain.

"And then what?"

"Wayne! Keep reading!"

Immediately afterwards, the sounds that followed continued to emerge.

"The following are research reports on the 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' by reporters who went to Sweden to conduct on-site investigations of the Crumple-Horned Snorkack, as well as the naming of the newly established Crumple-Horned Snorkack reserve in Sweden (they only have 10 of them) – after the surnames of the Britain discoverers Xenophilius Lovegood and Pandora Lovegood," the short, stout wizard Wayne summarized, holding the newspaper.

After about ten minutes, the lounge returned to calm. The only difference from before was that the students in the lounge were now all conducting experiments: some were studying whether sneezing could enhance the power of spells, some were exploring whether a fart could be heard after using Silencing Charm on themselves, and others were trying to figure out how to use Levitation Charm on themselves.

Hermione shook her head as if waking from a dream, as she pondered the cause of all these changes.

"This time, you're right."

"However, I still don't believe in the existence of the Nargles and the so-called Joy Bug, unless you can prove it." Hermione lowered her head unwillingly.

"That's not important. What's important is that my mother's name was mentioned."

"She's a typical Ravenclaw, always wanting to research something that will shock the Wizarding World." Luna's moon-like eyes were brimming with tears, as if they were about to overflow.

"Congratulations—I—I didn't mean that, I meant—" Just as Hermione was stammering her apology, Luna suddenly threw herself into her arms.

The head of Luna, who is about 1.2 meters tall, was buried in front of Hermione's chest, which was 1.4 meters tall, making it look particularly strange.

"I said, have you forgotten about me?" After Luna calmed down, both of them were a little embarrassed but didn't know what to do. Just then, Ryan, who had deliberately hidden his presence so that Hermione and Luna would temporarily forget about Ryan, started to complain.

"I'm so excited." Luna said, her voice trembling with tears, as she pulled away from Hermione's embrace and sat down next to Ryan, honestly believing what Ryan said.

"Did you just use that trick again?" Hermione asked, hands on her hips, squinting.

This guy actually hid at the crucial moment, leaving her to comfort her love rival. She now feels that the loss she just suffered was all because of the foolishness she had in the past.

She didn't know why she had believed Ryan's lame lie back then—that he couldn't control the magic that allowed him to conceal his presence. But when she saw Ryan's handsome face, she couldn't bring herself to be angry.