"What happened?"
After Su Er and Hermione left, Lupin walked into the hut. Seeing Sirius holding his wand with a thoughtful expression, he said with a smile,
"Caught out when you least expected it?"
Sirius gave a rueful chuckle, shook his head, and sighed.
"The younger generation really is a force to be reckoned with."
The last exam that afternoon was Runes. Once that was over, they could wait peacefully in the castle for the summer holidays to arrive.
First-year Runes was not particularly difficult. It consisted of simple phonetic-symbol matching and translations of a few simple monosyllabic runic words. As long as they had paid attention to memorizing things and taking notes, passing the exam with a good mark could not have been easier.
As Hermione and Su Er walked down the marble staircase, chatting and laughing, they ran into Harry coming down. He had gone to the Seventh Floor for Professor Trelawney's final Divination exam.
Unlike the cheerful young wizards they encountered, who were preparing to relax out on the grounds, Harry wore an unmistakably worried expression, and he seemed not to have noticed Su Er and Hermione at all.
"What's wrong, Harry?" Su Er stopped and suddenly reached out to pat Harry on the shoulder as he was about to walk past them.
Harry jumped, his whole body giving a shudder.
"Was Professor Trelawney unhappy with your performance?" Su Er asked with a smile. "The exams are over. Cheer up..."
"Oh, it's you, Su Er, Hermione." Harry forced a smile, but his tightly knitted brows did not relax at all.
Then Harry glanced around and said quietly, "Do you have time now? There's something I need to tell you."
Somewhat surprised, Su Er exchanged a glance with Hermione and nodded.
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