With Padma's exceptionally attentive guidance, Harry's homework went very smoothly. By the time Ron arrived at the Library, yawning, it was already nearly lunchtime, and Harry had finished all the most complicated assignments. Everything left was relatively simple.
He could have a pleasant Sunday this week. Harry was certain of that now.
Ron did not know Padma that well, so after saying hello, he sat down with Hermione. Well, although he would have liked to sit with his good mate Harry, when it came to homework help, his good mate Harry really was not as much help as his good mate Hermione.
After finishing his hardest assignments, Harry excused himself to relax a little and look up some information, then headed into the book stacks.
The things Luna, Padma, and the others had mentioned had caught his interest, making him somewhat curious about those legendary beings. According to the girls, however, those beings almost never appeared in ordinary books. Harry reckoned that even the Hogwarts Library would struggle to have anything on them. At least, the ordinary book section would not.
Harry did, however, have an indirect approach.
As Padma had said, many powerful wizards had come into contact with those strange beings while pursuing immortality in their later years. In other words, material related to immortality might mention those things indirectly.
Harry wanted to find the Black Goat that the Black Man had mentioned, and this also seemed to be the being most closely connected with immortality.
Unfortunately, after wandering around the Library for quite a while, Harry had not found a single book about immortality. That was normal enough. First, immortality was already one of the highest aspirations of the greatest wizards, so it was perfectly normal for literature on the subject to be scarce. Second, he had