With all the ingredients gathered, Hermione officially began brewing the Polyjuice Potion.
Before this, she had already familiarized herself with almost every step, and had even made a few attempts using substitute ingredients.
After all, several of the ingredients were extremely rare. Stealing them once might go unnoticed, but if she failed and had to do it again, that would be dangerous.
Besides, if she failed, there probably would not be enough time to brew it again.
After Harry stole the potion ingredients, he stopped giving the matter much thought.
Later, however, he heard that one of the upper-year classes had needed those ingredients. When Snape went to fetch them and discovered there were none left, he flew into a rage.
Harry felt no guilt whatsoever. On the contrary, just imagining the scene made him want to laugh.
Hermione devoted much of her time to brewing the potion, while Harry, Ron, and Neville spent more of theirs studying magic.
After their overwhelming victory in the first Quidditch match, the members of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team let their guard down considerably, just as Oliver had initially feared.
After all, Harry had a nearly unbeatable broomstick, and he was also the best Seeker in the entire school at present. That made winning their matches seem easy.
With that attitude taking hold, even Oliver could no longer get the team to train as hard as they had before.
In fact, even Oliver had relaxed somewhat after winning the previous match so easily.
As a result, the intensity of Gryffindor's training dropped considerably over the next two weeks.
With much more time on their hands, Harry and Ron began finding time, alongside completing their homework, to study the Marauders' notebook Harry had discovered in the library.
The many little Transfiguration tips in the notebook