After returning to school, Harry, Ron, and their classmates met up again, and naturally had endless things to talk about.
The first thing Hermione did was check Harry's and Ron's homework.
When she found that they really had finished it all-though the quality was not particularly high-she said nothing more and prepared to start revising with them.
After last year's experience, Harry and Ron were quite happy to have Hermione guide their revision.
If nothing else, that feeling of being completely at ease in the exam room was fantastic!
The year's teaching had been completed before the Easter holidays. After the holidays, the professors began taking the students through systematic revision to consolidate what they had learned that year.
Although there was a lot of homework at this stage, it covered things they had already mastered, so it was not as difficult as the first half of the school year. The students therefore still had the energy to talk about other things.
The Quidditch matches naturally attracted the most attention.
Although interest in the Duelling Club had been steadily growing since Professor Flitwick took charge, it still fell a little short compared with Quidditch.
Its reputation as the sport of the entire Wizarding World was no exaggeration.
There would be four matches that term: Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw, Ravenclaw vs Hufflepuff, Hufflepuff vs Slytherin, and the grand finale, Slytherin vs Gryffindor.
Both the fixtures and the results were very much on everyone's minds.
That was because the outcome of this year's Quidditch Cup would most likely determine the outcome of this year's House Cup.
Harry and his little group had not done much courting of disaster that year, so Gryffindor had not lost many points.
On top of that, with the succession of upheavals involving the Chamber of Secrets, the heir,