To say that Hermione had found the clue was not actually accurate.
To be precise, Neville had discovered something, which then led Hermione to the clue.
Neville was also a wizard card collector, though he was not on Ron's level. He was still ahead of a complete beginner like Harry, however. And compared with Ron, who already ranked among the best and was now missing only one card, Neville paid more attention to the information on the wizard cards.
For instance, after Christmas, Zonkos Joke Shop had been commissioned by the Magic Alliance and the International Confederation of Wizards to release two new wizard cards featuring wizards from China.
One was Quong Po, a fifteenth-century dragon expert. Harry had heard the wizard's name before, though he was not sure whether Ron or Hagrid had mentioned him. In any case, it had come up while the two of them were discussing dragons.
The other was even more impressive: Dzou Yen, a master of alchemy active in the fourth century BC. This was a relatively unfamiliar name to Harry and the others, one they had never seen in their reading.
That was normal, though. In the fourth century BC, the Ollivander Family, now the oldest family in the United Kingdom and even Europe, had not yet begun making wands.
There was nothing much to that in itself. In fact, Ron had already obtained both cards over Christmas, using a few little tricks and asking Fred and George for help.
Fred and George were valued customers of Zonkos Joke Shop and could always get hold of unusual things. These two new cards were not particularly sought-after items. After a great deal of talking and a promise to help his two unreliable brothers do some equally unreliable things over the summer holidays, Ron had