As though merely mentioning it had brought it about, the next morning, the Hogwarts owls delivered the supply lists for the new academic year.
However, since 12 Grimmauld Place was under high-level concealment, even owls could not fly in, so the letters had been delivered to Weasley Manor. Mido, the house-elf at Weasley Manor, had brought them over.
Harry and Ron had slept in the same room the night before-previously, out of concern for Harry's rest, he had slept alone. With the hearing over yesterday, naturally he would share a room with his best mate again and have a good chat about the fun things that had happened over the summer.
So the two of them received the letters brought by Mido, the Weasley family's house-elf, together that morning and opened them together.
There was nothing new about the letters: as usual, there was a start-of-term notice and a list of new books needed for the new academic year.
Harry did not need many books for the new academic year, only three. One was The Standard Book of Spells, Grade Five, by Miranda Goshawk. This was clearly the textbook for the new academic year's Charms lessons.
Harry was certain Hermione had already memorized that book.
The second was An Illustrated Analysis of Runes, Intermediate, by Dorin Valente. This was the Ancient Runes textbook. Harry had actually already looked through it.
The last book was rather novel.
Defensive Magical Theory, by Wilbert Slinkhard.
This was a name Harry had seen in his History of Magic textbook.
Wilbert Slinkhard was a renowned Classical Wizard of modern times. What being a Classical Wizard meant was that this man, who could unquestionably be called a master, refused to use magic for combat and instead used it to improve everyday life.
Thus, despite his extremely