Katie was completely fine, and on Monday she even got up bright and early with Harry and the other Quidditch players for morning practice.
Even so, the news that she had nearly fallen victim to a jinx still spread throughout the school. Not just the incident itself, but every detail of it had reached the ears of every student.
But the central figure in the story was not Katie. It was Harry.
There was no helping it. Harry had broken the Imperius Curse on Katie, and Harry had discovered that the necklace was dangerous. Besides, he had always attracted far more attention at school than Katie did.
It was only natural that things had turned out this way.
Harry did not particularly care about that. He was more concerned with the news Mundungus Fletcher had brought back.
Mundungus Fletcher's letter had arrived by ordinary owl post. Even though communications were still reasonably secure for now, Harry could not help grumbling inwardly a little.
Once he read the letter, however, he understood.
Unreliable as Mundungus Fletcher was, he was no fool. His letter revealed no crucial information at all.
It simply said, "The item has already been sold. The owner doesn't know who bought it, either. Nothing else was sold along with it."
Apart from Harry and the others, who knew the whole story, no one could have worked out what a letter like that meant.
Its contents, however, left Harry and the others feeling conflicted again.
They had originally thought that whoever bought the item from Borgin and Burkes must have been Draco or Pansy, though relatives of either were also possibilities.
But the report Mundungus Fletcher brought back was that even the owner did not know who it had been.
And whoever bought the Hand of Glory had not