"Harry, what are you looking for?" Qiu asked, looking rather puzzled at Harry, who had gathered several hefty tomes and spent the whole evening leafing through them.
Qiu's coursework had been quite demanding lately. Even Ravenclaw's top students could not afford to take the Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test lightly.
As a result, Qiu had been spending less time with her young boyfriend lately.
And to keep Harry from affecting her study efficiency, Qiu would not let him join her to study in the Library-although she did not want to admit it, she really could not help looking at her young boyfriend.
So when Harry said today that he was coming to look something up too, Qiu had not believed him at first. She had simply thought her young boyfriend missed her and had found an excuse.
As it happened, they had not cuddled for a few days either. After some thought, Qiu had not refused, and had already prepared herself for her studying to be less efficient that day.
Yet Harry really had barely spoken to her today.
Although they shared a table, Marietta was beside them too. Harry had sat opposite Qiu, which had surprised both Qiu and Marietta at first.
But the two soon realized what was going on.
In just over an hour, Harry had made several trips to the borrowing section, and had even entered the Restricted Section-as a sixth-year student with a permission slip signed by Professor Lupin, he was allowed inside.
Whenever he returned, he brought back one or two thick, hefty tomes and began searching through them-from the way he rapidly scanned their contents pages, he seemed to be looking for something.
But evidently he had not found it, which was why he kept going back to exchange books.
This made both Qiu