"McGonagall Bird?"
Just like Harry, Qiu had a strange look on her face when she first heard the name.
"I know you want to laugh, but hold it for a moment," Harry said, only to fail to hold back his own laughter.
Then Madam Pince threw them both out of the Library.
Harry simply took Qiu to a small classroom and told her about the McGonagall Bird's abilities.
Any creature from the Dream Realm that a wizard could form a temporary contract with had the ability to lead people into other people's dreams.
But entering was all they could do. Once inside, any attempt to fight the dream's original owner depended entirely on the intruder.
And as mentioned before, if they faced a wizard capable of lucid dreaming-which was very common among wizards-that wizard was almost omnipotent within their own dreams.
Even in the worst case, they could quickly escape from the dream.
Under such circumstances, invading a wizard's dreams was hardly safe.
But the McGonagall Bird had a special ability: its song could lull creatures to sleep.
And since it was a creature of the Dream Realm, this ability could take effect even in dreams.
In other words, the McGonagall Bird could make a dream's owner fall asleep within their own dream.
That made it safe.
Hearing this put Qiu considerably more at ease. At least this meant Harry would be safe.
"Well, even so, you still need to be careful," Qiu said. Naturally, Harry nodded repeatedly so his girlfriend would not worry.
After studying with Qiu for a while longer, Harry walked her back to the Ravenclaw Common Room before curfew, then returned to the Gryffindor Common Room himself.
Because of that incident involving the two professors, curfew was now considerably earlier than before.
As soon as he