Chương 14: Library in the Room of Requirement

'I want to see all the books in Hogwarts.'

A grinding noise permeated through the hallway and he opened his eyes to see the wall slowly change into a large door in front of his eyes.

He opened the map to make sure that there was no one around before entering the room.

And the first thought that came his mind as he entered the room and saw the large amount of books kept in large bookshelves in a room that was four times larger than the Hogwarts library was 'Oh my God.'

The second thought the came to his mind was 'Copying so many books will take a lot of time.'

The third thought being 'I'm gonna need a bigger trunk to carry so many books.'

He was allowed to take as many things from the Room of Hidden things as he could take with him but the same could not be said for the Room of Requirement.

A pity.

Still, he would take as many books from the Room of Hidden things that he could find before he would move onto copying the books in the Room of Requirement.

As for time, he planned to do something about that as well.

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He looked at the chaotic realm in front of him known as the Room and Hidden Things and sighed once again.

He was not sure if his 'Master Plan' would bear any fruit or not. After all, he had no idea how long it had been since the time turners were invented.

They could have only been invented for ten years as far he knew but he was confident that such was not the case. In fact, he was pretty sure that time turners were in production for the past few centuries.

Still, how many people carried a time turner with them in the past few centuries. And how many of them were irresponsible enough to lose their time turners.

Well, he was going to find out soon enough.

He looked at the room with some trepidation (because if he was unlucky then a whole bunch of things were going to fall on top of his head) and raised his wand in the air and said "Accio Time Turner"

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Seven people. That's how many people were irresponsible enough to lose their time turners in the past few centuries.

Well, not all of them irresponsible considering how four of those time turners were broken in some form and merely been discarded because they had stopped being useful.

He had hoped there had been more irresponsible people in Hogwarts in the past but he could make do with what he had.

Three time turners.

If he remembered correctly then a time turner could take a person as far a five hours in the past and be safely used once a day.

Which meant that if he made full use of the time turners then he could have 39 hours in a day. Time, which he could spend learning from the wealth of books he found in the room of requirement.

As for the four damaged time turners, he could study them to learn how time turners were created.

Learn what kind of charms and ruins were used to create a time turner and what not.

If he could create a time turner of his own, then he would never have to worry about facing time shortage in the future.

Such a thing was very important for him considering how he had Voldemort after his life.

Still, until he could create a time turner for himself, he planned to use these three time turners to get as much time as he could.

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"So… What kind of person is he?" Anthony asked Terry as they sat in their great hall and Terry didn't even have to bother to look up to know that the whole table was now paying attention to him and he groaned in frustration.

"I don't know." He said half heartedly because he knew that it was the truth and that no one would believe such a truth.

"What do you mean that you don't know?" Micheal Corner asked from his left side.

"Exactly what I mean. I don't know anything about him." Terry said with some frustration laced in his voice and knew that they won't leave him alone until he gave them something juicy to talk about. Unfortunately, he knew nothing about Harry Potter. In fact, he had not seen that guy since that one time when he threatened him to keep quiet about his absence from their room.

"But he's your roommate." Micheal said in a tone that implied that since Harry Potter was his roommate, he should know everything about him.

"I know." He said with a sigh "He just, never talks with me. He only comes to the room to sleep and then leaves quite early in the morning." He lied. Harry had not come to the room in order to sleep even once. But he was afraid of telling that truth to others for two very simple reason.

1. Harry had threatened him.

2. If the teachers knew that Harry didn't sleep in his room at night, then they would force him to sleep in the room. And frankly, Terry didn't want to sleep in the same room with someone who terrified him so much.

"But he's your roommate." Micheal Corner enunciated "Surely you two must have spend some time talking with each other."

"In case you've not noticed before. Harry is not a very talkative guy." Terry said with some tiredness. When he had first heard that Harry Potter will be his roommate, he was quite excited. But that excitement soon turned into disappointment which then turned into anger until the celebrity boy threatened him. Now, he was simply tired of all the questions that people constantly asked him about the savior of the Magical Britain and he wished that they would stop.

"But still…" Micheal said but was interrupted as Su Li raised her hand in order to stop him.

"Terry is right you know." Su Li said "I've sat with him thrice so far in our classes and I have never heard him say anything. Even once. In fact, he was so quiet that I even forgot that someone was sitting beside me until the end of the class."

Lisa Turpin, who was sitting beside Su Li chuckled at that "Yeah. I had the honor of sitting beside him in both the 'History of magic' classes and forgot that he was sitting beside me in both the classes. In fact, I didn't realize that someone was sitting beside me in my second class until he gave his attendance to Professor Binns."

The chatter dropped down as soon as she said that and the whole atmosphere turned somber at once as they suddenly realized that such a thing was not natural by any means and started giving contemplative looks to each other.

"You know guys. I don't think I remember seeing him in any of the classes I've attended so far." Anthony said with a quiet voice. "I mean we all know that he attends every single one of his class but I don't think I've ever seen anyone talk with him in any of our classes. In fact, I don't remember seeing him at all in any of the class."

"Except for the Charms class in which he performed the Lumos spell and blinded everyone for a few seconds." Padma said with a chuckle but stopped just as soon when she saw that no one was laughing along with her.

"And no one here remember what he did after he performed the charm." Lisa Turpin said. "It's almost as if…"

"Almost as if he uses his magic to hide himself from others." Padma finished and the table went silent once again.

"You mean like a invisibility cloak." Terry asked with a bit of fear in his voice at the prospect that his supposedly deranged roommate could come and go from the room without him knowing.

"No." Padma rejected instantly "He doesn't use an invisibility cloak but probably use some kind of magic that makes him unnoticeable to others or something like that."

"That would certainly explain why I didn't notice him in any of our class." Micheal Corner said. "Do you think he is sitting somewhere in the table right now?"

At his words everyone turned and looked around the table in order to find anything suspicious that might give away the position of the Harry Potter but couldn't find anything.

"I don't think he's here." Padma said bringing their attention back to the topic "In fact, I don't think I've seen him sitting in the table since the Feast at the Sorting ceremony."

"Me neither." Su Li said "But then where does he eat his food."

"I heard some Hufflepuffs talking about a kitchen near their dorms." Lisa Turpin said "Do you think he eats his food there?"

"Probably" Anthony said. "But I still don't see why he just can't eat in our table. It's not like we'll bother him or…" then he stopped thinking about what he was going to say. Of course they would have bothered the boy if he was there along with them. After all, it was not everyday that you met the Savior of Magical Britain.

A fact which had not changed despite the fact that the supposed Savior was attending classes with them.

"Yeah." Padma chuckled at his expression. "I don't think we would have simply allowed him to eat in peace if he was sitting here along with us."

At her words, the rest of the group chuckled uneasily as well.

They looked at each other with some apprehension before shaking their heads and going back to their food and day to day chats. The topic of Harry Potter thrown at the back of their minds but not forgotten.

Never Forgotten.