Everyday Players at Hogwarts.

Chapter 428 Herbal Medicine Class
Harry never expected that his intuition was right.

For the next period of time, even Lupin began to avoid them.

He seemed to know that Tonks had asked Harry and the others for help.

At the Ravenclaw vs. Gryffindor match on Saturday, Lupin, who always took time to attend, was nowhere to be seen.

They thought about following him, but Lupin, who had transformed into Fenrir, was much more mobile than they had imagined.

Even Harry couldn't catch up with him. Often, you would see his back one second and he would disappear the next.

After all, Harry's body transformation magic mainly focuses on strengthening lifespan and tapping into the magic power of the heart.

Fred and George, who were caught many times after Filch disappeared for half a month, also had a deep understanding of this.

Filch's mobility and his familiarity with the secret passages of Hogwarts made him the nightmare of all students who broke the school rules at Hogwarts.

They also tried to write to Sirius, but obviously, Sirius was on Lupin's side.

".You are still too young, Lupin's decision is correct," Sirius replied in the letter.

"They're all bastards!"

"What do they think of girls' feelings?" Ginny and Lavender, who had become close friends without realizing it, said hand in hand.

They glared at Harry and Ron as if they had done it.

"I can actually understand Lupin."

"Voldemort is about to be resurrected, it's not easy for him to make a promise at this time." Ron said privately when Ginny and Lavender were away.

But Ginny still found out about this from somewhere.

Harry's innocent face.

"What about our mother?"

"During the First Wizarding War, our mother was married to our father." Ginny was very angry at the time.

So much so that even Lavender had to ignore Ron for almost a week for Ginny's sake.

In this eerie atmosphere, summer quietly came to the grounds around the castle. The sky and the lake turned into a light blue with a purple glow, and flowers as big as cabbages bloomed in the greenhouse.

In the Herbology class, Professor Sprout assigned everyone to prune Abyssinian shrunken figs.

Harry was carrying some dead branches and placing them on top of the compost heap when he came face to face with Draco.

"Hi, Harry."

"Have you seen Lupin lately?" Draco greeted.

Tonks, who regarded him as her lifeline, often wrote to him.

He had to use other excuses, "The disappearance of Azkaban is related to Voldemort. Lupin has been busy with this matter recently."

However, for some reason, Tonks, as an Auror, got in touch with Mad-Eye Moody, an Auror who had retired many years ago and was also a member of the Order of the Phoenix.

In her last letter, she seemed to have known something.

Recently, he hadn't received a letter from Tonks for a week.

You know, before this, he received it almost every day.

Harry shook his head.

Draco came over and started working on the same fig tree as Harry and Ron.

"Perhaps we shouldn't have been involved in this matter from the beginning," Harry said as he broke off a dead branch. "Perhaps Tonks felt that we were unreliable and wanted to join the Order of the Phoenix through Moody."

"I think this is very likely the case. Lupin can avoid us, but he can't avoid the meetings of the Order of the Phoenix." "And Tonks also agreed to the conditions for joining the Order of the Phoenix - after all, she is an Auror with a clean family background." Ron accidentally pulled off an Abyssinian shrunken fig.

"I say, is this edible?" Ron looked cautiously in the direction of Professor Sprout.

He didn't want to be deducted points. This kind-looking woman was not so kind when facing her lovely plants.

"The Shrink Fig is a magical plant, the best specimens of which grow in Abyssinia."

"The flower of the shrunken fig grows inside the fruit and is the same purple color as the fruit. It is a deciduous plant that loses its leaves in the autumn, leaving only bare branches in the winter. However, due to its strong root system, the plant can survive even snowy days."

"Its leaves have medicinal properties. After peeling the fig fruit, it produces a purple liquid that can be used to make potions such as shrinking potions." Harry poked Ron with the dead branch.

"I'm asking if it's edible?" Ron lowered his voice. He didn't want to be discovered.

Because some Hufflepuff students like to pick plants for midnight snacks, Professor Sprout always uses an unknown magic to check on them.

No matter how deep you hide the fruits or flowers, she can always find them.

If you accidentally pull off the fruit and throw it in the corner, you will be deducted points when you come to the herbal medicine class many days later when you think everything is safe.

And eating them is said to be the only way to avoid being discovered.

Dudley had done just that, and he had once gotten away with swallowing a jumping toadstool raw.

"You still don't like Potions class." Draco pouted.

"And Herbology class."

"This year we learned a total of four plant poison tentacles in our herbal medicine class (mentioned), Mandrake, Jumping Toadstool, and Abyssinian Shrinking Fig."

"If you pay attention, Professor Sprout always reminds you which plants are not to be eaten."

"Just like the jumping toadstool, which is one of the main ingredients of the Bafe brain-stimulating potion, the Abyssinian shrinking fig, which is one of the only ingredients of the shrinking potion, can also be eaten."

"It tastes pretty good," Harry shrugged.

"Phew! This tastes good!" Ron, who was about to swallow it directly but chewed it a little because of Harry's words, looked bitter.

"You idiot!"

"You really didn't listen to the class."

"Sprout's exact words were, 'The taste of dried figs is lovely, but the taste of the juice - I dare say, you'll regret tasting it!'" Draco grinned.

Ron's foolishness certainly helped him get out of the anxiety of not receiving Tonks' letter.

"Wait, Harry, what did you say?"

"Why didn't you remind me earlier!" Ron looked depressed.

"Remind you of what?" Even Harry sometimes still didn't understand Ron's train of thought.

"Shrinkage potion - can shrink the drinker or transform him into a younger form."

"Old witches often drink it at the risk of shrinking, hoping to grow younger."

"Bafe Brain Refresher - a drug that can make people smarter for a period of time after drinking it, and even after the effect of the drug wears off, the brain's thinking will be slightly enhanced."

"Why didn't you remind me that the plants we learned in the Herbology class this year were so crucial!"

"These are all gold Galleons!" Ron's face was full of bitterness and regret.

Draco and Harry looked at each other, neither of them knew what to say.

(End of this chapter)