Copying Medical Books

"What are you reading?" Hermione asked as she sat beside me with her plate.

She had stopped eating in the Great hall some time ago as well and now ate her meals with him in the study room.

"An apology letter." He said and burned the letter before scattering it's ash to the wind.

"From who?" she asked curiously.

"From Amelia Bones." He replied nonchalantly "For her fuck up with Sirius Black."

Any other time Hermione might have chided him for his language but now she just looked sad.

"Oh I'm so sorry Harry."

"Don't be." He shook his head "It's not like I ever knew him. And now he's probably in a better place than the hellhole they call Azkaban."

Hermione looked unconvinced but didn't continue on this topic.

"Did you know that Ron and Draco are in the infirmary right now?" she suddenly asked.

"No. Their lives are not important enough for me to keep tabs on them."

"Harry" Hermione said exasperatedly, probably at the lack of care he showed toward people he didn't personally knew about. "Anyway, this is important so listen."

He shrugged and she took it as an affirmation and continued.

"Last night, Draco Malfoy and Ron Weasley were sent to Hagrid for detention."

"Let me guess the rest. Hagrid took the both of them to the forbidden forest and they suffered an accident there."

"That's surprisingly accurate… How do you know all of this?"

"Because last night I went to the Forbidden Forest and found a dark wizard feasting on a unicorn's blood. I stunned that person and before he could recover, I stole the unicorn's body and left." He replied nonchalantly "Now let me guess what happens next. The ginger and the ponce probably met this dark wizard and got cursed or something."

"…yeah. I don't exactly know all the details but apparently that how it happened."

"Are they going to die?" he asked, trying not to let his amusement show in his voice.

"No. Why would you think so?"

"Because that's what usually happens when you get cursed by dark wizards." He said, trying not to let his annoyance show.

The magical world was already overcrowded with stupid people. Two more stupid children didn't make it a better place.

"Why were two young children sent to the forbidden forest during night time anyway?" he asked, trying to understand the level of stupidity possessed by the staff members of Hogwarts.

"I… Wait? What were you doing with going to the forbidden forest and fighting a dark wizard. What would you have done if he had cursed you instead."

"Simple." He said with an innocent smile, which no doubt looked absolutely out of place in his face "I would asked you to kiss the pain away."

Hermione flustered at that "Harry. I'm trying to be serious here."

"So am I." He said with a smirk and she hit him in the shoulder lovingly for his trouble while shaking her head.

After they settled down once again Harry remembered something and turned to her.

"Hey Hermione. How would you like to join me on an adventure tonight?"

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"Harry. I don't think I like this adventure very much." She said from under the Invisibility as they broke into the library of one of Britain's best medical college.

"Oh come on Hermione. Don't tell me you're not excited about all these books just lying there, waiting for us to take them." He said in an innocent voice and she just knew that he was looking at her with that damnable smirk of his right now.

"Wait here." He said before she could enter the room and took out his wand from pocket and… did something with it. Since his magic was mostly focused on intent and will, there was not much need for an incantation of wand waving.

But for him to take out his wand must mean that had just performed some delicate magic.

"Now we can enter." He said and she removed the Invisibility cloak and followed after him.

"Harry. What do you do just now?" she asked curiously as he went about reading the subject names written on the shelves, in the darkness. She had no idea how he was able to read anything in such darkness. He was most likely using some kind of transfiguration to change his eye to look better in the darkness.

"Oh that. That was just me putting any electronic device in this room to… sleep, I guess would be correct term. We don't want any CCTV cameras to capture our presence here would we."

"And how did you do that?" she asked.

"I just put my intention behind the idea, pushed my will behind that intention and my magic did the rest. Just like always."

"But Harry, do you even know how your magic accomplished it. I mean, those devices can be put to sleep in thousand different methods. Your magic can probably change the CCTV cameras into ducks and that would still accomplish your task of making those devices useless. Or it might do some complex space time magic to stop it from recording your presence here. So do you know what your magic did?" she asked and he stopped what he was doing in order to stare at her.

"That… is a very good question Hermione. We'll do a few tests regarding this once we get back to Hogwarts. But for now, help me find the anatomical section. You know, the one that gives me the basic overview and knowledge of the organs, muscles and all the things that comprise of a human body without going into too much detail."

"But Harry… I can't see anything in this darkness. And using Lumos might alert the guards petrolling the campus outside of our presence."

He stopped his search once again in order to look at her and this time, he didn't say anything for a long moment. But just as his silence was beginning to unnerve her, he spoke.

"Hermione. Do you trust me?" he asked.

"Of course I do. What kind of silly question is that?"

"No. Let me change the question. Hermione, do you trust me enough to change a part of your body?"

Hermione gulped at that question as she suddenly realized what he meant.

He wanted to perform Human Transfiguration on her. To give her the eyesight so that she would be able to see in the dark just like him.

If this was any other person then she would have thought about all dangers that this kind of magic might pose to her.

But as it was Harry who had asked her this, she just give him confident smile and said "Of course silly. I trust you."

He must have liked her answer cause he gave her one of his rare genuine smile before giving her a nod and pointing his wand at her.

There was no wand waving, no incantation and definitely no sparks.

One moment, she couldn't see his face properly in the dark and the next moment she could.

She liked the simplicity with which he used magic.

Because that's how exactly it was supposed to be used.

She noticed that his pupil had enlarged to take over his whole eye and not even a slight bit of white of his eyes was visible.

In essence, his whole eye looked like a giant black hole which gave him an alien look and she wondered if her eyes looked the same as his right now.

They most likely did.

She ignored the unnerving feeling that thought gave her and they continued with their search in the huge library.

It didn't took them long to find the required section at which point Harry started to copy the books he needed while she made a list of everything he was copying and keeping those books back into their proper place.

It wouldn't do if people knew that someone had moved those books at night even if Harry was technically not really stealing anything from here.

But the process of duplicating a whole book was not short by any means and since she was not advanced enough to help him, Harry had to do most of the duplicating part himself.