The Gryffindor team once again defeated the Slytherin team and defeated the Nimbus 2001 that the opponent had spent a large amount of Galleons to buy. This was undoubtedly exciting news for the members and students of the Gryffindor team.
To this end, everyone held a short party in the common room to celebrate this great victory. However, unfortunately, Harry Potter, the Gryffindor Quidditch hero who helped them win, was injured and hospitalized and could not attend the party.
The party lasted for half an hour. After everyone finished eating the food that Fred and George brought from the kitchen, they began to clean up the garbage left over from the party.
In the corner of the lounge, Lee Jordan was playing cards with Fred, who had just finished a hot bath. Next to them were Ron and Hermione, who were arguing about Lockhart taking away Harry's bones.
After helping Wood clean up the garbage, George came over to watch them play cards. He turned his head to look at Hermione and Ron arguing and said casually, "Madam Pomfrey thought that the professor who pulled out Harry's bones was too incompetent, and she had a small temper because of it."
"Everyone makes mistakes." Hermione argued. She looked at Albert who was walking towards her, hoping to get his support.
"You can give Potter some candy. He's in a bad situation. The process of regrowth of bone in his arm will be painful."
Albert didn't respond to Hermione's words. It was unwise to discuss her admirers with a girl. After that, he turned his eyes away and landed on the boy who was flipping through the photos. "Creevy, right?"
"What's the matter, Mr. Anderson?" The boy named Creevey subconsciously used honorifics after noticing that it was Albert who was speaking.
"If you don't want Potter to hate you, you'd better go and apologize to him." Albert looked at the stack of photos and reminded, "Potter definitely doesn't want you to take these photos."
"Does Harry really hate me?" Colin Creevey froze and looked at Albert uneasily.
"Give me the photo!" said Albert.
The latter hesitated for a moment, but finally handed all the photos to Albert.
Hermione and Ron, who were still arguing, and even the trio who were playing cards came over. After looking at Harry's miserable appearance in the photo, Ron finally couldn't help but speak first.
"You deliberately took pictures of Harry looking embarrassed to embarrass him. I don't think Harry would be nice to you."
"I'm sorry, I just..."
"It's no use for you to apologize to us here..." Albert took out a few photos from the pile, compared them carefully, and handed three of them to Lee Jordan.
"What are you doing with these photos?" Hermione asked puzzled.
"Make them into wizard cards!" Lee Jordan put the photos away with a smile, and said to Creevey who was looking at him eagerly, "When the wizard cards are ready, I will remember to give you one."
"I don't think Harry would like this." Hermione frowned and reminded him. Albert's behavior really made her speechless. This guy was just teaching Creevey a lesson, but...
"This is a victory that Harry Potter has worked hard for." Albert said seriously, "We will record it on the wizard card and the name will be..."
"A hard-fought victory," Lee Jordan interrupted.
"That's a good name. I'll leave the task of making wizard cards to you."
"Are you going on a date again?" Lee Jordan raised his eyebrows.
"It's not a date. I have something else to do here, so I'll leave first. See you later." Albert nodded, turned around and prepared to leave. He planned to go to the Room of Requirement first to make final preparations for tonight's action.
Whatever the case, we must succeed in taking complete control of Riddle's diary tonight.
As Albert left the common room, he heard hurried footsteps behind him.
"Something?" Albert stopped and looked at Hermione puzzledly.
"Do you know how to make a compound potion?" Hermione looked around and made sure there was no one around before asking.
"Compound potion?" Albert was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "You know, a potion that can disguise a person as another person? Why are you asking this?"
"Um..." Hermione hesitated for a moment, and finally briefly told Albert about their suspicion that Malfoy was the heir of Slytherin and their plan.
After a longer silence, Albert nodded and said, "What you said does make sense. Many pure-blood wizards do intermarry. It's not surprising that Malfoy has Slytherin blood. I do know the formula for the compound potion. It's recorded in the book "Powerful Potions" in the restricted area."
"We got a signed note from Professor Lockhart for the restricted section? But the book seems to be..."
"Borrowed by someone?" Albert said with a smile.
"Yes? Madam Pince said the book might have been stolen because she couldn't find any records left by the borrower." Hermione felt depressed when she talked about this.
"Oh... "Powerful Potion" was just... borrowed." Albert corrected. "After I finish using it, it will be returned to the restricted area."
"You borrowed it?" Hermione carefully pondered the meaning of these words, suddenly raised her head, and looked at Albert in surprise.
"There are many interesting books in the restricted section, but it is very troublesome to get the professors' signatures before borrowing them, so I will borrow them at night when I need them." Albert spoke openly about borrowing books from the restricted section.
Hermione really didn't expect that Albert would directly admit that he took the book away.
"If you need it, I can give you the book temporarily. Just return it to me after you use it." Albert turned his head and raised his index finger towards Hermione, making a shushing gesture. "But remember to keep this a secret."
"I will," Hermione promised, nodding vigorously.
"Let's go. The Powerful Potion is in the dormitory. I'll get it for you."
Albert turned and headed back to his dormitory, and Hermione quickly followed.
This was Hermione's first time in Albert's dormitory. The dormitory was no different from Harry's dormitory. The only difference was probably... Her eyes fell on the cat bed and cat climbing frame, and she couldn't help asking: "Didn't you bring Tom to school?"
Hermione suddenly remembered that she hadn't seen Albert's cat all semester.
"No, it's not suitable this year." Albert took out an old book from the drawer of the bedside table and handed it to Hermione.
The latter carefully took the book, placed it on the table and began to read it.
"What kind of potion did you want to make by stealing... borrowing this book?" Hermione couldn't help but ask.
"Felixir." Albert did not hide it, "I'm still researching it."
"Felix Felicis?" Hermione quickly flipped through the pages of the book, her eyes fell on the formula of Felix Felicis, and she couldn't help but gasp, "This is definitely the most complicated potion I have ever seen."
"Yes, the Felixir is almost the most difficult of all potions, but its effect is also great and can bring good luck to people." Albert said with a smile, "The compound potion you want to prepare is also difficult and will also take a lot of time to brew. You must be mentally prepared."
"It takes a month!" Hermione said in disbelief after browsing the formula of the compound potion.
"Time is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that the compound potion itself is a prohibited trade item, so the ingredients of the bicorn horn and the African boomslang snake skin are also listed as Class D prohibited trade items by the Ministry of Magic. I'm afraid you can't get these two raw materials through normal channels. You can consider the black market, but the price will be expensive. But I remember Harry is very rich. Or..." Albert paused, and suddenly a strange smile appeared on his face: "You can also consider breaking into Snape's private warehouse. There must be these two raw materials in there, but you need to take some risks."
Hermione was silent. She had not expected Albert to suggest that she break into Snape's private warehouse. If she was caught...
However, if they really wanted to prepare a compound potion, they might not have many options, and she had to find time to talk to Harry about it.