Author's Note:
I know this chapter is on the short side(for a person writes like me anyway) but I hope you find it interesting.
Chapter 4:
Harry Potter's 3rd Year
Many years ago James Potter's family received a hefty fine of twelve galleons for losing two books on animagi transformation. It was paid and the record was kept and Irma Pince mentally inventoried it as part of conspiracy when it came another student who was a werewolf and Dumbledore came looking for the ancient records of the ground plans for school. I should mention all of this common knowledge now so Pince feels no guilt in presenting this information from her perspective. Again Irma Pince had her suspicions but said nothing and assumed things would work themselves out.
Anybody who has had the misfortune of entering the library with food knows she hates seeing students with food in the library. Here is a little known facts, she hates seeing it but will tolerate eating if you do so with discretion. This is another thing Ravenclaws are more likely to at least suspect than most other houses. If you're there on a Saturday studying for O.W.L. and skip lunch she'll either kick you out with orders to eat and promise to watch your things or look the other way if you bring something you can eat quietly for sustenance.
I mention all of this because when dementors was stationed at the school, Pince had a small bowl of chocolate frogs under her desk. On Hogsmeade days she would vanish some to near the entrance of the library if she saw students coming directly from there. I had heard about these chocolate frog appearances but assumed like everyone else it had something do with Dumbledore or even Professor Lupin. Pince had always found another place to work when students came in with their contraband she had secretly given out.
Pince believed in Sirius Black's guilt at the time. She dealt in facts not conspiracies. She helped teacher's research guarding charms. Pince was also afraid though. If this man was guilty he came to the last spot where Voldemort could be found. If he was as innocent as he claimed there a completely unknown variable on the loose. This is why she preferred facts. She had recently found out about something called a horcrux but there was nothing in her incredible library about them. Irma Pince was a librarian and hated not knowing things.
There is little else to be said about that year. Lord Voldemorte was still dormant and all Pince could do was prepare for the worst and that is why she spent the year meticulously pulling all the books about him and organizing them into a single section in the restricted area.