CHAPTER 9

LIBRARY FINDINGS

As Harry was walking to catch up to Ron and Hermione, he couldn't help but wonder what his father had use the Crystal for. How hadn't he known that? Then again, he didn't really know a lot of anything. He just couldn't believe it. Why would Voldemort think Harry has the Crystal of Light just because his dad had use it? What did he use it for? There was still so much he needed to find out, still so much he did not understand.

Harry was in such deep thought, he hadn't notice Ron was yelling for Hermione.

"Hermione! Would you wait up!" He yelled.

"What is it, Ron?" Harry asked.

"I don't know! She just started to power walk all of a sudden." Ron defended.

Harry, confused, also yelled for Hermione, "Hermione! Where are you going?"

They started to almost run to catch up with Hermione, who looked like she was thinking.

"Where do you think I'm going?" She said finally.

"I don't know, that's why I asked you." Harry said.

Hermione rolled her eyes, "The library, Harry. The library."

"The library?" Ron exclaimed. "Did you forget to do your homework? Honestly Hermione, it's the first day!"

"Look," Hermione said, finally stopping to face the boys, "I have a feeling that Dumbledore is not telling us something."

"You think he's hiding something from us?" Harry asked.

"Of course! Didn't you notice how he wouldn't give us complete details?" She said.

Harry thought about that. She was right. Dumbledore didn't explain everything to him. He would only give the basics. "You're right."

"Ok, so I'm going to go to the library to find out more about this Crystal." Hermione said.

"Hermione! It's almost midnight! Can't we do it tomorrow?" Ron wined.

"No! I won't be able to sleep until!" she said.

It was Harry's turn to roll his eyes. "Hermione you're being a bit dramatic, don't you think?"

"Yeah, yeah." Hermione waved away. "Now, let's go!"

Xxxxx

Harry still didn't know how Hermione dragged him and Ron to the library at midnight.

Surprisingly, it wasn't a problem getting in. No teachers were on duty that night. Probably because they wouldn't think anyone would break into the library the first day of Hogwarts. Except them.

The Hogwarts's library was humungous. Hundreds of shelves, tens of thousands of books. It was truly amazing.

They were searching for the right books for about 20 minutes when, "Over here!" Hermione called. Ron and Harry hurried over to where she was. She was holding a rather dusty old book. It had a brown leather cover, and it was very large. It was at least 3,000 pages.

"This is it." Hermione said, holding out the book.

"The Crystal of Light and its Glories," Ron read the cover aloud. "That was quick!"

Hermione smiled, "This is great. This has everything we need to know about the Crystal."

Harry sighed with relief, "Awesome, Hermione, thanks."

She shrugged, "Ok, let's start reading."

"Blimey," Ron said, "That's a lot of pages, think you could read that much?"

"Well… no," Hermione confessed, "But we don't need to read it all, just what we need to know." She carried the book to one of the tables. Harry honestly doesn't know how Hermione does it, that book must weigh a ton. Sometimes it seems like she has more muscle than Harry or Ron.

"Ok," Hermione said, turning pages of the book, "Let's read." She sat down; Harry and Ron sighed and sat sown on either side of her.

It took forever to read each page because there were thousands of words and they were handwritten so small, you had to squint to read them.

After a few minutes of reading, Harry didn't really learn anything new, just the history of the Crystal; where it was found, who made it, etc. Nothing really Harry needed. He about to tell Hermione that this was useless, when he saw Ron staring at her. Seriously staring at her. Harry already knew Ron fancied Hermione, but, was it possible that he loved her? Hermione, obviously didn't notice him. Clueless.

Ron found Harry looking at him and quickly turned away, blushing.

Another half-hour had passed, and still, nothing.

Finally, Hermione gave in. She slammed the book, "That's it!" She exclaimed, "I can't find anything!"

"That's alright, Hermione. Really, it's ok." Harry soothed.

"I just don't get it! All that's in here is what the bloody Crystal is! What about everything else!? " Hermione said, frustrated.

"It's fine, really-" he started.

"Hey, guys? Look at this." Ron said, glancing at the book.

"What?" Hermione asked.

"Read this." Ron said, pointing at the page he was on.

Hermione looked at him questioningly, but started to read out loud: "Everybody knows that the Crystal of Light is the most powerful magical weapon on the face of the earth. What people don't know is what the Crystal is capable of doing. The Crystal was made by the wizard: Thomas Fregley. He created this is the late reason he made it is still unknown. But in modern day, we now know what the Crystal is can do. The Crystal can do 3 main things: 1: Brainwash everybody anywhere. 2: Freeze time. And 3: Kill anyone. Only a few wizards have had a chance to use the Crystal of Light. But most, try to stay away."

"Wow." Harry said, shocked.

Hermione nodded, a loss for words. (for once)

"Tell me about it." Ron said, "When Dumbledore said it can do the unthinkable, he really meant it."

"Well, that is a good reason why You-Know-Who wants it, eh?" Hermione said.

"Yeah, brainwash, freeze time, and kill. Sounds about right." Harry said.

"You were brilliant for finding that, Ron." Hermione said.

"Well that's the first compliment you've given me." Ron muttered.

"What are you talking about? I've complimented you loads of times!"

"Yeah, right! You always think I'm the stupid one, don't you?"

"I most certainly have never call you stupid!"

"But I bet you think it!"

"Of course I don't, Ronald"

"Stop calling me Ronald!"

"GUYS!" Harry yelled, then remembered he was at a library at night and lowered his voice. "What is wrong with you two? Could you stop fighting for 1 minute and focus?" He hissed.

"Sorry." They both muttered.

Harry sighed, "Look, I think that's enough information for tonight. We'll come back again for this book, alright?"

They both nodded.

"Great, now let's get some sleep."