Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 571 Books in the Library
Mo Lin looked for "Ultimate Arithmetic and Divination" among the piles of books vying for positions. He found the bottom book from the top of the bookshelf. Some books were similar in length, so he needed to read the title on the spine.

But there are too many books to be returned by the school. Not only the students but also the professors have to borrow them. There are a lot of books crowded around, just like grabbing seats, which makes people dizzy.There are also some books that have already grabbed their places, but because of their small size, they are squeezed down by other books, but they can't take their places back, so they are spinning up and down in a hurry.

"Fortunately, they don't fight when they are usually borrowed, otherwise who can control them."

Maureen muttered.

Every time she borrows a book, Mrs. Pince always sweeps the book with a feather duster. Maureen didn't understand this redundant action at first, but now that she thinks about it, Mrs. Pince probably used the feather duster to suppress the magic of the book, otherwise the borrower would not be careful. would be overturned by the tantrum book, and no one wants to open a magic book and have a whirlwind blowing them to the ceiling.

Mo Lin searched the bookshelves carefully, but he couldn't find "Ultimate Arithmetic Divination" all the way.He thought he had missed it, so he looked for it again, but it still wasn't there!
"Strange, why not?"

Maureen searched again for the third time, but still nothing.

Mrs. Pince had already returned from the restricted area and asked, "How is it? Did you find "Ultimate Arithmetic Divination"? A genius."

"No, I searched three times."

Mo Lin scanned the bookshelf with his eyes. He still had an impression of that book, but there was no sign of divination in the pile of books fighting for a place. There was only one book "Arithmetic Divination Teach You How to Read Your Mind".

"No?" Mrs. Pince also glanced at it, and then said, "It may not be back yet, you need to wait."

"When are we going to wait?" Mo Lin asked again.

"If it is a book that needs to be returned today, then I will come back by myself before nine o'clock in the morning - you go to class first, and I will show you."

Mrs. Pince pulled apart the two fighting books again, gave them a lesson with a feather duster, and put them on the trolley.

Mo Lin looked at the time, there were 5 minutes to go to class, this class is a black magic research class, it is not a good thing to be late, so I can only agree.

"Then I'll come back after class." Mo Lin reluctantly left the library.

In the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the morning, he didn't have the slightest intention to listen to the class. Even if Professor Francis was talking about the so-called earpick how to goug out the eyes, he was not interested in the horrible black magic.

After he finished class, he ran over to ask Mrs. Pince, only to find that Mrs. Pince's brows were almost wrinkled into a ball of twine.

"Mrs. Pince, is that book back?" Morin asked.

Mrs. Pince was flipping through a book record, she shook her head and said, "It's strange, if you didn't say that I really didn't notice."

"Didn't notice anything?" Mo Lin felt a little uneasy.

"Book! It's your book that's gone!"

Mrs. Pince stood up angrily, and walked towards the arithmetic and divination area. Many students who had no class in the morning saw Mrs. Pince striding over, and they couldn't help but give way, not daring to run into this stern person.

Maureen was taken aback: "What? Still haven't come back?"

"Yes, if you didn't come back, there must be something wrong."

Mrs. Pince lingered on the arithmetic and divination bookshelf for a while, looking for the book, and said angrily while looking for it: "No, not here either!"

"Mrs. Pince, could it be that you misplaced the bookshelf? For example, you came back in the morning, but you accidentally put this book on another shelf?" Molin asked tentatively.

"Impossible!" Mrs. Pince said firmly, "Books have their own place, which is fixed. If it is not in its own place, other books will have opinions."

"But—how could this be? I thought that the magic book in the library couldn't make mistakes—so there's no way to find that book?" Molin asked eagerly.

"I am thinking!"

Mrs. Pince was like an angry hawk, clutching the feather duster in her bony hand, and nearly waving it at Maureen's head.

""Ultimate Arithmetic and Divination" has not come back! This is the first time I have encountered such a thing in so many years!" Mrs. Pince walked back slowly and checked the borrowing records again.

Mo Lin's heart sank, and he asked persistently, "But you said that the magic in the library is so powerful that no one can destroy the books, right?"

"That's the point!" Mrs. Pince pursed her lips. "I checked the books. As soon as the books come back, the borrowed records will be canceled automatically. This is determined by the magic itself-but the book you are looking for If you don’t come back, the borrowing record has disappeared!”

"What does it mean?"

"It means that someone used powerful magic to deceive the library's magic supervision, confused the library's guardian magic, and made the library think that the book was back, so the borrowing record was cancelled!"

Mo Lin's heart had sunk to the bottom.

"What kind of magic can confuse the magic in the library? How big of a confusion spell can this be done?" Molin asked.

"Students may not be able to do it, but dark wizards with ulterior motives can do it—I think there were people who used the Confusion Curse to cast magic on the Goblet of Fire under Dumbledore's eyes before—it's unforgivable to dare to steal the school's books."

Mrs. Pince drew out her wand aggressively, as if she was going to duel with someone, and Maureen quickly took a step back.

"Mrs. Pince, if you say that students can't do it, maybe it's the professor?" Mo Lin said tentatively.

The first person that came to his mind was Professor Trelawney who was going to catch him that night!
"Professors can't do this kind of thing. Some student must have taken the book out of the school. Some dark wizard cast a spell. I want this student to look good--let me see, who was the last person to borrow the book -"

Mrs. Pince shook her wand violently, and the borrowing log began to be flipped open.

"It's Magatha, Mrs. Pince." Maureen said, "She has been borrowing this book."

"Magastha? Yes, you've been saying—I'm pissed off, but she can't—" Mrs. Pince also knew Magatha, because she was also a member of the club, but Mrs. Pince didn't Think students can do this.

"She was attacked in the Divination Tower, Mrs. Pince, maybe you can ask Professor Trelawney if she saw this book in the Divination Tower."

Maureen had already spoken very euphemistically.

In fact, what Mo Lin wants to express is that the book of arithmetic and divination is most likely in the hands of Professor Trelawney, because she has taught books in school for so many years, and she must be very clear about the magic of the library. It's not that hard to break the book's magic!

(End of this chapter)