"Perhaps we should find another way to eat it." Harry tapped the table, and a glass of milk and a cup of hot cocoa appeared, along with a few empty bowls in front of him.
He placed small pieces of Rock Cake in the bowl, poured in a little hot milk, then added a bit of hot cocoa, waited until they softened slightly, and pressed down on the Rock Cake with a fork.
"Here, try it." Harry handed the bowl to Ron.
Ron squinted doubtfully at Harry with one eye open and the other closed.
"Go on, try it. I'm not going to trick you," Harry said.
Ron picked up the fork and scooped out a piece of Rock Cake.
"It's really softened."
He said in surprise, placing the cocoa-milk-flavored Rock Cake into his mouth.
"It's really delicious!"
Seeing Ron like that, Neville and Seamus asked skeptically, "Really? Isn't Rock Cake very hard?"
"Who said this Rock Cake is hard? It's simply delicious!" Ron quickly shoveled the Rock Cake into his mouth, handed the bowl back to Harry, and said, "Get me some more!"
"Do it yourselves. The cocoa and milk are right there," Harry said, "I have something to do and need to head out for a bit."
"Oh, okay." Ron and the other two sat around where Harry had been sitting and started making Harry's style Rock Cake.
Harry left the hall and walked into the restroom on the second floor, casting a Disillusionment Charm on himself.
As he was leaving the restroom, he suddenly heard that voice again.
"Kill... kill! Destroy them!"
Harry was startled, but the voice only appeared for a moment and then disappeared.
He roamed around the second floor, waiting for a long time, but the voice never returned.
With no other choice, he gave up on finding the source of the voice and followed the stairs to the entrance of the Map Secret Room.
As always, he maneuvered the Ancient Magic fluctuations and entered the Map Secret Room through that doorway.
"Harry?"
Vivi greeted him, sounding a bit unhappy.
Harry walked up to Vivi and looked up at her puffed-out cheek.
"Fifty-five days, seventeen hours, thirty-six minutes, and two seconds," Vivi crossed her arms in front of her chest and looked down at Harry, "That's the time since you last came to see me."
"Oh, sorry, Vivi," Harry quickly explained, "I've been busy searching for the whereabouts of those two Alchemy Materials..."
"Did you find them?" Vivi squinted her lovely eyes.
Harry nodded repeatedly, "Yes, Gringotts has already obtained the Angel's Feather from Professor Dumbledore, reportedly in exchange for forty percent of Duke Honey's stocks."
Hearing this news, Vivi was somewhat stunned.
Not surprised at how easily the Angel's Feather was obtained, but rather...
"Duke Honey's stocks? Are they very valuable?" she asked, puzzled.
"Duke Honey is a shop specializing in candies," Harry began to explain, "and Professor Dumbledore rather likes sweets, he even accepts Cockroach Clusters - you know, they move like Chocolate Frogs and look just like real cockroaches."
"That's disgusting," Vivi said with disdain, "But this is good news, so I can somewhat forgive you for not coming to see me... So, any news on the Snake Monster Poison Fang?"
Harry sighed, "Not yet, it seems like this creature hasn't appeared in a long time..."
With that, he slapped his thigh and said belatedly, "Oh no, Mr. Scamander came by earlier, and I forgot to ask him... After all, he's an expert in Magical Creatures!"
"Mr. Scamander?" Vivi frowned; the name... made her feel a bit annoyed.
Even though she didn't know anyone with the surname Scamander, she instinctively felt displeased.
"Yes, Mr. Scamander is, in terms of family ties, actually Pabi's sister Linda's son," Harry explained to Vivi with a smile, "But you know, Pabi has been staying at Mr. Leme's house to recuperate, and Mr. Scamander plans to visit her..."
He recounted the previous events to Vivi in great detail, and at the end, he added, "I also ate the chocolate that Pabi had, and it wasn't as sweet as she said..."
Before he finished speaking...
Crack!
Vivi's portrait split again.
Vivi: (ꐦಠಠ)?!
"What did you say?! You ate the chocolate she had?!"
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