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Chapter 55 The world where only Hermione is hurt

"Professor, I think you assigned too much homework this time."

Hermione held her head high and said solemnly.

Sherlock raised his head in surprise, he even wondered if he heard it wrong.

"You said I assigned too much homework?"

Hermione nodded and said seriously.

"Yes professor, a foot of parchment, I don't think we'll be able to finish it during the holidays."

Sherlock frowned. He didn't expect Hermione to come to the office and was going to tell him this.

He has been a professor at Hogwarts for almost a semester, and he has already figured out what the other professors arrange.

In normal times, a foot-long paper is indeed a bit much.

As long as the professors of five courses assigned such assignments, then the students would have no spare time to speak of, and would spend all day on assignments.

But Hogwarts will start a period of Christmas vacation second only to the summer vacation.

Compared with this vacation, one-foot homework is completely dispensable.

What's more, one foot sounds like a lot, but there is no hard and fast rule on whether the words written on the parchment are big or small. As long as it is not too much, even Sherlock usually turns a blind eye to it.

But now, the student who is recognized as the smartest and most diligent in the whole second grade actually came to him and said that he assigned too much homework and couldn't finish it during the holidays?
Sherlock was acutely aware of the problem.

And at this stall, something happened to Hermione who belongs to the protagonist's team, and it is very likely to be related to what is happening at Hogwarts recently.

He stared into Hermione's eyes, and said lightly.

"I don't think foot-long homework is a lot of Miss Granger. If other students came to me, I might think it was their own excuse for being lazy, but you must be for other reasons. So you can Tell me, why do you feel like you won't be able to finish this vacation homework?"

Hermione didn't avoid Sherlock's eyes, and even looked at him deliberately. There was subtle expectation in that gaze, which was subtly concealed.

"Professor, you mean, if you think there are no other accidents, I will definitely be able to complete this vacation homework and hand it in to you?"

Her voice was weak, as if there was some difficulty, and she was considering whether to tell Sherlock.

Hearing her speak like this, Sherlock felt that he had guessed correctly. Hermione obviously had something secret that he didn't want to reveal. No matter what the reason was, he thought he had to ask it clearly.

"Of course, I'm sure you'll finish your vacation homework and hand it over to me if"

Unexpectedly, Hermione interrupted him before he finished speaking.

"Thank you so much, Professor Forrest, for your trust. I also feel that I can finish my summer homework, and I can hand it over to you now!"

Hermione's tone revealed excitement, as if she had heard what she wanted to hear, and the purpose of this trip had been achieved.

But Sherlock was dumbfounded.

Isn't that right?

Why did you suddenly change your mind again?

Shouldn't there be something unspeakable, you said it under my constant questioning, and then I found out that it happened to be related to the recent attacks at Hogwarts, isn't it such a plot?
Sherlock was stunned by Hermione's unconventional playing.

But Hermione's test has not stopped yet, she said quickly.

"Professor, please wait a moment, I will finish my homework right away, and I will bring it to you!"

Before Sherlock could answer, she quickly ran out of the office. In the empty classroom next to her, she took the two lines of homework that were missing from Harry and completed them as quickly as possible.

Then he ran back to Sherlock's office with his homework and handed over the completed homework to him.

The whole process didn't even take more than 3 minutes.

It wasn't until this time that Sherlock came back to his senses.

He looked at the vacation homework Hermione handed him respectfully, and inexplicably felt absurd that she was stuck on some game bug.

What the hell is this going on?

A prank from Hermione?

"Professor, can you see if my homework is okay?" Hermione looked at Sherlock expectantly and said.

Sherlock looked carefully at the holiday homework that Hermione handed him in advance.

The handwriting is neat, and the letters are extremely small, densely filling the entire parchment. This is obviously not the result of trying to deal with it casually.

After a cursory glance at the content, the Boggart's habits, characteristics, targeting methods, and detection methods are all written in every detail, which is obviously true.

So what is she trying to figure out?
Sherlock looked at the homework in his hand, and then at Hermione who was full of expectation, puzzled.

"Professor, is my homework considered qualified?" Hermione asked softly, with a hint of impatience in her tone.

Sherlock tossed and turned and studied the homework handed in by Hermione for a long time, but did not come up with any tricks.

"You did well, Miss Granger, but you finished all your homework before you came to me, right? Then why did you say you couldn't finish it at the beginning?"

Hermione blushed when she heard Sherlock's words, and hurriedly explained.

"Sorry Professor, I just wanted to play a little joke with you..."

Sherlock looked at her suspiciously.

"just a joke?"

Hermione's face became even hotter.

She felt that she was hypocritical, and had taught Harry Ron that they had to apologize to Sherlock before, but within two days she was going to lie to him herself.

But her intuition told her that it's better not to say anything about the test for now.

"Yes professor, it was just a joke, I know I was wrong."

Sherlock did not continue to doubt the authenticity of Hermione's words. He felt that there was only one possible reason for Hermione to do what she did today.

They all learned badly from the two boys Harry and Ron!
"Some jokes shouldn't be made, Miss Granger." Sherlock said seriously, "Although your homework was done well ahead of time, because of your behavior today, I want to deduct 3 points from Gryffindor. I hope you can learn from it.”

Hermione looked ashamed.

"I know the professor, I won't make such a mistake again in the future."

Seeing her proactive attitude in admitting her mistake, Sherlock didn't continue to pursue her question, and returned his attention to making up the topic, and said with a wave of his hand.

"Go back, don't relax your requirements even if you are on vacation, and, I wish you a happy Christmas vacation."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hermione froze on the spot, and her face turned from red to white in an instant.

Everything was so sudden, she stood there in a daze, her gaze became hollow, and the whole world seemed to have turned gray and white.

Only the blessing that Sherlock said just now seemed to be echoing in his ears.

"Have a nice Christmas holiday."

"...have a great time this Christmas break."

"...have a great Christmas holiday."

"...have a great holiday."

"……Living Happily."

"……joy."

"……quick."

"..."

(End of this chapter)