When she saw Kyle, Hermione reluctantly curled the corners of her mouth, as if she wanted to say hello.

But with the dark circles under her eyes and the look of being about to cry, she doesn't look happy at all...

Kyle thought about it, then walked over and sat opposite her.

"Hello, Kyle." Hermione's voice was a little dry.

Kyle glanced at the book on her desk, "Why Muggles Need Electricity", and some books on arithmetic and ancient runes...

"So, you still chose to use the time converter, right?" Kyle asked in a low voice.

Hermione paused as she turned the pages of the book.

"Yeah." She nodded. "I can't give up any class. I can't do it..."

"But you don't look very well right now," Kyle said. "Are you sure you can make it to the end of the school year?"

Hermione now looked similar to Lupin on the train, both looking like they might faint at any moment.

In a few months, Kyle had no doubt she would have fallen asleep during the test.

"I don't know..." Hermione scratched her hair and said a little collapsed.

Her voice was a little loud, which immediately attracted some people's dissatisfaction. Fortunately, Madam Pince was a little far away at the moment and did not hear it.

"Can you tell me how you did it before?" Hermione asked, "You chose all the courses, but you always got high scores, even full marks...

"I always thought it wouldn't be hard if I had a Time Turner, but once I used it I realized that's not the case at all."

Hermione scratched her hair again, "I've been using the Time Turner more and more, and I've found that my memory is getting worse and worse, and it's hard for me to concentrate in class.

If I continue like this, I will definitely get a lot of E's in my exams. I can't even imagine how disappointed Professor McGonagall will be if I don't get all O's."

Hermione became more and more frustrated as she spoke, and finally she actually cried.

She hadn't spoken to anyone for a long time recently, especially since Christmas, when she told Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt, which led to Gryffindor's loss to Slytherin in Quidditch.

Almost overnight, she became the most unpopular person, and even Harry and Ron stopped talking to her.

But Hermione didn't care. At that time, the heavy workload had already made her a little breathless. How could she have time to care about such a small matter...

The situation only improved recently, after they defeated Hufflepuff.

But the problem was that Ron and Harry were of no help at all, they only made things worse and were worse than before when they hadn't spoken.

At least at that time she wouldn't be angry about things other than schoolwork... like Harry sneaking off to Hogsmeade and being discovered by Professor Snape.

Hermione couldn't understand why Harry had to go to Hogsmeade when everyone, including Harry himself, knew that Sirius Black was looking for him.

Is it fun to put yourself in danger?

Kyle, who was sitting opposite her, had no idea that she had thought so much and just thought that she couldn't stand the torture of the time turner.

This is very normal. It was the same with Percy. He was a little hysterical throughout the entire school year because of using the time-turner. As soon as the holiday was over, he couldn't wait to return the thing.

According to Diana, a time-turner can take you back a few hours physically, but not mentally.

But human energy is limited, and if you use it too much, collapse is inevitable sooner or later.

Kyle drummed his fingers on the table. "May I ask, do you use the Time Turner every day?"

"Every day." Hermione nodded.

"What time?"

"Before Christmas it was about two or three hours, now it's six," said Hermione.

Six hours?

Kyle shook his head.

This means that Hermione had to sleep at least twenty-two hours a day, and this lasted for nearly three months. No wonder she had such heavy dark circles under her eyes.

Kyle said, "These two courses are of no use to you at all. It's a complete waste of time."

This time Hermione didn't argue.

She didn't believe it before, but now she realized that what Kyle said was true.

"Also, try not to use the Time Converter other than in class." Kyle continued, "I don't think your schedule will repeat every day."

"Three times a week," said Hermione.

"So what do you do with the rest of your time, reading, doing homework?"

"No." Hermione shook her head. "Most of the time it's to learn ancient runes. Although that course is interesting, it's too difficult. One class a week is not enough."

At this point, Hermione suddenly looked up and said, "I heard from Professor Babel that you got full marks in the ancient runes exam last year, and the last student who got full marks was fifty years ago.

So you really understood everything the professor said without using a time-turner?"

Hermione had wanted to ask this question a long time ago. She had to spend several hours studying ancient runes every day, but it was not as good as Kyle's one lesson a week... She couldn't accept it.

"Well, our situation is a little different."

Kyle said vaguely: "It's mainly because I met a very enthusiastic person during the holidays. He has been teaching me ancient runes. It's a bit like a one-on-one private teacher. I studied with him for the entire holiday. It's normal that I got good grades."

"Private tutor?" Hermione opened her mouth in surprise, her eyes red with envy.

"Is it Professor Babling?"

"No." Kyle shook his head. "It was another one. He originally wanted to apply for the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, but Headmaster Dumbledore didn't agree."

"Oh, why didn't he choose the Ancient Runes class!" Hermione said in annoyance. She looked at Kyle and asked hopefully, "Is that person still teaching you now? Can you recommend him to come to Hogwarts?

"If we had one more professor, maybe we could have this class more often than once a week."

"It's a shame," Kyle said. "He left last year and I couldn't find him."

Hermione was a little disappointed, she really wanted to take more ancient rune lessons.

"Here's a suggestion for you." Kyle looked at her and said, "Forget everything in the first ancient runes lesson. It's of no use to you now. Just follow the order in the book.

Then you will find that this course is not as difficult as you imagined..."

"Forgot?" Hermione didn't understand. "But the formula for combining symbols is very important. I read in the book that it is the most important thing."

Symbol combination?

If Kyle remembered correctly, that should be the last chapter in "Advanced Magic Runes".

In other words, they will not learn this content until the end of sixth grade.

Professor Babel's bad taste hasn't changed at all.

"Forget it." Kyle said, "Before you master the arrangement and writing of magic runes, no matter how much time you spend, you will never be able to understand those symbols.

"It's like Transfiguration. The first thing you have to learn is how to turn a match into a needle, not how to turn a teacup into a rabbit."

"But." Hermione blinked, "If that's the case, why did Professor Babel teach us in the first class..."

"That's her bad taste." Kyle laughed and said, "Think carefully, did she talk about anything related to pictographs in the following classes?"

Hermione bowed her head and thought for a moment.

After being reminded by Kyle, she realized that Professor Babel really didn't talk about pictograms again, and the content was much simpler.

Hermione slammed the table and shouted unconsciously, "Have I been wasting time before?"

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(End of this chapter)