After the incident in Hogsmeade, Alistair Rerick felt more acutely than ever how fragile this body was and how weak he himself remained. For the remainder of the time before the term started, he buried himself in the Rerick family study.
Alistair even felt that in his twenty-two years of living in another world, he probably had not read as many books as he had in the mere six months he had spent in this one.
Alistair could not help feeling a pang of annoyance. Evidently, after a peaceful semester, he had gradually forgotten about Voldemort, assuming that the war wouldn't really begin until 1992. But now it seemed the Death Eaters were still plotting something.
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