"...Professor McGonagall seems all right, but... we can't give her all the evidence we have without explaining that Muninn is a person. And if we explain that Muninn is a person and she decides to do something bad about that, or tells someone else and they do something bad, we can't really stop her."

"But on the other hand we have a faculty member who tried to—at least get you paralysed from the neck down, possibly dead. It doesn't sound like a great idea for the only people who know that to be two eleven-year-olds and a raven."

"Maybe we can tell her but tell her that the person who saw them and overheard Professor Snape casting the countercurse is afraid to be named in case of retaliation."

"Yeah, I was going to suggest something like that.—should I talk to Snape himself about it? If he noticed there was a curse being cast, maybe he knows..."

"That sounds like... it might be a good idea... much better than me trying to talk to him about it, anyway."

"I'm kinda worried that he might in fact know and... not have done anything about it for some reason? Like... okay, if we assume Quirrell was targetting you in particular and not, say, a random player, or Gryffindor's Seeker... There's sort of this one dead person whose followers might really dislike you."

"...yes."

"And if Quirrell is one such follower, then Snape might be trying to bait other followers or something."

"Well. Do you want to ask him about it?"

"Yeah, I'm just not sure it'll be productive at all. But yes, it's still probably a good idea."

Nod.

"We should also probably look into this Nicolas Flamel person."

"Yes."

Thankfully they're in a library. They go looking for the appropriate books.

Victor is extremely thorough in his search for any book which might conceivably tell them who this person is.

The Hogwarts library has tens of thousands of books. Where would he like to start?

Biographies of Albus Dumbledore. In case it's that simple.

Here's one! He seems to be quite an accomplished wizard, being a Transfiguration genius from his youth and accumulating honors and titles as he grew. There is this one huge tome about him—it must have a thousand pages.

Time to read a book.

It is a very long book. Dayo grabs one named Great Wizards of the Twentieth Century and scans the index for Flamel. Not finding him there, he leafs through it anyway.

Victor continues learning things about Dumbledore's life.

He doesn't find anything mentioning Flamel before it's time for dinner, but he can check out the book if he so wishes.

He does so wish.

Dayo checks three books out, and then: dinner!

Dinner.