"Oh it's brilliant Harry, I got it at the start of the year but got so distracted with everything else Hogwarts had to offer I didn't get much chance to read it but when I remembered we got all caught up in the stuff with the stone so I am finally sitting down to read it all the way through" Hermione showed them the cover, it was the book she had found the information on the stone in. Alchemy, the dying art of magical science.