Ned's brow furrowed, his attention to the search for herbology books entirely derailed by this question. "Secret books?" he asked. "What do you mean?" They had books that weren't displayed on the shelves, certainly, but most of those weren't secret. Many of them were simply duplicates of ones that were already out on the floor, stashed away in the storage room so that they could replenish the shelves as books were purchased. There were a handful that were routine kept back from public view, but they weren't necessarily secret, either — just books that it was best casual browsers didn't pick up by mistake. Anyone who knew what to ask for would have been given access to them, but this kept children wandering through the shelves from being accidentally bitten by enchanted pages, for instance.

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