Harry Potter’s Book of Sin
Chapter 168 The Mysterious Miss Granger
Rita Skeeter’s article about the Triwizard Tournament was finally published.
It can be seen that she neglected to the greatest extent Maca, which should have been a book.In this article, the information about Maca is limited to one name.
Correspondingly, Harry is a little bit doomed-this is not so much a report on the situation of the hegemony, it is more a portrayal of Harry's personal life.
Much of the first page of the newspaper was occupied by a photo of Harry, and the entire article was filled with the second, sixth and seventh pages, all about Harry.
The above content is of course false, but it has to be said that those things seem to be very eye-catching and will cause all kinds of misunderstandings to unknowing people.
As for Fleur Delacour of Busbarton, her name and Maca were squeezed into the last line of the article, and even her name was misspelled.
To talk about the specific content of the article, in addition to those unwarranted speculations and strange descriptions, a certain paragraph of the content makes Her very sensitive and very uncomfortable.
Rita Skeeter wrote:
"... Harry finally found his first love at Hogwarts. His close friend Colin Crevey said that Harry and a girl named Hermione Granger are inseparable-yes. , She is the fourth famous warrior in this competition. Miss Granger is amazingly beautiful and was born into a Muggle family. Like Harry, she is also one of the top students in the school."
This narrative is not too informative, presumably Rita Skeeter just wanted to give the article a little pink lace to make it look more gimmick.
This was just one of countless daily routines about Harry's life, but it made Hermione totally intolerable.
If it was in the past, she might just ignore it-it wasn't true anyway, it didn't matter to her.But now, after she discovered her mind, this text became very eye-catching.
"Amazingly beautiful? She?" After Rita's article was published, Slytherin's Pansy Parkinson said weirdly when she met Hermione for the first time. Rat?"
"Speak down, Pansy!" another girl exaggeratedly said, "she is the savior's girlfriend!"
Then the group of Slytherin girls giggled.
Hermione was shaking with anger, but when she heard these words, the first thing she did was to look around.The Slytherin girls couldn't help laughing more happily when they saw her look of guilty conscience.
"Harry and I are just friends!" Hermione yelled angrily, and left quickly.
She could not let Maca hear these unreasonable rumors, even if she thought that Maca would never believe such nonsense.but……
"Oh-what's wrong with me, I need to calm down." Hermione retracted into the bedroom again, and she decided not to go out if it was not necessary.
If others make fun of her again... what if they happen to run into Maca when they call her "the savior's girlfriend" again... what should I do?
Hermione felt that she was always panicking lately, which was a bit bad, obviously Maca had reminded her to be careful.In this state...
"Um..." Hermione scratched her hair boredly, "Maca again."
...
On the Saturday before the start of the first project, the school approved students in the third grade and above to visit Hogsmeade Village.Hermione told Harry that it might make him feel better to relax outside the castle.
In fact, Harry wanted to go out and relax, and she didn't need her to persuade him.
"But, where's Ron?" he asked, "you don't want to go with him?"
"Oh... that's it..." Hermione flushed slightly, "I think you can meet him at the Three Broomsticks Bistro..."
"No way! I don't want to... wait," Harry said strangely. "Aren't you going with me?"
"No, I... I still have something to do." Hermione hesitated.
"What's the matter?" Harry said, "I can do it with you, you know, I just want to relax, nothing else."
"No way!"
Hermione yelled out subconsciously, then was taken aback by her own voice.She looked around, and then continued: "No, I mean...I can only do some things..."
But Harry said dullly, "Then I will be alone again... That's awesome!"
Hermione looked up helplessly and raised her head. After thinking for a while, she reluctantly said, "Okay, okay... Then you must keep quiet and don't ask anything!"
She repeated it again with emphasis, "Remember, don't ask anything!"
"Why—" Harry asked halfway subconsciously, seeing that anger appeared on Hermione's face immediately, and he couldn't help but hold the words back into his stomach.
"——I don't ask, don't ask anything." He changed his words immediately.
In this way, Harry put on his invisibility cloak in the dormitory, went downstairs, and set off for Hogsmeade with Hermione.
Harry felt particularly at ease under the invisibility cloak.
When they walked into the village, Harry watched other classmates pass by them.Although there were no ugly comments against him, no one quoted the words in that stupid article.
But Harry found that many people were watching Hermione pointing.
"What are they talking about—"
"Don't talk, don't ask anything!" Hermione quickly blocked Harry's question.
They soon came to the door of Duke Bee's candy store, and every time they came back to Hogsmeade, they would definitely go there first.But this time, Hermione skipped it without even looking, and continued on.
Harry really wanted to ask why, but due to the situation of the first two episodes, he finally resisted it.
When they passed by the Joko Magic Joke Shop again, Harry found that Hermione had stopped in front of the Fengya Wizard Clothing Store.
"Wait here!" Hermione dropped the words quietly and ran in like a gust of wind.
Standing at the door, Harry blinked inexplicably, and looked inside puzzled.
"Uh...I'm still wearing a cloak of invisibility, she can't see it." He hesitated in place, but after all he couldn't hold back his curiosity, and cautiously opened the door and followed in.
"jingle--"
An abrupt doorbell knocked Harry in his footsteps.
"bad!"
He didn't dare to take a breath, but in the next second, he was staggered by something.
"Oh! What's in front?" There was a voice from behind Harry, and he ran forward two steps quickly, hiding behind a standing coat hanger with a coat on it.
At the same time, Hermione, who was talking to the owner in the shop, hurried to the door-she thought Harry had sneaked in!
But what she saw was a middle-aged witch.
"Oh... Madam, what's the matter with you?" Hermione said, and looked at her left and right.
"Um... it's okay, thank you." The witch smiled, glanced at the door suspiciously, and then walked inside.
"Harry, are you in?" Hermione asked softly, but received no answer.
Of course Harry wouldn't say anything. If he said it now, it would be a waste of the coincidence just now.Besides, no one will voluntarily come up to scold them, will they?
However, Hermione turned her head suddenly and grabbed Harry in a hand.
"How do you know—" Harry lowered his voice in surprise.
But Hermione didn't mean to explain to him at all, she opened the store door and pushed Harry out directly.
"Does your coat arch by itself when it is on the hanger..." she whispered and hurried back to the store.
"Does she want to buy clothes?" Harry stood outside the door, looking at the clothes displayed in the window, wonderingly, "But...the clothes here look quite expensive."
After a while, Hermione finally came out.
The two walked in silence for a while, and finally Harry couldn't help but speak.
"That... sorry, just now--"
"Stop talking!" Hermione said grumpily, "Well, please take off the invisibility cloak for a while. No one here will trouble you."
"Oh, really?" Harry said. "Look behind you."
Rita Skeeter and her photographer friend just came out of the Three Broomsticks Bistro.They were talking in low voices, and they walked past Hermione without even looking at her.
Instead, Hermione clenched her fists and glared at her back angrily.
Fearing that Rita Skeeter's crocodile leather bag would touch him, Harry quickly dodged under the wall of Honey Duke's candy store.
After the two left, Harry said, "She is still in the village. I dare say she will definitely come to watch the first event."
As soon as he uttered the words, he felt a fierce panic passing through his heart, but he did not say it.He and Hermione rarely talk about what the first event will be.
He always felt that Hermione seemed reluctant to consider this matter.
"She's gone," Hermione said, looking through Harry, staring at the end of the street."Let's go to the Three Broomsticks Tavern for a butterbeer, how about it? It's a bit cold, isn't it?"
Harry didn't say anything, she felt as if she was talking to the air.
"Just go for a drink, you don't need to talk to Ron!" She guessed why he didn't speak, and said irritably.
The Three Broomsticks Tavern was crowded with people, mainly Hogwarts students, all enjoying the freedom of this afternoon, but there were also many magicians of all kinds that Harry rarely saw elsewhere.
It is worth mentioning that they saw Maca in the corner.At this moment, he was chatting casually with Minister of Magic Fudge, still holding a large glass of Butterbeer.
"...Don't worry, you have done everything that should be done, just wait." Maca raised his glass to Fudge and said calmly.