Harry Potter’s Book of Sin
Chapter 178 Who is whose dance partner? plus
In the past, the number of students enrolled in school during the Christmas period was always a very small part, because everyone wanted to go home and enjoy the festive atmosphere with their families.
Well, I actually want to let go of it, because at Hogwarts there is always a sense of restraint.
But Harry always stayed at school for Christmas, because if he didn't, he would have to go back to Privet Drive, and he didn't want to face his uncle and aunt who didn't like him.
But this year is different. All the students above the fourth grade seem to stay!
In Harry's view, they were all very obsessed with the upcoming dance-at least all the girls.
He was suddenly surprised to find that Hogwarts had accommodated so many girls, which he had never noticed before.
The girls were laughing and whispering in the hallway. The girls shrieked whenever a boy walked by. The girls exchanged opinions excitedly, talking about what clothes to wear on Christmas evening...
"Why are they all moving in groups?" Harry asked Ron—at this moment, there were a dozen girls passing by. They looked at Harry and smirked secretly. "How can you wait for them? Act alone, grab one and make a request?"
"Lose one with a noose?" Ron suggested. "Have you thought about whom you would invite?"
Harry didn't answer.He knows exactly who he is willing to invite, but whether he can summon the courage is another matter...Choo Zhang is one year above him, looks very beautiful, and is a very good Quidditch player. Her popularity Also very good.
Ron seemed to see through Harry's heart.
"Listen, you won't have any trouble. You are a warrior. You just killed the crazy dragon and lion, I dare say-they will line up to dance with you!"
There was a strong bitterness in Ron's voice.
Probably because of Maca's call, Ron has finally gradually let go of his depression.
At first he was not quite used to it, because it would undoubtedly expose his inferiority complex.But gradually, he himself discovered the benefits of doing this: he gradually became more daring to do certain things that he dared not do in the past.
"Be brave enough to invite, Harry!" He patted his best friend on the shoulder and whispered, "Maybe I can get some light too!"
Harry was surprised to find that Ron's judgment proved to be very correct.
On the second day, a curly-haired girl in the third year of Hufflepuff College—Harry had never spoken to her before, took the initiative to invite Harry to go to the dance with her.
Harry was so surprised that he refused without even thinking about it.
Probably because his words were too direct, the girl walked away, looking hurt.
Throughout the history of magic, Harry had to endure Dean and Seamer's sarcasm and ridicule of the girl, and Ron, who was always one of them, didn't get involved this time.
"Maca is right. I used to bury my head in my own thoughts and ignore the feelings of others too much." Ron looked at Dean and Seamo, tugging his eyebrows and thinking hard. It will definitely be very uncomfortable for them to laugh at themselves like this... But what would she think specifically..."
Ron's change is very obvious. Although he still doesn't quite understand how to "emphasize", one day, this change will bring him unexpected benefits.
The next day, two more girls came to invite Harry.One was in the second grade, and the other—Harry was horrified to discover that she turned out to be in the fifth grade!
Seeing her like that, it seemed that if Harry dared to refuse, she would immediately knock him out.
"She looks pretty." Ron said justly after laughing enough, "and her personality is very similar to that of Hufflepuff's beautiful Wit, isn't it?"
"She's one foot taller than me!" Harry said in shock. "Imagine I'm dancing with her...that's not a fool!"
Harry often thought of Hermione's words about Maca: "They like him because he is famous!"
Harry wondered very much whether the girls who invited him as a dance partner would still go to the dance with him if he were not a warrior in the school.
Then he asked himself, if Qiu Zhang took the initiative to invite him, would he still consider this question?
"Wait!" Because of his own mood at this time, Harry suddenly seemed to understand something, "Could it be that Hermione...likes Maca!"
"Have you just figured it out?" Ron sighed depressed.
"But--oh--" Harry's eyes and mouth were opened to the largest extent, and even his nostrils expanded in surprise. "Merlin's pants...no, I mean, Merlin's beard! This..."
Ron felt that now he could say anything, but it was this matter that he really didn't want to mention at all.
"Don't think about it, put it in your heart!" His tone was a little frustrated, as if he was speaking to Harry, and as if to himself.
"Um..." Harry closed his mouth and said with a complicated expression, "I think...well! No matter what they are, we are still best friends."
"Yeah, that's it..." Ron echoed dully.
Harry’s dancing partner is up in the air—believe me, it’s not so easy for him to find his partner!But this time, Maca was a little hesitant about her partner.
As far as he knows, Luna has never been very interested in dancing.Compared to this, it might be more attractive for her to wear a puppet and wave the flag next to her.
But besides Luna, who else can he invite?
"Villy?"
He just had this idea, but it was extinguished in a blink of an eye.
"Dancing with two facial paralysis?" Maca immediately shook his head, "The picture is too beautiful, so forget it..."
But in this way, it seems that only left...
This is the last week of the semester, and the school is getting lively and noisy day by day.
There are rumors about the Christmas ball, most of which are hard to believe—for example, Dumbledore bought 800 barrels of fragrant mead from Rosemerta of Three Broomsticks.
However, everyone is always happy with these rumors. Who cares if it is true?It is enough to be able to talk about these interesting topics.
But there is one piece of news that sounds like that: Dumbledore seems to have booked the Strange Sisters to hold a concert at Hogwarts.
Those little wizards who have listened to N since childhood are extremely excited, because the Sisters of Weird is indeed one of the most popular wizard bands in these years.
"Weird sister, that's pretty cool!"
Some teachers, such as the little Professor Flitwick, saw that the students were obviously absent-minded, so they simply stopped teaching.
He allowed them to play games in his class on Wednesday, and he spent most of the time talking to Harry and Hermione, talking about the two wonderful flyings they used in the first event of the Triwizard Tournament. curse.
But other teachers are not so easy to talk.
For example, Professor Bins's attention cannot be diverted, and he continues to trudge through his pile of goblin rebellion notes.
The students speculated that since Professor Bins did not let his death stop him from continuing to teach, it would be impossible for him to be distracted by small things like Christmas.
It is really strange to say that even though Professor Bins can always talk about the bloody, thrilling goblin rebellion as boring as Percy's Bottom of the Crucible Report, there is still one person who often comes in to listen to the class seriously.
That person is Maca.He may not be interested in other classes, but every time he has time, he will still go to the magic history class to listen carefully for a while.
It's just that under normal circumstances, he would only sit at the back secretly, without disturbing anyone.In that sleepy magic history class, indeed few people would notice him.
Professor McGonagall and Moody also don't let the students idle, they always talk until the last second before get out of class ends.
Not to mention Snape, he would rather adopt Harry as a godson than let his classmates play games in class.
He gazed at the class with gloomy eyes and told them that he would test their antidote in the last class of the semester.
"He's really bad," Ron said angrily in the Gryffindor common room that night, "test us on the last day. Use a lot of homework to ruin the last bit of the semester."
"Hmm... Actually you didn't work too hard, did you?" Hermione poked her head and looked at Ron from above the mess of books.
At this moment, Ron is busy building a castle with his crackling exploding cards!Hearing a sudden conversation from Hermione, his hand shook, the castle halfway up to him shook slightly, and then it exploded.
"Oh—" Ron wiped his blackened face vigorously, and muttered, "I've been working hard recently."
"It's Christmas, Hermione." Harry said lazily.He was sitting in an armchair by the fire, reading the book he had read nine times.
Hermione looked at him again with serious eyes.
"Harry, I think you will do something more creative even if you don't want to learn antidote!"
"Like what?" Harry asked, watching Joey Jenkens of the Artillery hit a roaming ball hard at a chaser of the Fort Barry Bats.
"Your box!" Hermione gritted her teeth and whispered, "This is important, isn't it?"
"Well, Hermione, we can rest until February 24th—"
His attention was focused on the book in front of him, he said casually, and would confiscate it if he didn't pay attention.
"And, have you invited Maca? I don't think Maca will refuse you..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, but the words had been exported, but he obviously couldn't get them back.
"I will not invite him."
Hermione's unusual calmness made Harry feel a little creepy.