Chapter 265: Hermione’s dance partner is

"Ron, what are you talking about?"

Ron's shocking words made Ginny's cheeks turn red with embarrassment, and she glared at Ron viciously.

However, when Ginny turned her eyes to Harry, her eyes became shy and gentle again.

"Harry, ignore him, let's leave quickly." She held Harry's arm tightly and whispered to him, "Ron may ask some weird questions again soon!"

Harry was now a little embarrassed to face his good brother, so he nodded obediently and allowed Ginny to pull him out of the common room and walked towards the auditorium.

"Hey! Wait, you haven't explained to me what happened between you!" Ron shouted to them anxiously.

However, at this moment, his dance partner Eloise Midgen also walked out of the girls' dormitory.

Ron had no choice but to temporarily suppress his surprised emotions and turned his attention to Midgen.

"You...well, you are...very beautiful today." He said unnaturally. At the same time, he subconsciously glanced at the raw edges of the sleeves and collar of his robe, hoping not to be noticed by this hard-won dance partner.

"Thank you." Midgen glanced at Ron's ceremonial robe with a smile and said with a high emotional intelligence, "You are also very well dressed today and have a lot of personality."

"Oh, thank you." Ron's expression became more natural, "Then... shall we go down?"

Midgen nodded and took Ron's arm generously.

The entrance courtyard in front of the auditorium was crowded with students. They were all milling back and forth, waiting for eight o'clock to arrive, when the door of the auditorium would open to the students on time.

The atmosphere today was particularly lively. Dance partners were in pairs, whispering in each other's ears. Some young wizards wanted to meet their dance partners from other colleges, so they squeezed sideways through the crowd to look for each other.

Harry and Ginny had already found a relatively empty corner in the corridor in advance, and Ginny still held Harry's arm tightly.

At this time, Ginny was chatting enthusiastically with Rolf and Luna, who she met in the foyer——

"Luna, your aesthetics are really good!" Ginny praised her good friend Luna, "This dress is so beautiful too!"

"Thank you, Ginny, your dress is also very nice." Luna blinked her big, energetic eyes and also praised.

Harry looked at Luna's dress, and looked at Rolf who was standing next to Luna. Both of them had strange expressions, and they obviously disagreed with Ginny's praise.

Luna was wearing a dress decorated with silver sequins. If you just looked at the dress, there was nothing special about it. It was just an ordinary gray dress with pleated lace.

But I don’t know where the silver sequins inlaid on the skirt were found. They were forced to stick to the skirt crookedly with a sticking spell, and they were particularly reflective - even though there were not many light sources in the yard, they were still almost blinding. sharp eyes...

The two girls soon got together and chatted with smiles on their faces.

Harry and Rolf stood beside them silently, ostensibly looking at the black lake covered with snow on the ice, but in reality they were whispering.

"Rolf, didn't you advise Luna?" Harry asked in a low voice to Rolf, "What are the crooked sequins on her skirt, and are they her own creation?"

"Those sequins are actually the shed shells of the glittering beetles..." Luo Fu said listlessly, "I collected them when I went on an expedition to the Forbidden Forest with Luna some time ago. It happened to be the peak period for the beetles to shed their shells. She Looks like I quite like it..."

"In other words... those crooked sequins are actually a part of your work?" Harry glanced at Rove sympathetically.

"Yeah, but actually it's not bad." Rolf said, "Do you think I didn't persuade Luna? I have successfully persuaded her to put the airship bags on her ears and the Butterbeer cork hanging around her neck. Removed."

"Oh, by the way, you may not know what an airship plum is - it's actually an orange-red fruit that looks like a radish, hung upside down on the bush before picking... Luna said Lovegood Sir believes that Airship Lee can improve the ability to accept abnormal things."

"Compared to Luna, I think I might need an Airship Lee pendant now." Harry swallowed and whispered, "I feel like Luna and Ginny's aesthetics are beyond my understanding."

"Who says it isn't?" Luof sighed, and then he smiled fondly, "But if it weren't for this weird aesthetic and quirky personality, she wouldn't be Luna anymore. "

"That's true." Harry smiled heartily.

Just then, a group of Slytherin students came up the steps from their underground common room.

Walking at the front was Draco Malfoy. He was wearing a black velvet turtleneck robe. With his light blond hair, pale face and disdainful expression that no one liked, he actually looked quite handsome. of.

But in Harry's disgusted eyes, he looked like a vicar.

Malfoy's good friend and loyal fangirl, Pansy Parkinson, was wearing a frilly light pink robe, and she was hanging tightly on Malfoy's arm.

Crabbe and Goyle walking behind them were both dressed in green, like two large moss-covered stones, and Harry was pleased to see that neither of the two big men had found a partner.

"I'm dressed up like a real person today... Oh, it turns out that I have found a poor guy from Wes' house as my dance partner." Malfoy walked up to Harry, tilted his chin, and said in a sharp tone, " I guess her outfit must have used up all of Weiss’ family’s savings—”

"You're right, Hogwarts Champion, Potter?"

"Watch your mouth, Malfoy!" Harry responded angrily, taking a few steps forward.

He had been almost immune to Malfoy's bad mouth for a long time, but when the object of his bad mouth was Ginny, he couldn't help but feel protective.

"Am I wrong? How can a pure-blood scum like the Weiss family afford such robes?" Malfoy glanced at Ginny mockingly and said mockingly, "And the person next to her, could it be that Did you find a piece of clothing temporarily from the trash?"

This sentence offended three people at the same time, including Harry, Rove and Ginny, but it did not include Luna as the person involved.

When Harry and Rolf were trying to think of a way to teach this stupid guy a lesson, Luna spoke before them.

"Hello, Malfoy." Luna said in an erratic voice, "You seem to have low self-esteem..."

"I have low self-esteem?" Malfoy laughed loudly, as if he had heard the funniest joke, "Pansy, Crabbe, Goyle, tell me if there is something wrong with her brain, I am a great Malfoy family……"

"It has nothing to do with the family." Luna's expression was serious, and there was an inexplicable persuasiveness in her words, and she easily interrupted Malfoy.

"You seem to have nothing but money...only a follower, no real friends, no girl you really like, and your commendable Quidditch ability cannot be used in front of the hostile Harry..."

"I understand you, Malfoy."

At the end of the sentence, a deep look of pity appeared on Luna's face, and her words were filled with sympathy.

"You're talking nonsense!" Pansy Parkinson couldn't bear it anymore and retorted loudly, "How could Draco not have a girl he likes?"

However, Luna didn't seem to answer her thoughts, but looked at her with more pity.

Harry, Rolf and Ginny all looked at Luna in disbelief, shocked by her.

They had never thought that Luna, who usually looked confused and crazy, could be so accurate and ruthless in attacking people. Malfoy opposite him was obviously speechless.

What's even more admirable is that Luna didn't seem to say those words just to insult people at all, but that's what she thought in her heart.

Malfoy gritted his teeth for a long time, but he couldn't find anything wrong with Luna's words——

He really didn't like Pansy Parkinson, even though the two had known each other since childhood; Crabbe and Goyle were not real friends with him, they were all followers and bodyguards his father had found for him; as for Quidditch, although he didn't want to Admit it, but he is indeed not as good as Harry, who led the Gryffindor team to win the Quidditch Cup twice.

Is his pureblood background the only thing worth showing off?

Malfoy took a deep breath reluctantly.

He raised his head, glanced at Luna hatefully, decided not to pay attention to this strange girl, and once again pointed the finger at his old enemy, Harry.

"Potter, where is your Mudblood friend?" Malfoy once again put on a disdainful expression and asked, raising his chin.

He decided to use his own strengths to attack the other's weaknesses, starting from the aspect of blood.

"If I'm not wrong, she must have been unable to find a dance partner and is too embarrassed to attend the Yule Ball, right?" He laughed disdainfully, "No one would want to find a mudblood as a dance partner!"

"You're talking nonsense, Hermione has a dance partner!" Ginny retorted loudly.

"Really?" Malfoy sneered, "I would like to see who is so self-destructive that he is willing to ask her to dance with him."

Harry was speechless.

Even though the dance was about to start, he had no idea who the dance partner Hermione had found early was, so he couldn't refute Malfoy.

Malfoy looked at Harry, a look of anticipation appeared on his face, and he raised the corners of his mouth proudly.

Just when Malfoy thought he had finally regained the upper hand, the oak door of the Great Hall was opened.

A "squeak" sound of the door opening attracted the attention of everyone present.

Everyone turned their heads and saw Durmstrang students walking in together with their principal, Karkaroff.

Viktor Krum walked in the front, and beside him was a beautiful girl in a blue robe whom Harry didn't recognize. He didn't know why, but this beautiful girl always gave Harry a somewhat familiar feeling.

Looking over the heads of the Durmstrang students, the little wizards saw that the door of the auditorium was decorated with glittering gold, and there were dots of fairy lights inside.

"It's such a big deal. Your professors invited at least five hundred living fairies from nowhere." Luo Fu, the future magical zoologist, explained in time.

Harry looked over and saw the fairies sitting in the magic rose bushes or flapping their wings on the statues. The statues seemed to be Santa Claus and his reindeer.

At this time, Professor McGonagall’s voice rang:

"Warriors please come here!"

Ginny adjusted her dress nervously, a reserved smile appearing on her face.

She and Harry said "see you later" to Rolf and Luna beside them, glanced at Malfoy with a sullen face, and then walked forward to Professor McGonagall.

The chattering crowd cooperated to make way for the two of them to pass.

Walking up to Professor McGonagall, Harry saw that she was wearing a red tartan robe with a wreath of thistles on the brim.

Professor McGonagall asked the warriors and their dance partners to wait by the door and let other students enter the auditorium first. After the students were all seated, the warriors lined up and walked into the auditorium to start their performance.

Fleur Delacour and Roger Davis stood nearest the door.

Harry knew Davis, who was the captain of Ravenclaw's Quidditch team. This time, it was probably because the Beauxbatons student was closer to Ravenclaw that he got Fleur as his dance partner. Opportunity.

Davis seemed unable to believe that he had such good luck, he could not take his eyes away from Fleur from beginning to end;

John Kowalski's dance partner was a girl from Yinfamani, and he seemed too lazy to make any new friends;

As Harry expected, Cedric Diggory did become a dance partner with Cho Chang, and the two stood next to Harry, smiling friendly at him and Ginny;

Harry smiled back at them, then looked away, and finally looked at the focus of the crowd, the big star Klum.

Suddenly, he opened his mouth in surprise——

The beautiful girl standing next to Krum turned out to be Hermione!

But she looked nothing like Hermione. She seemed to have done some magic to her hair, making it no longer messy but smooth and shiny, and pulled into a bun on the back of her head. Elegant bun.

She was wearing a long dress made of flowing light purple-blue fabric, and somehow her aura was different - maybe just because she had taken off the 20-year-old dress she usually carried on her body. Many thick books.

Hermione also had a smile on her face. Although she looked a little nervous, she was countless times more beautiful than her usual posture.

Harry couldn't understand why he and Ron hadn't noticed before that their good brother Hermione could have such a pretty side.

The next moment, Harry stopped thinking about this because he saw Malfoy and Parkinson walking past them.

The expression on Malfoy's face was unprecedentedly shocked and gloomy. Apparently, he also recognized the girl standing next to Krum, who was the Mudblood he said he looked down on.

He stared at Hermione, his lips moved again and again, but he couldn't find a word to insult her.

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