Professor The Vampire Earl of Hogwarts

At the end of another song, Harry panted heavily and wiped the sweat from his brow.

"Are you tired?" He looked at Ginny and asked, "How about we rest for a while?"

Ginny was still a little reluctant to part with her, so she stretched her sore ankle, trying to force herself to continue jumping.

But Harry glanced outside the dance floor and saw that Ron had stopped dancing with Midgen early on, and was sitting on the outside seat, looking a little unhappy.

Although Harry was still a little unsure, but because he was worried about Ron, he still pulled Ginny out of the dance floor.

"How was the dance today?" Harry asked Ron, sitting down and opening a bottle of Butterbeer that lay on the table.

Hogwarts is very well prepared for this dance. There are several banquet tables next to the dance floor, with different types of drinks on them, so that students who are thirsty after dancing can come here to resupply.

Ron still sat motionless, not in the mood to answer Harry's question, but stared angrily at Hermione and Krum who were dancing nearby.

"He's been sitting like this for a long time." Midgen crossed his arms and sat beside him with his legs crossed. One leg was shaking with the beat of the music, as if he hadn't had enough fun dancing.

"Ever since seeing Granger's good looks, he has been out of his mind," she said, "We had a dance today, and he's not very good at dancing. How good is Longbottom's performance?"

Midgen was obviously dissatisfied with Ron.

It is impossible for any girl to be magnanimously forgiving if her partner at the ball does not concentrate on dancing with her, but keeps her attention on another girl.

In comparison, Midgen is already extremely open-minded.

If it were someone else, it's hard to say whether Ron can sit here intact now...

"Ron, I admit that Hermione's outfit today is indeed... well, incredible, but you don't have to be so surprised, right?" Harry said deliberately.

"Don't ask, Harry." Ginny said in a cool tone, "Haven't you noticed yet? This guy is obviously jealous when he saw Hermione dancing with Krum."

"I didn't!" Ron blushed, and turned to give Ginny a look. "I... how could I be jealous of the two of them? What do you think of us?"

"It's buddies, understand? You girls don't understand how our buddies get along!" He said sternly.

"Yes, yes, you always regarded Hermione as your 'buddy' when you didn't pay attention to her image, but now that she has become more beautiful, you realize that she is a girl." Ginny sarcastically said mercilessly.

"You don't need to remind me, I always knew she was a girl!" Ron insisted.

"Then why didn't you think of finding Hermione as your dance partner before?" Ginny curled her lips and continued to ask, "You didn't think of finding her as your partner until Krum invited her... You don't think it's possible for Hermione to find a partner, do you?"

"I'm not...me, she's..." Ginny's words made Ron start to speak incoherently.

"There are other things." Ginny pressed every step of the way. "Did you say in the common room that you would rather go to the Yule Ball alone than invite Hermione?"

"I don't...I just don't want to invite girls who are... not very good-looking," Ron stammered. "I'd rather go to the Yule Ball by myself than dance with those girls."

"Huh?" Hearing this, Eloise Midgen, who had crossed her legs, couldn't sit still, and asked, "Do you mean that Hermione is not good-looking, or that I am not good-looking?"

"I saw it when Professor Dracula arranged a team for people without a partner in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. You originally resisted being my partner, didn't you?"

"I'm not..." Ron was so anxious that he was about to cry.

He was indeed dissatisfied with Midgen's pimples and slightly crooked nose, so he never thought of inviting her as a dance partner, but he never dared to say this kind of previous thoughts in front of Midgen.

Now being so provoked by Ginny, Ron casually revealed his previous criteria for choosing a partner, and as expected, Midgen was keenly aware of it.

"I shouldn't have invited you, Weasley!" Midgen said coldly, not listening to Ron's explanation at all, and calling Ron from his first name to his last name.

After that, she got up straight away and left her seat, and sat on another banquet table.

Soon, other boys approached and invited Midgen to dance together.Midgen agreed without hesitation.

"Ginny, what have you done..." Ron looked at this scene and said with a sad face.

"It's all done by you yourself." Ginny said without showing any weakness, "You'd better find a way to apologize to Midgen these few days, otherwise I'm not sure she won't tell you Turn against each other."

At this moment, Hermione came from the dance floor and sat in the chair that Midgen had vacated.

She didn't realize that there was almost a war here just now, so she kept fanning herself with the palm of her hand, dancing until her face was slightly flushed.

"Good evening, Hermione." Harry greeted Hermione first.

Ron kept his mouth shut and said nothing.

"Good evening, Harry... it's really hot, isn't it?" Hermione said, wiping the sweat with a tissue on the table, "Victor went to the next table to get a drink... Hey, eh Where's Lois? Isn't she your partner?"

Ron gave Hermione a sour look, all his attention focused on what Hermione called Krum.

"Victor?" he said. "Did he ask you to call him 'Vicky'?"

Hermione looked at him in surprise.

"What's the matter with you? You had a conflict with Eloise, are you in a bad mood now?" she asked.

"If you don't know," said Ron meanly, "then I don't want to tell you either."

Hermione looked back at Harry, surprised and puzzled.

Harry didn't know what to say, so he shrugged helplessly.

"Ron, what are you—"

"He's from Durmstrang!" cried Ron suddenly. "He's Harry's rival! Hogwarts' rival! You—you're—"

He was obviously searching his brains for words that could describe Hermione's heinous crime, "You acted against the enemy, and that's what you did!"

Harry, who was sitting next to him, couldn't listen any longer, and didn't know why he was involved in it.

He tugged at Ron's arm, trying to stop him, but Ron wouldn't budge.

Hermione opened her mouth wide in surprise.

"Stop talking stupid!" She retorted after a while, "My enemy! Who is the enemy? To tell you the truth, who was so excited when I saw him coming? Who wanted his autograph? ?Who has his model in the dorm?"

Ron decided to ignore the words and asked another question: "I guess he invited you while you were both in the library?"

"Yeah, that's right," said Hermione, the blush on her cheeks getting brighter from the dancing, "so what?"

"How did it happen?" asked Ron sharply. "Are you trying to tell Harry what to say?"

"No, that's not it!" Hermione retorted loudly, "If you really want to know, let me tell you, he... he said he came to the library every day just to talk to me, but he kept encouraging No courage!"

"Really?" Ron said sourly, "Well, that's what he said."

"So, can you tell me what he means?" Hermione asked impatiently.

"Isn't that obvious? He's a student of Karkaroff, isn't he?" said Ron. "He knows who you hang out with all day - he just wants to get close to Harry and steal his information; or Get close to Harry and put a curse on him..."

"Shut up, Ron!" Ginny interrupted him amplifying her voice. "You've got nothing to do, you're only making excuses out of nothing!"

"I just hope she can know that Krum is our enemy!" Ron also shouted excitedly.

"Ahem...Ron, actually, I don't think it's a big deal for Hermione and Krum to dance together." Harry was shivering between the two, wanting to be a peacemaker.

But Ron ignored Harry's thoughts, and instead asked:

"Then why don't you go to Vicky now? He might be worried if he can't find you."

"His name isn't Vicky, Ron!"

Hermione was shaking with rage, and before Krum could bring her drink, she crossed the dance floor and disappeared into the crowd in a huff.

Ron looked at her back with a look of anger and hatred on his face.

"Let's go too, Harry," Ginny curled her lips, and took Harry's hand. "From childhood to adulthood, there will always be a period of time when Ron has trouble with us."

"Wait, I haven't talked about you yet!" Ron turned his head to look at them. "You two haven't told me yet, what's going on with you? I'm your brother, Ginny..."

However, Ginny didn't pay attention to him at all, and took Harry into the dance floor, and took Harry to dance together in the next fast-paced dance song of the Weird Sisters.

However, Harry wasn't in the mood for dancing, he was always absent-minded, and his dance steps never kept up with the beat.He is always worried about his friends.

At this time, a tall figure and another witch with a short, fat figure came to him and Ginny while dancing.

Harry discovered that Professor Dracula's dance partner changed from Professor McGonagall to Professor Sprout, the dean of Hufflepuff.

He never thought that Professor Sprout, a witch who had been making herself ashamed in the greenhouse all the year round, could dance quite well.

It's just that her figure is a little funny compared to Professor Dracula's tall figure...

Of course, if compared with the previous height difference between Dumbledore and Ms. Maxim, the difference between Professor Dracula and Professor Sprout is quite harmonious.

"Potter, if you don't stay focused when you're not dancing well, your dance partner might get angry." Dracula's voice sounded beside Harry.

Only then did Harry realize that he had stepped on Ginny several times, and quickly apologized to her.

Fortunately, Ginny also knew that Harry was distracted by a friend, who was also her brother, so she graciously forgave him.

"What's the matter, did you have a conflict with your inseparable little friend just now?" Dracula asked with interest, "I remember you just reconciled?"

"Not this time..." Harry said, "Ron and I didn't have a fight this time."

He was still hesitating whether to tell Professor Dracula about Ron's situation, but Ginny spoke first.

"Professor, it's not Harry and Ron's problem this time, it's Ron and Hermione." Ginny complained, "He probably started to fight with people because he was jealous...First Harry, then Hermione, Twice this semester, he is really endless!"

What Ginny thought was that Ron was her brother after all, and Hermione was her good friend, and Harry, whom she admired, was also involved.

Now that those two are at odds, maybe the almighty Professor Dracula can find some solutions.

However, Dracula didn't have the idea of ​​helping them solve the problem at all. Instead, he looked like he didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement.

"Oh? Weasley's jealous of Granger? Interesting!" he said with great interest, "Come on, tell me what happened to the two of them in detail, I'd love to hear it."

"Eh..." Harry was stunned, feeling that Ginny's idea of ​​asking Professor Dracula for help was completely unreliable.

Fortunately, besides Professor Dracula, there is also an amiable Professor Sprout dancing here.

As the head of the Badger House who is most enthusiastic about helping others, Professor Sprout looked at Harry and Ginny with a smile, and said to them: "Are you talking about the Weasley boy? I know, the Weasley family The youngest boy is not very reassuring."

Hearing this, Harry blushed a little, and felt that Professor Sprout had to include himself in the troubled people.

"It doesn't matter," Professor Sprout said with a smile. "When I taught Arthur and Molly, they were not very worrying—especially Arthur, who was still being The gatekeeper is hanging up and beating!"

Seeing that Sprout wanted to help, Ginny hurriedly told her what happened between Ron, Hermione and Krum, and Dracula, who was dancing with Professor Sprout, It is eating melons next to it with great interest.

"So that's the case," Professor Sprout smiled gently, "Perhaps you haven't thought about it, it's not just his problem?"

"Ron has to compete with so many good brothers at home, Harry, and you're such a big name as his best friend—every time anyone sees you, he gets sidelined, and he's very happy about that." I endured it in silence, never said a word, and I think this time just broke the end of it for him..."

"It's similar to Hermione's this time. Miss Granger has always been so good. No matter how he doesn't care on the surface, he will always feel inferior in his heart."

"Do you know? Ron is actually very likely to be a child who lacks confidence and has no sense of security."

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