Chapter 179: Gift box under the bed

The teachers and students of Hogwarts continued to show their desire to impress the guests of Boothbatten and Durmstrand, and they seemed determined to show the best of the castle this Christmas.
The school was carefully set up by everyone. It can be said that this castle has never been so beautiful!
The handrails of the marble staircase are filled with immortal icicles, and the twelve Christmas trees that are customarily placed in the auditorium are decorated with various gadgets, from shiny holly berries to Stop tweeting golden owl.
Those armors were enchanted, and as soon as someone passed by, they would sing Christmas carols.
To be honest, when you listen to an empty helmet and sing "Oh, come on, you pious people", it feels really funny.
In the original words, the armor knew only half of the lyrics. The janitor Filch had to pull Pippi out of the armor several times, because Pippi hid in it, and whenever the armor couldn't sing, he wrote some lyrics to fill it in.
Believe me, those are very rough words.
However, just as everyone was busy doing this Christmas, Hermione was hiding in her bedroom alone, silently looking at the flat gift box lying on her bed.
The gift box had no ribbons and decorations, but was tied with a thin rope-this was obviously not a gift from someone else.
On the lid of the gift box, a line of text was printed: Wear elegant clothes and be a "necessary" wizard!
This was sent by an owl early in the morning.
When the package containing the gift box was lightly placed in front of Hermione by a trained owl, she didn't even finish her breakfast and returned to the bedroom holding the package.
But until now, she hadn't opened the beautiful gift box.
"... It shouldn't be, this is not the time to think about it." She muttered to herself, raising her hand and lowering it gently.
After coming and going like this several times, she simply picked up the gift box again and stuffed it under the bed.
Hermione had a lot of thoughts on her side, and Harry and Ron weren't feeling good now either--they were already very anxious.
Even if Ron doesn't have a dance partner, he won't be as popular as him. But Harry was different-he had to take the lead with other warriors to start dancing!
"I want to cry Myrtle is always there." Harry looked a little bit arrogant.
"Harry-we have to grit our teeth." Listen to Ron's tone, as if they were planning to break through a solid fortress. "Tonight when we return to the common room, we must all find our partners-- That's a deal?"
"Um ... okay," Harry said.
On that day, Harry saw the lovely and charming Qiu Zhang several times.
He remembered it well, three times in total!
Once during a break, once during lunch, and once on the way to a history of magic class. However, every time I saw her, she was surrounded by many friends.
Doesn't she go anywhere alone? Maybe he could hit her ambush while she was in the toilet? No-even if she goes to the bathroom, she is with four or five students by her side!
But if Harry didn't take any action, she would definitely be invited.
In Snape's Potion Test, he found it difficult to focus his thoughts, and as a result, he forgot to add a main ingredient, feces, which meant that he could only get the lowest score.
But he didn't care anymore. Now he is busy gathering courage and preparing to take decisive action!
As soon as the bell rang, he grabbed his schoolbag and rushed towards the door of the underground classroom.
"See you at the dinner table," he said to Ron and Hermione, who was quieter than usual, and rushed upstairs.
"Just ask Qiu Zhang a single sentence, it's that simple ... it's that simple!"
He hurried through the crowded corridor, looking for her figure. Unexpectedly, he saw her almost on a turn. At this moment, she was coming out of the classroom of the black magic defense class.
"Hmm-Qiu Zhang? Can I say a word to you?"
The Ministry of Magic should issue a new bill that stipulates that people should not be allowed to "giggle"! Because the girls around Qiu Zhang giggled.
Fortunately, Qiu Zhang himself did not laugh.
She said "Okay," and followed Harry to a place where her classmates couldn't hear.
Harry turned to look at her, and suddenly there was a weird convulsion in his heart, as if he had stepped down a step when he went downstairs.
"Um." He supported me.
He couldn't ask, he couldn't even open his mouth ... but he had to ask! Qiu Zhang is now standing in front of him, looking at him with a confused expression-the arrow is already on Zhang Man's hunting bow!
The sentence blurted out from Harry, and he spoke incoherently, without even getting the words right.
"Companion ... follow me!"
"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Qiu Zhanghuan gave a moment.
"You-would you like to go to the ball with me?" Harry asked.
This sentence was finally asked clearly by him, but why did he blush? why!
"Oh!" Qiu Zhang's face was also flushed. "Oh, Harry, I'm really sorry," she looked at him frankly, "I already said I'd go with another person."
"Oh," Harry said.
This feels weird: a minute ago, he felt that his internal organs were creeping like a snake; but now, suddenly, his internal organs seemed to be hollowed out.
"Oh, okay," he said, "it doesn't matter."
"I'm really sorry." She said again.
"It's okay," Harry said.
They stood there looking at each other, and Qiu Zhang whispered, "So, let's just--"
"Okay," Harry said.
"Okay, goodbye." Qiu Zhang's face was still very red. She took two steps back, then turned and left.
Harry called her from behind-he didn't want to do it, or he didn't have time to stop himself from doing so.
"who are you going with?"
"Oh-Cedric," she said, "Cedric Diggory."
"Oh, okay." Harry.
His internal organs seemed to be back, but he felt that they had just been filled with lead just now, and he was falling in his stomach at the moment.
Harry forgot all about dinner. He slowly walked back to the Gryffindor common room upstairs, and every time he took a step, Qiu Zhang's voice echoed:
"Cedric-Cedric Diggory-''
Yeah yeah ... Cedric is the seeker and captain of the Hitchpitch team, that's no worse than him ... Cedric is tall and handsome, which he can't compare with ... Much better than him ... Cedric ...
"But I am the warrior of Hogwarts!"
Harry suddenly thought dissatisfied: Cedric was actually a useless handsome guy, his brain was not enough to fill an egg shell!
"Uh-" He thought for a while, and sighed, "Well, I am somehow a warrior ..."
"Light of Fairy Mirror." He said dryly to the fat lady-the password was changed the day before.
"That's right, my dear!" She said with a trill, stunned her gold and silver hairband, and turned away to let him in.
Entering the common room, Harry looked around and was surprised to see Ron sitting stiff in a corner in the distance. Ginny sat beside him, talking to him in a low voice, as if comforting him.
"What's wrong, Ron?" Harry asked, walking towards them.
Ron looked up at Harry with a startled expression on his face.
"I'm so anxious ..." He said insanely, "I've been thinking about my partner, I just didn't know how--"
"What?" Harry asked.
"He--um--he just invited Fleur Delacour to the party with him." Ginny seemed to be desperately holding back a smile, but still patted Ron's arm sympathetically.
"What happened to you?"
Harry wanted to say-what the are you doing, but it's too bad for your good friend. But who can think of it, that is really stupid.
"I don't know how I did this!" Ron sighed heavily. "What's my joke? There are people all over there-full of people-I'm really dazed-- Everyone is watching! "
"I met her as I walked through the hallway-she was standing there talking to Diggory-I suddenly couldn't control myself-just stepped forward and asked her!"
He looked very annoyed, rubbing his face hard and saying, "Maybe after that day, everything went too smoothly ... I think I'm ... arrogant."
"Oh, I remember ... she did have a part of the baby girl," Harry said. "You were right--her grandma was the baby girl."
"Listen to me, it's not your fault-I dare say she was doing that magic to Digorius, and you happened to be hit,-"
"But ..." Harry said here ~ EbookFREE.me ~ and then he paused. "She was in vain this time because Dighory went with Qiu Zhang."
Ron suddenly raised his head and looked at Harry in surprise.
"I just asked her to go with me," Harry said dryly. "She told me."
Ginny next to her suddenly stopped smiling.
"It's just that we two don't have a dance partner--" Ron said, "Oh--yes, except Neville! But seriously, Neville hasn't been quite right this semester. Last time, he took time off from home-- —I asked him, but he refused to say anything. "
Just then, Hermione crawled through the hole behind the portrait.
"Oh—Hermione—" Ron suddenly looked away, because now he felt a guilty conscience.
"Why don't you two go to dinner?" She came over and sat in the armchair next to her.
"because--"
Ginny's words had just begun, and her brother kept covering his mouth.
"Nothing!" Ron shook his head hard, even if he didn't know why he was doing it-hadn't he decided to give up?