Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 386
385 dance partner
Since Hermione's appearance, she has robbed most people's attention - especially the girls present.

Except for a few insiders, the girls were staring at him with undisguised suspicion.

"Hello, Cho!" Hermione said when they passed by Harry and the two, but she didn't greet Harry, but stared at him with a haughty look.

Harry couldn't utter a word, and he heard Cho whispering to himself beside him, "Look, she's eyeing you again, but luckily she doesn't seem to like you."

At this time, Ron came late with Luna—Harry could probably guess why Ron appeared so late at a glance, because Luna's dress was really special, and the long dress she was wearing seemed to be made of plastic. It's done, with chic bottle stopper earrings on her ears.

It is estimated that Ron struggled for a long time after seeing Luna's appearance, and Harry admired his courage.

"Have you found Hermione yet?"

Ron yelled as he walked over, he didn't recognize his other partner with his back turned: "Don't tell me you only care about talking about love, now we have an important sense of mission, and you don't know what to do." Want to see the house-elves rebel right there?"

"What rebellion?"

Hermione turned her head back, and she asked impatiently, "I said, what are you arranging for me? Are you refusing to let me go on such a beautiful day?"

Ron was also stunned when he saw Hermione's appearance.

Luna greeted her generously: "Hello, Hermione, you look so beautiful today."

"I know," said Hermione, smiling, showing her neat teeth, which shone along with her eyes.

"But some people never seem to notice this." She quickly continued, her eyes especially on Harry and Ron twice, and her tone was emphasized again.

"some people."

Ron stared at Harry dumbfounded. Harry had lowered his head, and he didn't want Qiu to say anything surprising.

In the end, it was the kind-hearted Cedric who broke the awkward atmosphere. He had already seen that something was wrong between the three friends—the main reason was that Hermione was suppressing the other two boys by herself, and there was nothing wrong with her. Don't fall behind.

"Well, Harry, have you got the golden egg? That magic circle is really complicated, isn't it?"

"Not yet," Harry muttered, and then he couldn't help but whisper curiously, "What the hell is going on here?"

Cedric must have understood what Harry was trying to ask.

He turned his head and glanced at Hermione, who was chatting with Qiu and Luna, and Ron also walked over step by step, obviously intending to ask clearly.

"You should know about Hermione rejecting Krum, right?"

Harry knew, but it was the first time Ron had heard of it.

"Don't rush to shout." Harry quickly covered Ron's mouth, and then motioned for Cedric to continue.

"At that time, Hermione and I were looking up information in the library. You know, it was about the auto-casting wand. Then I found Krum walking over first. I thought he was looking for me. After all, we were still there. It's considered acquaintance. It turns out that he actually went to invite Hermione to be a dance partner."

"I didn't know that Krum actually had a crush on Hermione, did you? In fact, I didn't expect that Krum had never asked around for Hermione before that. He was hiding something really deep. Anyway, Hermione rejected Krum almost on the spot—I say this because she was also intimidated by the sudden invitation at the time, but she refused immediately after she realized it. .”

"You have no idea how embarrassing the scene was."

When he said this, Cedric still had a frightened expression on his face.

"It's not just us, there are other students in the library—oh, by the way, Qiu was there at that time, and she and her roommates were shocked. So—I really don't know what I was thinking at the time - so I said to Krum - I'm sorry, but it was a bit late for you to invite her, because she agreed to be my partner first."

"Merlin." Harry stared at Cedric in disbelief, and Ron also stared at him with a look of "are you sick?"

"I know." Cedric sighed, but he didn't feel sad for a long time and said: "But thinking about it, it seems that I took advantage of it, because I found out later that I almost didn't have a dance partner, but the warrior is I need to lead the dance at the opening. And it's a good thing that Hermione didn't refuse me, otherwise it would be embarrassing - Merlin's beard!"

This is a dirty word, and it has never come out of Cedric's mouth.

I don't know when, the whole hall became silent. Harry and Ron saw the three girls who were chatting were also looking behind them in shock. They looked back along these gazes in doubt. .

Two figures are walking down the stairs.

Professor Angela is as beautiful as ever. She is wearing a snowflake-like white dress, exuding holy light all over her body. Those who don’t know think she jumped out of a portrait, or an elf floating down from the moon. , the whole person is shrouded in the beautiful scenery that can be seen clearly but cannot be described.

If it was just these things, it would not have kept the hall silent for so long. After all, these people had already seen the extraordinary things of Professor Angela.

The reason for this is that she is holding another person's arm.

Probably no one would recognize him at the first sight, maybe because his long, disheveled hair suddenly became neat and neatly tied behind his head, or maybe because the other party finally stopped wearing the usual black witch robe , but put on a distinctive dark red velvet dress.The resolute face was big and generous in front of everyone, his eyes seemed to be full of indifference that would never go away, but they were extraordinarily sharp.

Harry's eyes flicked violently for a while, and after a long period of blank mind, he finally recognized who this person was.

"Bang bang bang bang~"

"Bang bang bang bang~"

It’s so hard to die, a melody sounded from Fred’s mouth at the other end of the hall, and George immediately followed it—everyone could recognize that it was a wedding march, and it really fit the scene in front of him.

"To shut up."

Toby glanced over, and the two were so frightened that they dared not speak immediately.

"Thank you everyone." Angela's expression was not so serious, she happily rolled up the corner of her skirt, responded to the joking tone, and smiled happily.

This broke the silence in the hall, and exclamations echoed.

"It's so beautiful but so handsome, really so handsome."

"Why doesn't the professor usually dress like this?"

"It's probably because we were worried that we wouldn't be interested in listening to the class. Why didn't I find out earlier. Why?"

A girl covered her face and burst into tears.

In such a noisy sound, Toby frowned slightly, but this kind of him fascinated more people.

"Don't be unhappy." Angela continued to maintain the smile on the corner of her mouth, and said through her teeth: "Don't act like you want to scare people all day long, and you are not in class now, so you can't occasionally Do you want to relax?"

Toby glanced sideways at her, raised one arm, and undid the first button below the neck with the palm of his hand.

"Choose me this dress, I don't see that you're trying to make me relax."

Angela turned around calmly, raised her two hands, pushed Toby's arm away secretly, then gnashed her teeth and fastened the button again.

"I warn you, this is the first time I've been to a dance, and if you keep messing with me, I'll show you what a real headache is."

Toby leaned back slightly and asked, "Give me a headache more than losing your scepter?"

Angela pressed on every step, she leaned forward slightly, her silver eyes met Toby's, almost nose to nose.

"You can try it."

Toby decided not to continue struggling. He pressed Angela's shoulders and pushed her back, saying, "Okay, but why hasn't the dance started yet? Where's Al? Why won't he come with us?"

"It still has something to do." Angela said mysteriously.

As if to test her idea, the gate of the auditorium opened at the same time as the gate of the castle.

Toby didn't look at the layout of the auditorium, he saw Lockhart leading the Durmstrang students in at a glance.

Lockhart saw Toby, too, his grin froze, his blue eyes wider than light bulbs.

The students spontaneously made way for Toby who was coming, and Angela walked together contentedly holding his arm.

"Why don't you print that picture in those books of yours?"

Lockhart spoke as soon as he opened his mouth.

"What?" Toby didn't understand.

Lockhart said gratefully: "It's a good thing you didn't do this, otherwise the top writer would be handed over to someone else—you can just pretend that I didn't say anything."

Toby was very dissatisfied with Lockhart's secretiveness, which always gave him a suspicion that Grindelwald could take advantage of it.

However, as the vice principal, he also has his own responsibilities to bear.

"Come here, warriors," he said.

After the four pairs of dance partners stood by the door, Toby arranged for the other students to go into the auditorium and sit down first, and then the warriors entered the arena—this is one of the important parts of the dance, and they must be Just show up once in front of everyone.

But here lies the problem.

As the vice principal, Toby needs to lead the way, and Angela holds his arm and refuses to let go.

When Toby signaled the warriors and dancers behind him to follow him into the auditorium, Al suddenly jumped out from nowhere—it changed into that very neat tuxedo, and its short tail shook Toby , the only difference is that there is an extra wreath on the head, and there are a lot of fairy lights flying around, constantly sprinkle bright embellishments on the carpet, and Al throws them from the flower basket The petals are intertwined.

"what are you doing?"

"ah?"

"What do you mean let me leave it alone? What the hell are you doing at this time?"

"ah!"

"Angela? Angela was involved in this matter? You already knew?"

"Why are you talking so much, shut up, look ahead, and be honest."

Mrs. Maxim was sitting in the seat of the guest seat. She looked up at the couple walking in front. The appearance of Toby and Angela covered up the existence of everyone. And more.

"What is this?" She said with a little dissatisfaction: "Is it a wedding specially held for them? Are all the flower girls behind?"

"I didn't expect such a surprise." Principal McGonagall's eyes were full of relief: "Didn't you wonder why Angela refused to stay in Beauxbatons before, but now we know, her eyes have always been Not bad—at least better than you, Olim."

Madam Maxim snorted coldly, but she still didn't say anything to rebut it.

After arriving in front of the guest table, Toby stared at the smiling Mag with weird eyes, which is not common.

"Are you going to lead the dance?" McGonagall asked with interest.

"Not interested." Toby said regardless of Angela who was poking him hard, "Hurry up and start the dinner principal, I'm about to be strangled."

"I don't know what to do." Mrs. Maxim said angrily, but Toby happened to hear it.

In order to avoid more serious disputes, McGonagall arranged for the warriors to sit down in time, and deliberately made Toby's seat far away from Maxim.

The way of ordering tonight is a bit unique, everyone can order as long as they say the name of the dish on the menu. After Principal McGonagall demonstrated, others followed suit.

"Beef ribs, berry pie, strawberry pudding, and more—what are you hitting on me again?"

Toby put down the menu in surprise, and turned to look at Angela who was staring at him angrily.

"Aren't you going to dance after eating so much?" Angela snatched his menu and said, "Don't tell me that you plan to find an excuse to get sleepy after eating, and plan to slip away at any time."

"Why would I do this?" Toby said, avoiding Angela's sight, with an unnatural expression.

Al jumped up and snatched Toby's pudding away, then whispered in Angela's ear.

"What did you say?"

Angela looked shocked: "Toby's never been to a prom, never danced—"

"Keep your voice down!" Toby covered Angela's mouth quickly, and gave Al a hard look by the way: "If you talk nonsense, I'll confiscate all your pocket money—I'll pay you back for what happened just now." Didn't settle accounts with you, who made you a flower girl?"

Al acted as shocked as Angela.

"Do you really think I don't know what a wedding is like?" Toby grabbed Al and rubbed his little head vigorously, then grabbed his cheek and yanked it to both sides, and bounced back with a "biu" .

"Tell me, who came up with this idea? Do you really think I'm so easy to fool?"

"Hahaha." Professor Slughorn sitting on the other side seemed to be in a good mood, which was not easy, because Dumbledore threatened him before, which made him in a bad state recently, until today when he saw his beloved students get better.

"Speaking carefully, I don't think I've ever seen you dance with anyone. It's really strange. After all, you have attended so many balls at the Slug Club, but you don't have a female partner. But there is another person and You're just as pathetic - oh no, it's distressing, I remember Severus also having no female companion -"

"He deserves it right," Toby said sarcastically. "Who would like an old bat with greasy hair?"

"Oh, don't let him hear that." Slughorn shook his head and said, "Otherwise the two of you will definitely have conflicts—by the way, when are you going to see him, or between you two?" Is the conflict really irreconcilable? Maybe I can help."

"See him?" Toby asked puzzled; "Why see him? The premise is to find him."

"do not you know?"

Slughorn looked at Toby in surprise.

"Severus has already agreed to be the owner of Fred and George's first store. Has he really not mentioned it to you?"

(End of this chapter)