The Chinese girl from Hufflepuff is both timid and brave

There weren't too many people in the Hogwarts cafeteria today. The headmaster led them all the way to the door, then waved his sleeves and left. Of course, he hadn't forgotten that he could ask her a question, but he said he would think about it.

Perhaps he had also realized that even if he gave her a truth serum, she would not be able to hear the truth unless she wanted to.

What questions would he ask himself?

"Bamboo." Cedric piled the selected food on the plate next to her, "You looked starving just now, and now you're in a daze again."

"I'm not that hungry." She took a bite of the blueberry tart. "Didn't you just say you were very hungry? That's why the principal sent us here."

"If I don't say this and let you stay there and continue to face him, I'm afraid you won't be able to explain many things." He raised his eyes slightly while cutting the steak and glanced at her. "Although I know you must be thinking about a lot of things now, you should still concentrate on eating. What we encountered this morning was not easy."

"Oh, right, and that Malfoy..." Sun Zhu put the fork on the plate with a "bang", making a crisp sound, "I need to think about it..."

"Senior, you're actually here!" Suddenly, three heads came over to her. "I thought I wouldn't be able to find any third-year students in the restaurant today!"

Cedric looked at the three of them and sighed silently.

"Hey, Senior Diggory, you're here too. There are some things we can't talk about." Ron scratched his head.

Hermione reached out and patted him, explaining to Cedric: "He was frightened by Snape, and his head is not very clear!"

"Understood." Cedric smiled kindly.

"You guys came to see me suddenly, is there something going on?" Sun Zhu glanced at Harry, who had his head drooping, and Ron, who had his hair standing up, then turned his gaze to Hermione, "Tell me what you want?"

Hermione sat up straight. Ron beside her chuckled and said, "Hahaha, you look like you're going to give a speech, but this is a restaurant."

"Shut up." Hermione picked up a chicken drumstick and stuffed it into his mouth. "Eat your food."

Cedric put the cut steak on Sun Zhu's plate and kept looking at her until she took two bites and then went to get the squeezed juice.

Seeing Cedric deliberately walk away, Harry said a little embarrassedly: "Zhu, this matter is really a bit embarrassing, we don't mean anything else."

"Tell me about it!" Sun Zhu's eyes lit up immediately. "Tell me what unhappy things you have encountered, and let me... ahem, help you to relieve them."

"You're a very nice person," Ron mumbled.

Sun Zhu lifted her hair and looked at Harry. Harry pinched his sleeves with both hands and stammered, "We wore the invisibility cloak last night to steal... to retrieve Snape's things, but he found out. He deducted 30 points from Gryffindor and confiscated my cloak."

Sun Zhu was silent for a moment, and went over the saddest things in her life in her mind, but she still couldn't help laughing out loud - after all, nothing sad had happened in her life so far.

"Senior." Hermione supported her head and said, "You said before that Snape would not be our enemy. I have never understood this sentence."

Sun Zhu also sat up straight, looked into Hermione's light brown eyes and said, "It's okay, you will know later."

"But I think." Hermione's curly hair and thick bangs covered half of her face. "Even if he proves to be a good person in the future, so what? He is really annoying now."

Sun Zhu quickly stuffed himself with a big mouthful of steak, filling his cheeks, and then motioned for her to continue.

The little curly-haired witch seemed to have opened up a chatterbox. She didn't care that the Hufflepuff table and the Slytherin table were right next to each other. She said indignantly, "He doesn't like Gryffindor. Everyone knows this. But as a teacher, why does he discriminate against an entire house of students?"

"Um, oh...hmm." Sun Zhu uttered a few meaningless syllables, and Hermione felt more and more encouraged by the constant "yes, that's it" from the two little lions beside her. She clenched her fists and continued to accuse.

"Many Gryffindors were frightened by him before they could even develop an interest in potions. After developing a fear, many of them could no longer pay attention in class. But potions is such an important course, and his attitude is unfair to Gryffindor. All the other head of houses are fair, except him..."

Sun Zhu nodded and continued to look at her. Harry also poured her a glass of water, as if he was afraid that she would get thirsty after talking too much.

"Also, he doesn't look good even to students from other colleges. Senior, you know, I think he is very strict with Neville. Neville is very timid, and he always looks at him with a gloomy look and deliberately gives him difficult questions - although I know the answer, it's not in the textbook, to scare him." Hermione took a sip of the water poured by Harry and finally concluded:

"Judging from his current actions, it's not without reason that so many people are afraid of him and hate him! And the negative impact caused by his actions is real! Even if he doesn't really hurt the students - although I still doubt this, I think he is very..." Hermione said: "Senior, if there is really a misunderstanding, why can't you tell everyone directly? Why use this method -"

Sun Zhu swallowed the food in his mouth, reached out and patted Hermione on the shoulder: "I understand how you feel, and you certainly have the right to dislike him. But it's impossible to expect him to change his style just because of the hatred of one or two, cough, some students. And the professor of Potions at Hogwarts cannot be replaced in a short period of time. So as students on the weaker side, we can only... go with the flow, ignore his attitude, and learn from his knowledge - Hermione, you have to admit that he is indeed a very good potion master, right? Even if he doesn't like Gryffindor anymore, he is still teaching you what he should teach you."

Hermione pursed her lips: "He is very capable, but what he does will make it difficult for students to remember the knowledge they should learn."

"Although it's cruel, the fact is that Hogwarts' teaching has always been aimed at some smart students. Our course schedule seems easy, but each subject requires a lot of effort to master." Sun Zhu shook his head helplessly, "Potions class just shows this difficulty more directly. For other classes, no matter how gentle and kind the professor is, if you don't have talent or are unwilling to work hard, you will learn nothing."

Hermione lowered her head, as if thinking about something.

"But if we simply want to dislike a professor who speaks harshly and is very unfair, is that not okay?" Harry seemed very puzzled. "We suspect that he has bad intentions because he has always been like this, which makes people afraid."

Ron nodded. "Even if he's a great hero, can't we look down on him just because he doesn't seem to like washing his hair?"