[HP] Liar

Chap.14

Recently, the Quidditch competition at Hogwarts has entered a feverish stage, and Viola has also completed the painting work according to Davis' instructions on time.

Although she didn't know if what she did would really boost the morale of the Ravenclaw team.

But in any case, Viola's "benevolent deed" was also recognized by most Ravenclaw students, and they even said-even if Krivat painted oil paintings in the common room in the future, they would not Will complain again.

Of course, Viola was not stupid enough to believe their polite words.

"Which team do you think will win this year?"

At breakfast time, Sophia Harris sat beside Nancy Jones and said with a smile: "I know you must support Potter, Nancy."

"I also think the Gryffindor team can win." At this moment, Luna who was sitting on the side suddenly blinked and interjected.

After hearing this, Sophia curled her lips in disapproval, and at the same time complained in a low voice: "I didn't ask you, Lovegood."

Viola heard the thorn in Sophia's words, and couldn't help but speak up to ease the atmosphere: "Actually, I think our team's chances of winning are not small."

"...Oh, how do you say that?" Nancy asked back, "You sound like you know Quidditch very well."

After hearing Nancy's words, Viola couldn't help blushing.She knew why Nancy said that - because she'd never cared about a Quidditch match before.

"Because—" Under the "malicious" gazes of Nancy and Sophia, Viola could only guess with difficulty: "I heard that the goalkeeper of Gryffindor is Ron Weasley?"

Both Nancy and Sophia said "Oh" at this moment, Nancy did not express her opinion on Ron, while Sophia criticized mercilessly: "I dare say—that Weasley gatekeeper The skills are not great. I watched the Gryffindor team's goalkeeper tryout once, and the Weasley's ball skills were really... amazing. If you want me to say, Gryffindor didn't choose McLaggen as the goalkeeper , was a fatal mistake."

Unexpectedly, Luna refuted her words in front of Sophia again at this time.

"No, I think Ronald's goalkeeping skills are very good." She said seriously.

Sophia sneered, "Weasley is probably only appreciated by people like you, Lovegood."

After finishing speaking, she put down the knife and fork in her hand without hesitation, and left the long table in Ravenclaw with her friend Nancy, leaving Viola and Luna staring blankly at their going away. back view.

"Luna—" After Sophia and Nancy walked away, Viola spoke hesitantly, "What Sophia and the others said just now...you must not take it to heart."

Although she didn't know what her position was when she said this.

Luna was the first friend she made in Ravenclaw, and Nancy and Sophia were her most popular kind of friends.From an emotional point of view, she is indeed on Luna's side, but if she wants to spend her study life in the Ravenclaw girl circle without incident, she can't offend girls like Sophia and Nancy. people.

What if she offended?

Will it become "Mad Girl No. [-]"?

No sooner had the thought crossed Viola's mind than she felt ashamed of her cowardice.

How could she think this way—Luna was her best friend, how could she think that Luna's current situation was pathetic and unbearable? !

"Viola, what's the matter with you?"

But before Viola finished speaking, Luna was keenly aware of her strangeness.Her blue eyes looked at her with puzzled and worried eyes, and at the same time said softly: "I'm fine, Viola. You don't have to worry about me, this kind of thing is no big deal to me .”

After Luna and Viola had breakfast, they went to different classrooms to attend classes.

On the way to the classroom, Luna also said to her enthusiastically: "It doesn't matter if Nancy and Sophia don't like me. Because I still have Viola, and Harry, Ginny, Ronald ... Such a friend."

Seeing Luna's cheerful smile, Viola felt that it was not good for her to continue to put on a bitter face, so she had no choice but to show a bright smile at Luna.

Luna's next class was History of Magic, while Viola's was herbal medicine class. The two waved goodbye when they came to the fork in the road.

Besides her dean, Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout, professor of herbalism, is Viola's favorite professor.Because she doesn't have a straight face like Professor Snape, or is too strict like Professor McGonagall.On the contrary, her teaching style is very relaxed and cheerful, and she is very approachable.

Viola's partner in herbal medicine class is a girl named Susan Bones, in fact, she should be a year older than Viola, but it seems that for some special reasons, she has to take it again this semester Herbalism.

"You are Viola Clearwater, aren't you?"

"Yes." Facing Susan's question, Viola nodded.

"So it's you—" Susan covered her mouth excitedly, although Viola didn't understand why she was so excited, "Nice to meet you, I'm Susan Bones, and you call me Susan San is fine!"

"Okay." In fact, Viola was a little shy, so facing Susan's enthusiasm, she still acted a little dull.

But Susan didn't seem to mind her dullness, but started to chatter on her own: "All my classmates said that this class is very easy, but I don't know why I can't learn it well. Look, I Didn't it just have to be repaired again this year? Speaking of which, Viola, I often hear Ernie mentioning about you—"

Upon hearing the name "Ernie", the movements of Viola's hands suddenly stopped.

Susan also immediately noticed the strangeness of Viola's expression, and hurriedly remedied: "Oh, I'm sorry, Viola! Did my words offend you? I promise that I will never bring up the matter in front of you again. Ni's business!"

Viola just said "It's okay" in a low voice, and then tried to change the topic. Susan didn't seem to care, but continued to talk about the new topic she found.

After class, Viola politely said goodbye to the senior named Susan Burns.Before leaving, Susan said politely that she would definitely write to Viola if she had the chance.

But what Susan said before has been echoing in Viola's heart, and she feels very concerned-why does everyone like her to be associated with Ernie MacMillan?

It was true of Nancy, and it was even more true of the Hufflepuffs.It's like—she's really Ernie MacMillan's official girlfriend.

But in fact, she and McMillan didn't even say more than fifty sentences in school!That's why she was even more confused and unhappy about the "scandal" about her and McMillan circulating in the school.

Viola was walking in the corridor full of thoughts like this, but when she raised her head together again, she happened to see the person she least wanted to see at this moment—— Hufflepuff's superintendent Ernie McMillan.

The boy standing in front of Viola has short golden-brown hair and a pair of bright light-brown eyes. The childishness of his early years has long since faded from his face, and he is no longer as short and fat as he was in the lower grades—he Now he is tall and slender, with a handsome and angular face.

Ernie McMillan is, simply put, a handsome young lad these days.

But the girl he prefers, Viola Clearwater, likes to hide him in every possible way.

"Hi... Viola." After the two of them looked at each other awkwardly for a few seconds, Ernie waved to Viola hesitantly, and said hello with a smile, "I heard from Susan that you just got together Finished herbal medicine class?"

Viola knew that McMillan wanted to get close to her, but she didn't want to continue entangled with him, and simply replied: "Yes."

"That—" Ernie seemed to have something to say.

"What can Mr. McMillan do?" and Viola interrupted him before he could speak.

"Well," Ernie tried to explain, "I just wanted to ask you...would you like to go to Hoag with me—I mean me and some of my friends—in a few days? Maude Village?"

When he said these words, there was a light of expectation in his brown eyes, which made Viola feel even more embarrassed.

Because she would definitely reject him.

"I'm sorry, Mr. McMillan." Viola said coldly and distantly, "I have no plans to go to Hogsmeade that day."

Ernie blinked in surprise, as if he hadn't expected such an answer.

It's not that he didn't expect the ending of being rejected, but he didn't expect that Viola would directly give up the chance to go to Hogsmeade.

"But—" said Ernie, "it's a once-a-year opportunity, are you really going to give it up and stay at school?"

Viola sighed lightly, and then expressed her firm attitude again.

"Yes." She said firmly.

Viola didn't know how her rejection of Ernie McMillan's request would be passed on to her classmates, but she only knew that - when she returned to the school building, Nancy had obviously passed on from others. Got it.

"I heard you rejected McMillan's invitation?" Nancy asked straight to the point as soon as she entered the gate of the school building.

Viola, who was packing up the painting tools, raised her head and glanced at her, and replied somewhat casually, "It's sort of."

"why?"

"what why?"

"Why reject McMillan?"

"Isn't the reason very simple?" Viola looked at Nancy in puzzlement, she really didn't understand what was worth discussing about this issue, "I don't like him. If that's the case, why should I talk to myself that I don't like him?" Who are you going to Hogsmeade with?"

Nancy snorted softly after hearing this, and she didn't seem to agree with Viola's words.

"But McMillan is the prefect of Hufflepuff House," Nancy pointed out. "Not only that, but he also comes from a prominent pure-blood family, the McMillan family. In terms of looks, he may not be the most handsome boy in the school, but If the date is you..." She glanced at Viola thoughtfully, "it's more than enough."

Viola admitted that she didn't like Nancy's tone at the moment, and she couldn't help retorting: "It has nothing to do with his conditions. I just simply don't like him and don't want to date him. I don't think I do Something went wrong."

"Then who do you like?" Nancy took advantage of the situation and asked back.

Viola was stunned for a moment, and after she realized her reaction, she teased a little sharply: "I don't have anyone I like, and even if there is... it's definitely not Harry Potter."

Nancy glared at her.

"Let me guess?" She tossed her beautiful long dark red hair, and there was a smile on her delicate face that made Viola feel uneasy, "Could it be Draco Malfoy? "

Viola opened her mouth, but was speechless for a moment.

But soon, she reacted in time, even though her expression seemed a little guilty.

"How is it possible?!" She said with a smile on her lips, "It is impossible for a person like me to like Malfoy if he likes anyone."

Nancy lowered her eyelashes slightly, her expression suddenly turned cold.

Just when Viola looked puzzled, she stared into Viola's light green eyes, and said quietly: "If you have such thoughts, I advise you to get rid of such thoughts. The Malfoy family They have been purebloods for generations, and now Malfoy has a pureblood girlfriend—Pansy Parkinson. Even if he doesn't marry Parkinson in the future, he will definitely marry a pureblood girl and have children."

Speaking of this, she paused for a while, and then continued: "I come from the Jones family. Although the Jones family has been in decline for many years, Jones is still a pure-blood surname. As for you—"

Nancy's light blue eyes swept across Viola's delicate face with a trace of disdain.

"...you know what you are."

Although Nancy didn't say the word "Mudblood" outright, Viola felt as unbearable as if she had slapped her hard.

She really wanted to yell back loudly: "Even if you are pure blood, what's the big deal? You are just a mean wretch!"

But in the end, she still couldn't say anything.

But, ever since, Viola Clearwater had vowed to herself that she would break up with Nancy Jones one day.

The author has something to say: In fact, it is really difficult to decide which of these two kinds of people is more disgusting, the hypocrite who "identifies on the surface but despises inwardly" and the real villain who "discriminates openly and squarely".

Personally, I hate both (blah blah blah blah)

In fact, it's not that I have to criticize these two little girls or something, let me give you a chestnut:

eg. Viola herself finds it unbearable to become someone like Luna; Harry didn't want to have anything to do with Luna when she first met Luna in the original book; for people who seem to be inferior to themselves, most people There will still be rejection, opposition and even contempt in their hearts.

But some people just didn't express it because zz was correct.

However, I think whether discrimination is probably a matter of character, but if the words are blatantly insulting, then it is a matter of upbringing (Hey brother, I am not cueing that you are not educated!)