[HP] Born to be a pair

After the smoky pink Hogsmeade day, they spent another weekend alone.

Saturday's Quidditch match was a farce, and after losing Harry and the Weasley twins, top-ranked Ron and Ginny did not fare as well.

In the end, Hufflepuff won by ten points, Lisa and Sue sneaked into their common room for a celebration party, and Renee went to comfort Neville in the first place.

He looked extremely sorry and disappointed about it, too, but Neville wasn't complaining behind his back to Ron or anyone else in the team, instead turning the conversation to Harry's interview with The Quibbler.

"I actually admire Harry's courage." Neville's face was a little pale, and he whispered, "I have to recall the scene of the resurrection of the mysterious man and those Death Eaters..."

"It must have been hard for him." Renee took his cold hands.

"But this can be a warning to everyone—the mysterious man has really returned. I mean, those Death Eaters have been imprisoned in Azkaban for more than ten years. Without the help of the mysterious man, how could they How about escaping from it?"

Neville had that look again - chilling anger and piercing anguish.

"And," Renee said, straightening her face and looking around warily.

"The ones guarding Azkaban are dementors... this kind of mindless black creature, who can guarantee that they won't turn against for the chips given by the mysterious man?

Look at what Umbridge is doing now, she still insists that Harry and Dumbledore's speeches are all ridiculous, she is covering for the Ministry of Magic - and if Harry's interview report can be published, it will completely touch To the fragile and sensitive nerves of the Ministry of Magic! "

"You mean..." Neville's eyes widened in surprise, "Harry will be targeted by her?"

"Not only Harry, but DA will also be targeted."

"But—I—how do we do it?"

"Stay alert, Neville."

Renee said with difficulty, and there were some things she couldn't tell him directly, because she was not a great prophet with the blood of prophecy.

"You know, Umbridge's power will grow more and more, and we have to have a way to deal with it."

That night, when Renee returned to the common room, it was close to midnight. The lounge should be empty, but she saw a figure quietly looking out of the arched window with its back to the door.

It was Cho Chang, the girl who had been sullen since Hogsmeade came back.

The sound of Renee walking startled her, and Qiu immediately wiped his cheeks in embarrassment and turned to look at Renee, only to realize that it was her before he unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

"Did you just come back from a date with Longbottom?" Qiu looked at Renee, with tears in his sad black eyes, "Renee, I really envy you."

"If you're counting writing essays and practicing spells as dates," Renee sighed slightly, going to sit next to Cho, "then, I think you're right, we just got off a date. "

As twilight fell into the room, and a melancholy atmosphere settled over the two of them, Renee wondered why Cho hadn't complained to her closest friend, Marietta, but she couldn't help rolling her eyes at the thought of this betrayer.

—However, perhaps now is an opportunity to settle the matter.

"Maybe I shouldn't have started dating so early," Cho said regretfully, clutching her cheek as cloudy black hair fell from her shoulders.

"I miss Cedric less and less...I know it's wrong...but I still like Harry."

"I'm sorry about Cedric," Renee said, "but I don't think he'd want you to miss a lost love forever, and you're not wrong about that, Cho."

Qiu lowered his hands covering his cheeks, and there were indeed tears in his eyes: "But... I don't think Harry likes me as much as I like him."

"I don't understand what you mean," Renee asked calmly.

"He—he and Granger—on Valentine's Day, he told me himself that after meeting me, he would meet Granger!"

Qiu burst into tears again, and dramatically let the tears fall down his cheekbones: "Even if he dated two girls on Valentine's Day, why did he still tell me? He doesn't care about my feelings at all..."

"What? No, no!" Renee exclaimed. "You must... misunderstood! They didn't meet alone, and Luna and Rita Skeeter were there!"

"...What?" Qiu suddenly stopped crying and looked at her in bewilderment.

"Neville and I had a date at the Three Broomsticks that afternoon, remember?—Harry and Hermione met there, too, and Luna from our House and that reporter, Rita Skeeter."

"I know about this reporter, but what is she doing in Hogsmeade? Why is Harry going to see her?"

"Harry went to the interview, and he told Skeeter all the truth about his night in the third project of the Triwizard Tournament."

said Renee subtly.

"This matter is very important. It's about the mysterious man and his men... That's why I think he was so determined to meet Hermione on Valentine's Day."

As expected, Qiu's complexion began to brighten, and she said incredulously, "It turned out to be like this? No wonder he said that Granger also let me go—but why didn't he tell me?"

"He didn't know in advance, it was arranged by Hermione."

"That—that is to say, he and Granger didn't—"

"Of course not!" Renee rolled her eyes and whispered slyly, "To be honest, I believe in Ron and Hermione more than the possibility between Harry and Hermione!"

"What?!" Qiu's eyes widened, and he opened his mouth slightly in surprise, "The two of them..."

"I guess so, but it's not necessarily the truth."

Common gossip and curiosity can quickly shorten the distance between the girls, and now Qiu seems to regard her as the closest kind of friend, sitting next to her with great interest.

Renee can't praise Harry in front of Qiu, or put herself in his shoes, as this will cause Qiu's vigilance and discomfort.

So she insinuated, mentioning Umbridge and the Ministry of Magic, citing her recent intensification of practice.

Very naturally, the two of them scolded Umbridge together for a while, and after their emotions were very compatible, Renee brought the topic to the mysterious man and the Death Eaters who escaped from prison.

"Our DA team isn't all about fighting Umbridge and the Ministry of Magic," Renee said, looking out of the window sadly.

"You should know, you believed in Harry Potter—You-Know-Who really came back, and he saved those Death Eaters."

The pale moonlight shone on Qiu's slightly pale face. She gasped and said with luck, "But we are at school..."

"Yeah, we're at school, safe," Renee said.

"But what about our relatives? They just fell asleep in the stormy night, maybe one day, the Death Eaters broke into our home, leaving a green trace in the sky...

Also, we can't really count on anyone else, on Headmaster Dumbledore, if he gets - I mean, stumbling, and You-Know-Who has his hands full at the time, he'll let the school go so easily as to produce a second generation of Death Eaters exist? "

Qiu listened quietly to her tirade, still with a hesitant look on her face. Renee knew that she had talked too much tonight, which made her feel unreal.

But if she doesn't emphasize the importance of this matter, perhaps one day in the future, she will lack due vigilance against the fact that her close friend Marietta did not go to the DA party, but found a reason to disappear.

"Harry's interview will be in the magazine soon," Renee said wearily. "You'll believe me then, and excuse me now. Good night, Cho."

It's not too late for this day.In fact, on Monday morning, the contents of the interviews had already flowed into the four colleges.

There might be some people who didn't like magazines, or people who had a prejudice against The Quibbler, but all of this was solved immediately after Umbridge banned everyone from reading The Quibbler.

"That's fantastic!" Hermione tried to keep from laughing. "Umbridge doesn't understand that she's making everyone at school read this report now!"

And Qiu also completely believed Renee, she said to Renee with surprise and apology: "You are right, Renee——I'm sorry, I didn't believe your words before, and now I urgently need to apologize to Harry !"

Her friend, Marietta Ackmore, who was silent and rolled her eyes every now and then as if mocking it, remained in the common room questioning Harry's account and the report.

"Please! This is "The Quibbler"! Do you really believe such stupid magazines and sayings?"

But this time, no more people would agree with her, and even the other girls around Qiu ignored her in disdain.

Because everyone tends to believe Harry and Dumbledore, not this man who is furious but can't produce evidence.

"I'm sorry, my father is a magazine editor, and we all think this magazine is not stupid." Luna, who was sitting alone in the corner, said suddenly.

"Really? That explains everything, doesn't it?" said Marietta sharply. "The crazy girl's father is the editor of the magazine, which explains one more thing—this magazine is rubbish."

"Marietta!" Cho exclaimed incredulously, "how can you say that?"

After Marietta said something, she regretted it a little, especially when no one in the lounge agreed with her, she could only hold back and say, "...Why, did I say something wrong? Everyone knows... ..."

"Oh! Please! Don't be so mean!" Qiu shook her head in disappointment, and took the other girls to comfort Luna.

She had a better impression of Luna at the DA's party, and the magazine run by Luna's father had also successfully reversed Harry's image, which made Qiu feel more fond of Luna.

And Marietta, who seemed to be abandoned, was almost about to cry. She couldn't believe that she had lost to someone like Luna Lovegood. She covered her face in shame and escaped without anyone chasing her. she.

— except for Renee who slipped out the door without a sound.

She silently followed Marietta, who was crying bitterly, all the way to the Astronomy Tower where few people came except for classes. Seeing her lying on the table crying, she couldn't help frowning.

Renee was hesitating whether she should stop Marietta from snitching or wait until the day she did.

She prefers to use the method that is closest to the situation she is familiar with, but now that she sees such a fragile Marietta, she can't help thinking that this is a good opportunity to attack.

"Hey." Renee came out from behind the Roman pillar without a sound, startling the crying Marietta.

"Who—is that you? What are you doing here? Are you watching my joke?"

"I really want to admit it, but unfortunately I won't lie." Renee said without blushing, "I'm here to comfort you."

"Do you also think that report is nonsense?" Marietta raised hope and asked, wiping away her tears.

"My mother is a staff member of the Ministry of Magic, who else knows the truth of the matter better than her? Potter is just scaremongering, he has been lying!"

Renee immediately lost her patience with her, and she couldn't help but coldly said to Marietta: "On the contrary, Akmo, I think the Ministry of Magic and Umbridge are lying, you'd better wake up, don't Again—don't make any mistakes, or..."

"You are breaking the law! Violating Ministry regulations and Professor Umbridge's orders!"

Marietta Excomer cried hysterically,

"Sooner or later we will be exposed! I don't want to be expelled!"

"We won't!" Renee said in her own voice over hers, "if nobody does something... like a whistleblower... I think everything will go very well, aren't you right, Akmo? "

The expression on her face must have been horrific, or Marietta Ackmore would not have flinched and nodded again.

But Renee had already got the guarantee she wanted—although it was not a formal guarantee, nothing like an unbreakable vow, but since there was no third person in this place, so—

Renee nodded to her coldly and politely, and walked down the stairs of the Astronomy Tower.

It wasn't a smart move, but she deliberately left a decent path for Marietta, hoping that this silly girl wouldn't make the same mistakes again.

The author has something to say:

Although Cho and Harry are in the same timeline, they are not in the same world.

She didn't understand the dangerous situation Harry was facing now, and he unilaterally thought it was unnecessary and couldn't explain it to her.

Therefore, it is difficult for the relationship between two people to go on under such an abnormal situation.