Professor, please pay the debt

"You're talking bad about me!" Draco Malfoy appeared as if he had been summoned by Harry, and he glared at Harry angrily, "You coward who speaks bad things about people behind his back!"

"Oh no!" Hermione let out a desperate scream.

Harry was also very surprised, thinking, maybe the Potter family has the lineage of prophets.

"What conspiracy are you two up to?" Draco became even more puzzled when he saw that no one was paying attention to him.

Harry is used to treating Lucius as a junior, but he is very unfamiliar with Drake. The Savior and Drake have been enemies for five years, but they have never looked at him carefully.

Now, Harry took a serious look and couldn't help frowning, because Draco looked terrible, he even looked a little sick.There are dark circles under the eyes, and the skin is visibly gray.

"Don't meddle in your own business, Malfoy, if you have the time, go and look in the mirror, your complexion is worse than that of a vampire!"

As far as the relationship between two people is concerned, Harry's reminder like this is considered to be the limit.

Draco seemed to be taken aback when he heard the words. Before he could speak, Hermione took a step closer to him and said with the determination to die, "Malfoy, would you like to..."

"No, Hermione!"

Harry hurriedly stopped her, but he didn't expect Hermione to be such an honest and trustworthy person, she would even consider Malfoy in order to fulfill her promise.For a split second, Harry kind of admired her.

"You said it, now I want to do this..." Hermione refuted Harry excitedly, and then turned to Draco, who didn't know why, "Will you..."

"I go with you!"

Harry roared eagerly. He couldn't watch Hermione being humiliated. Everyone knew that Draco called Hermione, Mudblood!

"You don't understand! I just made a wish, no matter who it is! This may be fate!" Hermione unswervingly invited Malfoy, "Would you like to be my dance partner, go to the old walrus' ball, how about , Malfoy!"

Draco is taken aback by an invitation from an enemy.Meanwhile, Harry was taken aback when Hermione called a professor by his nickname - probably the only time in five and a half years!

"You can refuse!"

Draco's expression made Harry see a turning point, and he reminded him kindly:

"As long as you say no, I will take this crazy woman and disappear immediately, and I will never let her have a chance to bite you."

"Shut up, Harry! No one appreciates your sense of humor!"

Hermione was fierce, and after scolding one, she turned to the other, "Are you dumb, Malfoy, talk!"

"Is this an attitude of inviting people? Granger!" Draco finally spoke, and Harry immediately cheered, "Great, he declined, let's go, Hermione!"

"No! I didn't..." Draco stopped them surprisingly, and looked straight at Hermione with his big gray-blue eyes, "I agreed because of the dance itself, and it has nothing to do with you, you understand?" ?”

Hermione was immediately frightened, she covered her mouth, her eyes widened, and her gaze moved from Draco's face to Harry's, as if asking: How is this possible!

Harry suddenly understood Hermione's thoughts. With the relationship between the trio and Drake, Hermione was sure that Drake would reject her, so she was willing to fulfill the promise.

In the end... cleverness was mistaken by cleverness!

……

When Harry and Luna, or Draco and Hermione, showed up at Slughorn's ball, it was hard to tell which pair caused more wonder.

"Harry! My child, you are welcome! How many people want to know you, oh... come on!"

Slughorn's loud voice like ringing a bell rang in Harry's ears, and he quickly extended his free right hand to shake hands with the old walrus, "It's my honor, Professor... I think you know Lou Na."

Luna is still the same, which is to say dazed, but she's not wearing turnip earrings, a necklace of butterbeer corks, and her demon-proof glasses today.It made her look pretty good.

Slughorn greeted her with a smile, and leaned into Harry's ear and whispered, "The minister is here, he asked about you, should you tell me something... oh, You cunning child!"

Harry just smiled mysteriously, "Isn't that great, your dance is even more exciting, isn't it, oh, I seem to have seen a reporter. So...Did Dumbledore allow them to enter the school?"

"He didn't dare to oppose me! Hmph! He didn't dare, you know? Because he did something wrong!"

Dumbledore's name seemed to annoy the old walrus, who quickly let go of Harry and pestered Hermione instead, and the old walrus, like everyone who knew the history of the trio and Malfoy, was as sympathetic to Hermione tonight. The dance partner was very surprised.

Harry felt very regretful. He had been trying to explore the relationship between the headmaster and the new Potions professor, but failed again today.

Luna was very fascinated by the vampire Cindy, who also looked at her with eager or hungry eyes.Therefore, Harry followed the etiquette to accompany Luna to dance the first dance, and then let the two of them look at each other affectionately.

He looked around in the noisy crowd, looking for the thin figure.Slughorn would ask him, Harry was sure of that!There was a little joy in his heart, because he hadn't seen Severus in a tuxedo yet.

Oh, here he is, right at the gate, even at such occasions as the Yule Ball, the arrogant Snake King still does his own thing.

Yes, still black wizard robes.It's just that... a little bright fabric was added to the neckline and cuffs, making it a little more formal than usual.This is the only concession he has made to the world. As for the partner...

Severus Snape was a loner - no one dared criticize him!

Slughorn greeted him at the door, big fat hands clutching his arms, dragging him in and introducing him to McLaggen's uncle, the manager of a chain of supermarkets.Snape had a reluctance on his face. When shaking hands with someone, he only touched the other's fingertips miserly.

Even so, it made Harry feel uncomfortable because he couldn't even touch his fingertips himself.

Just as Harry wanted to squeeze through, he was stopped by a biographer who pestered him to write "Harry Potter Biography" for him. Harry thought that it would not be too late to write until the moment his eyes were about to close.He had just shaken off trouble when the Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, appeared by his side.

"Hello, Mr. Potter! Nice to see you again!"

Scrimgeour held out his hand to Harry, followed by a burst of flashing lights, Harry was blinded from his eyes and almost missed his hand.

Fortunately, Scrimgeour caught him quickly, and the two smiled at the camera in a very tacit understanding.

"Great, that's great! It's an honor to have you both."

Slughorn leaned over without losing the opportunity, his fat body squeezed between the two of them, the chubby hand rested on the intertwined hands, and smiled with relief, as if he had facilitated the meeting between Harry and the minister. same as meeting.

Harry didn't say anything, and Slughorn's philistine behavior just helped him fend off the suspicion of the old madman.

With a big wave of Scrimgeour's hand, the reporters receded like a tide, he held Harry tightly by the arm and took him to a place where there were few people, while Slughorn was left, depressed like an outcast. watch them.

It's a pity that Scrimgeour didn't look for the right place. When they stopped, they found that Luna and Bloody were looking at each other.

"Hi, Luna! Have you been here?"

Harry wondered, don't these two feel sore eyes?

"Harry... oh yes, it's a dance!"

Harry's appearance seemed to startle Luna, and she figured it out after a while, pointing to the pale man beside her and said, "This is Bloody, I think you should know him, he is a vampire, my dad has been studying vampires for a long time. Genealogy, in fact, the new Minister Scrimgeour is also a vampire, I heard that he is also here, I want to introduce them to each other."

Harry had gotten used to the Lovegoods' nervousness, and they always took things that everyone took as a joke to be true.

So he didn't feel the slightest bit uncomfortable when shaking hands with Johnny.Scrimgeour was not as calm as he was. Mr. Minister's ferocious eyes lingered between Luna and Xueni, showing faint signs of anger.

Harry hurriedly found an excuse to get Cindy away, and took Luna's hand by himself, "Mr Scrimgeour, I hope you know my partner Luna, Luna Lovegood, I guess...you might listen Said her father, Mr. Lovegood, devoted himself to the media, and was editor of The Quibbler."

Scrimgeour was taken aback, he stared at Harry almost with hatred, "Harry, I... oh my god!"

At this moment, Hermione rushed over suddenly, and she recognized that the person who was talking to Harry was the Minister of Magic——

She used to read the newspaper so she remembered Scrimgeour's face, which made her a little stiff, "Oh, I came to say goodbye, I mean..."

As expected!

How could Hermione and Draco get along so happily!

Harry gave her a glare, as if to say, learn your lesson!Silly girl!Then asked Scrimgeour, "Where's your partner, Mr Minister!"

"Actually, I don't think I have the right to entertain... Of course, I don't object to others doing so. Not everyone is responsible for the wizarding world."

Scrimgeour euphemistically explained that he came to the ball alone, and at the same time accused Harry of sensuality and disregarding the responsibility of being the savior.

Harry pretended to be confused, and regardless of Scrimgeour's wishes, he warmly suggested that the minister and Luna dance a dance.

"You are such a good minister who loves and works hard! But you are here, why don't you dance with Luna, so that the four of us can dance together, I mean, He and I You know, Min, it's unbelievable that we've been best friends for five and a half years and we haven't danced together! Isn't it, Hermione!"

"Oh, you..."

Scrimgeour refused before Hermione could speak, "I'm not good at this, I thought you knew..."

"Of course!" Harry looked at him firmly, "Of course I know... Please believe that I have my own opinion, and you won't regret it."

Scrimgeour's lion-like face showed signs of anger again, but it quickly disappeared under Harry's confident smile, "Well, Potter, you have good credit with me, I hope you keep go down!"