Chapter 028 Afternoon Tea Party (Part II)

"I warn you! Knott! Mrs. Greengrass pointed to Theodore, who was still half-kneeling on the ground, and roared, "Don't seduce and tempt my daughter like this again!" Daphne was frightened by her anger and pulled her mother's sleeve hard, hoping that she would be discouraged.

"Come with me!" Mrs. Greengrass pulled her daughter out of the back garden in a huff, forgetting to even say goodbye to Narcissa, and only scolding, "Too arrogant, too hateful, too unsightly!" It's really ...... that this guy wants to kidnap my hard-working daughter so lightly."

Everyone watched in amazement as Greengrass's mother and daughter disappeared, and then looked back at Theodore, who had finally gotten up.

"I'm sorry! Mrs. Malfoy! Theodore suddenly said to Narcissa, "But I'm afraid I'll need to leave too." ”

"Oh!" Narcissa replied unconsciously, then smiled stiffly and said, "Be careful! Well, brave boys! ”

"Thank you!" Theodore greeted politely, then said goodbye to the others.

"Come on!" Theodore's classmates encouraged him, and Blaise leaned into his ear to teach him some small tricks, and the other ladies neither supported nor objected, but only returned the favor with a reserved salute.

"Don't be empty-handed!" Catherine pointed to the rose petals all over the floor and muttered, "Preferably golden." ”

"Thank you!" Theodore's eyes lit up and he thanked him gratefully.

Because of the early departure of Greengrass, mother and daughter and Theodore, this afternoon tea party had to end early, and Catherine accepted Narcissa's invitation to stay and eat.

At dinner, Narcissa exaggerated to her husband about what happened in the afternoon, and Lucius naturally understood his wife's psychology and immediately sent the house-elf to Greengrass's house.

Soon came the news that Mr. Knott had taken his son to Greengrass's house to propose marriage, but Mrs. Greengrass sternly refused, and Daphne was grounded, but the 99 golden roses that Theodore had given her miraculously appeared in her bedroom.

At the next afternoon's party, Greengrass's mother and daughter did not come, and Theodore did not appear, but according to Draco's eavesdropping, he had gone to climb the wall of Greengrass's house to accompany Daphne, who was grounded.

So the topic of the afternoon became gossip about the young couple, Mrs. Greengrass was obviously satisfied with the boyfriend that her eldest daughter had found, otherwise she would not have let the two children be together all the time yesterday afternoon, but Theodore's sudden proposal completely annoyed her, so she decided to prolong the time of the investigation, so as not to let her daughter run away with someone like this.

Sure enough, five days later, Mrs. Greengrass agreed to their relationship, but required that the two could only be engaged when they were adults, and they could only marry after graduation, which was Mrs. Greengrass's test for her future son-in-law.

Because the wizarding world has a small population, if you don't want to marry a Muggle, then you can only find a partner in Hogwarts, so there are always one or two cases of female students being forced to leave school because they are pregnant every year, although given the current situation in the wizarding world, these girls will not be ordered to drop out of Muggle schools like Muggle schools, but for their family, it is really a very big scandal.

Mr. Nott naturally has no opinion on this, he is a Death Eater, relying on the power of his wife's mother's family to escape justice, after the death of his wife, he is tired of dealing with some bullying guys, has not been able to take care of his son, and now that his son can find a future wife, he is too late to be happy, then there is a trace of complaint.

The Greengrass family is considered to be in the middle of the wizarding world, and the reason why they survived the civil war ten years ago was because both Greengrasses and their husbands worked at St. Mungo, a place where they were neutral and treated equally, so the eldest daughter inherited this mentality from her parents.

They thought that Daphne would be sorted into Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, who would have thought that it would be Slytherin, and the youngest daughter, who had a very good relationship with her sister, thought it was cool after knowing some of the inside scoops of Slytherin, and began to raise herself as a Slytherin.

It's just that Daphne was sheltered by Theodore before she was sorted, so she didn't know enough about the dark side of Slytherin, which made Asteria say the wrong thing before she even entered school, and now she is asking her boyfriend to hurry up and teach her sister so that she won't be bullied or left out after being sorted into Slytherin.

"So Theodore has been really busy lately!" Blaise put his arm around Catherine's waist with one hand and held hers hand with the other, and said to her affectionately.

Because drinking tea and gossiping is such a boring thing for children, Catherine began to practice dance, which is one of the necessary etiquette for every Slytherin.

Thus Draco and Pansy, who have been Slytherin for generations, have been very familiar with it since childhood; Because Blaise has an old mother who is good at seducing people, he has been dancing with his mother since he was a baby; Because Crabbe and Goyle barely reached the sixth order, they could only participate in this kind of after-school activity after consolidating their respective strengths, because the dance in the wizarding world basically requires the cooperation of magic; The remaining two ladies, Catherine, had never been exposed to the dance of the wizarding world, and Millicent had not yet received training in this area because of her mother's weak health.

But neither Draco nor Blaise could stand Millicent's size, so Pansy proposed the lot, and Draco was unlucky enough to draw Millicent for five days in a row, leaving Catherine to be taught by Blaise.

"I think he's having fun, after all, not everyone can find their other half so easily." Catherine put her arm around Brace's shoulder and exclaimed, "You-"

"I don't want to step into the grave of marriage so soon!" Brace held his head high and said arrogantly, "My goal is to capture more hearts of the opposite sex than my mother!" ”

"And how many ignorant girls have fallen into your gentle trap now?" Catherine asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I've only been at Hogwarts for a year, and I'm still in the observation phase!" Brace replied somewhat unnaturally.

"But you've been living in the wizarding world for twelve years!" Catherine blinked deliberately.

"Do you think it's very easy to capture a girl's heart?" Blaise glared at her, and with the end of the music, he changed the subject, "Do you know this kind of dance step?" ”

"Hmm!" Catherine nodded, pulling out a list of must-learn dances from her pocket, "It's similar to Muggle waltzes, and I've memorized the difference." ”

"Can you stop hitting me again!" Brace complained loudly, "Every dance step you say is similar to a Muggle or something, and then you go, are you really not exposed to them?" ”

"Everything originates to the same root!" Catherine didn't look up and said, "Since wizards and Muggles live on the same planet, they naturally have something in common with each other. ”

"Why do you always say a big thing or two when you speak?" Blaise asked puzzled, and then lowered his head in frustration, "You don't have to answer, don't forget, it's really a super weapon for cheating, and my inventory has been emptied by you." ”

"Isn't there another one?" Catherine held up the list and pointed to him with the last name.

"I don't know this one!" Brace shrugged helplessly, "Its starting requirement is the seventh order!" ”

"Seventh Order?" Catherine saw Blaise nod again, then turned to the other practice pair across the ballroom and shouted, "Draco, do you know how to 'dance the war'?" ”

"Yes! Absolutely! Draco replied loudly, then left Millicent behind and ran over happily, "Blaise, now I can only trouble you to teach Millicent!" ”

"Hope you don't get hit!" Brace had an indifferent expression, but his eyes were full of irrepressible excitement.

"Hopefully your patience won't be worn out so quickly!" Draco immediately replied, Millicent's clumsiness had worn him out completely, he had never seen anyone more dumb than her, except for his two "bodyguards".

"Looks like you're having a bad time these days." Catherine didn't have to think about it to know who was responsible for Draco's bad luck.

"Don't mention it again!" Draco's hair turned dull, "Watching you dance one by one, and I need to teach you step by step, that mood...... Alas! ”

"Aren't you afraid of being hit by me?" Catherine asked curiously.

"I've been hit by you for the past year!" Draco drew his wand and began to explain to Catherine, "The way the war dance is based on the English sword dance—"

"Wait a minute!" Catherine suddenly interrupted, "I remember that the English sword dance is a performance dance to celebrate the harvest and pray for peace during the festival, and the performers can only be men, so why should women also learn it?" ”

"You've forgotten that this is the wizarding world again!" Draco threw her a disdainful look, "The reason why it is said to be derived from the English sword dance is only because it adopts the dance method of the performer holding the sword in his right hand, of course we use a magic wand, and in the process of dancing, we must really use magic, not simply assist, but a magic performance similar to a duel, so some people have also mentioned that the war dance is listed as one of the duel methods." ”

"And how is it going to jump?" Catherine asked curiously.

"It's more like English country dance, there's a lot of set routines, like this—" Draco began to demonstrate a coherent performance in front of the clearing.

At a glance, Catherine understood why the starting requirement for the War Dance was the seventh order, and why its name had the word "war", because this was simply a set of simple combat skills, exaggeration to say that a seventh-order wizard could become a junior warrior as long as he learned one of them, and after mastering all of them and then going through the baptism of war, he could naturally become an elite.

"What's going on?" Pansy's angry shouts suddenly rang out at the door of the dance hall, she didn't expect that she was just called by her mother for a while, and the last thing she wanted to see happened.

Millicent didn't say anything, because the matter had nothing to do with him, Blaise shrugged, pursed the corners of his mouth, and expressed his helplessness, Draco frowned slightly, he was very unhappy, he was not a fool, he naturally knew what Pansy had done recently, but considering the relationship between the two for many years, he deliberately pretended not to know, and in the end it was only Catherine who could answer.