Chapter 026 Afternoon Tea Party (Part I)

"Mistress Narcissa has instructed Mona to come and assist you in preparing for the afternoon tea party. Mona has already prepared lunch for you and Mr. Snape, would you like to eat first? ”

"Mona, what did Lady Malfoy ask of you?" Thinking of Narcissa's enthusiasm, Catherine had a very bad premonition.

"The hostess asked Mona to make sure Miss Catherine was the prettiest girl!" Mona raised her head, blinking her blue eyes the size of a ping-pong ball, looking affectionately at the person she was serving.

"If I don't want to dress up, are you going to punish yourself?" Catherine asked tentatively.

Mona's two large sky-blue eyes were immediately clouded with a layer of fog, and she bit her lower lip and nodded vigorously.

"Okay!" Catherine reluctantly cupped her forehead and said, "I'll freshen up and then go down for lunch, Professor Snape's share will be warmed first, he won't be available now." ”

"Yes, Miss Catherine!" Mona bent down in agreement, snapped her fingers, and disappeared from her eyes.

"Huh?" Catherine suddenly notices that Mona's explosion as she moves is much quieter than Dobby's, which makes her curious about the magic of house-elves.

After lunch, Mona began to dress Catherine.

Although Catherine could understand how long a Muggle woman could prepare for a party, and she had experienced Narcissa's dress up once, it was only after Mona did whatever she wanted that she really understood how cumbersome the process was.

Mona was able to spend three hours on Catherine just for an afternoon tea party, a full three hours, just to make her eyelashes curl, her lip line a little more beautiful, and her hair a little shinier......

As soon as Catherine had the slightest reluctance, Mona immediately looked at her sadly with her big watery eyes, which made her feel extremely guilty, and it was obvious that the house-elf had been carefully advised by Narcissa and knew how to make the red-haired girl obedient.

But I have to say that Mona has really put a lot of effort into the study of the art of dressing up, and she can always say a lot of truth in every inch and every detail of a person's body, and its length is long enough to write a paper.

When Snape had finally slept enough, had eaten lunch, and began to study the list of potions, Mona finally stopped and agreed to Catherine's departure.

"I thought you were gone!" Hearing the footsteps coming downstairs, Snape naturally sneered, "I didn't expect it to drag on until now." He looked up at Catherine, and then couldn't help but look stunned.

A white bowler, a beige lace jacket, cream-white silk gloves, a sky-blue dress, royal blue heels, and a powder-blue parasol, such a normal ladylike dress could not surprise Snape, and what really froze him was Catherine's face.

In terms of sheer appearance, Catherine was very uncharacteristic of her Slytherin classmates, and compared to Draco's coquettishness, Brace's arrogance, Pansy's coldness, Daphne's gentleness, Theodore's wisdom, Millicent's roughness, Crabbe's and Goyle's stupidity, she had a hard time making people remember her face except for her smile.

If you let someone who knows Catherine describe her, she is calm, calm, chic, and elegant...... But there was absolutely no word for "pretty", but at this moment she gave Snape a feeling of amazement.

Jade-like skin, pink-like cheeks, and willow-leaf-like eyebrows made her face overflow with a girl's youthful atmosphere for the first time, and Snape seemed to see twelve-year-old Lily again, but compared to her friend's vibrant green eyes, Catherine's brown eyes were like a cup of intoxicating coffee, and like a sweet chocolate, which made people involuntarily fall into it and couldn't extricate themselves.

"Is it pretty?" Catherine spun around in place, deliberately coquettishly asked.

"Attract bees and butterflies!" Snape, who finally came to his senses, couldn't help but become a little sour.

"I think so too!" Catherine walked over to the table next to Snape, pulled out a few tissues, and conjured a mirror to wipe the makeup off her face.

"Miss Catherine!" Mona ran up to her and exclaimed, "Stop, Mona will help you touch up your makeup now, otherwise you won't be able to make it to the tea party." ”

"No need, Mona!" Catherine wiped off her eyeshadow and blush, "The professor said it was too showy." ”

"But the hostess wants Miss Catherine to be the prettiest ......," Mona tried to persuade when Snape glared at her with a cold eye, and she trembled with fright.

"Professor, how is it now?" Catherine turned to ask Snape for his opinion.

Returning to his simple face, his lips were as delicate as rose petals, and as delicious and alluring as cherries, Snape's pale face suddenly became a little more bloody.

"Come back early!" He lowered his head, pretending to continue studying the list.

"Okay." Catherine walked straight to the fireplace as if she didn't notice it, but the discarded tissues had some more lip gloss on them.

Curiosity emboldened Mona, and she wanted to know what was going on with the strange atmosphere of that moment, but Snape's cold eyes swept again, and she could only panic to keep up with Catherine's pace.

Wizards' houses are generally forbidden for apparitions to appear in and out of the house, and 17 Spider's Tail Alley is no exception, and after Dumbledore and the four deans have been transformed, even the house-elves cannot move in and out freely, so they can only go to Malfoy Manor through the guò fireplace, and in order to avoid making a fool of herself, Catherine refuses Mona's help and walks slowly to the back garden where the party is held.

Of the nine Slytherin students in the Class of 91, three men and three women were of similar status, and of the six, Pansy had a crush on Draco early on, while Theodore launched an attack on Daphne after falling in love with him at first sight.

Of the remaining two, Catherine is not only superior in her own right, but also has a mysterious background, and has formed a deep friendship with the little prince of Slytherin and the golden boy of Gryffindor before she even goes to school, which makes the two of them often quarrel over her.

So Brace, who has always been deeply popular with women, has become the most lonely person among them, when he has business, he also has Pansy to accompany him, once Catherine is not there, he doesn't want to stay as the light bulb of the remaining two pairs, and provoke the girls in the upper grades, he doesn't have the strength in the first grade, so he can only develop outward.

But for today's afternoon tea party, Narcissa only invited Draco's classmates, and Asteria was originally invited because she was Daphne's sister and a freshman this year, but unfortunately because she said the wrong thing that day, she is still locked up at home reciting the Slytherin precepts.

The remaining three, Crabbe and Goyle, only knew how to eat, and the stout Millicent was super unaesthetically inadequate, so Blaise simply sneaked up on a tree and hid to take a nap, until he was woken up by a very incoherent footsteps.

Blaise followed the prestige and saw a girl with a sun umbrella, she had long, burgundy hair, which immediately reminded him of someone who had not yet arrived, but as soon as he noticed the careful walking posture of the other, he immediately put this thought behind him, he did not think that Catherine would not be able to handle even a pair of high heels.

So he thinks that this should be a freshman who grew up abroad, maybe this is the purpose of Narcissa's afternoon tea party, after all, there are no underage girls in the British wizarding world who Blaise does not know, and he decided to give the other party an unforgettable meeting gift.

So, when the girl got under the tree, Brace suddenly grabbed the trunk and swung down.

"Ahh The girl didn't expect a person to suddenly fall from the tree, she screamed, picked up the sun umbrella in her hand and hit Brace, but she forgot to put the umbrella away, so the impact of the boy hitting the umbrella gave her a huge thrust, and the girl, who was already unsteady, took a few steps back and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately she put away the umbrella in time to put it on the ground behind her, so that there was no worse situation.

Blaise was forced to interrupt his original chic landing action because of the sun umbrella that suddenly appeared in front of him, but was hit by the reaction force of the umbrella surface and fell to the ground.

The girl who had just stood up straight couldn't help but laugh out loud, and Blaise didn't get annoyed, but got up and pulled her hair and walked calmly towards the other party.

"Presumably this meeting ceremony will make you unforgettable!" Blaise gently grabbed the fingers of the other man's left hand and touched the back of the other man's hand with his lips, "My name is Brace Zabini!" What about you? His voice was seductive.

"My name is Catherine!" The red-haired girl slowly raised her head, smiled brightly and winked mischievously at Brace.

"Catherine? Catherine! You're Catherine! Blaise threw away the girl's left hand, jerked back, and then fell to the ground with a "pound" thud.

"Hahaha!" Catherine couldn't help but laugh out loud, and hurriedly raised her hand to block her rude expression, "This greeting gift is really - really made me - unforgettable for life!" She laughed so hard that she couldn't even speak coherently.

"You make it hard for me to believe—" Brace blushed at his wolf blush, and then simply sat cross-legged on the ground, his chin propped up in a pensive look, "I can't even get a pair of high heels!" ”

"What's so strange about this—" said Catherine, holding her hands on the handles of the umbrella and bending over slightly, "wearing high heels too early can be potentially harmful to my feet, so my teacher asked me to wait until my body is well developed to become familiar with these shoes. ”

"When he's well--" Blaise was immediately distracted by it, and began to think about it, and then he suddenly noticed something, "Your height seems-" He immediately jumped up and walked up to Catherine, "Aha! You didn't grow taller! ”

"yes!" Catherine replied angrily, and pressed the tip of the umbrella against Blaise's shoe and pressed it down hard.

"It hurts! Wow! My feet—ah! Let go! Blaise grasped the handle of the umbrella and tried to lift it up, but sadly found that his strength was much smaller than that of the girl who was shorter than himself, and he had no choice but to beg for mercy.