Hermione felt very uncomfortable today.

Therefore, Carl joked with her in the morning and she didn't bother to pay attention to him.

The first session of the morning was Charms, and she was in a group with Ron.

Ever since becoming friends with Carl and lying to him a few times in quick succession, Hermione had stopped paying much attention to the other Gryffindor violations around her, including Harry and Ron, of course.

Today's class can be said to be the first time she has intersected with the two in recent times.

Originally, at the beginning of the course, she was quite happy.

Because Professor Vellivier had begun to teach them the Levitation Charm.

Without a doubt, she was the first to use it.

But Ron, who was in the same group as her, couldn't let it go.

So, with kindness, she pointed out a few words to Ron,

However, because she was not feeling well, her tone was a little impulsive.

But I didn't expect that Ron would use an extremely bad attitude to call her nosy, and also said that she was a nightmare behind her back, and happened to be heard by her when she passed by.

It's not the first time Hermione has been told bad things behind her back.

She knew that Lavender, along with the dorm room, had laughed at her hair and teeth more than once.

Although she has only been enrolled for less than two months, she has long been accustomed to this.

But today, somehow, these voices, which she usually ignored, sounded so harsh today.

The more Hermione thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt, she wanted to hide and cry by herself, but halfway through, she remembered the promise she had made with Carl in the morning, so she went to the library instead.

Then she saw Carl right in front of the library.

She had stopped crying, but the moment she saw Carl, she couldn't stop crying.

Seeing this scene, Karl's heart was even more angry.

It was the first time he had been so angry since he came into this world.

Even when he first came to Hogwarts last semester and learned that Dumbledore had erased his memories, it couldn't compare to this time.

In just a split second, Carl guessed who the culprit was.

For a second or two, Carl wished-

Taking a deep breath, Carl forced all the bad thoughts that popped into his head.

Right now, he has more important things to do.

So, he said softly, "Hermione, what's wrong?"

"Carl!"

Hermione involuntarily hugged Carl.

Carl was stunned for a moment, then smiled and patted the girl on the back.

It's obviously just an intimate gesture between good friends.

With what he knew about Hermione, if it was normal, even if she felt uncomfortable, Hermione would not do it, but today the situation seems to be a little special.

Carl helped her to sit down on a chair in the reading area, and when the girl had calmed down a little, Carl teased, "Our Miss Jack-of-all-trades even has a crying nose too." ”

"Carl, you say the same!" Hermione looked at Carl angrily, forgetting to cry.

Clever as she certainly knew, Carl was just joking with her, trying to amuse her, but she just couldn't stop wanting to lose her temper.

"Even you laugh at me Carl!" Hermione glared at Carl with red eyes.

"How so!" Karl's eyes widened with a look of surprise.

"Don't forget, Hermione, I also have a nickname, the Gryffindor outlier!

Hermione curled the corners of her mouth involuntarily.

Seeing this, Carl said, "To be honest, Hermione, when I heard George and Fred give me this nickname, although I was angry on the surface, I actually liked it in my heart. ”

"Why?" asked Hermione, curious.

Carl smirked, "Don't you think this title is domineering?"

"Huh!" Hermione gave him a blank look, a smile on her face.

Seeing this, Carl patted the girl on the shoulder and said softly: "Hermione, you don't need to live for other people's evaluations, if you ignore the bad voices around you, you will find that this world is full of happy things." ”

Hermione looked up into Carl's eyes, and Carl looked back at her as well.

"I guess with your cleverness, it should be easy to do that, isn't it?"

Hermione laughed out loud, wiped the tears from her face with her hand, and said to Carl with a smile, "Thank you, Carl, I'm better." ”

Carl finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked at the girl's smiling face, and he didn't know why, maybe it was because he had known each other for a long time.

The tousled tan hair and the thick eyebrows, which were barely trimmed, became more and more pleasing to the eye.

At the same time, the pair of rabbit teeth in the girl's mouth and the small face that had not grown at all, coupled with the slight freckles on the face, Carl now looked a little cute.

it!?

Carl was stunned.

No way?

Shouldn't it?

Karl immediately became vigilant and began to admonish himself repeatedly.

Carl: Your ambition should be to have big breasts, thin waist and long legs, not the little girl in front of you who is only eleven or twelve years old, sloppy, no breasts and no ass, skin and bones all over her body, and has not grown at all!

You know how easy it is to make mistakes!

You have to remember Carl, you are only the purest friendship relationship, and you enlighten her, but you are only good friends helping each other!

That's right!

Thinking of this, Carl's mood returned to calm.

Next to hermione, of course, she didn't know that Carl's psychological changes were so rich.

She suddenly became a little embarrassed, "Carl, I've always wanted to ask you something. ”

Karl asked curiously, "What's the problem?"

Hermione said embarrassedly, "There's a lot of stuff I can't figure out about your combinatorial Transfiguration paper. ”

This was something she had wanted to ask Carl for a long time, ever since she had seen that article in Transfiguration Today.

She had consulted with Professor McGonagall, but Professor McGonagall said that the article would not be read until she was a little higher in her grade.

Despite Professor McGonagall's tactful words, Hermione's self-esteem was greatly hurt.

At that time, Hermione and Carl were not very familiar with him, and because she had sworn not to talk to him, she had been thinking about it secretly.

That's why she went to watch the Hearthstone tournament later.

She wanted to see the cards up close, hoping to see if she could find the answer on an existing sample.

But after reading it, she was even more confused, Hearthstone was too complicated.

After that, even if she became friends with Carl, because of the little self-esteem in her heart, she never asked Carl until now.

"Can you tell me, Carl?"

Carl nodded, "Of course, no problem!"