Chapter 224: Conflict
"Eh, you two, that's enough."
Ning An knocked on the table in front of him, straightened up from the soft and collapsed sofa back, stood up, and turned sideways to face the two of them, the expression on his face was no longer the slow and logical he used to be.
"Why are you arguing to such an extent?" He frowned, looked at Daphne, and then at Hermione, "Although the two of you have had some misunderstandings before, now even if you don't become friends, you don't have to meet and quarrel." ”
"Okay, if you don't make noise, you won't be noisy, and I'm too lazy to argue." Daphne rolled her eyes, looked at Ning An and suddenly smiled slyly, nodded in agreement, and at the same time walked out from behind the table, took a small half step in front of Hermione, smiled and stretched out her hand and said:
"I apologize for what I said just now, so let's reconcile again, okay?"
Hermione stared at her big brown eyes, her two thick eyebrows were twisted into an inverted figure, and her eyes were full of incredulity, as if she couldn't believe how anyone could change her mood, change so quickly, one second she was still tense with herself, and the next second she was going to reconcile as before?
Maybe this is Slytherin, thinking that this girl was born in Slytherin, Hermione pouted again, Daphne's first apology made Hermione very embarrassed, so as if she was aggressive, Hermione felt a little aggrieved in her heart.
"You don't need to apologize, Miss Daphne—" Hermione cleared her throat, ignoring Daphne's outstretched hand, "we've never been friends with each other, so what's going on to reconcile?" ”
She said that she didn't pay attention to Daphne anymore, and turned to Ning An and said, "Crookshan is still in the prefect's lounge, I'll go and bring it over." As he spoke, he pushed open the door and went out.
At this time, the door of their box was pulled open again, and Malfoy covered his face, he really didn't want to stay here for a second longer, and even regretted transferring to Durmstrang early, which made him feel that he was going further and further away from a bad situation.
"Oh...... You, hello," said a timid voice, "hmm...... I'm here to see, a friend...... I heard he was ...... here."
A very pretty-looking girl with long black and shiny hair was standing at the door of the box, looking at Hermione with a shy smile. It's Akihari, the Seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team.
Hermione stood in the doorway, feeling a wave of irritability in her heart, she had just had a wonderful vacation like never before, and even the panic of the mysterious man's return had been put behind her for the time being, but since the semester restarted, it seemed that everything had gone wrong again.
Looking at Akihari's beautiful face and smooth long hair, Hermione couldn't resist pressing /ya of her frizzy, thick, unkempt brown hair.
"Who's your friend?" Daphne shouted behind Hermione, her tone slightly frivolous.
"Hmm......" Qiu Zhang didn't speak, but his eyes looked at Ning An, Ning An scratched his head embarrassedly, not understanding why Qiu Zhang came to him.
"I read the report of the Daily Prophet, I seem to have been wrong to blame you before......" Her face was red, and every word she said seemed to have plucked up great courage, she finally took a deep breath, looked at Ning An, ignored Daphne who was whistling quietly on the side, and said directly:
"Can we talk alone?"
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Hermione's body shaking in front of the door, and a hint of understanding flashed in Qiu Zhang's eyes, this girl's name is Hermione? Granger, whom she knew, was one of the best students at Gryffindor, and Akihari had always had a good impression of her.
Ning An showed a very embarrassed expression, Daphne, who was aggressive at the beginning, became the most gloating one at the moment, she smiled on the side and let her eyes jump between several people, looking at them, Hermione slowly turned around, showing an expression of anger and disappointment, looking at Ning An.
"I guess I'm afraid not-" Ning An was just about to open his mouth to refuse, when there was a sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping in the hallway
"It attacked me with poison, oh my! How dare you attack me! "It's a girl's scream.
"No—it's just a self-defense mechanism, and if you don't touch its boils, you'll be fine." Someone is explaining in fear.
"Damn, leave that cow alone, grab Riffo first/zhu - it jumped away, Ginny! Grab it! ”
"I can't catch it, look at me, my hair is full of stinking juice!"
"Ahh
"Go away, I don't want to get on your sticky/ye."
There was chaos in the corridors, and Ning An even felt that he vaguely heard some familiar voices, and there were people in the other carriages who opened the car doors and poked their heads out to figure out what was going on.
"I've got him!"
A black shadow flew up, slicing an arc through the air, and then slammed to the ground, his hands clasped into a bowl, Harry excitedly shouted behind him, "Come on, I've got it, Ron, Neville, come here!" ”
Then, as if he was aware of the small black leather shoes next to him, it meant that someone was standing next to him, Harry's eyes slowly moved over, the open box door, the silver-gray roller door slide, and of course, the person standing in front of him, the slender double/tui wrapped in jeans, it was a girl.
"Harry......" Hermione looked at Harry with a stunned expression, she didn't expect that the first meeting between the two of them in the new semester would be in this situation.
Harry was clutching a toad stained with slimy, filthy green juice, and his clothes, pants, hair, and eyes were covered in slimy, stenching like.
Then he looked up and saw the last person he wanted to see at this moment, and the surprise and confusion revealed in his bright black pupils made Harry ashamed and embarrassed.
Well, there is no worse situation than this, lying on the ground by himself, holding this toad in his hand, and his face is dripping with stinky juice - and all this is clearly seen by Qiu Zhang.
Looking further back, this small box was full of acquaintances, Hermione stood a little further back from Qiu Zhang, also covering her mouth, looking at herself in disbelief, behind her was Ning An, on the other side was a blonde girl, if memory serves, it seems to be called Daphne, a former student of Slytherin, and one person, Malfoy, who has always been a nuisance to Harry.
If he could make a hole in the Hogwarts Express, Harry would have chosen to get in there immediately and never come out again.
"Ah, he caught /zhu, he caught /zhu your toad!" There was the sound of chasing footsteps behind him, and there were people who, as if afraid that things would not be humiliating or noticeable enough, shouted that Harry wished that time would be repeated, so that perhaps he would not have to go into the carriage where the mad girl was, and what would not have happened to him.
"Levy!" Neville stumbled from the back of the car, overtook Luna who was walking in front and quickly ran to Harry's side, holding him up and helping him up, then took the toad from him, and carefully examined it, the smell of juice on the two of them overlapped, and it was even more pungent.
"Stop, I'm going to shut you up, my God, this damn stench, I'm going to punish you, you dare to attack the prefect—"
"Come on, Parkinson's, you're all bringing it on yourself!" At the other end of the hallway, Ron and another girl in a green robe ran side by side. Parkinson screamed as if he was going to call everyone out to watch the farce, and Ginny hurried after the two of them.
"What the hell is going on, Neville?" Hermione finally came to her senses and walked out of the box, where the group was clogging the hallway, and she looked at the mess of stinking juice and the embarrassed appearance of Harry and the others, not understanding how they were doing.
"I'll take care of it." Ning An didn't know when he had an extra wand in his hand, it was an ebony wand that belonged to him,
"Clean up"
The stench was gone, the walls and floors of the hallway were clean and shiny, and the stench had dissipated, as if it had just been an illusion. Parkinson and Ron also came over, and the stinking juice from their bodies was cleaned up.
"I'm going to lock you up!" Pansy said viciously.
"Don't forget, you're a prefect, and I'm a prefect!" Ron shouted unflinchingly beside him.
"What the hell happened to Neville?" Hermione cast her inquiring gaze, Neville holding the toad Lev, looking nervous and overwhelmed, and Ginny hurriedly explained:
"It's not Neville's fault, he brought a pot of Mibu Mibao in the car, and Parkinson and Sabini came to inspect it as prefects, but I swear they were just here to find fault, and Parkinson stabbed Mibu Mibao's boils and made those green nian/liquid sprays everywhere......"
"It was that disgusting plant that attacked me on its own initiative!" Parkinson screamed.
"Then we might be able to wait until we get to school and ask Professor Sprout under what circumstances Mibu Mibao would take the initiative to attack others—"
Hermione turned around and said to Pansy as she choked on her, and at some point she had a badge on her chest that symbolized the prefect,
"And it's not a good thing to use the prefect's power to call for confinement for others, and maybe we can report this to the professors at Hogwarts."
Hermione's words left Parkinson speechless, just glaring at Hermione with hateful eyes.
Harry leaned against the wall with his head down, as if everything that was happening around him had nothing to do with him, he sighed, and from time to time he sneaked a glance at Qiu Zhang out of the corner of his eye, imagining that Zhong Qiu Zhang didn't see his concerned eyes.
This Ravenclaw Quidditch Seeker, his eyes wandered back and forth between Hermione and Ning An, for some reason, Harry's heart was faintly painful, he saw Qiu Zhang's eyes looking at Ning An, that kind of shyness revealed some inexplicable complexity, which he had never seen before.
yes, both of them were Asian, and they looked like a good match, Harry muttered silently to himself.
But Ning'an already has Hermione! How could he do that? The flame of jealousy, unconsciously burned in Harry's heart.
"Hee-hee, Parkinson, can a guy like you be a superior? Slytherin is truly depraved. ”
Daphne jumped out of the box, as if she didn't think the scene was chaotic enough, and added fuel to the fire with a grin, she was already at odds with Parkinson's, and the other party had been sorry for Calidora and mocked her, but Daphne didn't feel any pressure at all.
Daphne ...... Greengrass......? Parkinson looked up and noticed a few people standing behind Hermione, and it wasn't until she saw Ning An and Malfoy that her face turned pale.
"Virtue ...... Draco...... Peaceful...... Ning'an ——! ”
"That's enough, Pansy, don't be embarrassed here." Malfoy said lightly, but someone immediately interrupted him
"Are you embarrassed to say that Slytherin is depraved?" A tall boy walked out from behind Pansy, with high cheekbones, a slightly darker complexion, and long, narrow, slightly slanted brown eyes, which made people think he was a pretty figure at first glance.
And he also exudes a sense of pride to match, as if he disdains other people and things around him who are too ordinary.
"I'd like to hear this young lady's explanation of why Slytherin House is degenerate."
"Zabini—" Pansy cried out again, as if she had found a leaning back, as if she wanted to hug Blaise? Zabini's DA/leg complains in general.
"Oh? What are you, and do I need your consent to say anything? Daphne became arrogant again in a blink of an eye, and looked at Blaise with a contemptuous smile, which made the latter look angry, and no one had ever humiliated him like this.
He examined Daphne carefully for a long time, and then, as if thinking of something, he sneered disdainfully, and only said lightly
"The honor of the Greengrass family has been tarnished by you." After that, he didn't say anything more, and it looked like he was turning around and planning to leave.
When Pansy was still counting on Zabini to unite with her and teach this group of Gryffindors a good lesson, the Slytherin prefect actually turned around and wanted to leave, Parkinson gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, as if to say, you wait for me, and leave with me, and now she is here alone, except for being humiliated, there is no meaning.
But at this moment, a cold voice sounded
"Wait a minute."
Everyone turned around and found Ning An standing in the middle of the corridor, calmly looking at Brace with his back to him? Zabini vs. Pansy? Parkinson's slowly spoke:
"I would also like to ask you to explain how to explain that the glory of the Greengrass family has been tarnished? Brace? Mr. Zabini? ”
Blaise's footsteps stopped with difficulty, and it could be seen that he had heard who was speaking, and he was very reluctant to turn around, the reason why he let go lightly just now, and turned around and left without hesitation, was precisely because when he was about to say something, he caught a glimpse of Ning An who was standing behind.
He could look down on Daphne, he couldn't look down on Malfoy, he didn't care about Pansy, he didn't care about the rest of the Gryffindors, but that man had always had an unspeakable power in the hearts of the Slytherin students, at least in the hearts of the students who had lived through that time.
Turning around and facing Ning An head-on, this pair of Brace? For Zabini, an unexpected struggle and hardship.