Although she slept a little late, the quality was good, so she still felt refreshed the next day. After a brief wash, she changed into her Slytherin green uniform and walked out of her bedroom to the common room alone. There, she saw Malfoy, this time not alone, but with the two big men she had seen on the boat.

Malfoy saw her coming, and got up, and Sally wondered why he was waiting for her here, but didn't ask. Malfoy walked in front, two big men walking on either side of him like bodyguards.

"Good morning, Sally. Malfoy said, "This is Vincent Crabbe, this is Gregory Gower, you've seen it on the ship." He added, "They are not very brainy, but they are heartfelt enough." In a word, Sally knew that she was right, these two people acted as bodyguards, which made her not only think of what Pansy said last night, but reflexively looked at the door of the girl's dormitory, but did not see her.

"Do you have anyone else waiting?" asked Malfoy.

"No, in fact, I'm going to go for breakfast. Sally said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Crabbe, Goyle. ”

"Let's go to breakfast too. Malfoy said, "Believe me, follow me and you'll have fewer detours." The stairs at Hogwarts are notoriously tricky, but I was here with my father when I was a kid, so I had some experience. ”

Sally didn't want to ask Malfoy when he was supposed to be there, but the four of them arrived at the restaurant, which had always been well fed, and she took bread and buttered it, ate another omelette, and drank a glass of milk. She couldn't resist eating a pudding, and at Malfoy's recommendation, she ate another piece of mint hard candy, which was said to freshen her breath.

As soon as she walked out of the dining room, she saw Harry, and in fact, there were quite a few people around him, consciously or unconsciously, everyone who passed by was watching him. She had a lot of things to say to Harry, but it was clear that the place wasn't the right place.

"It's time for us to go. Malfoy gave Harry a disgusted look, then said to Sally.

Sally felt unable to speak, and she didn't know what traps she would encounter on the way to the Transfiguration classroom, so she didn't want to be late for the first day of class, so she turned around, and just a few steps away, she heard Harry call. "Sally, Sally, wait a minute. ”

Sally turned around again, and saw Harry walking through the crowd to her, and he glanced at Malfoy with the same disgust, and then whispered to Sally, "I'll be waiting for you by the lake during lunch break." After saying that, he wanted to say something, but he was already pulled away by Ron.

The Transfiguration class was not as difficult as she thought, and Professor McGonagall was very easy to understand, and Sally felt that she was very interested in the Transfiguration class, so much so that even though the Transfiguration class was two sessions in a row, she felt that time passed quickly.

After the Transfiguration class was over, it was the lunch break, and Sally didn't eat lunch, but went straight to the lake, and sure enough, she saw Harry and Ron, who also didn't eat lunch.

At this time, everyone was in the castle, so there was no one by the lake, Harry saw Sally coming, quickly got up, walked to her side and asked nervously, "How are you doing in Slytherin, has anyone bullied you?"

Without waiting for Sally to answer, he said again, "The Sorting Hat must have made a mistake, I'm in Gryffindor, and our parents are in Gryffindor, why are you in Slytherin?"

"You calm down. Sally had to interrupt her brother's somewhat neurotic remarks and said, "I'm good in Slytherin, the seniors take good care of the freshmen, and no one bullies me." What about you?"

Before Harry could answer, he heard Ron snort not far away, "Hmph, I'll just say you're worrying too much, your sister is doing well in Slytherin, didn't you see that Malfoy and his bodyguards escorted her to dinner and class at breakfast today, I wonder if you came to see us and asked for his permission first?"

"I don't like the tone of your voice, Ron. Sally said. "Malfoy and I are just ordinary friends, and if you decide to continue speaking to us in that tone, then you won't be my friend. ”

"Do you hear that? Harry, she's going to break us off and be friends with Malfoy, you know that our family is against the Malfoys, and you have forgotten how welcoming you are in our family, are you doing the right thing for Mom?" Ron jumped up with excitement, his voice becoming louder.

Sally's face sank completely. "Ron, I like everyone in the Weasley family, including you, but I can't be hostile to Malfoy just because you don't like him, in fact, he took good care of me in the Academy, and since he didn't alienate me because of my relationship with you, then I wouldn't be hostile to him because of you. You can have your grudges, but please don't take me with you. ”

"Listen, Harry, do you have anything more to say to her? Ron was about to pull Harry away, Harry wanted to say something, but he couldn't open his mouth and couldn't spit out a word, and Ron pulled him away.

Sally stood by the lake in a daze, when suddenly tears fell without warning. Ever since she cried once, she seemed to be crying a lot. I have to say that Ron's words hurt her deeply, even though she was calm.

"Lunchtime, why don't you go to dinner, what are you doing here?" Suddenly a mature man's voice came from behind her, Sally quickly wiped away her tears, turned around, and saw a tall but thin man wearing a black robe and cloak, with black hair and black eyes, and his eyes looked cold and unfathomable.

"Professor, I... She didn't know who he was, but the adult man must have been a professor at Hogwarts. She didn't know how to answer to keep him from deducting the college's score.

"I don't want to hear your explanation, if you don't go to eat, then you will only be hungry at noon today. The professor interrupted her. "Not leaving?"

"Let's go. Sally, fearing that he would regret it, turned around and trotted away, an episode that made her feel much less uncomfortable.

She didn't notice that under the man's seemingly calm and indifferent look, the hands hidden in the wide cuffs were already rarely soaked with sweat.

She didn't go to the dining room, and saw the inseparable Weasley brothers at the top of the stairs, which made her think of Ron's tone again, and the originally good mood was ruined again, she pretended not to see it, and was about to walk into the dining room, but heard George's voice, "Fred, look, our sweet little friend has begun to pretend not to see us now, are we wearing invisibility cloaks?"

"We don't have an invisibility cloak. Fred continued, "Someone doesn't want to know us, maybe she thinks she's embarrassed by the poor Weasleys?"

"I didn't!" Sally retorted, and then she saw George Fred's joking look, and Dons understood that they had said it on purpose, but there was a little less loneliness and loneliness in her heart, and she could see that Fred George was not as prejudiced against her as Ron was.

"We know you don't. George walked over and put his arm on one of Sally's shoulders, and they were half a head taller than Sally, so it was effortless. "We're apologizing for our ignorant little brother in our own way. He just cares too much about you. ”

"I didn't feel it in the slightest, neither your apology nor his concern. Sally sarcastically said, "I've always been friends." ”

"You are indeed friends, which is why he is angry that you have new friends around you, especially when your new friends will never be friends with us. Fred continued.

"What about you?" asked Sally.

"We're not going to make Malfoy any less hostile just because you're on good terms with him. George straightened up and said, "So again, we won't lose our affection for you because of him." Isn't it, Fred?"

"Yes, that's what we mean. Fred said.

"I wish Ron could think like you. Sally sighed.

"He'll do, I've written to my mom with a tactful mention of what Ron said to you and how upset you are, I'm sure she'll do something, after all, she likes you so much. George said. "Okay, don't bother you to eat, I recommend the lamb chops at noon, it's very well baked. ”

Sally sat at the Slytherin table, there weren't many people left, the grilled lamb chops were still there, she ate a lamb chop and drank some mashed potatoes, and she ate two puddings. The mood feels much better.

Hmph, Ron that guy, if he doesn't apologize, she'll never talk to him again.

In the afternoon, it was a history of magic class, and Professor Binns made his class a nightmare, boring, but fortunately there was nothing incomprehensible in this class that required the use of the brain, just memorize some of the contents of the textbook, Sally tried to get up and stopped for ten minutes, then couldn't help but start to run, took out the other textbooks and began to look through them.

Back in the common room after lunch, Malfoy pretended to be casual and asked about her conversation with Harry at noon. Sally thought about it, and told Malfoy what Ron and the Weasley brothers had said to Malfoy more tactfully. Malfoy snorted coldly.

"They think too much, I taught you this friend because of you, Sally Potter, not because of your famous brother, not because of some ridiculous Weasleys, but they have a saying that is kind of useful, I won't have any affection for them because of you, but I also won't reduce my association with you because of them. You can rest assured of that. Malfoy said. His words did make Sally feel better, and the two talked about some other things, and she found that although Malfoy's words were ugly, sometimes with some pride and indespidacy, it was undeniable that he still saw things thoroughly and objectively, which may really have something to do with the family environment.

Next to them, Pansy Parkinson saw everything.