The ball was undoubtedly a success.

Of course, it's not that it's good or how much fun everyone has had, but since the ball, there have been many more men and women in pairs at Hogwarts.

So, only Harry's injured world was achieved.

Every time he saw Cedric and Cho walking together, Harry felt like he had a knife in his heart. But somehow, it didn't take long for me to stop feeling pain.

Maybe it's getting used to it......

As for Ron...... It's still the same, nothing has changed.

Of course, neither Harry nor Ron noticed that after the prom, their reviews were much worse.

After all, a person who snubs his dance partner at a dance party will not have a good reputation in any way.

In January, Hogwarts reopened.

Ike, who has rarely had a chance to be idle in the past few years, rarely even goes to the Room of Requirement now. At all times, there's basically a "Hermione" in it.

Probably the only person in the school who still has access to the time converter, and with some guidance and inspiration from Ike, Hermione is even busier than last year's Ike.

Ike was happy too, since he was a child, he thought it didn't hurt to learn more, and after this hard study, Hermione was undoubtedly much better than she was at the same time in the original history.

The suitcase full of copies and Ravenclaw manuscripts had been in the Room of Requirement for months, and it was strange that there had been no progress.

Peaceful days are good, but they are also one day less, and Ike knows this very well. Hermione seemed to sense something, and even if she was busy every day, she had to spare a few hours to spend time with Ike.

Whether it's stepping through the snow by the Black Lagoon, sitting in the library reading a book, or enjoying a delicious meal in the kitchen before curfew.

Ogilvy wasn't serving the two of them now, and after Hermione tried to pay her, Ogilvy never showed up in Hermione's presence again, and only when Ike came alone, would he come out and deliver delicious food while complaining about "horrible Miss Granger".

Ogilvy's place was taken over by Hermione's acquaintance, Dobby, and every time Hermione would give Dobby a Nat.

Although in Hermione's opinion, Dobby's work is worth much more than a Nat, but unfortunately, this is the only thing Dobby accepts. Hermione was satisfied, and there were house-elves who accepted the salary, even if it was only one, and it was a success for the house-elf rights promotion society.

Unfortunately, Dobby is indeed a free house-elf, but he is still a house-elf......

"Stred, come to my office."

One day in February, just before Valentine's Day, when Ike and Hermione left the library, Moody stopped Ike with his wooden crutch.

Looking at Hermione, Hermione whispered, "Let's go, it may be about the tournament, Harry just got some news from him a few days ago."

"Okay, then I'll go."

Saying goodbye to Hermione, Ike followed Moody into his office.

Compared to the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's office in previous years, Moody's office was much more cluttered, with a large number of magic props shining with various strange lights everywhere, parchment and books were randomly piled together, and there was a large pile in the corner.

Ike was unceremonious, and sat straight into the only chair in the office that was probably in good condition, and Moody didn't care, and said directly, "I need your help."

"Aren't you doing a good job, what else do you need me to do?" Ike replied casually.

"This is not the time to joke, this is a matter of urgency!" Moody...... No, Barty said eagerly.

"Let's talk about it."

"I need the snake skin of the African tree snake, a lot." Barty Jr. lowered his voice and whispered.

Ike didn't refuse, and stood up.

"Three days from now, you'll get what you need."

After saying that, he left directly.

After dinner the next day, Ike quietly came to Snape's office with a phantom charm, and as soon as he pushed the door open, Snape, who had unleashed an unknown amount of vigilance magic in his office, found Ike.

"You didn't knock, Mr. Stred." Snape, who was drawing a T on his homework like an assembly line, didn't even lift his head.

"What I'm about to say is not for knocking, Professor." Closing the door and casting a silencer spell, Ike said, "I need some African tree snake skin." ”

"Polyjuice decoction?" Snape put down the quill in his hand, looked at Ike, and without asking anything, took out a small bag of African tree snake skins from the pantry.

But he just held it in his hand and didn't hand it to Ike.

"Answer, Stred."

"Bang! Bang! ”

Ike didn't speak, just stamped his feet on the floor vigorously and walked away with the bag. Snape sat back in his seat as if nothing had happened, and continued to draw a t on the parchment.

Dropping the bag into the abandoned professor on the fifth floor, Ike returned to the common room.

It's all a small matter, and it's imperative to get the gift for Hermione on Valentine's Day. The first Valentine's Day for the two of them was undoubtedly difficult to choose a gift, especially now that there were so many more couples at Hogwarts.

Fortunately, Ike still has a way. After asking Roger, Terry, Stewart, and Michael, and ruling out their options, the range of options is undoubtedly much smaller.

In detail, Ike also has no way, if other holidays only need a book to satisfy Hermione, but this is Valentine's Day, books definitely can't be done.

In the end, though, Ike's choice of gift didn't satisfy Hermione.

"I think the book is pretty good." Holding a silver-white lady's watch, Hermione said casually. Ike was very satisfied, as Hermione had put it on her wrist as soon as she received it, much to his delight.

"It's a couple." Showing his wrist and shaking his equally silver-white watch slightly, Ike lowered his sleeve.

"By the way, haven't you always wanted to know what the second project is?" Ike stepped forward with a mysterious smile on his face, "I can tell you now." ”

Hermione, who was still looking at her watch, didn't even raise her head, and replied angrily, "I already knew, do you think Harry won't tell me when he unlocks the golden egg?"

"I forgot about that." Ike patted his forehead as if he had really forgotten. Hermione didn't take it seriously, but she smiled brightly.

She enjoyed her time with Ike......

Enjoyed it very much.