In order to avoid explaining to the students what the three of them were carrying the packages for, Hermione, Harry, and Ron got up early in the morning with a tacit understanding, and when they were eating breakfast in the auditorium, only Snape was eating quickly at the faculty table above, and the three of them were sitting alone at the Gryffindor table.

Harry looked at Snape, whose hair was greasy, with disgust, wondering how Professor Bryan could maintain a good relationship with such a person.

But his malicious gaze seemed to be noticed by Snape, who was eating suddenly stopped his movements and looked at him expressionlessly.

Before Snape noticed his contemptuous look, Harry quickly lowered his head and pretended to deal with the bacon on the plate, he was not afraid of Snape, but they were going to Hogsmeade to do something meaningful, at this time, he didn't want to be found fault by Snape.

The roads that were not walked by many people throughout the Christmas holidays were covered with a layer of melting snow and ice, and when you stepped on it, the snow mixed with mud was enough to submerge the surface of your feet.

"We should be smarter, shouldn't we?"

Ron's old clothes had been sent home, and he had nothing to give to the orphanage kids at school, so it was only natural for him to help Hermione carry her package. Walking out of the woods and looking at the endless fields from the village of Hogsmeade, Ron panted and said,

"Calling us completely unnecessary, taking this path is not it. The secret passage of the hunchbacked witch on the fourth floor is a better choice."

"Oh!"

Harry, who was also struggling to carry a package, glared at Ron angrily,

"That's right, Ron, the problem is that you reminded us a little too early, why didn't you wait for us to get to Hogsmeade to talk about it?"

Hermione, cowered in her cloak, listened to Harry and Ron spitting out bad words, looked back at him and giggled, Ron and Harry shared her things, so she was the most relaxed.

Suddenly two more students walked out of the slightly dark forest they had just passed, and the two men holding hands with each other attracted Hermione's idea, she squinted her eyes and looked at them carefully, and suddenly let out a small exclamation.

"How?"

Harry stopped in alarm, turned his head to look back, and at first glance, his expression immediately dulled.

"It's Diggory's stupid hat and his dance partner at the prom, who is that girl?"

Ron was attracted by the strangeness of Harry and Hermione, and after turning his head to look, he said casually, looking at Harry beside him, he knew that the girl next to Diggory was also a gym student.

But to Ron's surprise, Harry didn't answer his question, but didn't say a word, and strode forward with his feet out, much happier than before.

"Hey, wait, what's wrong with you?"

Ron exclaimed, puzzled.

"That girl is Akihari from Ravenclaw, a grade above us." Hermione whispered, and after glancing sympathetically at Harry's back, she tugged at Ron's sleeve,

"Let's go, Ron, I don't want to explain to them what we're doing with these packages-"

Things often backfired, and when they spotted Cedric and Akihari, the two men also spotted the three of them, and before Akihari could stop them, Cedric had already waved his hand at them and shouted happily,

"Hey, wait!"

Cedri grabbed Qiu Zhang's hand and dragged Qiu Zhang a little embarrassed and ran forward quickly. He was a little puzzled as to why the three Gryffindors didn't heed his greeting, only for Cedric, who they hadn't heard, quickened his pace a bit.

The package on Harry and Ron's shoulders slowed them down, and by the time Cedric's shout was thirty feet behind them, even Harry couldn't pretend not to hear it, so he could only stop and wait for Cedric to come over with a dull face, he didn't look at the two men at all, pretending to admire the snow in the field, just as they were air.

"Oh, good morning—"

Cedric pulled his muddy boots out of the snow and kicked them, then nodded and smiled at the three of them, completely oblivious to the unnatural expression of Akihari beside him.

Ron just shrugged his shoulders, he wasn't familiar with Cedric, and the two hadn't even spoken.

Hermione glanced at Harry quickly, and then knew that Harry and Cedric couldn't be expected to have a cordial conversation.

"Good morning, Cedric, Akihari--"

"What are you doing?"

As Fred and George described, at some point, Cedric was indeed very sluggish, he didn't realize that the three people opposite him didn't particularly want to talk to him, and still looked at Hermione with a bright smile on his handsome face,

"What are you going to do? I mean, these two big packages? ”

"Uh-huh-"

The group walked slowly forward, and Hermione hesitated for a moment before responding,

"Some old luggage, I'm going to send them home, the owls at school can't handle such a heavy package, so, I'm going to go to Hogsmeade, the post office there can help with this-"

The confusion between Cedric's eyebrows dissipated at once, and he let go of Qiu Zhang's hand, and said to Hermione earnestly,

"This package doesn't look light."

His gaze swept between Harry and Ron, and after a moment of hesitation, Cedric chose the more familiar Harry,

"I can come and help you—"

If it weren't for the fact that Hermione had secretly reminded him in the first game that the Warriors were going to deal with the fire dragon, then there would be no chance that he would have successfully passed the test, so Cedric just wanted to help Hermione.

However, Cedric did not expect it at all, and his enthusiasm went completely unreciprocated.

Harry's footsteps flickered, avoiding Cedric's outstretched hand, and in the face of Cedric, who was a little caught off guard, he just muffled his sentence,

"No--"

Harry's aggressive performance caused the others to wrinkle their brows, and Cedric looked a little embarrassed.

"Oh, Harry can handle it--"

Only the two girls, Hermione and Chozhang, knew what Harry's coldness was all about, and Chochizhang pursed her thin pale pink lips, her cheeks creeping red, I don't know if it was due to anger or shyness.

Hermione sighed inwardly, but smiled, and wanted to quickly change the subject, but even her head couldn't think of what to say for a while, so she could only ask awkwardly,

"You guys. . . Well, planning to go to Hogsmeade? ”

Ron's cheeks bulged suddenly, as if amused by Hermione's stupid question, but fortunately, Cedric didn't notice anything wrong, and he took Qiu Zhang's hand again, and his smile was full of satisfaction and happiness,

"Yes, Autumn is going to the Literati House to buy a quill, however, we are going to go to the Paddev Teahouse together--"

"Padiv Teahouse?" Ron blinked and said in confusion, "Does Hogsmeade have this shop?" ”

"It's in the alley behind the Three Broomsticks Bar--" Hermione, who is good at answering questions, said subconsciously, "I've heard Lavender say that it's a great place for couples to date ahem, I mean—"

As soon as she said that, Hermione realized that she shouldn't have said this in front of Harry, and she hurriedly remedied,

"Well, it's quiet there, good for chatting-"

Harry's expression tightened, and he felt the urge to unload the package from his shoulder and throw it into the ditch beside the road with Cedric.

Ron was stunned when he heard Hermione say this, and then, nodding thoughtfully, his eyes were full of excitement.

"See you then--"

The journey was really painful, and several people in the group had their own thoughts, only Cedric didn't notice anything, and talked to Hermione with great interest about their training in gym class yesterday, and Hermione could only talk to him in Qiu Zhang's increasingly unkind gaze.

Hogsmeade finally arrived, Cedric waved at them, and led Qiu Zhang in the other direction, and Harry, who had not said a word along the way, glanced at Qiu Zhang uncontrollably, and his self-confessed hidden movements were immediately caught by Qiu Zhang, and the girl quickly turned her head to the other side as if a little frightened.

Harry pursed his lips, his heart instantly dead.

"Shall we-"

Staring at the backs of Cedric and Qiu Zhang, Ron's eyes showed eagerness,

"We'll go to that Padifu teahouse later, maybe it'll be fun—"

"Come on, Weasley—"

The expressionless Harry strode towards Duke Bee, looking at his back, Hermione's eyes were full of sympathy, and after sighing, he pulled the request to be denied, and Ron, who was a little unwilling, trotted to follow Harry

(End of chapter)