young man returning home

Chapter 14 The Other Side Without a Cause

The girl plucked up the courage to face her love calmly, but unexpectedly, she encountered an obstacle when she took her first step out of the Gryffindor common room.

"Good morning! Ron! You look good!" She laughed exaggeratedly, then shook her curly long hair vigorously, trying to treat the big obstacle in front of her as a passerby.

"Morning... good! But I'm not good." Ron followed closely and stopped in front of her.

"Oh, Merlin doesn't like to hear the news either!" Hermione sniffled, "Then, you should go to Madam Pomfrey, or... St. Mungo's tax-free bed is willing to provide you with services!" She tried her best The jokes are played casually, and everything seems to be the same as before.

"Hermione, I want to ask." Ron was obviously not interested in the atmosphere of the joke she deliberately created, "I think you know better than anyone, I—how did I wake up?"

"St. Mungo's Physicians are excellent!"

"Hermione?"

"Weasley is our king! Weasley is tenacious!"

"..."

"You are so annoying!" Hermione pushed him away, grabbed a way, and the moment she walked sideways, she caught a glimpse of Ron's eyes, which were so cautious, complicated, and even deeply worried.This made her feel guilty and uneasy.

She almost stopped.Ron caught up: "We have to talk, don't we?"

"No need!" She interrupted him abruptly with a sore nose.

"Stay away from that ghostly place! Is that okay?" Ron almost growled behind her, "That's not the Forbidden Forest we've been to before! It's dark, cold, and terrifying beyond your imagination..."

"It's just that Voldemort patched a few enchantments there!" She told him the news she had received from Draco.Hermione asked helplessly: "'Dark', 'cold'? After Voldemort returned, is there any corner of the wizarding world that can escape these two words?"

Ron didn't speak for a moment, his brows furrowed even tighter, Hermione's words were not unreasonable.

"By the way, I heard that you went to the Forbidden Forest before you fell into a coma? Why?" The little witch gradually calmed down, and suddenly remembered this crucial question.Draco once said that Ron's injury was not caused by the Death Eater attack during the Quidditch match. Before that, he had been to the Forbidden Forest, and he must have met something there.Before that, the intersection between her and Draco began with the bitter curse of little Malfoy in the Forbidden Forest. Malfoy's blue eyes in the deep lake were full of despair.

What role did the Forbidden Forest play in their story?

"I don't know! I don't know anything!" Ron covered his head in pain like crazy, shaking his head desperately.It seems that the most unbearable memory has been brutally excavated, and it is almost on the verge of collapse.

"It's okay, Ron, everything's okay," she knelt down, and began to softly comfort her partner who had been with her for so many years, "it's nothing serious, just forget about it, Ron, your situation is not stable, You should rest, Madam Pomfrey has reserved a bed in the school infirmary for you. Everything is getting better...everything is getting better..." Her voice became weaker and weaker, until she could barely hear herself up.

How can everything be okay?She's in love with a Slytherin!

Hermione was preoccupied.

"I wish you could forget him..." Ron murmured.

Hermione's body was instantly paralyzed by these words. She was embarrassed and asked tremblingly, "You... what did you say?"

Guaranteed that no one knows this secret!Not even Draco knew it!Just before the intermittent dream last night, she didn't even figure out where her feelings belonged!

How did Ron know about it?

"I, I have to go." She prevaricated awkwardly and fled the scene in a hurry.The embarrassment of the little girl's embarrassment after her secret was exposed was all over her face.

"Hermione, you have to stay away from it, please stay away from him."

Ron's voice floated into her ears clearly, and her psychological defense was completely defeated. "It" and "he", such different pronunciation syllables, completely different words, voiceless and smooth, made her tremble all over.

Stay away from the Forbidden Forest, stay away from Draco.

Stay away from this cramped love with no future.

But the boy clearly and gently attached to her ear, and whispered to her: "Girl, be true to your heart."

Hermione bit her lower lip and stood in front of the dank basement stone door, thinking angrily: The Slytherins will definitely laugh at her to death!

Bryce looked at her in amazement, he was only slightly stunned for a moment, and then he turned around and called inside knowingly: "Draco! Rare guest!"

Hermione stood outside, her heart pounding.

There was a commotion inside, followed by the sound of chairs being dragged, and it was a mess.Hermione heard Pansy say: "Draco, settle your matter, don't forget who you are now. — Put down your rotten coffee! Throw all the memories you shouldn't have into the trash !" She dragged the end of the voice very heavily, as if this tone was deliberately expressed to Hermione.

The sound of leather shoes kicking was getting closer, Blaise turned sideways to make an empty seat - the boy stood there haggardly, looking down at her.

"I...I..." Hermione spat out monosyllables mechanically, unable to utter a complete sentence.

She thought he would be deliberately cold and distant.Hermione couldn't catch half of the ups and downs behind the smile that the young man was trying to squeeze out.He used to be like this, no shade, no sunshine, always hiding his unfathomable feelings under a mask of not revealing mountains and rivers.Malfoy is used to forbearance.

"Weasley is awake, Malfoy doesn't owe you anything." He smiled playfully, as if nothing had happened.

"Don't owe me anything?! Draco!" Enraged by his meaningless expression, Hermione almost growled, "The smell of disinfectant still fills my teeth! It-it keeps me up at night!"

"Ha! You actually compared the results of our research for so many days - that tube of potion, to disinfectant!" He leaned his head closer and breathed lightly, "Didn't you, when we were developing it, Accidentally mixed with disinfectant, right? Incompetent partner!"

"What's the ingredient in that potion? Hallucinogenic? Draco!" Hermione was furious.

"Shhh!" He waved his hand in a silent gesture, "For Merlin's sake—for the sake of Gryffindor's reputation, should we move somewhere else, girl?"

Hermione looked around, this was the territory of Parseltongue, and the Slytherins coming and going were whispering with expressions of watching the show. ——It's really not suitable here.She waved her hand in approval of Draco's proposal.

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