Chapter 491 Everyone Wants to Dance with the Cat

Like Fish, Harry thought that Professor McGonagall kept them because of the childish fight between him and Ron before the get out of class ended...

Wait! If that's the case, why is Ron fine? !

And Lavender Brown before, Professor McGonagall didn't say anything even though she giggled several times...Is the professor targeting me?

Harry, who hadn't figured it out yet, thought indignantly.

"It has nothing to do with that." Professor McGonagall glanced at Harry, and waited until everyone else left the classroom before continuing, "It's about the ball. The warriors all have their own partners..."

"What partner?" Harry interrupted subconsciously.

Professor McGonagall looked at him suspiciously, as if she thought he was joking.

"The partner you bring to the Christmas ball, Potter," she replied lightly, "Your partner."

"Partner?"

Harry was confused. Although he wanted to attend the ball, he hadn't thought about any partner...

Well, maybe he thought about inviting Qiu Zhang, but that was just a thought.

"I don't dance." Harry blushed and said hurriedly.

"Oh, you have to dance," Professor McGonagall said impatiently, "I was just about to tell you and Fish this. According to traditional practice, the dance is opened by the warriors and their partners."

"Fish's partner is Hermione, Minerva, didn't you know that a long time ago?"

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The cat scratched his head in confusion, not understanding why Professor McGonagall kept him here to talk about this.

"Notifying the warriors is a necessary procedure." Professor McGonagall looked businesslike.

"Oh, now Fish knows, then... can we go?" The cat rubbed his stomach, "Fish is already very hungry."

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Professor McGonagall waved his hand, and Fish immediately jumped out of the Transfiguration classroom happily, dragged Hermione who was waiting outside the door, and ran to the Great Hall.

After Harry imagined what he would look like at the ball, he couldn't help but shudder... He imagined Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia attending the company ball. He thought he would wear a tuxedo like Uncle Vernon, and completely forgot about the dress robes that Mrs. Weasley bought for him during the summer vacation.

"I don't dance." Harry refused again.

"This is a traditional practice," Professor McGonagall would not give in on such things. She said firmly: "You are a warrior of Hogwarts. As a representative of the school, you must do what everyone expects. So, you must find a dance partner for yourself, Potter."

"But... I don't..."

"You heard me, Potter!" Professor McGonagall said in an unquestionable tone, making Harry swallow all his words of defense with a bitter face.

Let's not talk about Harry who is worried about his dance partner here. When Fish led Hermione to the Great Hall, there were still girls who didn't give up and ran over to become his dance partner, including students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.

However, Mao Mao firmly refused, which made Hermione beside him so happy that she couldn't suppress her smile. Her "successful" look made all the girls want to bite her.

"Brother Fish!" The little girl Gabrielle also ran over at this time. She hugged Fish and raised her little face expectantly and asked: "Gabrielle wants to be your dance partner!"

And Fleur followed her and came over.

"Fish's dance partner has already chosen Hermione, you go find someone else."

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Mao Mao patted Gabrielle's head and still refused very straightforwardly.

Gabrielle's expression immediately became aggrieved, and then she puffed up her cheeks and glared at Hermione beside Fish. Behind her, Fleur's eyes became sharper.

At the same time, the expressions of many boys around became strange, and some even rushed over directly and invited Fleur.

Unfortunately, Fleur didn't even look at them, but said to Fish: "Don't you think it would be more interesting if two warriors formed a dance partner?"

She lifted her silver-white hair and flirted with Fish.

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Gabrielle, who was still staring at Hermione, turned around and looked at her sister in shock.

"Meow? Are you going to invite Harry?"

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Mao Mao didn't understand what Fleur meant at all, and replied: "He should still be with Minerva, and will come over later."

"...I want to invite you."

Fleur stared at Fish in silence for a long time, and after confirming that the other party was not playing dumb, she stopped beating around the bush.

The boys around were even more agitated, and Fleur had already exerted her innate spell to the limit at this time.

"Sister!" Gabrielle was so wronged that she was about to cry. She only hated that she was too young, and the innate spell of Veela to charm the opposite sex was far less effective than her sister.

"Fish said, my dance partner is Hermione, and I don't plan to change anyone else, meow."

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However, unfortunately, the cat was completely unaffected by the Veela spell and rejected Fleur without hesitation, which made the boys and girls around him feel relieved at the same time.

Compared with Fleur, a girl from another school, it suddenly became easier for Fish to accept Hermione as his dance partner.

After the invitation failed, Furong probably felt a little embarrassed. She ignored Gabrielle's protests, pulled the little girl and hurriedly left the Great Hall.

Compared with Fish, who had already decided on a dance partner and many people came to invite him, Harry's side was not so smooth.

It's not that he couldn't find a dance partner. With Harry's performance in the first event, the title of warrior and the fame brought by "The Boy Who Lived", there are still many girls who want to be Harry's dance partner.

It's just that Harry's target has always been Qiu Zhang, but he can't find a suitable opportunity to invite her. Even now, he can't muster up the courage to invite her.

Not to mention that Harry also found that those girls like to get together in groups. It is almost impossible to talk to Qiu Zhang alone.

"Why do they all move in groups?"

Harry discussed with Ron helplessly. In fact, he also knew that this was probably useless. He just wanted to find someone to talk to and relieve the depression of his whereabouts.

"How can you wait until they move alone and catch one to make a request?" he asked.

"Use a noose to catch one?" Ron suggested irrelevantly, and asked Harry, "Have you decided who you want to invite?"

Harry chose to remain silent. Even though Ron was his best friend, he didn't want to tell him who the girl he liked was for the time being... Mainly because he would feel embarrassed if he failed to invite her.

"Listen, you won't have any trouble. You're a warrior, and you just defeated the Swedish short-nosed dragon. I bet they will line up to dance with you."

Ron seemed to see Harry's concerns, and suppressed the bitterness and jealousy in his heart to comfort him.

This is indeed the case. After confirming that Fish had been "occupied" by Hermione, many girls turned their attention to the other two warriors. There is no need to say more about Krum, the star player. Harry has occasionally encountered girls who took the initiative to invite him in recent days.

But he rejected them all...

I really still want Qiu Zhang to be my dance partner.

Harry wanted to invite her, but he couldn't muster up the courage, and then he didn't want to find other girls to make do, so he kept struggling.

Ron was also struggling. He hadn't even decided on his own goal.

"If only we could be as popular as Phish..."

Ron said this while playing wizard chess with Harry.

Because it felt like the dance was still early, Harry and Ron were not in a hurry. Although they couldn't find a dance partner, they were still as leisurely as usual most of the time.

Harry nodded in agreement. If he had the affinity of Phish, he wouldn't care how many people were around Qiu Zhang and would just go up and invite him.

"By the way, how are you preparing for the second project? Have you found a way to dive?"

After the two chatted about topics related to dance partners for a while, Ron changed the topic.

Harry nodded, moved the bishop under the contempt of his own chess pieces, and replied: "Sirius taught me a Bubble Head Charm in his reply, but I haven't mastered it yet... That spell is a bit difficult, more complicated than the Eye Sickness Charm and the Spell of the Spell."

"Bubble Head Charm?" Ron picked up his knight and mercilessly ate the bishop that Harry sent to him, "Isn't that the spell that Fish used in his first year?"

Harry rolled his eyes at him and was too lazy to answer the question. Instead, he picked up the bishop that was moved out of the chessboard and asked seriously: "Can I regret my move?"

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In the original text, Harry said, "I dare say she was casting that spell on Diggory at the time, and you happened to pass by and were hit", so the charm of the veela should be an active skill, or an aura skill, which can be turned on or off actively.

In addition, in this plot of the original book, Harry and Ron's performance is not very Gryffindor, but at that age, there is nothing wrong with such performance.

It's the part where Ron is jealous of Krum and rages against his powerlessness that seems a bit lame. One of the main reasons for Ron's low overall evaluation is that he is too vain and jealous, which was not gradually improved until the 6th and 7th books.

However, the later books of HP began to be more adult-oriented, and the fun was obviously not as good as the previous ones. In addition, due to preconceived notions, even if Ron's performance was good later, he would still be despised by many readers.

In addition, I know a few friends who have not read the novels and only watched the HP movies. Their views on Ron are obviously much more tolerant. Maybe Ron in the movie is more likable?

I only watched the first movie in its entirety, and I skipped the next few books while looking up information, so I am not very clear.