Chapter 1044: Teacher Hermione started class again (Patreon)

But it was too fast for Harry, just like when Evan came here for the first time.

Entering Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, Harry was bewildered upon seeing couples around him kissing each other.

He wasn't sure whether to do the same with Cho, or how to do it.

Perhaps noticing Harry's hesitation, Cho brought up Roger Davies at the nearby table.

He was the Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain, and he was with a beautiful blonde girl, kissing each other passionately...

Cho said that Roger had asked her out before, but she’d turned him down. Harry could not think why she was telling him this.

If she wished she were sitting at the table next door being heartily kissed by Roger Davies, why had she agreed to come out with him?

All in all, this topic was too embarrassing.

To change the topic, Harry told Cho that he was going to meet Evan, Hermione, and Elaine at noon.

Hearing the names of Hermione and Elaine, before he even could explain why and invite Cho to join them, her attitude suddenly turned cold and asked a lot of inexplicable questions that Harry couldn't answer.

After a moment of silence, Cho took the initiative to mention Cedric again. After asking some questions, she burst into tears.

“I’ll see you around, Harry,” she said dramatically. Immediately afterwards, Cho ran out crying, and that was what Evan and the others had witnessed.

"Women! I really don't understand what they think," Harry put his hands in his pockets angrily. "If she didn't want to date me, she shouldn't have agreed to come to Hogsmeade with me, but now it's turned out like this!"

"Oh, Harry," said Hermione sadly. “Well, I’m sorry, but you were a bit tactless."

"That's right!" Evan also agreed with Hermione's assessment, and Elaine next to him also nodded.

In Evan’s opinion, Harry should have just kissed her without saying anything at that time.

He was still thinking about how to invite Hermione to Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, but when Harry went in, he made the girl cry?!

At that point, why worry so much? Just go for it!

If making her cry was due to being too forceful, it would still be much better than crying like this.

Evan could be sure that if Harry had kissed Cho directly without giving her a chance to speak, or done something else directly, none of these things would have happened, and Cho wouldn't be upset. Everyone would be satisfied...

“Me, tactless?” said Harry, outraged. “One minute we were getting on fine, next minute she was telling me that Roger Davies asked her out, and how she used to go and snog Cedric in that stupid tea shop — how was I supposed to feel about that?"

“Well, you see,” said Hermione, with the patient air of one explaining that one plus one equals two to an overemotional toddler, “you shouldn’t have told her that you wanted to meet me, Evan and Elaine halfway through your date, especially you shouldn't have mentioned Elaine and me."

"But," Harry exclaimed urgently, "we agreed to meet at twelve, and I wanted to bring her along, how was I supposed to do that without telling her —?"

“You should have told her differently,” said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. “You should have said it was really annoying, but we’d made you promise to come along to the Three Broomsticks, and you really didn’t want to go, you’d much rather spend the whole day with her, but unfortunately you thought you really ought to meet us and would she please, please come along with you, and hopefully you’d be able to get away more quickly? And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am too."

“But I don't think you’re ugly," said Harry, bemused.

Hermione laughed, genuinely happy.

"Thank you, Harry, but you really shouldn't have said it like that," she said. “Look — you upset Cho when you said you were going to meet us, especially since you didn't make a move and you brought up other girls' names, so she tried to make you jealous. It was her way of trying to find out how much you liked her."

“Is that what she was doing?" Harry asked. “Well, wouldn’t it have been easier if she’d just asked me whether I liked her better than you?"

“Girls don’t often ask questions like that,” said Hermione.

“Well, they should!” said Harry forcefully. “Then I could’ve just told her I fancy her, and she wouldn’t have had to get herself all worked up again about Cedric!"

Elaine wrinkled her nose, clearly not pleased with Harry's words.

"Diggory should consider himself lucky; my uncle saved him; otherwise, he could have died at that time," said Elaine. "You should be happy for him. According to my standards, he wouldn't even be eligible for the first embrace."

Although Elaine said this, most people would not be happy to become a vampire.

"Alright, why do the four of us have to stand in the rain discussing this?" said Evan.

The four of them walked towards Honeydukes sweet shop, Harry and Hermione lagging behind, still discussing the matter.

"Harry, I’m not saying what she did was sensible," said Hermione. “I’m just trying to make you see how she was feeling at the time."

"Is it the same between you and Evan?" Harry asked despondently. .

"Yes, I also say things to test Evan's sincerity. All girls do!" said Hermione without any embarrassment, which made Harry very impressed. "But our situation is different from yours. Honestly, Evan’s performance was worse than yours at the beginning, really terrible, but one thing is, I know that he likes me, because he's proven it through actions. So, I'll show more patience than Cho did."

"Yeah, you've been through so much together; of course, it's different!"

Evan and Hermione had experienced many life-and-death challenges together, and they didn't need words to prove anything. No matter how awkward Evan was, Hermione was willing to wait and be tolerant, knowing Evan's sincerity and the kind of person he was. She wouldn't suspect him just because Evan was with other girls.

It had to be admitted, a relationship novice and an intelligent girlfriend actually made a good match.

Harry sighed. He suddenly wished that he and Cho had a werewolf in all this...

That way, he could prove everything through actions!

Or maybe have a girlfriend like Hermione, which would save a lot of trouble.

"Honestly, Hermione, you should write a book," said Harry, sighing, “translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. I’ll be the first to buy it.”

"Thank you, I'll consider it!"

Unlike what Evan had expected, the four of them did not stay in Honeydukes for too long.

Except for blood-flavoured lollipops, Elaine didn't like any of the remaining candy flavours.

And as usual, the store was full of people, with no place to even stand, which Elaine disliked.

Not to mention, after they entered, everyone kept pointing and whispering about the four of them.

After a brief look around, they left and decided to go to the Three Broomsticks.

Because it was too early, Sirius, Lupin and Rita hadn't arrived.

They entered the inn and saw Hagrid sitting alone in a corner, looking morose.