Author: Muduoduomu

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Chapter 9. The boyfriend who gave you his wallet

Della's snacks were finished in the first week after school. Fortunately, in the third week, they could go to Hogsmeade, the only one wizard village in the U.K. You didn't have to pretend to be Muggles here, all the shops sold magic food and magic stuff.

She had an appointment with Hermione to have a good time, she could go there this year.

Hermione was excited: "I've heard from you countless times! Oh, I fancied going there a long time ago! Diagon Alley is great, but I want to see how wizards usually live!"

"No difference," said Della, "it's the same. There are bakeries, candy stores, butchers, two bars, and some other stores. They're no different from ordinary towns." Of course, it's amazing since it's magic.

Hermione said, "seems like you've been to a Muggle town?"

Della: "…"

Being ecstatic for a while, Hermione fell again.

"What's up?"

"Nothing." She sighed and peeped at Della. "I mean — you're going with Fred, aren't you?" She shook her hands, "it's ok. I can go with Katie them."

Silence fell, "…In fact, no. He has something to do."

Hermione immediately suggested, "let's change a topic, ok? I wasn't curious about your love story. The magic hair band you mentioned last time, I think it's good. I hope to find a same one in Hogsmeade."

Della waved hand, "forget it. It almost pulled all my hair off. But the magic hairclip I saw last time is not bad…"

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It's destined to be four girls to Hogsmeade.

Fred said sorry to her all night before she went. "Our experiment is close enough, and we will soon succeed! We have to fight every second now!" "I see, I see, I understand." Della gave him a kiss across the air. Since last time, she felt she should keep a distance from her boyfriend to avoid further problems.

Fred pouted his lips and was fanned aside.

"Remember to tell me when finished, I want to be the first one to play." She said with a smile.

"Sure." Fred said, "listen, I have a new idea…"

The next day, snowed heavily, it's Halloween today.

Della wore a cloack, had a scarf and a hat, tucked Puffskein in her arms, then came to the common room to meet Hermione and Angelina.

Hermione was sitting with Harry, Ron was on the other side. They seemed to have made up for a while.

Della went to Fred, who was immersed himself in his homework. Since he contributed his time to Quidditch training, experiments and girlfriend, he had to make use of every bit of time to write his homework.

"Hey." She patted him.

Fred raised his head, beamed and opened his arms, "come on."

She sat in his arms and gave him a short kiss. People swarmed around, she was not afraid of his misbehaviour.

Fred cleared his throat, sat her on the opposite sofa, looked around, and pulled a wallet out of his pocket.

"What can I buy for you?" She took it and asked, pulling a piece of parchment to write.

Fred turned his sight to the ceiling, the floor, the people around him, then said, "they said, when a boyfriend can't go shopping with his girlfriend, at least give her his wallet." He turned to smile at her.

"Oh, no." Della quickly returned the wallet. Fred was a less well-off boy. When they were together, she got to know the predicament of the Weasley. Although it's a cheerful family, they did have some difficulties in life: there were too many children in the family.

Fred and George had been working on a big plan. They needed to buy their own materials, so their pin money was not enough.

The most thing they did was having ice cream together when Della and Fred were dating.

It's still split the bill.

She had been paying attention to save his money.

Fred refused to get his wallet back. He whispered, "not much. I'm even sorry to take it out. Maybe it's just enough for some chocolate and two hair clips or so. I just hope if I don't go, you'll have a good time."

She was really moved.

It gave him an opportunity to kiss her hardly when she couldn't refuse, until everyone began to walk out and ready to Hogsmeade.

He let her go: "Have a good time."

Della bent down and kissed him in the face, "ok." Turning around, she found Angelina and Katie shaking their heads, ignoring her and going to the door.

She quickly followed as she called Hermione. But only Hermione and Ron came, Harry was still sitting on the sofa.

"Why?" she asked.

Hermione pulled her away and Ron left as soon as he saw her. He seemed afraid of her.

"Harry can't go. His uncle didn't sign for him."

Della: "Oh…" Was it?

Then she really sympathized with Harry. It's a pity he can't go to Hogsmeade.

There were few students who didn't go, they would rather spend all their money and didn't want to leave.

Della saved a lot of money. She took Hermione to Honeydukes first.

She took a small basket and grabbed a large pile of Cockroach Clusters. They were all cockroach like sweets, would move and fly. Even their antennae would vibrate when you ate them.

Hermione was scared away: "I can't stand this. I'll go there."

Della like this kind of strange candy. She also took some other insect candy, all moved. Then she went to get Chocolate Frog, moved too.

Hermione was very restrained in picking sweets. According to her, her parents were dentists and she was not allowed to eat sweet since childhood, "for the sake of tooth health."

"You don't have to worry here," Della comforted her, "I haven't heard of any wizard who has cavities. You can rest assured of sweets."

She was excited to hear this, but she didn't buy much. She was restrained to pick five or six sorts of them and went out.

"I want to bring some to Harry." She said.

Della: "Let's go to Miss Tiffany now."

Miss Tiffany was a shop specializing in selling girls' products, decorated with pink, filled with lamps like star and perfumes.

It's full of girls.

As soon as they walked in, they couldn't move at the first counter.

The top was perfume, next to it written "just a drop, you can get his heart", and some samples.

Della sprayed a little on her wrist, sniffed, then her face turned red. It liked the smell on Fred's sweater as she could smell in his arms.

Hermione did it too, but her face looked normal.

Della fanned her feverish face: "Do you like it?"

She had a bottle in her hand.

Hermione said, "it's strange. I smell the polish of wood, and wood, like… a broomstick?" She asked Della, "what about you?"

Della cleared her throat, was upright, "the smell of clothes… Just washed and dried."

They both took a bottle at last.

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The first Quidditch match, Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff.

Considered the record so far, Hufflepuff was not match to Gryffindor. But tactically, Gryffindor must be careful with every opponent. They had to win high mark each time to win the House Cup at the end of the term.

Fred repeated the words in her ear, sighing, "Wood would rather squat by our pillows every night, so that we could have him even in our dreams."

Wood, the captain of Quidditch team, was seriously walking around the table, mobilizing everyone before the game — even through they would play on weekends.

She saw Katie was deadly choked with pumpkin juice by him, and Angelina said before he opened his mouth, "don't, I know. Go find anyone else."

Hermione didn't sit next to Harry and Ron today. Della thought they had made up on Halloween, but it's still as same as before.

Ron declared he would never forgive Hermione and Della. While Della didn't need his forgiveness, and Hermione was determined not to say a word to him.

According to Della, Ron was ashamed to ask for make-up first, he did feel he was ill-tempered to Hermione and Crookshanks that morning.

It's from Romilda Vane, who kept comfort Ron after that day, difficult to distinguish the genuine or fake.

Hermione said she didn't want to coax a little girl.

While Harry, wanted his two friends make up, but he can't leave Ron behind. Ron was down in the dumps since he lost Scabbers. Although he was just a mouse, Ron had only one pet. Harry told Hermione Ron did cried, and cried bitterly at the hospital wing, didn't know whether it was for his hair or for Scabbers. Fortunately, he got his hair back, but it grew too long. Thanks to Madam Pomfrey's haircut, or he would have long hair like an Afghan hound.

After breakfast, Hermione ignored the cold attitude of Ron and asked Harry how he was getting ready for the match.

Harry replied absently, "Wood said I can't catch the snitch too early. We need to gain more points and win them in one stroke…"

Wood came up like he popped out of the ground: "Harry! You can't talk about our tactics!"

Harry realized, "I'm sorry, I forgot!"

Hermione rolled her eyes since Wood was warily looking at her.

"You want me to swear that I'm not a spy from Hufflepuff?" she asked sarcastically.

Wood blushed. "I'm sorry, but we can't lose, from the first game! We have to win!"

He began to say to Harry: "Gryffindor must be careful with every opponent…"

Harry followed with a bland voice: "we must win very high mark every time…"

Hermione left with Della. She shook her head, "they're all crazy indeed."

Della groped around in her bag, she couldn't find Puffskein.

Hermione asked her, "are you going to watch the match?"

Before Della could answer, she said, "oh, I don't have to ask. You mean to go."

It wasn't there. Della thought it might have been left in her dormitory. She turned to Hermione: "So, are you going?"

Hermione was torn. She wasn't interested in Quidditch, but Harry, Katie, Angelina were all her friends, besides, Della was there. She took a look at the gloomy sky, "ok, I'll go. As long as it doesn't rain."

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The sky had been gloomy and cloudy.

The classroom was warm thanks to the fireplace. This was the Defence Against the Dark Arts. The new professor was a Gryffindor.

This course was interesting. It had changed a new professor every year. Since she enrolled, only this class had new textbooks every year, while the others were said to kept using for more than 100 years.

The new professor was Remus Lupin. He looked more like a Hufflepuff, gentle and knowledgeable. He never got angry or stern at class.

The only thing made he like a Gryffindor was he's excelled at dealing with the troubles from Gryffindors in class.

Today's lesson was the Red Cap, a kind of ugly creature, probably not much bigger than potatoes. They had sharp nails and looked like people, but they ate people.

For wizards, they were merely a little more troublesome than cockroaches.

The way to get rid of the Red Cap was simple: Read the Bible.

The students in class all cachinnated.

Professor Remus Lupin, who was leaning against the desk, stood up and came to students, stroke his old wand and said, "this is a common method used by Muggles, and it does work. But for a wizard, a simple charm is more useful than reciting a Bible. Please don't hold up your wand and repeat with me—"

The spell was called Luminosity or Glare Spell, which could quickly release a huge strong light to make those goblins who lived in the shadow and depression suffered. Since their eyes were sensitive in order to see the objects in the dark, the sudden strong light would hurt their eyes as if they were blind.

The exclamation came out from the boys of Gryffindor and Slytherin, they were all beyond happy.

Obviously, the jinx was welcomed among them although it could be a little cruelty.

They learn merely a charm in this class.

"The professor is not bad." Della said to Katie.

All he taught were practical spells. This was the second time she had learned more in the Defence Against the Dark Arts class than she had imagined.

The last professor who surprised her was Professor Quirrel. But it was only after his sudden death that reminded her he was a villain. It struck her after last year Professor Lockhart also went to St. Mungo's Hospital for vacations at the end of the semester, that she remembered there was a saying that all the professors of the Defence Against the Dark Arts had problems.

Therefore, this year she had been keeping attention to this ordinary Gryffindor professor.

She didn't find out any problem with him so far.

…Should she go to talk to Dumbledore again?

After class, Professor Lupin assigned them bibliography to read and write papers on the habitat of the Red Cap and the way of dealing with.

He put up two fingers: "I've talked about two kinds in class, you're going to find the third on your reading and write into your homework."

The students dispersed in an uproar. Della decided to ask Hermione the worth reading books. She was always right with all the book questions.

When she came to the dining room and was packing her bag, Hermione came in a hurry and patted a book in front of her. "Here you are, I borrowed it. Chapter 7 and 19 are both written in Red Cap."

Della treasured up the words, holding the book to her heart, "that's what I need!" But she suddenly felt something queer. She turned her sight between the book and Hermione: "…I don't think I've told you yet?"

It's strange that she hadn't say anything to her yet, how could she know she wanted her recommendation?

Hermione froze, nervously said, "oh, I forgot. It wasn't you. It was… Harry!" She snatched the book from Della's arms. "I forgot. It was Harry asked me. Hehe…"

Della quickly put aside the confusion and snatched the book back: "I need it, too! I want to do my homework. Harry has a match tomorrow, he won't read it. Let me take it first, and then I'll give it to him."

Hermione took a breath of relief, sat down and said, "give me when you've finished. I want to read it, too."