Chapter 561 Mr. Potter Running for Love

"Hermione, what's wrong with him?"

In the common room, Ron and Harry, who had just come from the dormitory, passed by in a hurry. As soon as he woke up, he found that Harry was no longer in bed, and now, his good buddy ran back in a hurry.

Ron was naturally at a loss.

"How would I know?" Hermione spread her hands, "He only said that he suddenly thought of something to do, and before he could say anything else, he left excitedly."

"what?"

With a suspicious look on his face, Ron glanced back in the direction Harry left, but Harry had obviously run away long ago.

"Probably something to do with Valentine's Day though," added Hermione triumphantly. "Guess what? It's done!"

"You, you mean—" Ron suddenly put on a surprised expression, "Harry is dating Ginny? Really? Didn't he still..."

"Just now," Hermione said with a smile, "Harry took the initiative to invite Ginny to go to Hogsmeade together, oh... he should get ready!"

"Harry and Ginny... well, and my sister..." Ron said with mixed feelings, "I think I'll bless them, no, our whole family will bless them both."

"Don't bring your whole family in together, it's too heavy!" Hermione waved her hand casually and said, "Okay! Just do what you have to do! Don't disturb my review..."

"Review?" Ron nodded, perfunctory, "Okay, that sounds good..."

As he spoke, he wanted to turn around and go back to see what Harry was doing. But he only took two or three steps, when he saw another person rushing out of the door leading to the dormitory——that was Harry who had gone and returned.

"Hey! Wait, Harry—" Ron hurriedly stopped him, "What are you going to do in such a hurry?"

"Huh? Oh, Ron? Let me go first, I'll talk to you when I come back..." Harry said casually, "I have to go to breakfast later, otherwise the morning class will definitely not last, I have to Take your time."

As he said, he quickly bypassed Ron who was in the middle, ran out of the common room at a trot, and went all the way to the outside corridor.

Hermione and Ron looked at each other, not knowing what the guy was up to.

...

In fact, during Ron's absence, Harry asked Ginny a question.

This question does sound so stupid, because probably no boy will ask a girl directly if she likes him. But Harry just asked, and it was so straightforward.

He is a straightforward boy, especially in terms of feelings, he is not good at brewing his emotions in his heart. So all the questions he asked were what he wanted to know the most at that moment.

And Ginny happened to be no ordinary girl, she knew what kind of person Harry was.

Therefore, when Harry asked, she knew that the other party had really "noticed" herself. In other words, Harry really began to treat himself as an ordinary girl.

Before today, he probably always habitually regarded himself as a role similar to a younger sister.

In other words, once he understood what Harry was thinking, the question he asked would not sound so abrupt.

Ginny knew that at that time, she should give a clear response.

So, the result was exactly as Ginny had imagined. After confirming the other party's intentions, Harry finally spoke up. On February 14th, a whole day trip for two to Hogsmeade Village sounds particularly exciting!

To be honest, Harry is of course looking forward to this, but he hasn't completely recovered from it yet. As for the initiative to invite, he did indeed do that, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it. On the contrary, he was quite moved by Ginny's understanding.

but,

Not long ago, he treated Ginny as his younger sister, but now his younger sister has suddenly become his girlfriend, which always made him a little uncomfortable.

But it's his fault that he still struggles with this kind of thing until now. So Harry didn't think about those things anymore, but quickly got himself busy.

On Valentine's Day, it stands to reason that everyone can go to Hogsmeade to relax. However, as a fifth grade student who is about to face the O. exam, whether he can go or not depends not only on whether the school agrees, because there are too many homework recently!

Ginny is only in the fourth grade, of course there is no problem, but it may not be the same on his side.

In this case, Harry immediately thought of Maca. It's a pity that Maca can't help him this time, because that guy is still a guest at Beauxbatons in France!

Because of this, Harry had to find a suitable partner to reduce his homework that day.

Naturally, he quickly thought of someone who could help him—even though he didn't want to find that person at all, but for his rare and important date, he had to deal with it patiently.

That's right, what he was looking for was the current potions professor, Horace Slughorn.

Harry trotted in the corridor, and after he went down a few stairs, he soon came to the former Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office. Now, this was old man Slughorn's place.

Along the way, Harry ran very fast. But when he was standing in front of Slughorn's office now, he began to hesitate again.

Originally, this bald old man was always pestering him, and now he took the initiative to find someone else, isn't this a self-inflicted move? He could even imagine that the old man would be nagging him to join that "slug club" again!

"Ah! For... um... for Ginny?"

Harry wanted to give himself a reason to do so, but this reason didn't seem to make him any more justified. After all, no matter how you say it, it is not a legitimate thing to reduce homework for yourself.

"Tuk-tuk--"

"Oh, who came to see me so early? Please come in!"

There was a knock on the door, and Slughorn's voice came from inside immediately. Harry got a response here, and finally put aside the hesitation in his heart, twisted the doorknob and walked in.

Or that Slughorn would be eyeing this office! This is really a professor's office with the best environment in Hogwarts Castle.

Outside this office is an ordinary classroom used to teach theoretical knowledge. When Defense Against the Dark Arts courses need to teach some non-practical content, they would choose to teach here. And in the innermost part of this classroom, walking up the stairs is the professor's office room.

As soon as Harry opened the door, he saw the morning sun falling in front of his eyes from the tall grilled windows, illuminating the entire office transparently. It can be seen that Slughorn has adorned his office with a lot of beautiful little things, most of which have labels stating that they were all given to him by that person.

Needless to say, they were all excellent students he had taught-it must be true.

In addition, this office also has an inner room for the professor to live in daily. Including the classroom outside, this is the three-story space inside and outside. It is no wonder that Slughorn has been obsessed with this office since his teaching career.

"Oh! Isn't this Mr. Potter?" Slughorn sat behind his desk and greeted with joy, "Good morning!"

Harry paused, and nodded reluctantly. After all, when he came here this time, he still had something to ask for from the other party, so he should be more polite, shouldn't he?

"Uh...good morning, Professor." He felt his tone was still a little stiff, but he thought he couldn't do better.

"Of course, of course—" Slughorn was delighted, he thought Harry had finally figured it out, "Come on, sit down, please! I think you must have been in this office in the past, because you see— You've been doing well in Defense Against the Dark Arts!"

"Uh...thanks."

Harry looked left and right, and sat down on a nearby chair under the gesture of the old man.

In fact, he really wanted to say that this year's results will definitely be like a pile of excrement-well, let's save this topic for a while to talk to Ron!

"Hmm...Professor," Harry pondered for a while, then looked around the things around him again, intending to find a suitable breakthrough from the front, "Oh...is this Mr. Froome?"

In the cabinet on Harry's right, there are a large number of magical photos. Each of them has a Slughorn on it, and another one of the others. And when he was trying to find a topic, he spotted one of his acquaintances at a glance.

"Yes, that's right!" Slughorn smiled. "Ambrosius Froome, I taught him for seven years, and he was a lovely guy. When he graduated , I also introduced him to the first job, and every year since then, on my birthday, he will give me a big gift basket."

"He's...well, he's very popular now, too," Harry nodded. "Honeydukes is the students' favorite shop on Hogsmeade Day. But...is he a Slytherin?"

"No no, he graduated from Hufflepuff College." Slughorn corrected, "I remember what I mentioned before, I don't just like the students in my own college, every child with characteristics I like I like both—in fact, I don’t like prejudice much.”

"Oh, that sounds good." Harry pursed his lips, and scanned the pair of photos again, and then he saw a beautiful woman who seemed to have known him before.