Chapter 270: Alone in the Shrieking Shack on Valentine's Day

"Dreamed of Voldemort again?"

"Hmm... I dreamed that he was scolding Wormtail, and then talking to a person named Rookwood."

"It seems, he also mentioned your name..."

"Ah?"

The next morning, John ran into Harry, who had a headache, and chatted with him.

Said he dreamed of Voldemort again last night.

He had been learning Occlumency for so long, and it didn't seem that the nightmare situation had improved.

However, this was not that Harry was being peeped at, but on the contrary, he was peeping at Voldemort.

So Occlumency couldn't play a role, right.

"Do you remember what they said?"

John continued to ask curiously.

"Don't remember."

But Harry shook his head.

The memory in the dream was very blurry, and he couldn't remember the whole thing after waking up.

John frowned, why did Voldemort mention his name?

Could it be that he was really targeted by the content on The Quibbler?

Although he wasn't too panicked.

Unless Voldemort came to find him personally, he really wasn't afraid of other Death Eaters.

As for his parents in the Muggle world, he had also thought of the most suitable backup plan.

That was a trigger-style Portkey.

Once encountering danger, it would send the wearer to the designated location at the first time.

This thing was much more useful than the defensive spell at a fixed location, and could be carried with him.

Of course!

Now he hadn't developed it yet...

However, there was one point that everyone might have overlooked.

The household registration system of wizards and the household registration system of Muggles were not connected.

And the personal information and family information of little wizards in Hogwarts were protected.

It was actually not that easy to check someone's information, especially a Muggle family that was unknown.

If there were no acquaintances or people who knew them, it was really not that easy to find them.

And John was just a little wizard who appeared in the public eye last year. Except for those who were relatively familiar with John, others didn't even know where he lived or how many people were in his family.

Let alone go find his parents.

Time soon reached February 14th.

The so-called Valentine's Day.

This day happened to be the weekend, and Hogsmeade could be specially opened to students.

However, this time John and Hermione didn'

Don't you think it would be very strange to follow the crowd to Hogsmeade Village for Valentine's Day and squeeze into Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop with a bunch of other couples?

It feels like just going through the motions to check a box.

Besides, after they both went there once, they both felt that the place really wasn't suitable for them.

They prefer to be alone in a quiet place.

Like the Shrieking Shack.

Didn't Titus and the other two take all the credit for John's achievements in that exclusive interview with The Quibbler last time?

John took the opportunity to blackmail them with that, monopolizing the Shrieking Shack.

Of course, only a temporary monopoly.

This time he was going to requisition the place, and when he was having some quality time with Hermione, they weren't allowed to disturb them.

Although the three of them were extremely reluctant, they had no choice but to accept.

And that led to the scene of John and Hermione arriving at the Shrieking Shack once again.

"How come this place looks different from when we came last year?"

Hermione sat on the soft sofa on the second floor of the Shrieking Shack, looking at the completely renovated furniture, and asked in confusion.

"Oh, I pilfered these from the Room of Requirement."

John said bluntly.

"?"

Hermione was clearly stunned for a moment, looking at John with an expression of disbelief.

"Don't look at me like that! Strictly speaking, this place is also part of Hogwarts!"

"I just moved some idle furniture from the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts to this new environment where it can shine and be useful."

John said with great justification, leaving Hermione at a loss for how to refute him for a moment.

"Alright, let's not talk about those buzzkill things."

"Time is precious, Hermione."

John went straight to Hermione's side and wrapped his arm around her slender waist.

Hermione's ear tips burned at his sudden, unexpected closeness, and besides, that line was very wrong, wasn't it!

"You, what are you trying to do?"

"What do you mean 'what'? Of course, I'm enjoying some rare quality time with you?"

As he spoke, John pulled out a book and spread it open between them.

?

Hermione stared, stunned.

You were acting so impatient, dragged me to a private place like the Shrieking Shack, and said such terrible lines, and the result is just reading a book?

Hermione was so angry she laughed, rolled her eyes in a way that was still pretty, and grabbed the book to throw it on the floor.

John was taken aback, just about to ask what was wrong with Hermione.

When Hermione grabbed his cheeks and forced him down onto the sofa for a deep kiss.

???

This isn't right!

According to the normal procedure, shouldn't we pretend to cuddle and read a book first, then the atmosphere gradually becomes ambiguous, then I start getting handsy with you, you play hard to get, and then I seize the opportunity to strike!

Why are you counter-attacking me right from the start!

John, being forced into a deep kiss by Hermione, had his brain instantly short-circuit.

When Hermione lifted her head from his lips, both of them exhaled a puff of hot air, and a glistening thread stretched between their lips.

"Did you think I couldn't guess what kind of crazy ideas were in your head?"

Hermione slowly straightened up, sat on John's stomach, looked down at the stunned John beneath her, and said with a light laugh.

John was so shocked by Hermione's assertive posture that he couldn't speak.

Hermione smiled slightly, her mind recalling her mother's teachings.

"When facing someone you like, you can't be too reserved. When you need to be proactive, be proactive; when you need to be assertive, be assertive. Men fall for that."

"Conversely, if you act too reserved to stir up a man's desire to conquer, once a man finally manages to win you over after going through all sorts of hardships, he might suddenly find you boring."