Chapter 167: Dance Party and Game

The butler took Tang Nade to arrange a room for him. Hermione would have a room alone. Harry specifically instructed Carson that Hermione and Hanna must not be in the same room, and even more so, she must not be in the same room as Tang Nade or Na Wei. Fortunately, there were many empty rooms at Downton, and there were both single-bed and double-bed ones, which easily solved this hidden danger. Harry couldn't help but have to spend some words to explain Tang Nade's identity to Sirius. He also specifically lowered his voice to tell him that Tang Nade wanted to pursue Hermione across age. In fact, he and Hermione were only ten years apart. If it were 30 years old to 20 years old, it would be reasonable, but the problem was that Hermione was only 14 years old now.

Hearing this, Sirius's eyes suddenly became dangerous. However, after all, Tang Nade hadn't done anything too outrageous (Harry didn't mention the last attack in the Chamber), so Sirius just regarded him as a frivolous rich second generation who hadn't grown up yet.

Before lunch, Arthur picked up Na Wei and Hanna. Seeing them wearing robes with similar colors, Harry knew that Na Wei might have made a choice. Hermione didn't have much reaction, but Harry had discovered long ago that she seemed to have become very beautiful and moving overnight. Although Hanna was a bit nervous and uneasy, fortunately, Na Wei had been holding her, and the smiles on their faces were also very sincere. Recalling that Luo En had been very close to Eve these few days, practicing dancing together from time to time, Harry felt that Tang Nade's plan might have already succeeded halfway.

After lunch, Harry received four super-large cakes sent by Zhang Qiu. She attached a letter, stating that she was not interested in the dance party and let Harry invite Jin Ni to dance the first dance. As for herself, she expected to meet him at the Quidditch World Cup.

And, she also noted, "Fate shows that Harry will eat the four cakes sent by his friends alone in twenty-two days, (or eat at least two in fifteen days)."

Harry was a bit dumbfounded and let Bates put the cakes into his own room, not letting others see them. On this matter, he decided to obey fate once.

In the evening, the children of some small nobles in the Muggle World began to arrive at the manor one after another. They were mostly young people of thirteen or fourteen, and some brought beautiful girls who intended to climb the social ladder as dance partners. Since it was notified in advance that this was a fancy dress party wearing robes, there was no trouble. The Muggles obediently wore magic robes of various shapes and came, and bowed to Harry and Tang Nade.

With Tang Nade, this Earl, although he was a newly conferred Earl with a virtual title, with him present, the order at the scene was maintained very well. Some Muggles were discussing the "mysterious Wei Silai family"; they suspected this was an ancient hidden wealthy family, which made Luo En blush.

"Of course, at least ancient and hidden are nailed down." Harry joked in a low voice.

Luo En was wearing a retro-style dress robe bought for him by his mother, with a lotus-leaf collar and large lace on his chest, which was unexpectedly very matched with Eve's dress. Harry once suspected that they had already been in private contact long ago.

However, although Zhang Qiu said "don't simply play Eve, this good card, on Wei Silai," Harry decided not to interfere with their normal interaction, and even felt happy to see it happen.

As the large chandelier lit up, the secondary lights in the dance hall were dimmed appropriately, and the dance party was declared started. In the melodious waltz melody, Harry held Jin Ni's hand and danced gracefully. They had practiced a few times and were immersed in it, doing it with ease. He noticed that Luo En and Eve also danced very well, Na Wei and Hanna's movements seemed a bit deformed, and Hermione didn't know what trick she used to make herself look much taller, as if she were already in the seventh year.

Mr. and Mrs. Wei Silai were also enjoying themselves. This dance music was called "First Encounter" and had been circulating in the magic world for a long time. It could be said that they met under this dance music when they were young. However, precisely because it was dance music from the magic world, many Muggles couldn't find the rhythm, and this made them more convinced of the mystery and nobility of the Wei Silai family.

After the opening waltz, various music sounded one after another. People sometimes entered the dance floor to dance, and sometimes sat aside to eat. As the protagonist of the dance party, Harry was also invited to dance from time to time. However, he didn't intend to have deep contact with those Muggle girls. Except for dancing one more song with Jin Ni and Eve respectively, he didn't participate much.

Most of the time, Harry sat with Sirius, and the two ate and watched the smiling men and women. This time, when Na Wei was immersed in the music, it was Harry who sighed in his mind that in order to protect such beautiful days, he must defeat Fu Di Mo.

Looking at the happy Tang Nade, Harry remembered one thing. Harry's birthday dance party had been circulating in the noble circles of the Muggle World long ago. If Tang Nade happened to receive a title of Glamorgan, it was not surprising that he knew about this matter; he came uninvited and sent dragon-slaying weapons to Harry, which could be considered a kind of unreliable concern. But why did he bring Hermione, but not Cui Ge?

Harry touched his chin and pondered. Cui Ge naturally knew that he was in Torchwood, and even in the third year, after experiencing the map-drawing incident, everyone could be said to be very familiar. Reasonably, Tang Nade could bring Cui Ge to come, or in other words, if he brought Hermione, who was not as familiar with Harry and didn't even send an invitation, there was even more reason to bring Cui Ge, who was more familiar with Harry.

However, looking at it from another angle, Harry himself only sent invitations to the Wei Silai family and Na Wei. Hanna came as Na Wei's dance partner. Eve sent invitations to Muggle nobles of all sizes. Tang Nade instead followed the rules and let Hermione come as his dance partner. And, from the perspective of the Statute of Secrecy, such a dance party held in the Muggle World, Hermione was more qualified to participate than Luo En.

In other words, unless Tang Nade admitted that he was Dark and went back to find Cassandra, he wouldn't have been able to find a suitable dance partner at all. Compared to randomly bringing some Muggle girl, Hermione was the most suitable candidate. She could understand that Tang Nade and Harry had some friendship, and wouldn't feel awkward in the crowd. Putting aside the truth Harry already knew, he unexpectedly discovered that his dance party actually gave him a good opportunity for no reason. Then, pushing it back, the dance party originated from Eve's whim, and Tang Nade's Earl title was also operated by his whim. Between these two whims, it couldn't be said that it was premeditated for a long time, but at least there was some consensus reached.

And, the time of the dance party was also very clever. Tang Nade could take advantage of the situation to propose taking Hermione to watch the World Cup. After all, the magic world holding the World Cup was known to everyone, and it was also known that Harry would go to watch it with Luo En. If Hermione wanted to go, unless she found Luo En or Na Wei to propose going together, she could only rely on Tang Nade. And this was another open conspiracy: Tang Nade, compared to going alone, would of course be more willing to bring the student he once "liked," Hermione would absolutely not refuse.

At this time, Harry had to consider another thing, and that was whether to intervene in it, given the premise of knowing Tang Nade's thoughts. Although Harry supported free love, as long as Tang Nade didn't do anything forced, theoretically he could let it be. However, judging from Cassandra's experience, Tang Nade might not necessarily be responsible for feelings. He didn't want Hermione to become a single mother, then things would be out of control.

What Harry cared about even more was China's attitude. Tang Nade mentioned that the Seven Deadly Sins were forged by a master of alchemy in China. He thought this master was mostly Zhang Qiu's martial uncle. She had said more than once that her martial uncle was a genius. If Zhang Qiu's master cared about fate, her martial uncle would also participate in it, which meant Tang Nade's plan should also be within their plan, or at least not conflict.

Harry realized belatedly that China now held Cassandra, which also restrained Tang Nade. Perhaps the Seven Deadly Sins were not only Tang Nade's unreliable concern, but also part of China's layout. Did they also want to participate in the plan? Honestly, if Harry could calmly kill a fire dragon with cold weapons, this was enough to show his strength, which had considerable help for recruiting wizards to resist Fu Di Mo in the future, and it became another reason why Fu Di Mo had to take action to attack Harry.

It was just that what made him always feel uneasy was why Zhang Qiu didn't come? He had almost become accustomed to using Zhang Qiu as a synonym for China, but now China vaguely and ambiguously supported Tang Nade, which conflicted with the Zhang Qiu who wrote the report letter, which was the symptom that made him feel troubled.

"It's okay, ask her when the time comes." Harry said to himself.

"The 'ask her' you said, do you intend to ask why Zhang Qiu didn't come?" Sirius asked with a smile that was not a smile.

Harry was stunned for a moment; he didn't notice that he had said it out loud.

"I saw the way you were staring at the cake before." The godfather shrugged; it was normal for him to care about his godson's emotional life. "What did she say in the letter?"

"She said she was not interested in the dance party." Harry said a bit awkwardly. "However, she said she would go to the World Cup, and we would be able to meet again by then."

"World Cup, no wizard is willing to miss it." Sirius followed up. "I bet three hundred Galleons, buying Ireland to win. If it weren't for England losing too ugly, I would have wanted to bet more."

"Right, England lost to Transylvania, Wales lost to Uganda, Scotland lost to Luxembourg, if Ireland loses to Bulgaria again, then it's really shameless." Harry said angrily. "I advise them to be more pragmatic, first understand this, the concept of Quidditch, and figure out their own tactics and play style..."

"Ireland is still okay." Sirius touched his head. "However, I might not be able to watch it with you. My subordinates also want to watch the World Cup."

"Oh?" Harry remembered that Sirius had gathered a group of Death Eaters who were not doing well. Now it seems that perhaps they were getting along okay, or Sirius had truly entered the role of "Dark Night Godfather."

"If I don't watch them, it won't be good if they drink and make trouble." Sirius looked worried. "And if Ireland loses, they are even more likely to make trouble directly."

"Then you really have to watch them." Harry laughed. "I'll just watch it with Luo En, that's also quite good." ===== CHAPTER 168 =====