Chapter 335: Lifting a Rock to Drop on One's Own Feet

"Relax, Harry." Zhang Qiu said with a smile, "After all, this is just my guess, nothing has happened yet."

"But what if things really happen as we deduced?"

"Even so, we shouldn't do anything." Zhang Qiu shrugged, "After all, that's the Ministry of Magic's plan."

"No, no, we don't necessarily need to oppose the Ministry of Magic, nor do we need to tear our faces with Tang Tang Nade, we just—" Harry frowned, "We think of some way, at least don't let Hermione fall in love with him wrongly."

"Even if we want to take action, I can't think of any way." Zhang Qiu spread her hands, "You have to bypass the Focusing Rainbow."

"Indeed, if we can really do something," Harry sighed, "it's already too late now."

After a brief silence, Harry realized again that he and Zhang Qiu were out on a date for Valentine's Day. He looked up again at Zhang Qiu, who was biting a straw and lost in thought.

"Whew... I didn't expect it to be noon in the blink of an eye." Zhang Qiu looked at her watch as if waking from a dream, "Do you want to eat something?"

"Of course." Harry was still trying to convince himself to relax.

"But you're tired of the Three Broomsticks, aren't you?" Zhang Qiu's eyes suddenly turned, "I have an idea, we can go to the Light Photo Studio."

"Won't this attract Tang Tang Nade's attention?"

"That's exactly what I want, to remind him to restrain himself." Zhang Qiu spread her hands, "This is already the only thing we can do."

"Alright." Harry sighed.

"If we go to the photo studio now, we should be able to sponge a meal." Zhang Qiu's eyes lit up, "They always eat at twelve."

"If the meals there have more oriental characteristics..." Harry said while standing up, "But if we do this, will Cassandra mind?"

"No, she's very hospitable." Zhang Qiu said, "And, I'm basically familiar with the staff there."

After arriving at the photo studio, Harry, who was already a celebrity, naturally received a warm welcome. Cassandra personally served them two portions of fried pork chops with salty tomato sauce and tender fried egg over rice, which was indeed a flavor Harry had never tasted before.

Halfway through the meal, Harry heard some noise coming from outside the door. Not understanding the foreign language, he asked Zhang Qiu in a low voice what happened.

"Uh, they didn't expect guests to come." Zhang Qiu said somewhat awkwardly, "We ate the meal originally prepared for the staff."

"This..." Harry put down his knife and fork somewhat embarrassed.

"It's okay, they can go outside to eat." Zhang Qiu forced him to turn his attention back to the date, "Since we're here, how about we take two sets of photos this afternoon?"

After lunch, at Zhang Qiu's invitation, Harry changed into several sets of Chinese costumes in succession. Among them, his favorite was the Feiyu suit of the Chinese Aurors, which gave his innate sense of justice great satisfaction. They took many sets of photos together until they missed dinner and just rushed back to school. Then they snuck into the kitchen together to have a midnight snack.

After a wonderful half-day ended, Harry walked all the way to the dormitory door before remembering one thing: he forgot to kiss Zhang Qiu when taking photos—even though it was a time that occupied all the advantages of time, place, and people.

This not only made Harry very regretful, but also made Luo En lose a whole Galleon to Neville.

"Mate, I completely don't understand what you're thinking!" Luo En shouted in despair, "A whole afternoon! Plus a whole evening! You actually forgot to kiss! You actually could forget this!"

"Sorry, we discussed a very annoying thing in the morning." Harry spread his hands, "Besides, it wasn't me who let you bet so much."

"I thought this was a sure thing, I even thought Neville was stupid." Luo En's features twisted together.

"It doesn't matter, actually I cheated." Neville tossed a golden coin back to Luo En, "I heard their conversation in the morning."

"What?" Harry was stunned.

"You might not have noticed, Hannah and I were also at the Three Broomsticks then, we used Rita's eavesdropping spell." Neville shrugged, "Sorry I didn't mean to, it's just Zhang Qiu's voice was too loud, we thought there was gossip."

"How much did you hear?" Harry looked toward Neville, his expression and tone seemed to say he had a way.

"Starting from Rosa Parks, we thought that was which classmate." Neville said.

"Indeed, she was a bit excited at that time..." Harry said while sitting down on the chair.

"Actually I have an idea, why don't we let the Yankees lift a rock to drop on their own feet?" Neville said.

"What does this mean?" Harry asked.

"Just a hypothesis, it's best not to hold too much hope." Neville glanced at Luo En, "I will try my best, but it needs to be kept secret for now."

Harry understood somewhat; everyone knew Tang Tang Nade was the "best professor" in Luo En's heart, so when plotting against him, they would try their best to avoid Luo En.

"Let's talk about Quidditch training." Neville changed the subject, "We went to the pitch in the afternoon, what a pity, we didn't see the goalkeeper."

Luo En's face turned red all of a sudden.

"But the good news is, their momentum is very fierce, it seems they can win even without a goalkeeper." Neville laughed.

"I'm going to sleep first." Luo En covered his head with a quilt, and soon made a snoring sound that didn't sound very real.

In the blink of an eye, Saturday arrived. Harry was full of expectations for the upcoming Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff match, and the Order of the Phoenix also gave face by not sending any news worth noting.

The only disadvantage of this match was that it was long, and the Gryffindor audience cheered until their throats were hoarse. It was hard to say which was more exciting; Harry thought it was hard to distinguish: Luo En saved almost all the balls, and he even threw one in himself; Fred and George hit Bludgers into the goal twice, and the third time they knocked the opponent's goalkeeper off the broom; Angelina broke through the encirclement several times with the Quaffle and scored four goals single-handedly.

The only regret was that the Hufflepuff team finally got 150 points: the long-term suppression made Jin Ni sleepy, and Hufflepuff's Seeker Shabi finally found a way out of desperation, catching the Snitch when Jin Ni sneezed.

The final score was 420 to 150, and this crushing victory quickly became the hottest topic in Gryffindor.

"You played great." Harry said to Luo En; in the noisy common room, he had to whisper to make Luo En hear.

"Goalkeeper is too boring." Luo En said loudly, "I want to be a Chaser next year, I like the feeling of scoring!"

"Me too!" Jin Ni also shouted, "I flew with Shabi for three hours, I'm too tired!"

They cheered until two or three in the morning, and finally had to go to bed exhausted. Luo En fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow, and he made a loud snoring sound, making Harry unable to sleep.

"Hey." In the dark night, there was a pair of eyes glowing, "Shall we go out and sit?"

"Ha? Neville?" Harry regained his spirit, "You're not asleep?"

"I was woken up." Neville said helplessly, "Luo En's snoring is too loud."

"Sigh." Harry put on his robe while walking out, "He was also quite tired today."

"I mean, have you noticed that two people didn't attend the celebration party?" Neville said, "Maybe you can consider them as having attended, but they left too early."

"You mean Hermione and Elena?" Harry looked at the tightly closed dormitory door; Luo En should be dead asleep.

"Don't you feel something is wrong? Luo En told me a long time ago that he kissed Elena." Neville touched his chin, "But they don't look like a couple at all."

"Who doesn't celebrate with their boyfriend on his big day, but leaves early instead?" Neville questioned with burning eyes.

"Right... this is indeed unreasonable," Harry looked at the tightly closed dormitory door, "Zhang Qiu thinks Elena doesn't really like Luo En."

"Oh? She thinks so too?" Neville turned his head to look at Harry, "Then, did she say what Elena is thinking?"

"She thinks Elena actually likes Hermione." Harry said, "And, she guesses this is Elena's own little thought."

"Looks like girls understand girls better." Neville nodded in agreement, "Hannah analyzed it this way too. She thinks Elena is forced by Tang Tang Nade's mission to pretend to date Luo En. And, she also feels the relationship between Elena and Hermione is unusual, we also guess Elena likes Hermione."

"It's not a novel guess, the newspaper reported this story last year." Harry remembered the report from last year.

"Then, if we manage to make Hermione notice this, and, the plan you discussed, Elena is a very key figure." Neville shook a finger, "If we can make them start dating, or even fall in love before the plan is implemented, is it possible to invisibly eliminate all of Tang Tang Nade's layouts?"

"This is very smart... no, no." Harry suddenly thought of something, "If Elena is stupid, she can't see through Tang Tang Nade's plan, nor can she smartly oppose him; but if Elena is smart, she won't want to oppose Tang Tang Nade either."

"Let's assume she's smart." Neville said, "In this way, the problem becomes simple, as long as we find a way to make Elena give birth to the idea of resisting Tang Tang Nade—even if she only needs to resist secretly—that's enough."

"And she already has feelings for Hermione, this shouldn't be hard..." Harry noticed with surprise that Neville's clever trick immediately found the key to the problem.

"Leave it to me." Neville said, "After all, if you don't want Luo En to know Tang Tang Nade's crooked thoughts, it's not very convenient for you to act."

"Right, how did you know, oh right, you heard my conversation with Zhang Qiu." Harry was a bit embarrassed.

"It's okay, actually Tang Tang Nade showed flaws a long time ago." Neville patted him on the shoulder, "In the second year, he encouraged Hannah to date me, that was to make the relationship between me and Hermione stiff. If we were more suspicious at that time, we should have been able to guess the truth ourselves."

After returning to the dormitory, while Luo En's snoring gradually disappeared, Harry also lay on the bed trying to fall asleep.

It's just that a trouble suddenly popped into his mind: if he uses Neville and Elena to bypass Tang Tang Nade's attention, how is this different from the Ministry of Magic using Hermione and innocent students to bypass Death's attention? ===== CHAPTER 336 =====