Chapter 337: Love Triangle

Early the next morning, Harry was called by the Fat Lady when he went out.

"Harry, good child, I want to tell you one thing." She said with a smile, "Headmaster Snape asked me to tell you that today's Potions tutoring is cancelled because he has a very important thing to do."

Harry nodded, he said quietly to Luo En: "Must be related to the Death Eaters, they are playing games with each other now."

However, at breakfast, when they found that the Slytherin side suddenly began to cheer and make noise, and Hermione handed over a copy of the Daily Prophet, Harry realized that Snape's so-called "very important thing" was only relatively important on the surface.

"Severus Snape Appointed as Senior Undersecretary to the Ministry of Magic"

"No wonder, Slytherin is really going to have a festival." Luo En said sourly, "Look at our McGonagall, she manages everything, does everything, but no one praises her."

"You weren't saying that when you were writing your Transfiguration homework yesterday," Harry exposed him mercilessly, "You said 'this old witch, why is she so serious!'."

"No, what's important isn't the professor's personal honor, it's the Ministry of Magic's move!" Hermione reminded, "What do you think they are preparing to do by putting Snape in that position? Did they reach a new deal with Snape? You have to pay attention."

"He is paying attention." Elena said lightly from the side, "His father is a Department Head, no matter how we analyze and deduce, it's not as good as Mr. Wei Wei Silai revealing a little inside news."

"Hey!" Luo En shouted dissatisfiedly, and the eyes of the people around were suddenly attracted.

"I mean," Elena stuck out her tongue, "You are about to fight Ravenclaw, good luck."

Hermione looked at Elena, then sighed: "I'm really asking for trouble!"

The two girls left together. Harry looked at their backs without saying a word; he seemed to be thinking.

"What's wrong with them? Harry, did you think of anything?" Luo En asked.

"Breakfast... I'll take a bowl of oatmeal." Harry looked at his friend who was trapped in the whirlpool of feelings, "Don't look at me, how could I understand the thoughts of girls?"

Luo En turned his head listlessly without saying a word, and he also started to rummage for things on the long table to eat.

By evening, when they passed by the entrance of the Great Hall, they saw the cooperation Arnold made for this move:

"Educational Decree No. 27: From today on, students must be organized to read the Daily Prophet before breakfast every day. For colleges where the actual attendance is less than 80%, 20 college points will be deducted."

"It's okay, just treat it as supervising us to get up early." Harry said with a bitter smile.

"Quite good, read the newspaper in the morning, anyway I can't read books." Luo En also pretended to be optimistic.

"Where is this good?" Hermione appeared near them again somehow, "This is obviously the Ministry of Magic wanting to instill their thoughts into students, wanting to brainwash young people."

"The two of them naturally will feel it's good." Elena said, "One can look at his father's political achievements in the first two pages, and the other can look at his own great achievements in the last two pages."

"I don't think I provoked you guys." Harry spread his hands helplessly.

"But the Daily Prophet provoked us." Elena raised her eyebrows.

"I don't think this is obviously the Daily Prophet's problem," Luo En raised his nose, "Who made you unhappy? Is it my Savior friend, or my Department Head father, or Luo En Wei Wei Silai himself who is stupid?"

"Don't you guess it? Just like you always do in Potions class, if you're not sure, just choose C." Elena said with her arms crossed.

"Let's not argue here." Hermione pulled her friend's arm, "At least not now."

Luo En looked at them leaving pretending to be indifferent, but from his slightly trembling shoulders, his heart was definitely not calm.

"I think, girl thoughts or something." Harry smoothed Luo En's back, "Go consult Zhang Qiu, hope that will work."

They sat down in the library, forcibly suppressing their emotions, and began to deal with the complicated homework. By seven or eight in the evening, Zhang Qiu arrived as scheduled.

"Zhang, I feel this matter really needs your help." Luo En spoke first.

"Hmm..." After listening to the statements of the two, Zhang Qiu obviously also fell into deep thought, then she provided three conclusions, "The first layer of consideration, Hermione is trying to remedy the relationship with you, but she has been obstructed; the second layer of consideration, Elena is deceiving Luo En and Hermione at the same time. The third layer... I can't say, it's just a beautiful guess, I suspect Elena just gave a small test, she is actually willing to return Luo En and Hermione to each other."

"Let's talk about a relatively obvious and easy-to-guess thing first: the Ministry of Magic needs to use students to amend the Statute of Secrecy, so they gave Snape some benefits to conduct the deal." Zhang Qiu quickly skipped the conclusions that had already been deduced, "Then let's consider the problem between the three of you."

"The first question is Hermione's thoughts, does she like Luo En or Elena? Does she think Luo En or Elena likes her? How far has she thought about the other two's thoughts? What decisions has she made, and what actions has she taken for this?" Zhang Qiu wrote them down one by one, "These, we might not know Hermione's thoughts, but Hermione's actions we can see: she is trying hard to talk to you, but she only talks about political topics."

"We can first exclude the possibility that Hermione just wants to chat with you about politics. If that were the case, she wouldn't chat so shallowly. Then, since Hermione's purpose isn't chatting about politics, it can only be talking to you. If we don't consider Elena, then the reason Hermione's talking failed lies in the fact that she one-sidedly thought you only care about political topics, so she always killed the conversation. However, Hermione herself isn't stupid, she's even quite smart, she should be able to learn lessons from the first failure, and shouldn't fail in the same place so many times."

"Then she's doing it on purpose?" Harry frowned.

"No, Hermione doesn't have the motivation to deliberately find fault with you." Zhang Qiu shook her head, "I suspect her last two failures were because Elena was making trouble on the side."

"Even without Elena, I think her attacking the Ministry of Magic is quite inappropriate." Luo En said.

"Right, she first set a viewpoint that she is dissatisfied with the Ministry of Magic, then no matter whether you support or oppose it, there is always a topic to chat about—she can try to convince you, or be convinced by you." Zhang Qiu said.

"Also, it's just that Elena led it to Luo En himself." Harry echoed thoughtfully.

"Good, then back to the topic, Hermione's approach is trying to talk to you, which means she wants to become closer friends with you again. Then excluding the possibility that Hermione likes Harry, the answer is very obvious, Hermione still can't let go of Luo En in her heart."

"Why can we exclude the possibility of liking Harry?" Luo En asked.

"If it's not excluded, I'll help her exclude it." Zhang Qiu narrowed her eyes.

"Alright, Hermione still likes Luo En, then those, uh, 'run-beauty', or 'lesbian' things," Harry waved his hand, "can they still count?"

"People are always complex, swinging between multiple options." Zhang Qiu shrugged, her tone becoming relaxed again, "If she can be with Luo En, then lesbian, non-marriage, and even... run-beauty, would not have that much attraction.

Harry could feel that Zhang Qiu understood his use of "run-beauty" to replace Donald, and in a sense, indeed, if they were equally tall, handsome, and capable, girls would still prefer people of their own age.

It's just that Luo En's so-called "strength" might largely still have to rely on his Savior friend and Department Head father.

"But what about Elena?" Luo En asked.

"We still use the 'series of questions analysis method', we don't know the front ones for the time being, so we start analyzing from her approach." Zhang Qiu drew a return arrow on the paper, "We want to analyze, it's best to start analyzing from the day she came to school."

"What's certain is that you danced together last year, and chatted quite well, and later became quite ambiguous friends." She wrote the word "ambiguous" at the very top, "And this year, you maintained correspondence, the relationship gradually became close, until after the Yule Ball you kissed."

Zhang Qiu picked up her pen and wrote the word "female", then suddenly asked, "Has Elena ever talked to you about establishing a relationship?"

"Uh? No... I thought this didn't have to be stated clearly?" Luo En looked surprised.

So she wrote "girlfriend", and put a big bracket, dividing this "girlfriend" into two situations: "one-way" and "two-way".

"First, we assume Elena did fall in love with you at that time, then do you think she still likes you now? I'm afraid that's not the case." Zhang Qiu told the fact Luo En didn't want to hear ruthlessly, "Then when was the turning point of the matter?"

"Easter holiday, I guess." Luo En said, "She seemed depressed from the next day, later she went to Hermione's place."

"Then I feel," Zhang Qiu rubbed the feathers at the end of the pen, "it's impossible for her to suddenly be disappointed in you and stop loving you after coming to your house, right?"

"Hard to say, my house is still... quite shabby." Luo En lowered his eyes and said in a low voice.

"But your father just became a Department Head." Zhang Qiu shook her head, "If Elena is a snob, she definitely wouldn't abandon you because your house isn't luxurious enough, instead she would feel you have potential; conversely, if Elena is a person with spiritual cleanliness who hates privileged people, she wouldn't leave you because of your Department Head father, because your family's situation is enough to show that your whole family likes to live a warm, simple life, and your father would also be an honest and clean official."

Zhang Qiu suddenly crossed out the word "two-way".

"Elena never liked you, from beginning to end she just used you as a springboard to approach Hermione." Zhang Qiu made a sudden violent argument, "Even last year, she just used you to prove she is a heterosexual, so that Hermione would relax her vigilance." ===== CHAPTER 338 =====