"It's a date! We made a bet that whoever can catch the snitch first and win the game can have a fun date with you tonight."
"To be honest, I'm actually curious about what a 'date' tastes like - is it sweet? Well, but this time I'll leave it to Hermione first!"
After listening to Luna who was peeking behind her to explain, Maka became even more speechless.
"Date with me?" He asked with a subtle expression, "Then you have no plans to tell me as the client in advance?"
"Oh, I was ready to say it, but Hermione didn't think it was necessary." Luna held Maka's shoulders and tilted her head and said, "Because she said, you will definitely agree anyway - I feel like she said it very well. Makes sense.”
"Well-"
When Maka heard this, her expression froze, and then she nodded and said:
"Okay! I must say, you seem to know me very well already! So, what about tonight... let's have a date-"
However, just when Maka was about to agree, Hermione standing in front of her finally couldn't help but said:
"Wait! I haven't agreed yet!"
To be honest, Hermione's expression was a little shy right now, and even the roots of her ears were slightly pink. But when she was almost giving in, she finally gritted her teeth and interrupted Maka's words.
"Luna," he saw her glaring at Luna who was hiding behind Maka, with only one head exposed on her shoulder, "I told you, we haven't decided the winner yet! What you do...I, I'm I will never agree!"
Having said this, Hermione stared at Luna's face and suddenly emphasized:
"Didn't we already agree that day? I want to compete fairly with you! 'Fair'—understand?"
"But there is no absolute fairness in this world?" Luna whispered, "Just like in the game just now, you may have given up that Wronsky fake move just because you wanted a fair duel. But in fact, you Even if you do, you still can't get rid of me... In daily training, I have seen your dive and emergency stop exercises many times!"
"Have you seen it many times?" Hermione was surprised when she heard this, "But every time I practice, you are also doing other exercises? I have never seen you looking at me... "
After Luna heard this, she nodded immediately:
"This is the second "unfair" thing I want to say... You know, I can sense a lot of things around me now. So even if I don't use my eyes to see, I can always know what you are doing. "
As she was speaking, she paused for a moment, and then quickly continued:
"So, you understand! In fact, even if I am always lagging behind, the possibility of discovering the Golden Snitch earlier than you will be much greater!"
After Luna's explanation, Hermione seemed to have finally figured out something and said in surprise again:
"So, you were flying randomly among the people in the midfield before, but you were actually trying to disrupt your own perception?"
"Yes!" Luna nodded and said, "We have done this in order to be as fair as possible, but in the end, because my broom broke down, no one caught the snitch... Look! Even if we arranged everything Yes, good or bad luck will also affect the fairness of the game."
After saying this, she blinked her eyes and said with a smile:
"So in other words, luck is also a part of winning or losing, isn't it?"
After saying that, Luna pressed Maka's back and gently pushed him forward. Then he giggled and backed away, then turned and ran away.
"Go! Hermione, you have to tell me later what dating feels like!"
"That's not something edible..."
Hermione pursed her lips, murmured in a low voice, and then moved her gaze little by little to Maka's face.
"Maka?"
"Uh... um."
"Meet you at the school gate in the afternoon."
Seeing Hermione running towards the exit of the Quidditch pitch, Maka subconsciously turned around, only to find that a lot of people present were looking at her with strange eyes.
After being stunned for a moment, he shrugged and said:
"Anyway, although it's a bit regretful... the game should end like this!"
"Oh, yes!" Professor McGonagall looked at him with a kind smile and said, "But you are wrong about one thing - as long as the students can spend their youth on this field, the Quidditch Cup will never be 'Pity'!"
"That's right," Slughorn also smiled weirdly, but saw him coming over and patting Maka on the shoulder hard, "Spreading your youth... Well, being young is great!"
It's just... Of course, the victory or defeat of Luna and Hermione belongs to them, but the victory or defeat of the Quidditch Cup belongs to the entire team.
Neither of them caught the Golden Snitch in the end, so under Mrs. Hooch's ruling and Ginny and Autumn's joint discussion, the game was ultimately judged as "30 to 40" for the Ravenclaw team. A win.
When the game was over, Snape teased Maka with a smile on his face:
"It seems that Slytherin has reserved the Quidditch Silver Cup this season."
In response, Maka could only say "congratulations" to him in advance, dumbfounded.
As for Hermione, Ron and others could not find her again after returning. After her roommate returned to the dormitory, everyone knew that she had hid in the dormitory as soon as she came back.
It wasn't until lunch time started at noon that everyone saw Hermione slowly "move" to the Gryffindor table and sit down in her old seat.
"Hermione, are you a little nervous?" Ron laughed and said, "It's okay, relax! Hey... I didn't expect that what you and Luna had hidden from us for so long was just a date!"
Listening to Ron's teasing, Hermione immediately glared at him angrily.
"Shut up!" she said angrily, "I'm not nervous! Isn't it just a date... This is just a trivial thing!"
"Yeah?"
Ron was rarely afraid of her this time. He looked at Hermione a few times, then put his arm around Neville's shoulders and asked in a medium voice:
"Neville, look! How is Hermione different from this morning?"
"Well?"
Neville was stuffing his mouth with toast. When Ron asked, he couldn't help turning his head and looking in Hermione's direction.
"Do you want... a hairstyle?"
"Yes, instant smooth hair spray - what else? What else?" Ron urged, patting him on the shoulder with a smile on his face.
When Neville heard this, he stared at Hermione again. It wasn't until Hermione, who had lowered her head to endure it, couldn't hold it in any longer and raised her head again to give him a fierce look that he suddenly said:
"Hermione, are you blushing?"
"Oh! Merlin on top!" Ron pushed Neville away and shouted, "That's blush!"
"Bang!"
Hermione slapped her hand on the dining table, and the thud was unexpectedly loud, scaring several junior students into spilling the soup in their hands.
"I told you to shut up! Ron!"
At noon today, Luna, who deliberately sat back at the Ravenclaw table, was talking about these wild topics with Qiu. Hearing the sound of Hermione slapping the table, although she didn't know exactly what happened, she still happily hugged Qiu's arm and laughed.
…
Sunday is Hogsmeade Day. Since the Quidditch match ended early this morning, everyone's schedule is back on track.
As soon as lunch time passed, the little wizards handed over their parents' signatures one after another and rushed to Hogsmeade in small groups.
Of course, because there are still many Muggles working on the hillside in front of the school, it is necessary for everyone to take a short detour.
Otherwise, it would have been too strange to see a group of children in wizard robes emerging from the "ruins" and passing in disarray along the road.
And at this moment, Maka did not waste Hermione's nervousness and anticipation, and stood at the school gate early.
However, before he could wait for Hermione to appear, Ron and the others came over first.
"Maka, you will find out after a while anyway, so I will tell you first-" Ron said quietly, "I will take Neville and the others to watch when the time comes, remember to behave better! It will also help us Study and study!”
Then, he jumped away the moment Maka raised her hand, pretending to hit him, and happily walked along the horse path to the outside of the school gate with the others.
After those guys with no eyesight had gone away, Maka put down her hand and couldn't help but have a knowing smile on her face.
In fact, the matter between Hermione and Luna no longer bothered him. Because he knew that these two girls obviously knew what they were doing.
As for how it will develop in the future, let’s just let nature take its course!
After all, if nothing else is mentioned, at least the matter of Haierbo is still in front of us - judging from Pansy's incident, he has even touched the edge of the "tentacles" extended by Haierbo.
Before those things were resolved, he didn't have the energy to worry about these private matters anymore, so he might as well just trust Hermione and Luna's decision.
"Maka!"
Looking at Hermione walking slowly from the castle and finally stopping in front of him, he smiled calmly and said:
"Good afternoon, Hermione... Oh, are you wearing makeup?"
"Well..." Hermione pursed her pink lips and said softly, "I usually find it a bit troublesome, so I don't use it much... I spent a little more effort today."
"It looks good!" Maka nodded and said, "But as for cosmetics and skin care products, I personally recommend you to use products from the magic world, because they are all natural... Ah! I remember the MacMillan brand is good. !”
While he was chatting along the topic casually, he led Hermione and walked leisurely outside the school gate.
Under today's clear blue sky, the two figures could be seen drifting further and further away on the horse path outside, and finally slowly disappeared on a side road.