Malfoy was walking so fast that Hermione had to trot to keep up.
"How are we going?" Once she made up her mind, Hermione seemed to be more positive than Malfoy.
"Just follow me."
Hermione followed Malfoy around, entering the classroom and leaving the classroom. Soon, they came to the middle of the corridor on the fourth floor.
"It's you." Malfoy made a beeline for a statue of a witch, hunched over and with only one eye.
"Left and right separation!" Malfoy tapped the stone witch lightly with his wand.
The statue's hump opens instantly, wide enough for a slightly thinner person to enter.
"How do you know there is a mechanism here?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Secret." Malfoy let it go.
"If you don't say it, don't say it." Hermione was a little annoyed, but at the same time she seemed to have forgotten the previous unhappiness.
"Follow me, don't get lost, although it seems that you won't get lost if you enter from here"
After saying that, the two entered the hole opened by the witch.
The two slid for quite a long distance, like a stone slide. After an unknown amount of time, the two felt that they were standing on the ground again.
"It's really cold in here." Malfoy couldn't help shivering.
"Fluorescence flashing!" Naturally, this spell should be used in dark places.
"This is really like a rabbit's tunnel." Hermione looked at it for a while and came to such a conclusion.
"Don't be distracted, watch your feet," Malfoy reminded.
The ground here is bumpy, and you will fall if you don't pay attention. After a while, Hermione almost fell several times. It was Malfoy who caught her in time.
The itinerary was a bit boring, but since it was two people, it was not lonely, and the two of them chatted casually.
An hour passed quickly.
"I'm wondering if you're trying to murder a wizard of Muggle descent." As the chat progressed, the two became more and more familiar. Hermione even made the joke. "Look at how secretive it is, I can't beat you."
"This joke is not funny, but I also have a headache for my parents' ideas." Malfoy shrugged.
"Oh, we're almost there." Malfoy felt the passage begin to steepen.
Ten minutes later, the two came to a dilapidated stone staircase, which stretched to a place they could not see.
The two of them began to climb the stairs again.
"Boom." They seemed to be at the top, and Malfoy knocked twice on the trapdoor, then pushed it open.
"Attention, we've reached the cellar," Malfoy whispered to Hermione.
"Come on." Malfoy climbed up first and then reached out to Hermione, pulling her up as well.
The cellar was filled with chairs and tables, and the floor was covered with a thick layer of ash that made the trapdoor almost blend into the floor. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard to imagine that there would be a door here.
"So how do we get out now?" Hermione asked. "I think we're going to be treated like thieves now."
"You don't have to worry about that." With that said, Malfoy went straight to the stairs, ready to go out in a fair manner.
"I think you're really crazy." Hermione rubbed her forehead. She had expected that Slytherin and Gryffindor would get twenty or even fifty points at the same time. "I'm just an accessory, this guy should be detained more." Just as Hermione was thinking wildly. Suddenly came a burst of exclamation.
"Oh, little Draco, why did you come here?" A woman's voice came over.
"No wonder he knows it so well," thought Hermione.
"Come out and relax on Halloween, Aunt Ambrosio."
"It turned out to be little Malfoy, thanks to your idea last time, we made a lot of money." A middle-aged man's voice came over.
"But you stay here. I remember you are only in the first grade now. If you are caught, you will be deducted points, right?" Ambrosio said, this man is the owner of Honeydukes. "People in other stores are not as talkative as we are."
"Of course, I sneaked out this time, and there's an oil bottle beside me," Malfoy said.
"Let me see, oh, it's very romantic to bring your little girlfriend over for Halloween. We won't disappoint you here. We just bought a batch of fresh goods today. Do you want to try it?" Ambrosio sent Hearty laughter. Obviously saw Hermione behind Malfoy.
"I'm not his girlfriend!" Hermione emphasized word by word, her tone was light but firm.
"I understand, I understand. It's popular among young people to call you a pronoun. This term is too rustic. We can't keep up with the trend." Apparently, the boss didn't listen to her explanation. On the eve of Halloween, the two of them violated the school rules and came to Hogsmeade. It didn't matter who they were lying to
"Okay, stop talking, let's take us around." Malfoy looked at Hermione's increasingly cold face, and interrupted the conversation decisively.
"Then you have to take a look at my new goods. These things are really difficult to ship. If it wasn't for the big profit last time, I really wouldn't be able to buy them." Ambrosio said.
It is said that it is a tour, but in fact, Honeydukes does not occupy a large area. A glance is enough to give a panoramic view. But the store's dense shelves filled with candies of all kinds is enough to make people feel dizzy.
Chunks of buttery peanut confectionery, chunks of shimmering pink coconut sorbet, neatly arranged hundreds of varieties of chocolate, a vat of multi-flavored beans, a vat of sizzling bees, Lo floating in the air. Sherbet drinks in the air, and more
Along another wall are various candies "with special effects." Blowing Super Bubblegum (which fills a room with blue bellflower-colored bubbles that won’t pop for days), the bizarrely shard-shaped Saffron Mints, and the tiny Black Peppermints (“for your friends Breathing fire out of its nose!"), ice mice ("Heard your teeth chattering and creaking!"), cream mints shaped like toads ("It literally dances in your stomach!"), Crunchy sugar quills and exploding bonbons.
Hermione was almost dazzled by the candies. Candies in the Muggle world don't look so fantastic.
"Just looking at your stomach won't satisfy you." Ambrosio said as he handed the sizzling honey candy to the two. "Try it, it tastes good."
"Yeah, but we haven't paid yet," said Hermione.
"Little Draco already paid, didn't he?"
Hermione shot Malfoy a questioning look.
"Go on, I'll talk to you later," Malfoy said.
"Okay then." Hermione slowly reached out and took the candy.
Facts have proved once again: never underestimate the allure of candy to women. Even for humans, the sugar-loving nature has long been engraved into the genes.
"How's it going, do you feel better?" Malfoy asked after finishing a stick of sizzling bees.
"Hmm..." Hermione nodded slightly.
"Well, do you want to take some back to school?" Malfoy asked.
"I can't eat that much." Hermione pouted.
"Won't you bring some for your two friends?"
"The two of them are not my friends!" Hermione suddenly became excited again at this point.
"Are you still angry? Let's make a bet, if you attend the Halloween party as usual today, they will definitely apologize to you."
"Really?" Hermione asked subconsciously.
"Look, you still can't bear to part with these two friends."
Hermione froze. He muttered: "Take my words again."
In the end, the bet fell through, because Hermione seemed to have believed what Malfoy said: "Gryffindor courage should include the courageous admission of mistakes, such as your apology to me at that time."
"If you give away the candy here again, their jaws might drop." Malfoy continued.
Hermione burst out laughing, as if thinking of the expressions Harry and Ron should have.
"Then I'll just trust you." Seemingly sensing something was wrong, she quickly returned to her normal expression. However, the renewed brilliance in her eyes still betrayed her current happy mood.
"Oh, it's getting late, I think we can prepare to go back." Malfoy said suddenly, looking out the window. The sun seemed to be setting.
"What?" Hermione also looked out the window, feeling a little flustered.
"Don't worry, I think we still have enough time, everyone is celebrating the festival, and you won't notice that a few people are missing." Malfoy said as he took several kinds from the counter and the wooden barrel placed on the ground. Put the candy in your hand and hand it to the boss.
"Do you want to get more of this flavor?" Malfoy said, pointing to Mao Maoya mints.
"Well, I think my parents would like it too." Hermione nodded subconsciously. "No, we should really go. If we are found out, we will all be deducted points!" Now Hermione seems to have returned to the school bully girl who keeps the school rules and disciplines in mind.
"Does this mean that after unraveling the knot, you will no longer give up on yourself?" Malfoy smiled.
"Okay, let's go." He took the wrapped candy from the boss and handed it to Hermione.
"I wish you a prosperous business. See you next time, boss." Malfoy bid farewell to the boss.
"Thank you so much for the hospitality today." Hermione did not forget to bow to the Ambrosius couple.
"Be careful on the road! That road is not very easy!"
"Of course." Malfoy replied. Then he burrowed into the cellar, Hermione following closely behind him.
Then go back the same way.
"I didn't have time to ask you just now, why are you so familiar with that shopkeeper?" Hermione asked, pulling Malfoy's sleeve in the dark environment.
"When I came here to play, I gave him a few tips for doing business in the Muggle world. What's the name of one? By the way! Hunger marketing, it seems to have made a lot of money, so you didn't ask me for money. .”
"How old were you then?"
"Sometimes it is obvious that age cannot be used to judge a person's wisdom." Malfoy pointed to his head, although Hermione might not be able to see it.
"Why didn't you go to Ravenclaw?" Hermione was obviously puzzled.
"Are you thinking that if I were Ravenclaw, maybe our relationship could be closer?" Malfoy said suddenly and frivolously.
"What are you talking about all of a sudden!" Hermione blushed, but she couldn't see it in the dark.
"Just kidding."
But a light joke touched Hermione's heart: "I wish he was really a Ravenclaw." Hermione patted her face lightly.
It has to be said that the encounter between the last time and this time made Hermione's attitude towards Malfoy change greatly. It even made her reflect more on the mistakes she made when the two met for the first time. By the way, he strengthened his determination to make Harry and Ron apologize to him.
"What the hell am I thinking about!" Hermione tried to break free from her imagination.
"Okay, I think we're going back to school soon." Feeling the terrain gradually calm down. Malfoy said to Hermione.
After walking for a while, the two felt a ray of light penetrate into their eyes, and the exit of the one-eyed hunchback witch was about to arrive.
Malfoy went out first, looked around a few times, and let Hermione get out of the door after making sure that there was no one there.
"The party is about to start. Ron and Harry are probably looking for you to apologize to you, so let's go."
"Today, thank you so much today." Hermione said softly.
"It's a small matter," Malfoy said.
"This is the solution to the troll incident." Looking at Hermione's back as she turned and left, Malfoy breathed a sigh of relief.
The next development should be that the three of them reconciled, and then Hermione's favor for her increased.
"It's been gone for too long, and it's time to go back as soon as possible." Malfoy was thinking of going to the Slytherin lounge first, and then going to the dinner party.
When he turned around and was about to raise his legs for action, he suddenly met a pair of cold eyes.
"It's going to be difficult now." Malfoy suddenly felt the slow malice that this world brought him.
In front of Malfoy's eyes, a girl was crossing her arms on her chest while looking at him with a sneer.