Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

This behavior was simply wasteful and shocking. Finally, Hermione couldn’t stand it anymore and dragged Elaine to take a bath.

In the bustling common room, Evan curled up in a corner with the Creevey brothers.

They were writing an extremely detailed analysis of the match, which they would submit to Hogwarts Magic shortly.

There was actually not much to analyze about this game. Slytherin was missing two key players, which severely weakened their strength.

As for Gryffindor, Elaine and Ginny were simply too formidable, and Ron, encouraged by Felix Felicis, performed exceptionally well.

Oh, right, Felix Felicis!

Evan wanted to ask Harry whether he had added Felix Felicis to Ron’s pumpkin juice.

He didn’t think Harry would do that. Harry knew the importance of the matter, but Gryffindor’s luck was too good today.

Strength was one thing, but this amazing luck was also hard to ignore.

If Felix Felicis really had been used, then this victory would have been nothing short of a scandal.

At that moment, a large group of girls encircled Harry, laughing at his least amusing comments and batting their eyelids, making it difficult for him to get away. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on novelꜰire.net

Hermione told Evan that, on the surface, these girls seemed to be approaching Harry because he had won the match, but that wasn’t the real reason. They actually all wanted to go to Slughorn’s Christmas party with Harry. Each invited person could bring a companion, and this had become the worst-kept secret among the girls!

Among the Gryffindor boys, only Evan, Harry, and McLaggen had received invitations.

McLaggen had already decided who to invite: a girl from seventh year.

With Evan and Hermione together, only Harry was left without a choice, so he naturally became the target of all the girls.

Ever since the invitations had been announced, Slughorn’s Christmas party had gained immense popularity.

Everyone was whispering about the event and speculating about who Slughorn would invite.

Unlike the Yule Ball held for the Triwizard Tournament two years ago, this year’s party was private.

The more mysterious it was, the more interested the students were!

This matter became a hot topic of discussion in the following days.

Members of the Slug Club and every student who might be invited became extremely popular and in high demand, a phenomenon that became increasingly apparent as Christmas approached.

Just like two years ago, when students scrambled to find dance partners, Harry still hadn’t decided whom to invite.

He actually wanted to invite Ginny, but Ginny herself was invited by Slughorn, so she was going with Dean.

Speaking of invitations to the party, Ginny and Dean, there was no avoiding the topic of Ron.

In fact, Evan didn’t want to mention him at all. That guy…

Although Gryffindor had won the match, Ron still chose not to reconcile with Hermione and Ginny.

In his words, he had proved himself with his own abilities and had no reason to apologize to Hermione and Ginny.

Especially after Ron knew that he hadn’t used Felix Felicis, he…

Well, the strange pride and indignation that Evan didn’t know how to describe became more and more obvious.

Like a warrior persecuted by the world yet steadfast in his beliefs, bearing a supreme sense of honor.

He seemed ready to never speak to Hermione or Ginny again.

And by extension, as Hermione and Ginny’s close friend, Elaine also decided she would never speak to Ron.

Not that it made any difference — they never had much to say to each other in the first place.

Evan had naively thought that the conflict between them and the Quidditch match were one and the same, but now he realized they were entirely separate matters.

Winning the match had nothing to do with resolving their differences.

Gryffindor won the match, dispelling all the rumors. The only change was that Ron was no longer so irritable, and his temper was not as bad as before the game. But a conflict was still a conflict, and a rift was still a rift.

Ron had never been in the habit of forgiving others just because he himself had succeeded.

Besides, Hermione and Ginny didn’t need his forgiveness, so the stalemate continued.

Hermione probably wanted to make peace, but Ron seemed to be tying his quarrel with Hermione to his quarrel with Ginny.

As for Ginny, seeing how she interacted with Ron now, it really made people wonder if they were real siblings.

Ron now spent almost the entire day with Lavender, and, oh, Harry too, the three of them were always together.

If it wasn’t class time, the three of them could often be seen sitting in the common room.

Ron liked to drag Harry along, leaving him awkwardly watching while he and Lavender got affectionate.

As he had complained to Evan and the others, Lavender seemed to treat every moment not spent kissing Ron as a wasted one.

Their relationship lasted for more than a year, and it wasn’t that good. It was passionate in the early stages but rather dull in the later stages.

However, in this kind of open and chaotic relationship in school, it was considered to be relatively long.

But now, their relationship was somehow even more passionate than before.

Evan found it a bit strange. Ron had been loudly declaring his intention to break up with Lavender, but after the Gryffindor victory party, they had suddenly reconciled. He really had no stance.

But when it came to dealing with Hermione and Ginny, he was stubborn beyond reason…

Anyway, the impact of the first Quidditch match was quickly fading and everything was returning to normal.

However, daily life had shifted in a way that could never fully return to how it had been before, after all, so many things had happened.

Amid the calm, Evan organized another D.A. meeting, focused on practicing nonverbal spells.

After that, Christmas was around the corner and snow was swirling against the icy windows once more.

Hagrid had already single-handedly delivered the usual twelve Christmas trees for the Great Hall; garlands of holly and tinsel had been twisted around the banisters of the stairs; everlasting candles glowed from inside the helmets of suits of armor and great bunches of mistletoe had been hung at intervals along the corridors.

This was the first time mistletoe had been used in this way for decoration.

It seemed that Hagrid had also understood what romance was. At least many girls thought this was romantic.

Now, whenever a popular boy walked through the corridors, there would always be groups of girls converging underneath the mistletoe bunches, expectantly waiting for something, causing blockages in the corridors. Both Harry and Evan were caught in this predicament, especially Harry, because many girls were hoping he would take them to Slughorn’s Christmas party.

They seemed to have memorized their class schedules, and these girls weren’t just interested in one particular boy — they had clearly turned any attractive boy into a potential target. Evan had observed that if each girl were focused on only one specific person, there wouldn’t be nearly enough of them.

Who knew what they were up to, this was Christmas, not Valentine’s Day.

But it was true that Evan and Harry were especially popular this year.

Fortunately, their frequent nighttime wanderings had given them an unusually good knowledge of the castle’s secret passageways, so that they were able, without too much difficulty, to navigate mistletoe-free routes between classes.

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