Hogwarts becomes host

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After comforting Hagrid, it was already evening. Harry, Elaine, and Ron hurried back to the castle to have dinner. They also played a few games of wizard chess in the lounge. After relaxing to their heart's content, they went to bed.

Hermione returned to the dormitory very late, and Elaine didn't ask what she and Daphne had done. Because of the cold weather, she went to bed earlier than usual.

however……

"Besides reading, don't you have anything else to do..."

At two o'clock in the morning, Hermione and Elaine looked at each other silently in the Gryffindor common room.

It wasn't that she didn't want to sleep, Elaine was sleeping very well in her own bed.

It was just that she felt a little cold in the middle of her sleep. When she wanted to get up and drink a cup of hot water to warm her body, she found that Hermione was not in bed, but stayed in the common room, secretly studying with the textbook she borrowed from Ron... …

This is definitely a disease and needs to be cured.

"I suspect that you have some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or have been hit by a very vicious 'learning curse'." Elaine said seriously, "Let's go to the school hospital. Madam Pomfrey won't be angry."

"It's weird that I can't be angry." Hermione spat, "I'm in good health, everything is normal──"

"How can it be normal to stay up late at night and study secretly? No one in Hogwarts would do such a thing!"

"Whoever said so, I know how to do it. I am also a student of Hogwarts!"

"There is no one but you!"

"How can you be sure!"

"I'm just sure. If you don't believe me, ask other people, who doesn't get up to read textbooks in the middle of the night?"

"...But, I'm not studying." Hermione looked away and said sophistry, "I just couldn't sleep. I just read the textbooks to kill time. It's not like you took away all my books─"

"All your books are textbooks, okay?" Elaine was a little crazy. "Besides studying, don't you have anything else to do?"

"What can you do at two o'clock in the morning..."

"You can sleep, play with the cat, or you can crawl into my bed and chat with me. I don't mind."

"I mind!" Hermione threw the textbook directly at Elaine's face, "Daphne will definitely mind too! You pervert!"

"How perverted is it to just chat, is there something wrong with your ideas?" Elaine said angrily after catching the textbook, "I didn't know who it was before, and they often stayed up late at night and came to talk to me..."

"That was before, and now you and Daphne──"

"Just because I'm dating Daphne doesn't mean I'm going to break up with you. If dating her means I'm going to break off all contact with other women, I'd rather be single for the rest of my life."

"...Scum." Hermione did not hide her disgust, "Daphne is so pitiful."

"Hey, is this normal? Falling in love and making friends are two different things─"

"Who knows if you are treading two different boats in the name of making friends."

"..." Elaine's veins bulged, okay, let's hurt each other! "Have I ever been in two boats? As one of the boats, don't you know best?"

The two stared at each other for a while, then sighed at the same time.

"I don't understand." Hermione said dissatisfiedly, with a hint of grievance hidden in her tone. "It's just reading a book. Why make such a fuss? Studying is not a bad thing. Don't you want me to become stronger─"

"I never said that." Elaine said with a headache, "I just hope you can relax and don't push yourself too hard. Dumbledore also said that──"

"I remember what he said, but you don't understand. I just like reading books and studying magic." Hermione said frustratedly, "And the mysterious man is coming back soon, how can I-"

"Even if Voldemort comes back, it has nothing to do with you." Elaine looked at Hermione speechlessly, "Dumbledore and I are not dead yet, and there are many wizards in the Phoenix Order, so it is not your turn to fight. You are only fourteen years old. You shouldn’t have been involved at all─”

"Okay, leave him alone." Hermione interrupted Elaine again and said firmly. "I also hope that I can do something for this world. It doesn't matter even if I am a little tired. This is what I want. I want to become stronger and I want to learn─"

"Uh, so you want to tire yourself to death before Voldemort catches you, so as not to be tortured by him?" Elaine scratched her head, "I remember I told you a long time ago, it is better to learn more than to learn. You are so good at every subject, you might as well have a unique specialty, even Merlin has shortcomings."

"Hard work can make up for talent." Hermione said stubbornly, "I can do it, and I'm not the only one who is a full-time student. You can do it too, and so can Percy, so I can do it too."

"Yes, but we are not as serious as you." Elaine patted the textbook, "We just did it casually for the sake of face, but you tried your best to learn well. If you continue like this, you will really collapse. Think about it carefully, the academic pressure will be even greater before the final exam, will you really be able to cope with it then?"

"I have enough time."

Hermione scratched her chest. Elaine knew what she was talking about, but she shook her head.

"But you don't have enough energy - obey me, don't touch the books, and let yourself rest for a while. If you want to continue to maintain that high-intensity study schedule, rest is very important."

"...but I don't know what to do." Hermione said irritably, "It's not that you don't know, I just like to read books, and there is no TV here. I...and it's midnight now. Besides reading, what else can I do?" do what?"

"...That's right, I didn't think about it well."

Elaine yawned, shifted her weight back, and sank into the soft armchair.

After all, if you can't sleep in the middle of the night and don't want to wake anyone up, there is really a limit to what you can do.

No wonder Hermione would choose to read a book. If it were Elaine herself, it would seem...

"How about I teach you how to play the piano?"

"what?"

"I said, I'll teach you how to play the piano." After thinking about it, Elaine said. "If you can't sleep, just listen to music. If you like learning so much, then it doesn't matter if you learn to play the piano, right? It doesn't matter even if you play poorly, no one will eavesdrop in the middle of the night."

"Well..." Hermione blinked, "But why should I-"

"No reason, you are idle anyway." Elaine jumped up from the chair and directly made the decision for Hermione, walking to the piano on her own, "Besides, learning music has many benefits, it can improve imagination. , train patience and carefulness, cultivate temperament, cultivate temperament, and also increase attraction to the opposite sex...everything is what you need."

"...Yes, but why do I think you have nothing to do with this?" Hermione followed Elaine to the piano, not to learn, but to beat her. "So you're learning piano just to make boys like you? Thanks, I think learning anything else is more reliable than this."

"...I really don't know how to answer you, you win." Elaine rolled her eyes, "Others want me to teach, but I'm not willing. Do you really not want to learn?"

"Why don't you teach Daphne?"

"I taught her, but she..." Sitting on the piano chair, Elaine twitched her lips, "She... well, she learned pretty well, she has a good sense of music, and she can catch the beat very accurately, if it's not a little bit tight Question, I even want to teach her the magic of music.”

"Wait, that one can be taught too?!" Hermione's eyes widened, "That's not exclusive to the Shafiq family─"

"Okay." She shrugged, and Elaine said nonchalantly, "I'm not from the Shafiq family, so what if I teach you? What's more, even if I teach you, you may not be able to learn."

"...Okay, then teach me."

Pulling up a chair, Hermione, who was interested, sat next to Elaine, ready to study.