The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

As soon as he put away the gift box, Tom saw Hermione walking out of the dormitory while rubbing her eyes.

Hermione looked like she had just woken up, and she had probably just finished brushing her teeth. She had her hair loose and was wearing a burgundy nightgown. Under the hem of the robe, two smooth and delicate calves were exposed, and she wore a pair of plush dog-head slippers on her feet.

Hermione, who had just come out of the bathroom, was still a little confused. She originally wanted to go to the common room to make a pot of tea, but when she saw Tom sitting in a daze by the window, she became more awake.

The handsome young man is sitting in an armchair by the castle fire, looking out at the scenery outside the window. It is simply an excellent subject for an oil painting.

Hermione was a little dazed.

"You woke up very early." Instead, it was Tom who greeted Hermione first, waking her up from her brief sluggishness.

"How can a person who has been in the lounge for a long time have the nerve to wake up early after saying that?" Hermione rolled her eyes, "I'm afraid you are not studying!"

"No," Tom quickly clarified under Hermione's suspicious eyes, "There are no books on my desk!"

There was really nothing on the table, just a steaming teapot and a teacup.

Hermione's eyes narrowed, and she suddenly bent down and picked up a schoolbag from the blind spot formed by the table and armchair. She shook it, and there was a sound of books colliding inside: "There is indeed no book on the table, someone His words are really precise."

Tom was shocked: You shouldn't be able to see it! Why are you so skilled?

"You probably do this kind of thing a lot, right?" Tom had an intuition: Hermione must have hidden books like this!

There was even a scene in his mind: the little brown-haired girl was reading a book. When she heard footsteps, she quickly hid the book - because she was seen secretly reading, the classmates started yelling again.

"Don't change the subject!" Hermione put her schoolbag gently on the table, and then kicked Tom with the puppy head.

"I really didn't read it! I just borrowed these from the library!"

"You went to the library?" Hermione's eyes widened in shock, "You said you couldn't go yesterday!"

"Would you like a cup of hot tea?" Tom took the teapot. "After drinking the tea, let's go for a walk outside, okay?"

"Mr. Yodel, you are really a master at changing the subject!" Hermione turned back to the dormitory, "Wait for me for a moment!"

Hermione originally wanted to continue to delve into Tom's "breach of contract" behavior, but after hearing Tom invite her to go for a walk, she decided to change her clothes first and then give Tom a good trial on the road - to make him remember what the spirit of contract is. .

Tom didn't see Hermione again until he had drained the teapot.

After Hermione returned to the dormitory, she first found an eyebrow pencil and traced her eyebrows to make them look more slender. Then she also drew very light eyeliner and applied lip gloss on her lips.

Most of the girls in the same dormitory have already gotten up and are lying on various beds without caring about their appearance, either in a daze or covered with quilts, waiting for the followers of Hypnos, the god of sleep, to come again.

Padma Patil saw Hermione coming back, then sat at her desk and started putting on makeup, the fire of gossip in her heart immediately burning brightly. She tiptoed to Hermione and said abruptly: "I don't put on makeup on weekdays, but I put it on on weekends."

Hermione shook her hand and applied the lip gloss directly to her chin.

While wiping the lip gloss on her chin with a handkerchief, she said in a panic: "Yeah, I'll put on makeup and study on the weekend..."

"Ah~" Padma showed a meaningful smile. At this time, all the girls in the dormitory, except those who were really asleep, quickly regained their consciousness. Those who were in a daze had serious things in their minds and were sleeping in front of them. The man who was the god's follower kicked the follower away. Everyone has turned on the sensitivity of their little gossip radar to the maximum.

"Girls need to learn how to put on makeup." Padma affirmed. "How can boys' hearts beat faster if they don't put on makeup?"

"I have a Kama Sutra here that I brought from my hometown. It's a pity that you are not old enough, otherwise reading it would definitely be beneficial..."

"What Kama Sutra, Padma, I don't understand what you are saying."

"There must be something weird about putting on makeup on weekends." Su Li, who was standing next to her, saw that Padma's topic was gradually getting sidetracked, so she joined the battle group herself.

"You're not going out with any old senior, are you?" Su Li first asked the question he was most worried about. Sue Lee, in layman's terms, is a "CP leader". She doesn't really want to see "accidents" happen: after all, Tom is still very popular in Ravenclaw: Quidditch genius, university student Ba, the incident at the end of last semester gave him an extra heroic aura.

Su Li said, are these two people suitable? Incredibly suitable!

"It can't be Percy from the Weasley family in Gryffindor, right? I remember that he was very close to Penelo from our house.

Hermione had some impression of Penello: she was a girl with a proud expression and beautiful curly hair. She has good grades and is said to be likely to become a prefect.

"Isn't it? She actually and Senior Percy——"

"We can talk about that later." Before she knew it, Hermione was surrounded by four girls.

Hermione got along pretty well with the girls in her dormitory, thanks to Ravenclaw's strong learning atmosphere. Here, academic masters can get more respect. Moreover, the boys and girls often play games together, so everyone naturally gets to know each other a lot.

As an aside, when playing Werewolf nowadays, Tom rarely survives beyond the third round as a citizen or a god. This is thanks to his weird intuition. Tom guessed the werewolf extremely accurately. If he got the witch or hunter card, the wolf team would definitely lose one person. If he got the guard, he even set a record of three consecutive Christmas Eve rounds. feat.

The consequence of this is that the werewolf party often eliminates this trouble on the first night.

So now Tom is more of a host, watching a group of rookies pecking each other.

Everyone was chattering and laughing, questioning Hermione, and finally confirmed from her: Hermione was going to go for a walk with Tom Yoder!

Everyone was jubilant.

Then they immediately gathered around to pick out clothes for Hermione and help her put on makeup.

"Great, that little sun is finally coming to its senses!"

Since the name Tom is the nickname of Thomas, the God of the Sun, the girls in the dormitory will refer to Tom as the little sun.

"When I started school, I heard that the beautiful new girl in the college actually knew Tom, which scared me." Sue Lee said to Hermione while choosing from a pile of skin care products.

"What?" After hearing the new gossip, everyone's mood became even higher: I could eat so many melons today, and it was worth not being able to sleep back!

So Sue Li shared the rumors she had heard with several sisters.

"It seems like it's nothing..." Mandy Bloch muttered.

"What are you talking about! This is a junior high school girl! She is a very dangerous creature," Murray McDougal immediately retorted, "You must pay attention to this junior high school girl."

She began to tell Hermione.

But their mouths didn't stop, and their hands weren't idle - Tom was still waiting in the lounge, and they were busy picking out cosmetics for Hermione - they were all young, and they didn't have any heavy makeup. Some skin care and maintenance stuff.

"Here, this essential oil will make your hair smooth."

"The magic fragrance can make the opposite sex fall in love with you - don't worry, it's not a love potion."

…

Within minutes, Hermione was groomed by the girls in her dormitory. At first glance, it looks like she is not wearing makeup, but she looks better than usual, and even her hair is not so messy.

"Bring some gold jewelry." Padma took out a box and placed it on the table with a muffled sound. "If a girl doesn't have enough gold on her body, she will be looked down upon."

Hermione declined her kindness, and Padma left with the box of gold bracelets disappointed.

"There is no room for use in the outer wizard robes," Commander-in-Chief Su Li put aside a clean wizard robe. "You can wear a gray jacket and a white shirt. Do you want to wear a tie? You can wear it, although it looks a bit like this. Going to class—"

"Put the scarf on?"

"It's superfluous!" Su Li directly rejected the proposal. She looked at Hermione for a while and said to Hermione: "I remember you seem to have a pair of...that one? Yes, that's how you match it."

Hermione blushed and took out a pair of gray socks from the suitcase, with cute cartoon patterns on them: a puppy on the left foot and a kitten on the right foot. After putting on her socks, she put on a pair of black knee-high boots with some difficulty. The tops were smooth and uncarved, except for a small belt near the ankle with a small golden button.

The boots are the perfect length, just below the knee.

Su Li smiled and nodded.

"Ready!"

When Hermione was about to walk out of the dormitory, she suddenly warned her: "Hermione, remember, don't confess your love all at once, wait until Yoder takes the initiative to say it - remember: Love is WAR!"

Hermione's face suddenly turned red, "What confession... Why can't I understand it? It's just a walk!" Then she ran downstairs quickly, and there was a clear knocking sound between the soles of her boots and the floor. .

Behind her were a group of sisters in the dormitory who were smiling like aunts.

Tom almost thought that Hermione was letting him go, but when she appeared from the stairs, Tom was really surprised.

The girl in front of me was familiar yet strange: she was very pretty, but I couldn’t tell what was so pretty about her.

"Let's go." Hermione lowered her head in embarrassment and said to Tom.

"good."

The two walked out of the castle together.

The sun is very bright today. The sun is shining warmly on my body, but it is not hot at all.

The two walked slowly on the lawn of the castle, and Tom watched the grass cut through the hem of his robe and brush against Hermione's feet.

Tom and Hermione crossed the lawn and came to the edge of the Black Lake. The two of them started walking around the Black Lake.

"Why do you suddenly want to go out for a walk with me?" Hermione asked with her hands behind her back.

"Since I came to Hogwarts, I haven't calmed down enough to take a good look at her." Tom took out a sandwich wrapped in a tissue, which he had just taken away from the Great Hall.

Hermione took the sandwich, and the two walked quietly around the Black Lake for a while. As they walked, Hermione suddenly frowned slightly, when a big tree with branches reaching to the lake appeared in front of them.

"This is a good place for fishing." Tom said, pointing to the lake covered by the shade of trees, and then both of them laughed, thinking of the scene of fishing together soon after they met.

The two of them sat under the tree together, watching the sun reflecting on the lake, and enjoying the cool breeze. The breeze brought a good smell: it might be the fragrance of flowers, or it might be...

"Look!" Hermione poked Tom in the side, causing Tom to tremble.

Following Hermione's fingertips, Tom saw Malfoy and a girl named Pansy Parkinson from Slytherin House walking out of the castle together. The two held hands and walked across the lawn together and walked in the other direction.

"Speaking of fishing, they all say there are giant squids in the Black Lake. I don't know if it's true." Hermione said this while looking at the lake.

"Of course it's true. I've also heard legends that this giant squid is Gryffindor among the four giants. He is an Animagus, and his transformed form is the giant squid. After transforming, he lives in the lake. until now."

"Is it fake?" Hermione obviously didn't believe it, "How can there be a squid that can live for a thousand years!"

"Yes, eternal life is actually a curse..." Tom sighed and threw the last bit of bread into the lake.

Soon, a tentacle appeared and rolled up the bread.

"Look!" He pointed to the tentacles. "This is the big squid in the lake. The students like to feed it by the lake."

Hermione also got interested and threw all her breakfast into the lake to feed the squid.

"Why do you think eternal life is a curse?" Hermione was a little curious. In the Muggle world, eternal life is as coveted as the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.

"Behind eternal life is endless loneliness. You watch your familiar friends wither, grow old, and die one by one. Even the friends who survived have been worn away in the long years, and the past has been forgotten. Now you still feel that eternal life is a thing. Is it a good thing? It is said that Mr. Nicoléme has decided to stop taking the Philosopher's Stone."

The things they talked about were a bit sad, and the two fell into silence.

Tom took out the gift box and handed it to Hermione.

"Happy birthday, Hermione."

Hermione was a little surprised.

"We've known each other for almost two years, and I only found out about your birthday recently - I won't make up for the last gift." Tom said with a smile.

"I know your birthday is on September 19th, but it might be too late by then -"

"What's too late?" Hermione asked, holding the box.

"It's nothing. Just don't worry if something happens to me in the future. I will be fine. You have to believe me."

"What accident?" Hermione put down the box.

Tom shook his head, "This is my mission. Don't worry, you know my 'little secret'."

When Tom said this, Hermione felt relieved.

Then she opened the gift box gently.

Oh my god!

A four thousand word chapter!

I think this chapter would be better to read at night.

There will be another chapter in a little while.