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Chapter 616: Heavyweight News
🕑 Added 2019-10-13 05:34:36 +0000 UTCEvan could feel Hermione trembling in his arms.
Like last time, her bright lips were cold and sweet, with the unique girl’s fragrance.
At first, Hermione instinctively resisted because of consternation, but she quickly responded involuntarily.
Although hundreds of eyes were staring at them, Evan and Hermione still drowned in the ecstasy of this kiss, embracing passionately and not caring about anyone else...
Harry, Ron, and Ginny, who were closest to them, also looked at them with their jaws dropped and couldn't believe it.
Several dozen seconds later, as Evan pulled Hermione, who was already red and could not redden any more, out of the Great Hall, screams and hisses continued.
Everyone was talking about the matter excitedly, and they were incredibly looking at the backs of both of them.
It was absolutely heavyweight news. News about Evan and Hermione spread quickly in the castle.
"Evan kissed Hermione in front of so many people!" Harry said in surprise, as if he had just reacted.
"I just want to know, apart from Evan and Neville, who was Hermione going with?" said Ron.
"Nobody!" Ginny replied. "She didn't intend to go to the ball."
"What? But…"
"Whoever hears your irritating words would say so." Ginny said bluntly, "You’re just judging people by their looks, Ron. Regardless of anything else, you just want to pick the prettiest girl as your partner, and that's why Fleur turned you down."
"Come on, I told you no one asked her. Hermione just didn’t want to say that."
"Hermione is much better than you think. She's a good girl. You boys never pay attention to the girls around you, and you'll never find out!" Ginny said angrily, glancing at Harry. "It’s not that no one asked Hermione. Krum had asked her. The Durmstrangs knew about the ball long before Professor McGonagall announced it!”
"God, Krum?!" Ron looked at Ginny in surprise. "This is ridiculous, Hermione never talked about it."
"Why should she tell you?" replied Ginny, disgruntled.
"So, Hermione accepted Krum's invitation?"
"Whether Hermione agreed to any invitation or not is her own business and we have no right to talk about it!" Ginny continued, "But I just told you, she didn't give a promise to anyone. Hermione wasn't going to the Yule Ball. She told me!"
"But why?" Ron's face was more and more surprised, and he looked at Ginny incredulously. "Everyone is looking forward to the Yule Ball. Hermione actually planned not to go, and turned Krum down. What's got into her?!"
"Because of Evan!" Ginny said angrily, "Fleur had come to Hermione, hoping that Evan would be her sister Gabrielle's partner. Although they have not yet reached the fourth year, she will ask Madame Maxime to let them go to the ball."
"FLEUR DID WHAT?!" Both Harry and Ron felt completely baffled.
What exactly was going on? Now, listening to Ginny, asking a partner was far more complicated than they expected.
"She spoke to Hermione alone. No one knows what they talked about," said Ginny angrily. "After that, Hermione would not go to the ball! She’s been hiding from Evan, hesitating whether to be with him or not. But after what happened today, she should make up her mind!"
There was still a lot of talk in the Great Hall, and Harry and Ron were still digesting the shocking news they had just received from Ginny.
No matter what everyone thought, all in all, the kiss between Evan and Hermione at dinner time suddenly became the second most popular topic in the castle after the Yule Ball, and it was discussed for a long time.
After Evan took Hermione out of the Great Hall and walked to the empty corridor, he was ready to have a good talk with her.
Hermione had been acting a little strangely lately.
Why had she been hiding from him and accepting invitations from others?! This was really abnormal; it was not like Hermione at all!
Especially after knowing that Hermione accepted someone else’s invitation, Evan was very angry and had a feeling of being betrayed.
He preferred to believe that Hermione had been under the Imperius Curse, Amortentia, or even been faked by someone with the Polyjuice Potion, rather than that she would accept the invitation from others. This was simply impossible; it was a great catastrophe that shook all his convictions!
In the face of Evan's strength, Hermione was now a very timid girl, not at all the same as usual.
She looked shyly at Evan beside her and quickly turned her eyes away.
The way Evan looked now made her feel like she was doing something wrong.
Remembering that he had just kissed her passionately, Hermione's face blushed uncontrollably. Evan had been so bold to kiss her in front of all the students.
Hermione was sure to remember the scene in the Great Hall for life and never forget it. Especially when she thought of herself finally kissing Evan back voluntarily, her head was completely blank.
She never thought that her relationship with Evan could reach this stage… not so soon!
The relationship between the two began in Hogsmeade’s Werewolf attack a year ago, and made substantial progress last Christmas.
After that, she had experienced many things. For a whole year, she chose to escape most of the time.
Every time Hermione could find herself enough reasons; it was too fast… she didn’t want to lose their friendship... Evan was a year younger than her… his magical strength was beyond her…. And as Evan became more and more famous, the gap between the two became more and more obvious.
Hermione had not let go of these concerns, and had repeatedly thought of retreating midway through their relationship.
The more you’re attached to something, the more you’re afraid of losing it.
For the Yule Ball, she had received an invitation from Krum early in December. Hermione was very surprised at the time and didn't think that Krum would ask her.
It was a weekend night, and Krum got rid of the girls who chased him and took the initiative to sit by her side.
He told Hermione that he came to the library every day just to talk to her, but he could not muster up enough courage. And since they first met at the Quidditch world Cup, he liked her and so on…
Hermione, of course, would not accept Krum's invitation, nor would she intend to develop any relationship with him.
But after getting along a few times, she felt that Krum wasn't as bad as she thought, and that it was good to be friends, and they talked a lot about Durmstrang and magic.
Of course, from the beginning to the end, Hermione did not think of Krum, let alone become his partner.
Regardless of those worries, if she was going to the Yule Ball, she would only go with Evan.
