HP: White Lord of Slytherin

Chapter 281 Meeting 8 Gossip

Hearing this news, Gloria remained silent. At this time, the boss's two glasses of butterbeer were finally filled, and Harry went over and brought the two glasses over.

Gloria asked, "Where's Tonks?"

She still remembered that the other party was suspected of having a secret crush on someone.

"It should be here." Sirius took a sip of the wine in his glass. "She has been guarding Hogsmeade village."

The door to the bar opened, and Tonks exhaled a cloud of white air. "I heard my name."

Gloria saw her pink and purple hair and asked, "Are you okay here? Have those petrified people in the hospital been discharged?"

Tonks walked over to the table and nodded, "They've all been discharged. I'm keeping an eye on this. Mr. Fusco has returned to Diagon Alley to open an ice cream shop, but he's been much more low-key and no longer talks about ancient history with people."

"Does knowing ancient history mean I'll be caught by Death Eaters?" Harry couldn't help but be thankful that Professor Binns of History of Magic was already a ghost.

Sirius said, "Of course not. Dumbledore said that Mr. Fosco had the secret of a mysterious weapon passed down from his ancestors, and that man was targeting him."

"Fortunately, Leah's snake helped." Tonks still felt thankful when she mentioned this matter again, "Otherwise, with Mr. Fusco's temper, he would definitely not give in, and his fate would be..."

The rest was not said, but Gloria and Harry both knew what the ending was.

Voldemort never got the answer he wanted, so of course he would kill Fosco.

The topic was too heavy, Harry lowered his head, and Gloria stared at the cup of butterbeer.

Tonks simply perked up and asked, "How is your new Potions teacher?"

"The teaching content is very good." Gloria said, "It's just that he loves to chat with us students with good family potential, like to hold parties, and search the school to find out which students are worth attracting."

Harry followed up, "I don't like that kind of party. I've used team training to avoid it twice."

Tonks wondered, "Why not? It should be fun."

She didn't know Professor Slughorn, but she simply thought the party would be fun.

Harry shook his head. "It's boring. Professor Slughorn looks at us like a goblin looks at a Galleon."

"Hahaha!" Sirius laughed out loud. Fortunately, there were only a few of them in the bar. "He is such a powerful person. He did the same when we were in school. He always tried to win us over, especially Lily. But no one was willing to pay attention to him every time. But my brother..."

He paused here and looked at Gloria guiltily.

Tonks and Harry also looked over. Harry clearly remembered how Gloria had secretly punched Sirius because of her father.

"Very good." Gloria responded calmly. "I was able to hear a lot about my father."

In order to get closer to her, Slughorn often mentioned Regulus's deeds in school and how much he admired this student.

Harry suddenly felt a sense of sympathy for Gloria. They both lost their loved ones because of Voldemort.

Tonks nudged Sirius with her elbow.

The handsome man with grey eyes and curly hair smiled awkwardly and changed the subject stiffly, "Harry, have you met a girl you like this year?"

Harry looked exhausted and confused. His crush on Qiu was a thing of the past. Now he suddenly thought of Ginny and quickly shook his head and muttered, "No, I just want to study and play Quidditch well now."

Ginny is Ron's sister and already has a boyfriend.

He said this absentmindedly. Gloria looked at him suspiciously, wondering if he would fall in love with a girl who already had a boyfriend again.

"James was already trying his best to please Lily when he was your age." Sirius recalled the past with a nostalgic look on his face, "Lily didn't want to pay attention to him at that time. In order to make Lily accept him, he tried hard to change."

Harry recalled the memory he saw at Snape's place, in which his father was friendly towards his mother, and chose to remain silent.

"What about you?" Gloria turned the topic to Sirius, "I'm not going to get married in the future, and you're still single."

"I won't consider this for now. The situation is so tense right now." Sirius said, then said, "You can consider getting married later."

Gloria was almost choked by this, so she simply stopped asking and looked at Tonks beside her, "Tonks, are you planning on falling in love?"

Tonks' cheeks turned a little red and she whispered, "I'm busy at work."

"She doesn't have a boyfriend." Sirius said casually, "The last few times Remus and I came here to drink, she was always alone or on patrol with her colleagues."

Gloria watched as Tonks's hair slowly turned pink.

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Slughorn organized another party. Gloria and Draco declined twice because there were too many homework assignments and the professor was really nagging. But this time, Draco thought he could go and take a look.

Studying is tedious enough, so it's nice to attend a party to relax.

When we got there it was still bustling. I looked around but didn't see Harry and the others. Did they all decline to attend the party?

"You're here at last," Slughorn greeted them warmly.

In addition to the students present today, there was also a woman with an unfamiliar face, but of course she was only as unfamiliar as Gloria.

"This is Captain Gwenog Jones of the Holyhead Harpies."

The woman with black hair tied in a ponytail extended her hand to them, and the two men shook her hand.

Gwenog is a very straightforward person, and people who like Quidditch like her very much.

Hermione and Ginny arrived late, and when she saw Gwenog, Ginny finally lost her impatient expression and walked over shyly.

Slughorn introduced them as well.

Gwenog shook Hermione's hand and said, "I saw your boyfriend, Viktor Krum, on the field. He is a really good player."

"Thank you for the compliment." Hermione said, "That's the result of his hard training."

Gwenog shook Ginny's hand again, "Professor Slughorn said you were on the Quidditch team. If you want to continue playing after graduation, you can come to our team for an interview."

Ginny's brown eyes were full of surprise, "Okay!"

She happened to be a fan of Gwenog and it was worth coming to the party.

This party was after dinner, so everyone had more time to get together and chat.

Draco continued to chat with them, Gloria stepped aside, and Hermione also did not join the crowd.

Hermione was probably not full, and was holding a plate of cake.

"It seems that none of us like this kind of party." Gloria asked: "How are you and Krum? Are you still on good terms?"

Hermione looked shy, "I've been writing letters to keep in touch." Then she added in a worried tone, "But there has been unrest overseas recently. The last time I wrote to her, I mentioned that the international competition that was originally held in France has been moved to Belgium."

Gloria said, "Don't worry too much. So far, there has been no sabotage in France, unlike here in the UK, and Headmaster Dumbledore is abroad."

"That's how I comfort myself." Hermione sighed, "Maybe Krum is worried about me too."

To be honest, the British wizarding world is more dangerous.