Harry Potter: The Path of Destiny

The originally scattered snowflakes turned into a blizzard overnight. All outdoor classes and Quidditch training at Hogwarts were suspended. Everyone stayed indoors, sitting in groups around the fire to kill the sudden free time. time.

"I heard that all Herbology classes have been cancelled." Blaise looked at the increasingly thick snow outside the window of the library. Originally, they were supposed to stay in the Slytherin lounge, but Draco was injured because of He couldn't stand the strange looks others gave him, so they stayed in the library to review their homework. "But Professor Sprout called Astoria over to help her, to those Mandelas who would yell Grass wears socks and scarves, I don’t understand why a plant needs to wear these.”

"Can you please stop mentioning her?" Draco said impatiently. He flipped through several pages of the book in his hand. He couldn't concentrate on reading even a single word.

"Are you feeling guilty for avoiding her so much?" Blaise said unceremoniously.

"What do I have to feel guilty about?" Draco felt that Blaise was a little unreasonable.

"I don't know, maybe it's for the pleasant chat by the lake, or maybe it's for the bottle of refreshment specially prepared for you, or maybe it's for those delicious snacks delivered every now and then, and the sidelines during every Quidditch training. Asking for help," Brace said in a somewhat sinister tone.

"That's enough," Draco growled excitedly. His voice caught Ms. Pince's attention. Under her glare, Draco had to suppress his voice and continue, "I never asked for it. What did she do for me?"

"But you never refused"

"Oh, are you feeling unfair for her?" Draco snorted, "Speaking of which, Astoria is pretty good-looking. If you care about her so much, why don't you pursue her?"

"I was just about to say that since you enjoy her kindness to you so much, why not simply accept her wishes?" Blaise raised his eyebrows and whispered into Draco's ear, "Even if you want to pursue it, I am pursuing it. The target will only be Nidia."

"How dare you" Draco grabbed Blaise's collar angrily.

"What dare you? Who is she?" Blaise broke away from Draco's hand and continued to irritate Draco with words. "Since you are already enjoying Astoria's kindness to you, why don't you allow others to pursue Nydia?"

"You" Although Draco was angry, he was still speechless by Blaise's question.

"Draco"

A soft voice sounded beside Draco and Blaise. Astoria looked nervously at the two people who were glaring at each other. She looked dusty, with some hair left on her long eyelashes and shoulders. The snowflakes that had not melted after returning from the outdoors may be because she stayed outdoors for too long. Her face and lips were a little white.

"Oh look, your little girlfriend is here" Blaise smiled contemptuously.

"Shut up" Draco said.

"Please don't say that to Blaise. I came here to apologize. It was because of me that these rumors were spread and caused trouble to both Draco and Nydia. I originally wanted to go to Nydia to apologize. But I couldn't enter the Gryffindor lounge, so I came to you first." Astoria nervously bit her lip that had lost much color, "It's all my fault for being too weak, I shouldn't have done it at all. To the Duel Club."

Astoria began to sob as she spoke, which made her face look even more ugly, as if she would faint if she was even slightly stimulated. Draco and Blaise looked at each other, and most of the anger that had been pent up in their hearts had disappeared at this moment.

"It's not you who should apologize." Blaise sighed and turned his head to the side.

Draco looked at Blaise and then at Astoria, whose face was already full of tears. He sighed, suppressed the impatience in his heart and said, "Astoria, you don't need to say sorry. You should say I should be the one who is sorry. If I had made it clear to you earlier, this would not have happened."

Astoria stopped crying and looked at Draco with a hint of horror in her eyes.

"No, Draco, you misunderstood, I didn't want anything, I, I, I just" Astoria was so nervous that she didn't know how to express her thoughts. It's not that she couldn't see that Draco was interested in Nettie. She didn't want to destroy them, she just wanted to be good to Draco in her own way.

"You don't need to say anything anymore. Whether it's because of these rumors or other reasons, I think we should keep our distance from now on." Draco interrupted Astoria and said firmly.

Astoria couldn't say a word for a long time. After trying hard to calm down her emotions, she said in despair, "I understand. I won't bother you again. Goodbye."

Astoria trotted out of the library, swaying as if she might collapse at any moment.

"You should be satisfied now," Draco glanced at Blaise.

"What do you mean I should be satisfied? You said it as if you did it for me. Could it be that the person you really want to pursue is me." Blaise returned to his usual irregular state, "You'd better give up this idea as soon as possible." Not good at this"

"You" Draco was so angry that he wanted to punch Blaise.

"Oh, don't look at me like that. I know you definitely want to beat me up now, but I'm doing this for your own good." Blaise said as he slowly distanced himself from Draco. "Why don't you think about it carefully? This matter is very strange." "What's strange?" Draco stared at Blaise with a dark face. His expression seemed to silently warn Blaise that if he couldn't explain it, I would definitely beat you up. "I said that you lose your mind every time you encounter something related to Nitia." Blaise looked at Draco with disgust. "Think about it carefully. Whether you are chatting by the lake, or sending you stimulants, snacks, or even watching you train, Astoria is careful to avoid other people and do it secretly, especially the stimulants. In order not to attract other people's attention, she boiled several pots to distribute throughout the academy. So the so-called you and Astoria are close, other people can't know it, but the person who spread the rumor can use this as a topic, so he must know these things." "You mean this rumor may be spread by Astoria herself." Draco frowned uneasily. "I don't think it's very likely. If she wanted to spread these rumors, why did she spend so much time avoiding suspicion before? Why not just do these things in a big way? Then there would be no need to spread any rumors, and everyone would think that your relationship is unusual. But," Blaise paused and continued, "If this is really done by her, then we can only say that she is very scheming."

Draco remained silent. He kept thinking about Astoria's usual behavior in his mind, trying to find a flaw.

"The purpose of this matter is obviously to use verbal attacks to destroy your relationship with Nitia. The person who most wants you to quarrel must be Pansy. Daphne's abnormal reaction is obviously problematic, but I'm not sure whether Astoria is involved." Blaise analyzed.

"Pansy, I thought she had given up on making trouble. It seems that we still need to talk to her." Draco's eyes were filled with anger.

"No need, Draco."

Nitia came out from behind a row of bookshelves. In fact, she had been here for a while. She had basically heard Blaise's analysis, most of which were the same as what she thought. However, Nitia had a different idea about Astoria. She felt that Astoria was innocent, and could even be said to be one of the victims of this incident. The specific reason why she thought so could only be said to be her intuition.

"Nitia, when did you..." Damn, how much did she hear? Draco looked at Nitia nervously.

"I just came here not long ago, and I heard you say that you were going to cause trouble for Pansy." It seemed that Draco didn't want to know the previous words, so Nitia pretended that she didn't hear it. "Do you also think that it was Pansy who spread the rumors? I don't think you need to cause trouble for her."

"Why?" Draco asked puzzledly.

"She spread these words just to make us angry. If you are really angry, won't her goal be achieved?" Nitia shrugged, as if she didn't care about the rumors.

"Oh, my sister is smart and generous, unlike some petty people." Blaise looked at Draco with a smirk.

Draco rolled his eyes at Blaise, then looked at Nitia and said, "But what those people say about you"

"I don't care what they say," Nitia interrupted Draco, "No matter what others say, it won't destroy our relationship"

"Our relationship" Draco felt a little bit of expectation in his heart.

"Yes, we will always be good friends," Nitia said firmly, and at the same time, she did not forget to cast a firm look at Draco.

Draco's originally expectant heart fell to the ground again. He didn't know whether he should be happy that Nitia said their relationship would not change or feel sad for this relationship that would not change.