A Date to Remember

After returning to the compartment, Pomona did not actually go to sleep.

She dug out the romance novels she had collected before, intending to cram on how to go on a date!

That was right. Rousseau could unravel such profound questions as the origins of human inequality, yet he could not solve the problem of men and women getting married. France's marriage and birth rates continued to decline, causing an imbalance in its population structure. The immigrant population outnumbered the native one, as if France had been occupied by outsiders.

Why had French women stopped getting married when French men worked so hard to strike up conversations and make girls happy?

A beauty like Fleur Delacour had married Bill. How many young men must have been heartbroken because of it?

Low birth rates were a common problem in developed countries, but they did not exist in underdeveloped regions or places where women received less education.

The Chinese pictograph for "marriage" meant that a woman had to be out of her mind to enter into one. What a vivid metaphor.

Oh, damn it. Why could so many female writers so easily write scenes sweet enough to rot one's teeth, while she could not even arrange her own date properly?

If the Hufflepuff girls found out their Head of House was this useless, how much would they look down on her?

She began recalling how she had dated in the past.

Before Fleur appeared, they talked about magic, work, or complained about Albus Dumbledore.

After that day, they met whenever no one was paying attention. The moment they met, they were as busy kissing as Lavender and Ron, with no rational verbal communication at all.

She had not felt dizzy. Her mind had simply gone completely blank. When she had traveled in