"Luo Bin, I know this dress looks good on me, but you don't have to keep staring!"
Salasha coyly tucked a stray lock of hair behind her ear.
"Sorry, I think you've misunderstood. I wasn't looking at your dress. I was looking at the grass stains on the hem. Miss Fudgey, you might want to check your clothes before you go out next time."
Salasha frowned and looked down. Sure enough, several small green stains marked the hem of her pink floral dress.
"Well, Miss Fudgey, who loves cleanliness, smiling, and looking pretty—where did you go to get dirt on your dress?"
"Ron, instead of mocking my clothes, you should pay more attention to Ginny!"
With a faint smile, Salasha caught up with the others. As for what she and Lucius had discussed, even Draco probably didn't know.
"Luo Bin, what was that strange smile of Salasha's supposed to mean?"
"Exactly what she said, I suppose. Oh, right, I nearly forgot. Just before you and Harry reached the storeroom, Ginny got so frightened in the corridor that she fainted!"
"What?! Luo Bin, why didn't you tell me sooner?!"
Ron took off toward the Gryffindor Common Room. Whether he could get into the girls' Dormitory was another matter!
That evening, after dinner in the first-floor Great Hall, Luo Bin was about to go to the Library for a few books when Harry and Ron stopped him.
"What is it?"
"Luo Bin, we can't keep knocking on stone blocks at random like headless chickens. We need to work out where the Chamber of Secrets might be. Harry said you have a good memory and that you've seen a floor plan of the whole Castle in the Headmaster's Office, so..."
"Here's what I was thinking," Harry said. "We use a tape measure to