Harry really hoped he could learn something about that Dismask from Sirius, but this clearly was not the time.
Sirius was on a date with Professor Babbling-Harry was not actually sure it was a date, but he would treat it as one for now.
And he and Ron were on dates with their girlfriends too.
Were all six of them supposed to get together and talk about a foreign Dark Wizard? Wouldn't that waste this wonderful time? Besides, Harry felt these things would be better discussed in private later.
So, after exchanging a few words, they all went back to doing their own things.
Watching Sirius actually leave shoulder to shoulder with Professor Babbling, even without so much as holding hands, Harry and the others could not suppress their urge to gossip.
After all, this was Babbling, the school's famously icy, beautiful professor!
"Do either of you know what's going on between Black and Professor Babbling?" Even Qiu could not suppress her appetite for gossip now, her eyes sparkling as she questioned Harry and Ron.
At that moment, she could barely spare a thought even for the wizard called Dismask.
Professor Babbling's side of things was hard to say, but Harry and Ron surely knew quite a bit about Sirius.
Qiu was not the only one interested. Lavender was clearly very interested too. Unlike Qiu, she did not know what was special about Dismask.
After all, he had not displayed anything particularly inappropriate.
Her curiosity was therefore even stronger than Qiu's, and she too looked at Ron with gleaming eyes.
Harry and Ron both hesitated.
They were not hesitating over whether they should talk about this. They actually knew little about Sirius and Professor Babbling. It was merely that, back in the Shrieking Shack, Professor Babbling's attitude toward Sirius had