As before, the Third Task would take place six weeks after the Second Task.
Nothing worth mentioning happened in between, apart from Valentine's Day.
Perhaps spurred on by the arrival of so many students from other schools-especially the pretty girls from Beauxbatons-love letters flew everywhere in Hogwarts Castle that year. Even Harry and Ron each received two love letters that looked as though they had been written by younger girls.
However, both of them had girlfriends now, so they tossed the letters into their trunks without even opening them-they certainly could not bear to throw them away.
What annoyed Harry and Ron quite a bit, though, was that Qiu and Lavender proved rather more popular than they had expected.
Lavender was a little better off. The girl was cute and sweet-looking, and, as Ron had discovered firsthand, her figure far surpassed those of other girls her age. But she was usually so well-behaved that she kept rather a low profile.
She attracted no attention at all at school. Even so, five boys sent her love letters. One sender was unknown; his letter arrived by owl, and he was probably a student at Hogwarts. The other four were all students from other schools.
Three were from Ilvermorny.
Clearly, the Americans liked Lavender's type: sweet and well-behaved, but with a good figure.
This put Ron under tremendous pressure, but Lavender soon set his mind at ease. She rejected all four boys who expressed their interest right in front of Ron, and threw the love letter from the unknown sender straight into the bin.
Then the two of them demonstrated their passionate kissing skills in public, as though to tell everyone just how good their relationship was, and that nobody else stood a chance.
Even someone as low-profile as Lavender had five admirers,