Harry believed in love at first sight.
After all, he had fallen for Qiu at first sight.
After that Ravenclaw match in his second year, when he first saw Qiu coming off the pitch with her teammates, Harry had set his heart on her, and that had never changed since.
He was not the only one. During their usual joking around, Harry and the others had heard Lavender say that she, too, had fallen for Ron at first sight.
It really had been love at first sight!
Lavender had started liking Ron the very first time she saw him at the Opening Feast.
As Lavender put it, Ron had been the first boy to smile at her after she arrived at Hogwarts, and his smile had been so sunny and full of life.
Harry had once tried to recall the Opening Feast in his first year in detail, but he could not remember what had happened at all.
The only thing he remembered was that the Twins had danced on the dining table, wiggling their bottoms, and he had found it so embarrassing that he had wanted to go to Ravenclaw.
But the Sorting Hat had been one step ahead, placing him in Gryffindor before he could speak.
Although being sorted into Gryffindor seemed pretty good now, if he had been in Ravenclaw, he might have met Qiu much earlier, mightn't he?
Besides, if he were in Ravenclaw, he could be with Qiu even in the Common Room.
Of course, Harry was only entertaining the thought.
The bizarre, nonsensical, disjointed, unreasonable riddles the eagle outside the Ravenclaw Common Room posed every day were enough for Harry to admit that he could not handle them at all.
Even after obtaining Ravenclaw's legacy, he still had no way of dealing with that