Harry did not know how to advise Ron. But after hearing their conversation, Seamus, who was beside them, launched into an endless stream of advice for Ron.
He offered him all sorts of opinions, suggestions, and strategies.
There seemed to be something rather interesting about this.
The less experience someone had with dating, the more authoritative they sounded when discussing relationships. Seamus Finnigan, for instance.
Yet those who had actually dated felt they knew nothing about romance, let alone how to teach anyone else. Harry, at that moment, for instance.
Even stranger, as Harry listened to Seamus, he vaguely felt that what he said seemed, possibly, perhaps... to make quite a lot of sense.
That was ridiculous.
Harry found it ridiculous, but could not figure it out, so he stopped trying.
He simply stayed beside them and listened to Seamus talk.
Once Seamus finished, however, Harry discovered that all his talk seemed to have been bloody useless, because Ron still looked just as conflicted.
Shaking his head, Harry decided to set his best friend's romantic troubles aside for now. The more important thing was to find out just how much Draco knew, and whether he could learn anything about Voldemort from him.
Ideally, he would find out where Voldemort and those Death Eaters were hiding now.
If Voldemort had previously been a headache only for the British Ministry of Magic, half of Europe's Wizard community now had him on their minds.
After all, Voldemort had led the assault that breached Inyashadibasta, leaving the ministries of several countries, chiefly France, thoroughly embarrassed.
Although Inyashadibasta's guards, the magic puppets, had all been destroyed, some Wizards who had escaped, only to be recaptured after getting carried away, still confessed that Voldemort had been the chief culprit behind the breach of Inyashadibasta.
Wizards generally