Poor Harry had only been eating a meal.
Yet Malfoy had already bad-mouthed him in her head who knew how many times...
Even her initial jealousy over Padma talking to him was one thing.
But later, Malfoy had actually started wondering whether the other Ravenclaw boys wanted something more than friendship with Harry too...
Who could put up with that...?
Who knew how Malfoy's mind worked? In any case...
Even if Great Britain had its own particular circumstances, surely things couldn't be that ridiculous?
Although he thought Malfoy had delicate, attractive features, found Ron incredibly pleasing to the eye, and even felt Professor Snape still had a certain lingering charm...
But appreciating a blonde young lady, a little redheaded girl, or an aloof older woman was only human nature, wasn't it?
Yes, human nature.
Harry certainly had no strange ideas about these Ravenclaw boys.
Oh, forget it.
Harry didn't know about any of this right now anyway, so Malfoy could deal with it herself.
Hopefully, nothing would go wrong. After all, when Malfoy really got angry, she simply had no sense of restraint...
And because the noble and beautiful Lady Malfoy kept being unable to resist glancing over toward Harry...
Quite a few older Slytherin students, both boys and girls, had also begun looking toward Harry's seat with somewhat unfriendly eyes.
For the moment, Harry knew nothing of Malfoy's inner thoughts.
But he certainly felt those unfriendly looks.
It wasn't just Harry. The other Ravenclaws were all baffled too.
Hadn't Slytherin always been at odds with Gryffindor?
Were they looking in the wrong direction?
The Gryffindor table wasn't over here. It was on the other side, hey!
First-years were one thing, but surely all those older boys and girls could tell Ravenclaw apart from Gryffindor?
Why were they staring over here for no reason, looking as though they wanted a fight?
This wasn't some warriors' academy. It was a school of magic!
A place where academic ability was practically equivalent to fighting strength.
Although Ravenclaws hardly ever stirred up trouble, that didn't mean they were afraid of such inexplicable hostility.
Their short head of house had even been a dueling champion in his youth!
As for whether Professor Flitwick had gained an unfair advantage through his height, never mind that.
Ah, trouble really did fall out of the sky...
Forget it. Hogwarts was a very civilized and safe place. Harry believed that as long as he handled things properly, nothing too outrageous should happen.
If those Slytherins really went too far...
Honestly, Harry wouldn't mind going to have a good time with Malfoy for a whole morning or evening, then having Malfoy take Crabbe and Goyle along to give them a thorough beating!
It wasn't as though he disliked Malfoy.
He just felt that her constantly clinging to him really did cause endless trouble sometimes and interfere with his studies.
That was why he had previously used the "Do you fancy me?" approach to scare Malfoy off for a while.
If Harry was really pushed too far, he was capable of anything!
Including, but not limited to, enjoying himself with Malfoy!
Of course, back to the subject at hand.
As far as Harry was concerned, apart from going through a somewhat chaotic Sorting and encountering three outrageous cases of gender-swapping...
Nothing else had really happened.
For now, the character relationships were a little broken, but the overall plot was still following a fairly normal course~
At least, from the start-of-term feast until the prefects led them away and they learned how to open the Ravenclaw Common Room, nothing unexpected had happened.
Harry felt that, under the present circumstances, the shell of the plot should still be able to protect him.
Hadn't he seen Snape's expression just now?
The Harry in the original story hadn't known about these things, but the Harry who had transmigrated here certainly knew them very well.
All he had to do was blink those Lily-like emerald eyes at Professor Snape.
Snape would soften no matter what. There was no question about it.
After all, Snape was watching Harry. How could Harry possibly not look back and see how Snape was doing?
At first, when Snape's gender swap had left him visibly dumbfounded, Snape's eyes had been filled with disdain and disgust as he looked at him~
Then, after he had blinked and given a rather innocent smile...
Just look at Snape's expression!
Even with that stern face, Harry could tell that Snape's entire mood had actually softened.
The only tender sanctuary in his heart had been occupied by Harry's eyes...
After this, how could Harry not make good use of Snape's goodwill and throw himself into studying Potions and Dark Magic?
Of course, those were things he would need to tackle once classes officially began.
For now, at the Ravenclaw Common Room, Harry had also successfully explored the question-answering mechanism at its entrance.
It didn't seem quite as difficult as the rumors made it out to be.
The questions the Ravenclaw Common Room door asked seemed to vary for young wizards at different levels of knowledge.
In short, the younger the wizard facing the knocker, the easier the question they received.
Conversely, those seventh-year graduating students might have to face all sorts of terrifying questions...
Sometimes, the knocker even had a mischievous streak and asked questions based on Muggle myths and legends.
That was pretty awful, but fortunately, Harry was unaffected.
As a graduate student researching ancient Western history, Harry could say that he knew a thing or two about such matters.
Even if the knocker at the entrance to the Ravenclaw Common Room sometimes asked some very strange questions, Harry wouldn't be reduced to sleeping in the corridor.
Once it was about time, Harry would head to the dormitory and meet his four roommates~
And the peace on Harry's side seemed to be matched by a distinct lack of peace among the professors...
Far too much had happened this year.
With the famous Harry Potter starting school, far too many strange things had actually already happened.
After more than a decade of peace, the wizarding world had been rocked by a shocking piece of news this year-
At the end of July, You-Know-Who had reportedly appeared and forced his way into Gringotts Wizarding Bank!
Intriguingly, You-Know-Who seemed to have taken nothing, and the goblins hadn't caught Voldemort, the bank robber, either...
This had led quite a few people to speculate whether You-Know-Who's purpose had been to search for something.
On top of that, Dumbledore had already stressed repeatedly at Hogwarts' start-of-term feast...
The corridor on the right side of the fourth floor was off-limits to all young wizards!
Anyone who accidentally entered might even risk being expelled from Hogwarts!
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