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Upon hearing this, Zhang Qiu suddenly realized: "So that's it! The reason Potter rejected so many girls' invitations was because he's gay?!"
When a lie is repeated a hundred times, people will start to believe it is the truth.
Since the World Cup ended, the untold story of Ron, Harry, and Krum has been told many times.
Despite a photo of Ron and Krum kissing as evidence, many people remain skeptical.
However, the Daily Prophet reported on the latest developments in this matter again, and with pictures and evidence, most people began to believe that this was probably the truth!
Beside Luna, Ginny covered her face in shame.
While she is indeed a fun-loving person, the premise is that she enjoys that fun all to herself.
After all, that was her own brother, and his best friend.
It would be a different story if everyone knew about this kind of fun.
She had already heard people pointing at her and saying, "That's Ron's sister."
“Don’t worry, I think Potter and your brother were probably just pranked. Krum just happened to be passing by and got photographed!” Luna comforted him in a singing voice.
As expected of Luna, she inadvertently revealed the truth.
When Ron and Harry walked into the Great Hall together, the once bustling hall fell silent instantly, as if even the air had frozen.
However, this tranquility did not last long. In an instant, various voices rose up like a light rain, even louder than the previous commotion.
Even Ron's older brother, the Weasley twins, looked at the two of them differently at that moment.
They recalled that Ron's favorite toy as a child was a doll.
They thought of the almost excessively close friendship between Ron and Harry.
They remembered Ron's fanatical worship of Krum.
I thought of Ron's awkward expression at the World Cup.
The twin brothers exchanged a horrified glance; they genuinely felt that Ron might actually have something going on with Harry and Krum.
"Should we write a letter to Mom?" George asked hesitantly.
“Sometimes ignorance is bliss.” Fred quickly shook his head, believing that sexual orientation was not a big deal.
Ron had never realized before that being the center of attention could be so painful.
Harry was so depressed that he even contemplated suicide.
They locked themselves in the break room all day and didn't dare to stay together.
Because whenever they were in the corridor, a group of young wizards would surround them, excitedly asking all sorts of questions, repeatedly asking if it was all true, and what it was like to associate with Krum.
And all sorts of strange and unusual questions...
There was also a strange group of girls who screamed loudly whenever they saw the two of them standing together, shouting, "They're together!!"
Faced with everyone's questions and teasing, what else could they say?
The only response was a triple denial: "I didn't, I didn't, don't talk nonsense."
Fun fact: Snakes have two heads.
Chapter 353 Bathhouse
The story of Harry and Ron was all over Hogwarts, but for Levin it was just a minor topic of conversation.
Levin's entire punishment for Ron was preventing Harry and Ron from finding female companions and forcing Ron to drink the gender-changing potion.
This can be considered as fulfilling his promise to Hermione to ensure that Ron would not have a female companion.
What happened next was simply their own bad luck.
Hermione was helpless when it came to their situation, aside from offering a few words of comfort.
She now faces two other troubles:
One of them is the golden egg. The second match starts on January 7th, and she must figure out the secret inside the golden egg before then.
But even now, the girl still has no clue about it.
Since obtaining the golden egg, Hermione has taken more than enough measures against it.
She'd tried everything: hacking and slashing, spearing and stabbing, acid soaking and poisoning, burning and lightning strikes… the only thing missing was putting the golden egg in an alchemy furnace to refine it for forty-nine days.
But still, not even the slightest clue was found.
With less than two weeks until the competition, it would be incredibly embarrassing for her if she didn't figure out the golden egg by then.
The second problem came from Levin.
Or perhaps the trouble lies with Levin himself.
Having tasted forbidden fruit so intimately with Levin, Hermione, out of girlish shyness, didn't dare face Levin after regaining her senses and ignored him for the entire day.
However, Levin was relentless, clinging to her like a dog in heat, following her wherever she went from morning till night.
After dinner, Hermione returned to the tower and spent her time in Levin's workshop, intently working on the poor golden egg.
Hermione's idea this time was high temperature.
The reason was that the golden egg was mistaken for a dragon egg during the competition.
This might be a hint about the secret of the golden egg.
Dragon eggs need to be incubated at high temperatures.
So she placed the golden egg directly into the furnace at Levin's workshop.
Then, with a twist of her little hand, she turned the stove fire up to its maximum.
This really needs to be put into the alchemy furnace.
It's important to know that, to meet the various extreme conditions required in the alchemical process, Levin's furnace could reach a maximum temperature of 5000 degrees Celsius.
But this golden egg is not Sun Wukong.
Even with all the protective magic applied, it couldn't withstand such a high temperature.
Fortunately, in order to keep Hermione occupied, Levin followed her all the way to the workshop.
Upon seeing this, he was so frightened that he rushed over and turned off the fire.
"Are you trying to destroy the golden egg, Hermione?" Levin said helplessly. "If I had let you start the furnace just now, I would have had to give you a new golden egg."
At this point, the girl couldn't just ignore him anymore, so she could only lower her head and say, "Sorry, I didn't mean to."
After saying that, she pouted and complained, "But if even roasting it with fire doesn't work, then the golden egg is really terrible. Didn't you consider that the warriors would study it in various ways before you distributed the golden eggs?"
“I’ve thought about it, of course I’ve thought about it. The golden egg is mostly enchanted with various protective spells,” Levin said with a wry smile. “These spells are enough to deal with ordinary junior wizards. Who would have thought that someone would use such an extreme magical item to deal with it? — Is that just ordinary fire roasting?”
Ordinary junior wizards have limited magical power and simply cannot access a magical furnace of this level.
"What should we do then?" Hermione was at a loss. "This won't work, that won't work... Oh right, why don't you try using [Disintegrate] on it?"
Hermione's skill level is such that she can only use level 5 spells at most, so she has to ask Levin for help.
[Disintegrate: 6th Ring Alteration. A thin green ray shoots from your fingertip, significantly weakening the structure of any creature or object struck. When the weakening reaches its limit, the object is completely disintegrated, leaving only a trace of ash. This spell can even affect invisible force fields.]
The principle of disintegration is the decomposition of matter itself; theoretically, if there is enough magic power, it can decompose everything.
Hearing this, Levin couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Come on, don't you think about it? If you really need the [Disintegration] spell to solve the puzzle, what about the other warriors? None of them have a boyfriend who knows how to use the [Disintegration] spell."
"I really can't think of a solution," the girl said, scratching her head sweetly.
Upon hearing this, Levin suddenly had an idea.
"Hey, how about we make a deal?"
"What deal?" Hermione asked, somewhat confused.
“I’ll give you a little hint,” Levin winked, “and in return, you’ll grant me a few small requests, how about that?”
"Was it really necessary to go this far?" Hermione was truly speechless. Her face flushed as she complained, "To cheat for something like this, is this what a fair and just Triwizard Tournament referee does?"
"What cheating?" Levin retorted without hesitation, saying righteously, "I just happened to be chatting about this topic with a certain warrior as the organizer."
“…Couldn’t you…couldn’t you go find someone else?” Under Levin’s burning gaze, Hermione shrank back, her voice even weaker: “If Cirella’s not here, you could go find Cho Chang…I remember you two already…”
“But none of them learned the Animagus,” Levin replied.
"So you're urging me to finish Animagus, and it really isn't because of your strange interests?"
Hermione wanted to ask that, but in the end she only managed to squeeze out, "...Well, okay."
"Great!" Levin immediately perked up upon hearing this, grabbed the girl, and pulled her outside. "Let's take a shower first."
"You can go take a shower by yourself, why did you drag me along?" Shy Hermione feigned ignorance, trying to get away with it by being cute.
But Levin gave her no chance at all.
"You promised to fulfill my little request, so of course it starts with mixed bathing," he said matter-of-factly.
“…mixed…mixed bathing,” Hermione stammered, then thought of another reason to refuse, “but on the condition that you give me a hint.”
"I brought the golden egg with me, we can think about it later!" Levin held the golden egg in one hand and the girl in the other, dragging her into the tower's bathtub without saying a word.
To satisfy his desire for bathing pleasure, Levin had a Roman-style bath built specifically in the tower.
To match the style of the bathhouse, the room where it is located is decorated quite luxuriously, with gold patterns covering the walls and luxurious chandeliers casting a warm, soft light into the room.
The ceiling is enclosed, but if the magic is activated, the bathhouse ceiling will have an effect similar to the Great Hall of Hogwarts, showing the real weather, as if the bathhouse were open-air.
The floor is made entirely of snow-white marble, including the central sunken bathtub, which resembles a rectangular swimming pool and is even equipped with a diving board.
In front of the bathtub is a row of golden faucets, inlaid with rubies and sapphires, representing ordinary hot water and cold water respectively.
To quickly fill the tank with water, Levin opened them all.
The only two that were not turned on were the two faucets inlaid with green magic gems.
These are the two most unique faucets.
Because it contains a small amount of [Rejuvenating Elixir].
If you turn on these two taps, water mixed with the [Rejuvenation Elixir] will be poured into the bath.
In this situation, the [Rejuvenation Elixir] cannot bring the dead back to life or prolong life, but it can give the water in the bath the ability to restore its vitality.
In other words, taking a bath can help heal wounds and restore physical strength.