HP: By the lake of Snake Garden, flowers bloom on the other side

Lycoris was lying on the bed in the Slytherin girls' dormitory, looking at the dark green curtains above her head and reviewing the "Porter's Newspaper Advertisement" incident, wondering again if there was anything she had missed.

Potter and Hermione should have told Ron about this now. Who knows what Ron is doing behind my back.

Licorice could guess what Ron's lines would be, such as -

How could Lycoris be so kind as to ask a reporter to clarify the truth for Harry?

Maybe that reporter is her man! ——This is a correct guess.

Don't you know what kind of person Rita Skeeter is? Her writing style is exaggerated, and her words and sentences are sensational and contrived. How could she really help Harry?

but……

Lycoris smiled with satisfaction, as she had predicted Potter's lines when she was trying to convince Hermione.

Gryffindor common room.

The roaring fire added warmth to the common room.

The three kids at the round table were chatting very...intensely.

"...No! Do you really believe her?" After Ron heard Harry tell him what Lycoris wanted to talk to him about, he stared at him and Hermione with wide eyes in disbelief.

Ron was speechless about Hermione and Harry. How could Hermione, who was so smart, be fooled by Lycoris?

"Do you want me to tell you what kind of person Lycoris is?" Ron stood up hastily and walked around the common room anxiously. "First of all, she is a Slytherin - you know, all bad wizards come from Slytherin..."

"You can't say that, can you?" Hermione interrupted Ron cautiously, and her voice became lower and lower after he looked over. "Peter Pettigrew, is our Gryffindor..."

"Except for people like Peter Pettigrew! I mean -" Ron walked around a few times, sat down again, and looked closely at Harry and Hermione. "There are so many bad wizards in Slytherin. How can you believe what a Slytherin says?"

Harry and Hermione looked at each other and thought about what Lycoris had said.

"Do you think Lockhart is a good wizard? He deceives others and steals other people's lives as his own stories." Hermione looked at Ron and continued, "He is from Ravenclaw."

"Hermione, we are talking about Slytherin now!" Ron frowned at her and said impatiently, "And Lockhart has been punished now. He may spend the rest of his life in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries."

Just as Lycoris said, Harry and Hermione exchanged a look.

"But Lycoris didn't do anything bad to us, have you forgotten? On the contrary, we stole her raw materials for Polyjuice Potion." Harry honestly told her about the excessive things he had done to Lycoris, and he still remembered them.

Harry kept thinking that if Lycoris dug this out of his memory, he would be so embarrassed that he would crawl into a hole.

"I also used my relationship with her to steal her hair, intending to pretend to be her to trick Malfoy." Hermione also remembered that she had done something excessive.

"You didn't succeed, that's cat hair!" Ron thought Harry and Hermione were so weird, why would they think of such a thing, "What did I just say? That's right - you can't believe what a Slytherin says."

Then he remembered something and spoke excitedly, "Don't you remember that Licorice threatened us with Hagrid's dragon?"

Ron turned to look at Harry and continued, "Did you forget? You left your Invisibility Cloak upstairs and she didn't even bother to pick it up for you. You don't have to ask her to bring it back. She can just give it to us when we ask."

Without waiting for Harry to say anything, Ron looked at Hermione and continued, "Also, Hermione, you know that Lycoris threatened me with the letter my brother sent! She wants Charlie to be expelled from the Dragon Taming Association!"

"Have you forgotten all this?" Ron looked at Hermione on his left, and then at Harry on his right. "She never cared about Malfoy's trouble with Harry - you must not forget, especially you, Harry, why four of our Gryffindor Quidditch players were suspended!"

"You said that all Slytherins are bad wizards. I don't deny that!" Hermione said like a proud peacock with sparkling eyes, "But Lycoris is different. Her Good Hunger Club has really helped a lot of people. Let's not talk about others. Ask Neville Longbottom if he was helped by her?"

It was Lycoris who chose Slytherin, not Slytherin who chose Lycoris.

Hermione remembered what she had said when she had Lycoris transferred to Gryffindor.

She said, "I like Slytherin as much as you like Gryffindor."

She went to Slytherin because she liked Slytherin.

"I wonder if Hermione was given some kind of potion by Lycoris..." Ron muttered softly, but because the distance was very close, Hermione still heard it and rolled her eyes at him.

"Harry," Ron rolled his eyes at Hermione, then leaned in and asked Harry, "You don't think Lycoris is a good person, do you?"

Harry thought of how Lycoris didn't laugh at his unrequited love for Qiu Zhang when she was teaching him the art of occlumency, nor did she mock him for his stupidity and clumsiness as a child...

During the Triwizard Tournament last year, she also reminded herself of what magical creatures she might encounter in the maze.

Two years ago, everyone thought Sirius Black was coming to kill them, so they avoided them for fear of getting hurt. However, Lycoris treated him normally and did not avoid him on purpose.

Harry also thought back to the time in the second year of the Chamber of Secrets when everyone regarded him as the heir, many people avoided him, and suspicion was everywhere he went. But Lycoris didn't do that. Not only did she not do that, she also helped him redeem his reputation.

He thought about what Lycoris had done and really couldn't say "she is a bad wizard".

Harry smiled at Ron, trying to get away with it.

"Okay, even if Lycoris really wants to help you clarify the matter of the resurrection of the mysterious man, how can you prove that Rita Skeeter is a good person?" Ron walked to the side quickly, rummaged through a pile of newspapers, and then picked up a few newspapers in the corner and put them on the round table. "Have you forgotten these articles?"

Ron placed an article on the table that Rita Skeeter had written before, about Hagrid being a half-giant, about Hermione, Harry, and Krum being a couple...

Ron pointed at the part of The Return of the Dark Lord: The Truth Behind the Triwizard Tournament that discredited Dumbledore, and asked the two, "Do you really think she can write a good article?"