My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 500, Section 497: Snape, Karkaroff, and Moody

"Lynn kissed Hermione! Lynn kissed Hermione! He kissed her!"

"After dancing, it's normal for male partners to kiss their female partners' hands or cheeks as a matter of courtesy."

Some girls who haven't seen the situation clearly are still deceiving themselves.

"They weren't kissing on the face or the hand! They kissed! Stop fooling yourselves, they're already together!"

"Oh no! My youth is over!"

Almost everyone stopped dancing and gasped as they looked at Lynn, who was kissing Hermione in the middle of the dance floor. What they saw left them no chance to deceive themselves any longer.

In front of the elite students from the other three magic schools, as well as all the young wizards at Hogwarts, Lynn announced his relationship with Hermione.

He never intended to hide it, or to have affairs while dating Hermione.

Entrusting your feelings to one person is enough; so-called universal love is just a way of saying you're promiscuous and have high emotional intelligence.

Not only the students, but also the professors at Hogwarts witnessed this scene.

Dumbledore said with a smile to his dance partner, Mrs. Maxim.

"It's so good to be young."

Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, Sprout, and Fox clapped with smiles on their faces, and even the expressionless Snape clapped lightly.

Although Lynn and Hermione are both underage, one is 16 and the other is 15, there is no rule against early romantic relationships at Hogwarts.

Even after the ball ended, no one knew how many new couples would be formed at Hogwarts.

The entire hall erupted in applause. Even if many girls envied Hermione, they would still offer their sincerest blessings to Lynn and her at this moment.

After the kiss, under the gaze of countless eyes, Hermione's face was flushed red, like a tempting apple.

Lynn took her hand and instead of continuing to dance on the ballroom, he led her out of the castle and strolled in the beautifully decorated gardens outside.

After they left, the ball in the hall continued, but most of the young wizards were still sighing and talking about what had just happened.

Lynn then took Hermione's hand and strolled through the gardens outside the castle.

The garden was specially trimmed to look beautiful for today's ball, with all kinds of flowers vying for attention among the grass, and some shimmering fairies fluttering their wings and flying around.

However, Lynn and Hermione weren't particularly interested in the beautiful scenery. They strolled along slowly and soon arrived at the Black Lake.

The grass was covered with snow, but the waters of Black Lake remained calm. The weather hadn't turned cold enough for the lake to freeze over yet. In a few weeks, once the surface of Black Lake was covered in ice, little wizards would come to skate on it.

"This is probably the most meaningful place in Hogwarts for me."

Lynn pulled Hermione's hand into his bosom, intertwining their fingers, and looked at the lake reflecting the castle, reminiscing with Hermione.

"On the first morning of my first year of school, I sneaked out of the castle at 4 o'clock to practice spells here, and that's when I met Cedric. Later, I met Ian near the Whomping Willow, which is not far from here."

Thinking of this, he chuckled softly, as if recalling something amusing.

"When I was a freshman, an older girl confessed her feelings to me. The first time she asked me out, I just told her I was going fishing at Black Lake with Cedric that night."

Hermione listened to his story with a fascination that seemed to have been piqued.

"Did you catch any fish back then?"

"How could we possibly catch anything? The bait we used was steak we stole for dinner. What fish would eat that?"

"Let's try it tonight," Hermione suddenly suggested with great interest.

Lynn was fine now, but he touched Hermione's red, frostbitten cheeks and shook his head.

"Let's go back to the castle. It's too cold outside. If you really want to go fishing, we can go out again when the weather is nice."

But Hermione didn't seem to want to go back to the castle, pointing to the snow on the ground.

"We can build an igloo and then fish inside it."

Seeing that she was in a good mood tonight, Lynn did not refuse again and joined her in building a snow hut by the Black Lake.

After Harry and Ron finished their dance with their partners, they came out of the Great Hall.

Neither of them could find a dance partner they liked. The two girls they found later were only invited to dance so as not to lose face among the Gryffindor students.

The news of Lynn and Hermione's relationship being announced tonight was absolutely explosive. As Hermione's best friends in Gryffindor, Harry and Ron were naturally shocked as well.

"They're actually together now."

"Thinking about it, it's not surprising. If Hermione doesn't end up with Lynn, who else could she end up with?"

Thinking about it carefully, this kind of thing is really not surprising.

They were chatting and strolling around the garden when they suddenly spotted three familiar figures on the other side of the flowerbed.

It's Snape, Moody, and Karkaroff.

Harry and Ron exchanged a glance, and then they both disappeared into the nearby flower bushes.

They watched cautiously as three seemingly unrelated people stood in a secluded corner of the garden.

"How come Professor Moody is hanging out with Snape? And Karkaroff is there too," Ron muttered.

Harry shook his head; he didn't know why either.

However, the bushes where they were hiding were not far from where Snape and his companions were, and from there they could hear their conversation.

"How did you end up with him?"

Moody spoke gruffly to Snape, as if he had no liking for Karkaroff whatsoever.

Snape, still with that pale face, spoke in a somber tone.

"He came to me, how would I know why?"

Karkaroff looked at them somewhat hesitantly, but finally seemed to have made up his mind and said...

"Let's be frank about some things. As you all know, after I was caught, I betrayed that person to clear my name."

So there's no way I can side with them again. Stop being wary of me, Moody. I'm talking to Shinep about something very important, and of course, you can listen in too.

His voice trembled, and both Harry and Ron could hear the barely suppressed fear in him.

"The mysterious man... he might really be coming back."

(End of this chapter)