Study Days at Hogwarts

Chapter 1710 A War Without Winners (One Hundred and Sixty)

When leaving, Hermione had a suitcase in her hand. She stood at the iron gate of the manor, looked back at the beautiful manor covered in snow, and disappeared directly.

In fact, before Hermione left, Isobel invited her to stay in the manor again, but Hermione refused in the end.

She naturally didn't want to live with a group of strangers.

Although everyone was Albert's lover and they were familiar with each other after getting along for a long time, Hermione still didn't want to live with someone she hated.

Hermione was very upset when she returned home. She casually put the suitcase on the table, picked up the thermos cup and drank a sip of the still warm milk tea, then sat on the sofa and thought about what happened in the manor villa before.

Make a dress for yourself?

This kind of thing is naturally not difficult for the clever Hermione. She has knitted sweaters for house elves, given Albert scarves, and made cloth covers for sofas a while ago. She can be said to be experienced. If beauty is not required, a dress can be completed in a few hours at most.

But...

This time, Hermione needs to make not a cloth cover, nor an ordinary dress, but a "dress" for attending a special banquet.

Hermione looked up at the suitcase on the table, and her cheeks flushed again.

"If I had known earlier, I would not have agreed, and there would not be so much trouble."

Although she said this, her body was very honest. She reached out to take the suitcase, put it on the carpet, opened it, and walked in.

From the beginning, Hermione had never thought of making a dress casually to get by, nor did she want to do that. She was not Valeria who wanted to get something from Albert, but Albert's lover, an important partner with the same status as his wife, and their feelings were never mixed with a trace of hypocrisy.

Moreover, this was also a surprise for Albert, a Christmas gift prepared by Hermione.

She took out two books recommended by Isobel from the box, one of which was "Basics of Tailoring" which introduced how to make clothes according to your body proportions, and the other was the girls' design notes.

When opening the notebook, Hermione remembered Isobel's reminder:

The design of clothes should focus on "sexiness and mystery", giving people a strong visual temptation, rather than the less fabric, the better.

Except for a few designs that were not very thoughtful, even Hermione had to admit that these designs were indeed very charming.

At least, she, a girl, couldn't help but blush when she saw them, not to mention Albert who saw the finished product.

Hermione could imagine what expression Albert would show.

No wonder they would make this thing.

However, she would be good at it.

With so many cases for her to learn from, Hermione was not worried about messing up this matter.

But the problem was that she didn't know if there was the fabric she needed in the suitcase. If not, it would be a trouble.

Hermione closed the notebook and went into the suitcase again. She found a lot of suitable fabrics in the fabric room that Isobel had taken her to. It should be said that the fabrics in it had similar tendencies, which made her feel particularly complicated.

"Come on, you will succeed." Hermione patted her cheek with her hand and began to focus on her work.

As long as you can completely let go and get rid of the psychological burden, everything will be fine.

But when Albert stopped by to visit Hermione, he found that Hermione was missing. He finally found the girl who was working hard at her desk.

There were a lot of clothing design manuscripts scattered on the ground, but there was no doubt that these could not satisfy Hermione.

"Are you okay!"

Albert stretched out his hand and all the manuscripts on the ground flew neatly into his hands.

"Why are you here?"

Hermione stood up from the table suddenly as if she had just discovered Albert. She didn't care about the armchair that was knocked over at all. She came forward and gave Albert, who was flipping through the design drawings, a big hug.

"Eat something first!" Albert patted Hermione on the back and said gently, "I'll talk about it later."

Hermione, who kept the design manuscripts secret, naturally didn't prepare dinner. Fortunately, when Albert handed the box to Hermione, there was already a lot of food stored in it.

After satisfyingly finishing the potato and vegetable pancakes that Albert had made for her, Hermione's expression suddenly became a little unnatural, because compared to Albert's cooking skills, she simply didn't dare to say that she knew how to cook.

"Are you designing clothes for the party?"

Albert also noticed the embarrassment on Hermione's face, and simply flipped through the design paper in his hand and asked, "Do you have any ideas now?"

"Sexy, mysterious, and less fabric."

At this point, Hermione suddenly became very embarrassed.

Well, she really didn't have any good ideas, otherwise she wouldn't have to learn from other people's works, so now she hasn't even completed a satisfactory design draft.

Hermione secretly looked up and observed Albert. After meeting Albert's encouraging eyes, she mustered up the courage to ask, "I originally wanted to give you a surprise, but the clothes I designed always feel weird. What kind of clothes do you think I should wear?"

"Actually, I don't mind even if you wear a swimsuit. Valeria did that last time." Albert kissed Hermione's forehead and whispered to comfort her, "I have already felt your intentions."

"Yeah, you really don't care, but that's all." Hermione reached out and hugged Albert's neck, leaning her head close to his ear and said, "But I bet you'll definitely like me better when I change into prettier clothes."

Albert looked Hermione up and down, seeing that she was a little embarrassed, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I'm just curious about what Isobel said to you." Albert felt that Hermione was also led astray by Isobel.

If her lovers were all painted in the same style, wouldn't it be very monotonous.

"Do you have any good suggestions?" Hermione continued to ask.

"Then tell me what you think."

In the end, Albert drew a limited edition Christmas suit for Hermione based on her design ideas, which combined sexiness, mystery and less fabric.

Hermione looked at Albert's design drawings, then looked at Albert, and finally couldn't help asking, "You didn't participate in all the designs in this notebook?"

"How is that possible? I don't have that much free time, and I don't specialize in this kind of thing." Albert did not participate, but some of them were indeed designed by Isobel and Katrina according to his ideas.

"But I think you know a lot, and if you don't like it, how can they make these clothes?" Hermione still looked at Albert with suspicion, and she was just short of branding Albert as a lecher.

To be honest, this is completely different from the Albert Hermione knows.

Even if she became Albert's lover, Hermione still didn't think Albert was a lecher. The relationship between them has always been...warm.

Yes, warm.

My role is more like a wife, a lover, and a girlfriend.