Diana Krum, Viktor Krum's half-sister and nearly as popular as him, moved to England in 1991 with her aunt and uncle to start her studies at Hogwarts. During her second year, she met Ginny Weasley, who told her about the crush she had on Harry Potte...
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'There's one thing missing, and that's the moment I knew'
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Snow was swirling against the icy windows once more; Christmas was approaching fast. Hagrid had already single-handedly delivered the usual twelve Christmas trees for the Great Hall; garlands of holly and tinsel had been twisted around the banisters of the stairs; everlasting candles glowed from inside the helmets of suits of armour and great bunches of mistletoe had been hung at intervals along the corridors. Large groups of boys tended to converge underneath the mistletoe bunches every time Diana went past, which caused blockages in the corridors; fortunately, however, Harry's frequent night-time wanderings (and the fact that he also had to run away from mistletoe) had helped her, and he had given her an unusually good knowledge of the castle's secret passageways, so that they were able, without too much difficulty, to navigate mistletoe-free routes between classes.
Ron, who might once have found the necessity of these detours a cause for jealousy rather than hilarity, simply roared with laughter about it all. Although Diana much preferred this new laughing, joking Ron to the moody, aggressive model that she, Harry, and Hermione had been enduring for the last few weeks, the improved Ron came at a heavy price. Firstly, Harry and Diana (as Hermione never put a foot in the common room) had to put up with the frequent presence of Lavender Brown, who seemed to regard any moment that she was not kissing Ron as a moment wasted; and secondly, the two found themselves once more the best friends of two people who seemed unlikely ever to speak to each other again.
Hermione, on her own, had adopted a passive-aggressive attitude that Diana was used to: Hermione was assertive, yes, but when it came to Ron... Being around her when she and Ron weren't on speaking terms wasn't a good idea, specially if the part you had to deal with was Hermione's, even if she was one of Diana's best friends.
"But let me tell you," had said Ginny once, after the third conversation about the whole thing they – Ginny, Hermione, and Diana – had had in their room, "he's a filthy hypocrite. He only did that because I told him he hadn't snogged anyone yet, and –"
"He's free to do whatever he wants to do," had replied Hermione. "I am not interested in his flings, girlfriends, or whatever he's got with Lavender"
But both Diana and Harry, who had talked about it during their nights at the study room, knew she was lying; she had been into Ron for years now, she had rejected Viktor for that reason, hadn't she?
But luckily for the two of them, Hermione's schedule was so full that they could only talk to her properly in the evenings, when Ron was, in any case, so tightly wrapped around Lavender that he did not notice what they were doing. Hermione refused to sit in the common room while Ron was there, so Diana and Harry generally joined her in the library, which meant that their conversations were held in whispers.
