He played right into my hands. Once I noticed that he spent every spare minute in the Hogwarts library, I knew that I could observe him to my heart's content without arousing anybody's suspicion. After all, I am Little Miss Studious, who'd live in the library if Madam Pince let her, am I not? If Parvati and Lavender, not to mention those Slytherin cows who follow Malfoy around, were seen in the library two days running, people would take it as one of the signs announcing the iminent end of the universe. So while they laid elaborate plans to catch his eye, I had him almost all to myself, and being able to talk to him like one human being to another helped a lot, too. I pay attention to Quidditch mainly if one of my catspaws is playing, and otherwise ignore it. For him, it was a refreshing change to speak to someone who plainly didn't care that he was Big Quidditch Star Viktor Krum, and would talk about something beside Wonky-Faints. He's actually quite intelligent, which escaped everybody else's notice. Honestly---did it ever occur to anybody that English is not Viktor's native language? I'd just love to see any of them trying to speak Bulgarian!