"I'm sorry, then I... will go back and tidy up the observation room with Harry and the others."
"OK, all right."
Hermione, who seemed to be convinced by Lupine's call, finally turned and left after saying goodbye. Lu Ping watched the door being gently closed again. His expression, which was already slightly gloomy due to the heavy topic just mentioned, not only did not improve, but instead became even lower.
After all, Hermione's suspicion was right, something did happen on Sirius' side - although he and Maka obviously believed that with Sirius's wisdom, experience and ability, he would not lose his life at the hands of those living corpses.
But if you bump into Hai Erbo himself, the nature will be completely different.
"Padfoot...except for that bastard Wormtail, you are the most adaptable among the three of us...don't die like this!"
In the main hall of the new Ministry of Magic building, Lupine sat on a chair next to the sand table and let out a long sigh.
…
In fact, Hermione's mood at the moment was almost the same as Lupin's.
Sirius is a very good person. Even though he can be a little cold and sometimes crazy, he is actually a person who loves children very much.
Not only Harry, who had a close relationship with him and was almost treated as his own son, he also cared and loved Harry's friends very much, and everyone liked him very much.
Oh, of course, with his handsome appearance, it’s actually hard to dislike him.
However, Hermione's current worries about Sirius probably mainly come from her deep concerns about Harry, her best friend in life.
"Sirius...is he really okay?"
Even though the previous doubts had been covered up by Lu Ping's words, once the worries arose, it was not so easy to eliminate them.
"No, if I show up in the observation room in my current state, no matter how slow Harry is, he might still notice it. What's more, even if Harry doesn't notice anything, Ron's words..."
Obviously, Hermione has been watching Ron's progress over the years. In this case, she also had to take into account the fact that the other party would notice that her heart was shaking.
Hermione couldn't help but hesitate as she walked slowly down the road.
Originally, the Ministry of Magic building was not far from the new site of St. Mungo's. Unknowingly, she looked up and found that she was already there.
But after hesitating for a moment, she shook her head slightly and walked silently from the door of the hospital.
"Was that Hermione just now?"
"Uh, it seems like she... where is she going?"
As Hermione slowly passed by the main entrance of St. Mungo's, Harry and Ron, who seemed to have just come down from upstairs, couldn't help but look at each other. Perhaps due to the hesitation of the angle, although Hermione did not see the two of them, they looked at Hermione squarely.
"Just wait, I'll call her to stop—"
"Hey, don't!"
Harry was about to run over, but Ron grabbed him by the back collar of his robe, causing him to almost cough.
"Shh! Sorry sorry..."
Ron hurriedly moved away his hand, and while apologizing in a low voice, he also didn't forget to signal Harry not to make too much noise. Then he hurriedly ran up to the second floor with Harry, got to the window in the corridor and looked down.
"Do you remember? Mr. Dean just said that Hermione only hurriedly explained what happened in the observation room and left not long ago. But almost twenty minutes have passed... No matter where she is going now, what happened just now? What did she do in the past twenty minutes?"
Looking at Hermione's back walking slowly on the street, Ron's face was full of doubts while talking to Harry. After all, although he has made great progress compared to before, his mind is not yet delicate enough to be able to detect such small abnormalities from Lupine's words like Hermione.
Therefore, even when I see Hermione's hesitant back, I can somewhat realize that there may be something wrong with the other person, but I still don't immediately think of Sirius.
Needless to say, Harry, who was standing next to him with a puzzled expression, was even more confused.
"Ron, what's wrong? Why are we lying here looking at Hermione... Since you care about where she went just now, why don't you go and ask her directly?"
"Um?"
When Ron heard this, he looked at Harry helplessly and said:
"It's okay to ask... But, do you think she will answer us?"
"Uh," Harry was stunned for a moment, thought to himself for a while, and finally shook his head and said, "It seems... no."
"right?"
Ron shrugged, and then turned to look over again - no matter how slowly Hermione walked, she would be almost out of their sight at this moment, which made Ron couldn't help but move closer. Even half of his face was pressed against the window glass.
After he couldn't see the other party at all, he stood up straight again and pondered for a while alone.
Perhaps because he was too focused on his thoughts, he didn't even notice the red mark on his face caused by pressing against the glass just now.
After a moment, he frowned and patted Harry on the shoulder, nodded and said:
"But I have to say, it would be better to go over and ask directly!"
It was obvious that Hermione was feeling worried, but she couldn't figure out the reason. Ron, who was worried about Hermione and felt helpless at the same time, finally agreed with Harry's statement.
And after saying this, he greeted Harry and ran downstairs again.
Not long after, Ron and Harry, who had chased all the way out of the hospital gate, were running very fast on the road - because the roads in Spiral Town were very complicated, they would easily get sidetracked if Hermione got too far away.
Fortunately, Hermione was not walking very fast. As soon as she turned an intersection, the two of them immediately saw the former's back again.
Maybe it was because he was closer, but this time, even as slow as Harry, he could already feel something strange from Hermione's back.
"wait wait wait-"
This time, it was Harry, who had just proposed to inquire directly, who stopped Ron, and then hurriedly dragged Ron and hid behind a fence on the side of the road.
Since most of the street shops in Spiral Town are not yet in use, even this fence has not been decorated with plants or other decorations, so the two of them hiding behind them felt a bit like hiding their ears.
Fortunately, Hermione was now fully focused on thinking about Lupine's previous words and had no intention of looking back. This prevented the two big boys who were hiding randomly from being exposed immediately.
But who knew that at this moment, another familiar figure walked briskly towards Hermione from the other end of the street.