"Hermione! So you are here... When I came here just now, I noticed that you and Harry were gone. I asked Ginny and I didn't know where you were... were you taking a walk? Or I-"
Luna, who bumped into Hermione on the street, was in a particularly good mood for some reason, and started chatting with Hermione quite excitedly as soon as she got there.
But as she spoke, her eyes inadvertently passed over a certain fence behind Hermione...
To be honest, there are holes from top to bottom there, no matter how you look at it, you can't hide anyone. But who knew that Harry and Ron were hiding behind them in a hurry.
Suddenly, Luna, who had been talking non-stop just now, paused subconsciously.
"What's wrong?"
Hermione felt that what she heard was a little abrupt, and was about to turn around to take a look. But at this moment, Luna suddenly raised her hands as if she thought of something, and patted them in front of her.
"Ah! Hermione, are you playing hide-and-seek with Harry and the others?"
"What?"
Hermione was immediately confused by Luna's question, and instantly forgot what she wanted to look back on. And perhaps because she had just passed through the St. Mungo's gate but did not go in, she actually felt a little hesitant after Luna asked.
Of course, that was certainly not hesitating about the topic of hide and seek. After all, these words suddenly came out of Luna's mouth. She had long been accustomed to the other party's jumping thinking that was completely out of tune, so she didn't feel surprised at all.
She just suddenly felt that in order to prevent Harry and the others from noticing her doubts, she chose to avoid it temporarily and left all the matters of organizing the observation room to the three of them. Wasn't this not good
But Hermione didn't know that the two guys who were secretly following her were far less thoughtful than she was - Neville was the only one left working in the observation room at this moment!
"Huh?" Luna looked at Hermione's dazed look and couldn't help but tilted her head and said, "Aren't you playing hide-and-seek? Then what are they doing?"
As Luna was talking, she naturally took a step forward, apparently wanting to walk directly towards the fence.
Hermione, who was trying to adjust her mood so that she could return to a normal state as soon as possible and go back earlier, did not pay too much attention to Luna in front of her this time.
But although Hermione didn't notice Luna's movements, Ron, who was huddled behind the fence on the other side, was very concerned.
"No! Don't—"
As he pushed the confused Harry inside, he shook his head and waved his hands and mouthed at Luna, trying to get her to cooperate and ignore their existence.
Unfortunately, after seeing how hard he waved, Luna seemed to think Ron was greeting her, and she waved happily towards Ron.
"Hermione," she said rather cheerfully, "let's go find Ron! Oh, and Harry..."
Meanwhile, on the other side.
"Ah! As expected of Luna—"
Ron sighed with a grimace, and then muttered in a low voice:
"In Maka's words - I feel like a big fool now!"
However, not to mention Ron who suddenly started to complain about him, Luna obviously misunderstood his intentions. However, just when Ron felt like giving up and Luna was about to pull Hermione over to the two boys, he didn't expect that Luna, who had just hooked up the latter's arms, could not drag the other boy.
"No, wait a moment, I can't go over to Harry's side right now."
The "over there" in Hermione's mouth was obviously very different from what Luna imagined. However, compared to Luna, who should have been a little confused, but actually was not at all, Ron, who happened to hear Hermione's words, was stunned.
Yes, this sentence alone proved that his previous observations and guesses were correct. At the moment, Hermione does have some troubles and concerns in her heart, and they should be directed at these boys.
And looking at Hermione like that, if he and Harry went up and asked directly, 90% of the time they wouldn't be able to find out anything - didn't you see that Hermione was not even willing to go back to St. Mungo's in order to hide her emotions
Now, not only did Ron become more concerned, but even the slow Harry scratched the fence and fell into deep thought.
Just as Ron and the others were lost in thought, Hermione, who didn't move along with Luna's movements, suddenly pursed her lips and shook her head.
Then, she saw that she pulled Luna's arm and said:
"Well... I just talked about taking a walk, and I suddenly wanted to take a few steps... Luna, can you accompany me?"
"OK?"
Luna turned her head, looked at Hermione's profile and blinked.
"But... aren't you going to find Harry and Ron?"
"No, we won't go for now," Hermione said, dragging Luna's arm and walking forward, "Let's take a walk first and then go there later."
"Oh!" Luna did not refuse, but still nodded happily, "You are really playing hide and seek, right?"
"Uh... well, yes."
While she was talking to Hermione, she still did not turn around immediately, but just walked backwards and waved her hand again towards Ron and Harry.
I didn't feel anything wrong with Hermione's compromise in finally admitting to hide and seek.
But Ron, who also heard those words, smiled even more bitterly.
"They... just left like that?"
"yes!"
While Ron answered Harry feebly, he even kept a subtle smile on his face and shook his palm slightly stiffly at Luna, who was still waving to him.
"Then do we still want to follow?"
"Of course I'm going to follow! Why not?" Ron said angrily, "Luna saw it anyway!"
"that's true… "
Harry leaned against the wall and said with confusion on his face:
"Speaking of which... what is Hermione worried about? Why can't we know?"
"Are you asking me?" Ron, who was thinking about how to follow next, said casually, "You are asking me, who should I ask? Stop guessing and follow -"
…
Just as Ron and Harry were following Hermione and Luna rather awkwardly, hiding here and there for no reason, Neville, who had long been forgotten by the two, was in the new St. Mungo's Hospital. The ground floor of the building was busy.
Harry and Ron had actually cleaned two rooms before leaving there and running to find Hermione. After they left, Neville went to the warehouse alone, picked out all the things he needed, and then waved his wand and moved them into the room in batches.
At this moment, he had just arranged the hospital bed, medicine cabinet, sheets, quilts, etc., and was looking at the newly tidied room by himself, thinking about what special things he needed in the so-called "observation room".
After all, this thing didn't exist at the old St. Mungo's site. Even though he had helped a lot at St. Mungo's, he didn't quite know what it should be like.
"Ah... If only Hermione were here, she would definitely know."