"Luna, are you back?"
Luna, who left Neville alone to think about things, ran all the way upstairs happily, and then found her in the room, who were looking through Maka's pile of charms together by the window. Profile of Ginny and Hannah.
Although everyone did not participate in the study tour due to some reasons, they are still students after all. Nowadays, when the level of magic is far from enough, they also hope to help everyone more through hard study.
Well, in fact, it can also be said that it is to add some self-protection capabilities to avoid adding too much burden to Maka and the others.
At this moment, hearing Luna's undisguised footsteps, the two girls, who were actively fighting for their own growth, immediately raised their heads and looked at the door.
"I remember you said you were going to find Hermione, right?" Ginny put the thick pile of information in her hands on her knees, looked at Luna and asked casually, "Have you found Hermione and the others?"
Luna heard this and nodded immediately.
"Found it!" When she mentioned what had just happened, she immediately became excited again and said happily, "When I met Hermione, I found the three of them playing hide and seek... Unfortunately, they only played once and then didn't want to play anymore. Oh, I waited for so long and I didn’t get my turn..."
Although she said it was a pity, looking at her expression, there was no regret at all, but rather a look of excitement.
And after all, Hannah is the best sister in school with Luna! Just seeing the vague lingering meaning in Luna's expression, she immediately realized that Luna's next words might be to invite the two of them to play hide-and-seek together.
However, Hannah obviously wanted to continue studying with Ginny more than playing hide and seek.
After listening to Luna's words, she was about to ask Luna to join her and Ginny's "study group"...
Suddenly, there was the sound of the door being opened downstairs.
"Who's back again?"
Even if he couldn't invite Luna to study together in turn, at least he wouldn't have to spend a lot of time playing hide-and-seek with Luna.
Therefore, Hannah stood up happily with Ginny, planning to go downstairs to see who came back at such a "good" time.
And to be honest, the sound of opening the door just now seemed a bit too loud, which made them all feel a little confused.
"Come on, Luna—let's go check it out!"
But when the three girls were about to run to the first floor in a hurry, they bumped into Ron on the stairs, who was also running towards the second floor quickly.
"Oh! Are you all down? Just in time... Maka just gave us a very important task. At this moment, Harry and Hermione are already over there. They asked me to come back and find another person to help!"
As soon as Ron saw them all coming down from the second floor, he immediately told the purpose of his return on the stairs. After he finished talking about asking someone to help him, he specifically added:
"By the way, just ladies—because the two survivors we need to take care of are both women, and for men, as long as Harry is there, that's enough!"
"how about you?"
When Ginny heard this, she immediately gave him a compliment out of habit.
"Oh," Ron shrugged, "Actually, we were punished to do things there... Although I don't think I can help much, but since it is Maka's punishment, I can only do my best. Just the little things we can do.”
"You can tell the fact that you are useless so openly, you have grown up too!"
Ginny glanced at her brother from above with disdain. Seeing that Ron was shamelessly pretending not to hear, as if he had been used to it for a long time, she could only curl her lips and give up and continue talking about him.
Although, Ginny actually knew very well that Ron had worked hard enough... and, just like the second half of what she just said, Ron had indeed made amazing growth recently due to chance.
While Ginny was bickering with Ron on a daily basis, Luna standing aside suddenly spoke.
"Only girls? Oh..." She nodded as if she understood something, "No wonder you just ran up to Neville without paying attention -"
"Neville?"
When Ron heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then said with a slight doubt:
"Is Neville downstairs? I didn't see him?"
"Well?"
Luna tilted her head, then showed an expression even more confused than Ron's.
"Isn't he eating breakfast at the table? When I came up, he didn't eat much! Did he finish it so quickly?"
Just as she said this, she suddenly gently scratched her long golden hair, and then suddenly said as if she remembered something:
"Ah! Just now... He seemed to be worried about something... Well, speaking of it, no wonder he ate so slowly and stuffed his mouth full of dry bread."
After hearing Luna's description, Hannah, who looked relaxed just now, finally couldn't help it anymore, passed Ron first, and hurried downstairs.
Even though she didn't know anything yet, she became worried when she heard that her boyfriend didn't seem to be in a good mood.
"Hey! Hannah—"
When Ginny saw this, she subconsciously shouted, but it didn't make the other party stop.
On the other side, Ron actually didn't think of anything immediately after hearing what Luna said.
After all, there doesn't seem to be anything particularly worrying about "Neville is not on the first floor" - maybe he is taking breakfast to the garden behind the house to eat
However, Hannah's eager actions and Luna's speculation that "Neville seemed to be worried" reminded him of the accident that Neville had let slip.
When he thought of this, he still didn't worry too much about Neville's condition, but he became curious again about "what secrets did Maka tell Neville?"
However, after that, not only Hannah, but four other people, including Ron, also looked for Neville upstairs and downstairs, inside and outside the house.
But after more than ten minutes, the five people who moved together did not even see Neville's shadow.
When they gathered again in the living room downstairs, Hannah, who was already anxious, was completely uneasy.
"Don't worry, Neville may have gone to the town to find something to do - just like Fred and George and the others," Ginny comforted her carefully, "We also plan to go to St. Mary's after studying for a while. Ge, see if there is anything you can do to help?"
"… Um."
Knowing that Ginny was trying to comfort her, Hannah smiled at her slightly reluctantly. But that dry smile only reminded Luna of the bread in Neville's mouth earlier.
"Anyway, let's go look outside! Let's go together."
Ginny couldn't help but said this as she looked at the crumbs falling everywhere on the dining table.