harry potter book of crimes

"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 me too."

Luna, who bumped into Hermione on the street, was in a particularly good mood for some reason and started chatting with Hermione quite excitedly.

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, and no one can hide there. But who knows, Harry and Ron are hiding behind it in a hurry.

Suddenly, Luna, who had been talking non-stop just now, subconsciously paused.

"What's wrong?"

Hermione felt that what she heard was a little unexpected, and was about to turn around and take a look. But at this moment, Luna suddenly raised her hands as if she had 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 at. Perhaps because she had just passed through the St. Mungo's Gate but did not go in, after Luna asked, she actually felt a little

hesitate.

Of course, it was definitely 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 it didn't feel strange 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 cleaning of 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 her. They were still working hard in the observation room, and Neville was the only one left!

"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, didn't 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"

He could be seen pushing the confused Harry inside while vigorously shaking his head and waving his hands and mouthing at Luna, trying to get her to cooperate and ignore their existence.

Unfortunately, after seeing how hard he waved his hand, Luna seemed to think that Ron was greeting her, so she waved to Ron happily.

"Hermione," she said rather cheerfully, "let's go find Ron! Oh, and Harry..."

At the same time, 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 complaining about him, Luna obviously misunderstood his intentions. However, just when Ron felt like giving up, Luna also pulled Hermione over to the two boys.

When they were there, they didn't expect that Luna, who had just hooked up the latter's arms, could not drag him.

"No, wait a moment, I can't go 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, she happened to hear Hermione's words.

Ron was stunned for a moment.

Yes, this sentence alone proved that his previous observations and guesses were correct. Right now, Hermione did 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, ninety-nine times 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 when 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 to Ron and Harry again.

I didn't feel anything wrong with Hermione's final compromise in 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 shall we continue 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 me."

…

While Ron and Harry were awkwardly following Hermione and Luna, hiding here and there for no reason, Neville, who had long been forgotten by them, was in the new St. Mungo's Hospital.

The ground floor of the building was busy.

Before Harry and Ron left there and ran to find Hermione, they had actually cleaned two rooms. After they left, Neville went to the warehouse alone and picked out everything he needed.

Then he waved his magic wand and carried 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 room that he had tidied up, thinking about what special things he needed in the so-called "observation room".

After all, this thing didn't exist when it was at the old St. Mungo's. 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."