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“I wouldn’t bet on it,” Harry muttered back.

Harry found Luna sitting in a corner of the library that afternoon. She seemed to be reading so he waited until she looked up at him before he spoke.

“Hi Luna.”

“Hello Harry.” She gave him a small smile. “Would you like to assist me in divining the future of the Muglooof clan by reading the words in this book backwards?”

Harry didn’t know what a Muglooof was. “Not at the moment, Luna. I have to talk to you about getting an article published in your dad’s magazine.”

“What kind of article?”

Harry leaned forward to whisper, “One that the Minister of Magic doesn’t want printed in the Prophet.”

Luna’s smile broadened. “I’ll send it to him.”

When Harry returned from the library, he found Hermione working on some assignment alone in the Gryffindor common room.

“Hey, Hermione. Where’s Ron?” he asked, sitting down on the couch next to her.

“He’s off playing chess with…Dean I think.” Hermione put down her quill and turned to look at Harry. “He’s avoiding having this conversation with you.”

“What?”

“He asked me to go to Hogsmeade with him this weekend and I said yes. But he didn’t want to tell you because he didn’t want to ostracize you.”

“Ostracize?”

“Leave you out.”

“Oh, well that’s no problem.” Harry said cheerfully. “I’m doing something with—” he looked around quickly to see that no one could hear—“Draco this weekend anyway.”

“He asked you out?” Hermione looked surprised and pleased.

“I don’t know.”