"I’m going to take the first pail from each room. I tried to put the most likely evidence in those ones." She smiled as he reached for the pail and gestured for her to lead the way out of the room. Echoes of Ron’s voice chastising her for spending so much time studying haunted her thoughts. It had been something they had fought about often when she decided to go back to Hogwarts. Looking back now, she knew that decision was the beginning of the end of their "relationship". She had tried to balance his demands with her own expectations of herself, but in the end, it had never quite been possible.