In the meantime, Pius Thicknesse and his comrades-in-opinion grew less content to simply make her aware of their ire. Sometimes they stooped to truly childish measures, such that Luna had endured from this House decades in the future. Hermione’s effects often found themselves in inconvenient places, or sometimes missing altogether. She knew better than to give them the satisfaction of tearing around looking for things, and Vici was invaluable in recovering those items which she could not reasonably do without.