Although the trip up to their conference room usually took fifteen minutes from the archives, Hermione made it in six, arriving flustered, out of breath, and lightly sweating. If it had been good news, Kingsley would have waited until their usual debrief meeting, so something must have gone wrong for him to summon them all early. Force of habit had her scanning the room for Ron and Harry, her jaw unclenching slightly when she spotted Ron in a corner. 