  Over the following weeks Hermione and Ron had taken to trying to discover everything about Harry. This didn't mean that they didn't open up to Harry in turn. Ron opened up about how much his family loved him, despite the occasional neglection, and that their new found hatred hurt him more than he cared to say. Hermione opened up about how her parents always had time for her but the people at her school would bully her constantly, and that Harry and Ron were her first friends.