Tonks and Lupin go through the floo first, and the rest of them follow in twos and threes, until, with the arrival of Bill, Blaise, and Neville, who lingered as long as they could, they are all assembled. Hogsmeade is buzzing with an uncomfortable mixture of excitement and apprehension. "I think this is it," Harry says. "I think that the next twenty-four hours will decide everything."