"Well," Hermione began in a distracted way, her eyes still going from title to title, hand hovering over the tomes, "after you brought me back to the Ministry I was able to find the children. By the time I got there the Order had begun appearing. It was a confusing scene. Harry and the others insisted the place had been crawling with Death Eaters, but there were none to be found. Eventually the Order members wrangled all of us and got us back to Hogwarts without anyone in the Ministry being the wiser. Harry kept hold of the orb, but I believe he gave it to Dumbledore for safekeeping."