By the RSVP date, Hermione had sent her response to the Hutchison family.  She was vague on the number of friends, apologizing profusely in her letter that "her friends were still finalizing family plans but are very excited to come."  All together though she was likely to have six witches and wizards join her: Harry, Ron, Ginny, Luna, Lavender, and Pansy (as the witch had insisted she call her).  Others had said they would consider it, and while she could tell they were curious, she also knew how important family time was this year.  For about five minutes she had seriously considered attempting to get every Weasley sibling to go, but she decided even Jennifer didn’t deserve  that  (or maybe she did).