With their practical Astronomy exam the following evening, they spent their first night in weeks apart, unable to sneak off to the Room together without being caught by their classmates. Hermione had been casting particularly worried looks in their direction the entire exam, and Harry was genuinely concerned that her preoccupation with them was putting her grades at risk. He regretted, not for the first time, in confessing to her that they didn’t have the ring. She was only a child; she shouldn’t have to be worrying about such things.