Starting to assume it had just been a botched job, Hermione ventured into Diagon Alley for lunch to meet with Harry and Ginny and then took a stroll to Flourish and Blotts when they had left to go back to Auror Headquarters and practice, respectively. She had taken an extra long lunch that day so she knew she could afford the detour and happily buried herself in a tome on the use of Celtic runes to trace the lineage of magical artefacts in the British Isles when a voice distracted her. 