She found Lucio with Pansy, as she helped him get ready for bed. He ran to her and hugged her, accidentally smearing toothpaste on her skirt. Hermione laughed, and bent down to kiss the top of his head. The smell of the toothpaste and the sound of his childish little laugh struck her, and she flashed back to when she'd been a child, and her mother and father had let her study their orthodontic props from their offices. Her father had made the model of the human jaws speak to her and lecture about the importance of proper oral hygiene, and she'd found it so unexpectedly silly that she couldn't help but laugh until there were tears in her eyes.