No one knew whether they had noticed that Ron Weasley and the girls in Hermione's dormitory all had "connections" to one another.
First, at the Yule Ball in their fourth year, Ron had been Padma Patil's date. He had originally wanted to invite Hermione, but his "Hey, you're a girl" had been brutally rejected by her. Pomona could not imagine what Padma and Hermione, who had been made to cry by Ron, could possibly have said when they returned to the dormitory after such an unpleasant night.
Second, Ron Weasley had been "madly in love" with Lavender Brown in his sixth year. Pomona likewise could not imagine how the two had gotten along after Lavender returned to the dormitory. Oh, no, that was not right. During that time, Hermione had deliberately stayed in the library until very late. Lavender should have been asleep by the time she returned to the dormitory.
Third, Ron Weasley and Hermione had gotten married.
She had never imagined that one day, Ron would be called lucky with women.
Padma was always inseparable from her sister Parvati, even though they were not in the same House. This meant that, despite being the prettiest girls around, neither had found a boyfriend by the time they graduated. It was still the same now that they had begun working, but boys outside school were much more proactive. Both Padma and Parvati had suitors, and it was one of them who had translated for Padma the hieroglyphs on the stone sarcophagus.
It was the twenty-first century. Who would still be fascinated by a mummy from before Christ? But then again, think of Imhotep, the High Priest who played the great villain in the film...
Yet the boy translating for Padma was a typical Briton, pale as a ghost and painfully