"'And,' was it?" Fred and George said, putting extra weight on the word, the teasing in their eyes practically spilling over.
They exchanged a knowing look, then grinned at Vizet.
"Looks like our description wasn't accurate enough!" Fred deliberately drawled. "It's not that he's 'welcome everywhere he goes.' There are still people who'd reject him..."
"That's not the same thing!" George immediately picked up the thread. "Staying at home means not going anywhere, so it doesn't count as 'being welcome everywhere he goes'!"
"Oh! Now I get it!" Fred said in sudden realization. "Makes sense! Perfect sense!"
Fred and George's back-and-forth made everyone burst into laughter.
"Cough, cough, cough!" Xenophilius started coughing repeatedly, then rubbed his nose and said, "Skeeter, some things don't need to be said... Hurry up and get back to the point! Stop talking about irrelevant things!"
"All right..." Rita Skeeter shrugged. "In short, Mr. Lovegood was worried something had happened to you, and since this place wasn't that far from England..."
"He simply brought all the parents along, booked plane tickets with the Granger family's help, and came over to see for himself what exactly had happened here."
"That's right!" Mrs. Weasley nodded in agreement. "Thanks to their help! Truly, thank you so much!"
"Please don't say that!" Mr. Granger said hastily. "It was no trouble at all!"
Mrs. Granger said, "We're the ones who should thank you... If you hadn't told us, I wouldn't even have known something like this had happened."
"That's about it for our side of things," Rita Skeeter said. "Next... it's time for what we're curious about. What exactly happened today?"
She opened the crocodile-skin handbag that never left her side, and a quill and parchment flew out of it, hovering to either side of her, looking fully prepared.
"I already