In the blink of an eye, half the holiday had passed...
Hogwarts' report cards and the various things needed for the new term had also been sent over by owl by Professor McGonagall, who had returned to Hogwarts midway through the holiday to work overtime.
The two wizarding families tacitly handed the task of taking the young wizards to Diagon Alley for supplies to Kayson, Sirius, Lupin, and Tonks, who had taken leave—three men and one woman.
After all, young people were like bricks: move them wherever they were needed.
Thus, the next day, everyone skipped the Floo Network and used Kayson's Ender teleportation to head straight to Diagon Alley.
Since Hermione was abroad with her parents, the task of buying her supplies for the new term naturally fell to Ron.
Mr. and Mrs. Weasley also wordlessly handed Ron each other's gold Galleons and told him to remember to buy Hermione a little gift.
And so, Kayson, Sirius, Lupin, and Tonks—three men and one woman—took Harry, Ron, Neville, and Ginny—the smaller three boys and one girl. Each adult watched over one child, and everything was remarkably harmonious.
The new term was unlike the years when Kayson had first arrived at Hogwarts, when they had had one bizarre professor after another. There was no difference in the supplies needed for the new term; they only had to update their textbooks.
As for Ginny... she did not even need new textbooks.
Wisely, she chose not to buy new ones and specifically asked to use Hermione's old textbooks instead.
Hermione: "I can hear her calculations all the way from France."
But there was nothing to be done. The two of them would be family in the future, after all, and it was no trouble at all for Hermione. In fact, they had agreed