Fred waggled his eyebrows. "Wizet, maybe you shouldn't use the word 'slacking off'..."
"Yeah!" George nodded in agreement. "Is the slacking off you're talking about really the same thing as the slacking off we think of?"
Fred looked at Neville and asked teasingly, "What do you think, Neville?"
"What do I think? Uh..." Neville opened his mouth, but for a moment, he could not find the words.
"See?" George shrugged. "Let me explain what Neville means—he completely agrees with us..."
"That's right!" Fred added. "Neville is voicing a silent protest against Wizet's so-called 'slacking off.'"
"N-No, it's not like that!" Neville hurriedly stammered in protest, his face flushing red.
"All right, all right!" Lupin said with a smile. "It's the weekend now. We'll soon find out whether you can actually 'slack off'... What are you planning to do this weekend?"
"Of course we're going to have some fun!" Fred and George said in unison. "You have no idea how many books we copied this week..."
"Copying books?" Sirius blinked. "Whose idea was that? It's absolutely brilliant!"
"My heart hurts!" Fred said, clutching his chest. "Can't you appreciate the pain of copying books?"
"My heart hurts too!" George clutched his chest as well. "Don't you have even a shred of sympathy?"
Everyone had their own weekend plans. Fred and George had heard that Zonko's Joke Shop had released some new products, and they planned to buy them and study them properly;
West of Hogsmeade Village, across the bridge, was an herb shop called "Magical Radish." It was said to have brought in magical plants from Africa, so Neville and Hannah planned to go take a look.
After hearing their plans, Sirius, who had just walked out of the Hog's Head Inn, stopped and put on an indignant expression as though