After Li Wei's guidance, Hermione finally understood how to change the situation of the house-elves.
As the two ate the simple food they had packed, they went to find Harry and Ron, who were in the middle of a Hero King match.
"Why are you two eating already? There's still the Halloween feast later..."
Ron Weasley, a seasoned eater, had been about to remind Li Wei and Hermione about the lavish Halloween feast later.
Then he remembered that they might miss the Halloween feast to attend Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday Party!
Why did he suddenly not want to go at all?
Thinking of all the delicious food at the Halloween feast, Ron Weasley's heart filled with regret.
Nearly Headless Nick had stopped him, Harry, and Hermione mainly because he wanted to invite Harry, the Savior, to his five-hundredth Deathday Party!
Granger and he were just extras. Nearly Headless Nick had only invited them out of politeness.
Yet Granger and he had decisively agreed because of Gryffindor curiosity!
At the thought of missing the lavish Halloween feast, Ron felt as if a poisonous dragon of regret were gnawing at his heart.
That troublemaker Granger, honestly!
Why hadn't she stopped them at a time like this? If she had refused, wouldn't Harry and he have refused too?!
"Eat something, quickly! You won't want to taste ghost food!"
Li Wei tossed over packed beef-and-vegetable sandwiches and juice. The food for Harry and Ron was merely incidental.
Even so, the two reckless little lions wolfed it down as if they had not eaten in ages.
Once they had eaten and drunk their fill, the four finally left the Great Hall under Ron's reluctant gaze and headed to the site of Nearly Headless Nick's five-hundredth Deathday Party—an old classroom that had been cleared out.
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