"Who's Greyback?" Ron asked, looking down at the latest issue of the Daily Prophet in his hands with some puzzlement.
"No idea. Why?" Harry replied offhandedly.
There was, of course, a great deal of Easter homework, but that was relative. It really was nowhere near so excessive that they had to spend every day of the entire holiday buried in homework to finish it.
In fact, with few electives and an Enchanted Quill to help them, Harry and Ron still had quite a bit of time to spare.
Hermione, on the other hand, still had a frightening amount of homework, even after dropping Divination, which required lengthy analyses of divination patterns. It forced her to leave early and return late every day, spending all her time in the Library.
Harry and Ron could sleep in a little in the morning and arrive for breakfast just before it ended. Then they could stretch lazily and read the newspaper in the dining hall before ambling over to the Library to finish the homework the Enchanted Quill could not handle.
Charms, Transfiguration, and Ancient Runes, for instance.
That morning, Ron's appetite was unusually poor-and that really was unusual. Boys his age were at their hungriest. Harry thought he already ate quite a lot, but Ron ate one and a half times as much as he did.
No wonder he was shooting up so fast. He certainly had not wasted all that food.
But even someone with an appetite like Ron's had his off days. Today, for instance, he had eaten only about as much as Harry before he no longer wanted anything.
He ate quickly, though, and Harry had not finished yet. So he sat beside him and picked up the newspaper that had just arrived, reading as he waited for Harry. Then