Harry was very interested in Hermione's suggestion.
Ron was actually very interested too, but he still lacked confidence. Although Harry, Hermione, and Lavender had all assured him that he could absolutely do it, he still did not have much faith in himself.
But Harry knew how to handle this sort of situation.
"Let's get it going first. As for whether it'll work, won't we find out by giving it a try?" Harry knew Ron very well. If all you did was talk, he would always feel he could not do it. But if you actually pushed him into doing it, he would not put up much resistance.
Then, once he discovered that he actually could do it, he would start showing off.
Hermione said she would take charge of getting things started.
Over the next two weeks, Hermione's movements became secretive. Unlike before, when they could always find her in the Library, during these two weeks she was almost nowhere to be seen except in class, only returning to the Common Room when it was nearly time for bed.
Harry had no idea what she was so busy with. He even suspected she might have forgotten the suggestion she had made that night and gone back to working on that house-elf liberation movement of hers.
Besides that, quite a few things, big and small, happened at Hogwarts over those two weeks.
The Weasley family's twins were given two days of detention by Umbridge, and after returning, they spent half an hour cursing her in the most vicious terms.
Conspicuous red marks appeared on the backs of their left hands. In particular, when they returned on the second day, the words on the back of Fred's hand were clearly visible-I must not make mischief.
This made Angelina rather nervous for a