"Hermione is here?" he blurts out quickly, not hiding his enthusiasm. If Hermione is here, then that's good. He does note that she seems to imply that it's more than just Luna and Hermione. "Luna, too. Wow." And before him, even—that part doesn't escape him, even if he knows they're just as deserving and willing to help out in something like this.

His enthusiasm does subside almost immediately, though. Logic comes in the moment he starts to piece it together, because ... logic tells him that as far as he knows, Hermione is back home. Very much back home, even. Luna is the same, though she's harder to account for.

"But ... they can't be," he says finally. He had been following, but he stops, shaking his head. "You must be mistaken."