Re: Lilu | Harry
"You make them sound like little ducklings!" She smothered a giggle, rather unsuccessfully, but it was rather appropriate. Harry was the mama duck, and where the mama duck went, so did Ron and Hermione. "But yeah, it does sound like sneaking off to avoid people is rather defeated when you tell the people you're going to avoid that you're sneaking off."
She considered that. "Both sound like equally plausible explanations." Aunt Hermione always did think that everyone around her should keep up with her brain. Not a bad thing, but could lead to some complicated situations like this one. "It'll probably be the most obvious thing when they're all together. Oh! Maybe there's an order to them and you just found like clue number twenty instead of clue number one." That would make sense, but hopefully she'd overestimated the number of clues there were.
"Of course I do. You don't know how to admit defeat, and you're definitely not going to let the one to defeat you be you."