Hermione was nodding her head agreeably to everything that Ernie said, but once he agreed to getting tea with her all of Hermione's other thoughts rapidly exited the forefront of her mind. She smiled brightly, barely even remembering what they had been talking about prior to this.
"We can go now. I'll just- I can leave all of the books, people don't tend to spend a lot of time up here," she said, as though it were unfathomable to her. She took a deep breath to calm the nerves that were rapidly welling up inside her. "Wonderful. Wonderful, okay. Okay. Let's go," she said, hesitating a moment, not wanting to seem too keen, but on the other hand- One of them had to move first. Hermione backed slowly towards the door of the library, moving very gradually to allow Ernie to catch up, and also because there was a part of her brain that said the longer they dragged this out the longer they'd get to spend together.