"Ron," Hermione took her time telling him this. She didn't want him blowing up at her, leaving in a flurry of hacked-off excitement, but it was something she had to say. Instead of looking at him as she spoke, her gaze focused just behind his left ear, on the curtain that surrounded them. "I'm not in care of magical creatures." So he didn't even notice when she wasn't there? Wasn't that splendid?