"You'd be surprised. I reckon that'll put me in fourth if you include Hermione and my brother Charlie," Ron said, and there was a time when he might've been serious about that sort of statement, but these days, he knew that wasn't the truth. Even if he did suspect his Mum liked Ginny over all of them, just for being a girl.

At Luke's comment about Hermione, though, Ron looked surprised.

"Brilliant. No, I hadn't heard," he said. Though, there was a chance she'd mentioned it and he'd been knackered from work that night, "Did you go by the Lamplight, then?"