Well, there are a couple charming young ladies who work in one of the kitchens. They've been good enough to feed scraps to the stray for the past couple meals.

Harry did leave, a little after lunch yesterday - long before they spotted Snape. And I think it was Snape, after all, from the sound of it. They described black hair, crooked teeth...he had a wand from somewhere, one of them said, but he wasn't casting verbally. And he Apparated away. Lots of chatter about it all - but nothing about where Harry had gone away to, blast it.

I did hear one of them say something about it being a pity Harry had to leave Hermione behind. I gather she's been under the weather.

Hermione, are you all right, kiddo?