That - is an even more ridiculous idea!
"I. Will. Not. Stick. My. Head. Through. The. Veil!" Harry could see the disappointment in Hermiones face and the light of fanaticism in her eyes. Her increasingly loose grip of reality must have something to do with the disappearance of Sherlock, he thought.
"Maybe you can ask Minister Rich-Mole to do it if you promise him that there is a chest of gold waiting behind it?" Luna asked, her eyes were glued to Harry but it did not seem to prevent her from following the conversation.
"His name is Minister Moleridge and you should know his name! His scandals are providing half of the content of your newspapers." Hermiones voice gave away that she was still stressed.
"Mole-Rich, sorry you are right Hermit-ione." Luna gave back. Still her eyes were glued to Harry's lap.
"Luna, as much as I enjoy that you are looking at me adoringly, I feel compelled to tell you that I am currently unable to move any part of my body. I have absolutely zero stamina left in my body due to our extensive misuse of time-turners, pepper-up potions and way too many body modification charms for our own private amusements."
"No problem Harry, I just don't want to miss any indication of when you are ready again for another go. But I have to admit that I cannot move either - currently. On the other hand you are in a much better physical shape than me - in general I mean. So maybe we just listen to Hermimis ramblings for a while until we feel better?"
"A splendid idea my love. Hermione please continue. You wanted to push the Minister Midgetrole through the Veil?" Harry let his head role to the side so that he could see Hermione.
"MOLERIDGE! He's our boss! And no I can't push him through the Veil, he is not magically powerful enough." Hermione threw her arms into the air.
"See, Harry, I must find out what the initial purpose of the Veil was, and since the central piece of the description was hammered away to build a convenient staircase for the poor fellows who were to stand in front of it just to be murdered - I have to conduct experiments!"
"Have you tried switching it on and off again?" Luna tried to make a hand gesture towards the Veil but she was too weak to follow this Herculean effort through.
"Luna you're not funny, there is no switch."
"Yes doh!"
"No itisn't!"
"Yesitis!"
"What?" Hermione was loosing Lunas silly game again.
"No, where." Luna grinned.
"But that's what I said! There is no switch nowhere!" Even Harry noticed that Hermione's grammar was slipping.
"Yes, exactly." Luna provided sleepily and then pretended to doze off, slumping with her head exactly into Harry's lap.
"Please stop Hermione," Harry said weakly. Everything was better than his two friends getting into their meaningless bickerings again when he was too exhausted to flee the scene. "she is just having you because you had a double negative in your reply."
"Spoilsport." Lunas voice was muffled.
Hermione huffed in frustration. "Pleeeease Luna, for the sake of my mental stability! If you know something that I haven't noticed, can you pleeeease tell me?"
"There's a power up-rune on the edge of the lowest stair, it is stuck because the stair hammering idiot hammered away the upper corner of it." Luna stayed in her position but waved vaguely in the direction of the Veils rock fundament.
"You know what these runes are?" Hermiones tone indicated that she planned murder on her friend. Harry could understand her.
"Elvish runes …" Luna started snoring for real this time.
Harry could already muster the strength to raise one eyebrow when he looked at Hermione whose face had gathered an angry red shade.
"ENERVATE!" Hermione casted a spell on Luna strong enough to could have wakened the dead but it only gave Luna enough energy to cuddle herself comfortably on Harry's lap before the spell fizzled out with a small puff of pink smoke like a drop of water on a hot iron. Harry had fallen asleep as well with an moronic grin on his face.
-...-
A short time later ...
"ENERVATE!" This time Luna and Harry jumped up in the air like party balloons being hit by an overly excited pitbull.
"Coffee!" Harry shouted.
"More Sex!" Luna shouted. "And Coffee!"
"Information first!" Hermione had the two of them already immobilized with a quick follow up spell. "Luna, I will free you if you tell me where you have seen the rune and how it looks like when its complete."
Luna only glared at her friend and Harry was the first to speak coherently. "Hermione, did we sleep exactly 24 hours or why is it the same time like when we last talked?
"You are not the only one who can play with time turners. I hid you under the invisibility cloak and kept sending you back five times now until I could no longer diagnose you with mental and sexual exhaustion. Luna please, I need answers!"
"OK Hermione. This is an elvish rune, I saw it in Harry's head in a book in his mental representation of the Hogwarts library where he hides all those smutty magazines with midget porn …"
"I told you those are dwarf romance! I've read them in Gringotts when I had to wait for Ragnok to go to the birthday party of his grandchild."
"Potato Tomato! But in this memory there was a book lying on the table about elvish runes that you flipped through and when you could not find any explicit images you did put it back under that large immovable hammer that was pinned to the desk of your friend."
"But Luna, you were in Harry's head only for a minute or so. How could you read a book that Harry had only absently flipped through?" Hermiones eyes were wide.
"Harry has a good memory. Coffee, Now!" Lunas eyes were hard.
"OK OK, don't get your knickers twisted young lady!" Hermione released her. Harry had already freed himself from her spell and was stiffly walking towards the magic coffee thermos that was always present in any room Hermione spent more than a few hours in.
"Harry, can you please put that memory of the book in the pensieve." Hermione got only a grunt back from Harry, but he managed to drink her coffee and retrieve the memory at the same time. The silver memory thread dangled from his wand while he walked over to Hermiones Pensieve. On his way a butter scone levitated itself from the desk and followed Harry who just wandlessly vanished the coffee pot and grabbed the scone out of the air, all while still holding the memory on the tip of his wand. Luna and Hermione looked at each other with raised eyebrows and did not speak until Harry had lowered the memory into the Pensieve.
"Harry, you were just performing three completely different spells synchronously. Beside of Luna I have never heard of someone who could do even two spells at the same time. How did you do that?" Hermiones scientific brain could not leave another mystery alone.
"I am hungry and Luna showed me how to multi-magic when she was in my head."
"Did not!" Luna perked up from her coffee pot.
"Yes love. I had suddenly hundreds if not thousands of little Lunas poking around in my brainscape who were all really independent. So if you have an army of yourself I guessed that I could have one as well. It's only a matter of how much control you allow them before they can access your magic core."
"Are you saying that all my little Lunas in my head who are all impatiently waiting to get their turn of Harry humps currently, could now just meet with all of your little Harry's from your head and we all could put a little orgy together?" Luna licked her lips.
"Hmm, I think you are up to something there, Love." Harry took Lunas hands in his and led her to the couch. They looked at each other and suddenly both of them went cross eyed before they collapsed twitching. A little foam came out of the corners of their mouths while an expression of eternal delight gave their ecstatic faces the look of two complete morons celebrating their first epileptic seizure together.
Hermione turned away from the morbid picture of her two best friends who were apparently just now mind fucking their brains out of each other. "I guess this will take a while." She stuck her head into the pensieve to see what Harry had seen in the office of the head of the Goblin Nation.