8.
"Luna! What are you doing here?" Ginny asked while conspicuously looking at the other boy, who seemed to be their age, but she had never seen him before.
Luna looked at her, and said matter-of-factly, "Hello Ginny. This is my cousin, Timothy AdoreFine. He and I just got kicked out of Hogwarts too, and we were sent here."
Ginny still didn't understand. "What happened?"
Luna peeked inside, and Ginny (taking the hint) let the two in, who sat down. Luna smoothed her skirt and began her story.
"Well, we were walking down the hallway,"
"Acutally, it's a corridor," interjected Timothy helpfully, finally saying something.
"Yes, that's right, a corridor, when Galfoy, Moyle, and Shrimp came in at the opposite end,"
"No, it was Malfoy, Goyle and Crabbe."
"Yep, that's right. We started to turn around, when we ran into, uh,"
"We ran into Professor Egdurg, Luna." Timothy smiled at Ginny, embarassed at his cousin's lack of memory.
"Yep, that was it. When Cralfoy,"
"Malfoy."
"Yep, Malfoy asked us if we knew where that Weasel Ginny was, and we said we didn't. Then, Professor Egdurg said that we did. And I said we didn't." Luna paused, racking her scattered brain for more.
Timothy spoke up, "Then he said that we deserved a year's detentions for our lying."
Luna sat up smiling, apparently remembering, "And I said that we didn't lie."
Timothy rolled his eyes, "Then, he asked if we were being smart, and Luna said we would never dream of doing something like that."
Here Timothy stopped to rub his eyelids, like it was painful to remember that particular part. Ginny smiled.
"And then he left, and-" Luna began, but she was cut off.
"Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle all hexed us, then they hexed themselves worse than they did to us." Timothy cut in, preventing Luna from butchering the names again.
Ginny started, "What?"
Timothy nodded, "Yep, to make it look like we were attacking them. Then Professor Edgurg came back, righted us, and expelled Luna and me."
Luna nodded, "Even though we didn't lie."
Ginny sat for a moment thinking. Then she said, "Maybe we should ask someone at Hogwarts to keep tabs on this Professor Edgurg."
All three nodded, but Timothy then asked, "But who?"
Ginny smiled somewhat evilly, "I know someone."