None of them spoke as they followed Luna up the steps to the tower for they had nothing to say. They trudged along as the cold wind whipped around them. When they got to the final steps, they froze. Sure, they wanted to find Harry, but no of them thought they could bear it if Harry was nowhere to be found when they reached the top. Luna turned around to them when she realized that they had stopped.

"Come on!"

Slowly they resumed motion until they reached the top step, they kept their eyes glued to the floor reluctant to look up. Finally, they began to raise their eyes to scan the room. Now, the Astronomy Tower is fairly open at the top so there wasn't really anywhere Harry could be hiding.

"He's not here," cried Ginny.

"Maybe he has the Invisibility Cloak and he fell asleep under it?"

They started going across the Astronomy Tower, sliding their feet across the floor to make sure they covered the entire area and called out for Harry. Luna stood in the middle wearing her Spectrespecs scanning the room. Once she finished her sweep, she knew that Harry wasn't there. He had so many wrackspurts floating around his head that she surely would have seen them. She didn't say anything to Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville though because they wouldn't take her word for it even if she did. Luna waited while they covered the entire room.

"What did he even do up here? Do you know?"

"I followed him up here one time. He just sat near the edge looking up at the stars."

"Why would he be looking at the stars?"

"Honestly, Ronald, you can be so thick sometimes. You know Sirius…the brightest star in the entire sky."

"Ohhhh…that makes sense."

"Do you think he could have…fallen," asked Neville.

"We should look," Hermione stated, trying to keep her voice steady.

They all waited, but none of them moved forward to look over the edge. They looked at each other, their eyes willing someone besides them to look. Finally, one of them stepped forward. Neville glanced over the side at the stone courtyard below. It was entirely empty. He let out a breath he hadn't realized he had been holding in and stepped back.

"He's not there."

"Oh, thank god," declared Ginny.

They all breathed a sigh of relief, but they were no closer to knowing what had happened to Harry or where he could possibly be. There was one more place they could check that Harry ended up in way too frequently. They headed off towards the hospital wing.