i scanned the room and looked at my old friends and then at my new ones . `` just make sure you 're back by seven , '' i said , looking at perry . `` so , we 're here to see ginny , is that it ? '' or if you must , do it somewhere well away from me . '' even though i told myself it was just my imagination , the act of reassuring myself made me forget my reversed instructions . the ones who abandoned ship arrived first . their link had shown him that before . 