Mason chuckled quietly, albeit a little hesitantly; he couldn't tell if Miss Connolly was being serious or not. He decided to go with not, but considering Hogsmeade's luck over the last few years, nothing was out of the real of possible. He did think however, that they would have been told of some terrible tragedy had there been one, when they'd first reported in.

"Well with the fog now, at least magic is back up. I wonder if it made it to the school." Mason wasn't sure just how strong the Headmaster's barrier was. If the fog had indeed gotten through, his greenhouses were going to be in sore shape. That was going to take a lot of work to rectify.