Curiosity is essential to survival, ( is an expansion, not a correction; elaboration upon agreement. things that cannot change die. things, and people.

she is nearly unrecognisable to the girl who was hauled weeping and unwilling up the frostbacks. )

Which is why I have a collection of marked up medical treatises, ( more ruefully, a nod to where they'd begun. (or: begun again, unbeknownst.) ) I have a little bag of tricks that I take into the field with me that are lately head healer approved, to that end, I can give you some notes on the recipes I keep it stocked with.

( it's a little release valve, maybe, for a conversation that has become heavier than either of them had probably anticipated at the beginning of it. a moment of elbow room, amidst all else: something boringly practical to think about, while the rest settles. it could be indicative of bringing the interview to a close,

but she doesn't seem to be making the moves to leave. it's just a breather, if hermione wants it. )