Gives you one up on some people, ( is dry, but seems more like an invitation to be in on the joke than one made at hermione's expense, and the truth is that she's probably not thinking first of the first things she said to hermione, oblivious to who she was talking to then and now.
there have been other grudges in the near decade she's been at this, people she gives less (what she considers) grace than just arrived, probably needs to be told; moments that felt ascribed more to callous selfishness than choosing fight instead of flight, freeze or fawn. )
Half the trick of it is that everything's still — ( a twirl of her finger in the air, ) in motion. The rebellion's not resolved, just tabled while we try not to get annihilated. The war's made for strange bedfellows which might or might not last. The world's going to look different when all's said and done, but in what way?
( a shrug. )
Everyone's got an agenda. But there's so much to catch up on to start tilting things the way you like— that's not unique to rifters, either.
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there have been other grudges in the near decade she's been at this, people she gives less (what she considers) grace than just arrived, probably needs to be told; moments that felt ascribed more to callous selfishness than choosing fight instead of flight, freeze or fawn. )
Half the trick of it is that everything's still — ( a twirl of her finger in the air, ) in motion. The rebellion's not resolved, just tabled while we try not to get annihilated. The war's made for strange bedfellows which might or might not last. The world's going to look different when all's said and done, but in what way?
( a shrug. )
Everyone's got an agenda. But there's so much to catch up on to start tilting things the way you like— that's not unique to rifters, either.
( she'd by no means arrived fully formed. )