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[alt_hermione]

Where are you lot in the story?

Do you think you'll finish in time? You've only got three hours until Astronomy. Harry showed me the place where you stopped last time; I think you've got a ways to go, still.

But I don't want to guess where you are and spoil something.


It's too bad I can't be there with you but I suppose it's useful to be on guard duty.

It's just rather boring.

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[alt_hermione]

Well.

She sort of reminded me of you, sometimes.

[alt_sally_anne]

What? She's NOTHING like me! When have I ever been as nasty to anyone as Charybdis is to Efrain? Who didn't COMPLETELY deserve it

Well, maybe a little.

[alt_hermione]

I mean, in the way she always thinks she knows the answer, and she's not afraid of speaking her mind, and she comes up with clever ideas but sometimes she doesn't say them in a way that makes people listen.

But at heart she was a good person, and she was only trying to help. That's what I mean when I say I want to go back and examine her actions in Pure Power.

Have they--Where are they now?

[alt_evelyn]

The cave. It's awful.

[alt_hermione]

Yes, it's really, really suspenseful.

You're going to be there for a while, though.

(That's one of the times I did wish she would speed things up, but you can't skip ahead because that's what makes that sequence so effective. I'm not going to tell you what happens next but just wait!)

[alt_evelyn]

Oh, Hermione.

There's got to be a trick. There just has to be. He's so clever, and he's fooled everyone before, he's just got to be all right.

[alt_hermione]

You're on page 711?

It's not a trick. I'm sorry.

I had to put the book down and cry for a bit

[alt_sally_anne]

WHAT? NO!!

I don't care if he died heroically and 'wouldn't have wanted us to waste this' and all that rot CUCULLAIN WAS MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER!