video; man's greatest treasure (after the blood rains stop)

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[The video isn't accidental this time, and focuses on Hermione - her face rosy-cheeked and smiling, actually smiling.


To the observant eye, one can tell she's in the old, dilapidated house that some people used during the final battle in Hatthevar as a sort of refuge. (It's the Macarena house.)]

Friends - ah, I've been thinking all day what I'd say to us all after a battle as final and difficult and hard as this one. I didn't get to say this to my friends back home, I didn't get the chance to say this to Harry, but...here goes.

Well done. You did your best, and you somehow saved the day. Look at this place. Look at this world! I know the beacons are being repaired, so it's still sometime before we leave but I think we could say we're leaving it better than we found it?

[Like it's hard. She lets out a tiny laugh.]

Also, I think - and I'm not taking any feedback on this - that I've earned myself this.

[The view focuses on the floor, where she is sitting currently, and specifically on a half-empty bottle of wine. Hermione gone wild.]

Comments

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Well, that's a bloody good thing, since I'm having both.

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Alongside...?

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Yes. One must drink water and stay hydrated whilst one drinks alcohol, to limit the risk of a hangover.

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How did the alcohol come to be?

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Well, I believe it all starts with the harvest of grapes - lots of them, which go through a process called fermentation, which basically turns them into wine. Give or take a few steps - this one os red wine, so technically the grapes are mashed to a pulp first, and then left to ferment in a barrel.

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Hermione. ( Heavens help him. ) From where did you procure your drink?

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Ah. [You did ask. Grin grin.] Remember the train.

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...the weddings. Yes.

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Technically the wine comes from my bag, but also I may have liberated a few bottles when the waiters weren't looking.

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You often... liberate. A habit.

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Ah, yes. I started rather young on it, too. Liberated a man from a sure death in my third year. That was good. The flying not so much.

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In your infancy?

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No, sorry - my school third year. I was fourteen.

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...not so different.

You have entertained drink before?

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...am I going to get detention if I say yes?

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Then you may navigate this safely?

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Some mistakes, you just have to let your children make.

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Where are you located?

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Macarena house. I'm fixing it up!

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Whilst inebriated.

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No, I'm not irresponsible. Whilst sober. I just decided to take a break.

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For drink.

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Very much pointing the obvious, sir.

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Repetition seeks to politely unveil foolishness the architect may wish to correct.

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Lan Wangji - Lan Wangji.