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

[reparo]

[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

[rumorate]

I'm not the only one. You've kept your head pretty well.

[Allison has had a few apocalypses under her belt, but this is Hermione's first that she knows of. At least, she hopes. She's too young to have dealt with multiple apocalypses already.]

[reparo]

You think so? Because, I'll be honest. I nearly lost it during the early stages of W.A.P.

[rumorate]

But you didn't, and that's the part that matters. That's always what matters, anyway. You're scared shitless but you do it anyway.

[Granted, she was conditioned to all of this as a child.]