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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Leave me out of your flirtations, both of you.

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This is quarrel.

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I'm not sure there's always a difference, now that it's mentioned...

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Persist, and she will falsely think she must wed with whomever she quarrels.

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Why? By that logic, you'd be married to a different man, ah?

( who... argued even more with Wangji, is all he's saying )

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One demure.

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( here he just... chuckles. then laughs. he's still laughing... )

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I could have taken a reserved, soft-spoken spouse.

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( he's still laughing, starting to gasp for air. )

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I could have been a patient, sedate husband.

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( he's still laughing, only now he sounds like he's also crying??? )

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You are wretched.

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( wheezing, broken by pieces of laughter, he finally manages words: )

With all my heart and affection, you and I both know you were never going to be a sedate spouse.

[downswing]

For the right counterpart.

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Yeah, how many sedate persons were you attracted to?

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One fewer than those who were not sedate.

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See, you were always meant for chaos.

Or at least not simple quiet stay at home spousery.

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Your audacity.

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I really am learning a lot about the flirting methods of old clans.

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No flirtation.

Hermione. Take example. Do not wed a shameless person.

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In my albeit limited experience, it feels like the combination works. And, given that I'm the presumed rules stickler here, it would stand go reason that I find someone very shameless to match with.

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Have you learned nothing?

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I leave here full of lessons. [Cheeky, but proper, bow.]

Thank you.

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...no need.

[weifinder]

( just a sound of muffled amusement from this man, over all this )