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[This is Hermione. This is Hermione looking a tad nervous to be asking the question she's about to ask, but she's been weighing on it for some time now. Especially after what happened with the Red Room…and now knowing that everyone's staying at Camp…it wasn't something she wanted to ignore any longer.

Anyone looking at the IM will see that she's sitting out by her usual lake, occasionally casting spells to change colors of stones nearby. It's a mindless incantation that she likes to do when she's focused on something else.]

I'm sure there will be some people that might be offended by this question, but I'm curious. Who do you tend to value more, your friends or your family? [She's being careful not to look at the camera as she changes another stone from blue to pink to green. She'd had a fight with Ron about it, of course, and she still wasn't entirely sure how she felt.] Demigod siblings don't count, by the way. I mean our actual families that we live with outside of camp. I realize that they're two entirely different spectrums, but…let's pretend we had a choice this year. Which of you would return, and which of you would stay to protect them?

[And then suddenly she's giving a light smile as she moves on to her next, and last, point..] Anyway, I think I'll be in the Arena later today if anyone needs me. [And she cuts the connection.]

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[It's a talent, what can she say.]

Even the ones you haven't known very long?

[Worst talent ever.]

Yeah. What can I say -- someone's gotta protect you losers.

[She snorts. Thanks a lot, Margot.]

Thanks a lot. So what would you say to someone who felt the opposite?

Yeah, you're welcome.

[She grins a little before pausing again, thinking this over. More than anything she'd like to say that she'd go with her family because they're family, but there's only her mom and grandmother versus all her friends at camp.]

Then... That's their choice, isn't it? If that's what they'd rather do? Not my place to tell 'em what to do.

...even if it's a choice that might not make sense in the long run?

Only if you feel like it's something you gotta do.

What if the feeling's wrong though?

Then I dunno. It's wrong?

What's with all the weird questions, anyway?

It's...a really, really long story.

Well if you want to talk about it... You know where I am.

Thanks, Margot. [She pauses for a moment before she laughs, slightly forced.] It's also actually really silly. I don't know if you really want to know.

As long as it's not like, anything gross. [And by gross she means anything relationshipy. Fighting and gore? Cool. That? Noping to the moon.]

[She's known the girl long enough to pick up on that, but she shrugs.] It might be kind of gross then. I'm not entirely sure.

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