Still though. Hermione is being really really stupid here, to the point I'm actually hoping something happens when she's on vacation. There's being ignorant, and there's willfully making a complete ass of yourself. She's doing the latter.
she never had a friend "disappear" because someone wanted a pretty sex slave. She didn't grow up with older sisters/cousins/aunts/whatever telling her about their personal "experiences". And the school itself, from what we've seen both in canon and in this fic, hardly presents this issue to the students either (which partially explains the inflated number of muggle victims). She grew up in a world where the rule of law is (mostly) enforced and expected to apply to (mostly) everyone.
Unfortunately the only character I can see thinking of that is Snape, and he's rather busy at the moment so might not even be aware of the problem. The wizarding world characters don't consider muggles as able to tell any witch or wizard what to do, so won't think of it, and Harry is Harry.
No harem shenanigans yet, and given Abigail is actually talking directly to Harry I doubt there will be.
Does that answer your question?
Su Li's reasoning on the death ground bit was essentially that she had been caught out by Abigail's unexpected arrival and could not retreat --- that is, she could see no way to convincingly spin what Abigail had seen into something innocuous enough to avoid conflict --- therefore her only option was to double down and go for broke with the possessive girlfriend act.
But wizards will simply shrug it off as a quaint muggle thing because Dr Granger is not a wizard.
no. Why not? Why does each chapter start with 0, but arcs do not start with a 0 chapter, nor did it start with a 0 arc?
Short Answer: Because Microsoft.
The original 4.9 had a more natural division, ending after the coming confrontation between Su Li and Abigail and Harry's talk with Hermione, but it ended up nearly 20k words long. I decided to split it in half and post the first part rather than delay further.
Ah, I see.
Ah. My condolences and sympathy. I know your pain, having wrestled with Office auto-numbering before.
The silver torc is more like an engagement rather than pre-engagement by my understanding. My point was if a pre-engagement symbol exists, then Harry could give those to both Abigail and Hermione and that would alleviate the situation because it would be unlikely he was doing anything with either of them yet, but would still be obliged to defend them both.
I know that's not what Abigail wanted, however it would have been a useful solution to the situation for Harry. It would ensure that Hermione was protected without tarnishing her reputation.
Pre-engagement isn't the sort of commitment a full engagement is. The idea would be that you're considering which of these two you're going to marry. So you likely aren't sleeping with either, but you're still going to protect both of them.
