Re: Meanwhile, in the Hufflepuff 7th Year Girls Dormitory...
Hannah was no longer quite so sure that this whole pack away Alecto Carrow's office in the middle of the night plan was such a good idea. Initially, she admitted she had been mildly in support of the idea. Though it was rather rash and impulsive, to be honest she just wanted to lash out against the hurt that that woman had inflicted.
Hannah's initial reaction had largely been anxiety for the boys, but upon seeing that they were alright, or at least as well as they could be given the circumstances, that anxiety had quickly been replaced by a slow simmering rage and a desire for revenge. However, it was at this point, getting on two weeks after those dreadful events that these feelings had subsided and really, all Hannah wanted was for everyone to be safe. And if in the meantime that meant keeping their heads down for a while, then so be it. She didn't want them to be thought pushovers by the Carrows, but by the same token, they likely didn't want to attract too much of their attention either.
She doubted things were going to drastically improve anytime soon, as much as she wanted to look at things from a glass half full perspective. There was no doubt in her mind that the look on Carrow's face the next day would be completely and utterly brilliant, but at what price? Could they honestly afford the possibility of the Carrows' retribution? Especially when they had been so incredibly harsh already.
It wasn't that Hannah didn't have faith in Ginny's ability to pull something like this off, but she was worried for everyone. The people who were going out tonight, the people who might somehow through some twisted kind of logic get blamed, the innocent bystanders who might be hurt.
She thought pensively about all of this as she sat up in bed, still looking at the book on Mimbulus Mimbletonia that she had borrowed from the library the previous week.
"Good. It has to be good. They'll be fine. They know what they're doing. It probably just means they're being extra-careful."
Hannah was painfully aware that everything she had just said sounded desperately unconvincing and that she was saying it out loud in an attempt to convince herself as much as she was to calm Susan.