Harry Potter (movies)
When Hermoine breaks she snaps; crumbling is easy, crumbling is for people who don’t try hard enough. They give up, give in and let themselves fall away.
Hermoine snaps, sharp and hard and fierce. Snapping takes effort, it takes energy and passion – pieces of her can break off and fly away in the process.
As a consequence there is the potential for injury; pieces of anger, determination, even love will be launched on precisely calculated trajectories as the weeks, months, years of effort finally break her into sharp pieces.
While everything around her crumbles Hermoine holds fast until she snaps.