"I hope not. I can already see the smug look on Ron's face if his efforts turn out better than mine," she said with a smile. The same one he occasionally got after he beat her at a game of chess. Which was why she hated playing with him.
"I would like to work for the Ministry," Hermione told her. "I actually have a map of sorts that I've been working on and I hope to bring that into the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at least, if not other places as well. I had a meeting with the Head of the Department until... Well, the incident at Flourish and Blotts got in the way."
On her third tomato, she nodded and asked Fleur just about the same question that she had been asked herself. "What would you do?"