Complicated was, Verity supposed, a pretty good description. How did you protect someone in their dreams? "So, Anthony beats up Sally in his dream? She won't admit it, maybe because it sounds nuts? He freaks out because he's had a violent dream and wakes up bloody?" If you believed what the Ravenclaws were saying, it made a weird kind of sense.
Then suddenly, no longer abstracted, she looked up. "If could be any of us, couldn't it? Next, I mean."