| Jun. 24th, 2008 @ 04:24 pm AMIEW II - Manoeuvring |
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Chapter 16 – Manoeuvring
7.2. Having collected an army and concentrated his forces, he must blend and harmonize the different elements thereof before pitching his camp.
7.3. After that comes tactical manoeuvring, than which there is nothing more difficult.
The difficulty of tactical manoeuvring consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.
(Sun Tzu, The Art of War, VII. Manoeuvring)
Hermione stood at a bend of the river in an area that was well sheltered from the cutting wind by a cluster of bushes. She stood on a ledge over a deep pool of water and looked down into its cold, clear depths. It was just what she wanted: a slight current, some roots and large pebbles on the ground. She could almost smell the salmon. Her thick coat and a warming charm kept the worst of the cold away. It wasn't exactly the best time for fishing, but she preferred to give it a try without using magic, anyway. She needed time to think, and there was hardly another activity that invited quiet meditation like fishing did. Hermione liked fishing; she had often gone fishing with her parents, back in the seemingly carefree times of summer holidays past, when her only worry had been running out of books to read before the holidays were over. Those days seemed so long ago, almost as if they had happened during a different lifetime.
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