"Oh, if you're shocked by that then you will not even believe what I'm going to say once I get before the Ministry," she says, smiling so wickedly, already plotting the things she wants to do, the things she's going to say to them about the Weasley family. At least two of them. She is going to ruin them, and hopes the good members of their family come out on top.

They'll make sure of that as well.

"I don't, and I know that we're in that together as well. We have a fight before us, and we know we can handle it, and there's things we'll be able to fix. We have the freedom now to do that."

Hermione cups Harry's face, leaning in and kissing him tenderly as if she's just learned this amazing new thing in life and she can't help herself.

"I guess we should probably sleep off all this alcohol," she says, her fingers still stroking ovre his cheek.