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"Hermione I know you seems to think that you know everything but I'm most certain that when you combine unicorn ha—"Ronald Weasley didn't ever finish that sentence as he was blind-sighted by a stunning curse Hermione had narrowly evaded.
Wand drawn, Hermione surveyed the attacker. It was undoubtedly a male based on their tall muscular appearance, but their face was hidden from view by a cloth and the only visible feature was their eyes. The man advanced on Hermione, he muttered a spell but Hermione was too quick and had already disarmed her opposition. She was going to hex him even more when he tackled her with a knife to her throat.
"I don't know if I should kill you now or let the others do it when they see how truly disgusting you are." The attacker spat.
Hermione on her part showed no fear, she saw an opening and grabbed the knife and jabbed it into the man, and there on the ground at the outskirts of Hogsmeade, a man died, Ron lay stunned, and Hermione killed for the first time.
Hermione lay there staring at the blood seeping through the man's shirt and realized that she hadn't thought she'd have to kill until the war, but that she was obviously wrong. She didn't know what was worse:
Excepting the fact that she had killed a man or the fact that she expected kill from the start.