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Working in Groups, Part II
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Aftermaths:
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 paced backward and forward in his general's office, which made a wonderful
 room for pacing, it didn't have any other uses as far as he could tell.
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How?
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How?
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Hermione shouldn't have won that battle! Not on her first try, not when
 she wasn't at all violent by her nature, automatically being a great military
 commander on top of everything else was too much even for 
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Had she read about the tactic in a military history book? But it hadn't
 been just that one tactic, she'd had her forces perfectly positioned to
 block any retreat, her troops had been better coordinated than his 
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Had Professor Quirrell broken his promise not to help her? Had he given
 her the diary of General Tacticus or something?
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Harry was missing something here, something really important, and his mind
 went around and around in circles, and he still couldn't figure it out.
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Finally Harry sighed.
 He wasn't getting anywhere on this, and he had to go learn the Breaking
 Drill Hex from Hermione or someone before the next battle 
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 Professor Quirrell had explained to Harry, his voice amused but with a
 sharp undertone of warning, that “no magical items except the ones I give
 you” included Muggle technology no matter how much that 
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 Plus Harry also needed to figure out how to bring down Mr.
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Goyle next time…
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Battles counted for a lot of Quirrell points if you were a general, and
 Harry needed to get cracking if he wanted to win Professor Quirrell's Christmas
 wish.
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In his private room at Slytherin, Draco Malfoy stared off into space, as
 though the wall in front of his desk was the most fascinating surface in
 the world.
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In retrospect it had been an obvious sort of idea as cunning plots went,
 but Granger wasn't 
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 to be cunning! She'd been too much of a Hufflepuff to use a Simple Strike
 Hex! Had Professor Quirrell been advising her despite his promise, or…
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And then Draco finally did what he should have done much earlier.
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What he should have done after the first time he met with Granger.
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What Harry Potter had 
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 him to do, 
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 him to do, and yet Harry had also warned Draco that it would take time
 to make his brain realize that the methods applied to real life, and Draco
 hadn't 
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 that until today.
 He could have avoided every single one of his mistakes if he'd just 
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Draco said out loud, “I notice that I am confused.”
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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction
 than by reality…
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Draco was confused.
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Therefore, something he believed was fiction.
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Granger should not have been able to do all that.
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Therefore, she probably hadn't.
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I promise not to help General Granger in any way that the two of you don't
 know about.
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With sudden horrified realization, Draco swept papers out of the way, hunting
 through the mess on his desk, until he found it.
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And there it was.
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Right in the list of people and equipment assigned to each of the three
 armies.
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Curse
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Draco had 
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The afternoon sunlight poured down into the office of the Sunshine Regiment,
 illuminating General Granger in her chair as though she glowed with a golden
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“How long do you think it will take Malfoy to figure it out?” said General
 Granger.
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“Not long,” said Colonel Blaise Zabini.
 “He may have already.
 How long will it take Potter to figure it out?”
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“Forever,” said General Granger, “unless Malfoy tells him, or one of his
 own soldiers realizes.
 Harry Potter just doesn't think like that.”
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“Really?” said Captain Ernie Macmillan, looking up from one of the corner
 tables where he was being crushed at chess by Captain Ron Weasley.
 (They'd brought back all the other chairs after Malfoy had left, of course.)
 “I mean it seems kind of obvious to me.
 Who would try to come up with all the ideas just by themselves?”
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“Harry,” said Hermione, at exactly the same time Zabini said, “Malfoy.”
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“Malfoy thinks he's way better than everyone else,” said Zabini.
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“And Harry… doesn't really 
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 most other people like that,” said Hermione.
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It was kind of sad, actually.
 Harry had grown up very, very alone.
 It wasn't that he went around thinking in words that only geniuses had
 a right to exist.
 It just wouldn't 
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“Anyhow,” Hermione said.
 “Captains Goldstein and Weasley, you're on duty for thinking up strategic
 ideas for our next battle.
 Captains Macmillan and Susan 
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 try to come up with some tactics we can use, also any training you think
 we should try.
 Oh, and congratulations on your marching song, Captain Goldstein, I think
 it was a big plus for 
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“What're you doing?” said Susan.
 “And Colonel Zabini?”
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Hermione stood up out of her chair, stretching.
 “I'll try to figure out what Harry Potter is thinking and Colonel Zabini
 will try to figure out what Draco Malfoy might do, and both of us will
 join you again after we come up with something.
 I'm going to walk while I think.
 Zabini, you want to come along?”
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“Yes, General,” said Zabini stiffly.
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It hadn't been meant as an order.
 Hermione sighed to herself a little.
 This was going to take some getting used to, and although Zabini's first
 idea had certainly worked, she wasn't 
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 sure that Professor Quirrell's quote mixture of positive and negative incentive
s unquote would be enough to keep the Slytherin fully on her side until
 December when traitors would be allowed for the first time…
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She still had no idea what she was going to do with Professor Quirrell's
 Christmas wish, either.
 Maybe she'd just ask Mandy if she wanted anything, when the time came around.
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