"It's only another week or so."

[cheyinka]

Are we really that close to the end of term? Two more weeks? The context to the subject line is Hermione telling Evelyn to just keep the portkey until the end of term, which on the one hand makes me really nervous (the end of term is usually extra-exciting, and this year it seems like we need to have Minerva (or, one supposes, Albus) be killed by someone, which should be extra excitement), and on the other hand makes me really, really nervous (since when has "oh it's only [short length of time], it'll be fine" gone well for anyone?).

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[annia]

I'm also in the Worrying-About-Hermione Club.

Really hoping Alice will tell her to take it back but I doubt it.

[cheyinka]

They were okay with her lending it to the folks going into the Forbidden Forest, even though there was a chance that a) they might use it and then she wouldn't have it anymore or b) she might need it while they were in the Forest. So I don't think anybody's going to tell her to take it back, unless they say "look, bad things always happen at the end of term, keep it with you until school starts again in" or something.

(I'm not sure whether I expect a bunch of people to get portkeyed out during this year's End of Term Catastrophe, or whether I expect the EoTC this year to be especially nail-bitery because some of it could have been avoided with the portkey. I'm leaning towards the first, only because portkeys are tracked, so someone using "Ellie's" portkey from Hogwarts is going to draw a lot of attention, and more attention = more excitement for the players (and us readers, of course))

[stinaleigh]

Sirius told her to take it back...and figured out Draco's "secret".