Hermione has always been a confident and stubborn girl.
Oh no, this sentence may be the opposite - maybe this Miss Granger is actually just a girl who stubbornly maintains her self-confidence.
There may be many so-called "geniuses" in the world, but Maka was right back then, at least he and Hermione were not one of them.
So when she encounters questions in her studies, she always goes to the library to look up information; so when she encounters various problems, she always tries her best to solve them.
So even when many of her classmates gave up comparing with Maka, she always wanted to catch up with Maka, and even looked forward to surpassing him one day.
However, what was hidden under the self-confidence that she worked so hard to build was actually a lack of security and a strong fear of failure.
Yes, just like the image of fear she revealed when she first met the Boggart, it was actually Professor McGonagall saying that she failed all the exams. What she was afraid of was the moment when the self-confidence she had worked so hard to build suddenly collapsed.
But this time, when she made a lot of preparations and followed Maka out of St. Mungo's with confidence, Herbo's appearance, the blockade of her retreat, and Luna's life finally shattered her self-confidence.
In the face of absolute strength, her preparations were of no use. On the contrary, because of her reckless confession in the past, she became the target that Haierbo intended to use to blackmail Maka.
Therefore, it turns out that Luna, who obviously has a deep affection for Maka in her heart, but always hides it in her heart without revealing her feelings, is correct.
From this point of view, she undoubtedly failed.
However, this alone would not completely cause her, who was already growing up, to completely lose her self-confidence. Because even if your confidence is broken, you can still "glue it back together" with your own faith and hard work.
But correspondingly, if a person's life is broken... can it still be "glued back together"
So in the final analysis, it was the death of Luna, who ultimately saved her life, that made her fully acknowledge her mistakes and failures for the first time in her life.
So, from the moment she realized Luna was dead, she decided to give up her useless self-proof.
Like Luna, she chose to stay in this position, looking at Maka's back from afar, silently waiting for Maka's return... and no longer attempted to advance as foolishly as before.
Unfortunately, Hermione Granger is still Hermione Granger after all. While staying by Luna's bedside, she gradually became aware of the anxiety in her heart.
As she had realized earlier, not everyone could learn Luna's kind of silent watch.
But then again, she and Luna were two completely opposite extremes. If she wanted to do what Luna did, it would be strange if she could adapt to it.
Therefore, when Hermione found that Delphi could not fall asleep tonight, she suddenly wanted to find a place to talk to him.
Yes, her initial thought was just to find someone to chat with and relieve her depression.
But when Hermione and Delphi were walking in the corridor, she suddenly thought of all the interactions and conversations between Delphi and Maka.
After thinking that the other party might have known Maka for a long time, Hermione immediately hoped to take this opportunity to learn about Maka's past from the other party.
For many people, Maka's life before entering school was obviously a blank. Even with her familiarity with Maka, she had never taken the initiative to ask about those extremely personal past events.
Who made Maka reveal that he was an orphan early? Even though he didn't seem to mind, everyone subconsciously avoided those topics from then on.
Now, Hermione finally learned a little about Maka's past from Delphi, a rare insider, and for a moment she forgot her inner anxiety.
"...Well, that's all I know about Mr. McClain's past. If you want to know more, you might as well ask him yourself!"
Hermione was getting excited when she saw Delphi stop talking, apparently having finished most of the "bedtime stories" her father had told her.
In fact, since this was what her father used to coax her to sleep when she was a child, she basically didn't hear all the stories. There was no follow-up story in the middle of the story, which made Hermione feel a little depressed.
"Really no more?"
"Unfortunately, there really aren't any more."
If Delphi remembered correctly, this was the first time Hermione had talked to herself for such a long time.
You know, when she was at Hogwarts, she gradually made friends with many people, and she often went to class with Luna and Hermione.
But probably because of her unknown identity, Hermione had never completely let down her guard against her, and each conversation rarely lasted more than three sentences. And even if they sometimes spoke a few more words, they were almost always on irrelevant topics.
But this time tonight, because of Maka, the person they care about together, the two of them unknowingly put aside all kinds of unnecessary emotions and suspicions.
To be honest, Delphi didn't have many friends since she was a child - even at the beginning of Chateau Blois, those sisters who took care of her and loved her were more like a group of elders worthy of her respect.
After that, as her father traveled around, it was naturally more difficult for her to meet anyone of the same age who could become friends.
Because of this, after coming to this initially peaceful era, the previous leisurely days at Hogwarts Castle especially made her linger.
There, she met Harry Potter, a boy who was completely different from the "hot-blooded bearded uncle" in her memory, and met "brave and handsome uncle" Nathan, who could summon the powerful Griffin Summoning God in the future, but was still so low-key. Will Longbottom.
But before that, the first person who took the initiative to come to her to make friends was the "Sleeping Beauty" she had only seen in the exclusive ward of the Resistance Headquarters - Miss Luna Lovegood.
Yes, that was exactly the person she was determined to kill after going back more than ten years in this adventure.
To be honest, after such a long period of contact with Luna, Delphi has a deep understanding of why her father is willing to be seriously injured for this woman. I'm afraid this has gone beyond the so-called love, and is a kind of "unbearable" that is difficult to let go.
Because of this soft-spoken blond girl with a pure and transparent heart, even women like her couldn't help but feel pity for her. For such an innocent and pure girl to lie in a hospital bed for the rest of her life, anyone with a conscience would probably feel heartache and uneasiness.
However, even though Delphi had been entangled, distressed, hesitant, and reluctant to give up in her heart, she still chose the latter compared to her father's safety.
It was Maka who never forgot her daughter in the crisis-ridden apocalypse; it was Maka who protected her daughter with all her heart in crisis after crisis; in such a difficult environment, she still remembered to always take time to accompany her. Her daughter's is still Maka.
So when Maka took her to Rowena's island in the sea, and when she accidentally broke into the room that Maka said not to go in and met her biological father for the first time, she never felt guilty about Voldemort from the beginning to the end. Shaken by Remnant Soul's sweet words.
If only there was a person who not only spared the enemy's child, but also treated her as his own daughter. Delphi didn't know or care what others would think. She only knew that she didn't need another father at all.
In this regard, in fact, even Maka would not think like Delphi, because after all, he is really his biological father! He would probably hesitate at least a moment.
That's why Maka felt that Delphi was indeed similar to Voldemort in some places...or, in other words, to Tom Riddle.
Of course, in addition to the series of friends mentioned just now, including Luna, Delphi also met the Hermione Granger in front of her.
In fact, she and the future "Ms. Granger" also knew each other during the war-torn era that Delphi experienced.
But compared to the current girl, the Ms. Granger in her memory was even more gentle... and paranoid.
Yes, the future Hermione does have two seemingly completely incompatible personality traits.
Most of the time, she only worked quietly in the logistics area of the resistance headquarters, and she was polite and gentle in her dealings with others. She is good at resolving curses, good at healing, good at construction planning, good at enlightening people's hearts... Among the resistance, she is as popular as Maka.
However, Delphi had heard many people mention that Ms. Granger was also quite good at fighting. Except for a few people such as his father, the bearded Potter, and Mr. Blois, he was almost as good as anyone else.
But unfortunately, she never left the resistance headquarters, and even the number of times she took action was surprisingly few. Even during the most critical moments on the front line, she just smiled and stayed at the headquarters extremely stubbornly, never going out once.
If she didn't have the popularity she accumulated in daily life and many old friends who were also the main force of the resistance to help her cover it, it might be difficult for her to continue to maintain her image in the resistance.
However, the current girl, who is about the same age as herself, may be a lot less gentle than she will be in the future, but she is also less inexplicable and paranoid.
When she was recounting her father's past, Delphi had carefully observed the Miss Granger in front of her. And what she felt from the other party, besides the depression that was slightly similar to the future, seemed to be a trace of invisible anxiety.
Suddenly, Delphi suddenly recalled the abnormality she had noticed in the ward before.
"The future... is changing?"