An avalanche of conflicted emotions crashed over the older Gryffindor, and for a moment they were all visible on her face. God, if he had been the one who hurt Pritchard, Hermione  would  have thought it romantic, in a horrible way, in a  Severus  way; but that was her own character flaw, not Ginny’s. Ginny of all people should not be thinking that torturing a classmate in defence of someone else was an appropriate thing to do, never mind a  romantic  thing to do. But it hadn’t been Severus who mauled Pritchard, it had been her, and if she told Ginny in that moment she knew that the only Weasley daughter would see that as implicit permission to enact similar versions of justice. 