giving into her instincts. She had felt forced to give up her sense of control and she had hated it.Staying in control was a necessity. Not something she could safely give up. Hermione didn’t know how to not be in control. She’d spent seven years keeping Harry and Ron alive and unexpelled and passing their classes at Hogwarts by being in control.Voluntarily not being in control felt as foreign a concept as intentionally failing her NEWTs.Very bad, life-altering, potentially deadly consequences could come from not being in control. If she wasn’t in charge and in control, she might not have had a beaded bag containing