Hermione parts her lips, but closes them again, glancing over in Kate's direction. There's a sharp difference between being a police officer and simply someone caught in the fray, she thinks now, and it's only the fact that Danny's training Kate to be the former that stays Hermione's tongue. Because no matter how true it may be that keeping to Danny's limitations could have potentially kept them from winning the war when they did back home, Kate isn't training to be the girl who fulfills a prophecy.

And a job on the police force really ought come with some amount of structure.

Pressing her lips together, she nods instead, chewing on her lower lip. "Understood," she reassures Danny, stifling the desire to ask if he's ever broken away from that rule before. Or if he ever would.