Come up with a plan. Give people something to focus on. Problem-solve. Itâs Hermioneâs way; itâs how she handles work, itâs how she handles interpersonal tensions, itâs how she handles her own various personal crises. She uncaps the pen and flips to a clean page, writing GINNYÂ at the very top in her neat, symmetrical hand.
   âItâs sort of a Muggle thing.â She finds that things like logic and asking for help with your problems seems to be a Muggle thing more often than not; magical self-reliance is interesting, but oftentimes a bit ridiculous. âFlow charts show you your different options and act as a map. So here, right at the top, weâll put the initial problem.â She writes Unexpected Pregnancy at the top center of the page. Perhaps itâs a bit clinical, but itâs direct. They can deal with the emotional part as it happens.
   âNow, there are options, here. Termination is an option. So is adoption, and so is keeping it.â She writes out all three, connecting them to the initial problem. âAnd we plot everything out from there. Pick where you want to go first, and weâll see that through to the final stages.â
Ginny leans forward to watch Hermione sketch everything out. Itâs startling and somewhat frightening to see it all laid out on the page, but better to face it head on ( and how grateful she is to not have to do it alone ).Â
âA map,â she repeats as she shakes her hair out again. âOkay.âÂ
Itâs all very clinical, which is . . . somewhat comforting? But sheâs caught between abject terror and an emotional tugging thatâs so much larger and nebulous than she can articulate. Sheâd sat in a bathroom stall for twenty minutes before leaving St. Mungoâs, not crying yet, just stunned, when suddenly sheâd gotten the uneasy idea that she wasnât alone in the empty loo. And she wasnât, in a sense. When she carefully places her palm on her belly, sheâs covering something.
Focus, she thinks, and firmly returns to the map.
âLetâs do adoption first,â she suggests. Itâs the least likely of the options, to be honest, so they can get that out of the way without too much trouble. She gives Hermione a brief flicker of a smile.