[If she'd known him better, Hermione would have answered Bruce's comment with little more than a Look, because he knows that she knows that neither of them really believe that. But they're beating a dead horse, and there's only so much false optimism she can rightfully handle, anyway.]

That doesn't mean the war should go on until people open their eyes. I've learned from experience that some people would rather fight to keep their blindfolds on than see precisely what's in front of them.

[Minister Fudge, for instance, and much of the Ministry of Magic before Voldemort had revealed himself. But politics has never been her favorite subject, so she lets that much go with a small, hapless shrug.]

I just hope that whatever part I and the other rifters have to play in all this doesn't act as a detriment to the people who really will have to live out their lives in Thedas.