"Of course you couldn't," Hermione replies easily. "You're a fighter. Fighters do better with both hands than they do with one. Not that a person somehow becomes less if they have one less extremity, but it's our natural inclination not to let such a thing happen to ourselves, if we can help it."

Putting her hand palm-down on the table so she doesn't have to look at it for the moment, Hermione remarks, "Perhaps learning more about all the different worlds represented by the rifters will help with that. Finding a common thread might reveal a pattern, which can only prove useful."