She wouldn't have to go through this twice, at least. But just having demanded the signatures would make the point after the truth came out, if anyone ever again suspected Hermione of anything Dark. Most of them hadn't seen anything incongruent about being too nervous to sign an agreement saying that Hermione got to hold it over them for the rest of their lives if they were wrong, while acting outwardly confident that she was guilty. Not many students had signed wizards hadn't been trained to think in the put-up-or-shut-up, stick-your-neck-out-and-make-a-prediction-or-stop-pretending-to-believe-in-your-theory rules of Muggle science. He had lingered in the Ravenclaw common room long enough to collect a few signatures that might be useful to Hermione later. Harry had seen Hermione safely off to bed. You could only get to the top of the Ravenclaw tower by making that long climb without shortcuts, stone step by stone step passing beneath Harry's shoes, pushed down by his wearying legs. From the inside, the stairway seemed like a straight upward slope, though from the outside you could see that it logically had to be a spiral. Slow and hard, the long stairway that led to the peak of Ravenclaw.
The main revision starts about halfway through - search on the word "trivial" to find it. Chapter 85: Taboo Tradeoffs, Aftermath 3, Distance This chapter received a major, significiant revision on December 16th, 2012.
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