Hermione didn't know how to react.
This kind of thing, just for a Hogwarts freshman, it is a bit too difficult to accept.
This involves the greatest wizard of our time, and the most terrible "Avada gnaws the melon" of that year Voldemort did not hesitate to release a lethal curse on grindevo, and then ran towards the nearest student!
With so many hostages, he would be a fool if he stayed where he was and dueled with wadrin!
PS: forgive me... Originally, I wanted to write about the end of the duel next chapter... I don't know why it was written
I'm wrong( But it doesn't change)