Which is convenient, and points to the technicalities of the no deadly weapons rule as clearly as all the glass bottles of strong alcohol she gives out. A walking stick is the kind of thing any gentleman of the middle class might carry in Enjolras's day, and many of them would think little of it -- but, in the hands of a skilled bâtonniste, it's three feet of hard wood that can break a leg or a skull.
But then, anything can be a weapon, with enough skill or enough desperation behind it. There's no way to avoid handing them out. Enjolras knows this to his bones, and assumes Harry does too.
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So clearly not!
Which is convenient, and points to the technicalities of the no deadly weapons rule as clearly as all the glass bottles of strong alcohol she gives out. A walking stick is the kind of thing any gentleman of the middle class might carry in Enjolras's day, and many of them would think little of it -- but, in the hands of a skilled bâtonniste, it's three feet of hard wood that can break a leg or a skull.
But then, anything can be a weapon, with enough skill or enough desperation behind it. There's no way to avoid handing them out. Enjolras knows this to his bones, and assumes Harry does too.