I've had twenty years of doing this to learn. The best advice that I can give you, aside from accept that you'll make errors that end badly, is that you need to have an end goal in mind and always work towards it. Every action, every thought, they should feed into that end. And the end should be more-- [Hermione's heart is big, and that's a rarity. Something to keep in tact. But for this advice, Hermione's want to just do good, to protect, it's vague. Unattainable.] More specific, I think. Like a thesis, and everything you do is an argument for it.

[But he laughs a little at the mention of sleep.]

Hell, that'd be better than I think a lot of us are getting these days.