User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-7492541-20131117143551/@comment-24308873-20131118034815

In HOO majority of the villains are beaten without physical force. If anyone should be chewed out for this it's Piper. Annabeth beating Arachne was ingenious. But again you can't just ignore her skill. The previous series and this one establishes that she is a skilled fighter.