So, me and my family noticed a lot of stuff wrong with the Harry Potter franchise and/or a lot of ways it could be changed to be better.
If you've noticed anything similar, please leave a comment!
It was the day that Hermione ran out of ink for her notes and subsequently asked around afer a student store that she realized there was no student store where she could restock.
She asked McGonagall, who advised her to wait for the next Hogsmeade weekend (which was two days from then) for one of the older years to fetch a few more ink pots.
She didn't have any money, was the issue. All of the students were willing to do it as long as they had monetary compensation, which was impossible for her since she didn't even have a knut left from he beginning where she bought the supplies that were supposed to have lasted her all year - a massive understatement in terms of ink. She didn't want to be one of those friends, so she didn't ask Harry for money, and she knew Ron's family wasn't well-off so he was out too. Neville, who didn't like the system either, noticed her plight and just told her to use one of the school's owls to message her parents.
It was the best idea she'd heard all week, since the owls only wanted to be repayed with food, so that Saturday, she stole from Lavener's ink pot to simply write "PLEASE SEND A PACKAGE OF BALLPOINT PENS. THE OWL MUST BE FED, BUT YOU CAN SEND HIM BACK WITH THE PENS.", tucked the note into her cloak's pocket with a bit of twine rope, and went down to breakfast. She took a bread bun from her table and some fresh rat from the dungeon corridors (because she'd seen Hedwig eat bread before, but they were birds of prey and variey was always nice), then headed for the owlry. As soon as she walked in, one of the nondescript brown owls from the high rafts flew down to land on her outstretched arm.
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The pens arrived promptly on Sunday evening. The box had some claw marks in it, which suggested the owl didn't quite know how to grip a package without twine, and a few of he pens were scratched but none were completely unusable. She gave the bird a rat she'd found at midday, because even though Hermione was well aware her mother was extremely prompt, she also knew the bird would be famished from constant flying.
Sixteen of the twenty-four pens lasted about a week, because other muggle-borns around the House had been stealing them. She'd taken to stashing the other six in her brasiere, mostly because even if the others figured out where she was keeping them and tried to get to them, she could file a paper complaining about sexual harassment, which she'd made very certain was a thing she could protest.
She was just thankful she had enough parchment to last the rest of the year.