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A/N I know this fanfic sounds like the twenty so far but if you give me a chance I can assure you it will not have the same story line. So please read and review. I'll update as soon as I can.
The next morning Hermione and Ginny got ready and headed to the great hall for breakfast. As they passed Ron and Harry, Hermione gave Ron a nasty look and kept on walking.
Hermione had to find a way to a message to Pansy about having them meet in the library again. She smiled as she saw Pansy and the rest of the slytherin girls in her group. She deliberately walked in front of the group and ran into Pansy.
"Library after dinner come alone." She whispered into Pansy's ear.
Pansy slightly nodded then shoved her back. "Watch where you're going Mudblood!" And she and the other slytherins angrily shoved Hermione out of the way.
Ginny shot them a nasty look for good measure then helped Hermione up. "What was that about?" she whispered.
"I need to talk to Pansy alone tonight. I was just telling her where to meet me." Ginny nodded. "Now come on we can't be late to Magical Creatures (I think that's what it's called, you know that class with Hagrid.)"
They raced out of the castle and down to Hagrid's hut. A large portion around Hagrid's hut was gated up. Inside the gates was a giant heard of unicorns. All the girls gasped at the beauty of the pure creatures.
"today class yeh're gonna study unicorns. Beau'iful these creatures are. They are said ter be extremely shy and will only approach a few people. So I'm gonna let you all in and will try to approach them. Remember to write down yer thoughts."
The class nods and Hagrid opens up the gate to the corral. The students quickly file in and Hagrid follows and shuts the gate. Hermione stands near the side of the fences. As the students try to coax the unicorns to come to them the biggest unicorn takes an interest in Hermione and walks over.
The unicorn nudges Hermione's hand and she nervously pets it. As she continues to pet the unicorn she looks around the corral and notices that the unicorns only approached a few students, the female students but only a few if the females. She noticed that Lavender and Pavarti couldn't even get near the unicorns. What had she read about unicorns before? They only approach females. She shook her head. No that's right because Lavender and Pavarti couldn't get near them.
The unicorn nudged Hermione's head and she turned around and there he was. Standing at the top of the hill was professor Snape, his black robe blowing out behind him in the wind. Something was floating next to him. She couldn't make it out but it looked like a piece of parchment. Her eyes grew wide with realization. Unicorns only approached virgins. Hermione clapped her hand over her mouth. Snape really was collecting a list and all the teachers were in on it.
"Hermione yer alright?" Hagrid asked. Hermione looked pale white.
"Yeah I'm uh… feeling a little under the weather Hagrid. I think I should go see Madam Pomfrey." Hermione noticed the unicorn was now kneeling on the ground and nudging her leg as if it wanted her to get on. Hermione pointed to herself and the unicorn nodded.
Hermione climbed onto its back and it stood up. The unicorn swiftly jumped over the fence and ran up the hill. At the top of the hill it knelt down on the ground again and Hermione slid off.
She wearily eyed her professor, his black eyes searching her own. She felt someone prodding at her mind. Thank Merlin she taught herself occlumency during the summer. Hermione broke contact and raced back to the castle
Professor Snape had been excused for a couple days of classes that way no one would be suspicious of his movements. Dumbledore told the entire staff about the issue and they all made a vow never to say anything about it unless it was to another teacher.
Snape didn't like the idea of everyone knowing what could happen to the female students. today he was going to watch Hagrid's classes. Hagrid came up with the brilliant idea of having the students study unicorns. If the unicorns approached a student, it meant they were pure or a virgin. Brilliant, it would help him greatly. The dark lord needed a list of girl who they were going to kidnap and since Snape worked at the school it was his duty to get the list.
Snape quickly wrote down every name that a unicorn approached. He slightly smiled as the biggest unicorn walked over to Hermione Granger. He watched as the young Gryffindor tended to the unicorn, he was most surprised as she mounted the unicorn and raced up the hill. She slid of the unicorn and looked at him.
Snape frowned. She looked deathly pale. What happened to her? He looked into her eyes and whispered "legilimens" he looked into her mind and found himself staring at the open sky. Snape looked for cracks in her defenses but he found none. The girl was skilled in occlumency, great just great, when did she learn that? He wasn't going to find anything so he pulled out of her mind.
Hermione stared at him for just a second longer before she broke eye contact with him and raced back to the castle. He frowned. What did she know? What was she hiding?
He turned back and continued to watch Hagrid's class.
Hermione kept herself low for the rest of the day. Walked into the great hall and looked up at the head table. All the professors were eating but their gazes were slowly looking around the hall. She mentally pounded herself in the head. 'you fool how could you not notice it before. Some witch you are and people call you the brightest witch of your age.' She mentally shouted at herself.
She halfheartedly ate her food and headed to the library. Pansy was already there. She sat down next to Pansy and fished out one of the mirrors she finished out of her bag. She slipped it into Pansy's hand under the table.
"So we can communicate better. Ginny and I are working on more for the rest of the group." She whispered. She looked around and cast a silencing spell around them. "I found a way we can meet without the Professors getting suspicious."
Pansy looked at her with curiosity. "Really? How?"
"Professor McGonagall asked me to plan the first winter dance, not the Yule ball, and she said I could get a group together to help me and she even is giving me a room. We could use this for our meetings."
Pansy frowned. "Why are you only telling me this and not the rest of the group." She asked suspiciously.
Hermione rubbed the back of her neck. "Well Pansy I was actually wondering if I could ask you something. You see I still have to plan the dance and I was wondering if you would like to help me.
Pansy's eyes glowed with excitement. "I would love to." She looked at the mirror in her hand. "So how exactly do I communicate with you with this?"
"protean charm. It will burn if there is a message sent. Usually there is a master one but I made it so anyone could send a message. All you have to do is point your wand at it and think about what you want to send. Mind you, you are the only one that can send a message using that particular mirror."
Pansy shrugged. "Fine with me. But if you don't mind me asking could I add a little something to mine. They seem so plain."
Hermione laughed. "Of course I was getting to that. I put another charm on the mirrors you just point your wand at the mirror when its closed and think of a design and it will show up. The design will be made out of little gem stones. You can change the appearance whenever you want."
Pansy smiled. "Sweet." Pansy turned around and pulled several books out of her bag. "By the way I was looking through the books you gave us and I think I found the spell we could use to make the school wards stronger." Pansy opened up her book to her marked page and pushed the book over to Hermione.
Hermione looked down and quickly read the small texts. "I don't think so Pansy. It doesn't say it will strengthen the wards. I think it makes a second layer of wards. Look here." Hermione pointed to a row of lines.
Angel of wards:
The Angel of wards is a ward that is created by the purest of human kind, virgins. The wards are created out of the love that Virgins have for others. These wards are designed to grow stronger as the love or the power of the casters grows stronger. The wards can never be taken down once they are cast unless the original casters themselves take down the wards or if the all the original caters die. The wards will never fail not even if the original casters lose their purity or virginity.
"So we could still use this Hermione. I mean it's better for Hogwarts to have more than one ward right?"
Hermione continued to read the text. "Yeah we could but will need a lot of people to help cast this. It is a big spell."
Pansy patted her shoulder confidently. "I'm sure we can find the numbers."
Hermione looked up at Pansy. "Ok so we have a spell to protect the school. What about a spell to protect everyone in the school. The book says that the wards can never be broken but what happens if death eaters come after the students outside of school. They will need some sort of protection."
"Good point." Pansy tapped her chin. She grabbed one of her books and began flipping through the pages. "I remember reading about something like that. Let's see. No… no… no… no… ah ha here it is."
Pansy thrust the book at Hermione and she began reading.
Protection spell: safety in numbers
There are many forms of protection spells. This spell can only be cast by Virgins. This spells is very strong and will provide all sorts of protection. For example if someone tries to kidnap the people that this spell is cast on the person will immediately find themselves back at the place where the spell was originally casted. If this were to happen the spell would also transport the family of this said person to the same exact location. When this spell is cast it requires a spell circle. Any one that is in the circle while the spell is being casted will receive the protection of the spell.
"This spell is perfect. No we just have to find a way to make everyone get in the spell circle."
Pansy rolled her eyes. "It's not going to be easy Hermione seeing that there are tons of people in the school."
Hermione glared at her. "Don't you think I know that? We'll have the entire help of the GH." She turned back to the book. "Okay so now we have to spells. Next we need to find out how many people are in the group all together and split them into separate groups. They will practice the spells. I think we should administer them before the winter break. Since we heard that the dark lord will try something around Christmas and the new year."
Pansy nodded her head in understanding. "We could cast the spells at the winter ball. We could make it mandatory that everyone goes."
Hermione nods. "Yeah I'll ask Professor McGonagall about it once the room is ready. We should get going it's nearly curfew." She hands the books back to Pansy and she places them back in her bag. "I'll give you the rest of the mirrors once I'm finished with them."
Pansy nods. Hermione waves her wand and takes down the silencing spell and they both leave. Heading in separate directions.
Somewhere in another part of the castle the professors were having a later meeting.
"Remus have you found the spell that the dark lord might use to break into the school?" Albus asked the DADA professor.
Remus shakes his head. "From what Severus has told us I found a handful of dark spells the dark lord could use but I think there is one that seems like the most likely of choices. Of course as Severus has told us the dark lord is going to use virgin blood. This spell of which I am speaking of requires the blood to um" Remus shifted uncomfortably in his chair. "Requires the blood to be taken by force."
Minerva stared at him horrified. "Do you mean…"
"Rape, Torture, the works." Remus shoulders feel. "it makes the blood stronger the more they… resist." he stopped and shivered. He couldn't think of that. "The spell then requires a number of runes to be written on the wards that they want removed in the blood of the victims."
All the female professors held their hands up to their mouths in horror. "That foul monster." Minerva growled.
Albus tapped his fingers on the table in concentration. "Well we have to protect the students. we know who the dark lord will most likely go after. Severus here has provided him a list of those who are still pure… virgins. But only a small portion of the list, Severus is required to provide the dark lord with more names. We know who the virgins are and it's our top priority to protect them."
"Agreed I believe we should cancel all the Hogsmeade trips that way the death eaters can't take them." replied Professor Flitwick.
Severus shakes his head. "We can't the dark lord will become suspicious of this as will all the students they will question the sudden cancelation of the visits to Hogsmeade. We can't cancel the trips but maybe we increase to security, change the rules. More professors attend the trip and students should be required to travel in groups with at least one professor."
"I will have to agree with Severus on this one." Albus sighed. He turned to his deputy headmistress. "Minerva what do you think?"
Minerva ran her hands over her face. "I honestly don't know Albus. I think it would be safer to cancel the trips but not smarter. But if we do this than the dark lord might try to kidnap the students while they are home for the holiday. I feel better watching them during these trips. I guess I will have to go with Severus on this one as well."
"Well if we're going to do this we should definitely teach the students how to protect themselves. Maybe we could have Hermione teach them those muggle self-defense moves she learned over the summer." Remus added.
"Oh no, we are not going to have any of that Remus. I don't want students going around the school and hurting each other with these muggle self-defense moves beside Miss Granger has more than enough on her plate at the moment." Snape chided.
Most of the professors looked in his direction. "What are you two talking about?" Professor Sprout asked. "Muggle Self-defense surely magic is much more helpful."
"I would have to disagree with you on that Pomona." Albus chuckled. The twinkle in his eyes grew. "Don't you agree Severus?"
Severus growled.
Professor Sprout's eyes filled with curiosity. "What does the headmaster mean by this Severus?"
Severus grumbled and crossed his arms across his chest and slouched in his chair like a little kid pouting. "Don't even go there."
Remus laughed. "I see Severus isn't going to share so I will." Severus quickly gave him a look of hatred but didn't say anything. "You see over the summer Severus was assigned to protect Hermione for a single day. He brought her to her self-defense classes but he didn't watch. He waited outside. So when they got back to headquarters he decided to test Hermione. He doubted these muggle techniques so he sort of surprised her by grabbing her by her mouth and waist and Hermione broke his nose and gave him a black eye."
Every Professor turned and looked at Severus. He glared daggers at Remus. The room filled with laughter and Severus scowled and sank lower into his chair.
"As I said Miss Granger doesn't have the time to teach other students these techniques. As I'm sure you are all aware that Miss Granger is always too busy doing her school work, studying, helping her friends and now… I'm sure you're all aware that Miss Granger is planning out Winter Dance this year." Severus loudly said over the laughter.
Slowly the laughter died down. "So we all agree with Severus's plan?" Albus asked the rest of the staff and they all muttered their agreements. "Very well I think this meeting is finished. Remember the students mustn't know about what could happen."
The staff nods and they all get up and leave.