Hogwarts Year 3
Chapter 9
Within a few days everything and everyone settled down and got back to "normal". The young girls hadn't even been old enough to attend Hogwarts and her family sought out Hermione to thank her. Dumbledore hoped that there would be no more repercussions from the incident, he was both right and wrong. Dumbledore ,himself, didn't have any more repercussions, while Fudge ended up having several. The first thing Fudge had to deal with was Amelia Bones anger, then an article came out in the Prophet telling about the attack on a child by Dementors, then the Quibbler ran an article saying that the attack must have been ordered by the ministry since they controlled the Dementors, which were the spirits of dead murderers. Fudge was called before the Wizengamot to answer charges that he had approved the attack, the charges weren't proven but a vote of no confidence failed by one vote. Then the howlers started, the mail room was swamped by them and went on strike which resulted in all the howlers being sent directly to Fudge's office, some say the explosions were many and strong.
Two weeks later and the castle was shaken by an explosion of magic coming from one of the girls restrooms. McGonagall and Sprout rushed to see what was wrong. They found Hermione Granger standing there with ripped robes and all around her were six girls, all nude, stuck to the walls. "Ms. Granger, please tell us what happened in here and why these girls are missing their clothes." McGonagall asked as Sprout tried to get the girls down, without success.
"These six girls tried to jump me. One of them cast a weak body bind which caught me off guard, then they started to cut my robes off me. When one of them almost cut my breast I got mad and canceled the body bind and attacked them myself. I overheard their plan, it was to strip me bare and throw me out into the hallway after writing "SLUT" on me. I just gave them a taste of what they intended to do to me, except I stuck them to the walls.", was Hermione's reply. Even as she spoke words appeared on each of the girls' chests, words like slut, pig, backstabber, and infected. One girl, Pansy Parkinson, had all the words on her back, chest, forehead, and both legs.
"They will come unstuck in about 30 minutes, but the writing will take a month to come off and can't be covered by glamors or make-up. Professor if you want to punish me that is fine, but I can't remove the marks. They should be glad I got my temper under control before I really hurt them" Hermione continued.
Both professors were overwhelmed and then they noticed that Pansy was positioned spreadeagled so as to be visible from the hallway outside the room. Hermione just walked out of the restroom,to be confronted by Draco laughing and pointing at Pansy. This seemed to upset Hermione and now Draco was stuck to a wall wearing nothing but a thong as Hermione walked away. After seeing what happened to Draco everyone moved out of Hermione's way very quickly. McGonagall took 30 points from Hermione, but Ms. DuPrie gave Hermione 50 points for defeating her attackers, then privately asked how to do that tattoo charm as she had a use for it in her house. The six girls lost 50 points each and had detention not only with McGonagall but double detention with their head of house, Ms. DuPrie.
Supper that night was interesting, everyone was talking about how Hermione had been attacked and how she defeated and humiliated her attackers, and Malfoy because he had been rude and laughed at the girls when he became a peeping tom and looked into the girl's bathroom. When Harry and Neville heard about it they commented they wished they had been there to see the look on Malfoy's face when Hermione stuck him to a wall without much on, again. Hermione commented that it wasn't a pretty sight as Draco didn't measure up to the task, and laughed about it herself. Later Luna said she had added to the marks on Pansy by adding two arrows pointing up from the words "infected" on her legs and the arrows were neon red in color.
McGonagall asked Hermione about the new marks later that evening Hermione said Pansy must have upset someone else too – maybe a boy. Hermione had been wrong about how long the girls were stuck to the wall, they had stayed there for over an hour and nobody had been able to hide them from view. Then it leaked that Draco had lost another wand, since when he fell from the wall he landed on his and it broke, again. Most of the students decided that nobody wanted to upset Hermione, or any of her friends, for fear of what she would do to them.
A day or two is when things settled down again, classes continued, and a few students found that messing up in potions got them a tattoo on their forehead for the rest of class saying things like stupid, idiot, or cretin. Then Slytherin students started to show up with similar tattoos when they messed up in their own house. At first Hermione was blamed until it became known that it was Ms. DuPrie doing the tattoos to punish her students who failed to keep the new code of honor in that house.
All the fifth and seventh years were busy reviewing for either OWLs or NEWTs, since they were only a few weeks away while everyone else was reviewing for end of term exams too. The school was quiet and studious for the most part. Having the school so quiet was unusual as far as Harry was concerned. He was slightly on edge since the last two years had gotten dangerous this close to the end of the year, at least for him and his friends. Some of the Ravenclaw did not learn their lesson the lat time they had tried so they tried to hide Luna's books and clothes, but this time couldn't get to them. Luna's roommates found out the hard way that fooling with Luna's trunk or wardrobe resulted in painful experiences. Prof. Flitwick had to step in and find out exactly what was happening in his house. As a result Luna ceased to live in the bedroom assigned to her, her roommates could not figure out what had happened all they knew was that all of Luna's belongings disappeared; she had moved into the heir's quarters for the rest of the year.
It was time for the leaving feast, the year was finally over. Draco and Pansy were now house out casts nobody would sit near them. They even sat as far apart as was possible. Susan, at her table, was surrounded by her housemates, but wished she could be sitting by Neville – and Neville wished he was sitting by Susan. Harry and Hermione sat together as usual with Neville on one side and Hermione on the other side of Harry. Ginny sat across from Harry and Colin sat by her, much to the dislike of her brothers who had been warned that Ginny would be upset if anything happened to Colin. It was a surprise to see Dumbledore sitting at the head table since he had been absent for many weeks, ever since the Dementor incident. Dumbledore stood and made his usual end of term speech and the feast was on.
Everyone was in bed late that night, except the five friends, when an alarm sounded. Harry, Susan, and Luna were told by Hogwarts that a pack of werewolves were attacking the grounds. It was a full moon and that meant that Remus was probably in the Shrieking Shack since that was where he stayed at this time of the month. Harry's roommates wondered when Harry looked at Neville and said "werewolves on the grounds" just before both ran out of the room and met Hermione coming down the stairs. As soon as Hermione heard what was going on she said she was going to the roof and let out some anger at being woke up in the middle of the night. Hermione transformed and went out a window. Harry and Neville headed downstairs to the main entrance only to find McGonagall and Flitwick fighting a pair of werewolves.
Both boys grinned at each other and started firing spells at the wolves binding them with chains with some of the chains were made of fire. Both professors were surprised when their foes were bound and then they saw Harry and Neville, smiling. Harry said one word as he and Neville ran outside, "Remus". There must have been thirty werewolves out there and the foursome were soon surrounded. Suddenly spells rained down from the towers as Hermione and Susan got involved, but the big surprise was when an eagle flew over and sent spells towards the wolves. A very large Fire elemental appeared and started to have fun with the werewolves around Harry and Neville. The creatures had no defense against a being of pure fire who just burned them severally.
Harry and Neville made their way to the Whomping Willow where Neville changed and froze the tree so Harry could go down the passageway unharmed. The two came up inside the shack and found Remus fighting for his life against four werewolves. Harry was pissed, and that wasn't a good thing for the werewolves, Harry started to glow. A shield appeared around Remus and once again fiery chains appeared and bound the remaining werewolves. Remus was released and he nodded at Harry and Neville.
Suddenly Neville started to glow and went out through the boarded up window. Harry and Remus looked out and saw why, there was LeStrange, she was attacking Hogsmead with 5 other wizards that could be seen. Neville was headed straight for LeStrange as his glowing was getting brighter. Neville was soon joined by someone else, a girl who was being carried on a wave of water 30 feet high. A loud cry was heard by all "LeStrange you are mine". As Neville came closer to the witch who turned to face her challenger, a student.
"Well well here I thought I would have to hunt you down so I could finish what I started with your family so many years ago" LeStrange said as she sent a purple spell at Neville. The spell just bounced off Neville's shield, and he returned fire with a bright red spell that burned LeStrange's left arm as she jumped out of the way. A phoenix appeared and changed into a boy who cast some sort of spell that cause a golden glowing dome to cover the area. Luna stepped off the wave and said "I'll deal with the others, along with Harry, while you take care of business" as she pulled out her staff and started to throw spells herself while the wave of water took on the form of a young woman.
Neville and LeStrange faced off at each other and spells were rapidly exchanged between the two. Most of the spells aimed at Neville were deflected by his shield, but a simple tripping hex got through and Neville was on the ground. But there was no follow-up as LeStrange was trying to escape from a hand of dirt that had grabbed her. Everyone noticed that Harry had two wands out, one in each hand, and one was pointed upward while the other was sending spells towards the five wizards, spells that they couldn't seem to dodge due to the spells coming from Luna and the presents of the watery lady.
Neville got up brushed off the dirt and said three words loudly, "Release her Rocky" as he fired a bright yellow spell towards LeStrange. The spell hit and LeStrange was covered in chains, very heavy chains. Neville walked up to her he removed her wand with a simple, but strong, Expelliarmus. Neville took the witch's wand and broke it over his knee, then said "It seems you can't even defeat a third year student in a one-on-one duel. How did you ever face off against two aurors all those years ago, attack from behind? You should be glad the Dementors are gone as they would have enjoyed feeding on you. Maybe we should call them back just for you, or maybe I should give you a taste of what you did to my parents. No, I don't have that much evil inside me. I think I will just ask a friend to bind your magic so tight it can't be unbound in this life."
"Neville check her for portkeys before I release this shield, Luna would you do the same for those five?" Harry said.
Luna found a portkey on each of the wizards and Neville found two on LeStrange. Harry dropped his shield and walked over to Neville. "What would you like to do with her Lord Longbottom?" Harry asked. "Lord Potter, I ask that her magic be bound so tight that it can't ever be unbound in this life. Do you think the heir of Slytherin would allow that since she is a Slytherin?" Neville replied.
Harry seemed to go blank for a second and then said "The Heir of Slytherin says he would be most happy to bind her magic for all eternity and will grant me that power". With that said Harry started, "By the power of Slytherin, Gryffindor, the House of Potter I Lord Harry James Potter bind the magic of Bellatrix Black LeStrange, daughter of Cygnus and Druella Black, from this day forward. You are denied access to any and all magic for all eternity. So mote it be!" Bella LeStrange glowed and then it stopped; Harry ran diagnostics and found nothing but a muggle lying there in chains. "It is done Neville, she is as muggle as I can make her" Harry said.
Luna came over and said "That was exciting, but you might want to release Firebeard. He ran out of werewolves to play with and started juggling fireballs and it is scaring the aurors from the ministry." Harry just laughed as several aurors came up to claim the six prisoners. Harry yawned and said "You know if we hurry we can get a few hours sleep before the train leaves". Neville and Luna smiled and joined Harry on his return to Hogwarts and bed. But it wasn't in the cards for them to rest right now.
When the three got returned to the gates they saw the funniest sight, there stood Firebeard tossing fireballs in the air and catching them as he moved around a pile of bound and singed werewolves. He was refusing to let anyone get near them. Harry yelled "Hey my friend, are finished playing so the aurors can take these creatures away and we can all get a little rest tonight, or at least what is left of the night?" Everyone gasped when Harry squatted down and the fire elemental tossed a fireball to him, which Harry caught without any effort and made disappear. Firebeard bowed and faded away.
"Mr. Potter, Mr. Longbottom, and Ms. Lovegood what may I ask have you three been up to outside the grounds?" McGonagall asked.
Neville said they had seen Bella LeStrange in Hogsmead and he had gone to extract some payback for his family. Neville said the other two went along to make it even, three students against five wizards and a witch. "Unfortunately, Bella has a problem; it seems that she lost all her magic and is on her way to the ministry in some very heavy chains. But my family honor has been restored." Neville said with a smile. Hermione and Susan walked out of the castle and Susan ran up and hugged Neville while Hermione did the same to Harry. Then both girls hugged Luna and thanked her for taking care of their wayward boyfriends.
"I knew it was too good to be true, a year without someone trying to kill me or other students. Why can't we have a nice quiet normal school year? Is that too much to ask?" Harry said as he and his four friends walked back into the castle. McGonagall looked at Flitwick and agreed with Harry, was a quiet year too much to ask for. The next morning showed how much damage had been done to the grounds. Neville saw this mess and just started to fix it. He called Rocky and soon all the holes were filled in and Neville was encouraging the grass and flowers to grow, by breakfast you couldn't tell anything had happened.
The train ride home was very quiet and peaceful, neither Draco nor Pansy showed their faces during the trip. Daphne Greengrass did stop by the compartment and asked Hermione when the tattoos would wear off the other five girls, she didn't care about Pansy. Hermione said they should have already worn off by now. "You know I may be Slytherin, but I don't agree with a lot of the stuff that goes on in that house. Hermione,you and Susan are one of the few that give me any competition in classes, and they continue to out score me, but I would like for us to be friends. I've been watching you five and think it is great that three houses are united, I would be pleased to add my house to that union if you would give me the chance. Please don't hold Malfoy and Parkinson against the whole house. Think about it over the summer and let me know." Daphne said just before walking out the door of the compartment.
"Harry, where was Dumbledore last night? I didn't see once the whole time we were under attack." Susan asked. That question was never answered during the trip home. The students were met as usual by parents and guardians at platform 9¾ when the train arrived. The kids, and families, agreed to meet in about a week to start getting ready to go to summer school and plan for after school activities.
A/N: Well that ends year three. I think everything turned out okay for our five friends and maybe that number will increase in year four. Next up will be the summer session and who knows what kind of things I might throw at Harry and friends.
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