Room 308, Thursday afternoon

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Sometime after her little meeting with Umbridge, Hermione went back to her room and started on a mental to-do list.


1. Call Harry.
With no instructions from Dumbledore not to, Hermione was able to pick up the phone and call the Dursley house. She'd tried calling him before, then realized that the Dursleys kind of didn't want wizarding types calling their house, and pretended to be a neighbor who wanted to yell at Harry for something. Horrifyingly, that got them to give him the phone right away. He couldn't do anything about it, but at least she got to share an omgwtf moment and assure him that she was not letting this happen at two of her schools if she could help it.

2. Call her parents.
Umbridge had mentioned them a little too much for Hermione's comfort, so if they happened to get a little push towards taking that vacation they'd been talking about, well.

3. Call Alec.

4. Write letter to the school board.
It was long and detailed, telling all about what she knew of Umbridge's issues at Hogwarts and all the decrees she'd instated and the scars on Harry's hand. Of course, Hermione totally didn't realize that the school board might not take a sixteen-year-old who disliked her principal seriously, especially with some of those claims.

5. Feed Crookshanks.
Because pets needed to eat.

6. Get back to work on her knitting.
Because this Umbridge had no idea what had been done with the dildo cozies, so it would be a nice surprise when they charmed themselves right into her office.


#6 was what Hermione was working on for the rest of the afternoon. She was terrible at it, but she was determined. And she'd left the door open on purpose.


[Open! Especially if you want to see Hermione bitch like a bitching thing that bitches.]

Comments

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori had definitely heard Hermione's reaction to the morning's announcement and decided to check up on her friend.

She knocked on the doorframe, not wanting to startle her. "Hey Hermione," Tori offered her a smile.

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Hermione looked up and gave her a little smile. "Hi, Tori. Do you know how to knit?"

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori shook her head. "Not especially well, no. Why? Did you need some help?"

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"As much as I can get," she said. "Have you met the 'principal'?"

You could probably hear the quote marks.

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Well, I can try if you'd like," Tori offered. She definitely heard the quote marks in there. "No, but I did hear her announcement this morning and I didn't like it one bit," Tori admitted, shaking her head. "There's just something about her that's not right."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke bounced past on his way back from the fourth floor common room after consuming far too many Twinkies.

"Hi, Hermione!" he said, poking his head into her room. "I, um, heard you this morning. With the announcement? You okay?"

Luke sucked at small talk.

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"I'll be better when that Umbridge cow is gone," Hermione said immediately. "I'm fine, thanks."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"She's a cow?" Luke was strangely literal at times.

He leaned against the door jamb. "You don't seem all that fine," he said quietly. "I can go get onion dip..."

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"Um, not literally a cow," Hermione said, waving it off. "She taught at my old school and then usurped the Headmaster position. They just got rid of her and she ended up here. Different reality, same person."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"'Usurped' isn't good," Luke commented. "What's she like? I'm going with not nearly as perky as she sounded."

[witchy-prue.livejournal.com]

Okay, so drinking at Caritas wasn't really doing it for Prue tonight so she decided to go complain to talk to her fake big sister.

"Hey Hermione." she said, leaning against the door frame. "You busy?"

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"I can make time," Hermione said when she saw who it was. "Come in. How are you?"

[witchy-prue.livejournal.com]

"Fine for the most part." she said. "I did meet our lovely new principal today. How much trouble do you think I could get in for putting a school administrator coma?"

Jo didn't get in too much trouble for shooting Hades in the ass...

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"Quite a bit, but you won't be alone in that impulse," Hermione said. "I hate that woman."

[witchy-prue.livejournal.com]

"Oh so you've met her then?" asked Prue. "I'm not overreacting about how evil she is? Because I've seen demons and I've dealt with the Source of All Evil and quite frankly, I liked them better."

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Seely knocked on the door-frame. "Hey."

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"Hi, Seely," Hermione greeted him, sighing at her sock. Yes, sock. It had turned into a sock. Dildo cozies didn't have a heel unless there was something a bit different there. "Did you hear the announcement, too?"

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I did," Seely nodded. "Which is why I'm looking for Rikku."

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"She's not here right now," she said. "...Do I even want to know?"

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"I figured it might be nice to give our temporary principal a good, old-fashioned welcome," Seely said, and shuddered. "Maybe paint over those plates too."

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

Aravis needed to talk to Rikku about a number of things -- mainly because her temper was still flaring after dealing with that horrible woman, and it would calm her down, she hoped.

She tapped on the doorframe. "Afternoon, Hermione...what are you doing?"

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"Plotting," she said, trying to finish that stitch. "Met the principal?"

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"You mean the headmistress?" Aravis asked deliberately, glaring at nothing. "Yes. She's quite a piece of work. What are you plotting?"

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"Getting her out of my school," she said matter-of-factly. "And I refuse to call her Headmistress. It's not her title here. She's going to have to get used to that."

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"No, no, she insists she's the headmaster," Aravis told her. "So I'm calling her headmistress because she's already corrected me on it twice and it irritates her. What did she say to you?"