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.]

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"Probably not, but that doesn't mean the effort shouldn't be made," she said. "Honestly, she's a horrible woman and considering what she did at my last school, I really don't want to see her do anything like it here."

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"Oh no, the effort will be made," Tori nodded, she'd make sure of it. "Do I want to know what she did at your previous school?" She assumed it was something horrible, but still, she was a tiny bit curious. Maybe it would help bring Zoe back faster?

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"I only heard about most of it in letters from my friends, but she was horrible. She restricted Defense Against Dark Arts so that people were only learning theory instead of actual spells that might help them against a Dark Wizard who she was convinced didn't exist anymore, tortured a friend of mine in detention, set up so many rules that after a while they didn't even make sense, let the Ministry completely take over Hogwarts, and then she tried to have the Headmaster arrested so she could take the position," Hermione said. "And that's just what I heard."

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"Holy crap," Tori felt that was the only thing she could say. "She tortured a friend of yours? Oh no, not cool at all," she fumed. "There's no way I'm going to let that happen here. No way," Tori was making that a promise. No one got away with something like that, whether it was at Fandom or somewhere else.

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"The students at Hogwarts got a bit... creative," Hermione said. "What worries me is that everyone here is so different in their powers and abilities, I'm not sure how she'll take to that."

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Tori nodded, understanding. "Maybe it will intimidate her? And make her want to leave?" She sincerely doubted that, but one could hope. "I have a feeling the students here will get very creative, with trying to get rid of her."

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Hermione shook her head. "She won't be intimidated. Anyone who thinks they can is just being silly," she said. "I've already started a letter to the school board to take this through proper channels and I'm starting on annoyance tactics."

Yes, it was just Hermione who said that.

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"Anything I can do to help, either way? I'm in," Tori offered. She was totally behind making Umbridge leave, one-hundred percent. "Really, if there's anything you'd like me to do, let me know."

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"First, deny all knowledge of any knitting activities," Hermione told her. "She'll know it's me, no need to get into trouble for knowing. Other than that, I appreciate the help. I'm sure it'll be needed soon."

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"Right, I can do that," Tori nodded. "Sure, anytime. Just let me know what I can do and I'm there."