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Hermione Granger ([info]cerebralwitch) wrote in [info]wished,
@ 2009-09-29 20:40:00

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Entry tags:!1997: 09, !complete, harry potter, hermione granger, ron weasley

Who: Hermione, Ron, Harry
What: Talking and planning
Where: Hogwarts
When: The night of the 27th, after they got their notes from Dumbledore.
Warnings: TBA



Hermione had only met Mundungus a handful of times before tonight, and he'd always made her uncomfortable in the way that you felt uncomfortable with strangers rubbing their hands together gleefully in dark alleyways - she assumed. But what sort of person made a living on robbing estates and then kept the cache of items they coulnd't seen in a graveyard? The graveyard in Godric's Hollow, no less. She'd seen Harry's face when he'd given away that particular bit of information and it made her cringe to know what he must have been thinking about.

She scowled a little at no one in particular as she walked through the hallway with Ron and Harry. It would be curfew soon, but they had passes, and they needed to talk about this new information - now that they knew where the locket was, they had to get to it as soon as possible. Rushing off now wasn't the best idea, of course, but it had to be soon, and they needed to make plans.

"Where should we go?" She asked them both after she'd looked around the corridor to be sure they were alone.


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[info]geroffme
2009-09-30 02:01 am UTC (link)
Ron didn't really want to go anywhere - aside from bed, maybe. The size of the task kept getting more and more overwhelming, and he knew it would be easier to cope with if could just ... sleep on it a while. But things did move too fast, for that. Anyway, there was no point in trying to turn in after having spent what had felt like an age breathing the same air as Mundungus Fletcher, creepy bastard. Might as well walk it off.

"Have we worn out our welcome in the library, yet?" He probably had - he was only ever really there to make too much noise talking to Hermione, and the glares he'd been getting from Pince, no friend of his, were becoming worse and worse.

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[info]sonofastag
2009-09-30 02:24 am UTC (link)
"No, but we'd just get chased out again just now, anyway," Harry answered. Since it was getting on toward after hours. "We could just go to the tunnel to Honeydukes." It was a bit cramped for talking and not just sneaking out, though.

Harry rubbed a hand absently over his scar, then dropped it self-consciously when he realized what he'd done. It wasn't bothering him. He was just. . . off kilter after hearing where exactly it was they were going to have to retrieve the locket from. He'd never been there, though he'd thought about it, a few times. He'd had no way of getting there until he passed his test anyway, and since then - well, he couldn't exactly go running about without having Hermione punch him in the nose for trying.

Mundungus didn't bother Harry much, usually. He was a nervous, shifty sort of chap, which was better than some. Not exactly trustworthy, but still. He'd been off though. Loads more prone to yelling and being a prat instead of making excuses, it seemed like. He didn't get it. But he didn't like it.

He pursed his lips. The Room of Requirement was right out, since it had skulking Malfoys around half the time. "Just pick one of the classrooms no one's in. We've got the map and we can put up a silencing charm and just keep an eye out for Filch or Snape."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2009-09-30 02:27 am UTC (link)
"Or there's the Prefects bath or ..." Hermione lowered her voice enough that just the two of them could hear. "The Chamber? It might take a while to get this sorted and we don't want to be watching the map the whole time..." Though she didn't want to think about going down there, really.

"Malfoy's probably in his dorm by now. We could try the Room of Requirement." Though she was leery of that too, since now the Slytherins knew where it was.

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[info]geroffme
2009-09-30 02:46 am UTC (link)
Ron balked. "The Chamber of Secrets?" His voice sounded a little too loud, and he supposed it wasn't the most deranged idea he'd ever heard, but ... he'd been part of the way down there, and had no desire to see the rest of it. At all. The chance of squaring off against Malfoy seemed much less unpleasant than it should have, in comparison - but not unpleasant enough. "Harry's right, we can keep a lookout just as well up here." And without having to step over dried-up monster bits. "We can just find a classroom. I think we know how to keep out of Filch's way, by now."

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[info]sonofastag
2009-09-30 02:52 am UTC (link)
"Would you shut up?" Harry hissed, elbowing Ron sharply. "We don't want to ADVERTISE where we're going!" Even if he wasn't thrilled about the idea, either. Harry made a face and then shook his head. "Prefect's bath sounds fine. I'd rather there and just risk Myrtle popping in than go down into the Chamber." It had less bad memories attached, really.

He threw Hermione a look to see if she was going to argue in favor of the Chamber. He'd likely give in if she had a good reason - but he hoped she didn't.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2009-09-30 02:55 am UTC (link)
Hermione would have elbowed Ron herself if Harry hadn't been there first. But Harry's agreeing to the baths made more sense than just a classroom, at least. Once you were in no one could come in until you were finished... kept anyone from accidentally barging in during a bath. And she thought the portraits there could be trusted.

She shrugged, not pushing it any more than that, and started that direction. At the door she mumbled her own password and let the two of them go in ahead of her. It wasn't until the door was closed and the map was out between their benches where they could all keep an eye on it that she started.

"So, Harry. Godric's Hollow..." But she didn't really know how to bring up actually going to the place where his parents were murdered.

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[info]geroffme
2009-09-30 03:08 am UTC (link)
He sat with his chin resting in one hand, absently watching the students' dots wandering back towards the dormitories. "Shame we have to get it there," he said, and meant it. The thought of hanging around the little town where Harry'd almost died and You Know Who had been reduced to some unspeakably spooky thing wasn't a pleasant one for him, and couldn't be for Harry. He could only imagine. Ron looked up at him. "I mean, it'll be weird, won't it? Back where your parents died." But if that's where it was - that's where it was.

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[info]sonofastag
2009-09-30 03:16 am UTC (link)
Harry gave Ron a brief look at the comment. It wasn't as if he needed to be reminded where it was. He shrugged though. "Yeah. . . but if that's where it is, that's where we'll go. I don't remember it anyway." Which was his way of saying it wouldn't matter. Though really it would. He wondered how big Godric's Hollow was, and if he'd see where his mum and dad's house used to be. If he even wanted to. Or if there was more than one graveyard, or if he'd see the one where his parents were buried.

It was morbid and depressing and strange, so Harry ignored it, as best he could. "So we'll just have to nip out, go get it, and then hang onto it until we can suss out how to destroy it, yeah?" he suggested. It sounded simple. He doubted it actually would be, though. It never was.

"We'll just have to do it ourselves," he added. Though it wasn't as if they even thought to ask for help, most of the time. Harry'd seen Dumbledore more than they had though. With the way he moved a little too slow, the ruined hand, the way he just seemed. . . old. . . Harry didn't want to bring anything to him that he didn't have to. They could handle this. He hoped. "We should go when no one will figure out we've gone though, if we can. Or at least hope they won't."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2009-10-01 02:32 am UTC (link)
Hermione just nodded while Harry spoke, because honestly if there was any time when Harry ought to be the one leading it was now when they had to go to Godric's Hollow to retrieve something potentially extremely dangerous from the man who'd been trying to kill Harry for years. As long as he wasn't being ridiculous and talking about going on his own - as long as it was still a we that was going instead of an I - she was alright with keeping quiet and letting him work though things.

But with the last bit he said, Hermione's eyebrows arched a little. "Hogsmeade weekends haven't been canceled." And maybe that was what Dumbledore or McGonagall was thinking when they reinstated them, that they would be an easy way for Harry to get away and do what needed to be done? "We could go next weekend."

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[info]geroffme
2009-10-01 03:09 am UTC (link)
"Yeah," Ron agreed, turning his eyes back down to the map with a slow nod. "If you think we can get it done in a day - might as well try, anyway. Just get out as early as possible." There probably wouldn't be an easier time. And as little as he liked the idea of tromping around a graveyard, even while the sun was safely up, it would be worse to wait even longer. He had a feeling that even when Fletcher told the truth, what he said probably didn't always stay true for very long.

As soon as they had one of these bloody things out of the way ... Then what? He glanced at Hermione, then at Harry. They both knew what they were about, almost definitely better than he did, but sometimes he thought they weren't nearly superstitious enough. Maybe it was only paranoia that he'd got from his mother, or maybe it came from being raised around magic, but some things you just knew weren't going to end well. Messing with a piece of someone's being fit that category pretty squarely.

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[info]sonofastag
2009-10-01 03:22 am UTC (link)
Harry chewed at his lip a bit, thoughtfully. "You think we ought to wait that long?" he asked. It felt like they should rush. Like if they waited to long, someone else might get to it first, and then it'd be more trouble, more struggling to find it. But then running off right away, in the middle of the week, when people were doubtlessly reporting back to Voldemort where Harry was, and if he was still at school. . . that sounded daft too. Hogsmeade could work. No one would be able to say for sure where he wasn't. They could use the cloak to keep him hidden if they had to - all three of them were a tight squeeze, but if they had to, they could do it for a bit.

Harry looked at Ron and shrugged. "We take it with us? We can't just leave it about - someone will find it. Unless we can destroy it or figure out how before then - we'll just have to bring it back here until we do?" He smiled a little grimly. "Maybe if we just bash it with a rock it'll break?" he suggested. That would be nice. Unlikely, but nice.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2009-10-01 03:28 am UTC (link)
Hermione nodded again, but looked as if she was thinking about something. It was easy enough to get away from Hogsmeade, because students would be everywhere, but once they were in Godric's Hollow they ran the risk of being identified too fast.

"I've been brewing a batch of polyjuice. It won't last the whole day, of course, but it should give us enough time if we're bringing it back with us." Bringing it back to the school before they were sure what exactly a Horcrux that powerful would do wasn't the best idea - she'd stolen a few glimpses at Dumbledore's hand while they'd been in his new rooms talking to Mundungus - but she didn't see any way around it at the moment.

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[info]geroffme
2009-10-02 01:17 am UTC (link)
"We should try, just in case," he said, agreeing emphatically. Bashing it with a rock would at least be satisfying, if more than likely useless. "I'll let you go first, but I want my crack at it, too."

Polyjuice potion was a less appealing idea by far. More practical, but still not an experience he was keen to repeat. His mouth twisted up a little. "Who'd we go as, though? Unless you've got some hair from random strangers hanging around - anyone from school would look suspicious poking around a graveyard. Especially in a little town like that. Someone'd notice, don't you think?"

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[info]sonofastag
2009-10-02 01:27 am UTC (link)
Harry threw Ron a quick grin for the answer. He made a face at Hermione as she mentioned Polyjuice. It made sense, but it tasted vile. Not to mention the last time there'd been polyjuice, it'd been to make everyone look like HIM, and it hadn't ended well.

Harry saw the wisdom in it, though. He frowned, thoughtfully. "We could get your brothers or someone in the order to pluck a few hairs from some muggles and send them to us?" The twins would probably do it without asking many questions. "Or we could sneak out the tunnels for a few minutes - find a couple of people who are soused at the Hog's Head and grab a hair?" Which was probably safer than asking Ron's brothers. They'd go looking for someone really vile to de-hair just to make Ron turn into them.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2009-10-02 01:36 am UTC (link)
"And I have a few from the summer," Hermione admitted, shrugging. She looked at both of them, and then added, "I was thinking ahead. I knew we might need the polyjuice at some point for the search, I just wasn't sure how early. It was bringing the still brewing potion to the castle that was the real problem..." Luckily, Professor Dumbledore seemed to have had the same idea, and one day at the Burrow she'd gone to check it and found it missing.

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[info]geroffme
2009-10-02 02:07 am UTC (link)
Ron looked at her - and then briefly up at the ceiling. "Of course you do. Why didn't I think of that?" He could just see her, out and about determined to add to her collection of potential victims. Brilliant. He took a moment to hope she'd chosen well. "If you've got some that'll work, then - no sense in risking any trouble in Hogsmeade trying to get them off drunks and strangers. Or from Fred and George." He wasn't getting on board with that if he could help it.

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[info]sonofastag
2009-10-02 02:17 am UTC (link)
Hermione was just scary, sometimes. Organized, thoughtful, brilliant, dedicated, brave, and caring - but terrifying. "So you just saved up hairs? How do you have them saved? A baggy for 'blond tall bloke' one for 'balding short man'?" he asked, teasing a little. "We end up doing this much, how much you want to bet that with our luck we'll just stroll face-first into whoever's hair you plucked and leave them staring at themselves?" Which would probably be more bad than funny, since they'd have to be obliviated, if they were muggle, and then the Ministry would know someone was running around polyjuiced. . . but it was still sort of a funny thought. "Didn't anyone yell at you for grabbing at their hair?"

"We can always get more while we're out too. Just assault random people to yank out their hair. No one will mind." Harry was smirking and couldn't quite help it. Imagining Hermione rushing after people and trying to stealthily pluck hairs was just more fun than thinking about running off to the graveyard his parents were probably buried at.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2009-10-03 04:00 am UTC (link)
"Well I'll be a veela from Bill and Fleur's wedding, and you two will be those two hags that used to hang about outside of Flourish and Blotts," Hermione answered, completely straight faced. If that were true, it would serve them right, really, for thinking that she'd be anything less that five steps ahead of them both when it came to being prepared. In reality, they were muggles who'd lived next door to her family on either side, before she'd sent her parents off. One of them was a hairdresser - it hadn't been hard to get hair in the shop.

"Are you two finished?" But she did finally crack a smile at the teasing, rolling her eyes in a longsuffering sort of way at the boys. "Saturday, then?"

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[info]geroffme
2009-10-03 04:16 am UTC (link)
The very carefully blank expression that had closed up over Ron's face when 'Hermione' and 'veela' came clashing together in his mind collapsed into an affronted stare. "I can't be a hag," he insisted, throwing a appraising look in Harry's direction. "I haven't got the hair for it."

It was nice to be able to laugh (even nicer to see Hermione descend to it, however slightly), because, really, polyjuice was just going to make this even more unpleasant than it was already bound to be. "Saturday," he muttered, without objection. Not nearly far enough away.

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[info]sonofastag
2009-10-03 04:24 am UTC (link)
Harry's mouth twitched into a smile he couldn't hold back. "You're going to be a Veela? Well. That's Ron useless for the whole time then. Unless you need someone to shout at you. Then he'll be right helpful." Harry attempted to scoot stealthily out of smacking range.

"Saturday," Harry agreed. He looked around the bathroom and then made a face, shrugging. "You Prefects are bloody spoiled, you know. We should go back, before someone wants to come in and do laps in the tub."

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