Probing attacks

Yana is happy because her Hermione is happy and she's been able to visit the local forest while her Hermione plays in another frame. Especially being able to play with the little not Titania's that flit around from flower to flower.

As Yana daydreams about how she could bring more of this forest to her own forest, her Hermione suddenly slumps to the floor as a red light hits them out of nowhere.

A moment later, someone nudges them with their foot before shouting, "Ow! Merlin that hurt!"

Another voice says, "Well, what did you expect? This is supposed to be armour after all. Come on, you're paying me to help put her in her place, so we need to get her out of the corridor."

"Right, then we can get her out of her armour and teach the bitch a lesson about her place in the world."

A third voice, this one belonging to a girl, "I'm not sure about this, I mean isn't that Potter's armour?"

Yana begins to become concerned when her Hermione doesn't start to stand up, as she can feel that she's still here, just not responding to anything. As the voices continue to speak she tries to disengage the civilian locks and enable her shields, or something.

There's the sound of a sneer in the first voice, "Then he shouldn't have lent it to a mudblood. Something like this should be in the hands of a pure blood."

The girl's voice sounds further away, "Um, didn't Professor McGonagall say that the armour was for our protection, not hers?"

"What, are you scared?"

"It's just, I thought we were going to teach her a lesson about showing up Ravenclaw and being a know it all. This is going too far, I'm out!"

As the first spell cuts into her body, Yana begins to panic as she can't move while her Hermione is still here.

A forth voice adds, "Yeah, me too, I thought we were just going to make her miss a few classes or something."

A fifth voice accompanies several sets of footsteps from the other direction, "Yeah, well you should have thought about that before you discussed your plans in the common room. When we're finished with her, there'll be one less mudblood in the school."

The first voice sounds worried, "Wait, you can't do that, do you have any idea how bad that would look?"

The second voice is receding as it sounds resigned when they say, "Malfoy, I don't think they care. This is going a bit beyond a prank now."

Yana starts to panic as she's hit by an explosion, and her Hermione still doesn't move. Her brief flight into a wall allows her to see her attacker, all of whom are taller than the humans her Hermione goes to classes with.

A pulse of light hits her in the side, cutting deeply as her eyes glow with realisation. They're taller, and she can get smaller. She might not be able to move, but her butterflies know what to do.

As a spell punches through her chest, one of the attackers shouts, "Merlin, what does it take to get through that armourrrrrhhhhh!"

Yana feels a surge of happiness go through her as she activates her transformation and sends out her butterflies to kill her assailants. She might not be able to move, but she can still defend her Hermione.

As the screams of her assailants echo through the halls, Yana goes back to daydreaming about chasing rabbits and fairies around her own forests.

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Minerva scowls as Severus rants to the headmaster, "Albus, something needs to be done about those two first years, and the pet cat they brought."

Albus looks up from the medical report Severus shoves in his face, "Hmm, what would you have me do exactly?"

"Suspend them, force them to attend without their armour, make Granger leave her butterflies behind?"

Minerva shakes her head as she glances around the staff meeting, "Severus, I know you have four of your 6th years in the hospital wing, but Fillius has one there too. It's also clear from their wands that they were attacking Miss Granger with lethal spells before Aurora and Filius arrived at the scene."

Severus shakes his head, "They say they were just defending themselves, and there's no evidence of any sort of lethal attacks on Miss Granger's armour either. The sort of spells that you say were used would have left a mark."

Filius snorts, "Defending themselves from an unconscious first year."

"Maiden has lost an eye, and Macks is currently under stasis while his family searches for a Healer that's willing and able to restore his ability to father children. Weakman and Harvey are both going to carry permanent scars, despite the fact that there's no dark magic in the wounds."

Filius nods, "Miss Roland has suffered similar wounds too. However, Miss Granger was stunned unconscious at some point before the attack on her person began. I was able to verify the magic once the two of us had dealt with the butterflies. A simple enervate after that returned her to consciousness, and she was able to return to her normal size. What I think happened is that these five students. Students that I'll note are all of them are pure bloods, and thus can't be legally forced to give memory or veritasium evidence until they have been charged with a crime. I think they stunned her from behind to prevent themselves from being identified in Miss Granger's memories, and then sought to take out some misplaced aggression."

As the conversation continues, Quirinus Quirrell frowns at the fact that Miss Granger came out of the entire ordeal unscathed.

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A few weeks after that incident, Harry stumbles as he's forced out of his wisp in one of the little used corridors of the school.

Quickly, he disables the civilian lock on his amp and shielding while he looks around the corridor cautiously.

A moment later, a red spell splashes off his shields, and Harry instinctively returns fire down the corridor.

When there's no sounds of a body hitting the floor, or any sign of anyone else around, he focuses on the chat.

{Harry} @MissKitty I think someone just tried to attack me.

{MissKitty} Where are you?

{Harry} 4th floor by the Friday stair.

{MissKitty} I'll be right there.

{TheFairyQueen} I'm coming too.

{Lights} Miss Granger, you will do no such thing.

{TheFairyQueen} But I can help.

{Lights} If they knock you out again, Yana is likely to actually kill someone.

{Yana} 😛👻🐰🐰🦄

{Lights} Merlin damn it! Why did we have to give Yana chat again?

{Yana} Bunnies!

{MissKitty} So she can call us if she's in trouble again.

{Yana} 💢💥

{MissKitty} No Yana you can't just blow up the student's

{Yana} 👼🐱‍🏍🗡⚔

{TheFairyQueen} No Yana, we can't do that either.

{KamaChameleon} Can you guys take it to squad chat or something, as some of us are working here.

Harry relaxes slightly as Minerva flies down the stairs from the dungeon, "I haven't seen anything else moving since I was attacked."

Minerva nods as her own senses show the area is clear, "Well it's better safe than sorry. How's your wisp?"

With Minerva keeping an eye out around them, Harry connects to his wisp with his implants, "I think she's just a little confused about why I'm out here. I'm going to try transferring back now."

Minerva nods, "Go ahead, there's nobody around."

Harry tries to trigger transference, only to meet resistance before bouncing back to the real world, "It's not working. But it's not like something's messing with the transference signal."

Minerva picks up the wisp with both arms, "Let's get her back to the lander and we can see if it's localised."

{MissKitty} @Lights @TheFairyQueen can you start checking for magic that could force Harry out of his Frame?

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In the Gryffindor common room, Hermione's working on copying out her homework from her computer to parchment while shrunken down as a fairy. At the same time Yana is using the butterflies to play with some magical wooden blocks that have pictures and letters on them.

"C.A.T. Cat! Meow."

Hermione smiles as Yana finishes pushing the blocks together with the right picture, and they make a tinkling noise before the picture animates and they announce the word she's just spelt.

They're one of a few toys that Aurora bought for Yana once she realised that Yana is basically a child.

As she's carefully carrying her quill across the parchment to the inkwell, in order to avoid smudging her writing, Ron and Dean both sit down in the corner she used to hide in.

As the two of them pull out their homework, Dean leans over, "Can you believe that Hagrid has a dragon egg?"

Hermione's eyes dim twice before she diverts to her computer and activates the record program. Keeping half an ear open to the conversation, she continues back to the inkwell.

Ron shakes his head, "Not at all, they're highly illegal outside registered sanctuaries, as they're untameable and almost impossible to keep without breaking the statute."

Dean raises his eyebrows, "Really?"

Ron nods before his expression sours, "Ugh, Potions, can't we just play chess?"

Dean shakes his head, "I'm not getting another detention because you're allergic to homework. Homework first."

Seamus walks over and plops down next to Dean, "Hey guys, what's going on?"

"R.A.B.B.I.T. Rabbit!"

Ron scowls, "Will someone please take those blocks away!"

From the other side of the room a prefect calls, "At least she's learning something!"

As Ron starts to grumble, Dean softly says, "Hagrid's got a real fire breathing dragon egg."

A wide smile comes over Seamus' face, "Cool."

Dean nods, "I know right."

Ron shakes his head, "It's not cool, he could get into real trouble with one. My brother Charlie works on a dragon preserve, and he said that they become dangerously territorial really quickly."

"D.R.A.G.O.N. Dragon!"

Seamus shakes his head, "Ron, you don't get it. It's a real dragon. I grew up muggle like, and they're just fairy tales in that world. Ma used to tell me about dragons, fairies, and unicorns, but it was hard to believe her."

Dean looks up from his own homework after a couple of minutes, "Still, don't you think it's a bit convenient that Hagrid won a dragon egg at the same time he was talking about Fluffy."

"U.N.I.C.O.R.N. Unicorn!"

Ron stops glaring at his homework for a moment, "Yeah, now you say it that does sound suspicious. That and how easily you tricked him into admitting that Fluffy will fall asleep to music."

As the boys continue to talk about their misadventures, Hermione opens up the chat as she keeps trudging over the parchment with the quill that's like a tree trunk at her size.

{TheFairyQueen} @Everyone I think you should look at /dev/tfqt/usr/tfq/recordings/gcr-92-04-09-001 it's still recording so make sure you open it view only.

{Yana} U.N.I.C.O.R.N. Unicorn! 🦄

{MissKitty} Well done Yana, but you should be in the play channel.

{MissKitty} This is worrying, Aurora, can you check in on Hagrid over the Easter Holidays.

Seamus puts his quill in his ink pot for a moment, "Ron, didn't you say that you saw Snape limping just before the Quidditch match in November?"

Ron nods, "I did, do you think he was trying to get past Fluffy?"

Dean looks up, "Seems reasonable. I bet he wants the stone."

Ron nods, "I bet he's getting desperate, remember what Hagrid said about the unicorns disappearing?"

As the portrait door swings open, the three boys look up and quickly turn their faces down to their homework as Neville walks in with Whisper balanced on his shoulder. Behind him comes the Weasley twins.

Spotting Hermione's computer, he makes a beeline to her stuff, "Hey Hermione, how are you getting on."

As Hermione returns to normal size, Dean coughs, "Bollocks."

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Minerva settles into a chair in the headmaster's office, "Albus, I think we're going to need more help with the stone."

Albus leans back in his chair, his eyes sparkling slightly in the candlelight, "What makes you say that?"

"I know that there's at least one group of students that have already found out what's been hidden, and how to get past Hagrid's pet."

Albus nods, "We always knew that was a possibility. That's why the Devils snare is next. As long as Fluffy isn't attacked, he won't ado more than bark at the students."

Minerva shakes her head, "That's not what worries me. The students found out because Hagrid let it slip when they were talking about one of his acquisitions. Apparently they weren't the first people he shared it with."

Albus shakes his head, "No, we can't. It's too much of a risk to bring more people in on the secret. Too many people know about it all ready."

Minerva huffs, "Well, at least let me ask the Potters to keep an eye on the students that I know know. I just know that they're going to do something stupid if we don't."

Albus raises an eyebrow, "And why not your prefects?"

Minerva just stares at Albus, "Really? You do remember that they're all Gryffindors, don't you?"

"I haven't forgotten, no. But why do you believe these other student's would be better than the prefects?"

Minerva smiles, "The stone would have absolutely zero interest for them, and I have absolutely no doubt that none of the puzzles would be even remotely challenging."

Albus removes his glasses to clean them, "I presume you are speaking of Ms Potter and Miss Granger?"

Minerva nods, "Indeed, though they're both full members of clan Potter."

Albus frowns and thinks for a long moment, "Very well, but you're not to let them know what the stone is."

Minerva smiles, "They won't hear it from my lips."