"So, we'll be smacking a pair of bludgers at you for the next hour or so while you practice dodging." Both of them suddenly brandished their beater bats. Harry wasn't sure from where they'd pulled them out.
"Um... guys... I really think... uh..." Harry whipped around and bolted away. With two quick Accio's from the twins, a pair of training bludgers came flying from the ground and quickly intercepted Harry. Hermione was about to object but realized that Harry was soon having fun as the twins kept knocking both the bludgers towards him while he pushed his Firebolt to its limits while dodged, dipped, dove, ducked, and dodged some more. Half an hour later, all three of their movements were getting more sluggish as they tired themselves out. Fred and George halted the bludgers and dropped back down to the ground.
"Thanks, guys. That was fun. Maybe we should do it some more... it's actually pretty good training," said Harry.
"Next time we'll bring Lee with us, because it seems like you can handle two pretty easily." The twins waved goodbye to Harry as they carried the bludgers back to the Quidditch shed. Hermione joined him as they walked back towards the castle.
They found a group of Slytherins waiting for them at the entrance, with Malfoy leading the pack. Each one of them was wearing a badge with glowing letters.
Support Cedric Diggory, The Real Hogwarts Champion
Malfoy smirked, walking up to Harry. "How do you like them, Potter? And look at this!" He tapped the badge, changing the message.
POTTER'S A GLORY HOUND
The group of Slytherins laughed. At the back, they were handing the badges out to everyone passing by. "Would you like one, Potter?" Malfoy sneered, as he dangled another badge in Harry's face.
Hermione silently thanked the twins for the warning, as this was almost exactly what she expected. Typical Malfoy behaviour. Barely suppressing her smile, she nudged Harry. Right on cue, Harry grabbed the badge out of Malfoy's hand, saying, "Thanks, Malfoy. I never thought I'd see the day when Slytherins would willingly take a back seat to a Hufflepuff."
He passed the badge on to Hermione, who began inspecting the spellwork on it immediately. Malfoy and the rest of the Slytherins suddenly quieted down, shocked by Harry's admission. "Shut up, Potter. Give that back." He made a grab at the badge that Hermione was holding.
Harry quickly stepped in between them, bringing himself face to face with his schoolyard rival. "You just offered it to me, Malfoy, and I took you up on your offer. You suddenly want it back? It's good to know that the Malfoy name is as worthless as ever, but I think I like these. I'll have another one, in fact." He quickly summoned another badge out of the hands of one of the Slytherins who were passing them out.
"Don't you talk about my family, Potter! Your line is sullied with muggles and half-bloods, while mine's completely pure! Your name is worthless compared to mine!" He made a grab at the badge that Harry was holding, but Harry quickly sidestepped. Dodging Draco was nothing compared to dodging bludgers... or Moody.
"Good enough for the Goblet of Fire, at least. Weren't you the one who was telling everyone you'd be putting your name in?" Harry was probably having a bit more fun taunting Draco than he should have, but it was mostly to buy some time for Hermione.
"Got it!" interrupted Hermione. "Only eleven words, Malfoy? Don't you know how to count any higher? You could have placed more words into the enchantment, you know. And the binding's pretty weak, I can rewrite this pretty easily."
"Shut up, Granger. What does a mudblood like you know?" Harry was tempted to blast him into the nearest broom closet again, but he wanted to see Hermione put Draco in his place, and Draco needed to be conscious for that.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "A lot more than you, obviously. Proponoto Proprio." The spell immediately changed the message on the badge Malfoy was wearing.
Support Cedric Diggory, The Hogwarts Champion!
It then flashed to the other message,
I went to the Triwizard Tournament and all I got was this stupid badge.
Harry laughed at the muggle joke. Hermione cast the spell on their badges, which Harry pinned to his robes immediately. Hermione did the same, and immediately began casting the spell on all the other Slytherins' badges, finishing with the box of badges behind them. All of them looked down, and immediately began fiddling with their badges. Malfoy kept trying spell after spell without effect. "Change it back, Granger!"
"Oh, a silly little mudblood like me wouldn't know anything about how to modify these badges, Malfoy. Maybe you should try some of that all-powerful pureblood magic of yours?" She laughed as she and Harry left the Slytherins, who were still trying to undo the spell that Hermione had cast. As they walked through the castle to the library, they cast the spell again on anyone they saw wearing the badge. They settled themselves down in the restricted section again and continued searching for useful information for the upcoming trial.
Harry owl-ordered the ingredients for the eyesight restoration potion first thing Monday morning. They had about a week and a half to go before the trial, and the potion would take a week to brew. As they walked down to breakfast, they continued to modify every one of Malfoy's badges they came across. Malfoy's face was livid. Apparently, they hadn't even made the badges themselves- Malfoy had spent a good chunk of his allowance money to buy them, custom-ordered from a party shop. Of course, each badge wasn't very valuable, but he had ordered nearly a thousand in the hopes of getting nearly everyone in the school to wear them. Luckily, Hermione had hit the bulk of them the day before while they were still sitting in boxes before they were handed out to people, and now Malfoy was left with a large batch of badges that he didn't know how to change.
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