The trio smirked to each other thinking how easy she was to fool. They knew what Harry had told them about their marks but they wanted him to pay for his actions. Nor did they care if the marks were justified or not. All they cared about was themselves. And these marks so prominently displayed on their faces weren't in their best interests. So they wanted them gone and the person who caused them to be there, punished for his audacity. Besides, they all felt it had been dark magic also and they knew the Professors would be upset with Potter for using it on them.
Hermione believed she was better than Harry because she was smarter. Everyone said so. All of her life people had been telling her how smart she was. Professor Dumbledore even told her he was hiring her because she was smarter than Harry was and could provide him with the information he'd otherwise be unable to find. What he hadn't said was that he was hiring her because he knew she was an information whore and would look up anything he told her to and then force Harry to learn what he thought the boy needed to know for whatever scheme he'd cooked up that year while keeping Harry from learning information on his own that Dumbledore didn't want him to learn. Just because she was greedy when it came to books and the knowledge contained within them. Any books she saw in his hands, if she hadn't placed it there personally, she'd take away from him claiming she needed to read it as she hadn't yet. Even if she had.
Ginny believed she was better than Harry because she had been told by her mother and by Professor Dumbledore she was his saving grace. Because she came from a purely light orientated family. So did he actually but Ginny ignored that because Professor Dumbledore told her he had been cursed by a Dark Lord and that would exert an influence over him tainting his light with the shadows of the dark. It'd be her place to help him remain true to his light orientation. That Harry's innate magic was actually lighter in orientation than her own wasn't something she was aware of or would believe if she was told. Nor was Harry in any danger of falling into the darkness so easily as she had when she'd been writing in a curse diary for a good year. But she didn't believe that either because Professor Dumbledore told her, her light magic was so strong, it had naturally fought and defeated the dark influence of the book. Never mind that she damn near died because she couldn't fight it's influence at all.
And Ronald believed he was Harry's superior by right of birth. He was a pureblood. Plain and simple. That meant he outranked Harry no matter how rich or famous the prat was. And having been raised in the magical world, of course he was superior to Harry James Potter. Harry was only a half blood. Rich yes. Entitled to a seat on the Wizengamot when he came of age as well. But that didn't mean he out ranked Ron. Ron was a pureblood.
It disgusted them last evening when they had found they couldn't openly lie as they usually did. They'd skipped dinner as none of them wanted to face a hall full of people staring at them and asking questions before they got their stories down pat. By working together, they found they could imply things that weren't true if they were careful enough not to set off the runes. It'd taken them some time to work out exactly what would trigger the runes from what wouldn't and they'd been shocked by how the runes reacted to their thoughts and words. But eventually they'd worked out a story they could safely tell people without too much difficulty.
The Professor was such an easy mark for them, it had worked like a breeze when they went to her office that morning. Especially where Hermione was concerned because Minerva fancied she saw herself in Hermione. And Hermione had had a lot of practice lying by inference and omission these last four years. After all, it wasn't like she could or even would tell her parents the truth about attending school at Hogwarts. They might decide the school was too dangerous for their little girl and pull her out regardless of her wishes in the matter. She was the spoilt only child of two distinct generations. Not to mention she had a feeling none of her adults would approve of her school job. But what they didn't know, they couldn't disapprove or stop. So she'd gotten very good at lying.
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