The tricky part would be finding a spell or curse that wouldn't trigger the effects of the branding that she could use against him. Because just as with the research, she knew she would have to be the one to cast their punishment spell on Harry. Neither Ginny nor Ron were as capable as she was and therefore it was likely neither would be able to cast any spell she discovered to do the job. But she'd still need their help to enact it. Given the way the school was behaving, she'd never be able to get close enough to him without their assistance.
Maybe they could even hoodwink Professor McGonagal into helping them waylay Harry long enough to cast their punishment on him. The Professor did seem to still care about them. And she was upset over their branding. She knew Harry had been wrong to brand them as he had and they had a right to be upset with him over it. She just couldn't help them force him to remove it. Because she wasn't strong enough and didn't have the authority.
Knowing the Professor, the only thing she would ask was the nature of the spell the three wished to use. Hermione wasn't worried about choosing a spell to use. She knew any spell she found would be a Light orientated spell. Simply because a Dark spell wouldn't work for her. Therefore if she could cast it, it had to be Light orientated. And of course she'd practice it before asking the Professor to help her contain Harry.
Professor Dumbledore had told her dark magic wouldn't work for anyone who wasn't inherently dark by nature. What he didn't tell her was that all living, thinking creatures were dark by nature. One had to choose to be light. It wasn't inherent in a person though all people thought themselves to be light natured and only wanting good things for themselves and those they cared for. She was too sheltered to understand all people were inherently selfish. They wanted good things for themselves and those they cared about, true enough. But they didn't particularly care if they got those good things through the misfortune of someone else. But to Hermione, because Professor Dumbledore said Dark Magic wouldn't work for those who weren't dark, that meant she couldn't use it. Because she definitely didn't see herself as a dark witch.
Not for a second did she stop to consider how the Dark side of magic got new recruits if it only worked for those who were already dark to begin with. Or if the only people who could use dark magic spells were those who were already dark by nature, how then could just using a dark magic spell make you evil? It stood to reason if no light magic person could use dark magic than those who did use it, were born that way. But Hermione didn't realize that because she never stopped to think about it and she was too sheltered and cherished by her family to understand the world wasn't black and white.
Between their classes, the weekly meeting with Professor McGonagal, homework and countless unfair detentions from Professor Snape as well as the other teachers, they had very little spare time though. And that made it hard for Hermione to find the time she needed for her research. Which was why her homework had slacked off. She was slacking on it to try and make more time for research. Not that she had much time for homework any more anyway.
It had been surprising to them to find themselves being given more and more detentions and having to serve them either in the dungeons doing manual labor with Argus (Ron), in the kitchens with the elves doing more manual labor (Hermione)or with Hagrid still doing manual labor (Ginny). Unknown to them, Minerva had actually had to go to the staff and request they not be given a detention during the hour she had set aside to meet with them to try and get them to understand their new social position and to leave them at least an hour per day for homework completion. Naturally, none of them were actually getting all their homework completed in that hour making for a lot of late nights. So all three were suffering from a decided lack of sleep to add to their troubles.
The elves didn't allow Hermione to get on her soapbox and preach to them about how they should desire their freedom any more than they would've allowed Ron to spend his detention time eating. She was put to work doing the dirtiest, most disgusting job the elves could come up with. And they could come up with some very dirty jobs. The more she preached at them, the dirtier the job they assigned her the next time. But again she wasn't making the correlation.
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