"It's Dumbledore's work," sighed Hermione. "He still wants everyone to believe that Harry is a champion for Hogwarts, and that he's a Gryffindor."
"Not going to happen," muttered Daphne. She stepped forward and waved her wand a couple times over the robes. At first, they altered to plain black without the crests. However, after a few moments, they reverted back.
"They're heavily charmed," she said. "I cannot force the change."
"Then I don't wear them, at all," Harry firmly stated. "We'll reconfigure a different set of robes and I'll wear those, instead."
He turned and walked to his wardrobe, pulling out a set of plain work robes and laying them on the bed next to the set left by Dumbledore. Concentrating, he forced them into a near copy of the robes that had been left for him. However, this set was dark green.
"Diggory will wear black robes trimmed with yellow, Delacour will wear light blue robes and Krum will wear grey with red trim," he explained. "Therefore, I chose something with a green base."
Daphne then stepped forward and configured a Potter crest to appear over the breast. Pleased with what he was seeing, Harry smirked and configured twinned Greengrass and Granger crests to appear side-by-side directly below the Potter crest, so the three formed a bit of a triangle.
"I have a crest?" asked Hermione looking at the Granger crest in surprise.
Harry snickered and replied, "Almost every family, whether magical or muggle, does. It wasn't hard to find a Granger crest. The difficulty was in discovering which of the various ones was yours. Your father helped me with that." "What're those tiny things on the white inverted 'V' on yours?" she asked.
Trying not to laugh, Harry replied, "The white inverted 'V' is actually referred to as a chevron. And 'those things', as you described them, are actually sable tails. It's to signify that the white is actually sable, rather than just white."
While Harry was describing the crests Daphne was looking at the front of the robes and frowning a little. Suddenly, she grinned and created a fourth crest. This one appeared on the left sleeve, about four inches below the point of the shoulder. It was the Black family crest. A further wave of her wand and a 'blank' crest appeared on the other breast across from the first three. The banner directly under it read 'Unaligned'. Picking the robes up and flipping them over, she then created a banner across the back of them. The banner would be perfectly aligned to appear across the back of Harry's shoulders.
I'm Looking for a New School
Owl Me!
Harry laughed and gleefully stated, "That's perfect!"
"Hang on a bit," muttered Daphne. She then worked a small set of runes into the border and into the edging of each crest.
"What's that for?" he asked.
"It stops someone changing it to something else, or simply removing it. I just pinched the idea from Dumbledore's attempt on those other competitor's robes," she said with a moue of distaste and a gesture at the ones Dobby had brought.
Chuckling, Harry hurriedly donned the new robes and the three made their way down to the Great Hall for lunch.
Walking in to the Great Hall, there was little change until some of the older students, sitting at the back of the Hall could see what was written across the back of Harry's shoulders. Then there was stunned silence. Within moments, there was a lot of hurried whispering among the students. Some even rose from their seats to come over and have a better look. Many were clearly in disbelief at what was written.
Professor McGonagall, curious herself, came down to take a look. With an almost horrified expression on her face, she turned about and hurried back to the head table. A few moments of whispered conversation with the Headmaster, and Dumbledore came down to look for himself. The three bondmates chose to ignore it all, and just partook of their lunch.
"Mister Potter, what is the meaning of this?" asked the Headmaster to Harry's back.
Setting down his cutlery, Harry turned about and asked, "What is the meaning of what, Headmaster Dumbledore?"
"What you have written on your back?" asked Dumbledore. Harry saw Dumbledore then see the front of the robes and frown. "Those are not the robes you were sent to wear."
"Ah," said Harry, pretending to understand. "You sent those robes?"
"I did," replied the old man.
"Well, sir; I refused to wear them as they represented a lie. I am not the Hogwarts' Champion, so to wear the Hogwarts crest was wrong. I am not a member of Gryffindor, so wearing the Gryffindor crest was wrong, as was wearing Gryffindor colours.
"Further, I had no idea where they came from. And, as they were heavily charmed, I could not trust them. So, I and my ladies prepared a new set." Looking down he indicated, "I chose green because the ladies like me wearing that colour. According to them, it enhances my eyes. As I'm not representing any particular school I see no reason to wear a school crest. The blank crest represents that I'm unaligned to a school. Instead, we came up with the idea of wearing the Potter, Greengrass and Granger crests with the Black crest on the sleeve as an aligned House.
"And the banner across the back is a bit of advertising showing that I'm looking for offers from other schools to attend the rest of my schooling there. This sort of thing occurs all the time in the muggle world, and we decided to adopt the idea. Ingenious, wouldn't you say?"
"No, Mister Potter, I would not," scowled Dumbledore. He quickly drew his wand from his belt and gave it a quick swish over Harry. For only a bare moment, almost missed, Harry's robes changed to what was in the apartment. However, that bare short moment was all. They immediately reverted back to what Harry wore as he walked into the Hall. Harry and both girls drew their own wands and pointed them back at the Headmaster. "Cast a spell over me again, Headmaster Dumbledore... without first explaining it, in detail, and gaining my permission... I shall consider it an attack and retaliate. You may expect lethal force to be used. Back down!"
Those close by who heard proclamation gasped in shock.
Harry's
Dumbledore scowled and forcefully shoved his wand back into his belt. "Get rid of it!" he demanded.
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