offer anyone who came to ask it of me, I think."
One by one, the other four girls shook their heads.
Hermione realized what was coming, then, but she didn't see a single thing she could do about it.
"And my loyal soldier, Chaotic Tracey?" said Harry Potter.
"
And so it was on that very morning that Harry Potter went over to the Gryffindor table, and then the Slytherin table, and told both Houses that anyone who hurt Tracey Davis, regardless of what she was doing at the time, would, quote, learn the true meaning of Chaos, unquote.
It was with considerable restraint that Draco Malfoy managed to prevent himself from slamming his head repeatedly into his plate of toast.
They weren't exactly scientists, the bullies of Hogwarts.
But even
The Society for the Promotion of Heroic Equality for Witches hadn't
Daphne had
And so it was with some puzzlement, a few days later, that Daphne looked at the parchment delivered to her at lunch, drawn in a hand so shaky it was almost unreadable, saying:
Daphne looked around, but she couldn't see Millicent anywhere in the Great Hall.
"A message from your informant?" said Hermione, when Daphne told her. "That's odd -
"You didn't what?" said Daphne, after the Ravenclaw girl had stopped in mid-sentence.
The Sunshine General shook her head and said, "Listen, Daphne, I think we need to know where these messages come from before we keep following them. Look at what happened last time, how could anyone have
"I can't say -" Daphne said. "I mean, I can't say anything, but I know where the messages come from, and I know how anyone can know."
Hermione gave Daphne a
"Uh huh," said Hermione. "And do you know how Susan suddenly turned into Supergirl?"
Daphne shook her head, and said, "No, but I think it might be
She might have possibly...
Might possibly have Broken Something...
"Uh huh," said Hermione, who was doing the McGonagall Stare again.
Nobody seemed to know where it had started, who had started it. If you'd tried tracing it afterward, tracked it back word by word and mutter by mutter, you probably would have found it all going in a huge circle.
Peregrine Derrick was tapped on his shoulder as he left Potions that morning.
Jaime Astorga heard a whisper in his ear at lunch.
Robert Jugson III discovered a tiny folded note under his plate.
Carl Sloper overheard two older Gryffindors whispering about it, and they gave him significant glances as they walked past.
Nobody seemed to know where the word began, or who had first spoken it, but it named the place, and it named the time, and it said that the color would be white.
"Every single one of you had better be absolutely clear on this," said Susan Bones. The Hufflepuff girl, or whatever strange power had possessed her, wasn't even
"Yes," squeaked most of the girls, though in Hannah's case it came out, "Yes, Lady Susan!"
"
(Hermione was beginning to worry about just how many other Hogwarts students besides Harry had