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George and Angelina tower over Harry.

GEORGE: You think you can just saunter in here like nothing happened? Levicorpu– { "Levicorpus" is the incantation of a spell that lifts a person into the air, usually for the purpose of bullying. }

PAST GRANGER: Finite! { A spell that ends an enchantment. }

Past Granger has looked up from zir Transfiguration work and is leaning forward in zir chair, countering George's spell. Past Granger speaks in approximately the same way as present Granger; zir speech has slightly less color than present Granger's, but isn't gray like the other students'. On this page, some details of the room are drawn around Granger, but not near the other characters.

PAST GRANGER: I've earned more points than he's lost, and I say if you want to fight him, you'll have to fight me too.

ANGELINA: You? A second-year against the two of us? It wouldn't be a fair f–

Granger rolls zir eyes and sends the two of them flying with a multicolored barrage of spells, without getting up from zir chair. Harry cowers from the action with zir hands over zir face.

PAST GRANGER: Er... Potter? I heard you're supposed to see Dumbledore? I just came from meeting him in his office, actually; I'd go there now if I were you. The password is "Aspartame".

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Why do you think Granger pointed out how many points ze had earned? Ze could have just defended Harry without saying that. Would that have been a better decision? Worse?

And to follow up on the previous page, do you think it's ethical for Snape to be participating in the “house points” system at all, when it leads to the kind of intra-house bullying that we're seeing here?

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