Revenge--90's style!

[ginnyrules27]

So I was in the midst of studying when an idea popped into my head. You know how the books are set in the 90's? Well, what if when Hermione stated in OotP that she was feeling a bit rebellious, she and Harry gathered up all the other muggle raised students and began rebelling against the toad in the best way they know how.

The problem is, I can't really think of anything that could be seen as really rebellious. Any thoughts guys?

[Kitty279]

They could just have left for home. When you take that stupid decree literally, then even being in class, in the Great Hall, in their common rooms or dormitories was illegal, not just the DA. According to Umbitch, anything with more than three students together was illegal, remember?

Or they could have flooded the owl post with so many letters home that some got through despite the controls and complained about being cut off from the outside, about post being controlled, about Umbitch not teaching them and the detentions. I still don't understand how that never got out and why upset parents didn't storm the castle and the Ministry.

Or they could just have refused to say anything in her classes, seeing as she wanted them to read that stupid book all day long, and ignored her completely.

Just from the top of my head.

[physicssquid]

There is a story, where Hermione does organise a rebellion, starting with a Boycott of DADA lessons.

www.fanfiction.net/s/6448082/1/DADA-boycott

It does, unfortunately, seem to have been abandoned, so I don't know how the author was going to end it, but what has been written is interesting.

[Kitty279]

I think I remember that one, though it's been a while and it went to quite an extreme, IIRC.

[ginnyrules27]

I remember that story too--it had a good beginning but went too far in my opinion.

Kitty279, I never really thought about them leaving home. But would you really think Hermione Granger would risk her OWL's to protest the Ministry? Also, the only people who would have cared would have muggle raised students and those parents wouldn't have been able to storm the ministry or Hogwarts as they'd be unable to see it.

I was thinking more along the lines of the muggle raised students (be it muggle born or students like Harry) bring in muggle products and annoy the hell out of Umbridge with them. You know, remind everyone that it's a muggle world and the purebloods are just guests in it.

[Kitty279]

But it wasn't just the muggleborn who had the problem with "more than three students", but every student in the school, and I think even the purebloods would have realised that sleeping in their dormitory, sitting in their common room, eating in the Great Hall and going to class were all against the decree. At least after a muggleborn put their noses just onto the problem. It surprises me that Hermione didn't say at once that then all that is not allowed any longer, seeing that she is supposed to think logical.


I don't know ... Umbitch would have the Inquisitorial Squad confiscate every single item sent, and have them searched after Hogsmeade visits, and made bringing anything muggle into the school illegal. There, she had the power, and the pureblood parents wouldn't have cared. But wouldn't they care about their children being not allowed to go to class, eat or sleep? Or about not being allowed to use magic in a magical school? It was completely illogical that Umbitch got away with that latter in the book, I just can't believe that no one complained to their parents, not even the purebloods.

[RandomPasserby]

Unionise and strike.

There's been a National Union of Students since the 1920's. Technically it's a union made up of a confederation of university student unions and it can't actually strike (although it can protest) but there's no reason the wizarding world would know that. I doubt they even have a concept of a union.

The 5th-7th years who had even the slightest contact with the muggle world during the 80's would probably have grown up hearing about trade unions. Margaret Thatcher and the unions were scuffling all through the 80's (though only the 7th years would have been alive for the Winter of Discontent but other students might have parents who mentioned it).

Have Hermione organise the first Hogwarts Union of Students. And then call a general strike.

Hell, have her advise the dissenting teachers to form the Hogwarts Union of Teachers.

Legally you are not required to disclose the names of union members, you cannot be threatened because you are a member of a union, you cannot be told that you can't join a union and you cannot be dismissed for being in (or not being in) a union. I believe all or most of these legal protections were enacted before 1995/6.

[Kitty279]

Only problem is, I doubt the MInistry would care about union laws and just declare everything they do as illegal and reason to expel or fire them. We know that the MoM seems to have their very own laws, or at least ignores existing laws if it suits their needs.

But of course, if all of Hogwarts, or at least three houses (I can't very well see at last parts of Slytherin go with the idea of a Muggleborn) joins the strike, it could still work.