Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Third Year, Battle of Hogwarts, Pissed Off Hermione, Hermione Has Had Enough

What’s in my line of sight?

Hermione hated Quidditch and the only reason she was there for the opening game was because her best friend was playing.
She, of course, was stuck sitting between the Weasley fanatics who were screaming and yelling with each play. Ruining her blocked hearing even with the earplugs she was wearing. Then came the run up by Harry, into the sky for the snitch and the Dementor attack. They’re trying to get to Harry and his finally falling. If it weren’t for the staff, he would have died.

Her own wand pointed to the skies over their heads as their presence had brought storms she was going to use now. While there were always derogatory comments about her not knowing her limits and place, she knew them just fine.
The limits on her casting was it had to be within her sight for her to affect it. Problem with that was if she took that literally as she looked above the Demons.

When asked later how she had done it, her reply was she had used what was in her sight. They just limited themselves as to what that meant. To her above the Demons lay the whole Universe literally above the skies of the planet.
As to the planet itself, there were the layers of atmosphere to work with. With the storm in place she used this for her own attack by creating lightning in the upper layers of the storm to heat the skies to attack.

The Demons swooped to attack the terror stricken students with the staff trying to drive them away with the Patronus’. She further heated the atmosphere until a large heated lightning strike met the ground lightning and obliterated the Demons attacking the Game from the center of the court. A huge BOOM! Echoing outwards as it hit and deafened everyone. Bright light coming from the twin strikes meeting over the center, blinding everyone.

When things cleared a huge burning pit was now the entire center of the Game Court with only a few pieces of the Demon cloaks floating in the air to show they had been there.

Harry’s best male friend who was a bullying arse to her shat his trousers at the mess when looking at her wand raised in the air, then at the center.
Snape’s eyes were huge as his greasy hair stood on end from being near the center, his own wand that had been pointed at the Demon’s was now kindling that was slowly disintegrating.
Neither he, nor his snakes, ever bothered Hermione again when her answer to her known limitation was she could SEE the Universe and let them extrapolate from there.

Unfortunately, their parents ignored them until the final battle and each and every one ended up as their own version of kindling. Including their vaunted leader.
Seems Dumbles was wrong and it wasn’t love that was the Power He Knew Not, but a pissed off friend that placed herself between him and his enemy and blew them up.

Funny thing, after that, the Weasley’s left the two of them alone to get on with their lives as none of them wanted to find themselves as their own fireplace kindling.
The fact the Hermione described in epic detail a new video she got to watch with her parents before they went into hiding. Staring a glamourless Farrah. The name?
The Burning Bed.

Fin
6/14/2026