Wednesday, October 2, 1995. 7:25 PM.

[Bob Schroeck]

Hermione looked up from the book in front of her when two shadows
blocked the light that hovered above and behind her.  Fred and
George Weasley grinned as one at her and dropped into the seats
on either side of her at the library table where she had spent
several hours in fruitless research.  "Good evening, Hermione,"
they proclaimed together.

"Good evening," she replied cautiously.

"Word on the street," one -- whom she decided was Fred, given 
that every time she had known for *sure* which was which, Fred 
had always been the one to charge forward or take the leadership 
role -- said, "claims you know something about the gold handprint 
on the wall of the Defence classroom."

She closed the book and raised an eyebrow.  "On the *street*?"
she asked dubiously.

"Well, in the halls," said the presumed George.

"More precisely, the Common Room," amended Fred.

Hermione simply regarded them calmly, eyebrow still raised.

The twins sighed in unison at her refusal to play along.  "Ron
told us," George admitted.

"So?" Fred asked.  "Do you?"
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Niteflier]

I seem to remember Doug making that hand print already, but a quick check of the last few chapters shows nothing. Either way, still cool what he did.

[Matrix Dragon]

Nice touch with Hermione using logic working out how the twins work.

[DHBirr]

drogan niteflier wrote:

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I seem to remember Doug making that hand print already, but a quick check of the last few chapters shows nothing. Either way, still cool what he did.

Chapter 4, drogan.  Most of the way down the page.
I don't know that she was using all that much logic.  Just waiting them out, refusing to give them any information until they were honest and precise with her.  Simple common sense.

Now arises the question of whether something they ask, or something she says while telling them about the transmutation, will stir a useful idea in her data-crammed head.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Norgarth]

DHBirr wrote:

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I don't know that she was using all that much logic.  Just waiting them out, refusing to give them any information until they were honest and precise with her.  Simple common sense.

Particularly when dealing with The Weasley Twins.
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

[Labster]

All I can think when I read this that Hermione has been watching old episodes of Star Trek and is practicing her Spock impersonation.
-- ∇×V

[Bob Schroeck]

Well, part of this is Emma Watson's infamous "eyebrow acting". Which does echo Spock's "fascinating eyebrow" at times.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[DHBirr]

vorticity wrote:

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All I can think when I read this that Hermione has been watching old episodes of Star Trek and is practicing her Spock impersonation.

I'm reminded of a passage in one of Mercedes Lackey's books:  a dragon, who's Emperor-knows-how-old but currently wearing human form, "raised one long eyebrow at Tannim in a gesture that Tannim knew perfectly well had been copied after long study of Leonard Nimoy." 
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.