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Namjoon rolled his eyes. “For you, nit! Just imagine if You-Know-Who couldn’t hurt you?”

“I already had a protection spell like that,” Jimin muttered, uncomfortable with the memory. “He found a way around that.”

namjoon looked startled and ashamed at his comment. “Well, well...another one can’t hurt!”

“I wasn’t suggesting actually using it.” hoseok emphasized, “I thought we should show it to the teachers first.”

“Why bother with that? We could get all this stuff --” He waved at the page. “-- ourselves. The Professors would just dither about it ‘til there’s no point anymore!”

“But we don’t know exactly how it works or what the dangers are!” hoseok said, “For all we know, it could turn Harry into a wart on You-Know-Who’s neck! Can’t hurt him there for sure, and wouldn’t that be a lovely thing to explain to Professor Dumbledore later?”

Jimin raised an eyebrow at the idea of becoming a wart. He glanced over the page again, noticing that namjoon was right---they could get all of the ingredients on their own. Hmm...have to wait a couple weeks until the stars were the right alignment, but that would give them time to collect everything. He frowned. Did he really want to try this? Of course, any extra protection against the Dark Lord would be worth the effort. But Hoseok was right, maybe...

“Maybe if we tried it with someone else.” Jimin interrupted whatever comeback Namjoon was working on. His friends turned to blink at him. “I mean, someone not super important and do it here at Hogwarts. If something goes wrong, well then, the Professors could fix it.”

They watched him for moment, then looked at each other, eyes communicating in a way that had begun to make Jimin feel horribly left out. Apparently, they reached some kind of an agreement, because Hoseok nodded and Namjoon asked;

“Who?”

Jimin frowned. “Um...someone who hates me, but not enough to kill me if something goes wrong.”

“Snape?” Namjoon suggested.

“Oh heavens, no!” said Hoseok, affronted at the very idea. “He may be a jerk, but he’s still a teacher. Besides, even if it did work, we’d be years paying for it”

“Hoseok's right,” Harry said, “It has to be a student.”

Suddenly, Namjoon's eyes light up. “Jungkook.” He grinned. “No, just think about it! He hates Jimin, but he’s a student and if the spell works, then he won’t let his dad touch Jimin.”

“And if the spell doesn’t work?”

“We hope for the best.”

“Ruddy good plan there.”

“Shut up. So, Jimin?”

Jimin frowned, turning it over in his head a few times. It would be nice to get Jungkook off his back and since his Dad’s buddies with Voldemort---well, that would be an added bonus. He thought for a breath longer then decided.

“Alright, I’ll do it. Let's just do our best now ”

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