Back in business
"Let me get this straight..." Raph sat in the Gryffindor table beside Harry and Ron, his frown deepening. "You... Went out in the middle of the night, to an obvious trap, and almost died because of a three headed dog in the forbidden corridor?"
"That checks out, yes." Ron nods.
"And you didn't listen to Hermione."
"Well... We were going to be quick about it..." Harry reasoned.
"All of you are idiots, how are you not dead yet."
"Raph!"
A piece of crumpled up paper hits the side of Raph's head with accuracy. Harry and Ron looked over to the side to see the rest of the Hamato brothers.
Michelangelo was waving, his other hand already has another piece of parchment to throw to get his brother's attention. Donnatello was walking in alongside the Hufflepuff with his little smile, his chest puffed out with confidence. In his hand was a small red box. Behind them, Leonardo walked in a much slower pace, he didn't know if he was welcomed on the Gryffindor table given the fact he was a Slytherin, but he was content hanging back.
"What do you want?" Raph huffs.
Mikey slides beside him, right in between him and Ron, making the red head stumble into Harry.
"Get ready for your mind to be blown, brotha!" Mikey says, he then makes trumpet noises with his mouth as Donnie sits on Raph's other unoccupied side.
He places the red box in front of his brother in a flourish, letting Mikey's fanfair to continue.
"Your new and improved, magically powered hearing aids!"
Raph's eyes widen. He opens the box and there they were, it didn't really lool different, but it looked brand new. He smiled softly as he picked it up.
"You actually did it?" Hermione suddenly popped up from the other side of the table, her eyes glinting with wonder. "How does it work?"
Donnie laugh, not really that used to people asking him how his inventions work, it would usually be just his brothers, Leo was the most patient when it comes to his scientific jargon, Raph was only interested when it's cool and Mikey doesn't understand most of what he says but he liked the funny words.
"Well... It took a lot of theory and math but i figured it out. Still though, magic is so unpredictable that i blew up a couple of my test electronics." Donnie starts to explain. "Based from the information you gave me from 'Hogwarts: A History', this school is full of wards in order to stop muggles from randomly stumbling upon our school. That in itself is a lot of magic, although it doesn't really make sense why electronics won't work unless there is more magic around us. My theory is that the magic we students make over the years and the magic that makes the castle seemingly alive is adding to the signals that interfere with electricity running in this place, resulting in explosions or short circuiting of the devices."
"I don't understand half of those." Ron says. "But i have to admit, you have to be pretty smart if you managed to breach the wards like that. But how does it work? I know your muggle things work using elektisity."
"Electricity." Harry corrects.
"Yeah, that."
"It's quite simple!" Donnie looked excited to explain. "Since magic is basically just a wild form of energy, in it's purest form, it is a great source of power! I made Raph's hearing aids to work both with a muggle battery and!" He suddenly plucks out one of his brother's hearing aids from his hand as he was finishing adjusting the other, earning him a sharp 'Hey!' "It basically works like a solar panel! Using the already high concentration of magic around to power it all on it's own! Isn't that—"
"Amazing!" Hermione finishes.
"Give me that." Raph snatches is back before attaching it to his ear.
His brothers plus Harry, Ron, and Hermione watch closely as he adjusts the small knobs attached to it.
They were waiting, wide eyed if it would work—
"BOO!"
Raph shouts out in surprise, covering his ears.
"Malfoy!" Harry shouts at the perpetrator.
There he was, Draco Malfoy with a shit eating grin flanked by his dunderheaded body guards, his hands cupped over his mouth to amplify his shout. He moves away from Raph, who's ears were ringing. The poor Gryffindor was hunched iver as he adjusted the knobs in the device once more, trying to get rid if the annoying ringing. He was laughing. Ron wanted to wipe that stupid grin on his face.
(Unbeknownst to them, Leo was holding the bread knife up, his expression carefully blank as he positions his hand for a stab. Mikey's smile turned sharp as he grabbed two forks, ready to throw it as projectiles. Donnie was holding on a mini electronic speaker that would undoubtedly explode when turned on, a small frown on his face.)
"So you can hear!" Malfoy says with a sneer. "What's with that weird thing in your ear, huh—"
Before Malfoy can grab it, Leo's hand shoots out of nowhere and grabbed his wrist with a vice grip. The bread knife gone (the brothers tucked their 'weapons' away), his face had a cold smile on it. His blue eyes was cold as ice, it made Malfoy shiver.
"Do not even think about it." He says.
The Slytherin tried to yank his hand away but the hold on his got tighter and the air around this area of the great hall got colder. There were alresdy tears about to form in Malfoy's eyes when a savior in form of their Potions Professor appeared.
"What is the meaning of this?" He demands.
Leo let's go of Malfoy's wrist, the blonde yanks his arm away, massaging the area, his face fkished pink from the embarrassment of getting caught.
"Professor they—"
The three Hamatos glared at him, causing him to choke up. (He swears their eyes turned completely white for a second)
"He yelled at Raph, Professor." Hermione says.
Professor Snape raises an eyebrow at that. "Is that so? I thought he was deaf?"
"Donnie fixed his hearing something." Ron says.
"And then Malfoy yelled directly at Raph's ear!" Harry continues for them.
"Is that true, Mr. Malfoy?"
"It was just a silly prank." Malfoy says, crossing his arms and looking away to hide a small smirk. "Plus i was making sure he wasn't lying."
"Oh? See, it was a just a harmless prank, no need to react so..." The Professor eyes Leonardo for a moment. "... Violently. Now go to your respective tables before i start deducting points."
The brothers were forced to get separated, Leo checks up on Raph one last time. He seemed fine if he was abke to shove a very mich clingy Michelangelo away from him.
As Mikey waved goodbye to the Gryffindor table, something dark flashes in his baby blue eyes...
"You want a harmless prank?" He says under his breath. "I'll give you a harmless prank..."
With a grin he runs off, laughing to himself, surprising people near him.
"Dr. Prankenstein is back in business baby!"
(If Malfoy went to get breakfast with bright neon orange hair that wouldn't fade until a weak later, it wasn't Mikey.
And if asked how it was done, it wasn't Donnie's genius potion skills.
And if someone asked how someone got into the Slytherin dorm, Leo doesn't know.
Raph being happy for a whole week isn't connected to the event.)