Hermione had expected Ravenclaw or Slytherin to be the most paranoid about security, but it had been the gentle badger wanting to contain her experiments. Only air could pass through the barrier once erected. She opened the jar. The bespectacled beetle launched itself from her cage and sped for the window, only to crash into the wards. Spinning it flew at the door ending with the same results. "Come now, Rita, how dumb do you think we are? Change back, the sooner you start begging for your life the sooner this will all be over."