"And that Colin remembered them in the first place." It had been Colin Creevy who had come across some very, very old pictures of Aurors in the uniforms. Hermione still wasn’t sure why they had fallen out of favour. The Auror who had dropped the armour off had seemed to think it had something to do with the uniforms making Aurors lazy with their blocking, relying on the armour too much. Hermione thought he didn’t actually know and was just guessing at the reason. But either way, Hermione didn’t plan on relying on very old armour that she knew almost nothing about – as far as she concerned it was only there in case she blocked and the spell got through anyway. From what the Auror had said, the wards and charms would turn a stupefy into a mild momentary dizziness, and a cutting curse into a light slash, and so on.