"I am really unsure that you'd want to hear the former at all, it's, it's really quite mortifying," Hermione groaned, shaking her head with a laugh and pressing her forehead into the palm of her hand. Even now, she could still feel the flush rising to her cheeks, hot and embarrassed. The three friends had always shared a great deal between one another, but there were certain lines that simply weren't meant to be crossed. She wasn't sure if the boys had talked any further about it between themselves, but for her part, Hermione had never bothered to bring up the incident to Harry again from the next morning forward. With a small noise of protest in her throat, she pulled herself back up again, taking a breath and thinking back to earlier years.
"But as for punching, well. Have you met Draco Malfoy at all? He's on the island, light blond hair, pale, fairly thin in build," she described, resting her hands on her lap. "Growing up, he had the tendency to refer to me by a term that was really quite offensive. Mudblood, meaning impure or dirty blood, used to refer to wizards and witches who haven't descended from magic. The first time he'd thrown that name my way, I was a bit surprised, though I wasn't half as familiar with it as people actually born into the community, which I suppose is the worst part of it all. But with each repetition over the years, I grew more frustrated, until once, I... you know, he was being a jerk, and I punched him in the nose. It was quite gratifying."
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Date: 2011-09-27 09:19 am (UTC)"But as for punching, well. Have you met Draco Malfoy at all? He's on the island, light blond hair, pale, fairly thin in build," she described, resting her hands on her lap. "Growing up, he had the tendency to refer to me by a term that was really quite offensive. Mudblood, meaning impure or dirty blood, used to refer to wizards and witches who haven't descended from magic. The first time he'd thrown that name my way, I was a bit surprised, though I wasn't half as familiar with it as people actually born into the community, which I suppose is the worst part of it all. But with each repetition over the years, I grew more frustrated, until once, I... you know, he was being a jerk, and I punched him in the nose. It was quite gratifying."