In The Shadows [Book Two]

Chapter Five:

Chapter Five: 

In the office, all was quiet.  Ron and Ginny Weasley as well as Neville Longbottom were still gagged, but trying to fight off their captors.  Looney Lovegood stood limply next to her own, staring out the window as if she had not a care in the world. 

All was quiet... except for the steady stream of curses I was spitting out at every Slytherin and adult in the room.  For the most part, I could tell I was being ignored, except for Pansy Parkinson.  Her face was steadily getting more and more purple, her eyes were filling with anger and soon, she was releasing Lovegood to take long strides over towards me.  

  A moment later, I felt a small sting on my cheek and lip, my head jerked a bit to the left.   

"You hit like Draco, and he hits like a frail old woman," I sneered at Pansy, grinning as I tasted blood in my mouth.  

Her ugly little face scrunched up, which definitely didn't help her attractiveness at all, and then her foot lashed out at me, making contact with my shin.  That one hurt a lot more than the slap, and I barely managed to withhold my scream of rage and pain.  "You kick like a three year old girl."