Ginerva spoke in a quivering voice since it was clear Ron couldn't seem to find his. "He marked you. There's some kind of a rune tattooed on your cheek now. It's dark and an angry red. Before you ask, no. I don't know what it is. Nor do I know the spell he used to make it appear there. So no, I can't remove it for you. Remember, I don't take runes. I take Creature Care and Divination. So even if I did know how he did it, I doubt I could remove it or read it for you. Neither would Ron."
Hermione whirled around to face Harry again and angrily demanded, "Remove it. Now! How dare you do this to me! I don't deserve this. All I've ever done is try to help you and you do this to me? What kind of an ungrateful brat are you? Well, you just showed everyone Professor Snape is right about you. You're just a bully with delusions of grandeur trading on his fame because that's all you have. You had no right to go marking me with anything, Harry Potter. If you don't remove it right this instant, I'll make you regret it until your dying day which won't come soon enough for you. I'll ask the Headmaster to throw you out of this school, Harry Potter. Let's see how far your fame will get you then," she finished with an angry sneer.
Harry pulled a thin, off-white booklet from his stack of reading material and threw it onto the tabletop with a smack. Madam Pince immediately recognized the booklet as one the Weasely Twins had read last term and seemed to spend a lot of time studying. Now she knew why. Those twins! They got into the strangest things.
"Well, now, you see that's where you're wrong. I checked it very carefully just to make certain I do indeed have the right to do what I just did to you."
"This is the magical world, Hermione Jean Granger of no family and no bloodline. In the Muggle World, while your actions might get you kicked out of school or sent to a Juvenile Facility for a few years after a day or two in court, here it's a different story. Everyone has been telling you since you first set foot in this world, life is lived by a different code here. We told you that over and over again. Like when you were trying to save Buckbeak from Draco's Dad. Or when you wanted to free all the house-elves who don't want to be free. Or when the girls begin talking about their betrothal contracts. You won't listen. That isn't our fault. It's yours."
"But for today, your ignorance of this world doesn't matter. Today, that stubborn obstinacy has caught up with you."
"And, just for the record, you can't get me thrown out of Hogwarts. You're just a muggleborn with delusions of how you're something special and going to make something of yourself one day. I am not. I am already someone special. This society declared it when I was fifteen months old. Which is totally stupid. But what's more I am the Heir to House Potter. When I turn seventeen I will be somebody in this world."
"And if Professor Snape can't seem to get me thrown out of Hogwarts, which we all knows he's trying to do, what in Merlin's name do you honestly believe you can do to achieve it? Do you honestly believe you have more influence here with the Headmaster than he does?"
"You call me a bully. What in the Sam Hill do you think you're engaging in right now? Threatening me with expulsion just because you don't like how this conversation played out for you. But then you came in here expecting to bully me didn't you? Bully me into giving you a key to my trust vault so you could keep stealing from me. And now you're trying to bully me into undoing what I just went to so much trouble to do."
He shook his head. "Try as you might I assure you, nothing you can do will make me regret the mark you now bear for your sins against me. Because you don't learn from just words. I gave you chance after chance to change the way you were treating me. Time after time, I hinted that I knew what you were doing and didn't like or appreciate it. You wouldn't stop. You wouldn't change your behavior. Now you will or you'll bear that mark for the rest of your days. Your choice."
"As for how far my fame can get me outside of Hogwarts, why would I care? I've been trying to downplay that stupidity from the first moment I heard of it. My position as heir to the House of Potter is much more useful to me. But then you wouldn't understand that as you don't believe in the nobility. Do you? Even though nobility exists even in your beloved muggle world. Because you aren't noble, right. You have no claim to a noble house in either world. Do you?"
"As for your new adornment, the truth is, you stood right here and admitted, of your own free will, in front of everyone, you're a bought and paid for person. You take my gold without my permission to force me to do things against my best judgement at the behest of another. Things that endanger my well-being for the express purpose of gaining this other person acclaim he hasn't earned. That makes you at best a servant to one and a thief to me. Not to mention an accomplice to murder should any of those traps you forced me into have been successful. At worst, you're a slave and a betrayer."
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