Bloodlines and Power

Nor did she believe Potter had any right to disfigure her no matter what he believed. She was a pureblood daughter of a respectable house. He was only a halfblood with a deceased line of ancestors. Yes, he would inherit a title and a boatload of money but with no people and being a halfblood, he was less than her. He was just the chosen sacrifice for people like herself. It was her birthright to use him as she saw fit for her own betterment. The Headmaster said so.

Before she had managed to take two steps his magic had wrapped around her calling forth her own magic to answer his charge. Her magic swelled out from her core to meet his and her flight was halted mid-step. Her own innate magic pulled her back and turned her around to face her master.

Hermione had finally snapped out of her shock over her own denouncement. The threat he posed to Ginny had brought her out of her own skull enough to be aware of her surroundings again. She was screaming at Harry to stop it. Threatening to tell the Headmaster and her favorite Professor on him. Trying to dock points right and left in her capacity as a prefect. None of it did any good. Professor Snape simply gave back the points she tried to take. Points which Fawkes had taken care of. Fawkes let the points the Professor gave stand as the Professor felt Harry deserved them for his handling of his most ardent tormentors but refused to honor the points Hermione was trying to dock. People forgot, if they ever really knew, that Fawkes was a representative of the school just as any of the staff were. He too could give or take points from the student population. He rarely did so because to him, most the students were the same and in the larger scheme of things points won or lost during school days didn't really mean anything.

Nor could Hermione actually move from the spot she was standing so she couldn't actually help Ginny at all. She couldn't step in front of Ginny or aide her in escaping the room though it was clear she wanted to. Harry hadn't released her yet. Nor had he given her his terms for the future. She couldn't do anything except yell for Professor McGonagal and berate Harry.

Once again, Harry had called upon the old magic to come forth and judge this girl marking her with an appropriate rune for her crimes against him. All the students had seen Ginny's magic swelling forth to meet Harry's and now they were all watching in awe as the smooth skin of Ginerva Weasely's face was marked with a rune just slightly different and lighter than Hermione's rune. This was something they knew they'd be unlikely to ever see again and none of them wanted to miss a second of it.

Granted, her marking was more expansive than Hermione's as it spread across her face to encompass her entire cheek but it wasn't as deeply embedded and was of a lighter hue when it finished forming. Somehow, everyone witnessing it, believed that was only because she was a year younger than her brother and the other girl. She hadn't been a part of their actions during the first Hogwarts year. Nor had she taken an active role in leading him into harms way during any year except for her own first year. Well, except for directing that boy, Denis, in Harry's direction.

"And last but definitely not least, let me tell you that you have yet to do anything I feel the slightest need to pay you for. Hell, you haven't even done anything to cover the cost of your tuition that I've been paying since you reached the age of eleven yourself. You barely even manage to pass your classes. And you've taken one of the two most useless electives the school offers. The only thing that would've been worse is if you'd signed up for Muggle Studies instead of Creature Care. At least Creature Care is required for some career fields and can be useful in others even when it's not required. Nor do you have a interfering busybody of a Headmaster forcing you to waste your education taking pointless and useless classes."

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