This Means War!

[Ismene Swift]

First the bizarre girl had flung mud at her—accidentally or not—and now she had the gall to question Ismene’s manners? The Hufflepuff was not altogether sure this Miss Ruggles was sane, and could not help but wonder when Hogwarts had begun admitting the unbalanced. Though her displeasure was evident on her face, however, Issie was saved from the compulsion to lower herself to pettiness by Miss Lynch’s interjection.

“I should think that to be the case,” Ismene added, trying her best to rise above—as best as she was able, at the very least. While her mother’s absence from the school this year did wonders for her nerves, it also rendered the sixth year ‘freer’ with her tongue than she might have liked.

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