One Slap

[ayboo_da_bish]

Title: One Slap
Author: ayboo_da_bish
Rating: G
Word Count: 234
Notes/Warning: My sisters are posting this for me since I can't come to the computer right now. Hehe. And my reasons for posting this late are the same as my sisters. :)
Prompt: Wrath, for easter2008 challenge

"How dare you call Hagrid pathetic- you foul- you evil-"

Her voice shook with rage as she slapped him hard across the face, leaving a bright red mark where her hand had been. He could only stare in shock at her flushed, angered expression as she took deep, calming breaths.

Had he ever been slapped before this? For the life of him, he could not remember a single time he had been.

She walked briskly away, her steps still erratic as she tried to control her rage. He gazed dumbly after her, still not comprehending what had happened to him.

Thirty minutes later found him seated in the Slytherin Common Room, idly twiddling his thumbs, the red mark on his cheek still visible.

Had anyone stood up to him in that way? He hadn’t even been insulting her. One had to admire such courage.

A long time later, his friends came to inform him that he had missed classes. He jumped up, swearing, unable to believe that he had missed a lesson thinking about her. After all, he was sure that she would never do such a thing for him. It was ridiculous.

Little did he know that right at that very moment, Hermione Granger was hurriedly attempting to explain her sudden absence from classes to her best friends, and was mentally hitting herself for the fact that she had been thinking of him too.