Don't cry, Jemima. Don't let this hag of a girl shouting you down make you cry, like a stupid child.
It was only words, Miss Whitledge said - and yes, indeed, it had only been words, thoughtless, careless words!! written by Jemima in piques of feeling, nothing more! - but apparently "only" hadn't diminished the offence taken by the Slytherin.
"I hope you don't think I ever meant for my words to be read by the likes of you," Jemima bit out, angry at the prospect of being branded the guilty one, when she was just as much a victim of this - if not more, the most badly hurt! If she couldn't glean otherwise from Miss Whitledge's present rant, Jemima wouldn't have put it past the girl to have been behind it all. She suspected Sweetie Whitledge had been waiting for a moment like this all her life.
It was only words, Miss Whitledge said - and yes, indeed, it had only been words, thoughtless, careless words!! written by Jemima in piques of feeling, nothing more! - but apparently "only" hadn't diminished the offence taken by the Slytherin.
"I hope you don't think I ever meant for my words to be read by the likes of you," Jemima bit out, angry at the prospect of being branded the guilty one, when she was just as much a victim of this - if not more, the most badly hurt! If she couldn't glean otherwise from Miss Whitledge's present rant, Jemima wouldn't have put it past the girl to have been behind it all. She suspected Sweetie Whitledge had been waiting for a moment like this all her life.
