The distance between what she'd been expecting and what he said could not have been greater. She swayed in the aftershocks of it, still fiercely holding his gaze as she fought through the hazy dissonance until her expression slackened with realization.
"That's not funny." she said with a cold timber and turned on her heel to walk away from him, forgetting that there was nothing behind her but a fireplace and that her actual way out was a house elf that was lurking somewhere near by. Before she managed to remember, she'd made another wobbling turn and was marching right back at him, hands balled into fists at her sides.
"And why wouldn't I have you?" she demanded. "Its me that's -" she gave an impatient wave of her hand.
"That's not funny." she said with a cold timber and turned on her heel to walk away from him, forgetting that there was nothing behind her but a fireplace and that her actual way out was a house elf that was lurking somewhere near by. Before she managed to remember, she'd made another wobbling turn and was marching right back at him, hands balled into fists at her sides.
"And why wouldn't I have you?" she demanded. "Its me that's -" she gave an impatient wave of her hand.