"Big words from a coward." Anne snarled, the action easier than admitting how much it hurt to be disappointed by her father yet again. He'd been her hero when she was little, when she still thought he was brave. Anne missed that and the man who used to make her feel safe, who'd felt like home.
Anne loved her mother, treasured her, but she had been her father's daughter through and through. There was a time when she thought that mattered, but now there was only bile and disappointment in its place.

Eyes narrowing further, if that was possible, Anne sneered. "You don't much like being responsible for anything." She thought of the times she'd cried for her father, the nights that mum had cried and Anne pretended not to hear. She thought of Ned's attempt to fill the void in the house, to be the man for his family when he was only a boy. It was Kit Moony's fault that his family knew hurt, that their world was broken beyond repair. Maybe mum and Ned had moved on, Anne almost hoped they had, but that wasn't her. There was no moving on from what this poor excuse of a wizard had done. And he wasn't going to lecture her out of her purpose. "Bloody right I'm smart," Anne wouldn't swear in front of her mother on purpose, it would be rude. In front of her father, it just seemed like a good idea. She wasn't anyone's little girl anymore. "And I'm going to be more than you could ever be. I wouldn't abandon my family."

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