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Tegz 
Ruby gasped at the chalk snatching and sucked in her bottom lip to keep it still. She glared at the professor and then stared at the shapes written up. Words. Sure. Whatever. Trying to copy was even harder than writing what someone told her to write. It swam before her eyes, like the letters thought it was funny not to stay where they belonged. Ruby knew what it said, but
knowing what it said,
reading what it said, and
writing it, were three very different things. She lifted her chin and took the chalk then stepped close to the board again. She wrote painstakingly, determined and yet she was kind of shaken by it now and frustrated and anxious and that just made it even
worse. The chalk didn't make it easier either, and the stupid dress and the cushion crown, and the professor
looking at her like that...
Eyes prickling slightly now, she met Bellaire's eyes, chin still up and defiant.
Sophia watched as Ruby continued to mock her. The transfigurations professor was so livid she was shaking, her lips had transformed to a line and she could most definitely feel heat coming from her ears. It took all her will power to not transform the child into something unnatural.
To resist, she moved her hands away from her hip and away from the wand.
"You have detention for a month Miss Banner and you will miss all upcoming Hogsmeade weekends until I think you have learned your lesson ." She had no idea how she was able to deliver that line calmly, but she did.
"What satisfaction are you getting from disobeying direct instructions?"