A/N: Haven't properly read this through, so it might not make sense… :) Prompt seven:

Rebellion

Doc Martens weren't much of a rebellion, except that it said specifically on the rules that you were not allowed to wear boots. Most teachers just rolled their eyes and pretended not to notice.

Not so Dolores Umbridge.

Now, Demelza knew that it was petty, and yet she also knew that Colin was in something that he wasn't telling her, not to mention the fact that most people in her year had stood up to the Toady One except her.

She returned to her common room after the detention. The back of her hand was stinging like hell, and Colin said nothing apart from telling to get some murtlap on it, which she did. In a selfish sort of way, she was quite pleased that her handwriting was so neat; it curled across the back of her hand in a necklace of beaded blood organised into aesthetic swirls and loops.

I will do as I am told.

"God damn it, Demmy!" he said finally, and she was pleased that she'd finally coaxed a reaction from him. "It's fine for me to do it, but you!"

"And what's that supposed to mean?" she countered defensively.

"Look." He leaned forward on his haunches and cupped her hands in his, his gaze surprisingly piercing for someone usually so upbeat and gushing. "You've got to stay safe. I'm doing something about it, so you just keep your head down."

She got up and paced between the seats. A few heads flickered up around the room, but because it was so late they just settled back down, trying to get that last homework done before the next day. Colin sighed in defeat. "Go on, then. Why'd she torture you?"

Later, two years later, rebellion was much higher. And yet she did not long for the days when wearing Doc Martens to [Defence Against the] Dark Arts class would result in a painful evening with a pink dressed crone, rather than an excruciating night with a confirmed and unashamed Death Eater. Because rebellion fought away the hopelessness in people's eyes and pushed away the darkness that constantly gathered at the back of people's minds.

And this time she joined the rebellion.