444. Kind

Everyone in the entrance hall was staring at a first year Slytherin girl trying to make sense of what she had just said.

A confrontation between Pansy Parkinson and Bree Smith had caused the former to start yelling insults at the latter. Pansy had called Bree "evil" and "twisted" and "sadistic" and right when Bree was about to respond with her own insults the little first year had shouted "No she's not! She's kind!"

Silence descended as everyone was too shocked to do anything other then stare. Well everyone except for Bree. Her face was marred by confusion and she kept mouthing the word "kind" as if she had never heard it before. And she hadn't. Not when it was being used to describe her anyway. When someone used the word "kind" to describe Bree Smith there was usually an "is not" thrown somewhere in there. Finally, Dean broke the silence.

"You're talking about her, right?" Dean asked the first year as he pointed at Bree. The first year nodded timidly, having lost her confidence after being stared at for so long.

"Are you sure?" Dean pressed. The first year nodded again.

"Why?"

"She… um… she helped me find my classroom when I got lost." The first year explained softly.

Ah. Bree remembered now, the girl had been distraught and crying when Bree had run into her. It was such a pathetic sight that Bree felt as if she had no other choice to help the girl.

"Smith did something nice? For a first year? With traumatizing her?" Draco questioned.

Everyone was staring at her now.

"You can be… kind?" Dean inquired slowly. Bree shrugged.

"Only to my friends, small children, pathetic people-in certain cases, pregnant women, and the elderly as long as their name isn't Dumbledore." Bree explained, then she turned and kicked Draco in the shin as a way of proving that she was not kind to anyone else.


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