A/N: For the Monthly Het-tastic Drabble-athlon competition, January 2014.
jaggernaut
21: Handle
The way a person held their wand in a duel was interesting. If it hung limply off their fingertips, they couldn't be too concerned. If it was a jabbing motion, they were aggressive and didn't think too much about reach. Anarchic almost, as though it was a knife or a blade being stabbed down to someone they'd already restrained – so while the Dark Lord could and would use that motion for lesser beings who could not resist, most others did so only in overconfidence – and they paid the price.
Then there was the looser hold, enough so the wand could dance amiably across fingers and aim and many a direction, but not so much so that the firm grip was lost. That was the most common amongst the experienced, but also the less original.
They were different. She held her wand with brittle-looking fingertips that could easily nudge the wand away from an Expelliamus and carve blood into the battle. His used to be of the typical Auror, but he watched her battles carefully and so how much more versatile her hold was, when she didn't rely on the sturdy calloused palm to support her but let those fingers that should do the guiding guide her. And he began to adopt that hold – part unconsciously, part not…because, and so, he could see her fingers dancing around his wand.