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Stupidity
Everyone had presented her the option of leaving the courtroom when her memory of the first attack was to be played for the Wizengamot. However, she told them that she would be fine; she wasn't about to let Smith beat her again. She wanted to show him that he hadn't destroyed her yet and she wasn't about to let him. She was going to prove to him, he was no longer the daemon that haunted her at night; that he hadn't destroyed her as everyone else watched just what that bastard did to her.
However, she hadn't taken into account how watching Ron's memory of finding her would affect her. As the scene played out in front of her, she wondered how she could be so stupid; in horror she watched her own hand bloody falling into the moonlight; the blood gurgling from her mouth; the bruises and cuts marring her face; her uniform torn to reveal more cuts, and bruising. So much blood and so much colour on her normally pale skin.
Desperately, she turned into Ron, burying her head into his robes as they muffled her tears.
