Kicked

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: None.
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Note: Double drabble for captnobvious, who has just started law school and was telling me about Vosburg v. Putney. Sounded like Draco to me.

Draco scowled, partly because he was learning that he was innately very good at the expression, but mainly because his patience was wearing a little thin. This, after only the first few months of his first year at school.

"Look, if I'd been trying to make his leg fall off I would have at least made a decent show of it." He thought carefully, with consideration for diagrams in books. "There would have been pus. Or lizards. Making someone's leg fall off by kicking them in the shin seems... bit of an unreliable method. I've certainly never heard of a proven case to recommend it."

Draco sniffed and dismissed accusations of family arrogance without another thought. If people would stop behaving quite this idiotically, so thoroughly inferior, then maybe he wouldn't have to feel so superior. Which was really quite a confusing thing to feel with Snape and McGonagall peering imperiously down at him.

Neither seemed to think him particularly amusing, arms folded, eyes narrowed. "This is no laughing matter, Mr. Malfoy. Madam Pomfrey was hard pushed to reattach the limb in time, a most complicated procedure."

That was McGonagall, wiry voice unamused. Snape was silent, seeing further, still unamused.