Running to Stand Still

Bianca walked through the hallways searching for mudbloods. She needed to remind some of them that they should not be alive or at Hogwarts. So, she would look around for one to torture.

Lesley fished her timetable out of her bag, continuing to walk as she did so. Knowing that she needed to learn her timetable so she didn't need to continue to fish it out between classes she glanced at it. "Defence," She mused stuffing it back into her bag. "Okay." She glanced up, and froze for a split second upon seeing Bianca. She frowned at herself. Pity she hadn't been looking up, she could have gone down a different corridor. And turning around now, would be pretty obvious. With a sigh, she continued to walk. Trying to look inconspicuous.

Bianca saw a mudblood walk down the hallway--what was her name? Lesley, she was pretty sure. After torturing Darcie for a while, she was in the mood for murder. Lesley did not belong in the school, either, being a mudblood, and it would only be right to torture her as well. She had potions next, and her professor always allowed her to come into class late. The beauty of favoritism at work. "Oi, you," Bianca shouted.

Lesley ignored her as she swerved around some people. If she could get to the end of the corridor she'd be in a busier area, and therefore have less chance of being targeted. She had to however get to the hallway first. She pushed her hair out of her face, as she walked, speeding up slightly.

Bianca chased Lesley down the hall, never moving more quickly than a brisk walk, but somehow catching up to Lesley. She hoped to follow her into a quiet, empty hallway, where she would do what she wanted. She was not doing anything wrong, but it was more fun when there was no audience.

What didn't help Lesley was the fact that she was running late. And the class she had, the Professor was very stingy against the students who came late. Which meant Les had to take a short cut through one of the less used hallways of Hogwarts. She frowned as she turned out of a main corridor and down another.

Bianca was gaining on Lesley. "You. Mudblood. Come over here." Lesley would be running out of places to run, soon, and that is when she would have her.

Lesley continued to ignore her, and started to speed up. She fought the urge to snap at the girl for calling her a mudblood.

"Petrificus totalus," Bianca muttered under her breath as soon as Lesley walked around the corner of the next hallway. She dragged her over to the wall. "Heya, there, mudblood. Thought you could ignore me, did you? How sadly mistaken you were."

Lesley's body froze, she inwardly winced, swearing inside her head as she tried to move. Though she knew that it was impossible, any amount of wriggling wasn't going to undo the spell. She was dragged over to the wall and pushed against it. It was an odd feeling being unable to move anything.

Cor was walking along, bored stiff. He didn't actually need to be on time for class. Then he saw Les, walking along late. He smirked. The smile faded, however, when he saw Bianca chasing Lesley. "Crap," he muttered to himself. Not good at all.

Lesley continued to stare at Bianca, wondering what the other girl was going to do to her. She hoped nothing too bad, but knowing her reputation that wasn't going to happen.

Bianca walked up to Lesley, bending down and getting a bit too close to her face. "Ello there, madame mudblood. How are you this fine day? Although, really, for you, I doubt it will be a very fine day."

Lesley tried to move her head to the side, so she didn't have to look at Bianca, but again she was stopped from the spell looking her in place. It was probably lucky that she couldn't talk however, as that may have ended with her digging herself into a bigger hole then she was already in.

Corey watched what was going on, and did not approve. He did not think this chick had any right to hurt Lesley. He was going to have to step up and stop this, before someone got hurt.

"Hey, you. What the heck do you think you're doing with this girl?"

Lesley's eyes flickered sideways hearing Corey's voice, if she could have, she would have frowned. As she had a feeling that Bianca wasn't going to like being told what to do by Corey.

Bianca turned to face Corey. "And how do you think it's okay to tell me what to do, Corey? Blood traitor. Just because you are a pure blood does not mean you can waltz around and tell me what to do. I'm trying to keep the blood of our people PURE. I have every right to protect it by destroying this FILTH."

*Lesley is doing nothing by stand there and watch this encounter unfold*

Cor snorted. "Keeping the bloodline pure? So THAT's what you call this? Where the heck did you get such a ludicrous idea? How is torturing WIZARDS making the wizarding world pure? Explain that to me?"

Lesley thought that he did have a point. It wasn't going to help make blood lines pure, it was just going to end up with a lot of dead people, and people in Azkaban.

Bianca wrinkled her nose. "By preventing THOSE imbeciles from marrying pure wizards and diluting the line. I would have thought another good, honest pureblood wizard would have known that. It's common sense. Haven't you talked to Tom Riddle?"

So he was the nutcase behind all of this, Lesley thought. Now that made sense. Tom Riddle had quite a terrifying reputation around the school, and just about everyone knew that it was a very bad idea to cross him.

Corey's face darkened. "Mr. Riddle can share his opinions all he wants, but I find that I generally do not agree with them. Do you even know this girl? Do you know a thing about her, besides her parentage? Why do her parents even matter? So what if she is not 'pureblooded'. Since when does that matter? It never mattered before!"

Despite how annoying she found Corey, she got a small amount of respect for him at that point. Both for his opinion on the matter, and because he was sticking to it. Which she couldn't have said for a lot of people who came up against Bianca.

Bianca's face warped into something dark and dangerous. "You dare to stand up against me? You little piece of lint! How dare you say such things!" Bianca turned her wand away from Lesley and toward Corey. Corey pulled his wand out, as well. "Just try it, bud," Bianca sneered. Corey responded, "I'm not going to hurt anyone, pureblooded or not." While Bianca was focused on him, he muttered, "Run, now," to Lesley.