the_debt_of_time

Mia turned away from the sight to clean Umbridge's hand-sweat off of her wand.
She looked to the audience where a shocked Harry watched the tiny dragons attack while
an unsurprised Remus observed, his hand still carefully placed on Harry's shoulder.
Sirius, on the other hand, was staring at Mia with a devious grin, and she could only
imagine the things he was planning in that depraved mind of his.
"Let me go!" Umbridge screamed as the fire burned away the rope around her neck,
leaving behind sizzling welts. "Let me go!"
"Are you giving up, Dolores? Do you not know how duels work? Are you begging
me for mercy?" Mia banished the dragons. One by one, they vanished into thin air. "Sirius,
my love, am I known for being merciful?"
He barked a laugh. "You've never shown me an ounce of it."
The crowd quietly laughed.
She stepped close, kneeling down beside Umbridge. "Perhaps I should learn to
show mercy. Dolores.. ." Mia whispered softly so that only the other witch could hear
her. "I'm not going to kill you. I am going to destroy you. When I am done with you, you'll
wish that the centaurs I trapped you with when I was sixteen had trampled you to death,
you prejudiced, toad-faced cunt. I will strip you of every ounce of dignity and watch your
soul bleed into the ether until I have the chance to bury you... alive, if I'm in the mood
for it. Finite!"
The ropes released Umbridge, and Mia stood, turning her back on the woman.
Umbridge stood, her purple robes burnt away, showing the singed pink cardigan
beneath. Her hair was burnt in several places, and there were flame induced blisters on her
left arm where a Dark Mark should have been. The witch, ignoring the mercy that Mia had
offered, bitterly raised her wand and began to cast, "Cruci―"
"Sectumsempra!" Mia spun, her hair flowing in a circled wave behind her as she
turned, wand slashing through the air like a fencing sword.
The curse cut through the skin of Umbridge's right arm down to the bone, spewing
blood onto the floor, and then down slicing straight through her wand, breaking it in two.
She gave a loud cry of anguish and fell to her knees, grasping at her bleeding arm.
"I offer mercy," Mia said loud and clear as she sheathed her wand in the holster at
her thigh.