"Correction, she’s my property," Ron sneered back. "And I’ll do what I like with my own possessions, thank you very much. I’ll make her pay for all times she’s shown me up, for making me share the same Mudblood air with her for so many years. No wonder I was so hopeless for so long ... she held me back. Well, turnabout’s fair play, isn’t it? Now I get to hold her down, under my boot if I choose it.