Character Drabbles

[author_by_night]

I was bored, so decided to do some random character drabbles. All of them are probably roughly around 100-300 words and PG. Assume the drabbles are after HBP.

 

Ginny

In the end, I guess I should have known they'd leave, and that I'd end up alone.

It's not that I resent them. Harry has to fight You-Know... V... him, and really, why would he want to include me? I'm only the girl he claims to love, Ron's brother, one of Hermione's only female friends...

Okay, I guess I am a little taken aback.

Though really, it's not as though it's never been like this. Even Ron - as much as I love him, sometimes I think Harry is more his brother than I am his sister. And Hermione and I have always been close, but it was almost as though she saved me for the "girl stuff." We'd talk about Viktor, "that time of month", and I was the one who convinced her to do up her hair for the Yule Ball.

But to be frank, I don't think I could ever understand her like Ron and Harry do, and vice versa. Hermione sometimes scares me a little.

I feel selfish, I really do. I felt selfish all this past year, what with Dean (who I think is only trying not to believe I used him, and I'm not sure I didn't unintentionally use him), being too occupied with Dean and Harry to pay a lot of attention to Neville and Luna, hexing Zacharias Smith...

Maybe it's that I'm sick of being The Girl. The one who needs to be shielded, protected. The "slut" (thanks so much, Won-Won) who dares to have three boyfriends in two years. 

Maybe I just want to feel like a more important part of my brother and my - Harry's lives.

Oh well. The day will come.

I guess.

 

Fleur

I wish they wouldn't hate me.

I know they do, even if the insults have stopped.

Ginny Weasley still acts impatient when I am only trying to be honest. Fred and George Weasley still try and speak in french accents occasionally. And Molly... even after the Hospital Scene, sometimes I still catch her looking at me with an expression on her face that asks me, "how soon will you leave him? When will the inner Veela surface?"

She in no way intends for those thoughts to show, and I do not think she really wants to think them. Besides, the Weasleys are a traditional, old family with traditional, old fashioned prejiduces; what else should I expect?

I just do not see why I am condemned. Is it my Veela blood, my beauty? I cannot help that! I can only be proud of myself, of my heritage. Is it my "snobbery"? Perhaps they'd like to know that it's a losing battle no matter what, because people automatically wait for tactless remarks to leave my annoyingly perfect mouth.

And anyway, England does annoy me. Anyone who is not one hundred percent human and magic day and night is automatically viewed as either evil or worthy of patronizing. Oh, yes, of course France has snobbery, and other countries do as well! There is a reason my Grandmere left Bulgaria. She did not want to become part of a show. And Englanders are not all snobby - the majority of them are quite pleasant - but the minority are the ones with the loudest voices, and pardon me if sometimes, I get critical because of this.

True, Veelas are semi-shunned in France as well. But not to the level here. However, I will admit to always having to be on my guard, and not to having had many friends. And Madame Maxime... she had to pull a few strings to become Headmistress, and most people don't know she is. I only know myself because she is a good friend of Maman's.

Still... we do not announce the names of Werewolves in our Daily Prophet, nor pass laws so they are easily denied jobs. We do not let innocent men go to Azkaban for twelve years with no trial. And we most certainly do not treat muggles as though they are animals at a zoo.

See? I have morals. I have depth. I am not all looks.

Even a one quarter Veela wants respect.

 

Narcissa

I hate this war.

At one point in time, I was completely for the Dark Lord.

Well - not completely. That's a lie.

I had people to protect; my husband, and, later, my son. Besides, muggles deserve payment for what their ancestors did to mine.

I think, anyway.

Andromeda married a Muggle. She left us for him, and I hate her for it.

Yet sometimes I find myself longing for her.

And now, where am I? Hiding in my old home, wishing I knew where Draco was, hoping Severus has kept his word, and is looking after him. If I am found by anyone, I will die.

No matter which side finds me, that is. I am an enemy of both.

I was for the Dark Lord, until he tried to kill my son. Now, I am not sure how noble or wonderful he is.

Sirius was a lost cause, and would have killed us. So would Potter. But Draco?

Perhaps I was wrong about Sirius too.

I don't like these thoughts, nor do I like the feeling I ought to be asking Andromeda for help.

I hate her, and I hated Sirius. They both dared to betray our family. And Regulus - if the rumors are true, he, too, was dangerous.

Yet while I doubt Sirius would have helped anymore than Bellatrix did ("good luck Narcissa, you'll regret it" indeed), Regulus might have, and Andromeda...

She's a Slytherin, but I know she would hide me.

But I cannot ask for her help. I detest the man she married, and the spawn she gave birth too.

Not to mention the fact that I have dignity to maintain.

Unless, of course, dignity does not really exist.

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[locked-door998.livejournal.com]

*applause*
I've never felt for Fleur like I do now. You're amazing!

Um, could you do Harry, Ron and Hermione next? I think you're an amazing writer. ♥

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks.

I wanted to, but to be honest, I have to master how I think they think first, and I haven't yet.

[purple-ladybug1.livejournal.com]

Lovely work, Amy darling. Very insightful. Part of Ginny's is a touch fannish/defensive, but otherwise, good work.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Well, it is how I see Ginny. *Shrugs* There might be fannish stuff with her unintentionally, though.

Thanks! :)

[zarafa.livejournal.com]

"I'm only the girl he claims to love, Ron's brother, one of Hermione's only female friends..."

as a minor nitpick... ginny isn't ron's brother *grin*

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Ah, same difference. ;)

No, really - thanks for pointing that out! :)

[ronluvshermione.livejournal.com]

*applauds*
Very good! I loved the Fleur part, that's exactly how I see her as well.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I thought of you while I was writing it, actually. :)

[ronluvshermione.livejournal.com]

Aw... That's so sweet! :D

[petitecrivan.livejournal.com]

Like everyone else, I like the Fleur one, though the Ginny is very true as well. She would feel left out, and I'm sure that'll be a nice part of book seven.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I do hope JKR touches on that, because I feel it is very important. Because the trio is such a dynamic, everyone else has always been shunted to the side. Quite honestly, I wouldn't blame Ginny for sometimes resenting that.

[newyork-noodles.livejournal.com]

I love these. ESPECIALLY Narcissa, who you've completely nailed IMO. I'm so glad someone else sees her this way! And Fleur is amazing.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks, I was a bit worried about how I would show my "version" of Narcissa. I'm also glad you liked Fleur. :)

[ghostlygrove.livejournal.com]

With regards to Narcissa, I'd never thought of pure-bloods' hatred towards muggles in that sense: the witch hunts. It occurrs to me that people aren't unworthy just because, you know? And actually, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. "You spent years and years killing us for who we are, and now you suddenly want to be us??" Not that that makes it right...

That opens up (for me, anyway) some insight into just why half-breeds are hated as well... but I won't go into it :P

You planning on fixing that there "brother" issue orrr...? ^^

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Well, the problem with editing cuts is that whennever I do, it goes all weird. :/