I dislike the woman they chose to play Alecto Carrow. I think of her as so much more... glamorous.
I don't own. If I did...
Everything she'd ever known was gone.
Her mother and father, who'd dictated every part of her life, the ones responsible for the cruel woman she'd become. Gone.
All the countless terrible men who'd tried to worm their way into her life and all the expensive gifts they'd presented her with. Gone.
The home she grew up in. Gone.
The school she'd attended for seven years. Gone.
The Dark Lord, whose ideology she'd followed her entire life, the man who'd brought the wizarding world to its knees. Gone.
All around her, what once was a forest so deep, once a city so full of life, once a schoolyard so rich with children, was now a barren wasteland, destroyed by twenty-seven years of war.
Twenty-seven years of war. The Second War, it was called by those who'd fought in the first. The Second War between the Light, the Order of the Phoenix, the Aurors, and the Dark, the Dark Lord, whose name would never touch another's lips, and his followers.
Twenty-seven years of war and this was all that remained. No glamour of ruling over the world, no… nothing. There was nothing left. No world to rule over.
"Alecto?" a woman's voice said, approaching from behind her and taking her hand.
Alecto Carrow did not respond. There was nothing to say.
"Maybe…" the other woman began. "Maybe humanity didn't deserve to live."
"How many?" Alecto asked.
"How many…?" The woman didn't understand the question.
"How many are left? How much of humanity survived?"
"Not many," the woman replied. "We've received a few reports from a few of the others who survived, Lucius, Bella; they say there are survivors. By the looks of it, only a handful of what once was. Fifteen, twenty million maybe."
Alecto spun to face the small crowd of Death Eaters behind her.
"That's what," she began. "Like two percent of the population?"
"Point three," the woman corrected.
They had been able to bring down the world, billions of people.
Point three percent would be easy.
