Counting Down Through Darkness Into Light

by greenschist

Drabble collection, multiple characters, set 7th year. Chapter 5: Sometimes it's better to want than it is to receive. It's a lesson Blaise already learned at home; the new and improved Hogwarts is just reinforcing it.

1. Hannah

Note: Written for Lost In the Lies' "Ten to One" challenge on HPFC: ten drabbles, each focused on an individual character, and then one one-shot containing them all. I'm choosing to do all of mine set during 7th year.

Disclaimer: JKR's, not mine.

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Hannah
prompt: past

Hannah endures Muggle Studies by thinking about her mother's family.

Her mother was Muggle-born, and she never washed dishes with magic; she said it didn't clean them properly.

Her grandmother was Muggle, and she did all her baking from scratch; she said she only trusted the quality if she made it herself.

Her great-grandmother raised four children on a seamstress' salary and never accepted help from anyone; she said it wouldn't feel right when there were others in greater need.

Poison drips from Carrow's tongue—calling Muggles and Muggle-born filthy…lazy… weak…vile—and Hannah holds her memories in her heart and lifts her head high.