Challenges: Fire the Canon's Character of the Week Drabble Competition (week 7) on HPFC
Characters: Lisa Cullen, OC (Hailey Cullen)
Prompt: Must involve Hogwarts in some way
Word count: 173
A/N: Lisa Cullen is a half-blood Gryffindor. Her muggle-born mother is named Hailey, she left the wizarding world to be with her muggle husband, Peter.
"Mum, I have to give it a shot. It's my school, my home for years."
"Lisa, that's exactly my point. It's a school. A new one will be built."
The mother and daughter shared striking similarities: same long, dark hair, same barely tan skin, same dark eyes and rosy lips; even the same pixie-like ears. In loyalty, though, they differed hugely. To Hailey, family was everything. She'd abandoned the entire wizarding world for her muggle parents and husband, to whom magic was too strange. Lisa, though, was a Gryffindor. She couldn't stay on the sidelines, not while people put their lives on the line to save the world she loved. She owed it to them to stand at their sides.
"Mum, I have to fight, I have to go to Hogwarts. I'm sorry, but I have to, just like you had to leave."
The older witch stared at her daughter for a long stretch of silence. Then she sighed and stepped aside.
"Be careful, Lisa. But I understand - go save your school."