Harry Potter Alphabet
In which there is a character and a one-shot for each letter
Mrs. Figg was a squib in Harry's neighborhood.
A is for Arabella Figg
I never know how to act around my parents, I know I'm a disappointment. How could a squib not be to pure-blood parents? I can still remember that day they realized I would never be a wizard. It was on my eleventh birthday, we had not received a letter and my mother was trying to deny the fact that her youngest child was ungifted. They got into a fight and I shudder whenever I recall it.
In an old house, in an old neighborhood, within a house that spoke of purebloods, and the very best of them too, there are three figures present. Two adults and one child. They are debating her future.
"She's just a late bloomer that's all! There's nothing wrong with her, she has magic."
"Honey, she's never shown any signs..."
"Just shut up!!! My daughter will be great and there's no doubt about it."
"Honey,"
"Don't you honey me you #$!%$!! You don't even know the meaning of family! And while your family may be made up of filthy squibs, mine never has and never will!!" To the child who has started crying, "It'll be alright Arabella. I won't let this man crush your dreams.'
"Arabella, you can still have a normal muggle life, even if you're not a wizard. I'll make it okay for you." The child senses the calm in the man and reaches out to accept his offer, but is slapped by her mother.
"Don't even think of it. I'll take you to a nice doctor who will fix everything," to the man who has advanced, "Stay out of this! You lost your decision in the matter when you denied her magic."
"But she doesn't have any and nothing you do can change that." He sounds tired as though it is an old argument and he is making the same point. This seems to enrage the woman and she whips out her wand.
"You think I'm crazy. Don't you? But I'll show you, I'll show everybody. One day when Arabella is grown you'll regret this decision. Now, I'm going to leave you with the house. Have fun with the other children, goodbye."
When the woman got to the door, she turned to see the man looking at her with relief. "Oh, you're not getting off that easily," she mutters something under her breath and the furniture starts attacking him, "that will show you who's crazy." She said as she left without one backwards glance.
She was not aware that the child had made her decision already, she would leave her mother and live in the other world. The one where her daddy had said she'd be normal in. All she had to do was leave mommy, permanently.
After all these years, she still has not realized that in leaving her mother, she actually had used magic. Her mother would never recognize her on a street, she doesn't even remember her. All her mother remembered was fighting with her husband and leaving him. She didn't know why, but there were always problems at home and over the years her mind filled in the gaps.
She had escaped for a time, but the magical world seemed to have followed Arabella and her beloved cats. One day she came home to see an elderly man with a twinkle in his eye on her doorstep. "I was wondering," he started, "would you be interested in doing me a favor? There's this boy, and I want you to keep an eye on him as he's growing up, he'll be very important to the future of the wizarding world."
For the life of her Arabella couldn't figure out why she had agreed, was it possible she had missed all the commotion of wizardry?
Note: These are my ideas for the rest of the alphabet
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