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Fairy Tales and Japanese Gardens
Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
In the symphony of life, there are many discordant notes. Not always does the path you take lead you to greatness, and not always is it harmonious. In fact, very often the choices you make in life are not very sweet-sounding at all. Harmony is better left in fairy tales and Japanese gardens, where it belongs. After all, that is the only place that harmony can survive. It is an endangered species, all but extinct in most places of the world. This, of course, has messed up the entire musical and emotional world. You see, harmony used to feed off of discord, and love could thus strive in the world. However, with harmony so rare, discord runs rampant in areas… and love is suffering. Perhaps even beginning to die out altogether. Discord is the weed that chokes out love.
Nobody knows where it started… the system was perfectly balanced once. There was only as much discord as there was harmony to overcome it. But no more. Back when the piano greats were composing it was better; Beethoven, Bach, Chopin… the list goes on. They were advocates for the survival of love and of harmony. But no more. Now, discord goes unchecked and is allowed to mature into hate.
That's the story that I have to remind you of tonight, folks. The store of harmony's disappearance, of discord's rise to power. The changing of love into hate. It's the story of two families, two families that know very much about this. Indeed, they are experienced when it comes to this. Their harmony died, and their hate took over.
The families are, of course, the Weasleys and the Malfoys. Two big families in the wizarding world. Right… and wrong. Black and white. Day and night. That's what they are, and they know it.
O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Ginny and Draco.
The pair of them are perhaps the biggest contradiction of the century. Of the world, perhaps. Since Adam and Eve, Romeo and Juliet, there has not been another couple more meant to be, and yet their path is perilous and forsaken by friends and family.
A Weasley and a Malfoy? Ridiculous. But that's what it is, folks. At least, what it's supposed to be. But how can two young people survive in a world in which their parents do not encourage them? How, in fact, can they go on together when their parents and friends so strongly discourage it? Well, that's they're story.
The Weasleys: Arthur, Molly, Bill, Charlie, Fred, George, Ron. The Montagues. They're joined by their allies: Harry, Hermione, and all the rest of Ginny's friends. Down to the very last one (with the exception of Luna). They stand ready to hold their ground and their daughter, facing off with the Capulets to the brutal end.
Speaking of which, we've come down to them, haven't we? The Capulets, the enemies of the former: Lucious and Narcissa. Plus all their friends, relatives, and the Dark Lord himself. And who would want to contend with the Dark Lord?
But Ginny and Draco have.
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Our little contradiction.
You see, there is one thing that the Montagues and the Capulets never learned, which is that love bears all things. For that is what the Bible says, correct? The most read, most copied book? Most quoted…
Love bears all things. Love takes battles in stride. Love forsakes her family for her lover, the object of her affection. Love is selfless, pure, holy, noble. Love is everything good in this world.
Love and harmony must coexist. Love and harmony… are like Draco and Ginny. A little bit of good in this evil, wicked world. A little bit of beautiful to pierce through the empty, through the dark… through the muddled discord.
Well, you know what happened to Romeo and Juliet. To Adam and Eve. To every pair of lovers in a long list of lovers gone before.
But if you don't know what happens to lovers, I'll leave you with this:
And they lived happily ever after.
A/N: So this is in response to raspberry-rave's challenge on the DG forums. Prompt: a touch of Shakespeare. Word count: 2500 max. Obviously the Shakespeare quotes (which are sprinkled throughout) aren't my own. Be patient. This is an interesting fic written late at night. Let's call it… experimental! Not at all my norm.