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Rolanda Mais Potter looked up at the painting near the front entrance of Hogwarts. It was her favorite painting even though there were over a thousand in Hogwarts. She was the eldest of three sisters. She was a fifth year while her sisters were first- and second-years respectively. Aurora Rowena and Ebony Helena were Gryffindors like their mother while Rolanda was a Ravenclaw. Her father found it funny that the only one not named after a Ravenclaw was a Ravenclaw. Rora and Ebbie were brave while Landa was smart. They were pretty while she was plain. They were nice while she just couldn't hold her tongue. They were their mother's favorites while she was her father's. They liked dresses, she liked jeans. Their hair was like their mother's, soft and brown and straight. Hers came from a distant relation, it was wild and black and everywhere.
Her family, along with one third of the magical population of Britain, descended from the Weasleys. The story goes that they were the most important family on the good side during the second war against Voldemort. Molly and Arthur had seven kids, all redheaded, named William, Charles, Percival, Fredrick, George, Ronald and Ginevra. Bill was the sweetest, Charlie the wildest, Percy the smartest, Fred and George the funniest, Ron the bravest and Ginny the strongest.
Professor Binns says the best Weasley to be related to is either Ron or Ginny because Ron, his wife, Hermione, and Harry, Ginny's husband, are three of the main five people who defeated Voldie. Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape were the fourth and fifth. Rolanda is related distantly to Bill and closely to Ginny. Everyone who is related to one of the five Weasleys who had kids knows which Weasley and which of their children they're related to. Rolanda is related to Bill through Dominique, his second child and daughter, and Ginny through her second son and child, Albus. Her friend Dave Tink is related to Percy through his second child and daughter, Molly II.
That is why she likes the painting.
It is huge and it has Molly and Arthur, Lily and James, Bill and Fleur, Charlie, Percy and Audrey, Fred, George and Angelina, Ron and Hermione, Ginny and Harry, Victoire, Dominique and Louis, Fred II and Roxanne, Rose and Hugo, James II, Albus II and Lily II. Everyone posed for the famous magical painter Marses Miggrol and then he added Fred, Lily and James after.
Everyone looked so happy in the painting despite the war and everything they went through and though many people overlook it, Rolanda does not.
She can see where their smiles become a little forced or hear when their laughter sounds a little fake. But she can also see when they look at each other, they know what family means. They have each other.
It will always be Rolanda's favorite painting in Hogwarts.
