Father's Incompetence

I will always be incompetent of having to carry the family name according to my father. He rants and raves how nothing I do is good enough to live up to the Goyle family standards. He has never loved me and doesn't even call me by my name any more it's always just a sharp, Boy! I'm always compared to everyone else, and whenever someone else does something great I am punished. I'm never happy for any of my friends because I always know that I am at my fathers mercy. For example, when Draco got to be seeker in second year I wrote home about it. Instead of getting a nice reply dad wrote me a nasty letter about how I was worthless because I couldn't make the team. Even when I made the team fifth year he still wasn't pleased apparently I should have made it sooner. When it all comes down to it I'm compared to one person.

Draco Malfoy.

Dad of course is jealous of Draco's father because of his status with the Dark Lord, so I am supposed to make up for his incompetence. My fathers not capable of gaining a mans favor so I must suffer. My mother always told me to look at myself and not others. I don't see how this is possible with my father's burden weighing down on me. Draco is entitled to a task that apparently I should have received. Doesn't father realize that that is a punishment and not a gift? Killing a teacher you've known for years. Draco couldn't take it and he grew more and more distant from me and Vincent. Father is incompetent of many things, but mainly it is seeing that things aren't always as they seem.