Life

Sometimes things don't go the way you planned;

Sometimes it pushes you around and sometimes it hurts;

Sometimes you will be afraid or someone will leave you;

Sometimes it feels like you're violated and sometimes it feels like your heart has been ripped out;

Mistakes will happen and luck will fail you;

No one knew it better than Kristina Lillian Black.

Contrary-wise…

Sometimes you have miracles;

Sometimes it is the challenge that pushes you to success;

Sometimes you are surrounded with friends that are all laughing and you think life can't get any better;

Sometimes it feels like you've just walked into where you belong and you will never have to leave;

Skill will help you and so will love;

And no one knew it better than Kris.

It's funny, her story. It has no definite beginning, as well as no definite end. It is a story that when told from my perspective will sound almost heroic, but it wasn't.
She'd admit it too.

Not at first, but by the end, Kristina Black wasn't a 'hero' or a 'phoenix' like she was so often called- she was wicked, broken, a murderer, a cheat, a con-woman and a death eater (well, sort of).
To be fair, by the end she was also brave, kind, loving, a jokester, the headmistress of Hogwarts, a member of the order of the phoenix, a friend, a teacher, a student, and a fiancé.

We all know that there is light and dark with in each of us and Kristina was an example of that. She was imperfect but at the same time, she was the epitome of perfection. Received all Os, never had to try, got the two year older boyfriend- I guess it was in the genes. But so was insanity. So was wickedness.

But is the light and dark that make up each of us predetermined or ever in the balance? Was she always going to end up here or was it changeable? Are we born, or made?

I am going to tell you a story then I am going to ask you that same question and I'd like an answer.

This is the story of Kristina Black, and how she ended up where she did.