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A/N: For my 'The Only One' challenge. Pretty obvious who it is...
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I am the only one. It's that simple - I have no close friends, a weird power I can't quite control, and a personality that seems to scare people off. And yet people ask me how I live!
My situation is unique, although I seem normal at first. I am 17, female, half-blood, and halfway through 6th year - half a dozen other girls I know of are in the same shoes. No, it's the deeper stuff that weirds people out, that makes them wonder about me. It's like they expect me to make about 50 wrong turns a day.
For starters, there's Mum's family, better known as the weirdest bunch of pure-bloods that ever lived. I wouldn't know, since Mum got disowned when she ran off with my dad right after she finished school, and therefore I've never met them. Most of them are dead anyways.
Mum has two sisters - an older one, who's really dark, possibly crazy, and locked up in Azkaban at the moment, and a younger one, who's dark but also almost brilliant. People look at you weird if you're thrice removed from that circus, let alone the niece of Mum's aformentioned crazy older sister.
And then there's the Morphing thing. I looked it up out of sheer boredom a few years back, and it turns out that nearly every other Morph's been a pure-blood - except for about 2 like me. You can just TELL how that sort of knowledge works on a girl's self-esteem, can't you?
On the bright side (and there's always a bright side, isn't there?), a few things have gone right this year. The House team needed a new Chaser, and somehow I got that spot. I'm not particularly good, but the Captain said I got it because (his words not mine) 'one of the Chasers should be able to fly'. Also, I somehow pulled 5 OWLs - way more than anyone expected, but I rather like throwing people off from time to time.
I am the only one, and I like it.