Eliza Sue
~Witch, So Derogatory~
I'm not sure how much I like the title, but it seems that in England, witches are just the word for a female wizard. ~ Eliza Diawna Snape
Eliza moved through the compartments on the Hogwart Express. Everything was new to her, being a student from America and not native to Britain. She was going into her fifth year, yet hadn't been to the school ever. It left a tad bit of emptiness in there. She found a compartment with two girls in there, both sitting and talking. Both had blue colors to their uniforms.
"Excuse me..." the girl stated firmly. She blinked a couple of times. Why would these two girls even be hanging out with each other. One happened to be extremely pretty, her appearance completely neat and prim, while the other happened to dress oddily, not to mention she was reading a paper upside down.
"You don't look to be a first year," the pretty oriental girl spoke up, blinking a couple of times. "Yet..." There was an aqward silence, as the other girl suddenly put down her paper.
"I think Fickles stole her house colors," Luna stated firmly, non-plused about the whole matter.
Of course, Eliza found herself going on the defensive. Having been teased as she had at her old school, she wasn't about to put it up at this one. "It isn't my fault that I'm transferring from America."
"Really?" the other girl blinked a couple of times. "Don't mind Loney Lovegood. She means well, but she is a tad bit eccentric. That definitely does explain the fact you have no colors. My name is Cho Chang. What do you think about going to Hogwarts?"
"I am not sure I like the term witch," the girl stated, collapsing into the seat. "Doesn't it just mean female wizard?"
"What?" Cho blinked a couple of times. "I have to ask... did you come from a Muggle family or something?"
"What do you mean?" Eliza twiddled her thumbs. "Well, isn't it a term..."
"Didn't you use it back at your school?" the other girl sighed, shaking her head.
"But... I came from America..." Eliza tried to input, her face turning pink from embarrassment. "I don't believe we use that term, because it is derogatory."
"America wizards and witches once lived in Great Britain and other countries," Luna piped up. "They wouldn't use different terminology, would they? I might be an odd duck, but even I know that."
Eliza couldn't help but feel completely embarrassed at this. She glanced at her feat, yet her head darted up when Cho Chang spoke up. "There is nothing wrong with equal rights for females. Just... know what you are talking about before you make assumptions like that, all right?" Eliza found herself nodding her head, her cheeks completely flushed.
Author's note – Really... EDS did have Eliza writing this in her diary. Thankfully Eliza NEVER said that to anyone around her, that she actually had problems with the word witch. Then again, we would have likely have seen people agreeing with her. I thought the mistake was kawaii... to a point.
Rule of Thumb 4 – Understand the difference between opinion and fact.
Rule of Thumb 5 – Cultural and historical research is a must.
P. S. For those who don't understand why Eliza's comment was odd, about witch being a derogatory term, the funny thing about that is, witch has been used in the past for BOTH male and females.
