AN/ Ice again. This is heavily based on the songs Fully Alive and Okay/Tina by Flyleaf. Listen to them!
Victorie's memory of her first encounter with true beauty and vanity would always be crystal clear to her.
In her fifth year at Hogwarts there was an extremely kind and generous girl in seventh year everyone looked up to. She was Head Girl.
One day she came up in the conversation between the girls in the Gryffindor common room.
"Have you seen the scars on her arms?" Maya Wood asked the room.
"When we were changing into our Quiddich robes i saw what looked like whiplashes on her back!" Chimed in Emma Mayne.
"Ooo, spicy! I bet all this good girl crap is just a cover up for something... Darker." She intoned.
It was then that they noticed the girl in question's best friend standing by the portrait hole and listening to their conversation.
"You little girls should all be ashamed of yourselves! How dare you judge someone based on their appearance?" the girl yelled.
They all ignored her. Victorie especially didn't care. One of her and Dominique's favorite games used to be to make up lives for people they saw walking down the street. This was no different, right?
The girl said "Well, you obviously aren't taking me seriously. Do you want to know how she got those scars?"
The girls all leaned in closer. Another thing to gossip about was always welcome.
"She is a halfblood. Mum was a witch, Dad a muggle. Mum never didn't tell him she was a witch until after Leyla was born. when he found out, he through her out on the streets and kept the baby."
"He took to the drink, not paying proper attention to her and hiring cheep nannies. As soon as she was old enough, She was left alone unless he decided to come home. When he did, more often the not he'd whip her. Eventualy she tried to kill her self. The hospital was the first time someone realized she existed"
"She was sent to a foster family that helped her recover. Professor Longbottem came and told her about Hogwarts and her life's been relatively normal since then. She was given a second chance and she isn't wasting it. You all should have learned something. Maybe now you'll all be less ignorant."
All the girls were humbled, but eventually forgot and moved on.
Victorie never did.
