Annalicia Malone, grudge-holder
regretted something, despite her strict, self-enforced no regrets policy.
It happened late the previous night. Annalicia had heard a knock on the door, and gone to answer it. Instead of the persistent salesmen who roamed the neighborhood, she saw a sight both unexpected and unlikely.
Daphne stood on her doorstep.
"My father... I'm worried... mother... I can't... " she sobbed. Daphne seemed to pull herself together, and then: "I have something important to tell you. Can I come in?" She'd stared at her for a moment, and slammed the door in hey face.
Why? She didn't know, but what she did know was that Daphne sure wasn't speaking to her for a long, long while.
Daphne Greengrass Jr, desperate and lonely
wished there was someone to go to for advice on this. She was overwhelmed with this whole ordeal.
Early this morning, she'd received a letter by owl. She wasn't surprised, since her Hogwarts letter had arrived the same way, but she was intrigued. She rushed upstairs to open it, and when she tore open the envelope, she had to sit down. The letter was from her mother.
It requested correspondence, and was written in such a friendly manner that Daphne almost wanted to oblige her mother. But what of the trials her mother had put her through. Still, if she wanted to make up, then Daphne owed her...
If Annalicia had been there, she would have told Daphne that she owed her mother nothing. She would have said that Daphne should do what her gut said to do, and no more. If Annalicia had been there, maybe Daphne would have made a different decision.
But Annalicia wasn't there, and wouldn't be for the foreseeable future. So she did what Greengrass girls for centuries have been famous for. She made a rash decision.