Doomed From the Start

Doomed From the Start

By: The Mirror of Erised

Disclaimer: All the characters from the Harry Potter series belong to J.K. Rowling, not me.

He had very pale skin, silver blond hair, and gray-blue eyes. He was wailing in his mother's lap. Those eyes seem too cold to belong to a baby, and even the wailing sounded mocking. Fourteen years later, the very same boy stared at the picture with those very same icy gray-blue eyes. He inherited his mother's snobbishness, his father's sarcasm, and most of all, their money. He is everything a Malfoy should be, rich, snobbish and rude. But he is nothing he wanted to be.

He was taught to be evil, one might say. He grew up hearing the word "Lord Voldemort", he grew up listening to killing stories, he grew up to be obedient to his father. It used to be his dream to become an honored servant of Lord Voldemort, but it all changed since his fifteenth birthday.

In the previous year, Voldemort had returned. So on his fifteenth birthday, he was given the privilege to follow the Death Eater to their tasks. He enjoyed for a while, the Muggle torturing was fun to him. But when he saw someone being killed, he discovered that he was not meant to be evil.

It was a dark night, the Death Eaters were using a Cruciatus Curse on some Muggles. Suddenly the door burst open, an auror hurried into the room. There was no blood, no struggle, only a jet of green light, yet it was the most horrible scene he ever saw. His father cried "Avada Kedevra!" a jet of green light shot out of the tip of his wand and hit the auror. Everything turned to a slow motion before his eyes, the second the green light hit him, the light of his shimmering eyes were extinguished, and the brightness turned to a mist. The auror was dead before his body hit the floor with a dull sound. He had heard this story so many times in his childhood, yet it was never so vivid. The Death Eaters roared with laughter, but him, unable to laugh felt a chill that made every hair on his body stand up, he thought that maybe he wasn't meant to be evil.

But he has no choice, for that he was born a Malfoy, and raised a Malfoy. Yet he didn't turn out to be as cruel as a Malfoy, but it was too late for that it is he was destined to be evil, for that he is doomed from the start.