Disclaimer: Hey JK Rowling writes incredibly. Since my inferior works are
based on hers, just given her some credit for the characters and settings,
etc.
VII: Figments
Harry felt crazy. He'd nearly ruined Ron's wonderful night in Hogsmeade with Mimi Olu, and now he was crunched up in the Head Girl Suite listening to advice from Hermione. He'd have to be nuts to listen to her.
"So she's a what?" He asked, ever more confused.
"A Figment Harry, try to understand this."
"What is a figment? She said she was just a spell, like one that conjures objects from smoke. Leprechaun's gold."
"Pretty much. Figment is what you call it if it happens to a person. Or, rather, you make a person. Three witches perfected the art over four hundred years ago. They created a Figment to murder two mortals. Since then, Figments can only live lives of evil."
"But you know Bea—"
"And she's not evil. Which means whoever created her botched the job."
"Like, a glitch in a computer system?"
"Exactly."
"So Bea can be saved."
"From what I know about Figments Harry, she already is."
"But she said?"
"Read this." Hermione took an enormous green volume from her personal bookshelf and placed it heavily on Harry's outstretched, super long legs. A paragraph was magically highlighted.
The Figment was mastered in the year 1602 by the witches Margerove Mango, Parlitia Pango and Gretal Grangera. Together they formed a being that could be transfigured from any particle, but acted like a human. As humans can never be recreated permanently from other substances, this was celebrated magic. However, it was quite cursed. The three witches used their new power for evil, and soon, only dark spells, which created evil Figments, existed. Worse, these spells created only female Figments, which gave women an evil reputation. Eventually, wizards began to create their own spells, and sometimes the results were not perfect. 90% of Figments have some defect. Most modern figments can revert to actual humanity under a set of condition: they were created from skin of their master and they recognize their own lack of humanity. Once this happens, and they reveal it to any GOOD human, a Figment becomes and actual breathing person. Often Figments do not realize this and endanger themselves.
"I feel like I'm in Pinnochio, Hermione."
"Oh Harry, you are. You know the truth now, and I warn you, Bea will be in danger because I know who she used to belong to."
"Who?"
"Malfoy."
VII: Figments
Harry felt crazy. He'd nearly ruined Ron's wonderful night in Hogsmeade with Mimi Olu, and now he was crunched up in the Head Girl Suite listening to advice from Hermione. He'd have to be nuts to listen to her.
"So she's a what?" He asked, ever more confused.
"A Figment Harry, try to understand this."
"What is a figment? She said she was just a spell, like one that conjures objects from smoke. Leprechaun's gold."
"Pretty much. Figment is what you call it if it happens to a person. Or, rather, you make a person. Three witches perfected the art over four hundred years ago. They created a Figment to murder two mortals. Since then, Figments can only live lives of evil."
"But you know Bea—"
"And she's not evil. Which means whoever created her botched the job."
"Like, a glitch in a computer system?"
"Exactly."
"So Bea can be saved."
"From what I know about Figments Harry, she already is."
"But she said?"
"Read this." Hermione took an enormous green volume from her personal bookshelf and placed it heavily on Harry's outstretched, super long legs. A paragraph was magically highlighted.
The Figment was mastered in the year 1602 by the witches Margerove Mango, Parlitia Pango and Gretal Grangera. Together they formed a being that could be transfigured from any particle, but acted like a human. As humans can never be recreated permanently from other substances, this was celebrated magic. However, it was quite cursed. The three witches used their new power for evil, and soon, only dark spells, which created evil Figments, existed. Worse, these spells created only female Figments, which gave women an evil reputation. Eventually, wizards began to create their own spells, and sometimes the results were not perfect. 90% of Figments have some defect. Most modern figments can revert to actual humanity under a set of condition: they were created from skin of their master and they recognize their own lack of humanity. Once this happens, and they reveal it to any GOOD human, a Figment becomes and actual breathing person. Often Figments do not realize this and endanger themselves.
"I feel like I'm in Pinnochio, Hermione."
"Oh Harry, you are. You know the truth now, and I warn you, Bea will be in danger because I know who she used to belong to."
"Who?"
"Malfoy."