The First Curse
In 'Into the woods,' we never really know the story behind 'the Witch'. Well, I had my own idea about whom she really was.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Into the Woods, so please don't take my money.
Narrator: Once upon a time, in a far off kingdom...
Pansy Parkinson was never truly beautiful. Oh, yes, she did have her fair share of boys during her Hogwarts years, but she had never been considered beautiful. In fact, It was quite the opposite. 'Pug-nose Pansy' they had called her. It was a name that made her grind her teeth every time she heard it.
Her last year at Hogwarts had been an eventful one. Voldemort had finally gained enough strength and followers to lead a deadly strike against her school. Much to her parent's dismay, she had chosen to fight with Professor Dumbledore and Harry Potter.
During that last year, her views had changed somewhat. She had been witness to a horrible accident involving none other than Draco Malfoy, the son of Voldemort's right hand man. Blaise and one of Draco's goons, Goyle, started messing around while the four of them were climbing the changing staircases. They were punching and wrestling playfully and enticing laughs out of both Draco and Pansy. Soon, they were laughing so hard, they didn't realize that the stairs had begun to move.
What happened next seemed to move in a time dimension slower than our own. Goyle lost his balance and rammed right into Malfoy sending the blond hurtling off of the stairs. Pansy watched in horror as his body came closer and closer to the ground. She herself was too shocked to move, but one lone voice shouted out.
From so high up, the voice was unintelligible and Pansy leaned over the railing to get a better look. She cast a simple spell to enhance her eyesight and watched as one of the resident 'mudbloods', Hermione Granger, tended to Draco, whom she had just saved. Her hate for muggle born witches and wizards died that day, as did Draco's seeing as he had married his muggle born rescuer weeks after the war had ended.
The war was awful. She never wanted to go through anything remotely like that again. She watched as her friend and mentors fought valiantly to defend what was right. She can remember her mother cursing her for defecting and turning against them. It was an unusual curse and one in which no one could find the counter curse.
In the end, she stood amongst a sea of dead death eaters, as well as friends who had perished. Among them: Professor Dumbledore, Professor Sprout, Blaise, Millicent and one of her newest friends Ron Weasley.
If that wasn't bad enough, there was still the curse she had been hit with. It was said in a language that she had not recognized. But the results were devastating to her. She later found that any witch or wizard who got within ten meters of her would experience severe pain.
Defeated, she packed up her trunk and left the wizarding world forever. She ended up finding a place to live on the other side of the forbidden forest. Along the edge where the forest's canopy started to thin out to create a dense wooded area. The magic wasn't concentrated there as it was in the Forbidden Forest, which was probably a good thing as there were muggles who lived on this side of the forest.
Lots and lots of muggles.
To Pansy, they were a strange lot. Always talking down to her and sneering at her. The only ones who hadn't were the baker and his family who lived next door. Yet, that could be because they just avoided her.
So one day, the lonely witch pulled out her trunk and at the bottom her hand brushed against something. She pulled out a rather large bag that held packets of seeds. She examined each packet and set them aside. Then one large packet caught her eye. On it, it was marked 'Special Beans', and in fine print she read:
'Plant a bean on magic soil, for with this its growth will foil.
Day by Day, prune the top. This will help its growth to stop.
But if you were to loose a bean, your punishment will be the worst you've seen.'
Each day Pansy tended to her seeds until they had become a glorious garden, one in which Professor Sprout would have been happy to tend to. She was surprised that the garden gave her a special sort of peace. She even found herself talking to it at times as if it were a friend.
Her world was relatively perfect, minus the lack of true friends of course. Then one night, just as the sun had set and a shadow came over her garden, she heard a noise. Grabbing her wand, she walked outside to find a man ripping up her garden.
In 'Into the woods,' we never really know the story behind 'the Witch'. Well, I had my own idea about whom she really was.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Into the Woods, so please don't take my money.
Narrator: Once upon a time, in a far off kingdom...
Pansy Parkinson was never truly beautiful. Oh, yes, she did have her fair share of boys during her Hogwarts years, but she had never been considered beautiful. In fact, It was quite the opposite. 'Pug-nose Pansy' they had called her. It was a name that made her grind her teeth every time she heard it.
Her last year at Hogwarts had been an eventful one. Voldemort had finally gained enough strength and followers to lead a deadly strike against her school. Much to her parent's dismay, she had chosen to fight with Professor Dumbledore and Harry Potter.
During that last year, her views had changed somewhat. She had been witness to a horrible accident involving none other than Draco Malfoy, the son of Voldemort's right hand man. Blaise and one of Draco's goons, Goyle, started messing around while the four of them were climbing the changing staircases. They were punching and wrestling playfully and enticing laughs out of both Draco and Pansy. Soon, they were laughing so hard, they didn't realize that the stairs had begun to move.
What happened next seemed to move in a time dimension slower than our own. Goyle lost his balance and rammed right into Malfoy sending the blond hurtling off of the stairs. Pansy watched in horror as his body came closer and closer to the ground. She herself was too shocked to move, but one lone voice shouted out.
From so high up, the voice was unintelligible and Pansy leaned over the railing to get a better look. She cast a simple spell to enhance her eyesight and watched as one of the resident 'mudbloods', Hermione Granger, tended to Draco, whom she had just saved. Her hate for muggle born witches and wizards died that day, as did Draco's seeing as he had married his muggle born rescuer weeks after the war had ended.
The war was awful. She never wanted to go through anything remotely like that again. She watched as her friend and mentors fought valiantly to defend what was right. She can remember her mother cursing her for defecting and turning against them. It was an unusual curse and one in which no one could find the counter curse.
In the end, she stood amongst a sea of dead death eaters, as well as friends who had perished. Among them: Professor Dumbledore, Professor Sprout, Blaise, Millicent and one of her newest friends Ron Weasley.
If that wasn't bad enough, there was still the curse she had been hit with. It was said in a language that she had not recognized. But the results were devastating to her. She later found that any witch or wizard who got within ten meters of her would experience severe pain.
Defeated, she packed up her trunk and left the wizarding world forever. She ended up finding a place to live on the other side of the forbidden forest. Along the edge where the forest's canopy started to thin out to create a dense wooded area. The magic wasn't concentrated there as it was in the Forbidden Forest, which was probably a good thing as there were muggles who lived on this side of the forest.
Lots and lots of muggles.
To Pansy, they were a strange lot. Always talking down to her and sneering at her. The only ones who hadn't were the baker and his family who lived next door. Yet, that could be because they just avoided her.
So one day, the lonely witch pulled out her trunk and at the bottom her hand brushed against something. She pulled out a rather large bag that held packets of seeds. She examined each packet and set them aside. Then one large packet caught her eye. On it, it was marked 'Special Beans', and in fine print she read:
'Plant a bean on magic soil, for with this its growth will foil.
Day by Day, prune the top. This will help its growth to stop.
But if you were to loose a bean, your punishment will be the worst you've seen.'
Each day Pansy tended to her seeds until they had become a glorious garden, one in which Professor Sprout would have been happy to tend to. She was surprised that the garden gave her a special sort of peace. She even found herself talking to it at times as if it were a friend.
Her world was relatively perfect, minus the lack of true friends of course. Then one night, just as the sun had set and a shadow came over her garden, she heard a noise. Grabbing her wand, she walked outside to find a man ripping up her garden.