The Final Battle
On the morning of June 25, the Great Hall was packed with people.
Aquamarine appeared in the arranged auditorium early, wearing beautiful clothes that could not be described in poor human language, carrying a smile that can make the whole country drown, making all creatures head over heels.
Ten minutes later, Ginny arrived on time, wearing a school uniform.
"I thought you would run away, but your arrival proves that Gryffindor does not lack courage-but a brain." Aquamarine approached her sister. "Let's talk about it, what do you want to play?"
"Give me the speaker first."
Aquamarine cast a spell easily, "Go on, every word you say can be heard clearly in the audience. Don't tell me we're gonna compete who tell jokes better."
She seemed to grind her smile into a sharp sword.
Ginny didn't answer, she walked slowly to the stage, silence filled in the auditorium, only Aquamarine smiled sharply. Yes, laugh, let's see who laughs last.
"I want to ask something first, what is the job of the Head Chief?"
"Did you come here without knowing anything? Let me tell you, it's involved in managing school affairs."
"I see, the chief is established to manage school affairs. But if a person can't even manage themselves, talking about managing the grade, the house, or the school would be silly." Ginny stared straight at Aquamarine. " So the competition topic I proposed was 'self-criticism'. You can evaluate yourself whatever you want, but the criterion is to laugh at yourself and belittle yourself as a way to examine your true self, and the person who speaks of yourself the most degrading is the winner. "
The speech is like a fire, igniting Aquamarine in an instant.
"Nonsense! What a stupid idea! I don't..."
"You don't have the right to disagree, remember?" Ginny turned to the judges in the audience. "Number One, Ginny Weasley, may I start?"
The headmaster nodded.
"Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Ginny Weasley, a first-year student in Gryffindor. You can tell from my last name that I'm from an ancient family from the magic world. My family has a large number of people; I have seven siblings. Everyone is proud of his or her family, and I am no exception. I believe that each of my family members has the qualifications to deserve the best in the world.
But I obviously don't have this qualification. The excellent qualities in them, do not show on me at all. Apart from impulsiveness, recklessness, self-righteousness, and a great inferiority complex, I don't have any wisdom. If I had a bit of Fred and George's cleverness or Percy's intellect, I wouldn't have been so arrogant to say I want to be the Chief of Gryffindor. You can ask any professor who knows me about my qualifications, and they will tell you that learning is the combination of diligence and wisdom. My diligence is zero, wisdom is zero, and together it's still zero. Hence why I am incapable of learning. The reason why I can become the House Chief as a first-year is only because I am shameless. There is no other reason.
The glory that Gryffindor has created for thousands of years will be tarnished by Ginny Weasley. I must confess to you that the other two candidates in the house competition are way more qualified to stand in this position than I am.
In my family, my twin sister Aquamarine Weasley is the most outstanding one, and I believe everyone in the audience cannot deny this. She has only one failure in her life-to have a sister like me is the sadness of Aquamarine.
We all know that human beings are different from animals because of three major characteristics: reason, justice, and emotion. Sometimes you can't find the difference between me and a rat. That's because the three characteristics are still more obvious in the rat.
Only by possessing reason can you have good judgment, so that people do not only care about what's in front of them as animals. A good person will observe the world around him and consider its past and future. This is the source of foresight and the source of prudence. But it has little effect on me. You must all know how I was used by a diary a few months ago. It was very easy for the diary to control me. As long as it keeps touting me and promise me great benefits, I will completely expose my soul to it, even putting my friends in danger without even realizing it. In order to satisfy my vanity at any cost, shows my greed and stupidity. The root is that I am born with a lack of a brain. I am naive, frivolous, and short-sighted. In a word, I have been a big baby all my life.
As for the sense of justice, you will find that the most obvious aspect of my nature is my lack of sense of justice. I never rely on strength and wisdom, because I rely on cunning instincts and hypocritical nature. To me, shameless in me is like sharp claws and sharp teeth in a lion and ink in a squid. My nature is to escape from whatever difficulties I'm facing. Just ask Hermione Granger and you know how I kept running away in training.
The most important thing in human beings, emotions, yes, I do have them, but they are limited towards me only. I have never considered anything for them from the perspective of other people. I didn't even at least give more care to my family. I am indifferent and selfish, and take them for granted. But facing just the tiniest shortcomings of others, I could not even be generous and tolerant.
There are countless other shortcomings, my laziness, dirtiness, jealousy, slowness, indiscipline, these descriptions would not be at all exaggerating. Furthermore, I never make progress on my own, I only complain about destiny and bad luck indefinitely. But there is a kind of servility in me, once the real freedom comes to me, I will be at a loss again.
I swear that every word I say here today is the truth, and you may despise me after you hear it. But I deserve to be despised, because I am simply ignorant, moralless, and a fool who only ever thinks about herself!
I don't deserve your trust at all, but you still generously give me this poor and hateful person a chance. I must let everyone see my gloom and what I really am. I sincerely thank everyone for listening to my nonsense for so long. Finally, I apologize to the world for everything."
Ginny made a deep bow, no applause, and not even a single breathing could be heard. She straightened up, looked at Aquamarine firmly, and said word by word:
Your. Turn. Now!
Aquamarine panted quickly, staggering to the center of the stage, her face flushed:
"My name is Aquamarine Weasley... a first-year Slytherin… I… "
She couldn't utter a word for a long time, time slipped away, and thousands of eyes were looking at her under the stage.
"The biggest failure of my life… is having a sister like her… "
She couldn't talk anymore.
A big win for Ginny Weasley!
