Scrabble Challenge: Susan Bones
Ancient Runes: Write about someone who is hardly ever noticed (House elf; red; happy)
Invisible
She was a Hufflepuff. What better way to pass through Hogwarts unnoticed? No one ever thought too much about those sorted into Hufflepuff.
Hufflepuff: kind and loyal.
We weren't brave, we weren't crafty, nor were we particularly intelligent, but that never meant they liked to remain in the shadows of the other houses. It didn't mean that she was happy being part of the furniture, like the house elves seemed to enjoy being.
She didn't like being seen as less useful than anyone else just because she was more hardworking than intelligent and brave.
Being in the same year as Harry Potter only made her more invisible, not that she blamed Harry for that: he obviously hated the attention, but she didn't like the feeling of being invisible.
It was like being a wallflower among a group of only forty people, a splodge of yellow against the glowing red, sinister green, and all-knowing blue. It should not be possible, but it was how Hogwarts felt.
She wanted to be like her parents, brave and intelligent despite being hardworking. They shone during their time at Hogwarts because of that. She was sure she could too, but she wasn't given the chance.
She wanted to be noticed, but she didn't know how.