Prompt: Not
Jones, Megan
"Hello, my name is Megan and I'm not a Weasley."
It was an unusual way to introduce yourself to someone, but Megan felt it was effective. Personally, she didn't have any problems with the Weasley family. They seemed like a jovial lot and had a reputation for being kind people. Megan was actually distantly related to them. (Of course, unless you are a Muggle born, there is a good chance that you're distantly related to all the pureblood families.) But it was their knack of producing red-headed offspring that annoyed her so much.
As a child, Megan loved her hair. She would take special care of it and parade it in front of her friends. She enjoyed being able to say that she was different. Her hair made her special. But that was before Hogwarts.
She didn't understand why the student body was convinced that only Weasley family members could have red hair. The trait wasn't that rare. Yet every time she would meet somebody new, they immediately assumed she was a Weasley. Even when she told them her last name was Jones.
So she tried to express her house pride. She'd wear yellow and black ribbons in her hair and constantly wrote 'Hufflepuff' on her hands, because everyone knew that all the Weasley kids were in Gryffindor. Megan was proud of her idea and was convinced that it had finally worked until she heard, "I didn't know there was a Weasley in Hufflepuff."
It seemed that she would be forever doomed to introduce herself as 'not a Weasley.'
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~SL