Flashes from life
Forbidden
Marietta Edgecombe
It's forbidden to put your family before rebelling. The unsaid, unwritten rule of the school world. The only rule Marietta has ever broken.
She wasn't very happy when Cho dragged her to that dirty pub to meet all those people. A little part in her mind agreed with every word Zacharias Smith said. She wrote her name to the parchment with furrowed brow and mind full of suspicions, but she did write it. For Cho. Poor girl had had so many problems lately, and someone had to keep an eye on her.
For her great surprise, Marietta actually enjoyed being in D.A., not that she would ever confess it to anyone. It was just so exciting to learn new things, to be a part of a revolt. It was almost like she really mattered, was more than the fourth child of a large family or the giggling girl from Ravenclaw.
But then she realised that Umbridge wasn't joking. She could (and would) expel all of them without blinking an eye, she would maybe even get her mother in trouble. Marietta couldn't even think what would happen if mother would get sacked. How could they afford everything if only father was working? Agnese and Domenico were already working and living on their own, Franco would graduate next spring - but what about all the little ones, what about Vittoria who was only three? Could she ruin her life?
Marietta could have kept her mouth shut, keep their secret, be proud of being one of the brave soldiers. Instead she went to Umbridge and told everything she knew, and got a terrible, cruel punishment.
But - how odd. She doesn't regret at all.
I have given Marietta eleven siblings in honour of my mother, who was (and still is) one of twelve. And because I am a total nerd, the Edgecombe children in the age order: Agnese, Domenico, Franco, Marietta, Isotta, Remo, Gaetano, Danilo, Benedetta, Celestino, Luciano and Vittoria. And Ron thinks he has a big family...