Challenge: Fire the Canon's Character of the week drabble competition (week 4) on HPFC
Characters: Jason Samuels, Filius Flitwick
Prompt: Must be written in first person.
Word count: 194
"Ah, Mister Samuels," Flitwick squeaks, burning my ears as I wring my hands nervously. "Please, have a seat. We need to talk about your career options. Of course you could pursue Quidditch -"
"I'd rather not. I'm withdrawing from the team as soon as the season finishes."
The tiny wizard pauses for an instant. I can practically see him dreading the Weasley twins against some rookie . "Oh. Uh, very good, then... you have an E-average across your subjects. You have the prerequisites for work at Gringotts, going into trade, many Ministry positions, healing..."
"Yes, that."
"Excuse me?"
"Healing. I'd very much like to be a healer, Professor."
I watch the tiny wizard blink. Merlin, he's smaller than Daniel was at seven-years-old. "That's a very demanding field. You'd have to maintain your grades -"
"Not a problem."
"In all the subjects you've taken since first year. Of course you'll need NEWTs in all five..."
"That's not a problem," I insist, annoyed. I hate this doubt about me, that exists apparently because I can play sports.
Quidditch isn't all I am. It isn't even what I want to be.
Why can't anyone just see that?