Zara's Outburst
Ok, before I write this, this is a scene that came to my mind when I was imaging what it would be like if my OC Zara Black had been in HP since the first year (which would have been her third I believe...she would have graduated during GoF). This is her going off on someone about prejudice against the slytherins. It basically came out of me getting irratated by yet another person saying the Slytherins are evil and cowards.
It's not a particularly good scene, but it was in my head and wanted written.
Thinking about this, it takes place either her sixth or seventh year (Harry's 3rd or 4th). Maybe sixth because with this and the stress about her father (and yes, Sirius is her father in my story) being free somewhere I imagine stuff she's handled calmly through the years is going to hit a bit harder and make her react differently.
Warning, Zara swears and calls Voldemort names.
She spun around to face him, her eyes blazing and staring directly into his. For a second he felt afraid, having known about the infamous Black temper but he brought forth the courage that supposively all Gryffindor's had and stood still.
"What did you say?" She asked, walking back towards him. His friends were silent and so were several other students who had stopped when they noticed her behavior. She was normally a calm person, except when she was pulling pranks with the Weasley twins, though her partispation in them had dindled this year as she began to focus on her studies. However, not many people knew that side of her, choosing, like him, to just see that she was a Slytherin.
"You heard what I said." When the story was later retold, no one really knew exactly what he had said, only that it had made reference to her house, her family and being evil.
"And how, pray tell, do you come to the conclusion that I am evil?" Her voice was cold, which surprised most of the viewers. Zara had always been someone who made you feel like she cared, even when she didn't. However, the main person in this little event did not notice the tone of her voice, and continued to smile smugly at her.
"You are a Black ergo a Slythern ergo an evil minon of the Dark Lord." Eyes got wide at this comment.
"Really? Because of course all Slytherins have to be the minons of Voldemort." People gasped at her blantanly stating his name. "And of course there is no such thing as a Black who isn't a Slytherin." She paused a little, gazing straight into his eyes.
"You Gryffindors always state about how prejudiced we are as a house. You really should just look in a miror because you are just as prejudiced against us. You make vast assumptions, putting us in boxes before you even get to know us simply because of our linage and our house, the same thing you claim we do. Did you ever think taht perhaps not everyone in Slytherin is a blind follower of Voldemort. That not everyone wants to be but sometimes they have no choice. What else can we do but be what everyone, especially the Gyrffindors, seem to think we are.
Let me explain a few things about Slytherin. Most of us are pureblood, true enough, or close enough that no one remembers when we aren't. Most of us were brought up in home schooled situations, around other children whose parents thought the same, around teachers who thought the same. From birth till we are eleven years old, we are surrouned by people who make us believe that we have no choice but to follow Voldemort. A lucky few manage to get out, but for the majority, we are stuck and have no idea that there may be another way. Then we get to Hogwarts and are finally surrounded by other viewpoints but we are pushed back and put into a box because we wear a green and silver. We are only allowed, with very few exceptions, to make friends and associate with those of our own house, therefore perpetuating the same ideas.
Did you ever think that maybe if everyone stopped looking at us and seeing Death Eaters in training that maybe we wouldn't be. That maybe if someone besides the teachers showed us another way, we would choose not to follow that asshole. But no, every person we meet whose a Gryffindor, like thier parents have treated us like we are evil, even we most of the time we don't know any better and even if we do and still choose to be that way we don't necessarily want to be a Death Eater.
For your information, I have choosen not to follow him. I was lucky and raised by someone who had managed to get out of the box we are forced into. So don't assume that just because I'm pureblood that I have the same opinons and values as the rest of my family. Don't assume that because I am Slytherin I'm automatically going to follow Voldemort. Don't assume that because I usually think my way out of situations that I'm a coward.
Don't you dare to presume to tell me who I am as a person and what I believe because for all your haughtiness, your even more closed minded then many of the people in my house." With that she turned and rushed down the hallway leaving a stunned audience behind.
It's not a particularly good scene, but it was in my head and wanted written.
Thinking about this, it takes place either her sixth or seventh year (Harry's 3rd or 4th). Maybe sixth because with this and the stress about her father (and yes, Sirius is her father in my story) being free somewhere I imagine stuff she's handled calmly through the years is going to hit a bit harder and make her react differently.
Warning, Zara swears and calls Voldemort names.
She spun around to face him, her eyes blazing and staring directly into his. For a second he felt afraid, having known about the infamous Black temper but he brought forth the courage that supposively all Gryffindor's had and stood still.
"What did you say?" She asked, walking back towards him. His friends were silent and so were several other students who had stopped when they noticed her behavior. She was normally a calm person, except when she was pulling pranks with the Weasley twins, though her partispation in them had dindled this year as she began to focus on her studies. However, not many people knew that side of her, choosing, like him, to just see that she was a Slytherin.
"You heard what I said." When the story was later retold, no one really knew exactly what he had said, only that it had made reference to her house, her family and being evil.
"And how, pray tell, do you come to the conclusion that I am evil?" Her voice was cold, which surprised most of the viewers. Zara had always been someone who made you feel like she cared, even when she didn't. However, the main person in this little event did not notice the tone of her voice, and continued to smile smugly at her.
"You are a Black ergo a Slythern ergo an evil minon of the Dark Lord." Eyes got wide at this comment.
"Really? Because of course all Slytherins have to be the minons of Voldemort." People gasped at her blantanly stating his name. "And of course there is no such thing as a Black who isn't a Slytherin." She paused a little, gazing straight into his eyes.
"You Gryffindors always state about how prejudiced we are as a house. You really should just look in a miror because you are just as prejudiced against us. You make vast assumptions, putting us in boxes before you even get to know us simply because of our linage and our house, the same thing you claim we do. Did you ever think taht perhaps not everyone in Slytherin is a blind follower of Voldemort. That not everyone wants to be but sometimes they have no choice. What else can we do but be what everyone, especially the Gyrffindors, seem to think we are.
Let me explain a few things about Slytherin. Most of us are pureblood, true enough, or close enough that no one remembers when we aren't. Most of us were brought up in home schooled situations, around other children whose parents thought the same, around teachers who thought the same. From birth till we are eleven years old, we are surrouned by people who make us believe that we have no choice but to follow Voldemort. A lucky few manage to get out, but for the majority, we are stuck and have no idea that there may be another way. Then we get to Hogwarts and are finally surrounded by other viewpoints but we are pushed back and put into a box because we wear a green and silver. We are only allowed, with very few exceptions, to make friends and associate with those of our own house, therefore perpetuating the same ideas.
Did you ever think that maybe if everyone stopped looking at us and seeing Death Eaters in training that maybe we wouldn't be. That maybe if someone besides the teachers showed us another way, we would choose not to follow that asshole. But no, every person we meet whose a Gryffindor, like thier parents have treated us like we are evil, even we most of the time we don't know any better and even if we do and still choose to be that way we don't necessarily want to be a Death Eater.
For your information, I have choosen not to follow him. I was lucky and raised by someone who had managed to get out of the box we are forced into. So don't assume that just because I'm pureblood that I have the same opinons and values as the rest of my family. Don't assume that because I am Slytherin I'm automatically going to follow Voldemort. Don't assume that because I usually think my way out of situations that I'm a coward.
Don't you dare to presume to tell me who I am as a person and what I believe because for all your haughtiness, your even more closed minded then many of the people in my house." With that she turned and rushed down the hallway leaving a stunned audience behind.