Disfigured

Prolouge

Corin wasn't born with her scar. She wasn't born with a story painted across her face. She wasn't born with the thick, white, uneven line stretching across her body. But she could not forget how she got it.

Corin tried to hide, for the first few years with the scar. Then, as she aged, she stopped caring about the nasty looks. She was tired of learning magic from her mother, who has only received one NEWT during her schooling. Corin needed to go to a proper school.

There was really only one choice in schooling for her- Hogwarts. Her home was to far away for Ilvermourny, and her mother worried about her way too much to send her off to a foreign school anyway. At Hogwarts, she would at least be in the same(ish) area.

And so it was simply decided. Corin and her mother marched up to the Ministry of Magic and applied her for Hogwarts (as when you were homeschooled by a parent or guardian, your name was removed from the Hogwarts roster). She was tired of hiding her scar behind pounds of makeup and high collars and heavy cloaks. Corin's scar told a part of her story, and she took it in her stride at last. It was time for her to change.

The first change was to stop hiding her scar when she went out. People gasped and stared, but nothing happened that was remotely dangerous or nerve wracking. Then came the bigger change- her hair. She had grown it long so she could hide as much of the scar as possible, but there was no more hiding. She cut it into a longer sort of bob first, before shaving off her left side. Now you could see the scar in it's entirety, unless she wore long sleeves, which was required in her uniform.

Corin had hid ever since the accident had occurred, and she was tired of being taken as the shy kid. She wasn't shy, she just didn't want others to judge her. She was tired as being presumed as the hermit. She wasn't a hermit, just afraid. She was just tired, and ready to come out of her shell. She couldn't hide from the danger that called her name ever so entrancingly. She couldn't hide from the world that would be against her all of her life.

She may be disfigured, but Corin Westerfalls was no coward. She was going to take on the world head on this year, whether the world liked it or not.