Bitter ━ HP Golden Era (4)

𝖎𝖝. Traitor Inside

𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊
traitor inside

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         HOGWARTS HAD CHANGED since the beginning of the year – even more so since the previous one. Where last year Hogwarts was ruled by Albus Dumbledore and his trusted advisor, Minerva McGonagall, this year it was clear they held no power in the control of the castle. No, that all fell upon Dolores Umbridge, the representative of the Ministry of Magic. Where at the beginning of the year, the only difference with the new professor and the foreboding feeling that something bad was going to happen, everyone now knew the darkness they felt during the welcome back feast.

The safe haven for many – the old castle full of secrets and danger starting up again – was now ran by an evil woman who wore only pink and had this awful, toad-like smile present on her face at all hours of the day. The professor who used bloodquills on her students (I WILL NOT SLANDER forever written on her cousin's skin), torturing them, and marking them so that they will forever remember her, was the dictator of the castle.

This Hogwarts was different. This Hogwarts had the D.A. for the students who needed to learn to fight and protect themselves; to stand up against the great evil outside those four walls of the Room of Requirement. Umbridge, Voldemort, the Death Eaters...

But as the castle had changed, so had Maia Greene. Maia Greene was a Ravenclaw who had a best friend named Emilia Adams. She always had her hair down, except for Potions where she put it in a ponytail, and spent her free hours in the Astronomy tower and never did her homework until the last minute. She enjoyed fashion and having cute, pink nails and never ever thought of herself of having a grain of darkness inside her.

She was harmless; a little girl who barely practiced her spells and the only thing dark inside her was the bitterness that ate at her constantly about her family. But now, she was Amara Carrow; she was Amara Carrow, the future Death Eater, the daughter of a dead mother and Demetri Carrow – known follower of the Dark Lord. She was a girl rotten to the core, no ounce of goodness inside her because it simply couldn't exist.

Funny, how one year can change everything. Because she had changed and she had to adapt to this new world which she would be introduced to the following summer. She's the daughter of two Death Eaters, daughter of a woman who brought her into her home and raised her to be so bright even the sun couldn't compare. She's a witch who never felt like she belonged in her family and now she understands; they weren't her true family, she was meant for the darkness.

All this time she had believed that it had never touched her but in reality, it had coursed through her veins since the day she was born. She just never knew the truth.

But Maia – Amara – wasn't evil. She was still a little girl who was a terrible spellcaster, a teenager of Hogwarts who still procrastinated doing her assignments, and who loved her brother forever. All she wanted to do was protect him and this was the cost. The cost was her life and she would pay it – all for Leo.