sixteen, gryffindor, muggle-born, sixth year, fc: jamie chung
Mary MacDonald is a sweet girl, always there for those in need, always one to offer a joke or clichéd line to get others to smile or laugh. Indeed, Mary would be classified as an agreeable, patient person — most of the time. Known to have a sharp temper and short fuse, most find it best to remain on the Gryffindor’s good side to avoid the lash of her wrath, be it the sting of harsh words or the slap of a minor hex. It’s not that she is hiding under a sweet facade disguising a bitchy underlayer, it’s just that there has been so much happening lately to make her snap at even her best closest friends. She’s never been ashamed of the fact that her parents are Muggles (look at Lily for Merlin’s sake!), and she was certainly not ashamed of her mixed heritage with a Korean mother and a Scottish father, but as time passes at the school and the war boils hotter and hotter, she’s starting to see where others really stand; some have stopped associating with her as if she had a disease; others still have been outright cruel, even going so far as to openly mock and berate her in the halls. But she smiled even through all that, smiled as friend after friend stopped eating with her at lunch, smiled as she changed partners in potions, smiled as she spent more and more time wondering when all this really had begun to change and counted herself lucky to possess the loyal friends she did have. There was one night, however, that broke the camel’s back, one night that sent her world crashing down around her, shattering walls that she had built over many years from the inside out. She had been broken. She has not spoken of this night to anyone; it haunts her dreams, it makes her — someone once so brave and proud and someone who had so avidly stuck up for others in the past — nearly cower in his presence, rendering her entirely speechless. She’ll keep her head high for the sake of her friends, but she still harbors a fear that one day she’ll be back in that dark, abandoned hallway with him at her throat, going at her once more.
