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Old 02-16-2009, 10:23 PM   #406 (permalink)
Anna Banana


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Anna listened as the professor discussed several different types of questons with the class. She jotted down a few notes and then hurried to complete her questions for Rubeus Hagrid before the class was over.

Time Period: 1935-1945
Focus: Rubeus Hagrid and the Chamber of Secrets
Interviewer: Anna Bella Greingoth
Interviewee: Rubeus Hagrid

1. What were your initial thoughts and feelings when you found that you, an innocent, young Gryffindor, were the one being accused of opening the Chamber of Secrets? Did you ever feel as if you were being betrayed by the school that meant so much to you? How did you deal with the pressures of being accused of this?

My initial thought was that someone was playing an extremely cruel trick on me. I thought some of the older students had gotten together and decided to get a good laugh at my expense. As the hours ticked by, and I was still being held for questioning, I began to realize that what I was being accused of was no trick. The school I'd come to love so much honestly believed I had found the Chamber of Secrets and opened it. At that point, I began to get scared. I was scared that I would never be proven innocent, and that I was going to die at only fourteen-years-old. I wanted desperately to find a way to prove I was innocent, but I didn't even know where to begin. I didn't necessarily feel betrayed by the school, because they were only acting upon what they'd been told. I did feel betrayed by the one who'd lied to them, though. After all was said and done, I dealt with my fate by holding my head high and trying to make the best life for myself that I could.

2. Of course we all know that you were innocent when it came to opening that dreadful chamber. Putting aside the fact that you were wrongly accused of opening it, how did you, as a young student, feel when you learned the Chamber of Secrets was opened? What did it mean to you to know that such a horrible place with a horrible purpose had been opened?

From the beginning, even before I found out that I was the one being blamed for the chamber's opening, I was angered that someone---someone amongst us in our happy home at Hogwart's---had enough hatred inside of them to do such a dreadful deed. I wanted to become the hero and help the school find the one who'd opened it, so that he or she couldn't harm any of the innocent students or faculty in the school. I also wanted to figure out a way to destroy the Chamber, so that it would never have a chance at opening again.

3. Years later, in your adult life, you became part of the staff at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In some way, did you feel as if being hired in this position made up for the fact that you were once expelled from the very school you were now employed at?

Hogwarts has always been my home. It was my home as a student, and it was my home as groundskeeper. When I was removed from the school due to the opening of the Chamber of Secrets, I was heartbroken and homesick. The school life that I'd always dreamt about had been stolen from me. So yes, in many, many ways did I feel that coming home to Hogwarts once again made up for the years I'd lost. I know I'll never be able to completely gain back my years as a student, but at least I'm able to have some part in the place that I've come to hold so close to my heart.
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