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Holly: "Good! Now we're getting somewhere! What part of this society do you think we should save?"

Minerva: "Holly!"

Holly jumps up from her chair in frustration.

Holly: "What Mum? What did you expect? My parents were murdered and I was changed, but Albus decides to put me with inexplicably cruel custodians rather than let me be raised anonymously in the magical world. When I get here my other self is hailed as a mythical savior while I can't seem to escape the label of Dark Bitch just because I don't roll over for every petty thug flexing his wand. What's more, the most horrid representative of this culture now wants to kill both versions of me for destroying his body on two separate occasions. Add to that all the fortune in money and knowledge from my family has been legally ripped away, separated and dispersed by the very evil usurers that no citizen trusts but all bank with.

"Do you know how the Nott's got Potter Manor? Someone in the Ministry detected some sort of 'infestation' of the grounds, and declared it a hazard to be condemned. They auctioned the property to the highest bidder willing to clean up the place. Since no one knew what the infestation was, only one family bid!

Minerva: "I had no idea..."

Holly: "Of course you didn't! The announcement and paperwork never left the Office of Estates Management! We only found out about it because Tonks is working in the DMLE records room and found the initial report of infestation. You know what it was? Rabbits! Seeing as the neighbors are rabbit breeders, I doubt it could be called an infestation so much as roaming livestock."

Minerva: "I don't think the goblins..."

Holly: "No, it was the pureblood patriarchs that fucked me over that time, but with goblin collusion paid for from my own vault! No, the goblins have a desire for Holly-feasting that defies even wizard logic at the moment. The greatest skinflints in the world are willing to GIVE BACK almost 10 millions of pounds to Harry in exchange for the right to do with me as they please. World leaders don't cost as much to assassinate! I am handed this enormous pile of feces in the space of a week, and just when... th-the only person I've loved tells me I'm a disgusting raging creature, I get assaulted for trying to save a girl who hates me. Then, in a last moment of hope I try to apply some justice to a bad situation and society cheers when I'm sent to HELL. HOW MANY TIMES AND IN HOW MANY WAYS MUST I BE RAPED BEFORE YOU GET IT?"

Minerva: "Get what, Holly?"

Holly: "Things... have to change. I'm going to make it happen. By hook, or by crook, Bright Witches shall rule this world, or we should drown it as an unwanted child! The Patriarchs have had their run. Their rule means nothing to me anymore."

Holly Evans and the Spiral Path, Chapter 29